Burton C. Hallowell ’49

Burton C. Hallowell, economist and ninth president of Tufts University, died Nov. 21, 2006. He was 91.

As president of Tufts from 1967 to 1976, he led the university during the difficult Vietnam War era. Applying his financial-planning skills, he replaced budget deficits with surpluses, unified the schools and colleges within the university, eliminated many restrictions on women, and increased the minority population on campus.

By 1976, the advances allowed Hallowell to resign and implement his belief that a college president should remain for no more than 10 years. He turned his efforts to U.S. corporate governance, and became chairman of the Keystone Custodian Funds and a director of seven corporations.

Prior to working at Tufts, Hallowell worked at Wesleyan University, where he was a professor and chair of the economics department, and later executive vice president. Hallowell earned his bachelor's and master's at Wesleyan and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton.

His first wife, Pauline, died in 1998. He is survived by his second wife, Joyce, whom he married in 2002; a son; two stepchildren; and three step-grandchildren.