Francis L. Broderick ’43

THE CLASS LOST Francis Broderick on June 22, 1992, to the ravages of cancer. He was 69.

A Manhattan native, Frank prepped for Princeton at Phillips Andover Academy, and later took his LL.B. degree from Boston College. He successfully combined careers emanating from his interests in history, contemporary American society, and the law. He was marked as a man to be reckoned with when, as chairman of the DAILY PRINCETONIAN during the 194243 school year, he spearheaded the movement to reverse Princeton's unofficial ban on admitting black undergraduates.

Frank served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WWII; earned a doctorate in history from Harvard; taught at several universities, including Princeton; and became director of the Peace Corp in Ghana in 1964.

In 1968 he was appointed the first chancellor of the new U. Mass. campus in Boston, later returning to teaching until his 1985 retirement. It was then that he entered Boston College Law School, graduating in 1989.

Frank is survived by his widow, the former Barbara Baldridge; three sons, Thomas, Joseph, and James; a daughter, Ann; two brothers; and six grandchildren.

To the entire family, we offer our deepest and most heartfelt sympathies.

The Class of 1943