Theodore Lockwood, president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., from 1968 to 1982, who admitted the college’s first female students, died Jan. 21, 2019, at age 94.
Lockwood graduated from Trinity in 1948 as class valedictorian. In 1952 he earned a Ph.D. in history from Princeton. He taught at Dartmouth, MIT, and Juniata College in Pennsylvania before becoming dean of faculty at Concord College in West Virginia, and provost and dean of faculty at Union College in New York.
During his time at Trinity, in 1969, the college admitted its first female students. It also increased the number of women and people of color in the college’s faculty and administration. Today, women are 50 percent of the student body.
Eleanor Reid, a former associate director of admissions at Trinity, said, “I admired him very much. He was clearly an intellectual. He was committed to Trinity, and had the respect of everyone I knew that worked with him.”
After leaving Trinity in 1982, Lockwood went to New Mexico and became the founding president of United World College. He retired in 1998 and moved to Stowe, Vt.
Lockwood is survived by his wife, Lu; three daughters from his first marriage; and two stepsons. A son died in 2005.
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