Thomas W. Carr *69

Thomas Carr, who retired three times from noteworthy careers in the military, government, and education, died Feb. 12, 2016, at age 86.

Carr graduated from The Citadel in 1950. He then earned a master’s degree in 1968 from George Washington University, and was a mid-career fellow in public affairs as a visiting student at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School from 1968 to 1969.

From 1950 to 1951, he was an artillery forward observer in combat in Korea, and later commanded four different artillery units in the United States and Europe before being retired for physical disability. In 1964, Carr became the founding director of the White House Fellows program. Then he was the first director of defense education in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, responsible for service academies, war colleges, ROTC, and other Defense Department-sponsored education.

In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him the director of the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children. After retiring from government service a second time, he served 12 years as vice president of The Washington Campus, a 17-university consortium set up to help business leaders better understand government.

Carr is survived by his wife of 63 years, Haskell; two children; and six grandchildren. A son predeceased him in 2013.

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