1. Albert Edmund Waugh was an American economist and long-time academic administrator at the University of Connecticut from 1924 to 1965.
18 Facts About Albert Waugh
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Albert Waugh's father was University of Massachusetts Amherst landscape architect Frank Albert Waugh, and his brother was United States Department of Agriculture agricultural economist Frederick V Waugh.
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Albert Waugh earned his Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1924 and his Master of Science degree from the Connecticut Agricultural College in 1926.
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Albert Waugh joined Connecticut Agricultural College as an instructor of agricultural economics in 1924.
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Albert Waugh was promoted to assistant professor in 1928, associate professor in 1932, and professor in 1937.
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Albert Waugh served as head of the Department of Economics from 1939 to 1945, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1945 to 1950, and provost of the university from 1950 to 1965, when he retired after forty-one years of service.
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Albert Waugh served as a member of the University Senate, elected and ex-officio, during most of his years at the university.
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Albert Waugh was responsible for construction of the UConn Planetarium on North Eagleville Road in 1954.
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Albert Waugh was instrumental to launching UConn's early college experience program in 1956, making UConn the first in the nation to offer high school students the opportunity to take college courses in their high school settings.
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Albert Waugh dealt with numerous controversies during his time as provost, including McCarthyite campaigns against faculty.
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Albert Waugh was a member of the American Economic Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association of University Professors, and Phi Kappa Phi.
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Albert Waugh served as a trustee of the Norwich State Hospital and the Windham Community Hospital and a director of the Willimantic Trust Company.
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Albert Waugh moderated Mansfield town meetings for more than forty years, beginning in 1941.
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Albert Waugh was a sundial enthusiast, described as a "world authority" on the subject by the Hartford Courant.
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Albert Waugh designed sundials at Mystic Seaport and other locations and wrote Sundials: Their Theory and Construction, published by Dover Publications in 1973.
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Albert Waugh published two textbooks: Elements of Statistical Method, which was translated into Portuguese in 1946, and Principles of Economics.
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Albert Waugh died on March 6,1985, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after a long illness.
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Albert Waugh was survived by his wife, Edith, and sons John S Waugh and Robert E Waugh.