15 Facts About Grayson Kirk

Grayson Louis Kirk was an American political scientist who served as president of Columbia University during the Columbia University protests of 1968.

Grayson Kirk was an advisor to the State Department and instrumental in the formation of the United Nations.

Grayson Kirk originally intended to become a foreign correspondent, but fell into educational administration when he served briefly as a high school principal in New Paris, Ohio during his senior year at college.

Grayson Kirk graduated from Miami University in 1924, earned an M A in political science from Clark University in 1925, and studied at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in 1929 before completing a Ph.

Grayson Kirk completed postdoctoral research at the London School of Economics in 1937.

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In 1940, Grayson Kirk was appointed to the faculty of Columbia University as an associate professor of government.

Grayson Kirk was promoted to full professor in 1943 and began a long association with the US government when he served in the Security Section of the United States Department of State's Political Studies Division during World War II.

Grayson Kirk became involved in the formation of the United Nations Security Council, attending the Dumbarton Oaks Conference and the United Nations Conference on International Organization where the United Nations Charter was signed.

Grayson Kirk assumed the presidency in earnest in 1953 after Eisenhower was sworn in as President of the United States.

In 1959, Grayson Kirk started to pursue the construction of a gymnasium suitable for intercollegiate sports competition.

Also in 1959, Grayson Kirk entered Columbia into its relationship with the Institute for Defense Analyses, which would draw much fire from the anti-war movement, particularly the Students for a Democratic Society, nearly a decade later.

University and Grayson Kirk came under fire in 1967 for attempting to patent and promote a "healthier" cigarette filter developed by New Jersey chemist Robert Louis Strickman.

Grayson Kirk initially agreed to address some of the protesters demands, but ultimately filed trespass charges against them and called in police to clear the occupied buildings.

Grayson Kirk died in his sleep at the Plashbourne Estate in Yonkers, New York in 1997.

Grayson Kirk is buried next to his wife Marion Sands Kirk at Fairview Cemetery in Jeffersonville, Ohio.