10 Facts About Otto Kraushaar

Otto Kraushaar was a professor at Smith College for 15 years.

Otto Kraushaar attended the University of Iowa, from which he earned a bachelor's degree in 1923 and a master's degree in 1927.

Otto Kraushaar continued his graduate studies at Harvard University, earning a doctorate in 1933.

In 1948, Otto Kraushaar left Smith to become president of Goucher College.

Otto Kraushaar led the school for 19 years and is credited with its emergence as a nationally recognized women's college.

Otto Kraushaar was responsible for overseeing the school's relocation from Baltimore to Towson, which was first initiated in the early 1920s by former Goucher president William W Guth.

Otto Kraushaar served as a consultant to a Maryland commission on higher education and with a gubernatorial task force on the public school system and race relations in the United States.

Otto Kraushaar was a member of the United World Federalists, Americans for Democratic Action, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

In 1927, Otto Kraushaar married Maxine MacDonald, with whom he had one daughter.

Otto Kraushaar died at his home in Baltimore, Maryland, at the age of 87.