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Donald Tresidder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (344 words) |
 | Donald Bertrand Tresidder (April 7, 1894–January 28, 1948) was president of Stanford University. |
| Tresidder was president of Stanford University from 1943 until 1948 and brought the school through the difficult years of World War II. |
| Tresidder died of a heart attack at St. |
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| Donald Bertrand Tresidder became president at a time when Stanford was still suffering from the effects of the Great Depression and had seen its ranks of students and faculty depleted by the Second World War. |
| On Oct. 14, 1943, Tresidder was "presented" to an all-university assembly in Memorial Auditorium that consisted of "faculty, staff and officers of the Army." Mindful of the university's finances, Tresidder wanted to wait until after the war to hold a grander affair. |
| Tresidder died suddenly from a heart attack on Jan. 28, 1948. |
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