[HEALTH ADVOCATE ]
Karen Baldwin
She delivered thousands of babies 鈥� and dog therapy to TC students
Karen Baldwin
(Ed.D. 鈥�03), a TC Health Education adjunct faculty member and wife of former Vice Provost and current Organization & Leadership Department Chair Bill Baldwin, died in May. With her Labrador retriever, Abigail, Baldwin was much loved at TC, providing dog therapy services for students around exams. A Certified Nurse Midwife, Baldwin was a longtime clinical midwife and director of midwifery services in New York City hospitals, including Beth Israel Medical Center, Gouverneur/Bellevue and North Central Bronx. She delivered thou颅sands of healthy babies, advocated for maternal and child health and supported Planned Parenthood. A Fellow in the , Baldwin taught at and , directing the latter鈥檚 Graduate Nursing Program.
[ EDUCATION EVANGELIST ]
Luns C. Richardson
Luns C. Richardson
TC alumnus Luns C. Richardson (M.A. 鈥�58), one of the nation鈥檚 longest-serving college presidents and a major figure in the world of historically black colleges and universities, died in January at age 89. Richardson served for 43 years as the ninth President of historically black in Sumter, South Carolina, retiring in 2017 with the title of President Emeritus. Richardson, known as 鈥淟.C.,鈥� was also an ordained Baptist preacher who served for 56 years as the pastor of in nearby Bamberg. As described in , Rich颅ardson grew up in rural South Carolina mak颅ing a three-and-a-half-mile trek to and from a two-room, racially segregated grammar school. He was class valedictorian at Butler High School in 1945, and would later receive more than 100 honors and awards during his career, including honorary doctorates from several colleges and universities. During his presidency, Morris built 17 new buildings and increased its endowment from $30,000 to more than $12 million. Leading political figures such as former Vice President Joe Biden came to speak on campus.
[ A TC SON ]
Richard Alexander
Richard Alexander
(M.A. 鈥�41), a longtime education professor and the son of Thomas Alexander, founding dean of TC鈥檚 now-defunct New College, passed away in October at the age of 100. Richard Alex颅ander grew up in Seth Low Hall and attended TC鈥檚 Lincoln school. He knew then-TC President William Russell as 鈥淯ncle Will,鈥� and, through his father, was also on familiar terms with William Heard Kilpatrick, George Counts and Paul Monroe. Alexander earned both his undergraduate and master鈥檚 degrees at New College, where 鈥渢he philosophy was about learning to live with others from different cultures and seeing how we get our food in the world,鈥� he said in an interview six years ago. New College鈥檚 鈥渙rientation鈥� consisted of six weeks spent on a 1,000-acre working farm in western North Carolina. 鈥淭hroughout my career as a teacher鈥� 鈥� including a stint at the Speyer School, TC鈥檚 pioneering community school 鈥� 鈥淚 thought about how we did things at New College.鈥� n Alexander served in the U.S. Army鈥檚 83rd Division during World War II, seeing action in both the Battle of the Bulge and the Normandy Invasion. He was awarded the Bronze and Silver Star and also the French Legion of Honor in 2010. He taught at the, and, for the final 25 years of his career, as a professor of elementary education at Indiana鈥檚 , where he created a foreign exchange program with England鈥檚 that continues to this day.
Add to His Legacy
To support The New College Scholarship, an endowed fund established by Richard Alexander (M.A. 鈥�41) for TC Curriculum & Teaching students, contact Linda Colquhoun at 212 678-3679 or colquhoun@tc.edu.