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Saturday, 23 September

Frank Abbott, 85

Professions: Instrumental in forming the Colorado Community College system; worked for the American Council on Education; worked as director of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education; worked for the Regents of the State of New York; returned to Colorado to work for the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education; coordinated a program that recruited and trained minorities to get advanced degrees and then teach in colleges; was a supply officer in World War II.

Degrees: Ph.D., Harvard, 1956.

Passions: Gardening.

Death: August 17, 2006.

From the Rocky Mountain News.

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