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Sunday, 28 May
Don A. Orton, 88
Professions: Former president of Lesley College; spent two years as a missionary in Sweden; principal and superintendent in Driggs, Idaho; taught education courses at the University of Utah and at the New York State College for Teachers; taught at the Harvard Graduate School Of Education; promoted the addition of economics into the elementary and high school curriculum.
Degrees: Earned his bachelor's in English from the University of Utah in 1942; received his master's degree in educational administration from Ohio State University in 1944; earned his doctorate in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1950.
Quote: “He was an empowerer. He empowered people to make decisions and he would always coach you, so that he was not the front person -- you were, but you were well-coached to make the decisions you had to make.”
Death: May 19, 2006, in Palm Beach, Fla., of congestive heart failure.
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