Professions: Professor at Colby College for more than 30 years; chairman of the government department at Colby from 1958 to 1982; government adviser in Cairo from 1965 to 1967 and in South Vietnam in the early 1970s; worked as an adviser in Togo, Jordan, and for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; served in the Army during World War II and remained overseas to work for the postwar allied government.
Degrees: B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D. in comparative politics from Harvard in 1995.
Quote: "He had this magical way of teaching that made us feel that if we could truly understand what he was saying--he was always a step beyond us--you would understand truth and justice." —Doris Kearns Goodwin, former student of Mavrinac at Colby.
Death: July 27, 2006, at Thayer Hospital in Waterville, Maine, of respiratory failure.
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