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Saturday, 16 September

Shepherd Brooks, 92

Professions: Tapped in the early 1960s by the Kennedy administration to help establish the Indian Institute of Technology in India. Dean of university development during the nascent years of Brandeis University; in 1950 became European director of The Salzburg Seminar in Austria, a nongovernmental organization that brings together people from different countries and cultures in an educational setting; editor at a newspaper in New York's Hudson River Valley for a brief time; lawyer in Chicago. Served in the South Pacific during World War II and left the Army several years later as a major.

Degrees: A.M. 1949; J.D. 1940; A.B. 1936.

Passions: Philanthropy

Death: July 17, 2006, at his home in Cambridge, MA.

From the Boston Globe.

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