Leonard Lief

Leonard Lief (June 14, 1924 – July 30, 2007) was founding president of Lehman College, a Bronx institution that is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York. Lief was the college's president from 1968 to 1990, solidifying it as a college with a liberal arts focus on a tree-lined campus. Lief, an Elizabethan scholar, died after a long bout with Parkinson's disease at the age of 83,[1] on July 30, 2007, at his home in New Rochelle, New York. The Lehman College's campus library is named Leonard Lief Library in his honor. His successor is Ricardo R. Fernández.

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  1. ↑ "Leonard Lief, 83, an Educator and a Lehman College President," The New York Times, Aug. 3, 2007, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E3DA1630F930A3575BC0A9619C8B63


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