Harlan Hatcher

Harlan Henthorne Hatcher was born on September 9, 1898, in Ironton, Ohio.[1][2] He received a B.A., an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University.[2] He also attended the University of Chicago as a graduate student.[2]

He worked as a Professor of American Literature at Ohio State University, then as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1944, and as Vice President in 1948.[1][2] In 1951, he became the eighth President of the University of Michigan.[1] He helped expand the budget from $44.5 million to more than $186 million, and enrollment from 17,000 to 37,000.[1][2] He also established additional campuses in Flint and Dearborn.[1] In 1954, he condoned the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee and fired two faculty members for suspicions of Communism.[2] He stepped down in 1967.[1] In 1968, the Graduate Library was named after him.[1] He wrote three novels and several academic volumes.[2]

• Tunnel Hill (Bobbs-Merrill, 1931)
• Patterns of Wolfpen (Johns Creek, Pike County, Kentucky) (Bobbs Merrill, 1934)
• Creating the Modern American Novel (1935)
• The Buckeye Country: A Pageant of Ohio (1940)
• The Ohio Guide (1940, editor)
• Modern American Dramas (1941)
• "The Great Lakes" (Oxford University Press, 1944)
• Lake Erie (1945)
• A Century of Iron and Men (1950)
• A Modern Repertory (1953)
• Johnny Appleseed: A Voice in the Wilderness, The Story of the Pioneer John Chapman (1953)
• A Pictoral History of the Great Lakes (1963)
• Versification of Robert Browning (1969)
• The Western Reserve: The Story of New Connecticut in Ohio