* Frank Rose; Led University of Alabama During Desegregation
Frank Rose, 70, president of the University of Alabama in the years it was desegregated. He stood between Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and the Justice Department of President John F. Kennedy when two black students were peacefully enrolled at the school. He was credited with increasing both the morale and pay of the university’s faculty, raising millions of dollars for research and tightening academic standards. After leaving Alabama in 1969, after an 11-year tenure, Rose founded a consulting firm for colleges. In Washington on Friday of cancer.
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