Kennedy, once on Woodbridge shortlist, returns to receive Cross medal
Stanford history professor and Pulitzer Prize winner was corporation’s top pick for Presidency
When David Kennedy GRD ’68 arrived in New Haven to work on his doctorate in American studies, he did not expect to return to Yale several decades later to receive the Wilbur Cross Medal, the graduate school’s highest honor, he said at a talk on Tuesday.
But Kennedy probably also did not imagine at the time that he would be a top contender to become Yale’s 22nd president.
A week after the 15th anniversary of the inauguration of Richard Levin in that position instead, it is an odd twist of fate that has brought Kennedy, a history professor at Stanford University, back to...
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