 derek curtis bok (born march 22, 1930) is an american lawyer and educator and the former president of harvard university. he is the son of pennsylvania supreme court justice curtis bok and margaret plummer bok;http://www.bookrags.com/biography/derek-curtis-bok/ the grandson of ladies' home journal editor edward w. bok and mary louise curtis bok zimbalist, founder of the curtis institute of music; the cousin of prominent maine folklorist gordon bok; and the great-grandson of cyrus h. k. curtis, founder of the curtis publishing company, publisher of national magazines such as the saturday evening post. ==life and career== bok was born in bryn mawr, pennsylvania. following his parents' divorce, he, his mother, brother and sister moved to miquon, pennsylvania. he attended the miquon school, a progressive school that his mother co-founded in 1932, and the ucla lab school. sissela bok, alva myrdal: a daughter's memoir (basic books, 1991), p. 131. he graduated from stanford university (b.a., 1951), harvard law school (j.d., 1954), attended iep paris, and george washington university (a.m., 1958). bok taught law at harvard beginning in 1958 and served as dean of the law school there (1968â1971), in succession to erwin griswold on griswold's becoming solicitor-general of the united states, and then as the university's 25th president (1971â1991), in succession to nathan m. pusey. in the mid-1970s bok negotiated with [[radcliffe c
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