Individual Details

Marriage

Name: Robert Goheen
of Princeton, New Jersey, student born India
Father Robert born India
Mother Anna Ewing born, India
Spouse: Anne Ewing of Wilmington, Delaware, single
Born Wilmington Delaware
Father James Thomas Skelly born Tennessee
Mother Gertrude McFarland born North Carolina
Witness Donald C Platton of New York City
and Catharing Skelly Wheelock of Wilmington
Film Number: 002025124

Military

Entered Army. Commissioned May 1942 as Second Lieutenant in Infantry, and assigned to Military Intelligence Service. March 1943 readdigned to First Calvalry Division, serving in Pacific until summer of 1945. Legion of Merit and Bronze Star with two clusters.

Military

Last year of service, Bob was Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 for the division and held rank of lieutenant-Colonel.

Note

Director of National Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program

Retirement

as president of Princeton University and became president of the Council on Foundations.

Death

Robert F. Goheen, who let Princeton University during a time of turbulent change on its campus and across the country, has died. He was 88.
Dr. Goheen - wo was associated with the Ive League school for more than 70 years as a student, teacher, and administrator - died Monday of heart failure at the University Medical Center at Princeton.
He was a 37 - year-old assistant classics professor when he became Princeton's 16th president in 1957, During his tenure, which lasted until his retirement in 1972, the university first admitted women, increased it ethnic and racial diversity, and expanded its commitment to research.
It also coped with protests against the was in Vietnam, including a general strike in May 1970, shortly after the US invasion in Combodia. Dr. Goheen was praised for his handling of the situation, speaking to an assembly of students and staff on May 4, 1970.
Harold T Shapiro, Princeton's president from 1988 to 2001, described Dr. Goheen as "the first architect of today's Princeton."
"he started us on the path to what Princeton is today a coeducational, diverse, research university of great international stature," Shapiro said.
When asked recently about his time at Princeton, Dr. Goheen said he was most proud of his efforts to diversify the campus.
Princeton first opened its doors to women as graduate students in 1961 and as regular members of the undergraduate student body in 1969. Under Dr. Goheen's leadership, Princeton also implemented measures to attract a more racially and ethically diverse group of students and faculty.
"Diversity, pushing the effort to get more blacks and other minorities into the university body, whether it be student body or faculty, and then the women - I think both of those changed the character of Princeton for the better," he said.
Born in Venguarla, India, where his parents were serving a Presbyterian medical missionaries, Dr. Goheen came to the United States in 1934. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in classics from Princeton in 1940.
His schooling was interrupted when he was inducted into the US Army. He served more than four years in the intelligence section of the First Cavalry Division, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He reenrolled at Princeton, earning his master's degree in 1947 and his doctorate a year later, both in classics. He was named an assistant professor at Princeton in 1950 and became director of the National Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program in 1953.
Following retirement, Dr. Goheen was appointed by President Carter as US ambassador to India, serving from 1977 through 1980.
Dr. Goheen returned to Princeton in 1981 as senior fellow in the Woodrow Wilson School and at the time of his death was still active in the school.