UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Herbert E. Longenecker, president emeritus of Tulane University, has been named an Alumni Fellow by the Penn State Alumni Association. He will be honored at a reception on September 25 at the Nittany Lion Inn ballroom on the University Park campus.
Longenecker earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in agricultural biochemistry from Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences between 1929 and 1936. In 1936, he won a national competition for the National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship for research in England, Germany and Canada.
Before serving as president of Tulane from 1960 to 1975, Longenecker was vice president in charge of the University of Illinois medical center in Chicago and taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 1938 to 1955.
Active in military, business and civic pursuits, Longenecker was a member of the Food and Nutrition Board, an adviser to the Army Chemical Corps on defense against biological and chemical warfare, chair of the Department of Defense advisory committee on ROTC, and a director of the Institute for Defense Analyses.
A Birmingham, Ala., resident, Longenecker also served as chair of the Nutrition Foundation, as a trustee of both the Bush Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and as a director of CPC International and of the Equitable Life Assurance Society.
Penn State named him a Distinguished Alumnus in 1960, an award given by the university's Board of Trustees.
The Alumni Fellow Award, presented by the Penn State Alumni Association, is administered in cooperation with the colleges of the university. The Board of Trustees has designated the title of Alumni Fellow as permanent and lifelong.
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