This is a portrait of Donald C. Stone, Springfield College’s seventh president. Donald Crawford Stone (1903-1995) was raised in Cleveland and graduated from Colgate University. He was an educator and federal planner in the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. Stone also served as executive director of the Public Administration Service and as assistant budget director for the White House. He next served as director of administration for the Economic Cooperation Administration and the Mutual Security Administration. Stone helped organize the Marshall Plan for Europe, United States assistance programs in Asia and Unesco. In 1953, he left government service to become president of Springfield College in Massachusetts, a position he held until 1957. Stone then became dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1975 to 1990, he taught at Carnegie-Mellon University.
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