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|birth_date=15 August 1919
|death_date=31 March 2008
|death_date=31 March 2008
|birth_place=Vengurla, Bombay Presidency, British India; (now Maharashtra
|birth_place=Vengurla, India
|death_place=Princeton, New Jersey
|death_place=Princeton, New Jersey
|education=Princeton University (BA, PhD)
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Robert Francis Goheen (August 15, 1919 – March 31, 2008) was an American academic, president of Princeton University and United States Ambassador to India.
'''Robert Francis Goheen''' (15 August 1919 &ndash; 31 March 2008) was an American classicist and Ritchie Boy who trained at [[Camp Ritchie]] in [[:Category:Class 5|Class 5]], rose to lieutenant colonel in Army intelligence, and later served as the 16th president of Princeton University and as United States Ambassador to India.
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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Robert Francis Goheen was born on August 15, 1919, to Anne (Ewing) and Dr Robert H. He served in the country of his birth from 1977 to 1980. Goheen in Vengurla, India, where both his parents were serving as Presbyterian medical missionaries.
Robert Francis Goheen was born on 15 August 1919 in Vengurla, India, where his parents, Anne (Ewing) Goheen and Dr. Robert H. H. Goheen, were serving as Presbyterian medical missionaries. He was educated through the tenth grade at Kodai School in India, moved to the United States in 1934, and finished secondary school at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 1936. At Princeton University he played soccer, won the Moses Taylor Pyne Prize, and graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in classics in 1940 after a senior thesis titled "A Study of the Nature and Object of Tragedy."


Robert Francis Goheen (August 15, 1919 – March 31, 2008) was an American academic, president of Princeton University and United States Ambassador to India. After moving to the United States in 1934, he completed his secondary school education at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 1936. Goheen taught classics at Princeton as an assistant professor from 1950 until 1957, when he was appointed the university's 16th president.
Goheen entered the Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey, on 1 October 1941 (ASN 32181916). In 1942 he married Margaret Skelly. He was commissioned a second lieutenant (ASN 01283413), trained at Camp Ritchie with [[:Category:Class 5|Class 5]] as one of the Ritchie Boys, and was later promoted to first lieutenant; his intelligence training helped him rise to the rank of lieutenant colonel by the end of the war.


He served as president of the university from 1957 to 1972. Robert attended Post-graduate courses at Princeton U. His early education through the tenth grade was at Kodai School in India.
After the war Goheen returned to Princeton for graduate study as one of the first four fellows of the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, created to encourage veterans to become teachers, and earned a Ph.D. in classics in 1948 with a dissertation on the imagery of Sophocles' ''Antigone''. He worked at Princeton as a tutor, counselor, and soccer coach, taught classics there as an assistant professor from 1950, and in 1957, at 37, became the university's 16th president, the youngest since the 18th century. Serving until 1972, he encouraged student involvement in decision-making, recruited minority students, hired Princeton's first black administrator and first black full professor, challenged the exclusivity of the eating clubs by opening one run by the university, and oversaw the admission of women in 1969. Under his leadership Princeton built or acquired 38 buildings, quadrupled its budget, doubled alumni giving, and enlarged its faculty by 40 percent, changing from an establishment college into a diversified research university. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962.


He then attended Princeton University, where he won the Moses Taylor Pyne Prize and graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. He returned to Princeton after the war to pursue graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. The university changed fundamentally under Dr.
After leaving the presidency Goheen became president of the Council on Foundations in New York and, on 1 January 1977, of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. That April President Jimmy Carter appointed him United States Ambassador to India, and he served in the country of his birth from 1977 to 1980. He returned to Princeton in 1981 as a member of the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School (now the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs) and remained active in Asian affairs, including a 1986 Asia Society study mission to the Philippines. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1986. Goheen died in Princeton, New Jersey, on 31 March 2008.
 
He attacked the exclusivity of the eating clubs, even opening one to be run by the university.
 
During World War II, Goheen trained at Camp Ritchie and became one of many Ritchie Boys.
 
In classics in 1940 after completing a senior thesis titled "A Study of the Nature and Object of Tragedy." He was also an avid soccer player. In classics in 1948 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "The imagery of Sophocles' Antigone (a study of poetic language and structure)." Goheen was one of the first four students to receive a fellowship from The Institute for Citizens & Scholars, established at Princeton to encourage war veterans to pursue a career in teaching. Goheen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962 and the American Philosophical Society in 1986.
 
Worked as Tutor, Counselor, also Soccer Coach at Princeton. At 37, he was the youngest man to assume that position since the 18th century. He quadrupled the budget, doubled alumni giving and increased the number of faculty members by 40 percent.
 
He hired Princeton’s first black administrator and first black full professor and aggressively recruited promising minority students." After his retirement from Princeton in 1972, he was named president of the Council on Foundations in New York.


== Research notes ==
== Research notes ==
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* Born 18 August 1919 in Venguria, India.
* Born 15 August 1919 in Vengurla, India.
* 1934 — Moved to the United States.
* 1936 — Graduated from the Lawrenceville School.
* 1940 — Graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University (A.B., classics).
* 1 October 1941 — Entered Army at Fort Dix NJ as Pvt (ASN: 32181916).
* 1 October 1941 — Entered Army at Fort Dix NJ as Pvt (ASN: 32181916).
* 1942 — Married Margaret Skelly.
* 1948 — Ph.D. in classics, Princeton University.
* 1957 — 1972 President of Princeton University.
* April 1977 — Appointed United States Ambassador to India (served 1977–1980).
* 31 March 2008 — Died in Princeton, New Jersey.
* Commissioned 2nd Lt. (ASN: 01283413).
* Commissioned 2nd Lt. (ASN: 01283413).
* Promoted to 1st Lt.
* Promoted to 1st Lt.
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