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HAROLD CLAUDE CASE 1902-1972
- MM Glencoe #983, Glencoe, IL
- Affiliated Boston University, 1956
- Grand Chaplain 1956-1958
BIOGRAPHY
President of Boston University; biography from University web site:
Harold Case was born in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, graduated from Baker University in Kansas, and pursued graduate study at Harvard University, Garrett Biblical Institute, Northwestern University, and Boston University School of Theology. He was a successful minister at several large Methodist churches across the nation before assuming the presidency of Boston University in 1951.
President Case continued the post-war expansion of the University, building new dormitories and establishing the School of Fine and Applied Arts (now the School for the Arts), the College of Engineering, and Metropolitan College. He created the African Studies Program in 1953, and the same year invited the distinguished African-American theologian Howard Thurman to be Dean of Marsh Chapel. President Case fostered a new campus atmosphere and he and his wife Phyllis won national recognition for their "University at Home" program, in which undergraduate students gathered at the Case's home to discuss contemporary issues.
MEMORIAL
COUNCIL OF DELIBERATION, 1972
From Proceedings of the Massachusetts Council of Deliberation AASR NMJ 1972, Page 24:
Ill. Harold Claude Case, 33° , was born in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, May 25, 1902, and died in Annisquam, Massachusetts, February 20, 1972. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Baker University of Baldwin City, Kansas, in 1923 and received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology Degree from Boston University in 1927. He entered the Methodist ministry after a year on the faculty of Southwestern College of Winfield, Kansas, serving pastorates in Glencoe, Illinois, Topeka, Kansas, Scranton, Pennsylvania and Pasadena, California.
In 1951 he left the ministry and accepted election as the fifth President of Boston University, where he served with great distinction until his retirement in 1967. Following his retirement from Boston University he served an interim period as President of Whittier College of Whittier, California. Brother Case was raised to the degree of Master Mason in Glencoe Lodge No. 983 of Glencoe, Illinois, on May 1, 1928 and later affiliated with Boston University Lodge. In the Grand Lodge of Masons of Massachusetts, he served as Grand Chaplain in the year 1957. Illustrious Brother Case received his Scottish Rite Degrees in the Valley of Topeka, Kansas.
In 1959 he affiliated with the Scottish Rite Bodies in the Valley of Boston. He was created a Sovereign Grand Inspector General, 33°, Honorary Member of the Supreme Council on September 28, 1960. He was selected as the Exemplar of the Class. In 1968 he delivered an inspiring oration at the Annual Convocation of Massachusetts Council of Deliberation.
