Robert H. Rutford
Robert Hoxie Rutford (January 26, 1933 – December 1, 2019)[1] was a president emeritus and a former faculty member of the University of Texas at Dallas.[2] Prior to coming to Dallas, Rutford was a professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and served as its interim chancellor from 1980 to 1981.[3][4][5] Rutford was a member of several United States Antarctic Program expeditions to Antarctica, and was the leader of the University of Minnesota Ellsworth Mountains Party, 1963–1964.[6][7] The 14,688 foot/4,477 meter-high Mount Rutford, which is the summit of Craddock Massif in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains in the Antarctic, was named for him in 2007.[8][9] Rutford served as the head football coach at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1958 to 1961.