Robert L. Sumwalt (academic)

Robert Llewellyn Sumwalt (July 8, 1895 – January 24, 1977) was an American engineer and academic, who was President of the University of South Carolina.[2] He began undergraduate studies at Delaware College in 1914, belonged to the Sigma Nu fraternity there,[3] and received a B.S.[3] He received from University of Delaware (the successor to the college) a professional degree for which he wrote a 1921 thesis on the construction of a mental hospital.Pierre S. du Pont, who was a patron of the university, had in 1918 begun a correspondence with Sumwalt (which continued for decades, into the year of Du Pont's death), and assisted Sumwalt financially while he was earning his SBCE[clarification needed] at MIT.After 36 years working at the university, he retired and was employed on the professional staff of the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee.
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