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Fred G. Burke, professor emeritus of political science, died of a pulmonary embolism on March 10, 2005 in Newton, New Jersey, at the age of 79. He had a distinguished career as a political scientist and as a progressive-minded educational administrator.
Born in Collins, in western New York State, on January 1, 1926, Fred served in the Army Air Force in World War II and in the Korean War, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams College in 1953. He received his Masters and Doctorate from Princeton in 1955 and 1958, respectively. During his graduate studies Fred received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, and spent a year at Nuffield College in Oxford. He also received the J. Kimbrough Owen Award from the APSA.
In his first dozen years out of graduate school, Fred taught at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he...