Millard E. Gladfelter rose from teaching in York County schools to the rank of president of Temple University. Background posts: Christ Lutheran is oldest York church - but how old? and Glatfelter, Morgan Smith head industrial legacy list and Glatfelter family history is as clear as ... paper.
Millard E. Gladfelter, of the York County Gladfelters, hit for the cycle in the educational game.
He taught in one-room York County schools. He taught at West York High School. He served as principal there. And later supervising principal of West York schools.
And still later, he became president of Temple University.
Yes, that giant university in Philadelphia.
And he helped make it so.
He is one of many successful descendents of Casper Glattfelter, who came to York County in 1743.
His last name is spelled with a "d," different from the papermaking Glatfelters, but he's still a Glattfelter.
Millard Gladfelter died at the age of 95 in 1995.
His obituary, as distributed by Knight-Ridder wire service (2/16/09), tells about this popular, profoundly Pennsylvania Dutch educator, who never forgot his York County roots.
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