Richard W. Lyman, Ex-President of Stanford University, Dies at 88

Richard W. Lyman, who as president of Stanford in the 1970s shepherded the university through an era of political turbulence, died on Sunday at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 88.

His death was announced by the university, where Mr. Lyman was president from 1970 to 1980.

An academic historian, Mr. Lyman joined Stanford in 1958 as an associate professor. He went on to hold various administrative posts there, serving as vice president and provost from 1967 to 1970, a period, amid the Vietnam War, when unrest shook campuses across the country.

He stepped down as Stanford’s president to become president of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, a post he held until 1988....