January
Regents Name Robert McCormick Adams as Ninth Secretary
Year:
1984
Month:
january
Day:
21
Date:
Sat, 1984-01-21
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Robert McCormick Adams is named the ninth Secretary and assumes the post on September 17, 1984, serving for ten years from 1984 to 1994 . Adams was Provost of the University of Chicago from 1982 until 1984. In his scholarly work and twenty-seven years of field research, Adams has focused principally on the agricultural and urban history of the Near and Middle East and the geographical and archaeological study of settlement patterns.