Raymond Lorenzo Heffner (born May 7, 1925) served in the United States Navy

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 during World War II

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. Heffner is a 1948 graduate of Yale College

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, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the Elizabethan Club

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, and Scroll and Key

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. He earned his master's degree at Yale in 1950 and his Ph.D., also from Yale, in 1953 following the completion of a dissertation on the Elizabethan poet Michael Drayton

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In 1966, he accepted the presidency of Brown University

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. He resigned the presidency of Brown in 1969 stating, “I have simply reached the conclusion that I do not enjoy being a university president.”

A more detailed biography of President Heffner is available through Brown University's Encyclopedia Brunoniana.http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=H0080