Former UM president Arthur Hauck dead at 99 > Top official served from 1934 to 1958

CAMDEN — Arthur Andrew Hauck of Camden, former president of the University of Maine, died Wednesday at the Camden Health Care Center after a long illness. He was 99.

Hauck was appointed president of the University of Maine in 1934 and served in that post until he retired in 1958. He then became the director of the Washington International Center in Washington, D.C., a project of the American Council for Education. He had been a resident of Camden since 1968.

Born in Minnesota, Hauck graduated from Reed College in Portland, Ore., in 1915, and earned a doctorate from Columbia in 1932. Over the years he received 13 honorary degrees.

He began his educational career as a teacher and a principal in elementary and secondary schools in California, Idaho and Ohio. From 1922 to 1928 he was president of Punahou School in Hawaii, then was assistant to the president at Vassar College from 1929 to 1931. From 1931 to 1934, he served as dean of Lafayette College.

He served on the advisory committee for education and rehabilitation for the federal Veterans Administration and on the advisory council for Educational Exchange. He was a member of the New England Board of Higher Education. He served as president of the National Association of State Universities in 1946 and of the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities in 1953. A Paul Harris Fellow, he was a member of the Camden Rotary Club and the First Congregational Church of Camden, where a memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday.

Memorial donations may be made to the President Arthur A. Hauck Scholarship Fund at the University of Maine in Orono.