SOME CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Awarded his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in the History of Culture.

• Elected Captain of the University of Chicago Track Team.

• Received the Amos Alonzo Stagg Medal for Scholarship and Athletics 1953

• Sponsored partnership between Würzburg Universitat and George Mason University.

• Served as the Interim Chairman of the English Department.

• Setup the George Mason University Press to publish books for faculty.

• Established the Vernon and Marguerite Gras Annual Lecture in the Humanities.