Ira Michael Heyman (May 30, 1930 – November 19, 2011) was a Professor of Law and of City and Regional Planning, and was Chancellor of

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, and Secretary of the

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Life

Heyman was born in 1930 in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, and in 1951 from

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. At Dartmouth he joined the Theta Chi men's fraternity. After serving as a U.S. Marine Corps officer during the

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, he entered

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, where he became editor of the ''

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''. Following his graduation in 1956, he served as a law clerk for Judge Charles Edward Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then from 1958 to 1959 he was a clerk for Chief Justice

Earl Warren Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th governor of California from 1943 to 1953 and as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969. The Warren Court presid ...

. He joined the law faculty at Berkeley in 1959, and he became Vice Chancellor in 1974. He was named Berkeley's sixth Chancellor and served in that capacity from 1980 to 1990. He returned to teaching law after leaving the Chancellorship. He was Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Interior, from 1993 to 1994; and Secretary of the

from 1994 to 2000. He served as a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1982 until 1992 and as the chair of the Board of Trustees for the last two years of his tenure. During his Berkeley years he became a member of the Bohemian Club, at which his closest associates included Caspar Weinberger, who was

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's Secretary of Defense. After having smoked a few packages of cigarettes a day for many years, he died of

emphysema Emphysema is any air-filled enlargement in the body's tissues. Most commonly emphysema refers to the permanent enlargement of air spaces (alveoli) in the lungs, and is also known as pulmonary emphysema. Emphysema is a lower respiratory tract di ...

in 2011.

Works

of the Ad Hoc Committee on Student Conduct''
(1964)
Students at Berkeley, views and data on possible sex discrimination in academic programs''
(1977)
for the individual; the community YWCA and other Berkeley organizations''
(1978)
Nobel Tradition at Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley''
(1984)
Smithsonian Institution, 1994-1999:oral history transcript''
(2012)

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I. Michael Heyman from the

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"Conversations with History:"
, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
"Ira M Heyman"
''The Los Angeles Times''
"Ira Michael Heyman, Former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Dies at 81"
, Smithsonian Magazine'', November 22, 2011 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Heyman, Ira Michael 1930 births 2011 deaths UC Berkeley School of Law faculty Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Lawyers from New York City Leaders of the University of California, Berkeley Secretaries of the Smithsonian Institution Dartmouth College alumni Yale Law School alumni United States Marine Corps officers United States Marine Corps personnel of the Korean War Deaths from emphysema 20th-century American lawyers Military personnel from California

Life

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