Jul 13, 2012 - Claremont, Calif. -

An obituary of Joseph B. Platt was published in the June 13, 2012 edition of the Los Angeles Times.

The Times writes: "Launching a new college would 'clearly be a great adventure but so is jumping off a bridge,' physicist Joseph B. Platt wrote decades after accepting the challenge in 1956 to become the founding president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont.

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