The President today announced that he will nominate Robert Harry Spiro, Jr., of Jacksonville, Fla., to be Under Secretary of the Army. He would replace Walter LaBerge, resigned.
Spiro has been president of Jacksonville University since 1964.
He was born December 5, 1920, in Asheville, N.C. He received a B.S. from Wheaton College in 1941 and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) in 1950. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1941 to 1945.
From 1946 to 1950, Spiro was an associate professor of history at King College in Bristol, Tenn. From 1950 to 1957, he was a professor of history at Mississippi College. He was president of Blue Ridge Assembly, Inc., in 1960.
From 1960 to 1964, he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts and professor of history at Mercer University, Macon, Ga.
As president of Jacksonville University, Spiro has overseen its expansion from a junior college to a liberal arts university, with large increases in numbers of faculty, volumes in the library, buildings, and programs available.
Jimmy Carter, Department of the Army Nomination of Robert Harry Spiro, Jr., To Be Under Secretary. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/249475