Son of Augustus and Matilda Rantoul
Married Claire Jane Angert in St Louis, MO 4 Nov 1939.
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Excerpted from the Providence Journal (RI) - October 17, 1989 edition:
Talbot Rantoul, 77, fourth president of the Rhode Island School of Design, died last night at Hattie Ide Chaffee, East Providence, where he had been hospitalized in a coma caused by injuries suffered in a fall in May. He and his wife, Claire (Angert) Rantoul, lived in Chilmark, Mass., and Ojai, Calif.
During his tenure as RISD's president from 1969 to 1975, Mr. Rantoul was committed to outreach programs by RISD to encourage young artists both within and beyond Rhode Island. Among those efforts was an affiliation with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs in a program for high school students in Santa Fe., N.M., that resulted in college accreditation for the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1975.
Under his leadership, RISD's community programs in Rhode Island included Project Interface in downtown Providence in 1973 and an ecological study of Block Island in 1970.
Mr. Rantoul helped lead a movement by faculty, students and staff to preserve and restore the schools' Woods-Gerry House at 62 Prospect St. after the house, completed in 1863, was threatened with demolition. In 1977 a plaque recognizing his vision and leadership in the restoration was installed in the Italian Renaissance mansion. The building, which is on the National Historic Register, now houses administrative offices and a gallery for student and faculty art displays.
After his retirement in 1975, Mr. Rantoul served as a consultant to the Johnson & Wales Culinary Institute.
Born in Ipswich, MA, he was the son of the late Charlotte Palgrave Talbot Rantoul and noted Boston architect Augustus Neal Rantoul.
In a happy coincidence, while president of RISD, he lived at 132 Bowen St. in a house his father's architectural firm, Andrew Jakes Rantoul of Boston, had designed decades earlier.
An alumnus of St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., he graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1936 with a bachelor's degree in government and economics. In 1947 he completed an advanced management program at Harvard Business School.
At the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted as a private in the Army, served with the Air Transport Command in Africa, the Middle East and in Europe, and was discharged in 1946 with the rank of major.
Before becoming president of RISD, Mr. Rantoul was development officer at the Harvard Business School for two years, and previously had been director of design, merchandising and sales for the Roxbury Carpet Co. in Saxonville, MA; director of design for the C.H. Masland Carpet Co. in Carlisle, PA; vice president of Towle Silversmiths in Newburyport, MA, and director of design at the Bigelow Sanford Carpet Co. in New York.
In 1955 the American Institute of Decorators awarded him first prize for designing what institute called the best carpet in the United States.
Mr. Rantoul served on the cultural arts committee of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce and belonged to the design and Research Institute and the British Empire Club.
His interests were not limited to the artistic community, however, and throughout his life he was active with a variety of community and business organizations. He was president of the Slater Mill Historic Site, treasurer of the Rhode Island Bicentennial Commission, a director of Peoples Savings Bank, state chairman of the United Negro College Fund, vice chairman of the education division of United Way, and then Gov. Phillip Noel named him a member of the Rhode Island Commodores.
Besides his wife, he leaves three children, Diana Harrison of Portsmouth, Beverly (Beebo) Turman of Berkeley, CA, and Talbot Neal Rantoul of Cambridge, MA, and five grandchildren.
The burial and the memorial service were private.
Married Claire Jane Angert in St Louis, MO 4 Nov 1939.
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Excerpted from the Providence Journal (RI) - October 17, 1989 edition:
Talbot Rantoul, 77, fourth president of the Rhode Island School of Design, died last night at Hattie Ide Chaffee, East Providence, where he had been hospitalized in a coma caused by injuries suffered in a fall in May. He and his wife, Claire (Angert) Rantoul, lived in Chilmark, Mass., and Ojai, Calif.
During his tenure as RISD's president from 1969 to 1975, Mr. Rantoul was committed to outreach programs by RISD to encourage young artists both within and beyond Rhode Island. Among those efforts was an affiliation with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs in a program for high school students in Santa Fe., N.M., that resulted in college accreditation for the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1975.
Under his leadership, RISD's community programs in Rhode Island included Project Interface in downtown Providence in 1973 and an ecological study of Block Island in 1970.
Mr. Rantoul helped lead a movement by faculty, students and staff to preserve and restore the schools' Woods-Gerry House at 62 Prospect St. after the house, completed in 1863, was threatened with demolition. In 1977 a plaque recognizing his vision and leadership in the restoration was installed in the Italian Renaissance mansion. The building, which is on the National Historic Register, now houses administrative offices and a gallery for student and faculty art displays.
After his retirement in 1975, Mr. Rantoul served as a consultant to the Johnson & Wales Culinary Institute.
Born in Ipswich, MA, he was the son of the late Charlotte Palgrave Talbot Rantoul and noted Boston architect Augustus Neal Rantoul.
In a happy coincidence, while president of RISD, he lived at 132 Bowen St. in a house his father's architectural firm, Andrew Jakes Rantoul of Boston, had designed decades earlier.
An alumnus of St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., he graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1936 with a bachelor's degree in government and economics. In 1947 he completed an advanced management program at Harvard Business School.
At the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted as a private in the Army, served with the Air Transport Command in Africa, the Middle East and in Europe, and was discharged in 1946 with the rank of major.
Before becoming president of RISD, Mr. Rantoul was development officer at the Harvard Business School for two years, and previously had been director of design, merchandising and sales for the Roxbury Carpet Co. in Saxonville, MA; director of design for the C.H. Masland Carpet Co. in Carlisle, PA; vice president of Towle Silversmiths in Newburyport, MA, and director of design at the Bigelow Sanford Carpet Co. in New York.
In 1955 the American Institute of Decorators awarded him first prize for designing what institute called the best carpet in the United States.
Mr. Rantoul served on the cultural arts committee of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce and belonged to the design and Research Institute and the British Empire Club.
His interests were not limited to the artistic community, however, and throughout his life he was active with a variety of community and business organizations. He was president of the Slater Mill Historic Site, treasurer of the Rhode Island Bicentennial Commission, a director of Peoples Savings Bank, state chairman of the United Negro College Fund, vice chairman of the education division of United Way, and then Gov. Phillip Noel named him a member of the Rhode Island Commodores.
Besides his wife, he leaves three children, Diana Harrison of Portsmouth, Beverly (Beebo) Turman of Berkeley, CA, and Talbot Neal Rantoul of Cambridge, MA, and five grandchildren.
The burial and the memorial service were private.
Son of Augustus and Matilda Rantoul
Married Claire Jane Angert in St Louis, MO 4 Nov 1939.
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Excerpted from the Providence Journal (RI) - October 17, 1989 edition:
Talbot Rantoul, 77, fourth president of the Rhode Island School of Design, died last night at Hattie Ide Chaffee, East Providence, where he had been hospitalized in a coma caused by injuries suffered in a fall in May. He and his wife, Claire (Angert) Rantoul, lived in Chilmark, Mass., and Ojai, Calif.
During his tenure as RISD's president from 1969 to 1975, Mr. Rantoul was committed to outreach programs by RISD to encourage young artists both within and beyond Rhode Island. Among those efforts was an affiliation with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs in a program for high school students in Santa Fe., N.M., that resulted in college accreditation for the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1975.
Under his leadership, RISD's community programs in Rhode Island included Project Interface in downtown Providence in 1973 and an ecological study of Block Island in 1970.
Mr. Rantoul helped lead a movement by faculty, students and staff to preserve and restore the schools' Woods-Gerry House at 62 Prospect St. after the house, completed in 1863, was threatened with demolition. In 1977 a plaque recognizing his vision and leadership in the restoration was installed in the Italian Renaissance mansion. The building, which is on the National Historic Register, now houses administrative offices and a gallery for student and faculty art displays.
After his retirement in 1975, Mr. Rantoul served as a consultant to the Johnson & Wales Culinary Institute.
Born in Ipswich, MA, he was the son of the late Charlotte Palgrave Talbot Rantoul and noted Boston architect Augustus Neal Rantoul.
In a happy coincidence, while president of RISD, he lived at 132 Bowen St. in a house his father's architectural firm, Andrew Jakes Rantoul of Boston, had designed decades earlier.
An alumnus of St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., he graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1936 with a bachelor's degree in government and economics. In 1947 he completed an advanced management program at Harvard Business School.
At the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted as a private in the Army, served with the Air Transport Command in Africa, the Middle East and in Europe, and was discharged in 1946 with the rank of major.
Before becoming president of RISD, Mr. Rantoul was development officer at the Harvard Business School for two years, and previously had been director of design, merchandising and sales for the Roxbury Carpet Co. in Saxonville, MA; director of design for the C.H. Masland Carpet Co. in Carlisle, PA; vice president of Towle Silversmiths in Newburyport, MA, and director of design at the Bigelow Sanford Carpet Co. in New York.
In 1955 the American Institute of Decorators awarded him first prize for designing what institute called the best carpet in the United States.
Mr. Rantoul served on the cultural arts committee of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce and belonged to the design and Research Institute and the British Empire Club.
His interests were not limited to the artistic community, however, and throughout his life he was active with a variety of community and business organizations. He was president of the Slater Mill Historic Site, treasurer of the Rhode Island Bicentennial Commission, a director of Peoples Savings Bank, state chairman of the United Negro College Fund, vice chairman of the education division of United Way, and then Gov. Phillip Noel named him a member of the Rhode Island Commodores.
Besides his wife, he leaves three children, Diana Harrison of Portsmouth, Beverly (Beebo) Turman of Berkeley, CA, and Talbot Neal Rantoul of Cambridge, MA, and five grandchildren.
The burial and the memorial service were private.
Married Claire Jane Angert in St Louis, MO 4 Nov 1939.
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Excerpted from the Providence Journal (RI) - October 17, 1989 edition:
Talbot Rantoul, 77, fourth president of the Rhode Island School of Design, died last night at Hattie Ide Chaffee, East Providence, where he had been hospitalized in a coma caused by injuries suffered in a fall in May. He and his wife, Claire (Angert) Rantoul, lived in Chilmark, Mass., and Ojai, Calif.
During his tenure as RISD's president from 1969 to 1975, Mr. Rantoul was committed to outreach programs by RISD to encourage young artists both within and beyond Rhode Island. Among those efforts was an affiliation with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs in a program for high school students in Santa Fe., N.M., that resulted in college accreditation for the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1975.
Under his leadership, RISD's community programs in Rhode Island included Project Interface in downtown Providence in 1973 and an ecological study of Block Island in 1970.
Mr. Rantoul helped lead a movement by faculty, students and staff to preserve and restore the schools' Woods-Gerry House at 62 Prospect St. after the house, completed in 1863, was threatened with demolition. In 1977 a plaque recognizing his vision and leadership in the restoration was installed in the Italian Renaissance mansion. The building, which is on the National Historic Register, now houses administrative offices and a gallery for student and faculty art displays.
After his retirement in 1975, Mr. Rantoul served as a consultant to the Johnson & Wales Culinary Institute.
Born in Ipswich, MA, he was the son of the late Charlotte Palgrave Talbot Rantoul and noted Boston architect Augustus Neal Rantoul.
In a happy coincidence, while president of RISD, he lived at 132 Bowen St. in a house his father's architectural firm, Andrew Jakes Rantoul of Boston, had designed decades earlier.
An alumnus of St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., he graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1936 with a bachelor's degree in government and economics. In 1947 he completed an advanced management program at Harvard Business School.
At the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted as a private in the Army, served with the Air Transport Command in Africa, the Middle East and in Europe, and was discharged in 1946 with the rank of major.
Before becoming president of RISD, Mr. Rantoul was development officer at the Harvard Business School for two years, and previously had been director of design, merchandising and sales for the Roxbury Carpet Co. in Saxonville, MA; director of design for the C.H. Masland Carpet Co. in Carlisle, PA; vice president of Towle Silversmiths in Newburyport, MA, and director of design at the Bigelow Sanford Carpet Co. in New York.
In 1955 the American Institute of Decorators awarded him first prize for designing what institute called the best carpet in the United States.
Mr. Rantoul served on the cultural arts committee of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce and belonged to the design and Research Institute and the British Empire Club.
His interests were not limited to the artistic community, however, and throughout his life he was active with a variety of community and business organizations. He was president of the Slater Mill Historic Site, treasurer of the Rhode Island Bicentennial Commission, a director of Peoples Savings Bank, state chairman of the United Negro College Fund, vice chairman of the education division of United Way, and then Gov. Phillip Noel named him a member of the Rhode Island Commodores.
Besides his wife, he leaves three children, Diana Harrison of Portsmouth, Beverly (Beebo) Turman of Berkeley, CA, and Talbot Neal Rantoul of Cambridge, MA, and five grandchildren.
The burial and the memorial service were private.
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