HERBERT EUGENE LONGENECKER

I was privileged to know both Dr. and Mrs. Longenecker during my Tulane years from 1962-65 when he sat in on student-faculty committee meeting which I also attended and when Mrs. Longenecker entertained international students and others of the student body I was asked to help often. There were no finer, considerate, and dedicated people than they, and many of us yet owe them debts of gratitude.

Marjorie - I was so sorry to learn of your Father's death. He was always a true gentleman. He and your Mother were two of the greatest assets Tulane ever had. I will keep you all in my prayers.

Even as a young undergraduate student in the rather wild early 1970's, Dr. Longenecker was always recognized as a man who cared deeply about all the students and Tulane, and had the respect of everyone because of it. He did a marvelous job at a difficult time, and he truly left the school and its students better off because of him. A life well lived.

Today, I learned with sadness but also gratitude of the death of Dr. Herbert E. Longenecker. He was President of Tulane University from 1960 until 1975, and he and I became acquainted during that time as I attended Tulane first from 1965-67 and then again from 1971-76. Dr. Longenecker was an excellent academic leader who brought Tulane during very trying and tense times. He skillfully defended the ROTC programs which were elective at Tulane at all times, even during the Vietnam war. He was...

What a great life! Dr. Longenecker was in every respect a gentleman of the old school and a man of new vision with such a broad spectrum of interests and activities. He was a great president of Tulane and a good friend to so very many. I shall miss his Christmas cards and his rare sense of humor. Mostly I shall miss this good and honorable man. Ave atque vale!

Tulane President Longenecker is remembered fondly and with respect by all of us former students at Tulane. I attended Tulane between 1962 and 1966. Everybody respected him. President Longenecker touched many lives. Edward Gingold, A&S 1966

Dr. Longenecker was a well-known face on campus and a big Tulane Green Wave fan. It was a big thing back in the 70s to "meet the president". His wife Jane often helped Dean Davidson's wife, Mary, at the Friday afternoon Newcomb teas...those are happy memories for me.
Many Newcomb College alumnae join me in sending our sympathies to the Longenecker family.

What a wonderful man! I felt honored to know him when I was at Tulane. He asked me to help host guests for dinner before the football games. What an honor to get to know him! Miss those days! Sweet, sweet man. Carol Colomb Cox, Tulane '70