In 1948, after the collapse of its Detroit franchise, the NBL made history by admitting the first all-black team into an otherwise white professional league.
Dr. Gottschalk demonstrated his own liberalism by admitting the first gay and lesbian students to rabbinical studies, in addition to performing the landmark ordination of Sally Priesand as a rabbi in 1972 in Cincinnati.
Joshua Morse III, who as dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law in the 1960s defied segregationist tradition by admitting the school's first black students, a move that led to the desegregation of Mississippi's legal profession and judiciary, died last Friday at his home in Tallahassee, Fla.
Another hour went by Monday before Krucki admitted the first visitors, a group of five residents of Laguna Hills Leisure World, led by 84-year-old Victor J. Van Lint.
He admitted the first year was "towsy".
PAGE D5 OBITUARIES ROBERT F. GOHEEN, 88 A former president of Princeton University whose ambition was to promote reflective thought, he changed the makeup of the university by admitting its first women, pursuing minority faculty and buttressing finances.
The other path, the one he follows, involves lowering the bar by admitting a third kind of knowledge, one that lacks certainty: sensitive knowledge.
Robert F. Goheen, who as president of Princeton revolutionized the university by admitting its first women, pursuing minority faculty members, buttressing finances and doubling the space in campus buildings, died on Monday in Princeton, N.J.
The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield has a male-only membership, its exclusionary practices resurrecting the public debate that Augusta National, host of the Masters, put to rest by admitting its first two women members before this year's tournament.
On Aug. 20 the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, home of the Masters golf tournament, ended an all-male policy that had endured for 80 years by admitting its first two women members, one of them Rice.
