Bressler, Marvin

1923 - 2010  (87 years)

• Name	Bressler, Marvin  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Born	10 Apr 1923	Bronx County, New York, USA   [1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	11 May 1950	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  	Age: 27
  Died	7 Jul 2010	Skillman, Somerset, New Jersey, USA   [2, 3, 8, 10, 11, 12]
  Person ID	I11600	Our Family | Descendents of Ze'ev Wolf Kitzes (I8926, I18, I1390)
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Bressler, George Joseph,   b. 22 Mar 1888, Khmelnystskyi, Ukraine ,   d. 3 Dec 1947, Broomall, Delaware, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 59 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Kitzes, Clara,   b. 13 Nov 1888, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine ,   d. 1 Aug 1976, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	24 May 1918	New York, New York, New York, USA   [13, 14, 15, 16]
  Family ID	F4143	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rosner, Nancy,   b. 20 Oct 1923,   d. 14 Apr 2007  (Age 83 years)
  Married	1 Feb 1944
  Children	+ 1. Bressler, Amy + 2. Bressler, Jan
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024
  Family ID	F3950	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Marvin Bressler, a sociologist who helped shape undergraduate life at Princeton University beginning in the 1960s, died Wednesday of complications of heart failure at the Stonebridge at Montgomery retirement community in Skillman. He was 87. Bressler, the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, taught at Princeton from 1963 to 1993, and he chaired the sociology department for 20 of his 30 years at the university. Bressler also served on several university committees, including the 1970s Commission on the Future of the College, which he chaired, and he used his expertise in education to help shape public policy. Beyond the university, Bressler also served as chair of the academic research and education advisory panel of the General Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, for two decades. He participated in various state and national commissions on the social role of universities, and he took on leadership responsibilities within the American Sociological Association. On campus, Bressler's teaching and advising, full of wit and wisdom, endeared him to generations of students and younger faculty. Among those Bressler advised was Wendy Kopp, whose 1989 senior thesis laid out the plans for Teach for America, the teaching corps she would go on to create. "Marvin is unforgettable," said Gilbert Rozman, Princeton's Musgrave Professor of Sociology. Rozman was a graduate student in the sociology department in the 1960s and joined the faculty in 1970. "He had an uncanny knack of leaving an audience with the sense that you and he were engaged in a vital quest for answers to the questions he was invariably posing," Rozman said. Bressler ran the sociology department with an "iron fist in a velvet glove," said Viviana Zelizer, Princeton's Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology and a close friend of Bressler for 35 years. After teaching, Bressler's second passion was mentoring the men's basketball team, which he did from the 1960s to this past spring. His devotion inspired a faculty and staff advising program for Princeton's varsity sports teams. Princeton's sociology department has named a conference room and teaching award for graduate students in Bressler's honor. In addition to his regular teaching, he also lectured for alumni groups so frequently that they bestowed upon him the 1994 Alumni Council Award for Service to Princeton. Bressler was predeceased by his wife, Nancy. He is survived by his daughters, Jan Bressler Andreeff and Amy Bressler Nee, and four grandchildren.. Marvin Bressler, a sociologist who helped shape undergraduate life at Princeton University beginning in the 1960s, died Wednesday of complications of heart failure at the Stonebridge at Montgomery retirement community in Skillman. He was 87. Bressler, the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, taught at Princeton from 1963 to 1993, and he chaired the sociology department for 20 of his 30 years at the university. Bressler also served on several university committees, including the 1970s Commission on the Future of the College, which he chaired, and he used his expertise in education to help shape public policy. Beyond the university, Bressler also served as chair of the academic research and education advisory panel of the General Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, for two decades. He participated in various state and national commissions on the social role of universities, and he took on leadership responsibilities within the American Sociological Association. On campus, Bressler's teaching and advising, full of wit and wisdom, endeared him to generations of students and younger faculty. Among those Bressler advised was Wendy Kopp, whose 1989 senior thesis laid out the plans for Teach for America, the teaching corps she would go on to create. "Marvin is unforgettable," said Gilbert Rozman, Princeton's Musgrave Professor of Sociology. Rozman was a graduate student in the sociology department in the 1960s and joined the faculty in 1970. "He had an uncanny knack of leaving an audience with the sense that you and he were engaged in a vital quest for answers to the questions he was invariably posing," Rozman said. Bressler ran the sociology department with an "iron fist in a velvet glove," said Viviana Zelizer, Princeton's Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology and a close friend of Bressler for 35 years. After teaching, Bressler's second passion was mentoring the men's basketball team, which he did from the 1960s to this past spring. His devotion inspired a faculty and staff advising program for Princeton's varsity sports teams. Princeton's sociology department has named a conference room and teaching award for graduate students in Bressler's honor. In addition to his regular teaching, he also lectured for alumni groups so frequently that they bestowed upon him the 1994 Alumni Council Award for Service to Princeton. Bressler was predeceased by his wife, Nancy. He is survived by his daughters, Jan Bressler Andreeff and Amy Bressler Nee, and four grandchildren.

  
  

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