should be communities of compassionate people involved in serious intellectual pursuits, but never divorced from the realities of their communities. In 1987, he formed what is now known as the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown. Retirement Following his term as Brown’s president, he was appointed as the director of Brown’s Institute for International Studies. He later moved to Thompson, Connecticut, where he died of cancer on October 19, 1991. Swearer's wife Janet died in 2020. Trivia President Swearer's son, Nick, built Iggy, a long iron sculpture of an iguana that stands in front of the Science Museum of Minnesota, when he was a high school student in Northfield. At one point during construction, Iggy was stolen from the Swearers' driveway and placed on a bridge on campus. References External links - Official site for the President of Brown University Office of the President - Official site for the President of Carleton College Howard Swearer's entry on Carlwiki 1932 births 1991 deaths American educational theorists Harvard University alumni People from Hutchinson, Kansas Presidents of Brown University Presidents of Carleton College Princeton University alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Deaths from cancer in Connecticut 20th-century American academics