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H. Guyford Stever ’38 played key role in space program

By Contributing Writer on April 19, 2010

This story was originally posted to the Colgate University news site by Tim O’Keeffe.

Colgate alumnus H. Guyford Stever, 93, the top science adviser to two presidents who led the oversight committee that redesigned the space shuttle’s booster rockets after the Challenger disaster, has died.

News outlets from around the country, including The New York Times and Washington Post, reported on the April 9 death of Stever, who graduated from Colgate in 1938. Read more