He also oversaw a highly successful Sesqui centennial Fund which raised $15 million by its completion last June.

Significantly, Bok, who is an authority on labor law, has had long and close associations with John T. Dunlop, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Archibald Cox, Willistot Professor of Law and University trouble shooter.

Both Cox and Dunlop have emerged as the two most visible-and powerful-faculty members in the crises of the last two years, and both were considered candidates for the Presidency.

He co-authored Cases and Materials on Labor Law (1965) with Cox and Labor and the American Community (1970) with Dunlop He is also the author of The First Three Year of the Schuman Plan (1955) and a number of scholarly articles.

Bok was born March 22. 1930, in Bryn Mawr Pa. His father became judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia in 1937 and was associate justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1958 until he died in 1962.

His grandfather, Edward W. Bok, was the first editor of Ladies Home Journal and the author of the Americanization of Edward Bok His grandmother was the daughter of Cyrus H.K. Curtis, founder of the Curtis Publishing Co.

Bok grew up in Los Angeles where he at tended the Harvard Military School in North Hollywood, Calif. He received his B.A. from Stanford in 1951 where he played varsity basketball-"very badly," he said last night.

He received his LL.B. degree, magna cum laude, from the Law School in 1954 where he was the editor of the prestigious Harvard Law Review.

Bok spent the next year in Paris as a Ful bright Scholar where he met Sissela Ann Myrdal, daughter of Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal. They were married in 1955 in Louviers, France, by the former French prime minister, Pierre Mendes-France. They have three children.