Herman teaching an honors seminar in 1984.
Professor Herman in 1975.
Herman and President Richard Freeland at the inaugural NUTV broadcast, April 1997.
Just try to name a University committee that Gerry Herman hasn’t been involved with over the past half-century. Handbooks and contracts? He reviewed them. Strategic Plans? He helped plan them. Technology and distance learning initiatives? He championed them.
Herman first called Northeastern home as a graduate student in 1965. Since then, he has been on the cutting edge of incorporating media into the study and teaching of history. He taught courses on topics ranging from Western and World History to the History of Flight and Space Travel. Herman has given new meaning to the term “University Service,” serving as University Copyright Officer (1988-2012), Special Assistant to the Provost (1979-1987), and Special Assistant to University Counsel (1987-2012) in addition to chairing a host of committees and task forces. Herman has also been integral to the success of Holocaust Remembrance Week, serving on the Holocaust Awareness Committee from 1983-2013. Professor Herman retired from the University on July 1, 2015, but his impact will surely be felt for many years to come.
Herman’s professional papers and records (the Gerald H. Herman Papers) are preserved in the Archives and Special Collections Department in Snell Library.
Gerry is one of the most important links that took NU from being an average city university, to joining the ranks of the country’s top universities. No one contributed more to this transformation than did he, and it was done behind the scenes, or from within the classroom, generally out of the limelight, which he left for others who coveted it far more than did he.
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