Claude Livingston Kulp (1894 - 1969) was a noted educator in Upstate New York.
Kulp was raised in Rochester, New York, and attended the Rochester Mechanics Institute, the University of Rochester, and Cornell University. He was Superintendent of Schools of the Ithaca Public Schools (now the Ithaca City School District) from 1930 to 1951, and the Claude L. Kulp Auditorium at Ithaca High School is named after him. He left the district to become Associate Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, and then became a professor of education at Cornell University, directing a Ford Foundation-sponsored teacher training program.
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