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Willis Frederick Dunbar
WILLIS FREDERICK DUNBAR (1902-1970) was born in Hartford, Michigan and graduated from Kalamazoo College. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He served as a facul...mehr sehenWILLIS FREDERICK DUNBAR (1902-1970) was born in Hartford, Michigan and graduated from Kalamazoo College. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. He served as a faculty member and dean at Kalamazoo College from 1929-1942 and a faculty member and department chairperson at Western Michigan University from 1941-1970. Dunbar also served as the vice mayor of Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1951-1953 and 1955-1957. He was a familiar figure in Michigan homes as a frequent radio and TV commentator on Michigan affairs, past and present, serving as program director and director of public affairs at WKZO a Kalamazoo, Michigan, radio station from 1943-1951. He was a member of the American Historical Association and served as President of the Michigan Historical Commission, Historical Society of Michigan, and the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters. He was a frequent lecturer on subjects of local, state and regional interest, and was broadly active in civic and cultural affairs. Dr. Dunbar was the author of numerous articles in educational and historical journals, and wrote a number of books on various phases of Michigan history, including Michigan Through the Centuries (1952), The Michigan Record in Higher Education (1963), Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State (1965), and All Aboard! A History of Railroads in Michigan (1966). He passed away in 1970.
RICHARD N. GREGG was an art museum director and wrote articles for such magazines as Antiques, Connoisseur, Curator, American Artist and Museum News. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield, Michigan in 1950. He died in Miami Beach, Florida on March 8, 1988 aged 61.
GEORGE G. MALLINSON (1917-1994) was Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Western Michigan University.weniger sehen