Robert A. Waller

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Produktbeschreibung

Can a Depression Era Midwestern farm boy attending a one-room country school find success in the world unfolding around him? This autobiography addresses that general question by answering several queries into major events of these ninety years. What was learning like in a one-room country school of the late 1930s and early 1940s? How fares the first in his family to attend high school and then continue to earn bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees? How did experiences in military service shape the development of this individual? At two major land grant universities, how were issues of integration, war protest, cultural advancement, and academic expansion addressed. In retirement, what adventures lay in extensive travel and enrichment teaching? The answers to these questions are found in annual budget books dating to marriage in 1952, letters from occupation Germany, academic year calendars, family photo collections, Christmas newsletters, and the memories that these stir.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781664185913
• Artikelnr.: 69326655

Autorenporträt

Dr. Waller is an Emeritus Professor of History with service at the University of Illinois, Urbana and South Carolina's Clemson University and Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts at Clemson. Previous major publications include Rainey of Illinois and Relief, Recreation, and Racism (a history of the Civilian Conservation Corps in South Carolina during the 1930s). The author is a consummate teacher whose sixty-six years of involvement includes my offering instruction during military service, at two high schools, for two universities, at an enrichment school, and now for an independent living community. College administrative positions included positions grappling with such issues as student body integration, Vietnam War protests against ROTC credits, performing arts building construction, campus growth in the Liberal Arts in terms of number of majors, expansion and integration of faculty, emergence of new departments and programs, and solicitation of supporting funds through grants and donations.