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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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George Herman |
Assistant Professor of Speech | |
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Thomas C. Trueblood |
1886 - 1926 |
Professor of Elocution and Public Speaking Chair Department of Speech |
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Henry A. Sanders |
1893 - 1938 |
Professor of Speech, Phonetics and General Linguistics Chair of Speech, Phonetics and General Linguistics Professor of Latin |
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Richard D. Hollister |
1904 - 1948 | Associate Professor of Speech |
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Herbert Samuel Mallory |
1908 - 1928 | Associate Professor of Rhetoric |
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Ray Keeslar Immel |
1913 - 1920 | Assistant Professor of Public Speaking |
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Louis M. Eich |
1914 - 1954 | Associate Professor of Speech |
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Waldo Mark Abbot |
1920 - 1958 |
Professor of Rhetoric, English an Speech Director Emeritus of Broadcasting Service-Radio |
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John H. Muyskens |
1920 - 1957 |
Instructor of French Associate Professor of Phonetics |
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Gail Ernest Densmore |
1922 - 1964 |
Professor of Speech Chair Department of Speech |
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James M. O’Neill |
1927 - 1935 |
Professor of Speech Chair Department of Speech |
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Valentine B. Windt |
1929 - 1956 |
Professor of Speech Director of Play Production |
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H. Harlan Bloomer |
1935 - 1977 | Professor of Speech |
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William Perdue Halstead |
1935 - 1976 | Professor of Speech Communication & Theatre |
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Bessie L. Whitaker |
1937 - 1944 | Associate Professor of Speech |
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Kenneth Hance |
1940 - 1945 | Associate Professor of Speech |
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Ollie L. Backus |
1941 - 1949 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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David Owen |
1941 - 1947 | Professor of Speech |
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Claribel Halstead Baird |
1947 - 1971 | Professor of Speech |
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Garnet R. Garrison |
1947 - 1979 | Professor of Speech |
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Newton Edd Miller |
1947 - 1965 | Professor of Speech |
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Loren Lamont Okey |
1947 - 1979 | Professor of Speech Communication & Theatre |
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William M. Sattler |
1948 - 1969 | Professor of Speech |
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Hugh Z. Norton |
1949 - 1963 | Associate Professor of Speech |
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Paul E Cairns |
1951 - 1957 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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Edward Stasheff |
1952 - 1978 | Professor of Speech Communication & Theatre |
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Gordon E. Peterson |
1953 - 1967 |
Professor of Speech and Electrical Engineering Chair of Department of Communication Sciences |
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Irwin Brown |
1953 - 1956 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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Martin C. Schultz |
1960 - 1965 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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Robert C. Schnitzer |
1961 - 1974 |
Professor of Speech Executive Director Emeritus of the Professional Theatre Program |
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William R. McGraw |
1962 - 1965 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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Calvin K. Quayle |
1963 - 1965 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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Richard J. Burgwin |
1964 - 1986 | Professor of Theatre and Drama |
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Ralph R. Rupp |
1965 - 1989 |
Professor of Education and Audiology Professor of Communication |
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John H. Wiley |
1965 - 1979 | Professor of Speech |
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James F. Coakley |
1966 - 1970 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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Bruce E. Gronbeck |
1967 - 1973 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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William C. Donaghy |
1968 - 1971 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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Robert W. Sankey |
1969 - 1970 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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Lawrence J. Turton |
1970 - 1976 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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Donald M. Boros |
1971 - 1974 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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Richard B. Haas |
1971 - 1974 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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Lawrence Eilenbert |
1975 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Speech |
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Daniel J. O’Keefe |
1975 - 1979 | Assistant Professor of Speech, Communications and Theatre |
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R. Craig Wolf |
1975 | Assistant Professor of Speech |
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John E. Baird Jr |
1978 | Assistant Professor of Speech |