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Clapp, Harold L.
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Dates of existence
1909-1961
History
1909 June 14, born I Jamestown, New York
1928-29 Junior year at University of Nancy, France
1930 BA from Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
1931 Married Laura Rice
1930-32 Instructor in romance languages at Colgate University
1933 MA from University of Wisconsin
1935 Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin
1935-29 Professor of Romance Languages, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio
1939-61 Grinnell College, Modern Language faculty
1941 Summer, Director, American Friends Service Committee, student work project, Mexico
1943-44 Coordinator of Area and Language Unites of the Army specialized Training, Assignment and Reclassification Unit (STAR), and if Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) at Grinnell College.
1946-47 President, Iowa Foreign Language Association
1947-48 Director, University of Delaware Foreign Study Group in Geneva, Switzerland
1949-50 Summers. Organized and taught French Play School for children
1952-55 Served on National Council of the American Association of University Professors
1953-54 President of the Iowa Conference of the American Association of University Professors.
1956-57 Executive Secretary, Council for Basic Education, Washington D.C. Editor, Council for Basic Education Bulletin
1959-60 President, Council for Basic Education
1958-60 Chairman of the Faculty, Grinnell College
1960 Summer. Research in France and Switzerland
1961 Appointed to Seth Richards Chair of Modern Languages
1961 Sept. 3. Died of cancer, Grinnell, Iowa