| 词条 | Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune |
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| name = Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune | image = Shannon McCune.JPG | image_size = | alt = Portrait of Shannon McCune in 1962 | caption = Shannon McCune in 1962 | birth_date = {{birth date|1913|4|6|mf=y}} | birth_place = Sonchon, Korea | death_date = {{death date and age|1993|1|4|1913|4|6}} | death_place = Gainesville, Florida, U.S. | nationality = American | ethnicity = | fields = Geography, Korean studies | workplaces = Ohio State University (Faculty) Colgate University (Chairman of the geography department) University of Massachusetts Amherst (Provost) | alma_mater = College of Wooster (B.A.) Syracuse University (M.A.) Clark University (Ph.D. in geography)}} Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune (April 6, 1913 – January 4, 1993) was an American geographer. Early life and educationShannon Boyd-Bailey McCune was born in Sonchon, in what is now North Korea, as the son of Presbyterian educational missionaries George McCune and his wife) Helen (McAfee. His older brother was George McAfee McCune and they had two sisters. After receiving his elementary education in Korea, the younger McCune moved to the United States for college, graduating with a bachelor's degree from the College of Wooster in 1935. [1] He earned a master's degree from Syracuse University. After receiving his Ph.D. in geography from Clark University in 1939, McCune taught at Ohio State University. He was the chairman of the geography department at Colgate University from 1947 to 1955, and the provost of the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1955 to 1961. In 1960, while acting president of UMass, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws from his alma mater Clark. He left academia and the United States to serve as the first civilian civil administrator of the Ryukyu Islands from 1962-64. He became the president of the University of Vermont in 1965, but resigned one year later for a research trip to Asia. In 1969 until his retirement in 1979 he was a professor of geography at the University of Florida in Gainesville.[2][3] Bibliography
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Distinguished Alumni Award|url=http://woosteralumni.org/s/1090/index.aspx?sid=1090&gid=1&pgid=393|publisher=College of Wooster|accessdate=March 26, 2011}} {{University of Vermont presidents}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:McCune, Shannon Boyd-Bailey}}2. ^{{cite book|last=Shavit|first=David|title=The United States in Asia: a historical dictionary|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|date=November 1990|pages=320|isbn=978-0-313-26788-8}} 3. ^{{cite news|title=Shannon McCune, 79, Educator, Geographer and Asia Expert, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/08/us/shannon-mccune-79-educator-geographer-and-asia-expert-dies.html?pagewanted=1|last=Howe|first=Martin|date=1993-01-08|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=April 5, 2010}} 9 : 1913 births|1993 deaths|American geographers|Clark University alumni|Colgate University faculty|College of Wooster alumni|Ohio State University faculty|Syracuse University alumni|Presidents of the University of Vermont |
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