Spalding, Willard B. (Willard Benjamin), 1904-1981

found: NUCMC data from Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign Archives for Stoddard, G.D. Papers, 1925-1977(Willard B. Spalding)

found: LC manual cat.(hdg.: Spalding, Willard Benjamin, 1904- ; usage: Willard B. Spalding)

found: Oregon Encyclopedia, viewed August 5, 2020;Willard B. Spalding, 1904-1981 (born on February 9, 1904, in Salisbury, Massachusetts; nationally recognized and respected educator; held two key positions in Oregon during critical times: superintendent of Portland schools at the end of World War II and administrator at the state's newest institution of higher education, Portland State University; attended Wesleyan College and graduated from Boston University in 1926 with a bachelor's degree in business administration; earned his master's in educational administration at the University of New Hampshire in 1932 and his doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Harvard in 1942; served as principal and superintendent in several school districts in Massachusetts and New Jersey; dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois, 1947-1952; joined the faculty at Portland State College where he became chair of the Division of Education at the college in 1955, as well as acting dean of the faculty; left Portland State College in 1963 to become director of the California Coordinating Council for Higher Education until 1971; died in Charlottesville, Virginia, in May 1981; entry was last updated on March 17, 2018)

found: OCLC, August 5, 2020(access points: Spalding, Willard B. (Willard Benjamin), 1904-; Spalding, Willard B. (Willard Benjamin), 1904-1981; Spalding, Willard B. (Willard Benjamin); Spalding, Willard B., 1904-; Spalding, Willard B.; Spalding, Willard Benjamin, 1904-; Spalding, Willard Benjamin; Spalding, Willard; usage: Willard B. Spalding; W.B. Spalding)