Brown, Alan S., 1922-2006

found: Chronicle of higher education, June 16, 2006(Alan S. Brown, 84, professor emeritus of history at Western Michigan U., [died] May 18 in Kalamazoo, Mich.)

found: Alan S. Brown collection, 1950-1998 :author bio (Alan S. Brown, son of Gordon S. and Hazel L. Brown, was born April 23, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan. He died May 18, 2006 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Brown received his Ph.D. in 1953 from the University of Michigan. He taught at the University of Michigan and Kent State University before coming to Western Michigan University's Department of History in 1955. Brown was WMU's first archivist and also served as Dean at Kanley Chapel. He received the WMU Alumni Teaching Excellence Award in 1989. Brown retired in 1991 as Professor of History Emeritus. He was a frequent contributor to Michigan History Magazine)

found: ancestry.com, viewed Aug. 7-8, 2014:Punnett family tree (Alan Scouler Brown, b. 23 April 1922; d. 18 May 2006), SSDI (Alan S. Brown, b. 23 Apr 1922, d. 18 May 2006); US Public Records index, v. 1 (Alan S. Brown, dob 23 Apr 1922, gives addresses on Evanston and Winchell in Kalamazoo); Find-a-grave (Sr. Alan S. Brown; obit on page indicates he served in WWII in the US Army, utilized the GI bill to get three degrees in history from the University of Michigan, receiving his PhD in 1955. He taught at UM and Kent State before coming to Western Michigan University's Department of History in 1955 ... was secretary to the Kalamazoo Municipal Golf Association from 1975 to 1995 ... buried in Fort Custer National Cemetery)