Katherine R. Klink
bornOhio, USA
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BiographyGraduated from Heidelburg College, and received a Master's degree from Syracuse University. Became residence hall director at Kent State University, then became junior dean of women at ArizonaState Teachers College at Flagstaff (NAU). She applied for the job of dean of women at Arizona State Teachers College in Tempe, but President Gammage turned her down as being too young. She
joined the USO during World War II. She was dean of women at Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois. Assistant Dean at Northern Arizona Teachers College (NAU), 1941-1943.
She married Grady Gammage in 1949.
About 1959, she organized ASU's development office, and became director of gifts and endowments. She retired in 1990 after 31 years of raising money for the university. She was a founding member of the board of directors of Friendship Village in Tempe, and moved there in 1989. She was one of the founders of KAET-TV Public Television Station. Was a member of the Tempe Beautiful Committee in 1967. She received the Howard Pyle Vocational Service Award from Tempe
South Rotary Club in 1991.
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Hopkins and Thomas, The ASU Story, pp. 291-292
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