Samuel Burkhard
5 May 1883 - 9 Nov 1978
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
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BiographyProfessor of Education at Tempe Normal School/Arizona State College, 1921-1954.Minister of First Congregational Church in 1945.
Tempe Councilman, 1932-1936 and 1938-1950.
Served as head of the Education Department,
1930-1950, and became Professor Emeritus of ASC.
During the Tempe Beach Swimming Pool desegregation debate in 1945, he sent letters urging the change in policy, and stating that discrimination was practiced in local churches.
Lived at 924/926 S. Forest Avenue, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1929,'31,'32, &1940. See also: Burkheard, Samuel,#11672
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BIO-Burkhard
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1924, 1940
Solliday, Journey to Rio Salado, p. 118
Hopkins and Thomas, The ASU Story, pp. 209, 285
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe Tempe CD 1925, '28, '29, '31, '32, '41-42
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