Donald Newton Dedmon was an American academic administrator and communications consultant.
10 Facts About Donald Dedmon
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Donald Dedmon taught at Saint Cloud State College, in St Cloud, Minnesota, from 1959 to 1962 and at Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois from 1962 to 1964.
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Donald Dedmon later became chair of the Department of Speech at Colorado State University.
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Donald Dedmon became the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Marshall University in 1968, and was appointed executive vice president the following year, becoming acting president of the University in 1970.
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Donald Dedmon was portrayed by David Strathairn in the movie We Are Marshall, which details the aftermath of the crash and its effect on the school community.
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Donald Dedmon became president of Radford University on March 20,1972, and served for more than twenty years, during which time the University experienced rapid growth and a major transition from a small women's college to a co-ed institution, before reaching university status in 1979.
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Donald Dedmon spent much of the early 1990s away from Radford University on sabbatical in Hawaii and later on medical leave during a lengthy recovery from a ruptured spleen.
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In 2018, Donald Dedmon was posthumously inducted in the Radford University Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Donald Dedmon married Geraldine Mary Sanders, a native of Canada in 1957.
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Donald Dedmon died in Naples, Florida in 1998 at the age of 66.