1. Eugene Barnum Power was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, founder of the modern microfilm industry, and pioneer in the use of microfilm for the reproduction of scholarly publications.
11 Facts About Eugene Power
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Eugene Power married Sadye L Harwick in 1929, and the couple had one son, Philip.
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Eugene Power paid the library a minimal fee per exposure and then took the film to the United States where he sold copies to US libraries.
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Eugene Power pioneered a business model for publishing limited-interest doctoral dissertations, becoming the publisher of record for all US dissertations in 1951.
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Eugene Power continued to work for Xerox until his mandatory retirement in 1970 at the age of 65.
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Eugene Power served two terms as a regent of the University of Michigan, served on the council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and became president of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges in 1970.
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Eugene Power was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1975.
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Eugene Power died of Parkinson's disease in 1993 at the age of 88.
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Eugene Power donated funds to establish the Power Center for the Performing Arts at his alma mater, the University of Michigan.
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Eugene Power endowed a scholarship program at the university and helped to buy the site of the Battle of Hastings in England to preserve it from real estate speculation.
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In 2018, his son and daughter-in-law, Philip and Kathy Eugene Power, donated their family's significant collection of Inuit art to the University of Michigan Museum of Art.