Donald Edwin Walker

Background

Mr. Walker was born on February 6, 1941, in Hammond, Indiana, United States. He is a son of Carl Thurston (a railroad engineer) and Verla Irene (a homemaker; maiden name, Cutler) Walker.

Education

Donald Walker completed his studies at Indiana University—Bloomington, receiving Bachelor of Arts in 1963. In 1964 he graduated from University of South Dakota with Master of Arts. He attended University of Wyoming from 1964 till 1965. In 1982 Donald Walker became a graduate of Michigan State University, from which he earned Doctor of Philosophy.

Career

Mr. Walker worked at Olivet College, Olivet, MI, serving as an assistant professor beginning in 1965. Currently professor of history and chairperson of Department of History and Political Science at the same college. He was a consultant to Score Baseball Cards. Mr. Walker joined Olivet City Council, being a member since 1977, mayor pro tempore starting from 1983. In 1984 he became a member of Olivet Police Commission.

He has been a contributor to periodicals, including Popular Culture in Libraries, Social Education, International Journal of Instructional Media, Popular Music and Society, and Social Studies.

Achievements

• Donald Walker is a distunguished writer, who made a research on baseball history in the early twentieth century.

Works

• book

  • Baseball and American Culture: A Thematic Bibliography of over 4,500 Works 1995

Views

According to Mr. Walker's views, church members should be close and caring to feel each other's pains and problems. The good of the whole body of the Christian society should be put before individual needs.

Membership

• Organization of American Historians , United States

• Western Historical Association , United States

• Phi Kappa Phi , United States

• Phi Alpha Theta , United States

• Phi Mu Alpha , United States

• Omicron Delta Kappa , United States

Interests

• gardening, music, reading, traveling, walking

Connections

Donald Walker married Julie Ann Woerpel, a library office manager, on December 20, 1960. They are the parents of two children: Theodore R., Susan J. Walker.

Father:

Carl Thurston Walker

Mother:

Verla Irene (Cutler) Walker

Son:

Theodore R. Walker

Daughter:

Susan J. Walker

Wife:

Julie Ann Woerpel