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Steeples, Douglas Wayne was born on March 30, 1935 in Great Bend, Kans. Son of Marion Wayne and Dorothy Augusta (King) Steeples.
( Originating as a silver-mining camp and marketed today ...)
Originating as a silver-mining camp and marketed today as a silver-mining ghost town, Calico, CA outlived the silver era when borax was discovered in its hills. Supplying Borax worldwide—employing the twenty mule teams still associated with Twenty-Mule Team Borax—the Calico mines played a pivotal role in the evolution of the less glamorous industry, borax mining. Correcting the image sold to tourists, Steeples provides a tight geographic, economic, social, political, and business history of Calico, a once thriving community struggling to survive in primitive conditions. He tells the tale of three Calicos: the silver-mining town, the borax-mining center, and the ghost town, providing a masterful history of regional silver mining and national borax mining, processing, and marketing. The book provides an essential chapter in the development of western mining, the borax industry, and western mining camps. But it is more than the story of silver and borax in Calico. Steeples probes beyond the mines and mills in search of the community's soul, considering, for instance, the local paper, the Calico Print, the creation of the twenty-mule team image of Borax, the entrepreneurship of Francis Marion Borax Smith and his multinational organization, the education of the children, and the creation of the modern-day myth. Contrasting the working Calico with the illusory Calico, Steeples writes the complete history of the town from its natural setting to its imaginary legacy.
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This sourcebook is about successful strategic planning. Grounded in practice and experience, rather than theory and research, it presents firsthand accounts of strategic planning as effectively employed by presidents who used that approach as a potent device for shaping the futures of their colleges and universities in a time of uncertainties and challenges. The purpose of this volume of New Directions for Higher Education is to provides ideas, examples, and illustrations of strategic planning--a method by which institutions can creatively respond to threats and opportunities in the incresingly competitive environment confronting them, and at the same time, continue to serve the ideals that define their missions. This is the 64th issue of New Directions for Higher Education. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.
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Steeples, Douglas Wayne was born on March 30, 1935 in Great Bend, Kans. Son of Marion Wayne and Dorothy Augusta (King) Steeples.
Bachelor summa cum laude, University Redlands, 1957. Master of Arts, University North Carolina, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1961.
Certified, Institute Educational Management, Harvard University, 1981.
Assistant professor history California State University, North Ridge, 1961—1964. Professor history Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 1963-1980. Academy vice president Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa, 1979-1980.
Executive vice president Westminster College, Salt Lake City, 1980-1983. Provost Ohio University, Delaware, Ohio, 1983-1985, acting president, winter 1984. Dean College Liberal and Fine Arts, University Southern Colorado, Pueblo, Colorado, 1985-1989.
Vice president for academy affairs Aurora University, Illinois, 1989—1993, vice president academy planning, 1993—1994. Dean, professor history College Liberal Arts, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, 1994-2000, retired, 2000. Proctor, participant clinical practice program Mercer University Medical School, 2005—2008.
Consultant higher education management. Consultant, reader advanced placement program Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976-1993. Consultant, evaluator North Central Association School and College, Chicago, 1985-1994.
Member Accreditation Review Commission, 1992-1994. Board directors Western Indiana College Fund, Salt Lake City, 1980-1983. Board directors American Conference Academy Deans, 1995-2000, secretary-treasurer, 1998-1999.
Trustee Economic and Business History Society, 1995-2000, president, 1998-1999. Board directors Associated New American Colleges, 1994-1900.
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Advisory board Pueblo Symphony Orchestra, 1987—1989. Allocations committee United Way, Richmond, 1976—1979, Pueblo, 1988—1989, Aurora, 1990—1994. Volunteer in service, special consultant to president Ho-Chunk Wisconsin/ Winnebago Nation, 2001.
Member Mayor's Commission Restoration Fort Hawkins, Macon, Georgia, 1997—2003. Pipe major Mercer University Pipes and Drums, 2002—2006, pipe sergeant, 2006—2009. Scout master, chairman Troop Commission Eagle Scout, district committeeman, neighborhood commissioner, wood badge, unit commissioner, since 2008.
Vice chair East Central District, 1976—1979, lecturer, adult education teacher. President Lutheran Inter-parish Council, Richmond, 1975—1978. Eucharistic minister St. Francis Episcopal Church, Macon.
Board director Society for Use and Preservation of Resources, Richmond, 1976—1979. Member American History Association, Organization American History, Southern History Association, Society for Values in Higher Education, Sierra Club, Rotary (board directors 1983-1984), Palaver Club, Phi Beta Kappa (senator united chapter 1973-1979, secretary-treasurer mid-Georgia alumni associate 1996-2000, president east central district 2003-2004), Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Mu Gamma.
Children from previous marriage: Donald Bruce, John Douglas, Sheila Margaret. Married Christine Marie MacKinnes Webster, December 8, 1990.