Background
Myers, Eugene Ekander was born on May 5, 1914 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. Son of John Q. and Hattye Jane (Ekander) Myers.
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Eugene Ekander Myers
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Bachelor of Science in Education, U. North Dakota, 1936; Master of Science in Education, U. North Dakota, 1938; postgraduate, U. Oregon, 1937; Master of Arts, Northwestern University, 1940; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1947; graduate, Advanced Management Program, Harvard University, 1953; certified, Cambridge (England) University, 1958; postgraduate, U. Maryland., 1958-1961; postgraduate, Oxford (England) University, 1964; diploma, various military schools.
Career
Student assistant, U. North Dakota, 1935-1936; instructor summer sessions, U. North Dakota, 1936, 37; assistant, U. North Dakota, 1936-1937; professor, head department, North Dakota Teachers College, 1938-1940; instructor, Columbia University Teachers College, 1940-1941; visiting professor, U. Vermont, summers, 1941, 42; commissioned First lieutenant, United States Army Air Force, 1942; advanced through grades to colonel, United States Army Air Force, 1951; director personnel plans and training Headquarters Air Force Systems Command, Washington, 1959-1960; director personnel research and long-range plans Headquarters Air Force SystemsCommand, 1960-1962; head department international relations Air War College, Air U., Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, 1962-1963; director curriculum, dean, (Air War College, Air U.), 1963-1965; director research affairs Headquarters Air Reserve Personnel Center, Denver, 1965-1966; retired, 1966; dean, Corcoran School Art, Washington, 1966-1970; founder, Corcoran School Art Abroad, Leeds, England, 1967; vice president management, Corcoran Gallery Art, Washington, 1970-1972; visiting art director, Washington, also Palm Beach, Florida art consultant, since 1972. Advisory Washington chapter National Society Arts and Letters. Board associate ArtistsEquity.
Achievements
Membership
Board directors Columbia (Maryland.) Institute Art, World Arts Foundation, New York, Court Art Center, Montgomery, Alabama and Palm Beach, Florida, Order of Lafayette, Boston, English-Speaking Union, Palm Beach. Member Hamilton St. Volunteer Fire Department and Literature Society, Baltimore, Pundits, Palm Beach. Member International Communication Association (honorary), University North Dakota Alumni Association (president Washington chapter 1959), Military Classics Society, Titanic Society, Military Order Carabao, Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knightly Association St. George the Martyr, Company Military Historians, Military Order World Wars, Ancient OrderUnited Workmen, Saint Andrews Society, Clan Donnachaidh (Perthshire, Scotland), Society Friends St. Andrews (Scotland) U., Delta Omicron Epsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha, Delta Phi Delta, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta.
Connections
Married Florence Hutchinson Ritchie, September 9, 1974.
