Harold Dwight Eastman

Background

Eastman, Harold Dwight was born on December 11, 1915 in Harbor Springs, Michigan, United States. Son of William Raymond and Edith Georgianna (Cross) Eastman.

Education

Bachelor, Sioux Falls College, 1941. Master of Arts, College William and Mary, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, University Iowa, 1954.

Career

Caseworker American Red Cross, St. Paul, 1946-1952. Chief division diagnosis and treatment Youth Conservation Commission, 1950-1952. Assistant professor sociology Macalester College, 1947-1950.

Associate professor sociology Midland College, Fremont, Nebraska, 1954-1957. Professor sociology Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1957-1963. Visiting professor sociology University Glasgow, Scotland, 1967-1968.

Visiting lecturer Ottumwa Heights College, Ottumwa, Iowa, 1969-1970. Professor, head department sociology Parsons College, Fairfield, 1963-1971. Head department sociology Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri, 1971-1981, professor emeritus Point Lookout, from 1981.

Guest professor sociology College of the Ozarks, 1981-1998, retired, 1998. Member Mayor's Committee Alcoholism, Mayor's Committee Juvenile Delinquency, Mayor's Committee Drug Abuse, 1963—1970, Mayor's Study Committee Housing Needs for Impoverished Senior Citizens, 1963—1970. Lieutenant colonel United States Army, 1941-1946.

Achievements

• Harold Dwight Eastman has been listed as a noteworthy social studies educator, journalist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Hospice creator, Kirksville, Missouri, 1975. Transport provider for terminally ill patients Branson. President Waukesha County Council Social Agencies, 1957—1963.

Provost marshal 84th Division Training, Milwaukee, 1957—1963. Chairman, co-founder Northeast Missouri Hospice Committee, 1979—1981. Volunteer Ozark Mountain Hospice, Branson, from 1983.

Chair committee Election of Hubert Humphrey for United States Senate, St. Paul, 1950. Elected member Waukesha County Board Supervisors, 1957—1963. Elder United Presbyterian Church, from 1971.

Chairman scholarship committee UNICO, Waukesha, 1957—1963. Member of Mark Twain Mental Health Association (board directors 1976-1979), American Sociological Association, American Association University and College Professors, Retired Officers Association (president 1987), Missouri Hospice Association, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha Kappa Delta.

Connections

Married, June 1, 1943. Children: Danite Rae, Bruce Clyde, Jonathan Porter.

Father:

William Raymond Eastman

Mother:

Edith Georgianna (Cross) Eastman

child:

Jonathan Porter Eastman

child:

Danite Rae Eastman

child:

Bruce Clyde Eastman