Career
In 1968, Marin went to Tanzania where he worked as an economist for the government of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam. He served as an adviser to the government on capital mobilisation and utilisation until the early seventies. After he returned to the United States he went to teach economics at his alma mater, Aquinas College in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
He started teaching economics at Aquinas College in 1953 and was the chairman of the economics department for many years.3
Another economics student of Kenneth Marin at Aquinas College was Enos Bukuku, also from Tanzania, in the sixties.
Bukuku went on to become a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Dar es Salaam, a deputy governor of the Tanzania Central Bank, an economic adviser to President Julius Nyerere, and deputy secretary-general of the East African Community (EAC) among other posts. Kenneth Marin died on September 1, 2007, in Chelsea, Michigan.
He was 85. According to his obituary:
"His education was interrupted when he served in World World War II as an Air Force weather observer in Italy, from 1943 to 1945.
He returned to Aquinas to complete his degree in Economics in 1947, and continued on to the University of Michigan (U of M) to complete an Master of Arts in Economics in 1948. He also pursued a doctoral program in Economics at U of M from 1949 to 1952.
In 1953, he returned and joined the Aquinas faculty as Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Relations Director where he stayed until his retirement in 1989.
In 1968, on an academic leave of absence and sabbatical, he moved his family to East Africa, where he served as an advisor on capitol mobilization and utilization to the United Republic of Tanzania.
And was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to his Consumer Advisory Council."4.