Background
Garbark, Melvin D. was born on January 18, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Roman Floyd and Gertrude Alice (Coskey) Garbark.
artist Advertising art studio executive
Garbark, Melvin D. was born on January 18, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Roman Floyd and Gertrude Alice (Coskey) Garbark.
Student, Wright Junior College, Chicago, 1947-1949.
Advertising trainee, Simmonds & Simmonds, Chicago, 1949-1951; advertising artist, Chicago Specialty Manufacturing, 1953-1957; art director, salesman, Norm Ulrich Studios, Oak Park, Illinois, 1957-1973; part-owner, vice president, creative director, UVG&N, Inc., Hillside, Illinois, since 1973.
Precinct captain Schaumburg (Illinois) Republican Committee, 1963-1968. With Counter Intelligence corpus, United States army, 1951-1953. Member National Wildlife Federation, World Wildlife Fund, African Wildlife Foundation, National Parks Conservation Society, East African Wildlife Society, field Museum National History.
Married Shirley Jean Hendren, November 24, 1951 (divorced March 1987). Children: Gale Ann Garbark Dillon, Cheryl Lee Garbark Young, Robert Barton.