Background
Whitehouse, William Whitcomb was born on October 28, 1891 in Yorkshire, England. Son of John and Elizabeth (Whitcomb) Whitehouse. came to the United States, 1913, naturalized, 1918.
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William Whitcomb Whitehouse
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AB, Lebanon (Ohio) U., 1916; Bachelor's Degree, Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Illinois, 1917; AM, Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1919; Doctor of Theology, Drew University Theological Seminary, 1922; Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1927; Doctor of Laws, Wayne U., 1946; Doctor of Laws, Michigan State University, 1955; Doctor of Laws, University of Michigan, 1959; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Ohio Wesleyan University, 1959; Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Adrian College, 1961.
Career
Pastor, Asbury Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1917-1918;
pastor, Parma, Michigan, 1918-1919;
educational director, Camp Custer, 1917;
professor economics, Albion (Michigan) College, 1922-1929;
dean, Albion (Michigan) College, 1929-1939;
president, Albion (Michigan) College, 1945-1960;
president emeritus, Albion (Michigan) College, from 1960;
dean College Liberal Arts, Wayne State University, 1939-1945. John Shaffer Foundation lecturer Northwestern University, 1938. Lecturer University of Michigan, U.Ill., Purdue University, University of Chicago.
Board directors City Bank and Trust Company, Jackson, Michigan.
Achievements
Membership
Trustee Michigan State Tuberculosis Association, 1937-1940, Bay View Association. Board directors Michigan Council Churches, 1935-1940, Detroit Round Table of Catholics, Jews and Protestants, Detroit Council on Community Nursing. President of the board Methodist Children's Home Society.
Member Common Council for American Unity. Member board Vice-President Michigan District American Youth Hostels. Member health advising committee Detroit Council YouthSvc., President Eisenhower's Committee on Scientists and Engineers.
Member of advisory county Detroit Inter-American Center. Member commission on organization and legislation Methodist Board Education, committee for Christian U. in Japan. Chairman of the board of trustees, president Citizens Research Council in Michigan, also 1st vice chairman.
Member committee for Joint Legislature commission on Reorganization State Government. Member state advising committee on teacher education and certificates. Member Michigan Association Colls.
(secretary 1935-1939, Chairman of Commission on educational standards, commission on nutrition and defense), North Central Association (commission on colleges universities), Association American Colls. (president 1958), American Association College Teachers Education (vice president), National Education Association (international relations committee), Masons, Rotary, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Sigma Rho, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Connections
Married Grace May Harrison, June 27, 1917 (deceased June 22, 1941). Children: Keith Harrison, Joyce May. Married Adele Ann Dreyer, 1943.
