Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune
Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune (April 6, 1913 – January 4 1993) was an American geographer and brother of George M. McCune. He was born in Sonchon, in what is now North Korea as the son of Presbyterian missionaries. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the College of Wooster and a master's degree from Syracuse University. After receiving his Ph.D. in geography from Clark University in 1939 he taught at Ohio State University. He was the chairman of the geography department at Colgate University from 1947 to 1955, and the provost of the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1955 to 1961. He then left academia and the United States to serve as the first civil administrator of the Ryukyu Islands from 1961 to 1964.[1][2]
Bibliography
Ginsburg, Norton (September 1994). "Shannon McCune 1913–1993". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 84 (3): 493–499. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1994.tb01872.x.
References
- ^ Shavit, David (November 1990). The United States in Asia: a historical dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 320. ISBN 9780313267888.
- ^ Howe, Martin (1993-01-08). "Shannon McCune, 79, Educator, Geographer and Asia Expert, Dies". New York Times. Retrieved 5 April 2010.