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Union Mourns Loss of College Historians Union College learned Thursday, June 12, that a former faculty member and chronicler of the college’s history has died. Dr. Erwin S. Bradley, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Union in 1947 to teach history. During his twenty-seven years at the college he served as head of the department of history, chairman of the division of social studies, dean of men and curator of the Union College Lincoln Collection. Dr. Bradley was a widely respected specialist in American politics of the nineteenth century. In 1954, Dr. Bradley published the first history of Union, Union College 1879-1954, as part of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the school’s founding. Through countless interviews and by scouring hundreds of documents and records, Dr. Bradley traced Union’s beginnings and preserved a piece of its history that would otherwise have been lost. Dr. Bradley died on Tuesday, June 10 at the age of 102. He is survived by several nieces and nephews. In late 2007, Union mourned the loss of Dr. W. Gordon Marigold, who updated Dr. Bradley’s history with the addition of the time period between 1954 and 1979. The resulting publication, Union College 1879-1979, stands as the most recent chronicle of Union’s history. It retains Dr. Bradley’s account of the first 75 years, which Dr. Marigold considered indispensable to an updated history of the college. Dr. Marigold served Union College as a professor of languages, head of the department of languages, division chairman, college organist and historian. During his time at Union, Dr. Marigold was an internationally known scholar of German Baroque literature and music. Dr. Marigold died on November 25, 2007, in Savoy, IL, at the age of 81. He is survived by Connie Young, his wife of 54 years. |
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