Baker, Frank S(heaffer) 1910–2005

OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born May 20, 1910, in Findlay, OH; died May 12, 2005, in Cincinnati, OH. Educator and author. Baker was professor emeritus of journalism at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana. A 1930 graduate of the College of Wooster, he went on to earn a master's degree from Harvard University in 1943. During his early career, from the 1930s through the mid-1940s, he taught junior and senior high-school students in Anderson, Indiana. He then joined Hanover College in 1946 as an assistant professor and director of publicity. At Hanover, Baker was heavily involved in leading vari-ous publication projects, including the student yearbook and newspaper, and the college publications Hanover College Bulletin, Hanoverian, and Hanover Alumni News. After finishing work as director of publicity in 1962, he served as director of public information from 1962 until 1968, and then as college editor. Retiring as a professor emeritus in 1975, Baker published two college histories: Glimpses of Hanover's Past, 1827–1977 (1978) and More Glimpses of Hanover's Past, 1827–1988 (1988). He also published other books, including the edited work Christian Perspectives in Contemporary Culture (1962), and, more recently, he authored Hanover: A Long Far View (1993). For his dedication to Hanover College, Baker was presented with the Hanover Alumni Association's Distinguished Service Award in 1990.

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Hanover Today Online, http://www.hanover.edu/hanovertoday/ (May 13, 2005).