Donald Zacharias

Biography

Donald Zacharias, born in Salem, Indiana on September 18, 1935, received a B.A. from Georgetown College (1957) and earned a master's and a doctorate in speech communication with a minor in American history at Indiana University. Zacharias joined IU's faculty in 1963, and accepted an associate professorship at the University of Texas at Austin in 1969. He was promoted twice at Texas, first to professor, then to an assistant to the president of the University of Texas. He became Western's sixth president in 1979 and served until August 31, 1985.

Collection

The collection includes correspondence, materials on faculty and staff, budgets, academic departments, athletics, and presidential scrapbooks (4 vols.).

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Volume

51 cubic feet