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6 unusual facts about Eastern Michigan University


Albion, Pennsylvania

He then went on to play college football for four years at Eastern Michigan University.

Mooz-lum

Although the college attended by Tariq is never explicitly identified, most of the college scenes were filmed on location on the campuses of the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University.

Olga Madar

In 1938, she graduated from Eastern Michigan University (formerly Michigan Norman School) with a degree in physical education.

Washtenaw County, Michigan

In 1849, the Michigan State Normal School (now Eastern Michigan University) was established in Washtenaw's oldest settlement, the city of Ypsilanti.

William H. Frankhauser

He attended the public schools, Michigan State Normal School (now Eastern Michigan University at Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

William H. Hinebaugh

Born near Marshall, Michigan, Hinebaugh attended the common schools, Litchfield High School, the Michigan State Normal School (now Eastern Michigan University at Ypsilanti, Michigan, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.


Anthony Aristar

Anthony Manuel Rodrigues Aristar (born in Cape Town, South Africa, 1948) is a linguist, the founder of the LINGUIST List, an important linguistic resource on the web, and a professor emeritus of linguistics at Eastern Michigan University.

Arthur F. Lederle

Born in Leland, Michigan, Lederle graduated from Eastern Michigan College in 1909, and received an LL.B. from Detroit College of Law in 1915, an LL.M. from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1923, and an LL.D. from Wayne State University in 1952.

Frank W. Wheeler

In 1864, he moved with his parents to East Saginaw, Michigan and attended the Saginaw High School and the Ypsilanti State Normal School (now (Eastern Michigan University).

Heinz Insu Fenkl

Before his appointment to his current position at SUNY, he taught a wide array of creative writing, folklore, and Asian literature courses at Vassar College, Bard College, Eastern Michigan University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yonsei University (Korea).

Henry F. Thomas

He renewed his studies in the Ypsilanti Normal School, (now Eastern Michigan University) and graduated from the medical department of University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1868 and commenced practice in Constantine.

Joe Stroud

In addition, Stroud has received honorary degrees from Eastern Michigan University (1977), Adrian College (1984), Kalamazoo College (1984), Central Michigan University (1986), Michigan State University (1987) and Olivet College.

John A. Fallon

Fallon was terminated by Eastern Michigan University on July 15, 2007 following a scandal related to the Murder of Laura Dickinson, which took place on the campus the previous year.

John Clough Holmes

Significantly, Holmes (among others) vehemently admonished that this college be independent of both the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and the Normal School in Ypsilanti, for he "feared that agricultural studies would not receive the attention needed to survive and thrive" at those schools.

Marilyn Jean Kelly

Following a brief stay in France, wrapping up her graduate studies at La Sorbonne - the University of Paris, Miss Kelly spent five years teaching French in the Grosse Pointe public school system, Albion College and Eastern Michigan University.

Oakland County Cruisers

College baseball remains popular in Ypsilanti: Eastern Michigan University won a NAIA national championship in 1971 and made it all the way to the championship game of the NCAA College World Series in 1976 before losing to Arizona.

Pam Stephenson

Stephenson received her undergraduated degree from Eastern Michigan University and has two masters degrees from the University of Michigan, her law degree is from what was the Woodrow Wilson College of Law in Atlanta.

Royal S. Copeland

Born in Dexter, Michigan to parents Roscoe P. Copeland and Frances J. (Holmes) Copeland, Royal Copeland graduated from the Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University) with a bachelor's degree.

Verne S. Bennett

Vernon S. Bennett (January 1, 1867 – October 26, 1944) was the fourth head coach of the Michigan State Normal School football team (now the Eastern Michigan University Eagles).


see also

Adonijah Welch

On the south end of Eastern Michigan University, named after Welch, Welch Hall was constructed in 1895 and was completed three days after Starkweather Hall.

Clayton Teetzel

He played American football and competed in track for the University of Michigan from 1897 to 1899 and later coached football, basketball and track at Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University), Benton Harbor High School, Brigham Young University, and Utah State University.

Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience

Jerome Clark, Board of Directors, J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, Chicago; Dr J. Gordon Melton, Research Specialist, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; Dr Carl Mitcham, Professor of Philosophy and of Science, Technology and Society, Pennsylvania State University; Dr Marcello Truzzi, Director Center for Scientific Anomalies Research and Professor of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University.

Samuel Kirkpatrick

Samuel A. Kirkpatrick, president of the University of Texas at San Antonio (1990–1999) and Eastern Michigan University (2001–2004)