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Minor Myers Jr. biography

Reprinted courtesy of The Pantagraph, Wednesday, July 23, 2003


Aug. 13, 1942: Born in Akron, Ohio.

1964: Earned bachelor's degree from Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. Earned master's and doctoral degrees, in 1967 and 1972, from Princeton University.

1968: Joined Connecticut College as government instructor. Eventually became professor and department chairman.

1984: Named provost and faculty dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges,Geneva, N.Y.

1988: U.S. News and World Report ranked IllinoisWesleyan University second within its comparison group. The school's endowment had reached $60 million. Both facts caught Myers' eye, and he became one of 140 candidates for the president's job.

May 1989: Named 17th president of IWU.

1994: Chicago HistoricalSociety hosted premiere of Myers'original musical play, "The College Inn Revisited," about the 1920s jazz scene in Chicago.

1994: Played a harpsichord solo during a concert by the Illinois Wesleyan University Camarata.

1997: Co-founded NOViTAS Records, a specialty musical label produced by IWU.

1998: Received Genius Award from Japan's Yoshiro NakaMats, director of the World Genius Convention.

2001: Myers and ISU President Victor Boschini shared the inaugural Person of the Year award given by The Pantagraph.

February 2003: Myers told the campus community that he, a nonsmoker, had been diagnosed with lung cancer.

July 22, 2003: Myers died in Bloomington.

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