| Graduation Year | Class of 1923 |
| Date of Passing | Aug 04, 1980 |
| About | Born in 1905, Donald graduated from Zanesville High School in 1923 as president of his class. In addition to being an excellent student, he found time for dramatics and debate. Later, while attending The College of Wooster, he won first place in the Ohio intercollegiate oratorical contest for his speech entitled “Labels.” In it, he argued for tolerance and the rejection of malicious labels for those unlike ourselves. He went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D. in history and international relations from Harvard University (1936). Donald’s distinguished career included government service (OSS, Lend-Lease Administration, and U.S. Department of State) as well as teaching and research at Harvard, the University of Maryland, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, Arizona, and its branches in Mexico and Japan. He authored six books and nearly 100 scholarly articles, and received both national and international distinction as an authority on Latin-American history and U.S.-Latin-American relations. In 1971, he was awarded a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship to teach in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he received the prestigious Alberdi-Sarmiento Award for his contributions to Inter-American understanding. His acceptance speech, entitled “The Challenge to Pan Americanism,” laid out his vision for sustained economic growth for Latin America. Donald was active in the Republican Party and was appointed to the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of California by Gov. Ronald Reagan. He was also a member of numerous professional and honorary organizations including Phi Beta Kappa and the Mont Pelerin Society, an international organization of economists, social scientists and other advocates of free market economic policies. For many years, he was also listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. At his death (1980), he was eulogized on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and tributes were published in the New York Times and the Washington Post. His family will always remember him fondly as a devoted husband and loving father,grandfather who taught his family above all, the importance of education, honor, and family. |
