Marvin Wachman
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Marvin Wachman (March 24, 1917 – December 22, 2007), a professor of American history, was president of
Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science
.
Early life and education
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wachman was the son of migrants from
University of Illinois.[1]
University career
Wachman taught history for 14 years at
Tokyo, Japan, and in the Center City of Philadelphia. He retired in 1983 and was president of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia from 1983 to 1989. During the 1990s, he was interim president of Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, now known as Philadelphia University.[1]
Wachman was the author of History of the Social-Democratic Party of Milwaukee, 1897-1910 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1945). He published a memoir, The Education of a University President (Temple University Press), in 2005.[1]
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