J. Stanley Marshall
American educator (1923-2014)
James Stanley Marshall (January 27, 1923 – June 8, 2014), known as J. Stanley Marshall, was an American physicist, science educator, administrator and college president.
Early life and education
Born in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, Marshall grew up in rural Pennsylvania. His parents Walter and Mildred were farmers: Stanley was the last of seven children and the only male.
Marshall worked at the Duquesne Light Company while attending college. He enlisted in the Army in 1943 before his junior year in college and served in World War II as a combat medic. The army discharged him in 1946 and he returned to school, graduating with a BS from Slippery Rock State Teachers College in 1947. He was a high school science teacher at Mynderse Academy in Seneca Falls, New York while earning a MS in 1950 from Syracuse University. For one year, he also coached basketball and track. Marshall was a physics professor at the State University of New York at Cortland while pursuing his 1956 Ph.D., also at Syracuse.
FSU
In 1958 Marshall was recruited by the dean of education at Florida State University to establish a Department of Science Education in response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik.
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