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Events the year before Phyllis Cunningham's Birth Date: November 10, 1927
Click here to see original.This is a photograph of the "Parade" the Klu Klux Klan held i Washington D.C. A bird's-eye view down Pennsylvania Avenue with Franklin National Bank in foreground and the U.S. Capitol in the background. (Library of Congress,) -
World leaders of 1927
Hitler standing in flower-strewn, open-air auto; F. Schwarz, G. Feder, Max Amann, Gg. Hallermann and Olaf von Pfeffer. Nürnberg 1927. Adolf Hitler im Blumenregen der vorbeimarschierenden SA, 1927.
U.S. President: Calvin Coolidge Other historical information: Federal spending: $2.86 billion
Consumer Price Index: 17.4
Unemployment: 3.3%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02 http://www.infoplease.com/year/1927.html#ixzz1X8nYBMJL -
Black Thursday", October 24, 1929
Together, the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression formed what is often considered tthe biggest financial crisis of the 20th century. The U.S. economy did not recover until late in 1941. -
Amelia Earhart attempts the first round-the-world flight.
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Phillis Cunningham celebrates her 10th Birthday!
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Changes is the US economy: Roosevelt establishes the 4 freedoms.
Four Freedoms. In his message to Congress proposing lend-lease legislation (Jan. 6, 1941), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated that Four Freedoms should prevail everywhere in the world—freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. These were substantially incorporated (Aug., 1941) in the Atlantic Charter. Read more: Four Freedoms — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0819354.html#ixzz1X8xd3tvI -
The US enters WWII
film clips from World War Two Life for United States Citizens became very different. -
United States sends Little Boy to Hiroshima
the United States military and scientific communities drop Little Boy, an atomic bomb on the people of Hiroshima, Japan. Learn more about Little Boy -
United States sends Fat Man to Nagasaki
Fat Man was the code name for the plutonium (atomic) bomb used on the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States scientific and military communities.
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Phyllis Graduates with her Bachelore's Degree.
http://www-distance.syr.edu/pvitapc.html 1947--Elmira College, earned her degree. in Biology-Chemistry
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Phyllis earns her Master's of Nursing
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Phyllis Cunningham earns the MS in Nursing Administration
1960--Western Reserve University, earned M.S. in Nursing Administration (date approximate)
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream"
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Leonard Nadler focused on workplace learning in Adult Education
in fostering the capacity of adult learners to function efficiently in work organizations. Believed the role of adult educator should be to create a rich learning environment
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Paulo Freire, the role of the educator.
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Phyllis Cunningham recieves the Outstanding Adult Educators Award
Outstanding Adult Educators Award from American Association of Adult Continuing Education -
Phyllis Cunningham recieved the Honorary Professor, Shanghai Second Institute of Education
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Top Ten Graduate Teaching Excellence Professor Award
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Another contribution to Adult Education published.
"Let's Get Real: A Critical Look at the Practice of Adult Education." Journal of Adult Education 22:1 (Fall 1993). -
Phyllis Cunningham inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame
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Phyllis Cunningham retires from Northern Illinois University. An active scholar for over 25 years.
Her legacy lies partially with her PhD candidates that have gone on to become professors. They are: Ian Baptiste, Wanda Bracy, Scipio A. J. Colin III, Phyllis Ham Garth, Hugo Guera, Lawrence Howlett, John Holt, Shu-chuan Liao, Randee Lawrence, Antonio Lopez, Lee Martin, Samuel Mills, Derek Mulenga, Mark Murphy, Elice Rogers, Manigeh Roosta, Margaret Shaw, Vanessa Sheared, Andrew Smallwood, Fred Schied, Gabriele Stroschen, Itxaso Ruiz De Tellado, Jeff Zacharakis -
Book published about Phyllis Cunningham
North American Adult Educators: Phyllis M. Cunningham Archive of Quintessential Autobiographies for the Twenty-First Century (Dec 20, 2006),
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Global Report on Adult Learning
