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Geography and Geology at Eastern Michigan University:
The First Hundred Years of the "Normal"

By C. Nicholas Raphael and James R. McDonald
Department of Geography and Geology, Eastern Michigan University

Acknowledgements

We thank Marie Davis of the Eastern Michigan University archival library and Professor Geoffrey J. Martin (Southern Connecticut State University) for access to manuscripts and for their editorial suggestions.

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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1. Jefferson with former students at the annual meeting of American Association of American Geographers in Ypsilanti (1931). Front row, left to right: 1. Bowman, C. Colby, M. Jefferson, A. Parkins, G. Miller. Back row, left to right: W. Gregory, Darrell Davis, R. Platt, R. Calkins. (Courtesy of Eastern Michigan University archives).