Hammond, Kenneth A.

Kenneth A. Hammond served as a professor of geography at Central Washington University from 1962 to 1997. Dr. Hammond was born on January 18, 1934, at Kettle Falls, Washington. He attended public schools in the state during his youth and graduated from Marcus (Washington) High School in 1951. From the fall of 1951 to the spring of 1956, he attended Eastern Washington College of Education (presently Eastern Washington University), where he attained undergraduate degrees in Education and Geography. He taught at Camas (Washington) High School from the fall 1956 to the spring of 1958. In the fall of 1958, Dr. Hammond was accepted as a graduate student at Oregon State University and in 1959 received a Masters degree in Natural Resources. The following year he began taking graduate courses at the University of Washington and in 1962 was hired as a faculty instructor at Central Washington State College (currently Central Washington University). From 1965 to 1967, he attended the University of Michigan to further pursue his professional studies. In 1969, Dr. Hammond received his Ph.D. in Resource Conservation from the University of Michigan. For the next the twenty eight years he taught numerous courses in the Geography and Department, served on important academic committees and was very active in research and publishing. He retired from Central Washington University in 1997.