Haiman, Franklyn Saul

Teacher, scholar, and free speech advocate Franklyn S. Haiman was born on June 23, 1921 and raised in what he later termed the “socially segregated” Jewish community of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Haiman received his MA and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University, both in Speech. He joined NU's faculty in 1948, where he remained beyond his 1991 retirement, continuing to lecture and participate in panels at the University for years to come. Haiman was also involved with the ACLU for many years.

After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University) in Cleveland, Haiman entered the U.S. Army Air Force in 1942 and served as a clerk for two years at an airbase in Norfolk County, England. In 1945, using G.I. Bill funding, he enrolled as a graduate student at Northwestern University, where in 1946 he earned his Master of Arts degree in Speech and in 1948, his Doctorate degree in Speech with a minor in Psychology. While a graduate student, he chaired the General Assembly of Northwestern's Mock United Nations (1946).

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