The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Raymond Bowen

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Raymond Bowen

6/9/2004

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2004.067

Academic administrator and community college president Raymond Bowen (1934 - ) served as president of Shelby State Community College in Memphis, professor at Cleveland State University, and dean of academic affairs and president of LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York. Bowen was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 6/9/2004, in Baltimore, Maryland. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 13m 45s

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Bowen, Raymond C. (Raymond Cobb), 1934-

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Scientist turned college administrator Raymond Cobb Bowen was born September 19, 1934 in New Haven, Connecticut. Growing up in the Elm Haven public housing projects, Bowen's parents, Raymond Curtis Bowen and Lucille Cobb Bowen, were frustrated in their attempts to gain a higher education and wanted more for their son. He attended Baldwin and Winchester elementary schools and graduated from James Hillhouse High School in 1952. He earned a B.A. in zoology in 1956 from the University of Connecticut...