Butts, R. Freeman (Robert Freeman), 1910-2010 (Personal Name)

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Columbia University Teacher's College website, July 11, 2018 article dated March 2010 (Education historian and philosopher R. Freeman Butts, an emeritus faculty member of Teachers College, died on March 19. He was 99; Known to generations of students, colleagues and friends as “J”, Butts was born on May 14, 1910, in Springfield, Illinois. He completed both his undergraduate studies and a Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin; He served on the faculty of Teachers College for 40 years, becoming Professor of Education in 1948, and then the William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education from 1958 to his retirement) http://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2010/march/tc-emeritus-professor-r-freeman-butts-education-historian-/