Donald G. Stubbins, 93, a retired school administrator, Chamber of Commerce executive and field services director for Bemidji State University, died Saturday, Sept. 9, 1995, at Goldpine Home in Bemidji. Memorial services were at First Presbyterian Church in Bemidji. Inurnment was in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Stubbins was born March 19, 1902, at Granville, N.D., the son of Clayton and Molly Stubbins. He attended schools in Granville and graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1925. He later received his master's degree from UND and during the 1930s studied periodically at the University of Washington in Seattle. He married Agnes Glockner March 19, 1925, in Grand Forks, N.D. They moved to Washington, D.C., for a short time, then to Mott, N.D., where he was first a teacher, then high school principal and finally superintendent. In 1944 he served briefly as executive secretary of the Bemidji Civic and Commerce Association and later went to Ely to become dean of the junior College. He was appointed superintendent of the Ely school in 1946. He returned to Bemidji in 1951 as executive manager of the Chamber of Commerce and in 1956 was elected president of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Executives Association. Later that year he was appointed director of field services at Bemidji State University. He retired in 1970. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church and Masonic Lodge 233, a life-member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, past president and club pianist of the Bemidji Rotary Club and a longtime member of the Phi Delta Kappa educational fraternity. He was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by Rotary International.
He is survived by his wife; two sons, Robert (Anola) Stubbins of Loveland, Colo., and Roger (Mary Jane) Stubbins of Bemidji; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two sisters; and a brother.
Bemidji Pioneer Sept. 12, 1995
Mr. Stubbins was born March 19, 1902, at Granville, N.D., the son of Clayton and Molly Stubbins. He attended schools in Granville and graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1925. He later received his master's degree from UND and during the 1930s studied periodically at the University of Washington in Seattle. He married Agnes Glockner March 19, 1925, in Grand Forks, N.D. They moved to Washington, D.C., for a short time, then to Mott, N.D., where he was first a teacher, then high school principal and finally superintendent. In 1944 he served briefly as executive secretary of the Bemidji Civic and Commerce Association and later went to Ely to become dean of the junior College. He was appointed superintendent of the Ely school in 1946. He returned to Bemidji in 1951 as executive manager of the Chamber of Commerce and in 1956 was elected president of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Executives Association. Later that year he was appointed director of field services at Bemidji State University. He retired in 1970. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church and Masonic Lodge 233, a life-member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, past president and club pianist of the Bemidji Rotary Club and a longtime member of the Phi Delta Kappa educational fraternity. He was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by Rotary International.
He is survived by his wife; two sons, Robert (Anola) Stubbins of Loveland, Colo., and Roger (Mary Jane) Stubbins of Bemidji; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two sisters; and a brother.
Bemidji Pioneer Sept. 12, 1995
Donald G. Stubbins, 93, a retired school administrator, Chamber of Commerce executive and field services director for Bemidji State University, died Saturday, Sept. 9, 1995, at Goldpine Home in Bemidji. Memorial services were at First Presbyterian Church in Bemidji. Inurnment was in Greenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Stubbins was born March 19, 1902, at Granville, N.D., the son of Clayton and Molly Stubbins. He attended schools in Granville and graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1925. He later received his master's degree from UND and during the 1930s studied periodically at the University of Washington in Seattle. He married Agnes Glockner March 19, 1925, in Grand Forks, N.D. They moved to Washington, D.C., for a short time, then to Mott, N.D., where he was first a teacher, then high school principal and finally superintendent. In 1944 he served briefly as executive secretary of the Bemidji Civic and Commerce Association and later went to Ely to become dean of the junior College. He was appointed superintendent of the Ely school in 1946. He returned to Bemidji in 1951 as executive manager of the Chamber of Commerce and in 1956 was elected president of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Executives Association. Later that year he was appointed director of field services at Bemidji State University. He retired in 1970. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church and Masonic Lodge 233, a life-member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, past president and club pianist of the Bemidji Rotary Club and a longtime member of the Phi Delta Kappa educational fraternity. He was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by Rotary International.
He is survived by his wife; two sons, Robert (Anola) Stubbins of Loveland, Colo., and Roger (Mary Jane) Stubbins of Bemidji; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two sisters; and a brother.
Bemidji Pioneer Sept. 12, 1995
Mr. Stubbins was born March 19, 1902, at Granville, N.D., the son of Clayton and Molly Stubbins. He attended schools in Granville and graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1925. He later received his master's degree from UND and during the 1930s studied periodically at the University of Washington in Seattle. He married Agnes Glockner March 19, 1925, in Grand Forks, N.D. They moved to Washington, D.C., for a short time, then to Mott, N.D., where he was first a teacher, then high school principal and finally superintendent. In 1944 he served briefly as executive secretary of the Bemidji Civic and Commerce Association and later went to Ely to become dean of the junior College. He was appointed superintendent of the Ely school in 1946. He returned to Bemidji in 1951 as executive manager of the Chamber of Commerce and in 1956 was elected president of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Executives Association. Later that year he was appointed director of field services at Bemidji State University. He retired in 1970. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church and Masonic Lodge 233, a life-member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, past president and club pianist of the Bemidji Rotary Club and a longtime member of the Phi Delta Kappa educational fraternity. He was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by Rotary International.
He is survived by his wife; two sons, Robert (Anola) Stubbins of Loveland, Colo., and Roger (Mary Jane) Stubbins of Bemidji; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two sisters; and a brother.
Bemidji Pioneer Sept. 12, 1995
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