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Frank A. DeMarco was an educator and administrator who had a central role in the founding of the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Beginning in 1946, he was the first in that city's history to teach courses in Science and Applied Science in post-secondary degree programs. DeMarco has the distinction of being the first and only one to hold the highest post of Principal of Essex College, which was Windsor's first public institution to receive provincial funding for university education. DeMarco's name figures prominently in the University's history, associated with his four plus decades devoted to higher education in Windsor, as a professor, athletic director, administrator, executive, and Professor Emeritus. Several Commonwealth and national-level awards and honours have given recognition to DeMarco's distinguished career over the many years in which he served and shaped Windsor's institution of higher learning. The University of Windsor came into existence in 1963, after evolving from Essex College where DeMarco was Principal, as well as Dean of Applied Science, from 1959 to 1963. Earlier, in the early 1950s, DeMarco had championed the establishment of a separate, but affiliated Essex College to complement the role of Windsor’s Assumption College, a long established Catholic liberal arts college under the Congregation of St. Basil. In particular, Windsor’s first university degree programs specializing in science and engineering were initiated in the newly created Essex College in the 1950s by DeMarco, a Chemical Engineer by background. Under his leadership, Essex College further expanded to offer degrees in business and in nursing. When that institution became part of the University of Windsor in 1963, DeMarco became the inaugural Vice-President, with Father E.C. LeBel, C.S.B. from Assumption as the first President. "The development of a non-denominational provincial university out of an historic Roman Catholic university was unprecedented." Begun under their watch, we now see the present full-fledged non-denominational university with nine faculties that is the University of Windsor today. == Early Life and Education == Frank Anthony DeMarco was born February 14, 1921 in Podargoni, Italy. His family was re-united in Canada when he was a young boy, and he received his primary and secondary school education in North Bay, Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto where he earned a B.A.Sc. in 1942, M.A.Sc.in 1943, and PhD in 1951, all in Chemical Engineering. DeMarco was witness to the stark incongruities during the World War II years that were the reality for Italian-Canadians at that time. Although he had four older brothers in uniform, including one who lost his life serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), DeMarco also had three uncles who were among the over 600 Italian Canadians taken from their families and imprisoned during the war. DeMarco at this time was involved in vital work in support of the war effort that was taking place in leading laboratories like the University of Toronto and elsewhere. His main research dealt with adhesives, including those used in the construction materials in the de Havilland Mosquito combat aircraft. His PhD thesis focused on properties of adhesives used in plywood construction and his research findings were published in the Analytical Chemistry Journal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank A. DeMarco」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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