DePauw Mourns the Passing of Prof. Emeritus Clifton Phillips

March 21, 2007

March 21, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - Clifton J. Phillips, professor emeritus of history at DePauw University, has passed away. Dr. Phillips, who taught at DePauw from 1954 to 1984, died yesterday in Indianapolis. He was 87 years old.

Born April 11, 1919 in Olean, New York, Phillips received his B.A. from Hiram College (1941), Th.B. from Starr King School for the Ministry (1944), and M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1950 & 1954). A veteran of Army duty in the Phillipines and Japan during World War II, he returned to Japan in 1946 to spend three years as a civil education and information officer. He held a teaching fellowship at Harvard before coming to DePauw. 

Clifton Phillips authored the books Protestant America and the Pagan World and Indiana in Transition: The Emergence of an Industrial Commonwealth, 1880-1920, and co-authored DePauw: A Pictorial History with John Baughman, his colleague in the history department. Phillips served as president of the Indiana Association of Historians, and was awarded Fulbright-Hays Fellowships to teach in Taiwan (1962) and Korea (1968-69). The professor was also a visiting scholar and teacher in Mexico and the United Kingdom.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Putnam County Library. A memorial service will be held Sunday, April 22, at 2 p.m. in East College's Meharry Hall.

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