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Robert Dentler b. 11-26-1928 d. 3-28-2008

Robert Arnold Dentler was born in Oak Park, Ill., on Nov. 26, 1928, one of three children of Arnold and Jennie Munsen Dentler. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in political science and a year later received a master's in English literature, also from Northwestern. He earned a second master's degree, in sociology, from American University in 1954, and in 1960 completed his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Dentler taught at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.; the University of Chicago; the University of Kansas; Dartmouth College; Columbia University, where he was dean of the Teachers College; Boston University; and, until last year, the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Robert Dentler died on March 27, 2008 in Cambridge, Mass.

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