Correspondence: Curriculum Examination Committee, 1960

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH J. Robert Hainds was born September 10, 1896 in Brookfield, Missouri. He completed the Ph.B. (1925) at Shurtleff College and the M.A. (1933) and Ph.D. (1939) degrees at Northwestern University. In 1940 Hainds came to Northern Illinois State Teacher's College from Northwestern University where he had been a faculty member in the Department of English. Prior to his appointments at Northwestern and Northern Illinois, Hainds held the following positions: Head of the Department of English and Speech at Gladstone Michigan High School (1925-27); Instructor at the Senior High School, Davenport, Iowa (1927-30); Sterling Morton High School, Cicero, Illinois, (1933-37). During his twenty-six years at Northern, J. Robert Hainds established a brilliant record both in teaching and administration. Serving as a teacher, graduate school dean, and academic vice president, Professor Hainds played an important role in the development of Northern from a single purpose teachers college to a complex university. In 1962, J.R. Hainds retired from Northern Illinois University as Professor Emeritus.