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IN MEMORIAM: Dr. Gary S. Dunbar, 84;

UCLA Professor Retired To Cooperstown

Gary S. Dunbar and his wife Elizabeth.
Gary S. Dunbar and his wife Elizabeth.

COOPERSTOWN – Dr. Gary Seamans Dunbar, Professor Emeritus of the University of California at Los Angeles, died peacefully on Aug. 16, 2015, at Bassett Hospital. He was 84.

At the time of his death, Dr. Dunbar had lived in Cooperstown for 27 years, moving here after retirement from the UCLA Department of Geography. His first introduction to Cooperstown had been in 1952 when, as a graduate student at the University of Virginia, he came here to research the cultivation of hops for his master's thesis and was captivated by the village, Otsego Lake and the surrounding countryside.

Gary Dunbar was born June 8, 1931, in Clifton Springs, Ontario County, the son of Alvin Robert and Esther (Seamans) Dunbar.

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