Dale Kildee - Early Life, Education, and Teaching Career

Early Life, Education, and Teaching Career

Kildee was born in Flint, Michigan on September 16, 1929 to Timothy and Norma Kildee. He was the fourth of five children; his brother Jack was born 14 months later. At the time of his birth, his family resided on New York Avenue on Flint's eastside. The family later moved to a house on Jane Avenue. In his senior year of high school, he won the American Legion Medal of Citizenship. In 1947, Kildee received his high school diploma from St. Mary’s High School.

He earned his B.A. from Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, Michigan in 1952. He earned a teacher's certificate from the University of Detroit in 1955. He did graduate work in history and political science at the University of Peshawar in Pakistan from 1958 to 1959 under a Rotary Foundation Fellowship. He earned an M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1961.

He was a teacher at the Detroit Jesuit High School from 1954 to 1956. Coming back in 1956 to Flint, Dale taught Latin until 1964.

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