Personal Life
Harry G .Shaffer was born in Vienna, Austria. He left his native country at the age of 18 in 1938. He lived in Cuba for 2 years while his US immigration visa was pending. He then served the U.S Army intelligence during World War II as a German translator. After the war, the G.I. Bill of Rights paid for four years of school at New York University. In those four year, He received both bachelors and masters degrees in economics and even completed a course towards his doctorate. He then taught economics at Concord College in Athens, W. Va, for a year and a half. He then moved to the University of Alabama where he taught economics for 6 years.
In 1956, Autherine Lucy was the first black woman to be admitted to the university. About three thousand students protested this admittance of a black woman in the University. The University of Alabama expelled Lucy on charges of defamation after she claimed the University did not provide her adequate protection. Along with 28 other professors, Shaffer left the school as he felt he could no longer honorably be associated with the university. "And thats how KU got lucky enough to get me", Shaffer joked to about 500 students in his class at the beginning of every semester.
Harry Shaffer has four children, two stepchildren, and seven grandchildren.
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