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- Frank A. DeMarco (born February 14, 1921 in Podargoni, Italy) is an Italian-born Canadian educator and administrator who had a central role in the founding of the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Beginning in 1946, he was the first in that city's history to teach courses in Science and Applied Science in post-secondary degree programs. DeMarco has the distinction of being the first and only one to hold the highest post of Principal of Essex College, which was Windsor's first public institution to receive provincial funding for university education. DeMarco's name figures prominently in the University's history, associated with his four plus decades devoted to higher education in Windsor, as a professor, athletic director, administrator, executive, and Professor Emeritus. Several Commonwealth and national-level awards and honours have given recognition to DeMarco's distinguished career over the many years in which he served and shaped Windsor's institution of higher learning. If one looks at the historical archives, very prominent in all that development, from Assumption College, through Essex College, Assumption University, and the University of Windsor, was Frank DeMarco... When the history of this very important institution is written, among the pillars of its development, first and foremost is the name of Frank DeMarco. —Ronald W. Ianni, C.M., Ph.D., Q.C., President University of Windsor 1984-1997 (at the retirement of Frank A. DeMarco, 1986) The University of Windsor came into existence in 1963, after evolving from Essex College where DeMarco was Principal, as well as Dean of Applied Science, from 1959 to 1963. Earlier, in the early 1950s, DeMarco had championed the establishment of a separate, but affiliated Essex College to complement the role of Windsor's Assumption College, a long established Catholic liberal arts college under the Congregation of St. Basil. In particular, Windsor's first university degree programs specializing in science and engineering were initiated in the newly created Essex College in the 1950s by DeMarco, a chemical engineer by background. Under his leadership, Essex College further expanded to offer degrees in business and in nursing. When that institution became part of the University of Windsor in 1963, DeMarco became the inaugural Vice-President, with Father E.C. LeBel, C.S.B. from Assumption as the first President. "The development of a non-denominational provincial university out of an historic Roman Catholic university was unprecedented." Begun under their watch, we now see the present full-fledged non-denominational university with nine faculties that is the University of Windsor today. (en)
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- If one looks at the historical archives, very prominent in all that development, from Assumption College, through Essex College, Assumption University, and the University of Windsor, was Frank DeMarco... When the history of this very important institution is written, among the pillars of its development, first and foremost is the name of Frank DeMarco. (en)
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- Frank A. DeMarco (born February 14, 1921 in Podargoni, Italy) is an Italian-born Canadian educator and administrator who had a central role in the founding of the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Beginning in 1946, he was the first in that city's history to teach courses in Science and Applied Science in post-secondary degree programs. DeMarco has the distinction of being the first and only one to hold the highest post of Principal of Essex College, which was Windsor's first public institution to receive provincial funding for university education. DeMarco's name figures prominently in the University's history, associated with his four plus decades devoted to higher education in Windsor, as a professor, athletic director, administrator, executive, and Professor Emeritus. (en)
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