RAMSEY, Bob N.

RAMSEY, GRAYBILL, GAIL

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/25/2016 at 23:41:29

BIOGRAPHY ~ BOB N. RAMSEY
Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa

Bob N. Ramsey was born in Miami, Oklahoma on January 9, 1938.

Bob graduated from Graceland in 1957 and completed his B.S. degree in chemistry at Pittsburg State University in 1959. He served a one-year position on Graceland's chemistry faculty during 1960-61, then moved into a four-year assignment as a research chemist with the U.S. Department of Energy in Ames, Iowa. He taught chemistry at Park College from 1964 to 1968 and completed his M.S. degree in physical chemistry at Pittsburg State in 1965.

Bob returned to Graceland's faculty in 1968, teaching such courses as General Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Forensic Science. He worked with Bruce Graybill to develop Graceland's bachelor's degree in chemistry.

Bob introduced some of the first classroom use of microcomputers at Graceland and successfully pushed for the science division's first Apple IIe computer, which was used in classroom instruction.

Bob created the Nature of Science course, designed to teach students about the philosophy of science and how the disciplines of science have developed. He was the first Graceland faculty member to offer a course over the Iowa Communications Network, teaching his Nature of Science course to students in Centerville and Corydon, Iowa, soon after the ICN began in 1994.

Bob and Jerie Gail were married on Easter Sunday, 1959, at the Cameron, Missouri RLDS Church.

Bob retired and continued to live in Lamoni with his family.

SOURCE:
Goehner, David. "The Graceland College Book of Knowledge: From A To Z." Pp. 4-22. Herald House. Independence MO. 1997.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, January of 2016

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