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Frank Daniel Gilliard

San Francisco, California

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GILLIARD, Frank Daniel - Professor emeritus of history at CSU East Bay, Dan Gilliard succumbed to pneumonia at Alta Bates Summit Hospital, surrounded by friends, on August 1, 2005. He was born on February 12, 1937, in Clarks, NE, but moved as a child to Jacksonville, FL. A graduate of the...

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Dr. Gilliard was an exacting teacher. I took several classes with him at CSUH. He became, formally always formally, a friend and I treasured his erudition and his generosity in sharing the truths contained in historical inquiry. He had a typed quotation from R. G. Collingwood on his office door that said: "But, of course, it [History] was no longer a `closed´ subject. It was no longer a body of facts which a very, very learned man might know, or a very, very big book enumerate, in their...