Edith Emma Blair and Shannon Boyd Bailey McCune

SHANNON BOYD BAILEY MCCUNE was born April 6, 1913 in Sauchon, South Korea,⁴⁵³² and died January 4, 1993 in Gainesville, Alachua, Florida.^{99, 9769}

He married EDITH EMMA BLAIR on June 30, 1936 in Berkeley, Alameda, California,⁷⁵⁴⁰ daughter of EDITH PEARL ALLEN and DR. WILLIAM NEWTON BLAIR. She was born December 30, 1913 in P'yongyang, Korea,⁶²⁹ and died January 1, 1997 in Bridgeville, Allegheny, Pennsylvania.^{4532, 9771}

Education

Work History

Obituaries

Rutland Daily Herald, January 8, 1993⁹⁷⁶⁹

Shannon McCune, 79, Dies; Served as President of UVM

Shannon McCune, an educator, geographer and specialist in Asian studies, died Monday at his home in Gainesville, Fla. He was 79. His family said he died of congestive heart failure.

Dr. McCune, a former president of the University of Vermont and provost of the University of Massachusetts, was an expert on the geography of the Far East. Besides his academic positions he was director of Unesco's education department in Paris and held several U.S. government positions as an Asian expert.

He served as the first civil administrator of Japan's Ryukyu Islands from 1962 to 1963, when the islands were under American military control. He returned to Okinawa, the main island, in 1970 with a research grant from the National Science Foundation.

He was born in Sonchon, Korea, the son of Presbyterian missionaries. He received a bachelor's degree from the College of Wooster, in Ohio, a master's degree from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. in geography from Clark University in Worcester, Mass., in 1939.

McCune began his teaching career in 1939 at Ohio State University. in 1947 he went to Colgate University as chairman of the geography department, where he remained until 1955.

He was provost of the University of Massachusetts from 1955 to 1961. In 1965 he was names president of the University of Vermont, but resigned in 1966 to do research for the university in the Far East.

McCune was director of the American Geographical Society of New York from 1967 to 1969. He then went to the University of Florida in Gainesville as a professor and chairman of the geography department, retiring in 1979.

He served with the Foreign Economic Administration in India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and in China, for which he won the Presidential medal of Freedom in 1946 and was educational consultant to a U.N. development mission in the Indonesian province of West Irian in 1967.

In addition to scores of articles and monographs on Asian geography, McCune was the author of several books, including "Korea's Heritage, a Regional and Social Geography," published in 1956 by the Charles E. Tuttle Co. in Rutland, Vt.; "Korea: Land of Broken Calm," published in 1966 by the Van Nostrand Co. in Princeton, N.J., and "The Ryuku Islands," published in 1975 in England.

He is survived by his wife, the former Edith Blair; two daughters, Antoinette Bement of Jamaica, Vt, and Shannon wagner of Pittsburgh; a son, George Blair McCune of Anchorage, and seven grandchildren.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 3, 1997⁹⁷⁷¹

Edith Blair McCune

On Wednesday, January 1, 1997, in Bridgeville, PA, a former resident of Gainesville, FL, where she lived for many years with her late husband Shannon McCune. Mrs. McCune is survived by her brother, Edgar Blair; her children Antoinette Bement, Shannon Wagner and George Blair McCine; also seven grandchildren.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
January 10, 19204480	Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas	William Newton Blair Edith Pearl Allen Lois Blair Katharine Blair Edgar Allen Blair Edith Emma Blair