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2008-07-22 issue:

EMU prof Al Keim grew up in Amish home

by Eastern Mennonite University

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HARRISONBURG, Va.—Albert N. (Al) Keim, 71, professor emeritus of history at Eastern Mennonite University, died June 27 at the University of Virginia Medical Center.

He had a successful liver transplant in 2007, but his health had declined in recent months. Keim joined the EMU history department faculty in 1965 and retired in 2000. He was appointed vice president for academic affairsdean at EMU July 1, 1977, and served in that role seven years. The Hartville, Ohio, native grew up in an Amish home and attended Amish parochial schools. He received a B.A. degree from EMU in 1963, an M.A. from the University of Virginia in 1965 and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1971. His doctoral work focused on the late John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State during the Eisenhower administration, and Dulles’ ties with the Federal Council of Churches, an ecumenical organization that sought to influence American foreign policy.—EMU