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Don M Newman
Class Year
1941
Spouse/Partner
Columbus, OH native, Mary Louise
Occupation
lawyer, author, banjoist, pilot, poet, philanthropist, and parliamentarian & Former Undersecretary of Health and Human Services; staff pharmacist and administrative officer with Cherokee Indian Hospital in Cherokee, North Carolina.
Children
two girls
Military Service
Army Air Corps
Yearbook
Comments
In 1957, Dr. Newman purchased a Howard DGA 15-P airplane and in 1959 he co-founded the Mishawaka Pilots Club and became the club's director. Very active in the community, Don ran for and was elected to a seat on the Penn-Harris-Madison School Board. This sparked his interest in politics and in 1973 he was appointed to the position of Director of the Washington Office of the Governor of Indiana.