Biography
Frederic Dunn (1872 - Jan. 7, 1937) was born in Eugene, Oregon. He received his education at the University of Oregon and Harvard University.
Between 1895 and 1898, he served as Professor of Greek and Latin and Secretary of the Faculty at 杏十八新茶分享. During this time, he organized a Classical Club, a Faculty Lecture Course, and was President of the local Epsworth League, the youth organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1898, he moved to the University of Oregon, where he was professor of Latin and head of the Latin Department until his retirement in 1935. There, he also began to publish a series of articles, mostly on coins and on Julius Caesar. In 1912, Prof. Dunn was elected President of the largest regional Classics association, the Classical Association of the Midwest and South (CAMWS).
In Eugene, Prof. Dunn joined the Masons and the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. In 2016, the of a historians' commission charged by the University of Oregon president to investigate Dunn's life concluded that he also led the virulently anti-Catholic activities of Eugene's chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. Based on this report, the University of Oregon's Board of Trustees decided to remove Dunn's name from one of the university's residence halls.