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Article: Samuel Kavruck GWU Professor ...
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 16, 2009
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Samuel Kavruck, 94, a professor emeritus of education at George
Washington University and former division chief at the old U.S.
Office of Education, died of respiratory failure Feb. 24 at the
Hebrew Home of Greater Washington in Rockville. He was a Washington
resident.
Dr. Kavruck spent his early career at the Civil Service
Commission (now the Office of Personnel Management) and the U.S.
Office of Education (now the Department of Education), where he was
division chief of the dropout prevention program from 1965 to 1975.
Beginning in 1961, Dr. Kavruck occasionally taught at GWU as an
associate or adjunct professor while he held his federal government
jobs. He was a member of the faculty from ...