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Article: Robert Harvey, retired Downers Grove teacher
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 19, 1986
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Robert H. Harvey, 61, retired Downers Grove teacher and longtime
Du Page County Democratic worker, died yesterday of a respiratory
ailment in Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital.
Mr. Harvey, of Downers Grove, retired last year after 20 years
as a teacher in various Downers Grove elementary schools, where he
took a special interest in teaching science.
A Chicago native, Mr. Harvey grew up in Wheaton and Glen Ellyn
and earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Roosevelt University.
He had taught in Joliet and California and at the private Avery
Coonley School in Downers Grove.
Mr. Harvey was active in civil rights as past president of the
Downers Grove Human Relations Council and the ...