Claude Wallace Cheek, 89, former associate professor of special education, died May 25. He taught at UNT from 1972 to 1992 and was chosen as an Honor Professor in 1980. He was a member of several national education and Texas MHMR committees. A U.S. Army veteran of World War II, he received a Purple Heart for his service in the Battle of Okinawa and continued his education on the G.I. Bill, earning bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Wichita State University. Before joining UNT, he held director positions at the Rehabilitation Center in Philadelphia, the Institute of Logopedics in Wichita and the North East ISD in San Antonio and was chair of special education at Lamar University in Beaumont. His hobbies included watercolor painting, gardening and developing orchids. He also was a member of the UNT Retired Instructor and Personnel Committee.
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Claude Wallace Cheek, 89, former associate professor of special education, died May 25. He taught at UNT from 1972 to 1992 and was chosen as an Honor Professor in 1980. He was a member of several national education and Texas MHMR committees. A U.S. Army veteran of World War II, he received a Purple Heart for his service in the Battle of Okinawa and continued his education on the G.I. Bill, earning bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Wichita State University. Before joining UNT, he held director positions at the Rehabilitation Center in Philadelphia, the Institute of Logopedics in Wichita and the North East ISD in San Antonio and was chair of special education at Lamar University in Beaumont. His hobbies included watercolor painting, gardening and developing orchids. He also was a member of the UNT Retired Instructor and Personnel Committee.
