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1944 – 2018
Matt Klopfenstein — "of Osceola, Indiana," in the University of Illinois News Bureau's 2017 release: awarded a Fulbright research grant for 2017–18 in Moscow, for an Illinois history doctorate on celebrity funerals in late imperial Russia; a Penn High School graduate with a 2010 Bethel College degree. His Illinois curriculum vitae carries the Fulbright Research Fellowship (Moscow), U.S. Department of State. The tie is "of Osceola" on a university's own record — residence as stated, no more claimed.
Mark L. Smith (5 June 1944 – 4 December 2015) — his Des Moines obituary: "Mark was born on June 5, 1944 in Chicago to Elsa and Don Smith. He grew up in Osceola, Indiana…" He taught at Penn High School and Schmucker Middle School before Iowa, became a University of Iowa Labor Center educator, and rose to Secretary-Treasurer (1979–97) and then President (1997–2008) of the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, and a place in its Hall of Fame; the Congressional Record carries Senator Harkin's tribute on his retirement (12 February 2008). The separation this section insists on: he is not Mark Smith the Iowa legislator (b. 1952), who was born in Osceola, Iowa — the two men interleave in search results to the point of routine conflation, and the legislator stands in the negatives roll so the confusion has a printed home.
Sources:
- University of Illinois News Bureau, Fulbright release (2017); Klopfenstein CV, University of Illinois history department.
- Iles Funeral Homes obituary of Mark L. Smith; Congressional Record, vol. 154 (12 February 2008), the Harkin tribute.