Origins, Education and Employment

Personal

• Born Boston, MA, October 9, 1932
• Father, Roger Stanley Plowden, 1902–1960
• Mother, Mary Russell Butler, 1902–2001
• Grew up in New York City and Putney, VT
• Lived in Sea Cliff, Long Island, 1969–1976
• Moved to Winnetka, IL, 1978
• Married Pleasance Coggeshall June 20, 1962; divorced 1976
• John Stanley Plowden born June 22, 1965
• Daniel Coggeshall Plowden born March 2, 1967
• Married Sandra Oakes Schoellkopf July 8, 1977
• Philip Schoellkopf Plowden born August 30, 1979
• Karen Calkins Plowden born January 12, 1982

Education

• The Putney School, Putney, VT, Class of 1951
• Yale University, New Haven, CT, BA Economics, 1955
• Private Study with Minor White, Rochester, NY, 1959–1960
• Private Study with Nathan Lyons, Rochester, NY, 1959–1960

Employment

• Great Northern Railway, Willmar, MN, 1955–1956
• American Express Company, New York, NY, 1957–1958
• Assistant to O. Winston Link, New York, NY, 1958–1959
• Assistant to George Meluso, New York, NY, 1960–1962
• Self-employed photographer and writer, 1962–present

Teaching Positions

• Illinois Institute of Technology – Institute of Design, Chicago, IL
  - Visiting Associate Professor, 1978–1980
  - Associate Professor, 1980–1986 (awarded tenure 1982)
• University of Iowa – School of Journalism, Iowa City, IA
  - Lecturer, 1985–1988
• University of Baltimore – Institute for Publications Design, Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts, Baltimore, MD
  - Artist-in-Residence and Senior Fellow, 1990–1991
• Grand Valley State University – Communications Arts and Humanities Division, Allendale, MI
  - Visiting Professor, 1988–1990, 1991–2007

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