Gutman, Bob ([1926]-2016)
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Dates
- Existence: [1926]-2016
Biography
Robert "Bob" Gutman was a biographer and professor at FIT. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in music from New York University, Gutman joined the faculty of FIT in the 1950s. There he taught art history and interior-design history. Gutman was the founding dean of FIT's graduate division before retiring in the late 1980s. His influential biographies of Wagner and Mozart helped upend many popularly held ideas about both composers' lives.
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Jean Ellen Giblin interview, 1994 November 21, 1994 November 21
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.17
Scope and Contents
Jean Ellen Giblin, the Vice President of Academic Affairs at the time of this interview, explains how she came to FIT as an economics professor in 1970. She was later Chair of the Social Science Department as well as the curriculum committee. After a time, she was asked to work on the development of the new upper division program which had a marketing option in international trade. She talks fondly of that creative work and how it led her to become the acting Dean of the Business and...
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1994 November 21