Elsa Alvarez
July 31, 2000
Elsa Alvarez, associate professor emerita of Spanish, died
recently in Florida.
Alvarez retired as an associate professor in 1980 after serving
16 years on the faculty. Before joining WMU, she served on the
faculties of Fort Dodge Community College in Fort Dodge, Iowa,
and Universidad Central-Santa Clara in Las Villas, Cuba.
After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Havana in
1946, Alvarez went on to earn a master's degree from the University
of Iowa in 1966 and a second doctoral degree from Michigan State
University in 1971.
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