Charles Clevenger, the first director of the Dixon University Center, dies at 79
Updated Apr 15, 2021;
The death followed a six-year battle with brain cancer, his obituary said.
Clevenger was a Brooklyn native who began his career as an editor and writer while earning his master’s and doctoral degrees through The State University of New York system.
In 1984 he accepted the position of dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Shippensburg University and moved his family to Carlisle.
In 1993, the center’s board of governors recognized the leadership and generosity of its founding chairman, F. Eugene Dixon Jr., by renaming it in his honor. Clevenger would become the Dixon University Center’s first director.