Rowland Haynes

(1878-1963) lived in Omaha. Educator, administrator known as an early advocate for recreation education, served as director of New York War Camp Community Service during World War I, served in leadership capacity for several urban recreation programs, was regional adviser to the President's Organization for Unemployment Relief from 1931 to 1939, state administrator of federal relief for the state of Nebraska for two years, served as the sixth president of the Municipal University of Omaha from 1935 to 1948 when campus was relocated to its present University of Nebraska-Omaha, initiated College of Arts and Sciences and adult education programs, and obtained approval of accrediting organizations. Consult New York Times obituary, October 19, 1963, p. 25 and Nebraska History, Vol 71 (Fall 1990) 126-141 and Biographical Dictionary of Modern Educators (Greenwood Press, 1997) 149-150.

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