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Albert Logan, 75, former trustee of the University of Illinois, dies in Chicago

Jet, Oct 2, 1995

Albert Norwood Logan Jr., former trustee of the University of Illinois and former member of the Chicago Board of Education, recently died in Chicago. He was 75.

Logan served as a member of the Chicago Urban League Business Advisory Council Scholarship and Loan Committee, trustee of Episcopal Charities, and one-time member of the State of Illinois Personnel Board. As a trustee of the University of Illinois, Logan led a one-man fight against the university investing in South Africa during the apartheid era.

A graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago, Logan was appointed to the first "reform" school board by Mayor Richard M. Daley and served until 1993.

Survivors include his wife Charlotte; two daughters, Lynne Weaver and Leslie Beard; a son, Howard; a sister, Helen Watson; and eight grandchildren.

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