1934
Donald
2015
Donald C. Holznagel
October 11, 1934 — October 26, 2015
Donald C. Holznagel
Don was a native Oregonian, born in Hillsboro and attending elementary and high school there. After 3 years in the US Army, he graduated from Eastern Oregon College in 1959, and received a Master's Degree there in 1961. He also met Jean Adamson there and they married in June, 1958, settling into teaching jobs in Parkrose, Oregon, where they also began their family.
Don began his career in education in 1959 as an elementary and secondary math teacher in Parkrose School District in Oregon. He received a Fulbright Teacher Exchange award, spending the 1963-64 school year as a math teacher in London, England. After returning to Parkrose, he joined a computer education project in Marion County in 1968, and continued work in curriculum development and teacher training in education technology in a statewide school district cooperative in Minnesota for ten years. He returned to Oregon in 1980 to work in the Technology Program of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Portland, to do research and development in educational technology for school districts in five northwest states. He was Director of the program from 1983-96, leading an effort to introduce the Internet as an educational tool across the region. In 1996, Don became Director of Technology at the Southeast Regional Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and completed his professional career as Executive Director of that laboratory in 1998. Retiring at the end of that year, he and Jean moved to Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Throughout his career, Don was active in his professional organizations and served as national President of the Association of Educational Data Systems in 1980. Because of his interest in the history of his family, Don was a member of the Genealogical Forum of Oregon, serving on its Board of Directors beginning in 2005, and as President from 2007-2009. He also volunteered as a member of the Board of Directors of the Rose Villa Retirement Community from 2007- 14, and served 2 years as President.
In addition to Parkrose and Cannon Beach, Don, Jean and family lived at times in Salem, Hillsboro, West Slope and Atlanta, GA. He is survived by his wife Jean and two daughters, Kara Baker and Kristin Kruse and 3 granddaughters.
Contributions may be made to your favorite charity.
Private Memorial Service.
Don was a native Oregonian, born in Hillsboro and attending elementary and high school there. After 3 years in the US Army, he graduated from Eastern Oregon College in 1959, and received a Master's Degree there in 1961. He also met Jean Adamson there and they married in June, 1958, settling into teaching jobs in Parkrose, Oregon, where they also began their family.
Don began his career in education in 1959 as an elementary and secondary math teacher in Parkrose School District in Oregon. He received a Fulbright Teacher Exchange award, spending the 1963-64 school year as a math teacher in London, England. After returning to Parkrose, he joined a computer education project in Marion County in 1968, and continued work in curriculum development and teacher training in education technology in a statewide school district cooperative in Minnesota for ten years. He returned to Oregon in 1980 to work in the Technology Program of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Portland, to do research and development in educational technology for school districts in five northwest states. He was Director of the program from 1983-96, leading an effort to introduce the Internet as an educational tool across the region. In 1996, Don became Director of Technology at the Southeast Regional Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and completed his professional career as Executive Director of that laboratory in 1998. Retiring at the end of that year, he and Jean moved to Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Throughout his career, Don was active in his professional organizations and served as national President of the Association of Educational Data Systems in 1980. Because of his interest in the history of his family, Don was a member of the Genealogical Forum of Oregon, serving on its Board of Directors beginning in 2005, and as President from 2007-2009. He also volunteered as a member of the Board of Directors of the Rose Villa Retirement Community from 2007- 14, and served 2 years as President.
In addition to Parkrose and Cannon Beach, Don, Jean and family lived at times in Salem, Hillsboro, West Slope and Atlanta, GA. He is survived by his wife Jean and two daughters, Kara Baker and Kristin Kruse and 3 granddaughters.
Contributions may be made to your favorite charity.
Private Memorial Service.
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