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Longtime AAUP member Wilfred Kaplan died on December 26, 2007, at the age of ninety-two. An emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan, Kaplan joined the AAUP in 1946. He served as president of the University of Michigan AAUP chapter and president of the Michigan AAUP conference in the 1950s and 1960s and as a member of the national Council from 1972 to 1975. A supporter of AAUP collective bargaining, he also helped to bring local AAUP chapters to several universities in Michigan.
Kaplan maintained his close ties to the AAUP in retirement. In 2006, he included a $10,000 bequest in...