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Sense of Place in Newark: maintaining community life

Submitted by kbenson on Sun, 04/18/2010 - 17:30
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Vance Funk III
 
Vance Funk III was born in Philadelphia in 1942 and moved to Newark with his family in 1959, during his senior year of high school. He graduated from the University of Delaware and went on to obtain a law degree.  In the 1970s he was the city judge of Newark.  In 2009 he was serving his second term as Mayor of Newark.
 
 
Source of Information:
Funk, Vance III.  Videotaped interview on April 16, 2009 by April Veness and students in Geography 315 (Spring 2009).  Video editing by students in Mike Oates' Geography 467 class (Spring 2009 and Spring 2010).