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Gunars Saliņš

Died in 2010

Gunars Saliņš was born in April 1924 in Dobele. After graduating from the teacher training institute in Jelgava in 1944, he left the same year for Germany, taught there in a Latvian school and served as an interpreter for a Latvian company of the American army. Arriving in the United States in 1950, a graduate of Upsala College and the New School for Social Research, he taught psychology and sociology at Union College, in New Jersey, from 1955 to 1996, and was one of the mainstays of Elles ķēķis alongside Linards Tauns. He died in Glen Ridge on 29 June 2010.

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