About Charles Dunn II

Charles W. Dunn, Jr. was born in Charleston SC on August 14, 1918.   Raised in a Boston MA suburb, he skipped a grade, finishing high school at the age of 16.  Commuting to Harvard in nearby Cambridge, he majored in Astronomy.  After failing to meet the university’s academic standards, he briefly considered a possible operatic career before enlisting in the AAF five months before Pearl Harbor.  Near the end of the War, having survived two years of combat flying, and while still deployed to England, he married U.S. Army nurse Alva North.  They would go on to have three children.  After the War, he resumed his education under the G.I. Bill, graduating from the Cardinal Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University of Chicago in 1951.  After a brief time in general practice he signed up for five-year psychiatric residency program with the Michigan Department of Mental Health.  In 1959 the family returned to Chicago were he went into private psychiatric practice.  Sixteen years later, with all three children now out of college, he returned to Michigan as a staff psychiatrist at a state hospital in the Upper Peninsula.  He passed away in 1985.