Claude E. McKinney (June 9, 1929, in Greensboro, North Carolina – November 11, 2008, in Raleigh, North Carolina)David Hunt, "Visionary Centennial Campus Planner Dies" , NC State University News Services, 12 November 2008, accessed 2008-11-13 was a chief contributor to the design of Research Triangle Park and was dean of the North Carolina State University School of Design from 1973 to 1988. He was also the planner and director of the university's Centennial Campus. He died from Progressive supranuclear palsy.
Education McKinney graduated with honours from Pfeiffer Junior College (now Pfeiffer University) in Misenheimer, North Carolina.Jay Price, "N.C. visionary McKinney dies at 79", Raleigh News & Observer, 12 November 2008, accessed 2008-11-13 In 1951 he graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in painting and design, later doing graduate work in the same subjects at UNC.
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