Born in Seattle, 1917, Paul Dubuar graduated from the UW in 1937 with a teaching degree. He enlisted in the Navy in 1942, but was found unfit for sea duty. He enlisted in the Army Transport Service and spent the rest of the war in the Pacific, including a visit to southeast Alaska. He was wounded in the Phillipines. In 1947 he entered graduate school at the UW where he studied education. He taught at a school for the blind in Vancouver, WA. In the 1970s he worked at the Bon Marche as a custodian and was a union representative. He retired in 1985 at age 72.
Diaries, 1933-1947, 1956-1957, 1971-1989; memoir, 1983; letter, 1933.
In the 1950s Mr. Dubuar's mother destroyed parts of his diary. He rewrote these parts (probably 1940s) from memory and a notebook he kept. The memoir of his childhood was written in 1980 when he was 66.
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Donated by James Dubuar, 4/23/1993