Frank William Cyr

Rural youth, education, professor Cyr was born July 7, 1900,

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Rural education specialist, author

In 1940, Cyr served as president of the Rural Department of the National Education Association and authored A Policy for Rural Education in the United States, published that year as the Rural Department's yearbook.

Dr. Cyr had become a Professor Emeritus of Rural Education at Columbia University Teachers College in New York.

As of September 1995, a television station in Stamford, New York, broadcast advanced placement classes to the rural schools of the area. That station was located in the Frank W. Cyr Educational Center of the Board of Cooperative Educational Services.

He is survived by his son William, 3 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.