Imagination-Building
The Memoirs of John Douglas Forbes (1910 - 2018), First Professor of the Darden School of the University of Virginia
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About the Book
The Memoirs of John Douglas Forbes encompass watching the streetlamp lighters of San Francisco in 1912, to visiting the Royal Crescent in Bath in 2001, among many other memories. Art curator, educator, First Professor of the Darden School of the University of Virginia; hiker, kite flyer and traveler, who made a second family with the new wife he found through placing a Personal Ad in a magazine after becoming a widower --- John Douglas Forbes followed an unusual path. M.E. Forbes, in An Afterword to the Memoirs, speaks of the 38-year “May-December” journey she shared with Dr. Forbes.
About the Author
John Douglas Forbes, PhD, culminating a distinguished career as an art curator and college professor, became, in 1954, the First Professor of the then newly-founded Colgate Darden Graduate Business School of the University of Virginia. He inspired thousands of students to use their imagination and to communicate clearly in their business endeavors. Dr. Forbes died in 2018 at the age of 107. M.E. Forbes, his widow and General Editor of the Memoirs, is fulfilling his request that his recollections be published.