Harry G. Shaffer

Harry Shaffer had four children, two stepchildren (with Betty R. Rosenzweig, married in 1987), and seven grandchildren at the time of his death at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

In 1956, Autherine Lucy was the first black woman to be admitted to the university. About three thousand students protested this admittance of a black woman in the university. The University of Alabama expelled Lucy on charges of defamation after she claimed the university did not provide her adequate protection. Along with 28 other professors, Shaffer left the school as he felt he could no longer honorably be associated with the university. "And that's how KU got lucky enough to get me", Shaffer joked to about 500 students in his class at the beginning of every semester.

Harry G. Shaffer was born in Vienna, Austria, to Max Shaffer and Tosca Infeld. He left his native country at the age of 18 in 1938. He lived in Cuba for 2 years while his US immigration visa was pending. He then served the U.S. Army intelligence during World War II as a German translator. After the war, the G.I. Bill of Rights paid for four years of school at New York University. In those four years, he received both bachelor's and master's degrees in economics and even completed a course towards his doctorate. He then taught economics at Concord College in Athens, W. Va, for a year and a half. He then moved to the University of Alabama where he taught economics for 6 years.

Harry G. Shaffer (1919–2009) was Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Kansas.

Shaffer was born on August 28, 1919, in Vienna, Austria. Fluent in German, Shaffer served in World War II, in which he acted as a translator. He was active in the Civil Rights Movement and the movement against the War in Vietnam.