[1] Pulmonary fibrosis.
Father: Willard Dewain Bell
Mother: Alta Martin
Wife: Betty Ruth Fitzgerald (m. 1-Aug-1957, four sons)
University: BA, Southern Idaho College of Education (1946)
University: MA Educational Administration, University of Idaho (1954)
University: PhD Education, University of Utah (1961)
Professor: Educational Administration, Utah State University (1962-63)
US Secretary of Education (1981-85)
Utah State Official Commissioner of Higher Education (1976-81)
US Education Department Commissioner of Education (1974-76)
Utah State Official Superintendent, Granite School District, Salt Lake City (1971-74)
US Education Department Deputy Commissioner for School Systems (1970-71)
Utah State Official Superintendent of Public Education (1963-70)
Utah State Official Superintendent, Weber County School District, Ogden (1957-62)
Wyoming State Official Superintendent, Star Valley Schools, Afton (1955-57)
Idaho State Official Superintendent, Rockland Valley School, Rockland Valley (1947-54)
Ford Fellowship 1954
Author of books:
The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir (1988)
