Arlo Duba

DUBA, Arlo Dean. b. Platte, Brule County, South Dakota, 12 November 1929; d. Gunnison, Colorado, 27 June 2023. Duba was raised in a Bohemian Presbyterian farming family whose Hussite/Czech forebearers settled in the Dakotas in the 1880s. He attended the University of Dubuque, where he met his wife, Doreen. He majored in music and religion (BA 1952), and Princeton Theological Seminary (BD 1955, PhD 1960). His dissertation title was ‘The Principles of Theological Language in the Writings of Horace Bushnell and Paul Tillich and Their Implications for Christian Education Theory’. He held an appointment as Associate Professor of Religion and Chaplain at Westminster Choir College (1957-68),...