Who is John Dunn? Incoming WMU president's `log-cabin' roots influenced his work ethic and career path (The Kalamazoo Gazette) CARBONDALE, ILL. -- Described by those at his current campus as a ``local'' in a region with a past grounded in coal mining, John M. Dunn hesitates when asked how this played out in his own life growing up in Southern Illinois in the 1940s and '50s....more...