Add to ORKGDr. H. Gene Steffen was born January 3, 1919. He graduated from the State Teachers College at Buffalo in 1940 and earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University. He served as a second Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps from 1943-46. After the war, Dr. Steffen joined the faculty of the New York State College for Teachers at Buffalo. During his time at the college he was professor of industrial arts and served as acting director of E. H. Butler Library from 1964 to 1965. Dr. Steffen also started the Instructional Resources Center and served as its director until his retirement in 1984. He passed away on October 7, 2007.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/bsc_oral_history/1051/thumbnail.jp