{"id":2568,"date":"2019-01-29T00:12:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T00:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ehsclassof76.com\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2021-06-13T18:03:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T18:03:05","slug":"royce-w-barnum-82-of-sioux-city-passed-away-sunday-jan-20-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ehsclassof76.com\/?p=2568","title":{"rendered":"Royce W. Barnum, 82, of Sioux City, passed away Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"691\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ehsclassof76.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Royce-Barnum-691x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2621\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ehsclassof76.com\/?attachment_id=2621\" class=\"wp-image-2621\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"719\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ehsclassof76.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5c464cd722dc0.image_-719x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2570\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/ehsclassof76.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5c464cd722dc0.image_.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/ehsclassof76.com\/?attachment_id=2570\" class=\"wp-image-2570\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ehsclassof76.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5c464cd722dc0.image_-719x1024.jpg 719w, http:\/\/ehsclassof76.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5c464cd722dc0.image_-150x214.jpg 150w, http:\/\/ehsclassof76.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5c464cd722dc0.image_-211x300.jpg 211w, http:\/\/ehsclassof76.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/5c464cd722dc0.image_.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Services will be 10 a.m. Thursday at St.\n James United Methodist Church.&nbsp;Burial will be in Memorial Park \nCemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Meyer Brothers \nMorningside Chapel. Online condolences may be made to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meyerbroschapels.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.meyerbroschapels.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Royce\n was born on Oct. 25, 1936, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He moved with his \nfather and mother, Roy and Laura Barnum, to Sioux City in 1938, where he\n had resided ever since. He married Charlene Wilmarth on Aug. 9, 1964. \nThey had two daughters, Rebecca Coleman, a music teacher and secondary \nschool band director in Edmond, Okla., and Rachelle Barnum, a history \nteacher at Sioux City West High School. Charlene Barnum retired as an \nEnglish teacher at Sioux City North High School in June 2002. Rebecca \nColeman and her husband, Ronnie, are the parents of the Barnums&#8217; only \ngrandchildren, Raquel Elizabeth and Royce Michael. Mr. Barnum is also \nsurvived by a nephew, Steve Wilmarth of Mason City, Iowa; nieces, Dr. \nLinda Wilmarth of Eden Prairie, Minn., and Susan (Chris) Baker of \nOxford, Iowa; and sister-in-law, Karen of Mason City. He was preceded in\n death by his parents; and brother-in-law, Dr. Charles Wilmarth of Mason\n City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Royce Barnum taught from\n September 1959 to June 1994 (35 years) at Sioux City East High School. \nHe taught English, speech, journalism, drama, debate, sociology, and \nminority cultures during his career. He was the East High debate coach \nfrom 1959 to 1975 and was adviser to the school newspaper, the East High\n Tomahawk, from 1962 to 1976. Minority Cultures was introduced as a new \ncourse in the Sioux City school system in 1973. Mr. Barnum wrote the \ncurriculum for the course and taught the first class that year. Minority\n Cultures was later offered at all three public high schools in Sioux \nCity. Mr. Barnum also wrote the curriculum for his speech, debate, \njournalism and sociology classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From\n 1973 until 1994, Mr. Barnum was the public information director for \nEast High School. He wrote a weekly column, East Word, which first \nappeared in The Morningside Shopper and later in The Sioux City Journal.\n Mr. Barnum served on several committees dedicated to improved \ncommunication between the school system and the general public. Mr. \nBarnum was a charter member of the Sioux City School System \nMulti-Cultural, Non-Sexist Committee, established in 1973. The committee\n was a precursor to what today is a fully funded Educational Equity \nDepartment. Mr. Barnum&#8217;s interest in human rights issues grew out of his\n work as a teacher. His classroom and committee work motivated him to \nbecome more involved in the community. Mr. Barnum was first appointed by\n the Sioux City Council to be a Sioux City Human Rights Commissioner in \n1974. He was vice chairperson of the commission from 1989 until 1992. He\n served as chairperson from 1992 to 1996 and again from 1998 to 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through\n the years, Mr. Barnum has been an advocate for human rights and for the\n commission. Mr. Barnum was the chairperson of the commission&#8217;s \nUniversal Human Rights Day Committee and had participated in the \ncommission-sponsored culture fair. He appeared in commission public \nservice announcements and on local talk shows, championing human rights \nand attacking hate crimes. Mr. Barnum was a member and president of the \nSiouxland Diversity Coalition, a local group that met monthly to discuss\n human rights concerns, plans, and programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr.\n Barnum was an advocate for making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a city \nholiday and for including sexual orientation as a protected class in the\n Sioux City Human Rights Ordinance. Under his leadership, the commission\n introduced Eracism stickers to the Siouxland communities, schools and \nsocial agencies. The Eracism stickers are the visible result of the \nhuman rights campaign of discrimination elimination through \ncommunication. In 1968, Mr. Barnum authored a history of the Sioux City \nchapter of the NAACP, of which he is a member. He had written several \nletters to editors, press releases, and speeches furthering the cause of\n human rights in Sioux City and the surrounding area. He was the \npublished author of January Tribute, a poem honoring Martin Luther King \nJr. It is, perhaps, through the use of the written and spoken word that \nMr. Barnum has made his most consistent gains. From 1951, when he was a \nfreshman in high school, until 1971, Mr. Barnum was a part-time staff \nwriter and copy editor for the Sioux City Journal. As a student and \nlater as a teacher, Mr. Barnum worked nights at the newspaper. During \nthe summers, he was a full-time staffer. Mr. Barnum was a member of \nby-laws revision committees for both the Sioux City Human Rights \nCommission and the Siouxland Diversity Coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr.\n Barnum graduated from Sioux City Leeds High School in January 1955. He \nreceived his B.A. degree from Morningside College in January 1959. He \nbegan work on his M.A. degree at Florida State University from January \n1959 to June 1959, where he served as debate coach and graduate \nassistant. He received his M.A. degree from the University of Northern \nColorado in 1962. He had done post-graduate work at Morningside College,\n University of South Dakota, University of Iowa, and the University of \nOregon. Mr. Barnum was a member of the 174th Fighter-Bomber Squadron of \nthe Iowa National Guard from 1954 to 1959. He was a member of the 9690th\n U.S.A.F. Reserve Squadron from 1959 to 1962. Mr. Barnum&#8217;s memberships, \npast and present, include Sioux City Education Association; Iowa State \nEducation Association; National Education Association (life member); at \nvarious times from 1964 to 1996, deacon, elder, president of the \ncongregation, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); from 1996 to\n present, member of the St. James United Methodist Church; past board \nmember and current member of local chapter NAACP; Siouxland Diversity \nCollation; Study Circles on Racism; graduate of Sioux City Police \nCitizen Academy, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local \nrecognition from commission and city council for human rights work \ninclude Sioux City Jaycees Outstanding Young Educator Award, 1971; \nMorningside College Distinguished Teacher Award Finalist, 1988 and 1992;\n Morningside Lodge 615 Teacher of the Tear Award, 1992; Parade Marshall \n(with wife, Charlene), Morningside Days, 1995; Friends of Iowa Civil \nRights State Award for Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Civil\n Rights in Iowa, 1999; East High School Homecoming Parade Marshall (with\n wife, Charlene), 2002; HRC Conference Room named in his honor, 2002; \nappointed to originate and develop Task Force Friend, an advisory agent \nto the HRC, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. James United Methodist Church or human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Services will be 10 a.m. Thursday at St. James United Methodist Church.&nbsp;Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Meyer Brothers Morningside Chapel. Online condolences may be made to www.meyerbroschapels.com. Royce was born on Oct. 25, 1936, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. 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