Carroll C. Halterman was born in Ohio on October 9, 1919. In 1937,
after graduating with honors from Jackson High School in Jackson, Ohio,
he began his undergraduate studies at the Ohio State University in Columbus,
Ohio. While attending Ohio State between 1937 and 1941, he devoted his
first two years of study to engineering before shifting his focus to
chemistry, English composition and literature, commerce, and economics.
In 1941, his education was temporarily interrupted when he enlisted
with the U. S. Air Force during World War II.
Halterman continued to serve in the Air Force after the war. From 1944
to 1946, he participated in the AAF Air Training Command Instructor's
School. From 1953 to 1957, he worked in the Air Rescue Service (USAF)
in Orlando, Florida, as an instructor, training officer, liaison, and
logistics officer. After receiving his B.S. in political science from
the University of Maryland in 1957, he worked from 1957 to 1959 with
the Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Air Force Base, San Francisco, as a school
official and instructor. Following the completion of his M.A. in Policy
and Administration at the University of Washington in 1961, he worked
for the Air Force as a Production and Procurement Staff Officer in Seattle,
Washington from 1961-1964. While working on his Ph.D. in policy and
administration at the University of Washington, which he completed in
1965, Halterman also worked as a teaching associate in Business Statistics.
In 1965, Halterman was appointed Assistant Professor of Management
and Public Administration at the University of Denver. He was promoted
to a full professor in 1972. As a professor in the College of Business,
he specialized in management development center operation, corporate
forecasting and planning, individual objective setting, the analysis
of operations, and management and supervisory training. A national and
international authority in management development, Halterman has conducted
hundreds of programs as a Management Consultant since 1964. He is also
a nationally acclaimed author and lecturer in supervisory training and
executive development. He and his wife Harriet have four children. A
retired lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Air Force and a Professor Emeritus
at the University of Denver, Halterman presently resides in Denver,
Colorado.
