Elon community mourns death of retired professor Allen B. Sanders

Allen B. Sanders, a retired Elon accounting professor who taught for more than two decades at the school, died March 25, 2008.

According to a brief announcement in the (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News, Sanders died at 4:15 a.m. The funeral service will be held Friday, March 28, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Rich and Thompson Chapel in Burlington.

Sanders taught at Elon from 1965 to 1986 and co-authored several accounting textbooks.

To read more about his life and experience at Elon, click on the link below. Daniel Shutt, a current Elon student, authored a paper on Sanders as part of a course on Elon University’s history taught by former school president J. Earl Danieley.