Dr. John Gulick

John Gulick was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1924, the third son of Millard Burr and Alida Carey Gulick. He received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University following his honorable discharge from the United States Army after the end of the Second World War. During the war, Dr. Gulick served first in North Africa and the Near East with the American Field Service and then in Europe in the United States Army. While in the Near East, Dr. Gulick acquired a heightened interest in ancient coins and began his collection of them. After receiving his PhD in Anthropology from Harvard, Dr. Gulick taught first at Alumni College in New York and then at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a professor from 1955 until his retirement in 1986. Dr. Gulick became the first chairman of the separate Anthropology Department at UNC in the 1960’s. Dr. Gulick resumed his collection of coins in the 1980s after the death of his first wife, greatly enhancing his collection especially in ancient and Renaissance coins. Dr. Gulick has three grown children and four grandchildren.