Gerald Dubois
Gerald DuBois was born on July 13, 1925, in Dracut, Massachusetts to Yvonne Vigeant and Joseph Aquila Dubois. He was the couple's only son among three daughters. He graduated from Saint Joseph’s High School. He joined the United States Navy at 19 years of age, attending the Air Gunner School in Jacksonville, Florida and graduated from the Naval School of Photography in Pensacola. Joining the European Theater of war, he sailed aboard the USS aircraft carrier Ranger which for a short time was mistakenly believed to have been sunk by a German Submarine. Dubois was aboard the Ranger when it moved on to the Pacific. DuBois's Naval assignments included aerial photography as well as portraiture, most notably of a meeting of former U.K. Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill and U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
Following his military service Dubois attended Northeastern University where he studied mathematics and physics. He continued his photographer work as a staff photographer for the university newspaper and president of the photography club. Notable photographs he took at Northeastern include a shot of John F. Kennedy visiting the university, a Skinner Box, students in a physiology laboratory examining blood cells, and King Husky III the school mascot from 1952 to 1955.
DuBois set up a photography studio in Lowell but was only in business for a few years. By 1959 he had moved onto Champaign, Illinois. After his father's death in 1965 and at the age of 42, DuBois re-joined the military, moving to San Antonio, Texas. DuBois died on September 6, 1986 at the age of 61 and was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. He was married and had two sons.
