Jonathan Lai, Inquirer Staff Writer Posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 3:01 AM

Dan M. McGill, 93, a professor emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who helped shape the study of pensions, died of heart failure Tuesday, Feb. 5, at Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pa.

Born in Greenback, Tenn., on Sept. 27, 1919, Dr. McGill moved as a boy to Maryville, Tenn. He received a bachelor's degree from Maryville College in 1940 and a master's degree from Vanderbilt University in 1941, before serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps, which was succeeded by the U.S. Army Air Forces, from 1942-46.

He rose to the rank of major, serving in noncombat roles reporting to the Pentagon, his wife, Elaine, said.

He received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School in 1947, returned to serve in the Air Force from 1951-52, and joined the faculty of the Wharton School in 1952. He also taught at the University of Tennessee from 1947-48 and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1948-51.

Elaine McGill said she and Dr. McGill married on June 26, 1952, and their marriage was a source of pride for the noted academic.

"My husband was a very modest man," she said last week. "The one thing that he said he was the proudest of was the fact that we had been married for 60 years."

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