Frank Victor Sullivan was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1931. As a youth and Boy Scout, he became fascinated with airplanes and flying. He would go on to earn a private pilot’s license.
Sullivan received his bachelor’s degree from Friends University in Wichita. He met his wife, Mary-Kate Larson, while he was in graduate school at the University of Northern Colorado, in Greeley.
Sullivan began teaching industrial arts at the Kansas State College of Pittsburg in 1963 and completed his Doctor of Education from the University of Illinois in 1964. He became a full professor in 1969. By the time he retired in 1998 he was the Dean of the College of Technology. He was instrumental in the designing, planning, funding, and building of the Kansas Technology Center at PSU.
The Sullivans were avid travelers, wildlife photographers, and singers. Dr. Sullivan passed away in Pittsburg in 2021 after a long fight with Alzheimer's.
