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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Frank W. Weymouth papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0018
Physical Description:
20.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1900-1965
Physical Location: Special Collections and University
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MEMORIAL RESOLUTION FRANK WALTER WEYMOUTH 1884-1963
Dr. Frank W. Weymouth was born June 17, 1884, in Seattle, Washington. His death in Oakland
March 19, 1963, brought to an end a career of fifty three years of teaching and research. He
was conducting research at the University of California School of Optometry until shortly
before his death.
Dr. Weymouth's interests as an undergraduate at Stanford were almost equally divided
between English Literature and Biological Sciences. He Obtained his A.B. in Zoology at
Stanford in 1909 and the following year began graduate work in Physiology. He became an
Assistant in 1908, received his Ph.D. in physiology in 1911 [1923] and was appointed
Instructor in Physiology the following September. After spending 1912-1913 as an Assistant
at Johns Hopkins, he resumed his teaching and research at Stanford. He rose through the
various ranks to professorship in 1931 and becdame head of the Department of Physiology in
1938.
Dr. Weymouth's research on the campus was in the field of Physiology of the Eye, but his
enduring interest in Zoology was expressed in his Summer teaching and research at the
Hopkins Marine Station and in applied work during many Summer Quarters conducting fishery
research for the state, federal, and British Columbia governments. His studies of the
commercial crab of California began in 1911, and his later work with this species culminated
in his drafting the fishery regulations for the State Legislature that are still in effect.
An abiding interest in people and their welfare was not limited to his contacts with
students; he was a champion of civil rights, an active worker with minority groups. Emeritus
status and retirement were not synonymous in Frank Weymouth's view: shortly after he
attained emeritus rank at Stanford, he began a new teaching and research career at the Los
Angeles College of Optometry. He was a member of the faculty of that school until the rule
of age again resulted in his becoming Professor Emeritus of the Log Angeles College of
Optometry in 1960.
He is remembered by his few remaining colleagues, his many students and friends at Stanford
and elsewhere as a particularly happy bridge between the biological-humanistic traditions of
Dr. Jordan and the solid role of physiology in modern medical education. Surely nothing but
devotion to his school and to people could account for fifteen years of service as Chairman
of the Committee on Admissions to the School of Medicine.
Dr. Weymouth is survived by a large family with origins in two marriages. We extend our
deepest sympathy to his wife, the former Mary Balsbaugh Dierup, his two daughters, Mrs.
Alice Kunets and Mrs. Anne Dierup, both of Berkeley, to his son, Dr. John Weymouth of the
faculty of the University of Nebraska, his stepson, Torben Dierup of Berkeley, his
stepdaughter, Mrs. Mary Chernoff of Berkeley, and ten grandchildren and one
greatgrandchild.
Respectfully submitted to the Academic Council,
J. M. Crismon, Chairman
R. Grant
V. Twitty
[identification of item], Frank W. Weymouth Papers (SC0018). Dept. of Special Collections
and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
This collection primary consists of the professional correspondence of Frank W. Weymouth
and his publications.
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