University of California: In Memoriam, 1997David Krogh, EditorA publication of the Academic Senate, University of California, 12th Floor, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, California 94607-5200. |
[Preface]
Colleagues, Friends, and Family Members:
We of the University of California Academic Senate have produced this volume of In Memoriam in memory of our deceased colleagues. It is our hope that these memorials will serve as fitting tributes to these departed friends, who served the University so well.
Darrell Arlynn Amyx, History of Art: Berkeley
| 1911-1997 | |
| Professor of Art History, Emeritus |
Darrell A. Amyx, pre-eminent specialist in Corinthian vase painting of the Archaic period, died at his Kensington residence January 10, 1997, at the age of 85. He was born in Exeter, California, on April 2, 1911, one of three sons of Buford Elmore and Maude Kirkman Amyx. His older brother Leon (deceased) became a prominent painter in the Carmel area, and his younger brother Robert a teacher and a director of Parks and Recreation in Salinas and Santa Clara, California. During their childhood, the three brothers worked with their father in various nurseries, an experience that helped to shape Darrell Amyx's lifelong love of gardening, as evidenced by the beautiful yard of his Kensington home.
Amyx's formal education began in a little country school outside of Visalia, California, where he also attended high school. He went on to enroll at Stanford University. Deeply involved in music, he played trumpet in a Stanford band, and on weekends and vacations from college would join his violinist father to play mood music in the pit orchestras of silent film theaters. Amyx received the B.A. with honors in Classics at Stanford University in 1930 and the M.A. in Latin (1932) and Ph.D. in Latin and Classical Archaeology (1937) at Berkeley. The subject of his master's thesis was the satiric poet Juvenal, in whom he never lost interest. Under the guidance of his mentor H. R. W. Smith, Amyx wrote his doctoral dissertation on Eretrian black-figure pottery; thereafter, the focus of his scholarly studies would be Greek vase painting.
On July 6, 1936, Amyx married Eleanor Wilkinson, a Latin scholar whom he had met in college; they had one child, a daughter, Ellen Anne. After completion of his graduate studies, he taught Latin at
Amyx joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1946. He and the medievalist Walter Horn were instrumental in founding the History of Art Department; together they created its program (during planning-session breaks, Amyx would play the guitar and they would sing “cowboy songs,” Horn recalled long after), and worked to build the library and slide collections. They were subsequently joined by other such intellectual giants of their generation as Jean Bony, James Cahill, Herschel Chipp, Leopold Ettlinger, and Peter Selz, their efforts further augmented by younger faculty. Amyx served as chair of the Art Department (1966-1971), assistant dean of the College of Letters and Science (1964-1965), and curator of classical art in the R. H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology (1958-1978, now Phoebe A. Hearst Museum) and the University Art Museum (1965-1976, now the Berkeley Art Museum). From 1968 to 1972 he served as associate editor of California Studies in Classical Antiquity; about this time he was also playing a key role in helping to establish a Berkeley archaeological excavation in Nemea, Greece, which he continued to support vigorously in its early years of operation. When he retired in 1978, he received the Berkeley Citation for his long and devoted service. After retiring, he taught as visiting professor of fine arts in 1979 at Indiana University, and in 1988 he was a visiting scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
At the beginning of his academic career, Amyx and his wife collected classical antiquities, including Greek and Roman coins, and Greek vases and vase fragments. When he retired they gave their collection to the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum; one of the items was a special Greek Geometric tankard that he had given Eleanor as a wedding gift. In later life he expressed this personal view of collecting:
"When I've attributed a vase, I feel I own it."
Amyx received numerous grants and honors: Fellow of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens (1935-1936); two Guggenheim Fellowships (1957-1959 and 1973-1974); Fulbright Senior Research Grantee to Greece (1957-1958); four grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (1941, 1962, 1971, 1980); Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (1965-1966); two grants from the American Philosophical Society (1956, 1976); and Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association, and a
Amyx's publications in ancient art include several major books, about 50 articles, and some 30 book reviews; most of these are cited in the Festschrift Corinthiaca: Studies in Honor of Darrell A. Amyx, edited by his former student, Mario A. Del Chiaro (University of Missouri Press, 1986). Particularly noteworthy are his magnum opus, Corinthian Vase Painting of the Archaic Period (University of California Press, 1988; three volumes); “The Attic Stelai, Part III: Vases and Other Containers” Hesperia 27 (1958); and Archaic Corinthian Vases and the Anaploga Well, Corinth VII, part 2 (1975) and “Studies in Archaic Corinthian Vase Painting” (Hesperia Supplement 28, 1996), both of which were co-authored with Patricia Lawrence. In the tradition of Sir John Beazley, whose achievement he greatly admired, Amyx focused on the attribution of Corinthian vases and vase fragments to artistic groups and individual artists; with his discerning eye for style and keen memory, he could identify individual vase painters' hands from partial artistic “signatures” as slight as the delineation of a “panther's hock.”
Although Amyx's scholarly life was guided by his deep love of all things Corinthian, he was also deeply interested in many areas of art history beyond the field of antiquity, and would discourse knowledgeably about such artists as Raphael and Rubens. He had a passionate love of poetry; near the end of his life he and his wife Eleanor spent many pleasurable hours memorizing poems and reciting them to each other, honing their powers of mental retention.
During his long university career, Amyx taught many undergraduate and graduate courses in ancient Mediterranean art; they included introductory surveys, Etruscan art, museum studies, and classical mythology in art, as well as Greek vase painting. One graduate seminar in classical art, funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, involved travel with his students to relevant collections in American art museums; this culminated in an exhibition of works from those collections (University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1974), and in a catalogue Echoes from Olympus: Reflections of Divinity in Small-Scale Classical Art (Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1974, with supplement), which he edited and wrote with his seminar students.
He was dedicated to teaching. Commitment and thoroughness--
"if he'd showed one more slide, it would have been a movie,"undergraduates said of his lectures--infectious enthusiasm, wit, and seemingly inexhaustible patience won students of different backgrounds
Darrell Amyx was a beloved teacher and a devoted friend to many, to whom he was affectionately known as “Dick.” A man of deeply ingrained honor and integrity, he treated others with deference and respect. His physical presence--the great mane of white hair, sparkling eyes, and wide grin--helped to make even the most timorous students relax under the magnetic force of his affability.
At his request, no memorial services were held in Berkeley. However, on Father's Day, June 15, 1997, a former student and two colleagues hiked to the summit of Acrocorinth in Greece and scattered his ashes on a site overlooking his adopted city of Corinth, producer of the pottery which was his passion.
Diogenes J. Angelakos, Electrical Engineering: Berkeley
| 1919-1997 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Diogenes Angelakos, our treasured colleague, died on June 7, 1997, after a valiant, decade-long bout with cancer. He was born in Chicago on July 3, 1919, later moving with his family to Michigan. He received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Notre Dame in 1942, the MS in EE from Harvard in 1946, and the Ph.D. in EE, also from Harvard, in 1950. He taught briefly at Notre Dame and then joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering at Berkeley in 1951.
Diog, as he was known to all friends, was an expert in electromagnetics, especially in problems related to antennas. Among his many journal and conference papers were analyses and experimental results on slot antennas, radiation from ferrite-filled apertures and helical antennas, scattering from conducting loops and multiple spheres, and treatment of the inverse-scattering problem with application to detection of buried objects and underwater-sound sources. He was always concerned with experimental verification of theoretical predictions and was instrumental in obtaining a microwave anechoic chamber in Cory Hall so that antenna and scattering measurements could be made indoors without disturbance from wall reflections. He was also co-author with T.E. Everhart of a classic text, Microwave Communications. His research earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957 to study “Electromagnetic radiation in regions filled with anisotropic materials” at the University of London.
Diog was an expert teacher, respected by his colleagues and loved by his students. He prepared carefully, made extensive use of visual aids, and always sought practical examples to illustrate the theories that had to be presented. But above all he identified with the students and remained friends, not only with his M.S. and Ph.D. students
In 1964, he was appointed Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory and held this position for two decades. He gave special attention to helping young faculty members find sources of research support, and was successful because of his extraordinary rapport with the project managers of the major research funding agencies. In 1991 he received an award from the Directors of the Joint Services Electronic Program of the Department of Defense "In recognition of outstanding professional and administrative leadership in directing the University of California at Berkeley's important share of the joint Services Electronics Program." He was active in many other facets of his department, the College of Engineering, and the campus. His service on various committees of the Academic Senate included multiple terms in the Representative Assembly, on the Senate Policy Committee, the Graduate Council, the Committee on Committees, and Ombudsman office, including service as Chair of the three last named. After retirement his service level increased. He took responsibility for graduate admissions and served as Acting Director of ERL or Acting Chair of the Department whenever needed. He continued to serve the Senate as Ombudsman.
Diog loved all aspects of the University--lectures, concerts, art exhibits, athletic events--but above all he loved his students, colleagues and hard-working staff. He had a number of tragedies in his life. His lovely wife Helen, a talented artist, died of cancer in 1982. His son Demetri died during his doctoral studies in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkeley. As an early victim of the Unabomber, Diog received serious injury to his right hand following explosion of a booby-trapped package left in a coffee room. Through skillful surgery he regained use of the hand but carried the scars from then on. In spite of these vicissitudes, he retained an upbeat attitude that he employed in encouraging others, especially the new and younger faculty members.
He was a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and an honorary member of the Greek Physical Society. He also received the Greek Independence Medal for technical assistance in Greek science and the Axion Award of the Hellenic-American Professional Society of California. Upon his retirement he was
John G. Bald, Plant Pathology: Riverside
| 1905-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
On October 1, 1995 a most original and resourceful plant pathologist, John G. Bald, died at Salem, Oregon at the age of 90, ending a colorful and productive career which started in the late 1920s and extended well past his retirement into the 1980s. Bald was born September 1, 1905 in Camberwell, Victoria, Australia and was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, Australia (HS1923), Melbourne University (B. Ag. Sci. 1928; M. Ag. Sci. 1931) and Cambridge University England (Ph.D., 1935). His scientific career began in 1928 at Waite Institute, Adelaide, Australia as a scientific assistant to G. Samuel under whom individual research was encouraged and accompanied formal advanced degree education. It probably was Samuel who encouraged and assisted Bald to attend Cambridge University to study for his Ph.D. there. At Cambridge Bald was a fellow student with S.D. Garrett. It is auspicious and significant that Samuel, Bald, and Garrett all became noted as outstanding plant pathologists, gaining world-wide acclaim. In 1948 Bald accepted a position at the University of California, Los Angeles, remaining there until 1967 when he transferred to the Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside. He retired from the University of California in 1973. For many years after retirement he worked with biochemists and statisticians and formulated theories on ecologic and genotypic behavior of virus host plants. Jack's productive research life spanned over 50 years, a remarkable achievement.
A fellow Australian, L. Stubbs, has written that Bald was noted for the precision and simplicity of his research. Another writer had been impressed with the great variety and depth of his research. A few of these very significant and unique contributions are cited herein to substantiate these observations of others.
1931-1937
Bald and co-workers discovered that the spotted wilt pathogen (then thought to be a virus) was acquired by thrips in their larval stage, but was only transmitted in the adult stage. This discovery of a latent period for the pathogen in the insect was new and helped to clarify the role of insects in the dissemination of other viral pathogens in plants.
1933
Samuel and Bald devised the half-leaf method for numerical analysis of viruses mechanically transmitted in plants. This technique is commonly used today and helped to quantify viruses in plants. Using this technique Bald advanced the theory that virus infections in a dilution series followed a Poisson distribution. It is especially noteworthy that Bald and his fellow workers did this more than two years before the first virus (tobacco mosaic virus or TMV) was crystallized and many years before virus particles were observed by electron microscopes.
1942
Bald and co-workers published on the effects of potato virus "X" on the growth and yield of potatoes. The reason why the virus was labeled "X" was that infected commercial varieties of potato plants exhibited no symptoms of the disease. He showed that extracts from symptomless inoculated potato plants transferred to other species of plants, after a suitable incubation period, induced symptoms of virus infection. In this manner Bald estimated that more than 90 percent of Australian varieties were infected by "X" and that the loss to the country amounted to $1,750,000 per year.
1941-1944
Mainly due to Bald's demonstration of the importance of symptomless effects of potato virus "X", Bald and Pugsley established the first Victoria Seed Potato Certification Scheme that established the virus-free nature of potato seed stock. Bald's war-time task was to double potato production in Australia. Statistics on his success were not available to us but the development of virus free stocks certainly must have brought significant relief to the beleaguered nation in the World War II years.
1930-1950
Bald and co-workers published some 57 papers, mostly on virus diseases of plants (seven on spotted wilt; 24 on potato virus "X"; and twelve on TMV).
Unfortunately for Australia, but fortunately for the University of California, Bald joined the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1948. Stubbs, an Australian, later wrote that the departure of Bald was a prodigious loss to science in Australia.
1948-1967
At UCLA Bald devised stains and microscopic techniques to observe virus behavior in TMV infected living cells of tobacco, usually epidermal strips of leaves suspended in water, and observed with the aid of a phase-contrast light microscope. It was the greatest thrill for one of the authors of this memorial to have been fortunate to observe what Bald called "visible virus synthesis". One afternoon he showed a living nucleus in an infected epidermal cell actively throbbing and moving in its cytoplasm and apparently extruding a material on its surface that was denser and more opaque than the surrounding cytoplasm. Jack left the preparation on the stage of the microscope, shut off the light and kept it that way overnight. In the morning we observed it again, but this time the opaque area around the nucleus had crystallized into the well-known crystalline structure, previously shown to be TMV crystals. It was a sight to be behold and never to be forgotten. Jack published several papers on this phenomenon, but it did not get the recognition and acclaim it deserved. He concluded that the final step of virus multiplication took place in or on the nucleus and not some distance away in the cytoplasm, and appeared to occur in cycles.
Bald worked on diseases of ornamental plants such as iris, lily, gladiolus and orchids and devised methods to obtain pathogen-free stocks of gladiolus and Easter lilies, in particular. This research dealt mainly with fungi and bacteria and this showed his adaptability and resourcefulness since his previous research with potatoes dealt mainly with virus diseases. Bald will always be held in high esteem by the bulbous ornamental growers in California and Oregon, some of them considered him as their friend and counselor. In concert with members of Cooperative Extension (UC) he devised a formaldehyde-hot water treatment for bulbs to help control soil-borne pathogens that were for years causing heavy losses in those crops. His methods were quickly utilized by growers the world over.
Bald was a pioneer in the use of statistics and mathematics in much of his research and is evident in papers published with Tingsley around 1967, just before his retirement, on quasi-genetic models for plant virus host ranges.
Bald was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships; 1956-57, Rothamsted, England; 1963-64, Canberra, Australia. He was also a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, Australia 1971. In 1975 he was elected a Fellow in the American Phytopathological Society.
The simple narration above does not pay due to Jack Bald the man. Words that seem fitting come to mind: gracious, polite, unassuming, highly intelligent, hard-working, cooperative, helpful, dedicated to his work, intolerant of hypocrisy, no time for sycophants, liberal social thinker, absent-minded, and many more could be used to remind one of J. G. Bald. We hope it is sufficient to say that Jack left an indelible mark in the world of scientific thought as well as upon many of those who were fortunate to know him as a friend.
John Grieve Bald was survived by his wife, Suresht Renjen Bald; his daughter, Bridget Bald (mother was Elsie Wilkins Bald, died 1955); sons Sunil and Vivek Bald; three grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Alfredo Baños Jr., Physics & Astronomy: Los Angeles
| 1905-1994 | |
| Professor |
Professor Alfredo Baños Jr. was born in Mexico City on November 14, 1905 where he received his early education; he became a naturalized United States citizen in 1949. In 1923 he started his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and later transferred to Johns Hopkins University where he was awarded a B.E. degree with highest honors in 1928. He continued at Johns Hopkins as a graduate student and received a degree of Doctor of Engineering in 1932. In 1935, having been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, he entered MIT where he received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1938.
From 1933 to 1943 Professor Baños was associated with the National University of Mexico, as Professor and Head of the Department of Physics, and in 1938 he became the first Director of the newly established institute of Physics. In 1943 he emigrated to the United States to join the MIT Radiation Laboratory in the capacity of Staff Member of the Theoretical Group. He remained at MIT until the end of World War II, working on theoretical problems associated with wave guides and cavity resonators. In 1946 he accepted a position at UCLA as Associate Professor of Physics, and in 1949 was promoted to Professor of Physics. He became Professor Emeritus at UCLA in 1973 and was recalled twice: in 1973-74 to teach the subject of his specialty, mathematical methods, and in 1974 to serve as Vice-Chairman of the Physics Department.
He was engaged in numerous consulting activities including collaborations with the Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake; Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla; the Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego; the National Bureau of Standards, Institute for Numerical
In 1958 Professor Baños spent a sabbatical year at the Istituto di Fisica Guglielmo Marconi, University of Rome, with the support of a Fulbright Grant and a second Guggenheim Fellowship. From January 1967 to October 1968, Baños had his first tour of duty with the office of Naval Research, London Branch Office. In 1969 he was on a sabbatical at the Imperial College of Science and Technology and from 1970 to 1971 he served a second tour of duty with the Office of Naval Research.
Baños' most important scholarly work was carried out in two areas: the propagation of electromagnetic waves and the basic properties of plasmas. His interest in the first had its origin in his wartime participation in radar developments at the MIT Radiation Laboratory; he and his students continued and extended that work at UCLA. His work in electromagnetic theory culminated in a most significant monograph entitled Dipole Radiation in the Presence of a Conducting Half-Space, published in 1966 by Pergamon Press as Vol. 9 of the International Series of Monographs in Electromagnetic Theory. In this work Baños gave a remarkably complete description of the way waves emitted by an antenna, such as the radio or microwave antenna, spread and propagate over the earth, a problem which had engaged physicists and engineers for more than half a century. Baños brought the full force of his remarkable analytical powers to bear on this complicated and difficult subject.
Even while bringing his efforts in electromagnetic theory to a conclusion, he struck out in a new direction and began the work in plasma physics which occupied the remainder of his life, to the very end itself at age 89. That work added greatly to his world-wide reputation, and just as important perhaps, it brought the UCLA Physics Department into an entirely new field, one in which the department has become justly renowned. Today the younger plasma physicists at UCLA fondly remember Baños as "the father of the plasma physics group".
Alfredo Baños had the uncommon ability to bring his research interests and analytical skills into the classroom for the benefit of the general student in physics and not just for the specialist. His course in electromagnetic theory, which he taught for decades, was legendary. No student who took it, as one to another testified,
Alfredo was committed to physics as an intellectual enterprise. General physics questions, not just his own specific areas of expertise, were of great interest to him. He was genuinely interested in your work and would ask quite pertinent questions about what you were doing and what the consequences were. During his retirement years he particularly enjoyed working with younger physicists--graduate students and postdocs--in his field of plasma physics.
Alfredo was a deeply caring man, and there were certain things he truly treasured. Alfredo deeply loved his wife Alice and his children Diane, John and Margarita; and also the UCLA Physics Department.
One of Alfredo's favorite words was "colleague," and he spent quite a bit of his time to make the atmosphere in the UCLA Physics Department as collegial as possible. Alfredo attended faculty meetings assiduously and he really read and pondered the departmental missives which came across his desk. He wanted to understand the broad and challenging issues facing the department. He always had the best interests of the department in mind, not just his own parochial interests. Well into his eighties he came to his office every weekday and he wrote his last physics paper at the age of 88. In his last year, when he knew that he would no longer be able to come to his office on a daily basis, he was very concerned that arrangements be made so that he could at least attend faculty meetings.
Alfredo was one of the founding fathers of the Physics Department Journal Club dinners and over the years he worked very hard to keep that institution going. Nothing gave Alfredo more pleasure than good conversation: physics, physics politics, general politics, and some good stories--some about the revolutionary Mexico of his youth--over a reasonably good meal and a little wine.
Alfredo Baños was a legendary teacher, a physicist of great analytical power, a totally fascinating person and a raconteur of extraordinary facility and grace. We will miss him beyond words.
Ruth Alice Boak, Pediatrics; Infectious Diseases; Public Health: Los Angeles
| 1902-1997 | |
| Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, and Public Health, Emerita |
Ruth Boak was born in Rochester, New York on May 26, 1902 and passed away in Camarillo, California on July 28, 1997 after a long and distinguished career in both the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health.
She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in 1927 and her Ph.D. in bacteriology in 1929, all from Cornell University. She worked as an Instructor in bacteriology at Albany Medical College and Albany Hospital prior to service as an Associate in radiology and bacteriology at the University of Rochester from which university she received her M.D. degree in 1940. Prior to coming to UCLA in 1947, she held appointments at Johns Hopkins Hospital as well as at the University of Rochester.
Her initial appointments in the UCLA School of Medicine were in the Departments of Infectious Diseases and Pediatrics. She collaborated with Drs. Charles M. Carpenter and Stafford Warren in research in brucellosis, syphilis and other venereal diseases and was author of more than 80 research publications. She became Professor in 1957 and in 1966 was appointed to the faculty of the School of Public Health in the newly created Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases. She taught public health microbiology in the School of Public Health until her retirement from University service in 1973.
Ruth Boak had a longstanding interest in improving medical education in developing countries. In 1963 she worked with the U.S. State Department to help establish the Airlangga University School of Medicine in Surabaya, Indonesia, followed by service to the Sagada Mountain Province Hospital in the Philippines.
Ruth Boak received many honors and awards during her career. She received Fulbright awards for research on venereal diseases in Japan and Korea in 1954-55 and for research and lectures in Iran in 1960. For her work on the epidemiology of venereal diseases in military personnel she received a citation from the U.S. Army 406th Medical Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan. In 1955, she was selected as a Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year awardee.
Ruth and her husband of 45 years, Colonel Donald Ferris, USAF, who passed away in 1986, had a longtime interest in horses and owned a ranch in Chatsworth prior to moving to Camarillo. She is survived by two sons, Boak Ferris of Long Beach and Don R. Ferris of Lexington, Kentucky. She will long be remembered by her colleagues and students for her strong commitments to teaching and research.
Travis Bogard, Dramatic Art: Berkeley
| 1918-1997 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
The distinguished academic theatrical producer, scholar, and writer, Travis Bogard, died on April 5, 1997, in Berkeley after suffering a stroke. He was 79.
Born in San Francisco on January 25, 1918, Bogard received the B. A. in English from UC Berkeley. After serving in the U.S. army from 1943 to 1946, he received the doctorate from Princeton University and then taught for a year at Yale.
In 1948 he returned to Berkeley, where he joined the English Faculty and remained at Berkeley for the rest of his long and distinguished academic career. In 1958 he became Chairman of the newly created Department of Dramatic Art, producing all of the University's theater events and developing the first doctoral program in dramatic art offered by UC Berkeley.
One of his major contributions to campus performances was as Chairman of the University's Committee for Arts and Lectures, the predecessor of Cal Performances. From his first appointment to the committee in 1956, he encouraged the presentation of dance and theatrical events, even though the facilities on campus were sadly inadequate. However, many companies, such as Alvin Ailey, José Limon, Merce Cunningham, and Le Théâtre Views Colombier did accept invitations to appear in Wheeler Auditorium, which led to the flourishing of performing-arts offerings that became possible with the advent of Zellerbach Hall.
He also organized an outstanding series of films, which presented many landmark works, illustrating their position in the history of film-making. He remained a member of the Committee for Arts and Lectures until his retirement, serving as its chair from 1975 on. He was always concerned that ticket prices, especially for students, be
With the encouragement of Clark Kerr, he served on the Committee for Intercampus Arts Exchange, which organized exchanges of performances by students, faculty, and professional artists among all nine campuses of the University of California. This committee also organized an annual "Festival of the Arts" which brought together representatives of all campuses, students and faculty, to consider a particular aspect of their arts: improvisation, Commedia dell' Arte, etc. The participants lived on the host campus for a few days, learning to know and to profit from the artistic activities of other campuses. He remained chair of that committee until budget restrictions caused its dissolution.
In the early 1970s he developed the idea for, and produced, the Old Chestnut Drama Guild on the UC Berkeley campus. A summer series of vintage drama and comedy, it was enthusiastically received by community audiences. Directed and designed by members of the Dramatic Art Department, the plays were acted by a professional repertory company with some student and graduate student members. Bogard found a string quartet that played tea-dance music in the style of the 20s at intermissions. Having flourished through most of the 70s, the company broke up to follow other pursuits.
Always inspiring his students, whether professional or amateur, he led them to goals that often surprised them with the unexpected range of performances and thought he elicited from them.
As one of his students wrote, "There are some teachers of English and of dramatic art, of history, of music and forensics in the public schools, colleges, and universities today who owe to Travis Bogard much of their love of their academic subjects. He taught me literary criticism, poetics and expository writing. He gave me much more essential appreciation and information that helped me to be a better English teacher than I could have been without exposure to his élan."
Bogard was the author of eight works. Among them are Contour in Time, The Plays of Eugene O'Neill, and The Complete Plays of Eugene O'Neill--a three volume set that is recognized as the authoritative collection of O'Neill's works.
O'Neill wrote several of his most powerful plays--including The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night--at Tao House, which is now a 13-acre site managed and maintained by the National Park Service. In his work for The Eugene O'Neill Foundation,
Bogard retired in 1987, devoting the later years of his life to his writings and to Tao House. In 1993 he wrote From the Silence of Tao House, a series of essays about the plays that O'Neill had written there. He gave the rights and proceeds from that work to the Eugene O'Neill Foundation. The Eugene O'Neill Songbook, taken from music incorporated in the plays, was published in 1994.
Bogard received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1958-59, the Berkeley Citation in 1981, honorary Phi Beta Kappa in 1981 and the Tao House Award in 1990. The Tao House Award honors persons who have served the American theatre with distinction in the fields of acting, directing, design, choreography, historical studies and administration.
He is survived by his son, John George Bogard of Gerlach, Nevada; a daughter, Sara Snow Bogard of Reno, Nevada; a brother, John Bogard, of Southern California; and a grandson, Travis Bogard. Professor Bogard's wife, Jane, died in 1988.
His family and many friends have suffered an irreplaceable loss, and the University a most distinguished, unique and invaluable member of its faculty.
Ronald V. Book, Mathematics: Santa Barbara
| 1937-1997 | |
| Professor |
Professor Ronald V. Book passed away on May 28, 1997, from complications of multiple sclerosis. He is survived by his wife, Celia Wrathall Book of Santa Barbara, California; and his brother, Robert Book of Wilton, Connecticut. He was 60 years old.
Ron Book had been a member of the UCSB Mathematics faculty since 1976. He was a renowned leader in theoretical computer science, with numerous publications in the fields of structural complexity theory, rewriting systems, and formal languages. He was an outstanding teacher of graduate students, and the UCSB Mathematics Department is especially proud of the fine researchers who have obtained their Ph.D.'s under his direction. He was equally outstanding as a teacher of undergraduates, and for many years was regarded as one of the best teachers in the department by undergraduate students.
Professor Book initiated his academic career in 1958, graduating from Grinnell College with a Bachelor of arts degree. He obtained a Master of Arts in Teaching degree in 1960 and a Master of Arts degree in 1964 both from Wesleyan University, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard University in 1969, under the guidance of Professor Sheila A. Greibach. He taught at Harvard University and then at Yale University. He joined the UCSB faculty as a full professor in 1976.
Book made substantial contribution to the computer science community through his selfless services. He held editorial positions with 12 professional journals, and was editor-in-chief of three monograph series. Book served as a member and the chair of the program committees of a number of professional conferences.
Ron Book was a leading contributor to formal language theory, structural complexity theory, and the theory of string rewriting systems
During the 1980s he studied Semi-Thue systems, also known as string-rewriting systems, extensively. Such systems are at the very heart of formal language theory. They yield a connection between formal language theory and combinatorial semigroup theory. It was Book who first stressed algorithmic questions and their inherent complexity for these systems. He presented an algorithm in the form of a two-pushdown automaton that solves the word problem for a finite, length-reducing, and confluent semi-Thue system in linear time. This algorithm establishes a close correspondence between the lengths of left-most reduction sequences and the complexity of the word problem, and this correspondence is not restricted to length-reducing systems. In a series of papers Book and his collaborators also addressed many other important algorithmic problems for semi-Thue systems.
Another important theme of Book's work on languages was the correspondence between the combinatorial properties of a semi-Thue system and the language-theoretical properties of the Thue congruence generated. Book addressed the important question of characterizing those semi-Thue systems for which there exists an equivalent semi-Thue system that is convergent. This question continues to receive a lot of attention, and many interesting results have been obtained.
One of the main contributions of Book in complexity theory was the study of restrictive relativization. This research was motivated by the relativization results such as those of Baker, Gill and Solovay and Book and his co-authors. Many central questions in complexity theory about the relation between two complexity classes, such as the P = ?NP question, are unrelativizable, in the sense that their answers could be both yes and no depending upon the oracles with respect to which the relativization is defined. A critical observation is that some of the seemingly natural relativizations actually provide unfair extra power to some types of machines than other types of machines. Therefore, in order to understand the real difference between the two types of machines, studies on restrictive relativization are necessary. Book initiated this research, and, in a series of papers, investigated intensively the effect of different types of restrictive relativization. His results revealed much insight into the computation of oracle machines, and strongly influenced the direction of research in relativization.
Research on sets with succinct descriptions studies the complexity of working with sets with short descriptions, including sparse sets and sets with low Kolmogorov complexity. Book was among the first to find the importance of tally sets and sparse sets. Besides the study of lowness of such sets and the characterization by low Kolmogorov complexity, he initiated the study of such sets by reducibility and equivalence to tally or sparse sets. These studies led to a long list of investigations in many different directions.
Another area in which Book made major contributions is the research on sets with high descriptive complexity. Book's investigations into this topic included the approaches by Kolmogorov randomness, complexity cores and random oracles. He gave precise characterizations of sets that are reducible to random sets in terms of sets that are reducible to almost all oracles, and thus providing yet another important connection between the notion of program-size randomness and the notion of probabilistically almost-all randomness.
Book's strong commitment to excellence in scholarship touched everyone who studied and worked with him. In 38 years of teaching, he produced 15 Ph.D. students. Ron also valued very much his work with postdoctoral researchers. Some of the finest young researchers in theoretical computer science spent periods as postdocs at UCSB; in all, he sponsored and supervised 14 postgraduate research fellows. His support, guidance, high standards, and infectious enthusiasm for research nurtured them at important junctures in their careers. Today, outstanding scientists who worked as postdocs with Ron Book may be found around the world.
Professor Book received a number of academic honors, including honorary faculty positions of Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad of Peru and Beijing Computer Institute of China and the Senior U.S. Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He frequently presented invited plenary lectures in international meetings.
A celebration of his 60th birthday was held in April, 1997, just a month before his death, at the University of Minnesota. On that occasion a volume of papers, edited by Ker-I Ko and Ding-Zhu Du, was published in his honor.
Alfred Mullikin Boyce, Entomology: Riverside
| 1901-1997 | |
| Dean of the School of Agricultural Sciences, Emeritus | |
| Professor and Entomologist in the Agricultural Experiment Station, Emeritus | |
| Associate Director of the Citrus Research Center and Agricultural Experiment Station |
The career in research and administration of Alfred M. Boyce at the University of California Riverside was one of distinguished achievement over a period of more than 40 years. He was born on a farm on the eastern shore of Maryland on May 2, 1901. In 1919, he spent one year at St. John's College in Annapolis. Then for a number of years he pursued an adventurous career as a crewman on freighters and ocean liners, traveling the seas to Hong Kong or Bremerhaven, Buenos Aires or Cairo, Capetown or Calcutta. At the end of this youthful odyssey, he was wrongfully imprisoned in a Naples jail for five months charged with mutiny, along with 70 other crew members of the S.S. Philadelphia, after seizure of the ship by creditors.
His inquiring mind and early farm experience then directed him to the field of entomology. He entered Cornell University in 1923 where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1927 he took a temporary research position at the Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside at the University of California intending to return to Cornell. He was persuaded to stay at Riverside by the promise of research in the entomology of subtropical agriculture and remained there for the rest of his university career. He earned his doctorate in entomology from UC Berkeley in 1931.
A most vigorous and remarkably energetic man, Dr. Boyce excelled in his dissertation and later research with a newly introduced major pest, the walnut husk fly, and in 1934 published this work in an
During 1951, along with his wife and two small children, he explored many parts of southern Asia for parasites of the olive scale. He discovered two species of parasitoid wasps, one in Iran and Iraq and the other in India and Pakistan. These wasps were introduced into California by other UC entomologists and the scale insect was suppressed as a pest. Boyce strongly resented that he was not credited for his discoveries, made under most difficult and at times hazardous conditions.
As Director or Associate Director of the Citrus Research Center and Agricultural Experiment Station (1952-1968) he helped mold that institution into a world-renowned organization. Under his leadership, UCR pioneered the earliest studies of the effects of air pollution on plants now carried on by the Statewide Air Pollution Research Center that he helped organize. In 1960, he became Dean of UCR's new College of Agriculture, later designated the School of Agricultural Sciences and presently the College of Biological and Agricultural Sciences. Boyce guided this fledgling college through its formative years.
Boyce developed a national and international reputation. While president of the American Association of Economic Entomologists,
Boyce retired in 1968 and in 1969 was awarded the University's highest honor, a Doctor of Laws degree. During his University career, he was greatly admired and respected by agriculturists and by county and statewide officials. He received accolades from many sources including the following: the Board of Directors of Sunkist Growers; the California Citrograph; the California Avocado Society; the Lemon Men's Club; the Assembly of the California State Legislature; the Agricultural Administrative Committee of the Division of Agricultural Sciences of the University of California, the Association of Western Agricultural Experiment Station Directors; the Citrus Institute of the National Orange Show; and the California Macadamia Society. He also received the Albert G. Salter Memorial Award and the UCR Chancellor's Award of Merit. He was an honorary member of the Entomological Society of America and the Entomological Society of India.
The A1 Boyce Lecture Series was established in 1977 by the UCR Department of Entomology, providing a single lecture each year by a distinguished entomologist. The Alfred M. Boyce Chair at UCR was established by the Regents in 1984 to be funded by the UCR Foundation and this Chair was filled in 1995. Alfred M. Boyce Hall is a major building on the UCR campus, currently housing in whole or in part several departments of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.
Boyce was a member of the Board of Consultants for Agricultural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation in the years prior to his retirement. His retirement did not end his career. He continued as a consultant to the administrative staff and traveled extensively advising on agricultural endeavors overseas. He also gave leadership to the first domestic program to be funded by the foundation in many years: an interdisciplinary teaching and research program concerned with quality of the environment. After leaving the foundation in 1974, Boyce remained active, developing his autobiography Odyssey of an Entomologist published, in 1986, a record not only of his unusual life, but of his remarkable memory as well.
Boyce's wife of almost 50 years, Dr. Janet Mabry Boyce, a scientist in her own right, died in 1988. Dr. Boyce passed away on July 11, 1997. He is survived by a daughter, Karen Boyce Risher of Poway, California; sons Allen W. Boyce of Coronado, California, and Barry S. Boyce of Cypress, California; six grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Alexandre Calame, French: Berkeley
| 1913-1996 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
The great French writer André Gide once answered a question about putting down roots by saying, "Born in Paris of a father from Provence and a mother from Normandy, where do you expect me to put down roots?"
Something of the sort may be said about the late Calame, Professor of French at Berkeley, who died on December 27, 1996. Born in Lausanne on March 9, 1913, of a Swiss father and a German mother, he later assumed French citizenship--but as if in answer to Gide's querulousness, he did eventually put down roots, and in California.
After attending the universities of Lausanne and Fribourg in the years immediately preceding World War II, he went for further study to Paris, whence in 1942 he went to Debrecen, Hungary, as a Reader in French. From 1944 to 1947 he was at the Sorbonne preparing an advanced degree, and there he met Jeanne Burollet, who was ultimately to become his wife. Both were classed ex aequo on the examinations in 1947 and received the desired titles, including that of husband and wife. With his family connections and knowledge of German, Calame went to the newly created University of the Saar in 1948, where he remained until 1956, years which he counted among the happiest of his career before his life in Berkeley Meanwhile he had undertaken a dissertation for the doctorate, supervised by the distinguished scholar Rene Pintard. The subject was the late-classical writer of comedies, Jean-François Regnard. In 1958 he was appointed to the University of Algiers as the equivalent of an associate professor and remained there until coming to Berkeley.
With successful completion of the Doctorat d'État in 1961, there began to appear those studies of 17th-century French literature that marked his career, including his complementary thesis (an edition
Appointed Chairman of the French Department in 1963, Calame brought changes to the hierarchical atmosphere then prevalent in the department and succeeded in releasing tensions that had previously been pervasive. Symbolic was the fact that he instituted department parties at which faculty and graduate students were able to mix in a congenial atmosphere. For a time these included music and dancing, where Calame revealed his love of life, expressed as well in his taste for prandial pleasures, both pre- and post.
In the academic sphere, changes were even more marked. It was he, for instance, who saw to it that a long-time member of the department and holder of the Ph.D., the author of a well-known study of orientalism in French literature, was promoted to a professorship after many years as a lecturer--an administrative act both kind and just. Another service he performed originated in his pedagogical acumen. At that time there were some 1,500 to 2,000 lower-division students, taught largely by as many as 75 teaching assistants. The job of directing this very large operation was usually given to the newest junior faculty member, the very one who had the most urgent need to be engaged in productive scholarship and who, in general, had little professional knowledge of language teaching. Calame realized that the teaching of first- and second-year French needed reshaping and more dedicated direction. Thus it was that in 1966 he recruited Gérard Jian, a young teacher from Stanford who had exactly the qualities needed. Calame's foresight led to the present shape of the lower division, and to the rigorous and professionally useful training of student teachers which has made of it a model pre-eminent throughout the profession. The dynamic pedagogic tradition which started with this appointment is today the legacy of those responsible for all of the language courses in the French Department at Berkeley.
It is easy to evoke one other difference between then and now simply by reminding ourselves that then was the 60s, with all the turbulence and change of that period. Looking back on Calame's time as chairman, from 1963 to 1968, it is now possible to recognize how admirably he negotiated the rough waters of the times. Perhaps because of his previous university experience in Hungary Germany and Algeria, in other times of stress, he was neither appalled nor
In the years following his chairmanship, until his retirement in 1980, he was an enthusiastic supporter of the new "civilization" option of the major and seemed especially to enjoy teaching undergraduate courses in that field. His seminars on 17th- and 18th-century literature gave a generation of students a model of scholarship and informed reading that represented the best of the great tradition of French scholarship which had formed him.
Reflecting on his years of service to the department, we find a colleague who was invariably kind, but not naive, who believed in the values of co-operation and compromise. His instincts in departmental affairs were essentially uncontentious. Informed by experience and carrying his learning lightly, he was neither aggressively ambitious nor arrogantly pretentious. Even though he was a gentleman of the old school of university professors, he did all in his power to further the careers of younger colleagues, in whose work he took great interest.
These same qualities were manifest in his relations with the University administration. Calame enjoyed the utmost respect and affection of his colleagues in the Graduate Division and in the College of Letters and Science. Under his aegis the department consummated the expansion of graduate offerings following upon the arrival of new faculty with a sense of adventure. As a result, ever greater numbers of graduate students in French were awarded university fellowships, including those on exchange programs with the two Écoles Normales in France. Meanwhile, the process of internal criticism continued, thanks to his mediating skills and his courtly and gracious manner. To the satisfaction of the Graduate Division, his counsel and ideas about the direction French studies should take were widely approved as he accepted innovation and was favorably disposed to seeking new ways for graduate students to fulfill the language requirements, thus providing much needed leadership for other, related departments.
All of these attributes (not to mention his ever-widening circle of experience) are still manifest in his legacy of public service, nowhere more so than in his interest in and contributions to, among others, l'Alliance Française and the Berkeley École Bilingue, now approaching its 20th anniversary. Here, his commitment to education, plus
Were there a single epithet to characterize Calame as colleague and friend, we might settle on one which came to its full richness of meaning in that period with which he had so intimate an acquaintance--the 17th century in France and which seems to sum up all he did and was: the expression "honnête homme," a term he would have appreciated as applied to himself.
He leaves his wife, Jeanne Calame, and four daughters, one living in France and three who are UCB alumnae, currently living in the United States, with 10 grand-children and one great-grand-daughter.
Melvin Calvin, Chemistry: Berkeley
| 1911-1997 | |
| Professor Emeritus | |
| University Professor |
Melvin Calvin was one of the world's outstanding scientists, as attested by many honors, both national and international, including the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Not only did he directly add to scientific knowledge, but, as a dynamic lecturer, teacher, and research director, he served as an inspiration for many other productive scientists. He also contributed to scientific progress through his participation in scientific societies and through his service on scientific committees and commissions. He served the United States government in numerous scientific advisory roles. And he served the University of California with enthusiasm in the full range of responsibilities implied by the position of University Professor to which he was appointed in 1971.
When Melvin Calvin came as an instructor to the University of California in 1937, much of the research that he undertook involved application of his background in physical chemistry to organic and biological systems. Following World War II he seized upon the new availability of radioactive carbon isotope-14 to study the chemical pathway of carbon during photosynthesis when carbon dioxide is converted to organic compounds in plants. The experiments he performed with colleagues Andrew Benson and James Bassham and many other visitors to his laboratory soon indicated that the first radioactive product of carbon-dioxide fixation was 3-phosphoglyceric acid, a 3-carbon molecule, labeled in the carboxyl position. This led initially to a search for a possible 2-carbon "acceptor" molecule, but ingenious experiments in which green alga was photosynthetically labeled with radioactive carbon dioxide gave an unexpected result.
Calvin's expertise extended well beyond photosynthesis. He made significant contributions to such diverse fields as electron affinity of halogen atoms, chemical methods for extracting oxygen from air, color, paramagnetism of the triplet state, ligand complexing of metal ions, organic compounds in meteorites and moon rocks, organic evolution, origin of life, the Rh negative factor, cancer, oil from plants, and artificial photosynthesis. He gave invited lectures in many countries. His publications totaled seven books and nearly 600 papers.
In 1964 a special building was constructed on the eastern side of the campus to house Calvin's Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics (now the Calvin Laboratory). In order to foster interdisciplinary interactions, Calvin specified a unique architectural form. The building's circular design and open lab spaces for jointly used equipment was intended to maximize interaction among the students and researchers. At the center of the radial focus was a coffee table and blackboards, both of which stimulated interdisciplinary discussions. Chemistry, physics, and biological subjects, ranging from rat-brain biochemistry and behavior to photosynthesis were all part of the intellectual fabric of this laboratory. Friday morning seminars brought all these groups together. In the early years everyone brought their notebooks and anyone might be called upon to give the seminar, which created a prepared, if anxious, room of students and researchers. In later years Calvin gave the presenter 15 hours notice.
All those in his laboratory over the years experienced Calvin's insightful excitement and occasional impatience about research. They also experienced Calvin's and his wife Genevieve's warmth as they invited coworkers to their home or to the ranch in Healdsburg. They made a strong scientific and personal mark on all those students and researchers who were fortunate enough to work with him.
Calvin taught various courses in the Department of Chemistry, particularly an introductory organic course for non-chemistry majors
Calvin performed major services for four of the nation's most distinguished scientific societies: The American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Plant Physiology, and the National Academy of Sciences. For two of these societies (ACS and AAPP) he served as president. He also served as president of the Pacific division of the AAAS and on important committees of the National Academy of Sciences (including the Committee on Science and Public Policy). All of this service constituted an admirable contribution to the functioning of these important scientific organizations and to the scientific and scholarly progress of the nation.
Calvin's simultaneous service to the United States government was equally outstanding. Among the many advisory posts listed in the record, particular attention should be drawn to his roles with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Executive Office of the President, and the Department of Energy. The entire effort that NASA mounted to search for life in extraterrestrial space was greatly influenced by Calvin's active participation and advice. His efforts included: (1) in the first lunar (Apollo) landings, plans to protect the Moon against biological contamination from the Earth, (2) procedures to protect the Earth from possible lunar pathogens on and in the returning Apollo spacecraft, (3) strategies for the search for organic and biological compounds in returned lunar samples, and (4) plans for the search for biological compounds for life on other planets.
Calvin served the Executive Office of the President in two ways. From 1963 to 1966 he was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee. In 1975 he served on the President's Advisory Group on Major Advances in Science and Technology, and from 1981 to 1985 on the Energy Research Advisory Board, the top advisory body of the Department of Energy.
Calvin also served on a number of international groups dedicated to the progress of world science: e.g., the joint Commission on Applied Radioactivity of the International Union of Pure and Applied
Calvin died on January 8, 1997, at the age of 85. His beloved wife Genevieve, who collaborated with him on several scientific projects, predeceased him in 1987. He is survived by their children Elin, Karole, and Noel. Calvin was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 8, 1911, of parents who were immigrants from Europe. He earned the bachelor's degree at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology and the Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1935.
In all of his activities Calvin was an unpretentious but enthusiastic participant, eager to know why some action was to be taken or how some physical phenomenon could be understood. His genius was in asking the right questions and seeing explanations that did not readily occur to others. He loved and lived science and was an unabashedly staunch supporter of the University.
Eduardo Carrillo, Art: Santa Cruz
| 1937-1997 | |
| Professor |
Adios, Eduardo. UCSC Professor of Art Eduardo Carrillo died on July 14, 1997, leaving a rich legacy of artwork and a collective broken heart.
Born on April 8, 1937, in Los Angeles, Carrillo attended Los Angeles City College before taking his BA and MA degrees at UCLA. After a year in Spain--studying and painting in the Prado--he and his first wife Sheila moved to his family's ancestral home in La Paz, Baja California where he founded and directed El Centro de Arte Regional, a center for the revival and study of regional crafts. The gifted painter and muralist had already enjoyed many solo exhibitions of his bold artworks in both Mexico and southern California before joining the faculty of UCSC in 1972, where he taught a variety of subjects--drawing, art history, ceramics, shadow puppetry, mural, fresco, as well as his primary media of oil and watercolor painting--for the last 25 years of his life. Exhibiting his work on both coasts of North America, Carrillo was consistently represented by LA Louver Gallery in Venice, California and at Joseph Chowning Gallery in San Francisco.
Memories of Eduardo always begin with his smile, always huge with high spiritedness--barely deflecting attention from his astonishing blue eyes. The smile--a permanent possibility of who he was in the world--fed from the same spring as his immense talent. Somehow about light and color, always about irrepressible sweetness and humor, that spring seemed unquenchable. Even now that he's gone, it still seems so. Probably because Ed Carrillo, celebrated, loved, catalogued and anthologized, wore his gift so lightly. He never took it so seriously that it couldn't be suspended while he explored
Armed with the instinctive immediacy of a perpetual child--fascinated with the colors, shapes, textures and rhythm of the sensory world--Ed probed and prodded the land, here and in his beloved Baja, where he'd go each year to putter with a favorite uncle, soak up the light of his grandmother's village, work on a never-ending building project and open himself to inspiration. About l0 years ago, a whole new window opened on his life with the meeting of Alison Keeler, who became his second wife. There had been a lot of love in Ed's life, and Alison was the crowning joy in that legacy.
Colors for Carrillo existed in the service of light, transforming themselves magically before your very eyes--into the light of an early afternoon in Ed's beloved Baja. Here the light is so intense that colors get distilled twice, like good tequila, into something potent enough to rediscover what you take for reality. Magic realism. Before the term found currency in literature and film-making, Carrillo was robustly, quietly inventing it. Driving the everyday, the humblest into mythic moments, painting the human into countless gods every single one of them capable of simultaneous laughter and destruction.
Ed's figures, always monumental and earthy, were more sculpted than painted. They bore a fundamental sense of physicality that seemed directly descended--or perhaps ascended--from muralists like Rivera and Oliveros. Solidly grounded in a world that frothed and spiraled around them like dancers in fiesta, or warriors poised to conquer some jungle enemy, his all-too-human subjects seemed to wink even in their martyrdom. Ed's Blessed Virgin drinks coffee with the babes who tempted Quetzacoatl and seduced Louis Valdez.
The effect of Carrillo's largest masterworks produced the frontera equivalent of Saint Chapelle. Only instead of the light being saturated with the hues of stained glass, it is the resonance of enormous canvases--all talking to each other in Carrillo's muscular language of tropical sexuality and archetypal innuendo--that makes the lasting impression. The atmosphere shimmers with burnt oranges, that dried blood mahogany that was his signature, lustrous turquoise and a robust Aztec yellow. Painted in the early to mid-eighties, they are the work of a giant, of the man widely regarded as a leader of American painting, Hispanic and otherwise.
As a teacher, Eduardo was inventive and resourceful. He personally dug the clay for a native pottery course and conducted original
An overflow congregation of friends, colleagues, family and students from all over the Americas attended a memorial celebration of Eduardo Carrillo's life and legacy on Sunday, September 28, 1997, at the Elena Baskin Visual Arts Courtyard. A painting and drawing scholarship has been established in his name. Contributions to the Eduardo Carrillo Scholarship may be sent to the Arts Development Office, Division of the Arts, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 95064.
An internationally recognized artist, Carrillo's work was anthologized in many art-books and articles in the most influential journals, from The New Yorker and Artweek, to the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. His work has been exhibited for 40 years in dozens of solo and group shows throughout the U.S. and Latin America, and is preserved in such public collections as the Oakland Museum, Yale University Art Gallery and Sacramento's Crocker Art Museum. His monumental tile mural, commissioned by El Pueblo de Los Angeles in 1979 to honor Father Hidalgo, maintains a dramatic presence in Carrillo's metropolitan home town of Los Angeles.
A gifted painter, leader of contemporary American and Hispanic art and patient teacher, Eduardo is survived by his wife, Alison Keeler Carrillo of Santa Cruz; his daughter, Juliette Carrillo of Los Angeles; his son, Ruben Carrillo of Honolulu; three sisters, Georgina Ossorio of Miami, Mary Black of Burlingame and Patricia Mullins of Huntington Beach; a brother, Alex Carrillo of Northridge; a stepdaughter, Bhavani Parsons of Paris, France; and one grandson, Kino Eduardo Carrillo of Honolulu.
G. Arnold Chapman, Spanish: Berkeley
| 1917-1996 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
G. Arnold Chapman died of cancer at his home in Kensington, California, on September 2, 1996, not long after his 79th birthday. He is survived by his wife, Marguerite, and by their three children, John, Anna, and Mary.
He was born of English and Syrian parentage in Fresno, California, on June 26, 1917, and spent his boyhood there and in Monterey, where he attended high school. After an initial flirtation with chemistry, he majored in Spanish at Fresno State College, graduating in 1939, and then went to Madison for graduate study in Spanish at the University of Wisconsin, earning the M.A. in 1941 and the Ph.D. in 1946. During the war years he was also for a time trained by the Navy as an interpreter in Japanese.
Chapman's teaching career began with a one-semester appointment as instructor in romance languages at Sophie Newcomb College in 1942, followed by one year at Oberlin College in 1945-46. Berkeley appointed him Instructor in Spanish in 1946; and he remained an active member of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for 41 years, until his retirement in 1987.
During these years his teaching was concentrated in the field of Spanish-American literature, particularly Spanish-American prose. Believing that knowledge and enjoyment of this literature should not be limited to those fluent in Spanish, he pioneered in the teaching of Spanish-American literature in translation. He directed a number of doctoral dissertations and during much of his early time at Berkeley supervised his department's many lower-division language classes, a formidable administrative task.
Chapman was a member of the small group of faculty that established the now large and flourishing Program in Latin American Studies.
Early in the course of his research, Chapman developed an interest in the literatures of Chile and Argentina and particularly in the relations between the literatures of Spanish America and that of the United States. These interests were furthered by a sabbatical spent in South America, principally Chile, in 1955 and developed in a series of articles and two books. Chapman studied Horacio Quiroga, Manuel Galvez, Ricardo Guiraldes, Eduardo Mallea, and Julio Cortizar, and, on the North American side, William Cullen Bryant, Bret Harte, Jack London, Waldo Frank, Sherwood Anderson, and William Faulkner. Each of his articles was the visible tip of an enormous iceberg of research, the results of which were presented economically and elegantly, whether in English or in Spanish. The same is true of the major studies The Spanish American Reception of United States Fiction, 1920-1940 and México y el señor Bryant: un embajador literario en el México liberal. The exhaustive search for evidence, the careful weighing of the fruits of this search, the judicious comment and conclusion, the elimination of all chaff, the avoidance of all jargon--these are the hallmarks of Chapman's writings and the standards which he transmitted to those fortunate enough to submit their work for his criticism.
In addition to being a distinguished scholar and a valuable member of the University community, Chapman was a talented musician, playing the clarinet in several local orchestras and chamber groups. Even when a long respiratory illness, especially cruel for a wind player, had reduced his mobility and affected his breathing, he faithfully attended weekly rehearsals. The scholar in him found a musical outlet in the program notes that he wrote for some of these musical groups, notes that were, of course, based on his usual meticulous research.
Chapman was a quiet and unostentatious man who believed passionately in a few things that he considered essential. One of these was the ethical as well as aesthetic value of humanistic, and specifically
His patience, his wisdom, and his devotion are, and long will be, much missed.
John Milton Chapman, Epidemiology; Preventive Medicine: Los Angeles
| 1914-1995 | |
| Professor of Epidemiology, Emeritus |
John Milton Chapman was an academician committed to public health and the promotion of epidemiology, his field of specialization. He began his career at the New York State Department of Health becoming the District State Health Officer in 1946-47 before moving to Los Angeles to become the medical director and epidemiologist for the Los Angeles City Health Department and Associate Clinical Professor of Infectious Diseases in the UCLA School of Medicine and Lecturer in Public Health in the young UCLA School of Public Health. In 1955 he became Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Professor of Preventive and Social Medicine at the School of Medicine. From 1969-70 Professor Chapman served as the Acting Chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine.
Chapman was one of the founding faculty in the School of Public Health and served as the key faculty member in epidemiology until he was joined by other faculty in 1971. He trained a whole generation of epidemiologists who subsequently became state and city health officers in California and elsewhere in the United States.
With Professor Lenor Goerke, the founding dean of the School of Public Health, Chapman initiated the Los Angeles Heart Study, one of the earliest cohort studies of heart disease in the nation. Over the Years Chapman became recognized as a leading authority in the field of heart disease. He served on the Council on Epidemiology of the American Heart Association and participated in many national and international conferences and workshops on heart disease.
In addition to his important research in heart disease, Chapman retained a lifelong interest in infectious diseases, particularly as they
Chapman believed strongly in the Socratic method of teaching and was particularly effective in working with students on a one-on basis and in small seminars. He was able to guide students to identify the important issues and to focus on appropriate epidemiologic study designs which had a high likelihood of yielding important information.
Long after his retirement Professor Chapman retained an interest in the School of Public Health and the Department of Epidemiology. He regularly attended meetings until shortly before his death and provided advice and guidance for those of us who followed him. We who had the opportunity to work with John will miss his enthusiasm and guidance.
Antonio Cornejo-Polar, Spanish and Portuguese: Berkeley
| 1936-1997 | |
| Professor of Spanish American Literature, Emeritus |
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is deeply saddened by the loss of Antonio Cornejo-Polar, who died following a long illness on May 18, 1997, in Lima, Peru. Cornejo-Polar was born in Arequipa, Peru on December 23, 1936, and received the B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universidad Nacional Mayor in Lima, the oldest university in the New World, established in 1554. He taught at that institution and served as its Rector, a prestigious appointment made by the President of Peru in recognition of Cornejo-Polar's intellectual achievements and diplomatic talents toward resolving conflict in a university environment marked frequently by political tensions. He also taught at the University of Pittsburgh and was visiting professor at several universities in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. He is survived by his wife, Cristina Soto de Cornejo-Polar, four children, and one grandson.
Author of 11 highly-regarded books, numerous articles, critical editions, and collaborative projects, Cornejo-Polar was one of the world's leading authorities on Latin American literature and culture. His earliest scholarship was devoted to colonial Latin American literature and reflected his training in philology He later moved to 19th and 20th century texts with an emphasis on Andean traditions and indigenous literatures. He is perhaps best known for his critical conceptualization of a theory of heterogeneity, which he claimed as the defining mark of Latin American literature and culture. In 1994, he published Escribir en el aire (Writing in Air: Essays on Sociocultural Heterogeneity in Andean Literatures), a study which explores texts from the Spanish American colonial period and emphasizes the encounter of indigenous and Spanish cultures in the New World.
Cornejo-Polar founded, edited, and brought to Berkeley the prestigious Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, now in its 25th year and considered by many scholars to be the leading journal in the field today. The Revista was established upon the need to draw together issues of cultural theory with questions of the relationship between ideology and Latin American literature. Covering a range of topics from fiction and poetry to popular culture, the journal has exercised a wide influence over several generations of critics and creative writers. His wife, Cristina Soto, worked with him on the publication of the journal and also managed Latinoamericana Editores, a successful press that Antonio inaugurated to publish scholarly books on Latin American topics.
Active in numerous international projects and organizations, Cornejo-Polar was a pivotal figure in the critical enterprises of his generation. He coordinated a first meeting of Peruvian novelists in 1965, a now classic encounter which brought to international attention the presence of a new generation of writers who were taking their places alongside established figures in the Peruvian tradition. At the time of the Latin American explosion of urban fiction (the "boom" as it frequently was called), Cornejo reminded his readership of the significance of a regionalist, multilingual legacy of experimental writing. For the dialogue that he established between Latin America and the United States, he introduced a rich variety of ideas in both continents and served as an exemplary 'bridge' figure for nearly three decades. At the time of his death, he was president of the International Association of Iberoamerican Literature, a member of the Real Academia de la Lengua, and a participant on the
Cornejo-Polar was appointed in 1991 to the Berkeley faculty and held the Class of 1941 World War II Memorial Professorship of Spanish American literature. In his five years at Berkeley, he was a transformative presence. He offered courses on a wide range of topics, including colonial Latin American literature, nineteenth-century fiction and essay, contemporary narrative and poetry, and critical theory. Among his many contributions were six international symposia on studies of Latin America, which drew to the campus the most prominent scholars in this field. A final symposium, dedicated to his memory, was held this November on the topic of colonial Latin American studies and featured former students of the department as major participants.
Cornejo-Polar managed to integrate his commitment to teaching and scholarship with exceptional vigor and style. Esteemed for his productivity, he was also admired for his unfailing generosity as a mentor. He was a tireless reader, a dedicated scholar, an energetic and compassionate adviser. Cornejo-Polar was informed by a persistent spirit of intellectual camaraderie. He taught several generations of students of the need for intellectual rigor and perseverance, respect for interdisciplinary practice, and an ethical commitment to the world of ideas. He is remembered fondly by his many friends on campus and by an international community of scholars.
Charles Granville Craddock, Medicine: Los Angeles
| 1921-1996 | |
| Clinical Professor |
Charles Croddock died suddenly at his home in Pacific Palisades, California, on September 9, 1996. He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on March 19, 1921. He married Hilah White of Charlottesville, Virginia on September 9, 1944, and is survived by his wife, four children, and three grandchildren. He received B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Virginia in 1942 and 1944, respectively. Subsequent postgraduate training was received at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, and at the Harvard Medical School. He served his country with distinction on two separate occasions--first as Lieutenant, junior grade U.S. Naval Medical Corps in World War II, and subsequently as Major in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict. In 1952, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCLA and promoted to full professorship in 1960. He served a key role in the activities of the Division of Hematology, the Medical Outpatient Department and the Department of Medicine itself.
Over the span of some 40 years of service to the University of California, Dr. Craddock distinguished himself as an outstanding teacher-clinician and superb scientific investigator. He became particularly interested in the dynamics of white blood cells--including the mechanisms involved with their production, destruction and growth in response to various stimuli. He was among the first to be involved with bone marrow transplantation in humans. He authored some 90 scientific papers, gave numerous lectures here and abroad, and brought honor to the University of California for his numerous civic contributions, including membership on the Los Angeles
Charles Craddock possessed many capabilities apart from medicine. He was a talented artist, skilled writer and a warm and caring human being. All of us who knew him will continue to miss him but know that he will be remembered for his numerous and varied contributions to mankind.
William Garfield Dauben, Chemistry: Berkeley
| 1919-1997 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
William Dauben died in his sleep during the night of January 1, 1997. His death was sudden and unexpected. He was born on November 6, 1919, the youngest of three sons of Hyp J. and Leilah (nee Stump) Dauben, in Columbus, Ohio. His father was an architect and his middle brother, Jack, became a clothing salesman. Bill Dauben followed the footsteps of his older brother, Hyp J. Dauben Jr. who became a chemist and was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington until his death some years ago. Bill Dauben graduated from Upper Arlington High School in Columbus and did his undergraduate work at Ohio State University where he received the A.B. degree in 1941. He then went to Harvard where he received the M.A. degree in 1942 and the Ph.D. in 1944. His dissertation work was under the direction of Professor Louis E. Fieser on the synthesis of new antimalarial drugs. In 1942-45, he had an appointment as Special Assistant to Fieser. At Harvard, he synthesized a naphthoquinone derivative known as M-1916 which for a time showed promise as an antimalarial drug and was tested in humans.
In 1945, Dauben came to the University of California, Berkeley, as an Instructor. He and James Cason, who arrived at the same time, were the first appointments in a planned post-war expansion of organic chemistry at Berkeley. They initiated new courses and planned the further expansion that included the appointment of Henry Rapoport the following year and Donald Noyce three years later. Dauben was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1947, Associate Professor in 1952 and Professor in 1957. During his long career at Berkeley he helped to train many undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students; 101 students received their Ph.D. degrees under
In Berkeley, Dauben started an active research program in several areas. His studies on the photochemistry of Vitamin D initiated an extensive program in organic photochemistry. He was at the forefront of the surge of activity in this area in the 1960s and 1970s. His work included photochemical studies of dimes and trienes and contributed to the synthesis of strained compounds such as transryclohexene and small-ring systems. His work was especially important in establishing the role of the triplet state in the photochemistry of dimes and trienes. The resulting synthetic routes to cyclobutenes led to further studies on the stereochemistry of thermal ringopening of these compounds. His work included the discovery of the photoisomerization of the pyro- and isopyrocalciferols and the first example of the stereospecific transformation of 1,3-cyclohexadienes to bicyclo [ 2.2.0] hexenes. He showed the formation of the highly strained quadricyclane from bicycloheptadiene. This general work on the stereospecificity of polyene photoreactions was an important contribution to the experimental basis for the Woodward-Hoffmann rules for photochemical electrocyclic processes. Dauben called specific attention to the role of ground-state conformational control in organic photochemistry. This was a highly controversial concept when first proposed but it is now the basis for understanding many photochemical mechanisms.
His studies of solvent effects in polyene photochemistry led to polar mechanisms that formed an important part of the developing concept of "sudden-polarization". His interest in Vitamin D lasted his entire life. His most recent studies in this area made use of tunable dye lasers and produced a detailed understanding of the effect of wavelength on the photochemical transformations of this vitamin.
In his early work in Berkeley, Dauben was one of the pioneers in the use of 14C as a tracer for establishing the course of reactions. He used this method in determining the mechanisms of several rearrangements. His studies on the degradation of 14C-labeled cholesterol were important in establishing the mechanism of biosynthesis of this compound.
In Berkeley, Dauben also initiated a program of wide scope in natural products chemistry, particularly in terpenes. Among his first such studies was the development of the structure, chemistry and synthesis of the first reported 1,6,8-eudesmane sesquiterpene, y-santonin,
In 1962, Dauben reported the structure of the diterpene cembrene, the first naturally occurring 14-membered ring compound, and in 1974, he reported its first synthesis. This nucleus is now known to be the most widely distributed diterpene nucleus in nature and is found in plants and trees, soft coral and insects. Many derivatives possess interesting biological properties such as antileucemic activity, defense mechanisms in insects, and plant growth regulation. Dauben's total syntheses of natural products also include all of the naturally occurring spirovetivanes--a- and b-vetispirenes, b-vetivone, and hinesol--as well as the important steroidal antibiotic, fusidic acid.
A further general research area was the development of new synthetic methods. As examples, he developed synthetic processes for the stereospecific synthesis of cyclopropanols and their utilization in the preparation of b-substituted lactones. He showed that the intramolecular Wittig reaction is an efficient process for the preparation of cyclic olefins. He developed one of the most useful methods for the attachment of the sidechain to a steroidal nucleus. One of his recent special interests was the use of super high pressure in synthetic organic chemistry. This method has since been widely used by others. Dauben showed that the method is useful in reactions that are sterically hindered or sensitive to acid- and base-catalysis. Such reactions include a variety of cycloadditions, 1,4-conjugate additions, ketalizations, etherification and esterification, phosphonium salt formation, and the Wittig reaction itself. He was especially proud of the efficient synthesis by this method of cantharidin, a compound considered to be a potent aphrodisiac.
Dauben received a large number of awards for his research discoveries and service to his profession. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1951 and in 1966. He was the recipient of the California Section award of the American Chemical Society in 1959, the American Chemical Society Ernest Guenther award in the Chemistry of Essential Oils and Related Products in 1973, and a Cope Scholar Award in 1992. In 1970, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1975, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received a Senior Scientist award of the
Dauben served the University and his profession in many ways. He served on NIH study sections and on the chemistry panel of NSF. He served on the editorial board of the Journal of Organic Chemistry, as Chair of the Organic Division of the ACS, and as Chair of the publications Committee of the ACS. For many years he served on the Board of Directors and as Editor-in-Chief of Organic Syntheses and as President of the Board of Directors and Editor-in-Chief of Organic Reactions. He served on several committees of the National Academy of Science and in 1977-80 was Chair of the Chemistry Section.
Internationally, he served on several committees of IUPAC and for many years was Advisor to Solar Energy Research, CNRS, France. He was also a member of the U.S. Committee on Science Education for Sri Lanka. In 1987, he was made an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society Japan.
In his 51-year career at UCB he served the campus on many Academic Senate, administrative and college and departmental committees. His university service includes a term as Chair of the Academic Senate Committee on Academic Planning and of the Committee on Athletic Policy. He was a member of the Committee on Research and of the Statewide Committee on Research. He served on the Graduate Council, the Representative Assembly and the Admissions and Enrollment Committee. His service on administrative committees includes many years on committees dealing with radiation safety, environmental health and on hazardous materials and waste management. He served for a number of years as a member of the Campus Discipline Committee and on the Committee for Building and Campus Development. The latter service includes his work on the Chemistry Unit 1 building that is now Latimer Hall. Within the College of Chemistry, Dauben also served on numerous committees such as the Department Planning Committee and the Equipment Committee, The College Space Committee, Finance Committee and the committee dealing with the business office.
Not long after he arrived in Berkeley Bill Dauben met Carol Hyatt who was then a graduate student in physics. They married in 1947. The Daubens enjoyed traveling and through Bill's sabbatical leaves
Dauben took a phased retirement and became Emeritus in 1990. He stayed active in research and at the time of his death still had research grants and post-doctoral co-workers. He will be remembered fondly by his colleagues and his many students. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Barbara Baumer and Ann Klaus.
Sean S. Duffey, Entomology: Davis
| 1943-1997 | |
| Professor |
Sean Duffey died suddenly in Davis, California, on May 21, 1997, from an embolism precipitated by unsuspected, aggressive, and difficult to diagnose lung cancer. To the last he was unaware that he was ill and was vigorous and active up to the moment of his death. Sean is survived by his wife, Anne; his sons, Brendan and Seth, of Davis; and his parents, Betty and Laurance Duffey of Calgary, Alberta. He was born November 28, 1943, in Toronto and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in zoology and his Ph.D. in botany from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, the latter in 1974. Following receipt of his doctorate, he spent two years on a NATO/National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Georgia. He joined the faculty of the Entomology Department at the University of California, Davis, in 1976.
Sean's research program focused on chemical ecology and his efforts ranged widely over the interactions involving chemicals, plants, and insects. His first studies were of the cardiac glycosides produced by milkweeds (Asclepiadaceae) and their sequestration by the insects that fed on them. His primary efforts concentrated on the milkweed bugs, Oncopeltus fasciatus and Lygaeus kalmii, but he also worked with monarch butterflies and milkweed beetles. Among his important discoveries was the fact that a biophysical system was operating in the sequestering of cardiac glycosides. While continuing his research on cardiac glycosides, Sean began an analysis of the remarkable cyanogenic defensive secretions of Polydesmid milli'es. There followed several papers on the biochemistry of HCN production and the production of other defensive compounds in these interesting animals. After arriving at UC Davis, Sean began a
A constant theme and frequently emphasized message in Sean's work was the fact that chemical-biological interactions were rarely simple and straightforward. He stressed that in order to understand plant-insect interactions, for example, it was necessary to understand the interactions among plant chemicals, the overall characteristics of the insect's diet, the physiological state of the insect, and the modifiable characteristics of plant and insect. Chemical and biological context and chemical mixture were seen as critical determinants of biological activity; a simple view that natural products functioned merely as "toxins" or isolated defensive factors was often misleading. His was truly interdisciplinary research that included several joint projects with members of the Entomology Department and also with colleagues in the departments of Nematology Ecology and Plant Pathology. We all experienced Sean insisting over and over that interactions are not simple and that one must understand the chemistry, the physiology, and the ecology to really understand interactions between plants, insects, and their pathogens. Sean's legacy is an outstanding record of how to go about studying plant-insect interactions, not just the gathering of data on interactions that occur.
Teaching was always a priority and a passion for Sean, and he was the antithesis of the much caricatured professor ensconced in an Ivory Tower interested only in research. He taught in some 20 different courses ranging from general education courses aimed at introducing students in the arts and humanities to the wonders of insects to advanced courses for the most sophisticated of graduate students. In these latter courses, the length and breadth of the reading lists were legendary and reflected Sean's incredible range of interest and understanding of insect-plant interactions from the ecology of the insects to the arcana of the most subtle of chemical and physiological reactions. His courses were characterized by constant prodding from Sean to get students to think, to question, and to analyze. He was fiercely analytical himself, and he cajoled, coaxed, and occasionally
Sean was always extremely popular with students and his passion for good mentoring matched that for his teaching. He served as Master Graduate Advisor for the Department and chaired its Graduate Policy Committee. His lab was a busy place with undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs from both his and other laboratories carrying out projects. Always approachable, Sean not only advised and directed his own students, but was inspiration and help to several others from fields as diverse as Toxicology and Anthropology.
Sean's professional activities included membership in several societies and positions on the Editorial Boards of leading journals in his field such as the Journal of Chemical Ecology and Physiological Entomology. He was active in disseminating his research, presenting important invited papers at the International Congresses of Entomology and the Gordon Conferences. He also enthusiastically encouraged his students to present their work, and the later successful careers of many of them reflect this early encouragement. Sean was also fully committed to participating in the governance of the University and chaired or served on many important committees in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and in the Academic Senate. He was Vice Chairperson of the Department of Entomology at the time of his death and was the Acting Chairperson in 1994-95. Sean recognized that a Department and a University were not simply the sum of faculty, grants, papers, committees, and courses. Rather he knew that they must be, in the largest sense, an integration of everyone from the lowliest of beginning students, to office staffs, to graduates, to postdocs, to technicians, and to faculty He saw us as part of a larger community, and his words and deeds affirmed this. It would be hard to imagine anyone more committed to his science, to his teaching, to his department, and to his university. It is one of the wonders of Sean's life that he was equally committed to family and friends.
Never one to let grass grow, Sean actively pursued outside interests in his "spare time." He was a dedicated runner, putting in several miles most noontimes. He had an intense interest in good music, and the strains of Bach, Mozart and other masters nearly always emanated from his office. He read widely, often startling colleagues with his depth of understanding of seemingly arcane subjects. When his sons started playing soccer, he immersed himself enthusiastically
Sean will be intensely missed by those of us who were his colleagues. His maturity, wisdom, and intense loyalty will be hard to replace, but his laughter and personal warmth have left a glow. He touched lives in many ways from his flourishing bow as he ushered a member of the office staff through a door to his cheerful greetings in the morning and hearty wave when he left for home. He made our Department a better place; he made UCD a better campus; he made Davis a better community. And he also made many of us better persons.
There will be two memorials to Sean in the department that will go some small way toward expressing our regard for him. The first is a Graduate Fellowship in Chemical Ecology bearing his name, and the second is a sculpture by local artist Donna Billick to be placed at the entrance to the department.
Finally, Sean's multiple accomplishments and flair for life are perhaps best described in lines from a poem in his memory written by a French postdoctoral:
| Tu etais un chevalier de la Science | |
| Au coeur de troubadour |
J. Wyatt Durham, Paleontology: Berkeley
| 1907-1996 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Wyatt Durham, a giant in the field of paleontology, died of heart failure at his home in Kensington on May 15, 1996, in his 89th year. Wyatt was born in a log cabin in eastern Washington on August 27, 1907, and grew up with a keen interest in all aspects of natural history. His interest in paleontology was stimulated by Charles Edwin Weaver at the University of Washington, where he received the B.S. in 1933. Weaver sent him to study with Bruce Clark at UC Berkeley, where he received the M.S. in 1936. After three years employment in Java and Sumatra in petroleum exploration, he returned to Berkeley to complete the Ph.D. in 1941. He married Jane Roberts in 1936, with whom he had a son, John Wyatt Durham. Following their divorce in 1971, he married jean Brower Firby, who survives him.
Before returning to Berkeley as Associate Professor in 1947, Durham spent four years in Colombia as Chief Paleontologist for Tropical Oil Company and two years as Associate Professor at the California Institute of Technology. During his early years on the Berkeley faculty he became known for his seminal systematic studies of West Coast tertiary faunas. He was always a paleontological activist and visionary, setting new trends rather than following those set by others. He became well-known in his later years for his research on late Precambrian and early Paleozoic enigmatic fossils. A paper that he published in his 76th year, analyzing one of these bizarre early evolutionary experiments, captured the Journal of Paleontology's best paper of the year award.
Both at Berkeley and in national and international paleontological circles, Durham was known for his encyclopedic knowledge. He mentored an impressive group of more than 80 graduate students, at least 50 of whom went on to visible careers in academia, industry,
Durham served Berkeley and his profession in a number of significant roles. He was Chairman of the Department of Paleontology from 1956 to 1957, and throughout his faculty career he served as curator of fossil invertebrates in the Museum of Paleontology. He served as president of the Paleontological Society in 1975-76 and from 1972-1976 as the senior co-editor of the Journal of Paleontology. He was active in the affairs of the California Academy of Sciences, including service as a trustee from 1959-1970 and as president from 1966-1968. In recognition of his leadership and contribution to the field, he was awarded the Paleontological Society Medal in 1988.
Durham is remembered by his students as a paleontological optimist. For generations, paleontologists have agonized over the incompleteness and inadequacy of the fossil record. Wyatt didn't see it that way. He championed the information content of even the most scrappy fossil. He frequently returned from field trips laden with slabs of rock with neat circles drawn around things that no one else would have noticed. He loved to drag faculty and students into his office to view and debate his "enigmata." Many of these turned out to be extinct organisms new to science or, more fascinatingly, trails or borings attesting to the behavior of ancient animals that left no other remains. His presidential address to the Paleontological Society on The Incompleteness of our Knowledge of the Fossil Record is not only an positive affirmation of what the record has to offer, but also an affirmation of rich opportunities for enterprising young paleontologists.
A Scotsman by ancestry, Wyatt is remembered by many for his fondness for the sound of bagpipes. He had a great love of rare books, which eventually led him to pursue conservation and the art of bookbinding. He was a keen orchid enthusiast, cultivating a wide variety of rare orchids under carefully regulated climatic conditions in his home greenhouses.
Wyatt was a stickler for perfection. He could be a harsh taskmaster, but his students valued him for his perceptive criticism, his fairmindedness, and his steadfast friendship. He was not afraid to call a fool a fool, and he had no fear of making enemies in upholding his personal standards of intellectual honesty and professional ethics. His wrath was justly feared. At the same time, he was vauled as a mediator in controversial situations. He is remembered by his closest friends on campus and in the profession as a man of extraordinary tolerance where tolerance counts most.
Katherine Esau, Biological Sciences: Santa Barbara
| 1898-1996 | |
| Professor of Botany, Emerita |
Dedicated to the brilliant scholar Professor Emeritus Katherine Esau. An illuminating teacher, classic textbook author and historical monographer; a critical researcher and lucid explicator on plant viruses, developmental and pathologic plant anatomy, and on ultrastructure of phloem, for whom these facilities were designed when she came to this campus from UC Davis in 1963.
This dedication, written by her close colleague and friend, Vernon I. Cheadle, appears on the plaque designated the research building that served as the laboratory and electron microscope facility of Dr. Katherine Esau on the UCSB campus.
Esau was born on April 3, 1898, in the city of Yekaterinoslav, now called Dnepropetrovsk, in the Ukraine. She lived there until the end of 1918, when she and her family fled to Germany during the Bolshevik Revolution, by which time Katherine had just completed her first year of study at the Golitsin Women's Agricultural College in Moscow.
Upon arriving in Germany, she enrolled in the Agricultural College of Berlin. She spent three years at the college and developed a close acquaintance with Professor Erwin Baur, a geneticist who became famous for his studies in plant breeding. The Esaus left Germany for the United States in 1922. They initially settled in Reedly California, a strong Mennonite community.
In 1923, Esau took a job with the Sloan Seed Company in Oxnard, California. One year later she was hired at the Spreckels Sugar Company in Salinas, California, to develop a sugarbeet resistant to
Esau graduated from Berkeley in 1932 and continued her employment at UC-Davis as Instructor and Junior Botanist. Throughout her career, she studied phloem, the food conducting tissue in plants, both in relation to the effects of the phloem-limited viruses upon plant structure and development and to the unique structure of the sieve tubes, or food conducting cells. Esau had an exceptional ability for attacking basic problems, and she set new standards of excellence for the investigation of anatomical problems in the plant sciences.
During her tenure at UC-Davis, Esau received many honors and distinctions, including a Certificate of Merit on the Golden Jubilee Anniversary of the Botanical Society of America in 1956, election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1957, and an honorary degree from Mills College, Oakland in 1962. She also served as the President of the Botanical Society of American in 1951.
In 1963, Esau decided to move to Santa Barbara to continue her collaboration with Dr. Vernon I. Cheadle, who had been appointed Chancellor of the UCSB campus. The two had been research colleagues at UC Davis for 10 years, studying the comparative structure of the food conducting tissue in higher plants.
Esau considered her years in Santa Barbara to be her most productive and fulfilling. She had been introduced to electron microscopy just before leaving Davis, and she was interested in applying this new tool to her anatomical research. An electron microscope, the first on the Santa Barbara campus, was purchased and installed soon after her arrival. Although Esau retired in 1965, she remained actively engaged in research for 24 more years.
In 1989, Esau was awarded the President's National Medal of Sciences by George Bush. The citation accompanying the medal reads: "In recognition of her pioneering research, both basic and applied, on plant structure and development, which has spanned more than six decades; for her superlative performance as an educator, in the classroom and through her books; for the encouragement and inspiration she has given to a legion of young, aspiring plant biologists; and for providing a special role for women in science."
Esau was especially well known for her beautifully written and comprehensive textbooks. Her first book on plant anatomy for John Wiley and Sons was begun in the late 1940s. The book, Plant Anatomy, was published in 1953, and it became a classic almost immediately. The book was and still is fondly called the "bible" for structural botanists. Esau's developmental approach and thorough presentation of the structure and development of a wide variety of economically important plants resulted in a book that revitalized plant anatomy throughout the world. In 1961, Anatomy of Seed Plants, was published for less comprehensive courses. Through these books, Esau provided a standardized and unified terminology and usage of vocabulary for plant anatomy. Between 1965 and 1977, Esau revised her Plant Anatomy book and Anatomy of Seed Plants, and wrote 3 additional books: Vascular Differentiation in Plants, Viruses in Plant Hosts: Form, Distribution and Pathological Effects, and The Phloem. In The Phloem, she reviewed the structure and development of the phloem, beginning with the earliest records of the tissue. It is an excellent example of one of her greatest contributions.
Esau was a superb teacher, serving as major professor for 15 doctoral students. She gave freely of her time and was always available to provide advice, encouragement and praise. I was fortunate to be Dr. Esau's last graduate student, joining her laboratory in 1979 when she was 81 years old. Our relationship as mentor and student transformed to colleague and friend and ultimately my role became one of providing care and assistance during the last several years of her life.
Robert Paul Falk, English: Los Angeles
| 1914-1996 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Robert Falk was born February 28, 1914, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died, somewhat ironically, on his birthday February 28, 1996, in Laguna Hills, California.
After receiving the B.A. degree from Williams College and the Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Bob served for two years in World War II as a Japanese-language officer, rising to the rank of First Lt., Jr. Grade. In 1949 he joined the English Department at UCLA and proved to be a very active, responsible member of the University's faculty. He taught a wide range of courses, both graduate and undergraduate; served on a number of Departmental and Academic Senate Committees, including those on University Personnel and Graduate Affairs; participated in professional associations, such as the Modern Language Association, where he served on the Nominating Committee and Chairman of the American Literature Group; lectured as a Fulbright Professor at universities in Denmark, Poland, Germany Italy and Japan; and was elected Dean of the Conference on American Literature, held at Kiyoto University in 1966. During the 1970s, Bob arranged for the Falk Corporation, his family's business enterprise based in Milwaukee, to provide graduate students from Poland with funding for a year's study of American Literature at UCLA.
Over the years Bob became well known as an authority on parody and Colonial and Nineteenth-century American Literature. He published a number of essays on major writers--Thomas Paine, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman--in eminent journals, such as PMLA, Modern Language Notes, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction; edited a book, American Literature in Parody, which was favorably reviewed
But perhaps Bob's most impressive work of scholarship is his book, The Victorian Mode in American Fiction, 1865-1885, which addresses an important critical subject: the nature of the "gilded age," or "genteel tradition" in American literature. This seminal study shifts the emphasis of such earlier distinguished critics as Van Wyck Brooks and V. S. Parrington from a social to a literary basis, interpreting the age as one of realism and reading the work of its major writers, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and especially Henry James, whose novels were a central focus for his thinking about fiction as realistic literature. As his analyses demonstrated, these writers conceptualized characters in individual and psychological terms, moving American Literature away from the mythic romances of Hawthorne, Mellville, and Poe. The power of Bob's readings results from their subtlety and his own ability to identify with characters who define themselves in terms of a world of manner, yet preserve their sense of individual identity. These perceptive interpretations provide ample testimony to the way in which his innate sensibilities enabled him to gain original insight into, and shed new light upon, fiction that delineated a social community within which he himself felt so comfortably at home.
In his lighter, more social moments, Bob helped found "UCLP," whose "campus" was a ramshackle cabin thrown together by UCLA professors on Lone Pine Crick, at the foot of Mt. Whitney. Here he and Jane, his wife since graduate school days, joined other members of the English Department family Blake Nevius, Will and Lois Matthews, Leon and Henrietta Howard, Phil and Jean Durham, Jimmy and Geneva Phillips, for convivial gatherings in the spring, fall, and even dead of winter, and for occasional mild mountain climbing. Then, after retiring from the University in 1974, with Jane he traveled widely in Europe and the Orient, indulging his fondness for gold, ballroom dancing, and for netsukes. These little carved Japanese figures, many of jade or other semi-precious stones, were a special interest of his, and on frequent trips to Japan he amassed an extensive, valuable collection of them before his death.
In sum, Robert Falk was a man of many, varied accomplishments and talents, quiet, unassuming, with an inbred sense of courtesy
Clarence Fielstra, Education: Los Angeles
| 1912-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Clarence Fielstra served the UCLA Graduate School of Education for over three decades. A Midwesterner, Professor Fielstra was a teacher and superintendent of schools in Freeport, Michigan. Subsequently, as a graduate student at the University of Michigan, where he earned his doctorate, he was a critic teacher at the University High School.
Following completion of his Ph.D. in 1942, he served as the director/supervisor of the student teacher program at Stanford University for two years. After several years of professional service as Director of Curriculum, San Diego County Schools, he was brought to UCLA in 1947 during Dean Edwin Lee's administration. Clarence was initially appointed as Associate Professor of Education and Head of Education Extension. In two years he was named Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Education, and in 1951, was named Acting Dean of the School. By that time, the school enrolled over 2,000 students, accounting for about 25 percent of the university's graduate school population.
During the early decades of the University, Clarence was instrumental in building and molding the school's Educational Administration and Supervision unit as well as the rapidly growing Education Extension Division, and with Dean Lee and later Dean Howard Wilson, planning the direction of the Graduate School itself.
Clarence was also prominent in the school's emerging role in international education. In the mid-1960s, he was chief of the UCLA party for the Federal Advanced Teacher's College in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, leading the development of a professional teacher education program. Under his supervision, about 13 UCLA faculty
For many years, Clarence was a popular lecturer and seminar leader in educational administration and supervision. As a specialist in curriculum development and inservice education, he offered a rare combination of theory and practice. His courtly demeanor and friendly countenance were treasured characteristics.
Faculty gatherings through the years, at the beautiful Fielstra home on Sunset Boulevard were memorable events.
John G. Fleming, Law: Berkeley
| 1919-1997 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
The international legal community has lost one of its most distinguished members. John Gunther Fleming, the Cecil Shannon Turner Professor of Law, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall) died on September 22, 1997 at the age of 78 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease).
Fleming was best known for his path-breaking treatise The Law of Torts. Ever since its first appearance in 1957, generations of law students, professors and judges throughout the Anglo-American legal system have depended upon Fleming's work as a guide to the traditions, subtleties, and modernization of the law of personal injury. Just weeks before his death, Fleming completed the book's 9th edition. Unlike any other volume on the subject, The Law of Torts weaves together the analysis of legal developments in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States. This comparative law approach reflects Fleming's long and celebrated academic career on three continents. Recently, in the House of Lords, Lord Cooke termed Fleming "the doyen of living torts writers."
Born in Berlin on July 6, 1919, Fleming was sent to England by his family in 1935 and obtained his secondary school training at the Brentwood School in Essex. From there he went on to receive a B.A. in jurisprudence from Brasenose College, Oxford University, in 1941. During World War II, Fleming performed distinguished military service in the British Royal Tank Corps in North Africa and Italy from 1941 until 1945. Moving to London after the war, he married, was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and began his academic career as a Law Lecturer at Kings College, University of London. In 1948 he received the Ph.D. from Oxford, and in 1959, Oxford awarded him the D.C.L.
In 1949, Fleming emigrated with his young family to Canberra, Australia, for a position at Canberra University College. He flourished in this, his third home country, and in 1956 he became the founding father and Dean of the Law School at the Australian National University. There he published the first edition of The Law of Torts, which promptly won him international acclaim. Justice Allen M. Linden, of the Federal Court of Canada and a former student of Fleming's, has said that Fleming's book "has been the bible for Canadian law students and judges for more than 40 years." In 1985 Fleming received an honorary doctorate in law from Canada's York University.
After living some ten years in Australia, Fleming was wooed away to America. Following a year's visiting professorship at the University of California at Berkeley, a permanent position was extended that Fleming tried to accept. But diplomatic complications forced him to return to Australia for two years before he was eventually able to resettle in California.
According to news accounts at the time, the U.S. State Department initially denied Fleming the necessary visa on the ground that American raiding of top Australian educators might damage U.S.-Australian relations. When University of California President Robert Gordon Sproul's protests went unheeded, Fleming, his wife and four children shipped out. Berkeley did not give up, however, and by 1960 the brouhaha subsided, allowing Fleming to join the Boalt Hall law faculty where he remained until his death.
During his years at Berkeley Fleming was several times recognized with honors by the country where he obtained his legal education. Brasenose College made him an honorary fellow in 1980, in 1987-88 he served as the Goodhart Professor of Law at Cambridge University, and in 1996 he was made a Corresponding Fellow in the British Academy.
Between 1972 and 1987 Fleming was editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law, solidifying that journal's reputation as the leading publication in the field. He served as president of the International Association of Legal Science and the American Association of Comparative Law, and as a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, the Society of Public Teachers of Law (U.K.), the American Law Institute, and the American Academy of Foreign Law.
Although his scholarly and teaching base remained at Berkeley until the end of his life, Fleming's international reputation led to
Besides his major opus, Fleming published two other books The American Tort Process (1988) and Introduction to the Law of Torts (1967)--as well as more than a hundred articles and reviews in academic journals around the world.
Fleming's persistent attention to the ways that other nations solve their legal problems has left a lasting mark on today's academics and lawyers in the United States, in the European Union, and in the Commonwealth Nations, where we now see a broad willingness to look outward to find new legal arrangements to fit today's global economy.
Although in most respects a model of the academic man, Fleming sometimes ventured into the political aspects of his field. For example, one year many colleagues were surprised to see his name appear on the California ballot pamphlet in support of a voter initiative intended to curb legal fees in personal injury cases.
An enthusiastic sailor, Fleming was a member of the Richmond (California) Yacht Club. He was a voracious reader and a collector of 19th-century French paperweights and other glass. He is survived by Valerie, his wife of 51 years, his four children and five grandchildren. He left a legion of admirers in countries around the world.
J. Bruce Glassburner, Economics: Davis
| 1920-1997 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Professor Bruce Glassburner was born on December 4, 1920, in the state of Iowa where he grew up, finished high school (1938) and earned a B.A. (1943). He then served in the army as a pilot in the heavy artillery brigade, from 1943 to 1946, during which time he took part in combat in Germany. He ended his service as captain in the reserves. Following his discharge he returned to Iowa State University to teach economics while completing a master's degree in economics (1949). He then moved to California for a doctorate in economics from Berkeley.
Professor Glassburner had a broad general education and a great interest in extracurricular activities, including sports, music, and civic affairs. He also represented the highest standards of a family person and a university and public citizen. Talking with any of his four children will tell the story of an appreciated and loved father. Listening to Ellie Glassburner one will hear the story of a great husband, companion, and friend. He once told a colleague that when out of town, he wrote a note to his wife every single day By the same token, Ellie Glassburner has, through 55 years of married life, been a major supporter, advisor, and facilitator for her husband in his professional and social endeavors. They worked closely and together they represented a fine model of a happy, achieving, and well-contented family.
From his early years Bruce Glassburner played his bass fiddle and tuba, alternating between popular, dance, and classical music. He sang with various choirs and in light opera, and for a certain period of time he earned an income by playing professionally with a band. Sports activities were another of his extra curricular passions, which
Glassburner initially specialized in the history of economic thought and international trade. While he continued to teach these topics his major teaching and research field was international economic development. In the international arena he served as a member and then chair of a consortium of economists on a mission to establish an economic department at the University of Indonesia. His early experiences in Indonesia have been credited with the honor of promoting a group of Indonesian scholars that have been called the Berkeley Mafia--an important cadre of Indonesian economists graduated from Berkeley who eventually became major players in economic policy-making. He also directed the Education Abroad Program of the University of California in Hong Kong, as well as the University's agricultural project in Egypt. His international missions took him to Pakistan, Austria, Malaysia, Jordan, and China. But his most important and sustained international activities were centered around Indonesia. There he was a teacher, researcher, advisor, program builder, and friend of Indonesian students and scholars. He and Ellie studied Indonesian together and he became proficient enough to write and publish professional papers and books in that language. As consultant he worked with AID, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, and Stanford and Harvard University groups. Probably his greatest contribution came as a leading team player, trouble
Glassburner was a mainstream economist. He believed in free enterprise, competition, and efficiency of the market mechanism. It was his self-designated mission to advise against trade regulations and government intervention in development. On the contrary he would encourage private enterprise, competition, and minimum government intervention. That, however, was not easy since many of his assignments abroad had to be in collaboration with the respective government. Even the universities he visited abroad were often public universities in which politics played an important role. Nevertheless, he always managed to bring his message to the policy makers and gain their respect, though not always their approval. As always in such situations, one is bound to face contradictions. Glassburner was sensitive to minority issues. While he condemned anti-Semitism and discrimination, he criticized affirmative action programs as inconsistent with the market system, long before it became fashionable to do so. Yet, he was candid enough to admit that affirmative action did bring about benefits to the excluded minorities which otherwise might not have been realized.
Professor Glassburner has been and will be missed by the University and town community as a good citizen, a humanist, an accomplished scholar, a successful teacher, and a perfect colleague and team player.
Kenneth Sverre Hagen, Entomological Sciences: Berkeley
| 1919-1997 | |
| Professor of Entomology, Emeritus |
Kenneth Sverre Hagen, worldwide recognized as authority in the fields of Biological Control and Entomology, died suddenly of a ruptured aortic aneurism on the 10th of January, 1997, while driving home from his laboratory at the Gill Tract, Albany He is survived by his wife, Maxine, son Kent, and brother Paul.
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Hagen was born in Oakland on November 26, 1919. He attended local primary and secondary schools, graduating from Fremont High School in Oakland. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, obtaining a B.S. in 1943. His higher education was interrupted by World War II. However, after completing his tour of duty he returned to the University of California at Berkeley where he earned the degrees of M.S. in 1948 and Ph.D. in 1952.
As a young Naval Officer from 1943 until the end of war, he saw major action in the European and Pacific theaters. He commanded landing craft under fierce enemy fire to beach heads at Normandy and Okinawa. His interest in the subject of his long-lasting scientific career--the insects--began early, when as a child he collected, prepared, and identified insects from various localities throughout the Bay Area.
Hagen began his long university career at Berkeley in 1947 as a technician in the Division of Biological Control while earning his advanced degrees. It was during this period that he was introduced to the power of insects and other organisms in regulating the populations of other organisms (i.e., biological control) under the leadership of Harry Scott Smith, who had an important influence in shaping his research career. Upon completing his Ph.D., Hagen was appointed
Hagen's research career covered some 50 years of service with the University of California. Although he retired in 1990, he continued full-time research and teaching at his laboratory, thus significantly contributing to the prestige of the University and the field of biological control until the day of his death.
Hagen's accomplishments in research were widely recognized and respected internationally. He was a world authority in several areas of entomology and biological control. Perhaps his favorite one was the behavior and biology of ladybird beetles (Coccinellidae). His outstanding work, revealing the complex migratory behavior of the convergent ladybird beetle between its overwintering sites in the Sierra Nevada and its feeding and breeding areas in the great Central Valley, stands as a testimony to his knowledge of insect ecology and his skills as a researcher. His research on this important predator of plant aphids led to a beautifully illustrated article in the National Geographic (1970) entitled, "The High Flying Ladybug". His important role and leadership in the area of biological control was further recognized at the 1989 National Meetings of the Entomological Society of America where a symposium entitled "Native and Introduced Predaceous Coccinellidae: A Tribute to Kenneth S. Hagen for His Contributions to Coccinellid Biology" was presented.
Hagen's life-long love of insects and deep interest in biological control were apparent in many other accomplishments. He was the leader in projects that resulted in the successful introduction of 25 species of natural enemies that controlled some 17 economically important pest species. In addition, his research in insect nutrition, leading to the mass culture of ladybird beetles, green lacewings, as well as several other predaceous and host insects, was a critical foundation for what is known today in field of insect nutrition. Other areas of research include his pioneering role in developing the strategy of integrated pest management, the biology (nutrition) of fruit flies, and the biosystematics of several beetle families. He was an author on more than 160 publications and received many honors and awards from local, national, and international societies and governments. At the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America he will receive posthumously the society's highest award, Fellow of the Entomological Society of America.
He was also an outstanding teacher, with a particular love for the history of entomology; a course on this subject was one of the several he taught for many years at Berkeley. As an avid collector of scientific literature, he amassed an excellent library which, typical of his generosity, was available for all to share. Whenever he was at his office/lab he was available to colleagues, students, or any interested passersby. The word was that if you needed information on something about insect biology, ecology, nutrition, identification, or any other entomological subject, it would be to your advantage to contact him first. If he did not have the answer to your query at his fingertips, which was frequently the case, he would find it for you, or he would point you in the right direction. He was a gifted teacher who was just as much at home with a group of kindergartners, explaining the integration of insect life in a garden as he was with visiting scientific delegations expressing his views on insect ecology.
Kenneth S. Hagen was a remarkably good person; one we could call an "entomologist's entomologist." His death leaves a huge vacuum among the biological control scientists and practitioners, as well as in the lives of the many who had the privilege of knowing him.
Francis R. Halpern, Physics: San Diego
| 1929-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Francis R. Halpern was born on March 5, 1929, in New York City, where he graduated from the Bronx School of Science in 1945. He received an A.B. degree from Cornell in 1948 and an M.S. from the University of Chicago in 1949, both in mathematics. After serving in the Army for two years he resumed his education at the University of California Berkeley, where he studied physics and received a Ph.D. in 1957. After postdoctoral work at Princeton and a Fulbright Fellowship in Naples he became a faculty member at the University of California San Diego in 1961.
Frank's early and continuing interest in mathematics is evident in his research career in theoretical physics. Although he had a lively interest in experimental discoveries, even working occasionally with experimenters on analysis of their data, his work centered on formal studies in quantum field theory it is impossible to characterize his work by relating it to contemporaneous trends or fashions in theoretical physics, because Frank never followed the fashions. He seemed unconcerned that he was pursuing directions of research being pursued by few, if any, others; he set his own course, and was unconcerned whether or not those around him followed.
Frank was a well-liked and conscientious colleague, a good citizen of the Physics Department, of the campus community, and of the broader community as well. He was active in the Academic Senate, chairing the Committee on Educational Policy and serving on numerous other committees. His strong social conscience led him to be an early and active member of the anti-Vietnam war movement, running for Congress as a candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party in 1968. On the campus he was known as a very responsible
In 1983 Frank took a leave of absence, and in 1985 he retired as Professor of Physics at UCSD. He accepted a position with the European division of the University of Maryland to teach a range of courses in physical sciences and mathematics at military bases throughout Europe and the Middle East, and found this to be a stimulating and rewarding experience. After a few years he and his wife Geraldine settled in Santa Rosa, where he continued to teach occasionally at Sonoma State College and to pursue physics research.
John Halverson, Literature; Linguistics: Santa Cruz
| 1928-1997 | |
| Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus |
Born on November 16, 1928 and raised in Iowa, John Halverson died of liver cancer in his Santa Cruz home on March 28, 1997. A few days before his death he decided to write his own obituary for the local newspaper ("people don't know how to write obituaries any more," he told me) and to send a farewell "note" to his friends with the title "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning," an injunction which has yet to be heeded by them. The quoted words below are taken from either text.
John always felt that he had been "lucky in many respects, especially in good timing." "A three-year stint in a peacetime army" allowed him to escape the Korean War. "The wonderful GI Bill" put an end to his dabbling with a possible career as a trombone player and sent him to the University of Denver (1949-51), where he earned a B.A. in the humanities, a harbinger of his rich and diverse accomplishments as a humanist. From the University of Columbia (195152) John received a master's degree in philosophy, an experience which would forever keep his mind engrossed in the abstruse and unresolved quandaries of human existence. At Berkeley (1953-61) John earned a Ph.D. in English language and literature.
John taught Subject A at Berkeley and English at Princeton University (1961-65). His 1965 book, The Principles of Writing, 1965, and early articles ("Stress, Pitch and Juncture" and "Methods in English Teaching") were obviously related to his experience in the classroom. Other articles of the early sixties focused on some of his life-long literary preferences, Conrad, Melville, Mark Twain.
In 1965 John received the first of two Fulbright Lectureships in Sri Lanka (1965-66 and 1968-69) where his interest in religious studies
"Good timing" brought John to UCSC in 1966 where he was part of the original faculty of Stevenson College and a co-founder of the Stevenson Core Course. In every respect John's professional life blossomed at Santa Cruz: he was twice the chair of Committee on Undergraduate Courses and Curriculum (1971-72, 1980-82), twice the chair of the Literature Department (1971-73, 1977-78), twice the chair of the Language Personnel Committee (1988-89, 1990-91), and once the chair of the Linguistics Department (1975-77). In all these positions, as he himself modestly wrote, "he was especially valued in the university community for his common sense and integrity."
The interdisciplinary character of the college fellowship was the ideal setting for a mind which knew no boundaries in the exploration of every cultural manifestation of the human spirit, "from ancient Greek and medieval and modern English literature to Buddhism and Christianity and linguistics, psychology and Paleolithic art." John always thought that his job at UCSC (where he taught for 31 years) was simply "the best" because here "he was given considerable freedom to do the things [he] wanted to do, some of them rather odd." By "rather odd" things John evidently meant the freedom to do research beyond a narrowly defined field of expertise, which in his case was Chaucer (he published a critical edition of The Canterbury Tales in 1971), Beowulf (the topic of several articles), and Old English (which he taught for years).
John's freedom to explore "rather odd things!" took him in several directions. In the 1970s he published a fascinating article on "Right Wing Rhetoric" and a short piece on "Animal Categories and Terms of Abuse." In the 1980s and after several trips to Lascaux and Altamira, John became mesmerized by the study of Paleolithic art and wrote abundantly about it in Current Anthropology and in Rock Art Research. His claim that Paleolithic Art was just "art for art's sake" became the subject of an intense and learned controversy. In the 1990s John's publications took a decidedly philosophical turn. In 1997 he published three articles on "the implosion of the Literacy Theory" and established a critical dialogue with some of its exponents
When death ("the distinguished thing" in the words of Henry James) knocked on John's door at the age of 69, he found himself with "neither depression nor anxiety" and "all unpleasant things considered, in pretty good spirits, although not exactly jolly." Just before his illness he "had been feeling a certain amount of ennui and a decreased tolerance for the world's follies, stupidities, hypocrisies, and crimes." For several months John knew that "his time had come, a deeply intuited knowledge, an ineluctable message from both body and mind." He died surrounded by some of his friends, of whom he had many, most of them life-long friends. He died free from any illusion and any religious terror, and left the bulk of his estate to a UCSC scholarship for needy students.
James L. Hardy, Biomedical and Environmental Health Sciences: Berkeley
| 1932-1997 | |
| Professor of Medical Virology, Emeritus |
James L. Hardy, a highly respected scientist and teacher at UC Berkeley for 35 years, died of cancer on February 15, 1997, at his home in Pleasant Hill, CA. He is survived by his wife, Shirley, and sons, James and Jeffrey. He was a leader in research on vector-borne viral diseases (arbovirology) and a distinguished professor in the School of Public Health from 1966-1996. He was born on July 30, 1932, in Fort Benton, Montana, and grew up on a ranch. His leadership potential was recognized in high school when he was elected class president, student body president, and captain of the basketball team that won the Montana State Championship. He graduated from the University of Montana in 1954 and stayed there to complete the M.A. degree in 1956. His thesis was done at the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Laboratory, National Institutes of Health in Hamilton, Montana, under the tutelage of Carl Eklund, an early pioneer in research on encephalitis viruses, poliomyelitis, and prions. His thesis developed a new test for the diagnosis of clinical cases of western equine encephalomyelitis and St. Louis encephalitis (both epidemic diseases at that time in western North America).
On completion of the M.A. he was commissioned in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps and assigned to the 406th Medical General Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan. There he studied Japanese B encephalitis virus, an always endemic mosquito-borne disease that sometimes reaches epidemic proportions in Asia. He worked under W. F. Scherer and others who were pioneers in arbovirology. After completing his stint in the army Hardy followed Scherer to the University of Minnesota and completed under him the Ph.D. degree in 1962 with further research on Japanese B encephalitis. In 1962, Jim was awarded a post-doctoral training grant from the National Institutes of Health
Hardy's students all recognized their good fortune to have him as a member of their thesis committee. While he was a bear in insisting on detailed research protocols, he also challenged students to be imaginative and independent in their research. At the same time, and because of his sense of humor and concerns for their welfare, he became a life-long friend and colleague. He was a conscientious, gifted, teacher who cared deeply about students. His lectures were attended by a constantly increasing number of students, and many professors dropped in. The courses were known to be a model for their coverage of the important historical developments in the subject of the day while at the same time placing in proper perspective the constantly increasing new and frequently unpublished research findings and methodologies that were essential to the students' development.
The confidence of the faculty in Hardy was evident by his appointment as Chair of the Program in Biomedical Laboratory Services, 1976-1980, of the Department of Biomedical and Environmental Health Sciences, 1980-1985, Committees on Space Planning and Revision of the Graduate Programs in Infectious Diseases, and finally Associate Dean for Academic and Space Planning in 1994. The Chancellor presented the Berkeley Citation to him in 1994 and stressed his role on campus over many years as an advisor while serving on committees for development of the Northwest Animal Facilities, Animal Use, Development of the Biological Sciences Curricula, Functions of the campus Hybridization Facility, and chair of a campus-wide Biohazard Use Committee.
Hardy held many consultantships with governmental agencies. In the National Institutes of Health these included the Research Resources Branch, two study sections of the Division of Research Grants and the National Cancer Institute. He was a program reviewer for the Centers for Disease Control of the United States Public Health Service, an advisor for the Research Development Command of the U.S. Army, and on the advisory board to the Naval Bioscience Laboratory.
Hardy's research resulted in over 130 scientific papers that focused on the natural history of western equine encephalomyelitis and St. Louis encephalitis and 18 other mosquito-borne viruses that had emerged as new infectious agents in California. He found that each of these viruses had a unique transmission cycle, involving various vectors and vertebrate hosts. His detailed laboratory studies on the mechanisms of infection and transmission of viruses in mosquitoes opened a new era of knowledge on vector competence and capacity. His studies on the influence of temperature on the susceptibility of different mosquito populations to viruses added novel chapters to our knowledge of arboviruses and expanded approaches to control of western equine encephalomyelitis and St. Louis encephalitis as epidemic diseases in western North America. This research led to his election to fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology in 1979. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene acknowledged Dr. Hardy's contributions by selecting him for the Bailey K. Ashford Award in 1977 as their outstanding scientist under 45 years of age. In 1990, the Society honored him again by presentation of the Richard Moreland Taylor Award for outstanding contributions to the field of arbovirology over a significant period of time. The James L. Hardy Award was established by the American Committee on Arthropod-Borne Viruses of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1997. This award is to encourage and acknowledge research by a young scientist in the field of arbovirology. It is combined with the William F. Scherer Award. As noted above, Scherer was Hardy's Ph.D. thesis chairman. Each of the foregoing contributions formally place Hardy as a member of that unique group of scientific pioneers who developed the field of arbovirology.
Jim never forgot his rural beginnings in Montana. It was evident in his household where Charlie Russell paintings and antique western guns adorned the walls. He was equally at ease in the field while collecting mosquitoes, birds, or rodents, in the laboratory while carrying out intricate tests, or at the lectern with his students. His many friends and colleagues knew him as a warm, thoughtful, and considerate person. Jim Hardy will be sorely missed by all who had the good fortune to be associated with him.
Robert Hetzron, Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies: Santa Barbara
| 1937-1997 | |
| Professor of Hebrew, Emeritus |
Robert Hetzron was appointed Assistant Professor in the (then) Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1966 to initiate a program in Hebrew language and literature. He became Associate Professor in 1969 and Professor in 1974. Although this appointment largely defined his teaching career, his scholarly interests and research were far more extensive. He was first and foremost a linguist, whose work embraced comparative studies, semantic analysis, and theoretical aspects of grammar. At the same time he had a nice appreciation of the nuances of literature, which began to show up in his late publications in the form of translation and textual analysis. Robert's development as a linguist proceeded from an early phase of intralingual description and analysis outward toward a comprehensive interlingual perspective focusing on comparison and theory. A large proportion of his work had to do with the Afroasiatic languages, where he made contributions in comparative and historical studies that fundamentally defined that field. He wrote also on the Semitic languages ancillary to his Afroasiatic interests, and he made a special study with considerable publication of his native language, Hungarian. English also provided grist for his mill, serving up material for some of his theoretical work.
Robert's polyglotism seems to have started from the force of circumstances. Born in Budapest in 1937, he just managed to gain admittance into the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest in 1956, when the failure of the Hungarian uprising expelled him to France as a refugee. From 1957 to 1961 he lived the life of a peripatetic student marked by stints at the University of Strasbourg, the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes, the École des Hautes
Though settled at UCSB, Robert pursued professional interests that frequently took him abroad. As a Guggenheim Fellow he spent the year 1976-77 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. In 1980-81 he did field work in Hungary, which was funded by the National Science Foundation. The year 1981 also found him in Austria, as a visiting professor at the University of Vienna and the University of Salzburg. In 1990-91 he was a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. At home, he made a lasting contribution to the field of Afroasiatic studies by founding and editing the Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, which began publication in 1987. Embodied in five books and over 60 articles, not to mention reviews, chapters, and contributions to encyclopedias, Robert Hetzron's scholarship is impressive, undeniably the product of an energetic and exceptionally intelligent mind.
James N. Hill, Anthropology: Los Angeles
| 1934-1997 | |
| Professor |
James Hill, a prominent UCLA archaeologist and anthropologist, lost a gallant fight with cancer on August 2, 1997. He was 62.
A Southern Californian, Jim graduated from Pomona College in 1957. He then served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for three years, which included several months' hair-raising duty monitoring nuclear blasts at close range off Enewetak Atoll. In 1965, after obtaining his doctorate at the University of Chicago, he joined UCLAs Department of Anthropology where he remained the rest of his life. He was a dedicated teacher who gave his time generously to undergraduates and who treated his graduate students like research colleagues. Also an able administrator, he was instrumental in the founding of both the Institute of Archaeology and the Archaeology Program. He occasionally served as acting director of the former and chaired the latter for a total of six years. His commitment to the Department of Anthropology was particularly great, over which he presided as chair for two terms (1983-87 and 1993-96).
Jim belonged to the exciting generation of processual archaeologists that emerged in the 1960s. He specialized in the American Southwest where his work at the Broken K Pueblo in Arizona remains a classic example of how social organization may be reflected in the architectural segregation of pottery styles. He often returned to the question of style, with particular insight into its expression among individual artisans. But his abiding interest lay in the fundamental question of how archaeologists should go about explaining variability and change in prehistoric cultural systems, particularly in the realm of social organization. As a processualist, his approach was strongly colored by cultural ecology. Thus his field projects, as at
Apart from his classic monography Broken K Pueblo (1970), Jim published widely in journals and in volumes of collected papers edited by colleagues. He produced two of the latter himself in 1977, The Explanation of Prehistoric Change and The Individual in Prehistory (co-edited with Joel Gunny. His work should enjoy a long shelf life. Few have written with so much light and so little heat on the ideas that inform processual archaeology And few can match the straightforward clarity of his exposition.
Jim was lean and athletic. He was good-natured, open, and entirely free of affectation. He treasured his family and enjoyed the fabric of everyday life, playing tennis with gusto and making a splendid luncheon companion. And he retained his warmth, intellectual enthusiasm, and sense of humor to the end. He was married to the anthropologist Julie Calvert, with whom he had a daughter, Sarah. He is also survived by three children from an earlier marriage, Kraig, Lauara, and Karlyn.
A fellowship for undergraduate research in anthropology has been established in his honor. Checks should be made out to the UCLA Foundation, noting they are destined for the J. N. Hill Fellowship, and mailed to the Department of Anthropology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553.
C. Warren Hollister, History: Santa Barbara
| 1930-1997 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
C. Warren Hollister died of heart failure on Sunday September 14, 1997, in Los Angeles, the city of his birth. He was 66. The only son of Nathan and Carrie Cushman Hollister, he received his bachelor's degree with honors from Harvard University in 1951. Following service in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, he pursued graduate studies in medieval history at UCLA, where he earned his master's and Ph.D. degrees and was the Graduate Division valedictorian in 1958.
Warren was one of the founding members of the UCSB History Department, and he established it as a powerhouse in medieval European history. A specialist in the institutions of post-Norman Conquest England, he became internationally famous for studies that emphasized the interrelationship of England and the Norman realm in Western France--two fields that previously had been treated as separate subjects. His book, Anglo-Saxon Military Institutions On the Eve of the Norman Conquest, published by Oxford in 1962, won the Triennial Book Prize of the Conference on British Studies and skyrocketed him to the top of the profession. He was the world authority on Henry the First of England and was, at the time of his death, putting the finishing touches on a biography of Henry I, a project described as the culmination of his brilliant career.
Professor Hollister was a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and of the Royal Historical Society in London, president of numerous scholarly societies, member of the editorial boards of some of the finest historical journals, and recipient of such prized fellowships as the Fulbright and Guggenheim. In 1964, he became the youngest professor ever to be named Faculty Research Lecturer at UCSB. But it was his Medieval Europe, just issued in its eighth edition,
Two words fight for first place when people speak of Warren Hollister--"brilliant" and "generous." One of his earliest students, searching for words to capture his aura, came to Shakespeare:
| He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; | |
| Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading; | |
| Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not; | |
| But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer |
Indeed, Warren became a legend for the careful mentoring of his many graduate students, all of whom found jobs during the long period of drought in the profession and now are active scholars, not only in America but also in Asian and the Middle East. All of them continue to exercise skills first learned in his seminar, especially a new appreciation for the rich charter evidence of medieval England. Where these had traditionally been mined for constitutional and legal information, Warren taught his students to look instead at their lists of signatories and witnesses and to construct from these an intimate knowledge of the working of an English court. In opposition to the "top down"method of traditional scholars, the Hollister method is very much a "bottom-to-top" method, one from which a rich panorama unfolds of English society, economy and politics. But not just "English." For the most important product of the Hollister method was a new appreciation for the unity of the realm built in the aftermath of Duke William's conquest of England in 1066. Where English scholars had limited their attention to the Anglo side of this kingdom, and French scholars to the Norman side, Warren Hollister's patient tracking of individuals from one side of the Channel to the other led him to advocate the study of an "Anglo-Norman" realm, not divided but tied together by the English Channel. Anglo-Norman history is the mark and the triumph of the Hollister School. It has forever changed the way the eleventh through thirteenth centuries will be studied.
Unlike the stereotypical world-class scholar, Warren had a deep, indeed passionate, commitment to the academic life of his home campus. As chair of the Academic Senate's General Education Committee in the late 1970s he led the campus to adopt a completely revamped General Education curriculum that drew national attention and was widely imitated. With but a few changes, it is the same one still in use today.
Author of 15 books and numerous articles, Professor Hollister found time for extensive lecturing and travel. In addition, he had an impressive collection of "Oz" memorabilia and was an authority on the works of L. Frank Baum, particularly The Wizard of Oz. One of his books, The Moons of Meer, is a children's fantasy.
In all of these varied pursuits, both scholarly and playful, his wife, Edith, was an active partner. The two met in New York in 1951 and were married the following year. They had three sons. Charlie, the eldest, died in a tragic automobile accident in 1973. In addition to Edith, Professor Hollister is survived by their two remaining sons and their wives, Robert and Janet Hollister of Santa Barbara; Larry and Mikki of Pittsburgh, California; and three grandchildren, Nathan Charles, Melissa, and Charles Warren who lives with his mother, Mary Hollister of Pleasant Hills, California.
Bernard Johnson, Dance: Irvine
| 1936-1997 | |
| Assistant Professor |
It is impossible to describe Bernard Johnson without using the word theatrical, for he was truly a man of the theater. His career embraced dance performance, choreography, and costume design for Broadway, stage shows, revue, film, and television. He died much too soon, at the age of 60, on January 22 , 1997. He was an Assistant Professor of Dance at UCI from 1991 until his death.
One of Professor Johnson's first experiences as a professional dancer came in the mid-1950s with the New York Negro Ballet, performing the virtuosic Bluebird pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty, among other roles. His ability as a dancer in this and other genres was exceptional. He danced on Broadway, in modern dance, and in cabaret. As one-half of the theater and cabaret act Cleo and Bernard, he thrilled the Apollo Theatre in New York and toured Europe. His passionate and committed performing style, coupled with a formidable technique, were obvious and very impressive even years after most dancers have retired.
He created choreography for the 1990 tour of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Broadway Soul at Lincoln Center, the feature film The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, the musical comedy Helen, and for command performances for King Hassan of Morocco.
Johnson was perhaps best known as a costume designer. His costumes had a unique style and use of color that made them immediately recognizable as Bernard Johnson designs. His work in costume was extensive and it encompassed almost every conceivable theatrical genre. Many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows were designed by him, including Raisin, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Eubie, Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, and Waltz of the Stork.
He designed costumes for some of America's finest dance companies, including the New York City Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Joyce Trisler, and Ballet Hispanico. In screen work, he designed for television specials featuring Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne and for such films as New Jack City. Such well-known performers as Nipsey Russell, Wilson Pickett, Melba Moore, and The Temptations had stage wardrobes created by him. He was a recipient of the Harlem Institute of Fashion Award, the Spirit of Detroit Award, the Oscar Michaux Award from the Black Film Makers Hall of Fame, and was included in costume exhibits, such as Onstage: A Century of African American Stage Design at the New York Public Library As a designer, he was concerned not only with the artistic integrity of the design, but also with the artist who would wear it. His knowledge of the theater was comprehensive and invaluable for the students who learned from him. Johnson was much beloved by his students. He was genuinely fond of them and enjoyed seeing them take flight artistically, especially in stage performance. He was willing to take the time to offer praise and constructive comments on a student performance or work of choreography Even more, he would spend many hours helping a student create a costume or work out an idea. He was not at all above sitting down at the sewing machine himself to stitch a costume. In his costume design courses, he insisted on teaching professional construction techniques so that students would learn how to make their own costumes--an unusual and valuable ability for a dancer. His classes in jazz dance were among the best anywhere, and were especially distinctive for the vast amount of knowledge he imparted about the origins of jazz steps. Jazz class with Johnson was always more than dance alone--it was a history and music lesson as well. He was well known as a master jazz teacher, and taught jazz at the American Dance Festival in North Carolina, Korea, and Russia.
Bernard, as everyone here called him, was the person who noticed if you wore a new outfit and would be the first to tell you that you looked marvelous.
He was generous with his praise. His personal presence was unforgettable: a unique artist and person with a life and career wrapped up in the theater at its highest levels.
He is survived by a son, Byian, two sisters, and a grandson.
B. Lamar Johnson, Education: Los Angeles
| 1904-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
B. Lamar Johnson, a world leader in the field of higher education, died at age 91 on October 25, 1995, at his home on Tigertail Road in West Los Angeles. For more than four decades, Professor Johnson was an eminent spokesman and planner of the American two-year college movement, and in recent decades, exerted considerable influence on the international expansion of short-cycle higher education (community colleges/technical institutes).
Following completion of a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1930, Johnson was an assistant professor at New Jersey State Teachers College, and in 1931 became Dean of Instruction and Librarian at Stephens College, Missouri. For more than 20 years in that role, he succeeded in merging the library with teaching as a unified instruction program. This work and other publications drew national attention to him as a curriculum expert. For a number of summers during this 20-year period, he was also visiting professor at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and UCLA.
A highly acclaimed book, General Education in Action (1952), climaxing his appointment as Director of the California Study for General Education, attracted the attention of the faculty and administration at UCLA, where he was appointed Professor of Education in 1952. Early in his tenure at UCLA, Johnson was regularly consulted by the California Master Plan for Higher Education Survey Team, and was instrumental in the development and implementation of the state's community colleges in the late 1950s and 1960s.
He is also remembered for great achievements in organization and leadership as Director of the Junior College Leadership Program (1960-1972) and Executive Director of the League for Innovation in the Community College (1968-1972). Graduates of the Leadership
An advisory council of two-year college executives was the policymaking unit of the Leadership Program. Membership on the Council was drawn from four states: Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, and California. Quarterly meetings of the Council covered a diversity of topics with visiting dignitaries that often led to the next summer conference.
Post-doctoral fellowships, the purpose of one of the later Kellogg grants, brought a cross-section of future leaders to UCLA to study with Johnson and his staff. The enriched Leadership Program also included a series of three-week summer conferences for "New Presidents and Their Spouses," in which prominent educators worked with the new community college executive.
Many publications resulted from the Leadership Program. Beginning in 1961, a series of 21 monograph-length Occasional Reports edited or prepared by Johnson focused on a variety of areas and activities in community college education. The 21st, an annotated bibliography of his voluminous publications from 1932 to 1974, was prepared by Denise B. Kurtzman.
Island of Innovation Expanding: Changes in the Community College, which Johnson authored in 1969, was selected by the Education Book List of Phi Lambda Theta as one of the 20 best books in education. In this futuristic work, Johnson reported promising innovations in instruction and projected trends and practices to improve junior college teaching, envisioning the current role of technology in teaching.
In 1968 with initial support from the Danforth Foundation, Johnson created the League for Innovation in the Community College, a group of highly selected, innovative community college districts throughout the country. He served as Executive Director until his retirement. The following year, he received the Distinguished
Johnson's influence on international developments of two-year colleges was considerable. In 1959 for example, he traveled around the world as a specialist for the United States Department of State with assignments in New Zealand, the Philippines, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and South Africa. In 1973-74 after retirement, he was a consultant to USAID in Vietnam and Colombia, South America. Reports and articles resulting from these several assignments were widely distributed as major policy documents. In 1976, he worked in Iran on a joint development program between UCLA and the University for Teacher Education in Tehran.
Dr. Johnson finished his 50-year career in 1983 as a Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Pepperdine University.
Those of us who worked most closely with Lamar through the years share deep feelings of respect and admiration for his many talents, his work ethic, integrity, and kindness.
George Jura, Chemistry: Berkeley
| 1911-1997 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
George Jura died after a short illness, from the effects of bladder cancer, on January 25, 1997. He was a friend to many and an outstanding teacher and research scientist. He was born in New York City on November 18, 1911, but his family soon moved to Chicago, where he received all of his schooling and did his first research work. He received the BS degree in 1939 from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1942 by the University of Chicago. During the next four years he was on the staff at Chicago. While there, he published 19 papers on surface and interface chemistry in collaboration with his mentor, William Draper Harkins. These publications established him as a leading research worker in what we now call classical surface chemistry.
In 1946, Wendell Latimer was changing the Chemistry Department in Berkeley from one that had been highly specialized to a more general department with emphasis on a variety of fields. Jura came to Latimer's attention and was brought to Berkeley as an Assistant Professor to help broaden its program in physical chemistry. It took several years for Jura to establish his laboratory in Lewis Hall, but by the start of the 1950s he was publishing papers in surface chemistry at his previous intensity. A number of these early Berkeley papers were published with other members of the department as collaborators . In these publications, he utilized the expertise of his fellow faculty members to strengthen his understanding of surface chemistry. This approach clearly illustrates the interactive nature of his research style, involving both graduate students and other faculty in the department. His second publication after he came to Berkeley was on the surface thermodynamics of MgO; this material has
While this research was taking place, Jura took on the job of modernizing the undergraduate physical chemistry laboratory. Together with W. D. Gwinn, another new faculty member, they completely changed the required undergraduate laboratory course. Entirely new experiments were introduced, and the emphasis was placed on the students' independent thinking, not their ability simply to follow directions with pre-assembled apparatus. In some cases the students were given parts and had to assemble their own apparatus. This laboratory now uses more commercial instruments, but the available experiments still consist of many of those introduced by Jura.
In the late 1950s, Jura's research interests took a dramatic turn. He was always interested in the theory of solids, although his first work was done on surfaces, but while he was still in Chicago he decided to work on the effects of high pressure on solids. He was intrigued by the prediction of E. W. Bridgman, the pioneer in such work, that under pressure hydrogen would become a metal. At that time high-pressure work was rather expensive, requiring very large presses and tiny cells, all of which had to be fabricated. After he came to Berkeley, he found that the Atomic Energy Commission was eager to fund such work. Thus, Jura established a high-pressure laboratory within the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory facility immediately above campus. It occupied one of its small temporary buildings, and he found an engineer in the Radiation Laboratory, Harold Stromberg, to build a large press. His first paper on high-pressure work was reported in 1960 and published in 1961, and it showed how one could measure electrical conductivities for substances such as phosphorus and iodine up to 400,000 atmospheres.
Over the next few years, Jura, Stromberg, and several students developed multi-lead electrical measurements for metals under pressure. From the temperature dependence of the conductivities of Ytterbium and Bismuth at low temperatures and high pressures, Jura showed that they become small-gap nonmetals even at modest pressures. In another new technique, he and a student developed a method, using electrical pulses, for the measurement of the heat capacity of metals under pressure. He also made the first high-pressure spectroscopic measurements using the Mossbauer effect. These experiments showed that the high-pressure hcp phase of iron is not magnetically ordered and that the density dependence of the relevant exchange integral in iron and nickel does not match the simple Slater d-d overlap model. Using positron annihilation spectroscopy, he determined the pressure dependence of the Fermi surface of aluminum. His last high-pressure work was done on molecular solids. In collaboration with Mitchel Chen in Chemical Engineering, he measured the infrared spectra of polymers such as polyethylene. This work was the first detailed analysis of interchain coupling in this important polymer.
Although the presses that he and his students used became smaller with time, he never made the transition to diamond cells and their very small presses. However, his former students at other universities have made this transition and some of them are carrying on the traditions that Jura started in Berkeley. The last press used by him was moved into the undergraduate physical chemistry laboratory and is still being used today.
During his career he spent several periods visiting at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Both he and his wife, Rose, fell in love with the desert and South-Western Indian art. They collected even before it became so popular, and George had a collection of desert plants including 1,000 different cacti and agave. He is survived by his wife Rose and 3 sons, George, Michael (a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA), and Russell.
Mounah A. Khouri, Near Eastern Studies: Berkeley
| 1918-1996 | |
| Professor of Arabic, Emeritus |
Mounah Abdallah Khouri, a beloved teacher and colleague and a highly-regarded Arabic literary figure, died of cancer on December 28, 1996, in Walnut Creek, California. He was born on November 26, 1918, in the Lebanese village of Rachaya al-Fukhkhar on the northern slopes of Mt. Hermon. After finishing secondary school in a near-by village, Khouri's academic work began at International College of the American University of Beirut from which he received the French baccalaureat in 1937. He then spent several years in Palestine, teaching Arabic at church secondary schools, mostly in Jaffa and Jerusalem. On his return to Lebanon, he engaged in full-time teaching and directing an academic program in Arabic language while continuing his studies at the American University of Beirut, where he received the B.A. and the M.A. in 1956. In that same year he came to the United States to continue his academic career, and received the Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1964. He then gained American teaching experience at Harvard, Columbia, and Georgetown universities, and was invited to Berkeley in 1960, where he remained until his retirement, rising from Research Associate to Full Professor ten years later. He received a research grant from the American Council of Learned Societies in 1968-1969 and was Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo in 1965-1966. From 1970-1974 he was U.S. Director of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad at the American University in Cairo, a program for American graduate students sponsored by a consortium of 18 universities. He served as Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Berkeley from 1972-1976.
His early life in the village of his childhood and his studies and teaching in Lebanon and Palestine imbued Khouri with a life-long
Already as a student he was concerned with the interaction of Western culture and literature with his own tradition. He sought to familiarize Arab readers with the work of great writers on Western thought and creativity, publishing two important books on this theme in Arabic: Toynbee's theory of history (Beirut, 1960), and The literary criticism of T. S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, and I.A. Richards (Beirut, 1964). With equal zeal, Khouri tried to acquaint readers of English with the achievements of modern Arabic literature and culture. His books Poetry and the making of modern Egypt: 1882-1922 (Leiden, 1971), An anthology of modern Arabic poetry (Berkeley, 1974), and Studies in Arabic poetry and criticism (Piedmont, CA, 1987), as well as many scholarly articles in both English and Arabic, demonstrate his rare ability to traverse the often-troubled terrains of East and West with natural ease. He saw the inter-cultural synthesis as much a moral imperative as a necessity of daily human experience.
Above all, Khouri was a dedicated and much-beloved teacher. His co-authored textbooks have since become classics: Readings in modern Arabic literature (Leiden, 1971), and Elementary modern Standard Arabic (Cambridge, 1982). He possessed a mild and gentle temperament that made it easy to talk to him about any and all subjects--literary, scholarly, personal, political, departmental or universitywide. His polite demeanor, reinforced by his education in French and Arabic and tempered by his unique humor and poetic sensibility, sometimes seemed strangely quaint, "Old World" as it might be called in English, but was always touching.
Although in personal contact quiet, almost self-effacing, Khouri was at bottom a proud man, fully aware of his life's achievements. When one of us congratulated him on an academic honor he thanked and then broadly smiled: "No small feat, wouldn't you say, for a boy from a small village in Lebanon?" He was, of course, referring to the stages in his scholarly career, from Lebanon to a Ph.D. at Harvard, to a professorship at a most distinguished university in the United States.
He was profoundly devoted to his wife Julia, and his sons Mazin and Mark. He felt a great love for Lebanon, the land of his birth, where he had his ancestral roots, and for Palestine, where his career as a teacher had begun. For the rest of his life he felt personally the tragedies endured by the peoples of both those lands. In his final days of pain and suffering, he turned to writing poetry in his beloved Arabic for some comfort and consolation. Sadly, his poem Lazarus, that he was working on during those last days, was left unfinished. Shortly before his death, however, he had the satisfaction of seeing the proofs of a volume of collected studies written in his honor by former students and colleagues, and edited by Issa Boullata and Terri De Young. This volume will serve as a fitting memorial to our much-missed and respected colleague.
William Tell Laube, Law: Berkeley
| 1912-1997 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
William Tell Laube, Professor of Law at Boalt Hall from 1947 until 1974, died on January 3, 1997, at age 84. He was born in Seattle, Washington, on June 25, 1912, the son of a prominent attorney. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1934 and, in that year, entered law school at the University of Washington, receiving the LL.B. degree with high honors in 1937. For eight years he practiced law in the firm of Case and Laube, an experience which helped prepare him for the major and diverse contributions he was to make in several major fields of commercial law. After practice he enrolled at Columbia University, receiving an LL.M. degree in 1946.
Laube exercised his most basic and enduring influence in a field of law that historically had been an obscure speciality for a very small set of lawyers whose positions within the system often originated in partisan politics. Through scholarly publication, practice, teaching, and patient persuasion, Laube played a central role in the gradual transformation of bankruptcy law into a coherent and intelligible field of the highest practical importance. The rules that he authored and pioneered have become the bible controlling the fate of financially troubled companies and their creditors. For more than 40 years Laube worked with the National Bankruptcy Conference, striving where possible to simplify, to clarify where simplification was not possible, and, in all cases, to increase the predictability that is crucial to the functioning of the credit system. He was a key figure in the transformation of bankruptcy law from a static concern with winding up failed businesses to its contemporary, more productive, emphasis on restructuring and turning around troubled enterprises. He was one of very few lifetime members of the Ninth Circuit Judicial
Laube was also a major player in perfecting the modern law of contracts. He taught the courses in Contracts throughout his years at Boalt Hall and was editor of the 6th Edition of the foundational Williston's Treatise on Contracts.
Laube began his teaching career at the University of Washington in 1946. In 1947 he joined the Boalt faculty, teaching contracts and commercial Law. Ultimately he received a chair--the Alexander F. and Mary T. Morrison Professorship. His teaching is fondly remembered by a host of Boalt alumni. He retired from teaching in 1974, but until 1993 remained counsel to the San Francisco law firm of Murphy, Weir and Butler, a leading bankruptcy firm that had been founded under his inspiration by several of his students.
Laube was a classic American lawyer. He confronted human conflict with a keen sense of justice and was an able advocate; but he greatly preferred to apply rationality in a manner that avoided conflict in the first place. In spite of all his accomplishments, he remained remarkably modest, a generous and patient friend and advisor to all. He was a treasured colleague within the Boalt faculty and an ornament to the institution. The law school and all that it represents has been enriched by his work. He is sorely missed by his many friends.
He is survived by his wife Marjorie Laube, two sons, William III and Joseph, and two daughters, Delila Lee and Lonna.
Edwin M. Lemert, Sociology: Davis
| 1912-1996 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Edwin Lemert died November 10, 1996 at the Washoe Medical Center in Reno following a brief illness. Although he was formally retired in 1980, up until the summer before his death, he had continued to report almost daily to his departmental office, keeping in touch by phone with colleagues and former and present students, dealing with correspondence, and working on his final book, The Trouble With Evil (published posthumously in 1997 by SUNY Press). He is survived by his six children, nine grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.
Lemert was born, raised, and educated in Ohio. In 1934, he received his B.A. in sociology from Miami University and in 1939, he was awarded a Ph.D. in sociology from Ohio State. At Miami, he studied with William E. Cottrell whose thinking influenced him for the rest of his life. From Cottrell he developed a lasting commitment both to the, importance of historical and structural reasoning in sociology and to what he later called the "feedback and choice" side of his orientation to the study of social problems and social control.
Before moving to California and UCLA in 1943, he taught briefly at Kent State University and Western Michigan University. Recruited to UCLA by his Kent State colleague and friend Leonard Broom, Lemert joined a small and growing Department of Sociology and Anthropology and he remained there until 1953. Then, at the invitation of the chemist Herbert E. Young, dean of the tiny College of Letters and Science, he moved to Davis to become the first chair of the newly formed Department of Sociology and Anthropology and to begin an association with the campus that lasted over 40 years.
Lemert is widely regarded as a pioneer in the labeling theory of social deviance, which he preferred to define as societal reaction
The topics to which Lemert made definitive and still-cited contributions range over a stunningly wide area, including the jury process, folklore, technology, war, political radicalism, mental illness, the court system, stuttering and speech defects, alcoholics and alcoholism, check forgery, juvenile justice, prostitution, drug abuse, and of course, the general theory of crime and social control for which he is so justly famous. He was President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1972) and of the Pacific Sociological Association (1973) and served as member or consultant to numerous agencies, including presidential commissions on juvenile justice, violence, and alcoholism. For a number of years he served on the Editorial Board of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. In 1974 he received the E.H. Sutherland award for lifetime achievement from the American Society of Criminology and in 1995 he received the life achievement award from the American Criminal Justice Research Association.
Edwin Lemert had a sharp and aggressive intelligence and he said what he thought, which sometimes upset his students and colleagues. Yet, the true measure of his character as an academician is the testimony of several cohorts of outstanding and devoted graduate students who have expressed their gratitude for what he taught them and the example he set.
Mendel Mazelis, Food Science and Technology: Davis
| 1922-1997 | |
| Professor of Food Science, Emeritus |
Professor Mendel Mazelis was born in 1922 in Chicago, Illinois. Soon thereafter his parents moved to Los Angeles where he received his pre-college education. In 1943 he was awarded a B.S. degree in forestry from the University of California Berkeley. After graduation, he joined the US Navy as a midshipman and was discharged in 1946 as a Lieutenant (j.g.) in the United States Naval Reserve. During World War II he served as an officer on a landing craft in the South Pacific and was involved in the battles of Leyte, Saipan and Okinawa. He returned to academic work after the war as a graduate student in plant physiology. In 1953 he joined the UC Berkeley laboratory of Professor Paul K. Stumpf as a research assistant and was assigned the difficult problem of studying the incorporation of radioactive inorganic phosphate into phospholipids by a particulate system prepared from germinating peanut cotyledons. Although he was unable to identify the radioactively labeled phospholipids, he carefully characterized the system in terms of the cofactor requirements, etc. He received his Ph.D. in 1954 in the field of plant physiology and published his research in the journal Plant Physiology with the title of “Incorporation of P32 into Peanut Mitochondrial Phospholipids” vol. 30, 237-243 (1955). He spent an additional postdoctoral year in Berkeley extending his earlier observations and demonstrating the presence of an active adenylate kinase in spinach chloroplast preparations. As his research mentor, Professor Stumpf was struck by Mazelis's quick mind, his knack to develop procedures pertinent to his work, his great sense of humor and fairness, and his ability to ask penetrating questions at seminars.
In 1955, he accepted a postdoctoral position in the laboratory of Professor Birgit Vennesland at the University of Chicago, Illinois. In 1957 he joined the Western Regional Research Laboratory USDA as an associate chemist. In 1961 he accepted the position of assistant biochemist in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of California at Davis. Additionally, in 1962 he was appointed Lecturer in the Department and in the following year was given the academic title of Assistant Professor. By 1973 he was promoted to Professor of Food Science and Biochemist in the UCD Experiment Station. He retired in 1991 as Professor Emeritus of Food Science.
Throughout these years of academic service, his research focused on the enzymology of amino acid metabolism in higher plants, especially those responsible for characteristic odors and flavors in onions, garlic, turnip, cabbage and broccoli. In addition he was interested in the essential amino acids required nutritionally by humans and those required by higher plants for their survival under stress conditions. He is most noted for his work on the cysteine sulfoxide lyases that are found in a wide variety of higher plants (onions, garlic, leek, turnip, cabbage, and broccoli) which are very different taxonomically. Initially, the lyases were very difficult to purify because of their instability but with patience, perseverance, and high quality graduate students, he was successful in isolating these enzymes from most of the plants mentioned above and in characterizing them both as proteins and as enzymes. Since similar cysteine sulfoxide lyases were found in quite different taxonomically diverse plants and there was little cross-reactivity among them by rabbit antibodies against the onion and garlic enzymes, he suggested that the enzymes were probably the result of concurrent evolutionary development rather than arising from a primitive precursor. His careful research led to his recognition as a leading scientist in this field.
Mazelis used the Socratic method in his teaching of graduate students primarily, playing the "devil's advocate," thereby forcing the students to defend their answers or points of view. In this way he inspired them to gain self-confidence in their answers based on their understanding of the subject matter. He was a highly successful advisor of undergraduate students, especially those in the food biochemistry major and in the biochemistry major. In all of his research he was well supported by major grants from the National Science Foundation. He was a life-long member of a variety of scientific organizations, such as the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular
With his arrival on the Davis scene in 1961 he rapidly became not only a campus Institution but also a Davis Institution. Because of his wit, sense of fairness, and broad interests in city, regional and national affairs, he was able to express his many points of views with a great articulate language without offending even those who disagreed with his ideas. Indeed, at the annual meetings of the American Society of Plant Physiologists he rapidly became widely accepted by senior and junior scientists as well as undergraduate and graduate students as a wit of the highest order. He had a great love of football and each fall he wrestled with the tragic drama emanating from Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. Because of his phenomenal knowledge of this sport, his Sunday morning agonies must have tested his most loyal wife, Noreen. His love of football also was evident in his rarely missing a game of the UC Davis Aggies, during the decades he lived in Davis. In later years, when his son, Jacob, became involved in aquatic sports in high school, he was a much appreciated volunteer and supporter of these activities, which continued well after his son had gone to college.
Last but not least, Professor Mazelis was well-read in many topics outside of science: religion, philosophy, literature, and, yes, politics to mention a few. It was always a joy to converse with him on these and other topics; the ensuing exchange of ideas was of great benefit to everyone involved.
With his death on June 30, 1997, not only his immediate family but also many of his academic and scientific colleagues all over the world will truly miss the unique personality of Mendel Mazelis.
William Hoyt McCullough, Oriental Languages: Berkeley
| 1928-1997 | |
| Professor of East Asian Languages, Emeritus |
William McCullough was one of the central figures in bringing the study of Japanese literature into the American academic mainstream after the Second World War. By the time of his death on April 23, 1997, at age 68, Bill had achieved an international reputation as one of the leaders in the field of pre-modern Japanese literature and culture.
Bill was born in Dallas, Texas, on December 15, 1928. He received his training in Japanese at Berkeley, earning the B.A. in 1952 and then, after two years in the U.S. Army as an interpreter and translator, the Ph.D. in 1962 from what was then the Department of Oriental Languages. He had already joined the staff of the Department of Asian Languages at Stanford when he completed his dissertation, a study and translation of Shôkyûki, a thirteenth-century semi-fictional account of a war between the imperial court in Kyoto and the Kamakura Bakufu in 1221, at the start of Japan's medieval period. The work reflects the dual interests in literature and cultural history that would inform all his subsequent research. He returned in 1970 to his alma mater, where he spent the rest of his career, retiring in 1991 after being appointed to the Agassiz Professorship, the most prestigious post in the Department of East Asian Languages.
His scholarly reputation was established with the publication of “"Japanese Marriage Institutions in the Heian Period"” in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (1967). Based on data painstakingly gathered from classical court diaries, the article sets forth with clarity and precision the several different types of nuptial unions and living arrangements found in Japanese courtly society. The study is regularly cited by Japanese and Western scholars and regarded as required
His subsequent publications displayed his wide interests in classical literature, culture, and philology. Most notable among them was a monumental two-volume translation and study of A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (1980), a historical tale depicting the greatest years of the Heian court. Co-authored with his wife and colleague in the Department of Oriental Languages, Helen Craig McCullough, the work is at once an elegant study of a critical pre-modern text and an encyclopedia of Heian court life. With the publication of this work, Bill came to be universally regarded as one of the preeminent scholars of classical Japanese literature and history. He was subsequently appointed associate editor for the second volume of The Cambridge History of Japan, to which he contributed two lengthy chapters.
These scholarly contributions to the field were accompanied by a variety of important administrative appointments, including chairmanship of the Department of Oriental Languages, directorship of the Center for Japanese Studies, and a variety of national and international committee posts. He was also a leader in establishing the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (Tokyo). These duties were burdensome but essential to the development of Japanese studies in this country.
He is perhaps missed most by those who had the privilege of studying with him, either in large undergraduate classes or in small graduate seminars. A typical graduate course might begin with Western literary theory to broaden critical vocabulary and generate a comparative perspective, then move to central articles in Japanese to convey the received wisdom on the topic, then conclude with a close reading of the target Japanese primary text to test the perspectives absorbed thus far. He was trained both in venerable European approaches to philology and in contemporary narratology, gender theory, and cultural studies, and his courses balanced rigorous explication de texte with innovative theoretical inquiry. He was remarkable in being able at once to retain the useful elements of earlier academic approaches and to entertain the latest theoretical perspectives. He valued, and he taught his students to value, a skillful combination of solid linguistic mastery and imaginative theoretical application. Bill was a wonderful teacher, authoritative but never authoritarian, equally interested in his topics and his students. His lectures were masterfully organized and also well suited to the level of his audience. He could teach The Tale of Genji as a graduate seminar
Bill not only taught his students to read texts in classical Japanese and literary Chinese, but he was also one of the most dedicated bibliographers in the field. He mastered the Berkeley collection (which he helped build) and privately issued to his students the exhaustive bibliographic guides to it that he compiled. He knew the reference literature of his field intimately, and through his graduate bibliographical seminars taught his successors to teach themselves.
A recital of Bill's successes as scholar, administrator, and teacher, however important, begins to obscure as much as to elucidate. He was far too complete a man to be caricatured by a formal Chinese-style official biography. In his private life, no less than in his academic pursuits, he was a connoisseur; he loved good conversation, understood cuisine, and delighted in long hikes through rugged wilderness. His last illness was particularly cruel, striking within weeks after his retirement and in the following years taking an increasing toll on his physical stamina. And yet he met that final challenge too with dignity and fortitude, continuing to read extensively and enjoy his wide circle of friends.
The narrator of Shôkyûki writes of the death of the great warrior Yoritomo as follows, in Bill's translation:
All the karma fruits of the Three Universes are like a lamp before a wind: a lifetime's vicissitudes are but the dream of a spring night, evanescent as a morning glory wilting before the sun's first rays, or the dew on leaves fallen in water, or the body of the May fly.
Bill's life makes such Buddhist resignation to his loss particularly difficult. He is survived by his wife Helen; his son Dundas of Manassas, Virginia; his father John of Denver; and his brother John of Princeton, New Jersey.
Mohammad Ghulam Mustafa, Public Health: Los Angeles
| 1941-1996 | |
| Professor |
Dr. Mohammad Ghulam Mustafa began his academic career at UCLA in 1975 when he was appointed Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry and in the Division of Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, School of Public Health. In 1978 he was promoted to Associate Professor in Residence in the two academic units and in 1979 joined the tenure ladder faculty as Associate Professor. From 1984 until his death he served as Professor in the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, later renamed Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health.
Dr. Mustafa's research career focused on the biochemical alterations in lung tissue, macrophage fractions as a result of metal, ozone, and nitrogen oxides exposures. He published more than 80 publications in journals and book chapters on the subjects.
Mustafa was a member of many scientific societies, American Thoracic Society; American Chemical Society; Society of Sigma Xi; American College of Toxicology; American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the Advisory Council of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) and the organizing committee for the international Symposium on Biomedical Effects of Ozone and Related Photochemical Oxidants where he also served as symposium and committee chairman. He was subcommittee chairman and vicechairman of the American Lung Association of California and was a member of the editorial board of Toxicology and Industrial Health.
Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1940, Mustafa was married to Sultana and had one son, George. After the death of his wife he remarried
Tributes to Mustafa from students mentioned that he was more than an academic advisor. "He taught us how to adjust ourselves into the American society and culture." Another wrote that "he was a guide for many of us, always willing to listen and help in any way he could."
Dr. Afifi, Dean of the School of Public Health, wrote that Dr. Mustafa will be remembered by generations of School of Public Health students as a generous and enthusiastic teacher who, at the end of class, often had a big smile covered with chalk dust. His memory has been honored by an annual lecture in his home department, which is supported by a memorial fund in the School of Public Health in his name.
Richard Bartel Nelson, Civil and Environmental Engineering: Los Angeles
| 1940-1997 | |
| Professor |
Richard Nelson, a faculty member for 29 years in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, died on May 14, 1997, after a courageous 13-year battle with cancer. He had remained vigorously dedicated to his profession and the university through six major surgeries and eight years of chemotherapy. Despite his illness, he continued to be a paragon as an academician, an inspired teacher, and a role model for his students. His untimely death came as a shock to all those who marveled at his perseverance and resilience, but it is entirely fitting that he died while still actively doing the work he loved so passionately.
Dick was born in Weiser, Idaho, on September 13, 1940, and received his bachelor's degree jointly from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and Columbia University in New York, in 1963. He went on to obtain a master's and doctorate in engineering science from Columbia in 1964 and 1968, respectively His academic excellence was clear from the outset. At Columbia he received the Illig Medal, which is the undergraduate citation for outstanding achievement. He subsequently also received the graduate citation for outstanding achievement. He joined UCLA as an assistant professor after graduation. Throughout his career, Dick distinguished himself through academic leadership, administrative service and participation in the process of self-governance. Most notably, he was founding Chair of the Civil Engineering Department (1980-83), Chair of the SEAS faculty (1986), member of the Graduate Council (1985-88), and the Executive Committee of the Council on Planning and Budget (1989-91).
Dick's own words aptly describe the way he viewed his professorship: "As I grow older and more experienced as a member of the
Perhaps more importantly, beyond the academician there was Dick Nelson the colleague and friend, and Dick Nelson the man. No one who knew him can forget the pleasures of a conversation with him. His interests were broad; he had a wonderful sense of humor, and was capable of providing wise counsel to those in need of it. He
Finally Dick was a loving and devoted family man, married for 32 years to his soulmate, Annabel. His spirit lives on through his two sons, Kevin and Jeff, the artist and the ergonomist. At the time of his passing, family, friends, students and colleagues were invited to describe attributes of Richard Nelson in a single word. The words in the following list emerged from this process: love, strength, ethics, character, intelligence, achievement, courage. These words from those who knew him are eloquent testimony to the kind of person that Dick Nelson was. For all of us, he lives in fond memories.
William V. Nestrick, English; Comparative Literature: Berkeley
| 1940-1996 | |
| Professor |
William Virgil Nestrick, a legendary educator and polymath scholar of Renaissance and 20th-century literature, drama, and the visual arts, died at his Berkeley home on February 29, 1996, of massive brain hemorrhage; he was 55. At the time of his death he was Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature.
Bill joined the Berkeley faculty in English in 1967 upon receiving the Ph.D. in English from Harvard, to which he had returned after a year's study at Cambridge on a Henry Fellowship, following his 1961 Harvard B.A. summa cum laude. He joined the Comparative Literature faculty in 1974, and thereafter the two departments shared his appointment and the benefit of his generous energy, learning, and conscience as an educator. He served the campus as dean of the Division of Special Programs 1986-88 and founded in 1977, and directed until 1990, the undergraduate major program in film.
He was born on May 28, 1940, into a family of educators. His father W. Virgil Nestrick was professor and dean of Education at City College of New York and an administrator in the public schools of New York City. His mother Nova Nestrick was a high school principal in Manhasset. Bill Nestrick was an influential, innovative, and beloved teacher. During his Harvard years, as tutor in Adams House, he was a memorable mentor to undergraduates, many of whom remained devoted friends through their careers in theatre, music, poetry and fiction writing. At Berkeley, where he continued to inspire students in cross-disciplinary studies in the arts, he taught in Extension as well as in the degree programs of his home departments and in the Division of Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies, which he helped to establish.
A frequent lecturer at the Pacific Film Archive, he was active in many campus and Bay Area arts and film organizations. For over a decade he served on the Chancellor's Committee on the Creative Arts and was also a member of the University Art Museum's Collections Committee. He chaired the Arts Division juries for the annual San Francisco International Film Festival for several years, and in spring 1996 the festival dedicated a sequence of programs to his memory. The Pacific Film Archive of the UC Berkeley Art Museum also dedicated to him a 1996 summer-long tribute, a series of weekly "double Bills" including some of the favorites on which he had often lectured to Pacific Film Archive audiences.
His exceptionally wide knowledge and interests in the arts were reflected in publications and teaching, ranging from English Renaissance poetry to modern drama and the visual arts, opera, music, and film. "The virtuous and gentle discipline of gentlemen and poets," Spenser's phrase for the summation of humanist knowledge and cultivation, provided the title of his first published essay (written at the age of 19 and still highly valued and often anthologized); it also encompasses the qualities of mind and character he exemplified in his scholarship and teaching. Yet the archaic cast of the phrase misleads if it suggests merely conservative or traditional tastes, sympathies, and commitments. Bill warmly welcomed and cultivated the new, and the juxtaposition of antique and contemporary culture, of "high" and "low" arts, was a memorable feature of all his work.
As a film scholar his screening choices, program notes, and presentations were full of wit and surprise, "brilliant, and often explosively funny," as Edith Kramer, head of the Pacific Film Archive, recalls them. Millicent Hodson, a former student whose Ph.D. dissertation later became the Joffrey Ballet's 1989 full reconstruction of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, first encountered Bill early in her graduate studies in his huge and lively lecture course in modern drama. She fondly recalls the impetus and sustaining example her work received from his rangy artistic imagination and knowledge: "he unearthed conventions of classical comedy in Hollywood films of the 1930s; his understanding of Howard Hawks induced me to reread Aristophanes." David Littlejohn, a colleague who invited Bill to present a lecture to the 1993 Music Critics Association, remembers with awe the depth of analysis and range of reference to early 20th-century Viennese culture in his lecture on Richard Strauss and its copious illustration with slides from a wide array of unfamiliar sources--and his still greater astonishment when, asked for a copy
The recent convention of calling such memorials as this one a "celebration" has special accuracy for a commemoration of Bill: it has proved difficult for his friends to call to mind one event or encounter with him that did not in some way involve festivity. Celebrations were numerous in his life. He was a superb host, cook, pianist, with an endlessly inventive sense of occasion, and he made little qualitative difference between work and play, exuberance and careful effort. But while his talent for life may have seemed to those who delighted in it a vital and generous force of nature, it was much more deeply a matter of conscious art, sustained with enormous verve and courage. For he was in the richest and most exact sense of the term an educator--one who leads or draws out knowledge from the diverse people and opportunities in which it resides. His profession gave him scope, space, and means of realization, and he practiced it with resourceful grace. His devotion to learning and art, his joy in the life of the mind and the senses, are sorely missed by his colleagues, students, and friends.
Francesco M. Nicosia, Business: Berkeley
| 1927-1997 | |
| Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus |
Franco Nicosia, a member of the Marketing Group in the Walter A. Haas School of Business at Berkeley, died of lung cancer at his home in Moraga, California, on Tuesday March 11, 1997. He was 70 years old and had suffered from the disease for several years.
Nicosia was born on January 21, 1927, in Milan, Italy He received a Dottore in Economics and Commerce degree from the University of Rome in 1952 and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley in 1962. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1959 and was an active member of the faculty for over thirty years. He retired in 1991. Before coming to Berkeley, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Rome, Fulbright Fellow at Stanford, and a Visiting Fellow in Lausanne, Switzerland. For much of his career at Berkeley, he was a research associate of the Survey Research Center (SRC), but was also associated with the institute of Business and Economics Research and the Center for Research in Management Science. He held visiting appointments at the universities of Pittsburgh and Waterloo and participated in dozens of workshops, symposia, and conferences at leading universities in the U.S. and abroad.
Nicosia was a prolific writer and researcher and is most well-known for his seminal work, Consumer Decision Processes (Prentice-Hall, 1966) in the Herbert Simon series of books on behavioral science in business. This book was one of the first in the emerging field of consumer behavior in the 1960s and presented a comprehensive general theory of consumer behavior. It was translated into five languages and widely quoted in marketing literature years after its publication. The field of consumer behavior has grown widely and rapidly since the 1960s, and Nicosia is often considered one of its
Nicosia was a trustee of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fund at Columbia University and worked closely with Charles Glock when Glock was Director of SRC at Berkeley He authored, co-authored, or edited six books written in English, Italian Pioneers in California (1960), Consumer Decision Processes (1966), Advertising Management, and Society: A Business Point of View (1974), Behavioral Models for Market Analysis: Foundations for Marketing Action (1977) with J. Wind, Regulation of Marketing and the Public Interest: Essays in Honor of Ewald T Grether (1981), with F. E. Balderston and J. M. Carman, and Advertising Principles, Problems, and Cases (1977 and 1983) with C. J. Dirksen and A. Kroeger. He published another book written in Italian and wrote dozens of monographs, book chapters, journal articles, reports, and speeches.
In addition to single-authored papers (nine were published in Italian journals between 1952 through 1957), he conducted research and published jointly with many other people, including the authors of this memorial. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he published five journal articles with John Myers on topics such as consumer typologies, cluster analysis, time-path types, static and dynamic typologies, and latent structure analysis. In 1979, he published "Marketing Management, Its Environment and Information Processing: A Problem of Organizational Design," with Jiro Nonaka. He was the recipient of major NSF, RANN, and other grants on topics such as consumers and technology, the purchasing behavior of newly-married couples (involving a large Illinois panel study with Robert Ferber), and coping behavior. He also contributed chapters
Both Nicosia's interdisciplinary and international reach were legendary. As interdisciplinarian, he served on oral or doctoral dissertation committees in business administration, sociology, educational psychology, agricultural economics, economics, psychology, and engineering. He was an internationalist business professor before it became popular to be one and participated in conferences, colloquia, workshops, and symposia throughout the United States and other countries around the world. Many of his articles are published in journals in Italy, Austria, Germany, Eastern Europe, Japan, and other parts of Asia.
Over his 38 years of association with the Business School at Berkeley, he taught in all major teaching programs: undergraduate, daytime MBA, evening MBA, doctoral, and executive. He was best known for his one-on-one work with Ph.D. students and supervision of dozens of MBA master's theses and undergraduate independent study projects. Within the Business School, he served as chair of the doctoral dissertations of Ikujiro Nonaka, Douglas MacLachlan, Johny Johansson, David Tse, Steven Silver (cochair). He was also chair or served on orals committees of many Ph.D. students of the Business School and other campus departments. Three business students whose doctoral dissertations were chaired by Nicosia, and all of whom now hold prominent academic positions, provided the comments given below. The first, by Professor Ikujiro Nonaka, currently dean of the Graduate School of Knowledge Science at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and the first recipient of the Fuji Xerox Chair Professorship in Knowledge at Berkeley considers four of Nicosia's memorable characteristics. Nonaka studied under Nicosia for over five years, 1967-1972, and recalls that his consumer behavior course was one of the most popular in the MBA program.
First of all, he was a man of fighting spirit. His entire life was marked by a series of "fights." He talked fondly of his experiences fighting the Nazis in the resistance movement when he was young, being taken hostage, and risking his life on a daring escape attempt. It seemed everything was a matter of life or death to him. I felt that when he took me for a ride in his Datsun 240Z! The intensity with which he confronted everything may have given rise to misunderstandings, both at work and at home.
― 124 ―He was always spirited and jovial, but his smiles may have veiled an unspoken sense of loneliness.
Second, he was a man of questioning. Professor Nicosia had an incredibly strong intellectual curiosity and constantly posed fundamental questions on everything that triggered his interest. He was a big believer and a practitioner of Socratic dialogue. It was rough, both mentally and physically, to carry on a dialogue with Professor Nicosia, but this invaluable experience has engrained in me the discipline to “think deep.” In retrospect, it was about the time I began engaging in a dialogue with him that I started losing my hair.
Third, he was a man of requisite variety. He was both “long” and “short.” Verbally, Professor Nicosia was “long,” a trait of a true Italian. His words would take him to wherever his curiosity would guide him. He also made ample use of redundancy. In contrast, his writing style was “short.” His writings are brief, to the point, and condensed, a style he perfected into art form. He often advised me to read Hemingway's short stories.
And lastly, he was man of persistence. Throughout his life, he was a devoted student of consumer decision process. His research was singlemindedly focused on this topic. He taught me what it takes to develop discipline, a gift I hope to pass on to the next generation.
His legacy lives on in my work. I recently published a book entitled The Knowledge-Creating Company with my colleague, Hirotaka Takauchi. Little known is the fact that it was Professor Nicosia who persuaded Takeuchi to join the Ph.D. program at Berkeley. In writing this book, both of us spent 10 years observing Japanese companies. We were persistent in pursuing this topic, thought deeply about it, fought with and questioned each other endlessly, and committed ourselves to developing a new theory. Unfortunately, the book does not read like Hemingway's short stories. We owe what we are today to the intellectual assets we inherited from Professor Nicosia. Professor Nicosia, you are a true model of an innovator, and we salute you for it.
Douglas L. MacLachlan, currently Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the University of Washington Business School, Seattle remembers him as follows:
Franco is the person entirely responsible for my being an academic today I had been a research assistant for him during my MBA program and after graduation in 1965 had gone to Hastings Law School. Although I had been enjoying law school, he persuaded me to come into the program. I spent many evenings and weekends in his office, usually staggering out with my head swimming with ideas and my clothes reeking from his cigarette smoke. He persuaded Del Monte corporation to support my dissertation and he chaired the dissertation, which won first prize in the American Marketing Association Doctoral Dissertation competition in 1971. My only regret was not finishing the marketing research textbook which he and I started with Fred Schrier back in the 1970s, but the three of us, being Italian, American, and Austrian, respectively, were never able to communicate completely in English! Although written communication was never Franco's long suit, I admired and respected him as one of the only truly imaginative and creative people I have ever met.
Johny K. Johansson, currently the McCrane/Shaker Chair in International Business and Marketing, and chair of the Marketing Group at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. recalls him as follows. Johansson begin his relationship with Nicosia in 1968 after a year in Europe.
I did of course learn a lot from Franco during late evening hours. Between reminiscences of his time in the Italian undergound during World War II, he would talk about theory, empirical research, and the importance of knowing how things worked before intervening in a process. He was driving a Triumph sports car at the time, and I came to the conclusion that his preoccupation with causal links in complete behavioral systems had very much to do with his efforts at fixing the frequent breakdowns of that car.
This being Berkeley in the 1960s, Franco was a difficult person to get along with. His defiant anti-fascism from the days of Mussolini made him suspicious of the campus demonstrations. His Old World heritage mixed uneasily with the laid back California counterculture. Nevertheless, he was in his own idiosyncratic and challenging way a very good mentor, mixing the American-style give-and-take interchanges with the old authoritarian ways favored in Europe. When Jiro Nonaka and I wrote a book on Japanese marketing, Relentless, The Japanese Way of
― 126 ―Marketing [Harper Business, 1996] we decided to dedicate the book to Franco as a small token of gratitude.
Nicosia also made many contributions in the areas of administration and other professional and university service. He served as chair of the Marketing and International Business Group at Berkeley from 1967-70, chair of the School's Policy and Planning Committee, 1974-75, president of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Marketing Association, 1976-77, president of the Pacific Chapter of AAPOR, 1985-86, and was heavily involved in various student organizations such as the Marketing Club, Daily Californian, and ASUC. He is responsible for the school's Honig Fellowships that support student summer internships in advertising. He served on numerous faculty review committees at Berkeley and other universities, and sponsored dozens of faculty scholars and visitors. Although never a journal editor, he served on the editorial board of the Journal of Marketing, and as reviewer for several journals and book publishers. He was a member of ACR, AMA, APA Division 23, AAPOR, and was elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1979. He founded a consulting firm in the 1960s and served as consultant to dozens of companies over the years. In October, 1997, a special session was held at the annual meetings of the Association for Consumer Research in Denver, Colorado to honor Nicosia and his many contributions to the development of the field of consumer behavior. He will be missed.
He is survived by his son Marco, who lives in Berkeley; his two daughters, Antonia of Alameda and Daniela of Placentia, California; his former wife, Marion Nicosia of Alameda; and his second wife, Sharon O'Dougherty, now living in Dublin, Ireland.
James Jerome Parsons, Geography: Berkeley
| 1915-1997 | |
| Professor |
James J. Parsons, who was on the Geography Department faculty at Berkeley for half a century, died of brain tumor on February 19, 1997, at the age of 81. His contributions to geography were exceptional in the breadth of his scholarly interests, his commitment to field observation, and his influence on generations of students at all levels.
Born on November 15, 1915, in Cortland, New York, he was nine when his family moved to Monrovia, California. After attending Pasadena Junior College, he enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1935, graduating in economics in 1937. After a year as a reporter for the Ukiah Redwood Journal, he returned to Berkeley for graduate work in geography. While completing the M.A. and publishing his first articles, he was supervised by Carl Sauer, whose historical and cultural approaches were a lifelong influence on his work. He then did four years of military service, mainly based in the Pacific. After the war he returned to Berkeley to work on a Ph.D. on Antioqueño colonization of Western Colombia which he completed in 1948. In the same year he became an Assistant Professor in the Geography Department.
Although based in Berkeley for virtually his entire working life, his scholarly contributions were exceptionally wide-ranging and his reach and activities worldwide. His 150 articles and myriad reviews and notes, alongside his four books, covered a remarkably diverse range of subjects, from cork-oak forests to California manufacturing, from fog drip to pre-Columbian ridged fields (which he initially discovered from the air), and from African grasses in the New World to the historical pre-conditions for industrialization. Each piece was thoroughly researched, written in vivid prose and frequently included
Internationally, he was best known for his work on the historical and cultural geography of Latin America and also of Spain, and a selection of his writings on these regions was published in 1989 in a book--Hispanic Lands and Peoples (edited by W. M. Denevan). In particular, he became a revered figure in Colombia, where his books were translated into Spanish. But he also published widely on California, and taught its geography to large classes for many years.
He was a devoted teacher, who always made time to talk to students, even after his retirement, and to make them feel that he shared their interests and to stimulate their enthusiasm. More than any other faculty member, he maintained a massive file of the activities and achievements of the departmental students, majors, graduate students and alumni, and produced an annual newsletter called The Itinerant Geographer, which was unique in the world in its scope and vitality.
For some decades, he and his wife, Betty, entertained successive waves of students, faculty and visitors in their home in the Berkeley hills. Betty also frequently went along on his legendary field trips, which so many students remember with particular affection. Field observation was an indispensable prerequisite for most of his research publication and its basic value as a method was transmitted by precept and example to his students.
His formal service to the department, to the Berkeley campus, and to his profession was considerable and continuous. He served twice as chairman of the Geography Department--a total of 11 years and several times as chairman of the Center for Latin American Studies, as well as on many key campus committees, such as the Graduate Council, the Library Committee, and the Committee on Courses. He and his family were also inveterate supporters of Cal sports activities.
He received many awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Honorary degree as well as a Gold Medal from Colombia. He received special awards from the Association of American Geographers (of which he was elected President), and the California Council for Geographic Education to recognize his encouragement of high school teachers, and he gave a swath of invited lectures around the world. He was a mainstay of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers and the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, but probably his favorite body was the American Geographical Society, which awarded him its signal honor, the David Livingstone medal, in 1985.
The legacy of Jim Parsons for thousands of students, including over 30 of his Ph.D. students now in important positions around the world, for his colleagues, for the department and for the Berkeley campus, will continue to be substantial. His generous, supportive, and stimulating personality, spiced with a wry sense of humor and his deceptively casual style, will be missed for a long time. His enthusiasm for geography in all its facets was splendidly infectious and, in many ways, has been a linchpin for his discipline.
Siegfried Puknat, Humanities: Santa Cruz
| 1914-1997 | |
| Professor of German Literature, Emeritus |
Siegfried Puknat was born in Hamburg, Germany on August 28, 1914, when the First World War was just three weeks old. It was not the most auspicious time for someone who was to spend his professional life interpreting German culture to Americans. But in his birthdate there was also another--and better--portent for a future professor of German literature: August 28 is the birthday of Goethe, Germany's greatest poet.
Sig's father had close ties to Kaiser Wilhelm the Second--he actually rode the Kaiser's racehorses--and he named his two sons after the two greatest warriors of German history and myth: Hermann, destroyer of the Roman legions, and Siegfried, the German Achilles, hero of the great national epic, the Nibelungenlied. But in spite of this nationalist sentiment, the Great War seemed to leave no rancor in the Puknat family, for Puknat senior and his siblings soon moved to America one by one, and Sig was a naturalized American citizen by the time he was 14 years old. What did remain with Sig from these beginnings were the three greatest intellectual interests of his life: he read everything he could get his hands on about the origins of the Great War, he was always rethinking it, and as he died there were two books on the subject at his bedside; he taught Goethe's Faust, the pinnacle of German literature, as often as he could throughout his career, both in the original German and in translation, by himself and with others; and he would always go anywhere to see a performance of the Ring, Wagner's version of the Nibelungenlied.
Sig grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA in 1935. It was only a mild exaggeration to say that the cultural center of Germany at that time was Southern California, because so many great
We all knew Sig as a man who held nearly every post there was in both the administration and the faculty Senate, each time carrying out his duties with great shrewdness and good humor, but before he arrived in Santa Cruz he had already done as much on the Davis campus. And his service to Santa Cruz began three years before we saw him at work here: already in 1962 Sig was helping to shape the new campus as a member of the small advisory committee set up by President Clark Kerr to help Dean McHenry plan it.
The new campus was to have an unusual collegiate structure and so the first group of faculty that began teaching in 1965 was predominantly young and enthusiastic about educational innovation. But the President and Chancellor also saw a need for the experience and moderating influence of someone who was well-versed in the folkways of the University of California. Clark Kerr and Dean McHenry picked Sig for that role, no small compliment to him, for there were thousands of other old Senate hands on the other campuses for them to chose from. It is easy to see what made them go to Sig: he understood so thoroughly the great traditions of the University and its remarkable system of self-governance through the Academic Senate. Many of the younger faculty at UCSC--myself included--learned how it worked and why it was so important from Sig.
Most of us remember Sig in the early years of the campus playing the moderating role that he had been given, and playing it with great skill, and so we are apt to forget that he was also responsible for some of the most important and lasting innovations of those early days. For example, the campus decided to view literature as a single field, rather than one spread over many departments. That was Sig's idea, and a very important one it proved to be for the development of the field at Santa Cruz. Another idea that shaped the way a whole department developed here was the Music Board's decision not to separate musicologists from performers, but instead to make all their faculty scholar/performers. That is now a distinctive aspect of the music program at Santa Cruz, and again, it was Sig's idea. In his
Sig had the distinction of being the very first full-time faculty appointment at Santa Cruz, but that was only one of an impressive list of other firsts. He was the first chair of the literature board, the first campus representative to the statewide Academic Senate, the first chair of the all-important committee that monitored new appointments and promotions on the campus, the first to be elected twice as Chairman of the Academic Senate, and the first to have held all the administrative titles of Vice-Chancellor, Dean and Provost. Everyone knew that if they wanted a job well done, they had only to turn to Sig. The German literature faculty was always a very small group, but our presence on the campus seemed much larger because Sig was one of us.
The most important thing that the early members of the campus had to do was to recruit a first-rate faculty that would set the tone of the new campus for generations to come. Sig's philosophy of recruiting was simple. He used to say that our job was to make sure that the campus was constantly improving, and to do that we had to find people who were better than we were. That was the standard, if you were recruiting together with him.
Sig was genuinely devoted to the University of California; he had a deep respect for its traditions, and he carried on those traditions as a major figure on two of its campuses. During times of crisis--and I think especially of the campus leadership crisis of 1975--he was often the man that we turned to for a steady hand and firm guidance.
The other great devotion of Sig's life was his wife Betty. They met teaching together on the faculty of Carleton College, taught side by side again in Cowell College, and even shared their lives as scholars, publishing jointly. When she died in 1972 at a tragically early age, Sig virtually stopped writing. To the end of his life, the generous gifts he made to the University were always jointly in his name and Betty's.
Sig had a very special position on the Santa Cruz campus, a unique one of affection and respect. Everyone has their own favorite memory of him. Mine is of intellectual arguments with him, which he loved. He was a formidable adversary, exceptionally nimble and deft. My fondest memory of Sig is when he was building his case relentlessly to its logical conclusion and seemed just about to deliver the coup-de-grace, when he would suddenly stop, and there would be a twinkle
By most standards Sig lived a long and full life, and he certainly had a satisfying and long retirement, but it's hard for us not to feel cheated out of another dozen or more years with him, because the normal rules of aging never seemed to apply to Sig. He was always more mentally and physically agile than many people who were half his age. On both his mother's and his father's side of the family there were many who had lived well into their nineties. For a time we thought that his Aunt Emma was going to be the first to break 100, but when she fell by the wayside at 99, I began to think, or to hope, that Sig himself would be the first of the family to get there. But I was forgetting that birthday--Goethe's birthday, August the 28th. Because Sig's life not only began on that same day in August--it also ended, just as Goethe's did, in late March of his 83rd year. Sig died just a few days younger, tactful to the last.
Arthur J. Quinn, Rhetoric: Berkeley
| 1942-1997 | |
| Professor |
Arthur J. Quinn died at his home in Berkeley on Thursday, May 15, 1997, after a long illness. He was 54 years old. A third-generation Californian, Quinn was a native of Marin County, born on September 18, 1942, in San Rafael. After graduating from Marin Catholic High School, he studied at the University of San Francisco, where he also played baseball, and then at Princeton University, which awarded him a Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science in 1970. He never lost his early love for sports, and he would occasionally, at a difficult moment, regret having refused a contract to play professional baseball.
Quinn began his teaching career at the University of Oregon in 1968 and moved in 1970 to Berkeley, where he taught until his death. His service in the Rhetoric Department was marked by his leading role in the reorganization of the undergraduate major and by terms as chair of the department and as director of college writing. Quinn held the University's Distinguished Teaching Award and enjoyed a broad reputation as one of the outstanding teachers in the humanities. He was particularly known for his efforts to encourage good writing and for the very wide range of authors he taught, ranging from the Bible to Henry Adams and Simone Weil.
Among the many honors that came to him were Woodrow Wilson, National Science Foundation, and Danforth fellowships, and Award of Merit from the California Historical Society, and a fellowship of Clare Hall, Cambridge, England, where he was living with his family when he fell ill. He was a member of PEN, the international writers' association.
Quinn published books on many subjects, from the Old Testament and British philosophy to rhetoric and history. One of his books on rhetoric, Figures of Speech (1982), drew praise from scholars and was chosen as an alternate selection by the Book of the Month Club. His greatest love, however, was the history of the United States, especially his native California. He wrote three books on California history: The Broken Shore (1981) recapitulates great themes of Western Civilization within a history of what is now Marin County; The Rivals (1994) narrates struggles for justice and order in early American San Francisco and California on the eve of the Civil War; and Hell With the Fire Out (1997) recreates from eyewitness accounts the grim story of the Modoc War.
Quinn's creation narratives of California found their macrocosmic framework in the prehistory and early history of the American Republic. In his masterwork, A New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec (1994), he tells how the Europeans re-enacted their social, political, and religious heritages in North American settings. In his introductory evocation of Virgil, he posed his essential question:
"Does history require such viciousness for so noble an end? If so, then the forces that govern it are perverse. And the free and prosperous American republic that would eventually emerge from this tumultuous process of colonization was itself little more than a Pyrrhic victory for the human spirit."From his earliest writings, Quinn believed that history involved
"the strenuous determination of moral questions,"which made it
"a humanistic discipline, perhaps even the humanistic discipline par excellence."He was a philosophical historian in the tradition of Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams, both of whom he surpassed in stylistic range but also in breadth of moral vision. Upon the appearance of his first book on California, Czeslaw Milosz, Berkeley's Nobel poet laureate, referred to Art as
"the Ecclesiastes of the West Coast."
Art Quinn is survived by his wife, Barney Roddy Quinn, a native of Ross, and four children, Edward, Mary, Joseph, and Elizabeth, all of Berkeley.
Eric Reissner, Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences: San Diego
| 1913-1996 | |
| Professor of Applied Mechanics, Emeritus |
Eric Reissner, noted teacher, researcher and prolific author, died of cancer on November 1, 1996 in La Jolla, California. He was 83 and lived with his wife of 58 years, Johanna, in Solana Beach, near the University of California, San Diego, where he was Professor Emeritus.
Over a remarkable career spanning more than 60 years, Dr. Reissner expanded the foundations of the theory of mechanics, leading to advances in the design of both civil engineering and aerospace structures. In a recent review of Reissner's Selected Works in Applied Mechanics and Mathematics, published in 1996 and edited by four of his former students, Professor A. W. Leissa of Ohio State University writes, "Professor Reissner is the consummate applied mathematician who, by his vast, useful research accomplishments, has reached the pinnacle among distinguished scholars in solid mechanics."
Born in Aachen, Germany in 1913, the son of aeronautical engineering pioneer Professor Dr. Ing. Hans Reissner and his wife Josephine, Eric grew up in Berlin where his father had become professor at his own alma mater. Eric Reissner always was at ease with mathematics and received his doctorate in applied mathematics from the Technische Hochschule Berlin in 1935. Because of the unpromising political developments in Germany at that time, Eric came to the United States in 1937, where he earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1938 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for an analysis of the aeronautical structures problem of tension field theory. He joined the MIT faculty in 1939 and remained there until 1970, when he moved to the University of California San Diego, where he had previously served as Visiting Professor in 1967 and as Professor-in-Residence in 1969. His position was Professor of Applied Mechanics, and he chaired the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Reissner's work contributed to improved understanding of the mechanics of plates, shells and beams, of the dynamics of structures, and of the theory of elasticity, as well as advancing knowledge of turbulence, aerodynamics and wing theory. In their preface to his selected works Professors Atluri (Georgia Tech), Lardner (University of Massachusetts), Simmonds (University of Virginia) and Wan (University of California Irvine) comment that "his lectures were always clear, incisive and thorough, exposing both the subtlety of solid mechanics and the subtlety of his thinking. He demanded much of his students because he demanded so much of himself. Yet, for us, on the other side of this keen professional was a generous and caring friend, colleague and mentor."
Reissner is perhaps best known for the Reissner shear deformation plate theory, which resolved the classical boundary-condition paradox of Kirchhoff, and for establishment of the Reissner variational principle in solid mechanics, for which he received an award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Reissner also was honored by the American Society of Civil Engineers with the von Karman Medal, by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with the Timoshenko Medal, and by the University of Hanover, Germany, with an honorary doctorate. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the International Academy of Astronautics, and an honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the German Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik). He wrote nearly 300 articles published in scientific and technical journals and continued these contributions to the advancement of knowledge until the last few months of his illness.
We all knew Eric Reissner as a fine gentleman, scholar and friend. His exceptionally high standards of excellence in research persisted throughout his entire career. The noteworthy example that he has set will remain with us and will benefit future generations.
Carl G. Rosberg, Political Science: Berkeley
| 1923-1996 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Carl G. Rosberg passed away on October 3, 1996, after a long illness. Rosberg was born on February 2, 1923. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1945, part of the time as a prisoner of war in Romania. He received the B.S. in 1948 from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and the M.S. in 1950 from the same institution. From 1950 until 1954 he attended St. Antony's College, Oxford University, where he was introduced to African studies and received the Ph.D.
He held a position at Boston University (1955-58) before joining the Department of Political Science in Berkeley in 1958. He was advanced to tenure in 1963 and to professorship in 1967. He served as chairman from 1969 to 1974, during a particularly difficult period in the life of the department and the campus, and he was the director of the Institute of International Studies from 1973 until 1989. Periods of teaching at African universities punctuated his academic life at Berkeley, as did many trips to Africa for purposes of research.
His intellectual achievements were numerous. (1) Rosberg created, along with five or six others, the field of African Studies in the U.S. He trained the first generation of American (and many African) political scientists concerned with Africa. His overall teaching role must be seen in that context. (2) He, along with a few others, established political science as a discipline in African universities and continued to be active in the global professionalization of African studies all his life. (3) Under his stewardship, Berkeley's Institute of International Studies maintained and broadened interdisciplinary, comparative, and international studies after the expiration of the initial Ford Foundation funding. (4) His own research and writing were vital contributions to scholarship on modern Africa. We take up each of these in turn.
Creating and Teaching African Studies
The Ford Foundation, then committed to the establishment of area studies as a fixed feature of American academic life, identified Rosberg in 1954 as a potential leader by giving him a research fellowship. The Carnegie Corporation followed suit in 1960 by giving him (together with James Coleman) a five-year grant to study political elites in Africa. Both foundations were then seeking to create African studies; the field did not exist until people such as Rosberg took advantage of the opportunities created by the foundations. Their efforts were soon recognized. Rosberg served on the state-wide Advisory Committee on African Studies and on Ford Foundation committees before he received tenure. By the mid-1960s he was a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Council on African Affairs and of a similar body at the Rand Corporation. He was one of the founders of the African Studies Association, serving as Vice-President (1970-71) and as President (1971-72).
Among the doctoral students Rosberg subsequently trained in Berkeley are Africanists now teaching at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, CUNY, University of British Columbia, Cornell, and universities in Nigeria, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Australia, The Netherlands, and Germany He also trained administrators and officials of foundations and governments.
Rosberg's willingness to collaborate in publishing with his students is indicative of his general concern for their careers and welfare. Many students of Africa, and many African students, owed their survival at Berkeley at least in part to research assistantships and other forms of support that Rosberg arranged. He devoted an enormous number of hours to seeking scholarships for African students, and helping them personally if they encountered problems with visas or with university or other authorities. Overseas students were invited to Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners with him and his wife Elizabeth. Rosberg's door was always open to students and colleagues during the long hours that he spent in his office. His concern for people is a principal reason why so many people associated with him at Berkeley regarded him as a friend as well as a colleague.
Establishing Political Science in Africa
Rosberg was visiting professor of politics at Makerere University (Uganda) in 1964, professor of political science and head of a brand-new department at the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) from 1967 to 1969, and visiting professor of political science at the University of Nairobi (Kenya) in 1976-77. He was engaged by Tanzania
Directing International Studies at Berkeley
When Rosberg assumed the directorship of the Institute of International Studies (IIS) an unsettled condition prevailed regarding the relative positions of the several area centers as opposed to units and persons committed to international and comparative studies not focused on specific regions. Rosberg defused conflict among those interests by building bridges among generalists and regional specialists. He encouraged the creation of new centers when funding and faculty commitment justified this step. He took the initiative in the creation of two innovative cross-disciplinary undergraduate teaching programs which now have more than 600 majors: programs in the Political Economy of Industrial Societies and in Development Studies. Grants from the MacArthur and Hewlett Foundations fueled faculty research, as did smaller grants from several other foundations. Since, however, this period was one of declining external support for international and area studies, Rosberg had to work especially hard to maintain Berkeley's ability to fund faculty research and to support graduate students.
Under his directorship, IIS became very visible as an outreach agency Rosberg established links with the World Affairs Council of Northern California by serving on its core committees and inviting some of its members to participate in IIS events. The number and variety of such events were increased sharply under his directorship. Rosberg also used IIS as Berkeley's gateway into the regular African Conferences held jointly with the African studies institutes of the Soviet and Chinese Academy of Sciences, sponsored by the U.S. International Research and Exchange Board. Also under his leadership, the Institute became a major publisher of monographs and policy papers.
Research and Writing
(adapted from T. M. Callaghy and J. Ravenhill's preface to their Hemmed In, Columbia University Press, 1993)
(adapted from T. M. Callaghy and J. Ravenhill's preface to their Hemmed In, Columbia University Press, 1993)
Rosberg's first book, The Kenyatta Election: Kenya 1960-61 (1961), coauthored with George Bennett, examined the pre-independence election in Kenya that moved it toward majority rule. Better known is his other major work on Kenya in the 1960s--The Myth of "Mau Mau": Nationalism in Kenya (1966), coauthored with John Nottingham. The Myth of "Mau Mau" was an exploration of the roots of Kenyan nationalism. By showing how Mau Mau was an integral part of an ongoing, rationally conceived nationalist movement, the book destroyed the credibility of the argument of white supremacists in Kenya that Mau Mau was an atavistic escape from modernity.
The decade of the 1960s was a particularly exciting time to be involved in the study of African politics. Countries were coming to independence; political parties were in transition; and there was considerable optimism about the prospects for regional integration. Some of the dynamism and energy of this period is captured in the book that Rosberg edited with his good friend, James S. Coleman, on Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa (1964). This book became a standard authority for students in the field for many years. Many of the young scholars who contributed to the book subsequently went on to consolidate reputations as leading figures in the field of comparative politics.
In the same year that Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa was published, Rosberg also edited the first of two volumes that he was to publish on socialism in Africa. African Socialism, co-edited with William Friedland, became a standard work on the subject and, like The Myth of "Mau Mau," it played an important role in demolishing myths--on this occasion about the "socialist" nature of Africa's parties. This statement applies a fortiori to the second volume on this topic Socialism in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Assessment (1979), co-edited with Thomas M. Callaghy 15 years after the publication of the first. With Africa experiencing the rise of a new wave of "socialist" parties in the former Portuguese colonies, this volume brought a timely reassessment of the meaning of socialism in Africa.
Rosberg had a long-standing interest in the politics of South Africa and in encouraging a peaceful transition to black majority rule. A series of conferences on the country was held under the auspices of the Institute of International Studies. Together with one of his former students and colleague in the Department of Political Science at Berkeley, Robert M. Price, Rosberg edited a volume on The Apartheid Regime: Political Power and Racial Domination in 1980.
As Africa's economic decline became clear in the late 1970s and early 1980s, political scientists sought an understanding of economic failure through an examination of the weaknesses of African political institutions. It would be no exaggeration to say that Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant (1982), coauthored with another of Rosberg's former students, Robert H. Jackson, was one of the most influential books in causing students of African politics to rethink the role and nature of government in African countries. A spinoff of this project was a 1982 article in World Politics on "Why Africa's Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood"--a piece that was praised not only by students of Africa, but also by many international relations theorists as well.
Rosberg is survived by his wife Elizabeth and two sons, James Howard and David Nils.
Tsunao Saitoh, Neurosciences: San Diego
| 1949-1996 | |
| Professor |
We tragically lost our friend and colleague, Tsunao Saitoh, Professor of Neurosciences at UCSD, and his 13-year-old daughter, Louille, at about 11 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, 1996, as they were returning from his laboratory. They were killed at gunpoint in front of their home. He had spent the evening working and helping his daughter with her homework. This tragedy is deeply felt by his remaining family and by his many colleagues and friends. Dr. Saitoh's death has left a deep void for his collaborators and students.
Tsunao was highly intelligent, hard-working, and creative. He had become a leading scientist in the field of Alzheimer research, a superb mentor, and a wonderful collaborator. He was warm and caring, considerate and helpful to his students and fellows. His laboratory group at the time of his death included five pre-doctoral students, five postdoctoral fellows, two visiting scholars, and support staff. He had a wide breadth of knowledge in both science and the humanities, and when there were disagreements he would argue his point of view without rancor. He was sophisticated in his tastes, both Western and Japanese, and knew the best sushi chefs in San Diego. At the same time he was an intensely private individual.
Tsunao, born on December 13, 1949, received both a master's (1974) and a Ph.D. degree (1977) from the Institute for Virus Research at Kyoto University. From the earliest stages of his career he was extremely productive. Publications from his master's degree work (with S. Hiraga) dealt with DNA replication in E. Coli and DNA transfer to recipient cells; additional publications based on his doctoral studies (with A. Ishihama) focused on subunits of RNA polymerase. At that stage of his career, a new interest in the nervous system motivated a move to Paris to work with E Changeux at the
We were extraordinarily fortunate in recruiting Dr. Saitoh to the UCSD Department of Neurosciences and to our Alzheimer Disease Research Center in 1985. Tsunao initially studied changes in protein kinases in brain tissue of Alzheimer patients. Subsequently, he turned his attention to the physiological function of the APP molecule, demonstrating its trophic properties.
One of the distinguishing features of Tsuano's research was his desire to investigate previously unexamined questions. One of his favorite responses to colleagues when asked why he had not studied a particular problem was: "Others are already doing it." This philosophy led to his pioneering efforts to examine the biological function of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) shortly after his arrival to UCSD. His laboratory was the first to describe the trophic functions of APP using a particularly elegant approach that took advantage of his considerable skill in molecular and cell biology. This characterization, published in the journal Cell, remains one of the classic studies on the physiological function of APP to date. Since then, his laboratory has been one of the leaders in defining APP's function in regulating cell growth and maturation.
APP is a protein that is degraded into amyloid b-protein (Ab), the principal constituent of senile plaques found in brains of Alzheimer disease individuals. The prevailing idea in AD research was that Ab toxicity is involved in AD, but there was no direct evidence that Ab effects observed under laboratory conditions actually occur in life or are involved in the pathogenesis of AD. Saitoh had maintained that the putative toxicity of Ab and the trophic function of APP may be crucial to our understanding of AD pathology. As a result, he felt it was imperative to know the precise molecular mechanisms by which APP or its secreted derivative sAPP exert these positive effects on cells. Therefore, extending his earlier studies of APP trophism in cultured fibroblasts, his laboratory showed that the secreted APP molecule demonstrates similar activities in neurons. Furthermore, he defined one domain within sAPP that subserves this trophic function. Because altered synthesis and processing of APP may have
A second major discovery concerning the molecular changes in Alzheimer Disease was that of a new amyloid component protein (NACP). Tsunao and his collaborators cloned the NACP gene which is located on chromosome four and is present as part of the amyloid core in about four-fifths of the neuritic plaques in Alzheimer brains. He showed that NACP aggregated with the Ab peptide to form amyloid, in a manner analogous to apolipoprotein E. During the several months just prior to his death, Saitoh's laboratory had investigated the possibility that inheritance of a specific allele of NACP might alter susceptibility to the development of Alzheimer's disease. This work was part of a larger scientific effort aimed at identifying genetic factors that might modify the risk of developing Alzheimer Disease in both apolipoprotein E4 positive and negative individuals. At the time of his death, he was at the very peak of his productive career. Numerous manuscripts were in preparation when his life was cut short.
When a colleague and a friend like Tsunao passes away in such tragic circumstances, it moves us to ask ourselves how would Tsunao have wanted us to remember him. Tsunao was an extremely dedicated and intelligent person whose mission in life was to understand the causes of Alzheimer's Disease and to help find a cure. But Tsunao's life transcends beyond the hundreds of papers and the scientific discoveries, he taught us about life and tragically also about death. Tsunao was a deeply spiritual and humane individual who treated everybody with respect and who searched for a deeper understanding of the relationship between man and nature and how scientific and mystical thinking shaped this process. Through this, Tsunao transmitted not only a sense of knowledge and understanding, but also of peace and hope for the future.
When Tsunao came to UCSD in 1985 he left behind a scientific world of elegant simplified models of neural function and entered the world of those dedicated to understanding disease in the most complex of all organs, the human brain. He undertook the objective
To this quest, Tsunao brought his very broad vision based upon his extraordinarily wide knowledge of molecular and cellular biology. He was always trying to see how the pieces that he or others found could be put together in understanding this disease. At the same time, he embraced the hard experimental work required by the problems he set for himself and his laboratory. The human brain does not provide easy keys to its understanding. Each finding must be fought for. And this difficulty is amplified in a disease as protean as Alzheimer, a disease involving so many chemical systems.
But as scientific success came step by step, Tsunao dealt with the realities of the scientific world in which he lived. He developed a large laboratory; he needed the help of his students and postdoctoral fellows, who in turn needed him. But maintaining a major research program requires major resources. The National Institutes of Health, the Alzheimer Association, and other agencies provide major support to researchers, but obtaining such support is often frustrating today as so many researchers know. Only a small proportion of applications is funded, and though peer reviewers try their best, in the final analysis there is an important element of chance in funding that must be overcome. During his career at UCSD, Tsunao was successful in obtaining necessary monies such as a Zenith award of the Alzheimer Association, but the need of his laboratory for support required a willingness to overcome frustration, a willingness to submit applications, and to seek help from industry. Sometimes when his peers did not give a high enough priority to a grant application whose idea later turned out to be at the leading edge, Tsunao felt that he was insufficiently articulate. But he took this need for raising funds for his research with good grace, and did not let it interfere with his science. In the end, he and his colleagues made many significant contributions. He became a leading scientist in the field of Alzheimer research, a superb mentor and a wonderful collaborator. We were personally inspired by him. We miss him terribly But at the same time, we are sure that all who read this will join in celebrating the impact that his vision and dedication, his good humor, and his warmth brought to his laboratory, to his friends, to UCSD and to the scientific community.
Edwin H. Spanier, Mathematics: Berkeley
| 1921-1996 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Edwin H. Spanier died of cancer in Scottsdale, Arizona, on October 11, 1996. Born in Washington, D.C., on August 8, 1921, he was graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1941 and then spent three years as a mathematician in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He received the doctorate in mathematics in 1947 from the University of Michigan under the direction of Norman Steenrod. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1948. He was a Guggenheim fellow in Paris in 1952-53, a member of the institute for Advanced Study in 1958-59, and a Miller Research Fellow at Berkeley in 1961-62. His visiting appointments include positions in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland; and at UCSD and UCLA.
Spanier was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Berkeley in 1959, at the beginning of a period of rapid expansion of the mathematics department. An internationally recognized authority in the swiftly developing field of topology, he attracted first-class mathematicians as visitors and new faculty members. He played a major role in organizing new programs in geometry and topology, subjects in which Berkeley soon achieved preeminence. He served several times as vice chair and acting chair of the department, and directed 14 doctoral dissertations at Berkeley in addition to three at Chicago; in 1991 he became Professor Emeritus.
From his doctoral dissertation through the mid-1960s, and again in the last 15 years of his life, Spanier's research was concentrated in algebraic topology, in which geometrical objects are analyzed by means of computations in associated algebraic systems. This subject,
Spanier's first major contribution in topology was the theory of cohomotopy groups, which gave an algebraic classification of maps of polyhedra into spheres. Together with S.-S. Chern (now Professor, Emeritus at Berkeley), he pioneered the analysis of the homology groups of fibre spaces. In a series of papers with the English topologist J. H. C. Whitehead, Spanier developed the new algebraic tool of duality in homotopy theory. In 1966 his long awaited book, Algebraic Topology, was published; the first comprehensive modern treatment of the subject, it is still a fundamental source.
In all, Spanier published more than 40 papers in algebraic topology, contributing to most of the major research areas in the field, including cohomology operations, obstruction theory, homotopy theory, imbeddability of polyhedra in Euclidean spaces, and topology of function spaces. Many of his results are now standard tools in all fields that utilize global geometrical reasoning. These include not only various subjects in pure mathematics, but also diverse areas in applied mathematics, including computer science, mathematical physics, economic models, and game theory. Interestingly, one of Spanier's theories, now called Alexander-Spanier homology, is currently being applied to analyze differential equations--a return to Poincare's original use of algebraic topology.
In 1961 Spanier began a fruitful collaboration with Seymour Ginsburg of the University of Southern California, resulting in more than a score of papers on the structure of formal languages. This subject is of importance in several mathematical disciplines, including theoretical computer science and foundations of mathematics. Recently it has been applied in dynamicalsystems theory. Their work
The importance of their work can be seen from the review of a 1983 article by Spanier, S. Ginsburg, and J. Goldstine, "On the equality of grammatical families," which states: "This paper presents a major and difficult decidability result in grammar-form theory. It is proved that, given two arbitrary context-free grammar forms, it is decidable whether or not the family of one is contained in the other. This leads immediately to the decidability of the equality of two context-free grammar forms." This result is based on an earlier paper, "A prime decomposition theorem for grammatical families," in which the same authors obtained a prime decomposition for formal-language families, closely analogous in form to the decomposition of whole numbers into prime factors.
Spanier's publications are, and his lectures were, characterized by unusual lucidity and precision, and an even rarer quality of naturalness and simplicity No matter how complex the subject, at the end the reader feels the theorems are the right ones, the hypotheses natural, and the methods as simple as possible.
Ed Spanier will be remembered as a gifted researcher, an inspiring teacher, an able administrator; and as a modest, friendly, wise and helpful colleague. He is survived by three children, eight grandchildren, his wife Marianne, his brother Jerome, and his sister Leila Rutstein.
Anthony Stannard, Medicine and Epidemiology: Davis
| 1940-1997 | |
| Professor |
Anthony (Tony) Stannard died suddenly and unexpectedly in his home on Wednesday July 2, 1997 at age 56 years. Tony was Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, for the last 10 years. Tony was born in Los Angeles and received his DVM and Ph.D. from UC Davis in 1958 and 1964, respectively. He was a charter member of the American College of Veterinary Dermatology and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. The shock of Tony's death was deeply felt for days by his colleagues in the school. This same profound sense of sadness and loss spread rapidly throughout the world as word of Tony's death was conveyed from friend to friend.
Tony Stannard left a great legacy to the School and University, having pioneered the discipline of modern veterinary dermatopathology. His contributions had a profound affect on how skin diseases of animals were diagnosed and treated. As Tony would jokingly say, dealing with skin conditions of animals used to be easy. "They were either acute or chronic, suppurative or non-suppurative, steroid responsive or unresponsive." Tony turned this simplistic concept of animal skin diseases upside down. Although he recognized that animals were entitled to their own skin diseases, he was quick to point out similarities between skin conditions from one animal species to another and with humans. It would be difficult to find one veterinary academician who played a more seminal role in his or her discipline over the last quarter century. Tony was truly the father of modern veterinary dermatology. Although he worked with skin problems in many animal species, equine dermatology and Tony Stannard were virtually synonymous.
Tony was more than a pioneer in his field, he was also a gifted teacher. He was particularly effective when discussing cases over a microscope, exam table, or in the hallway. Skin biopsies were examined with an almost mystical second sense. His ability to see beyond acute, chronic, suppurative and non-suppurative were legendary among pathology students and dermatology residents alike. No one was a better veterinary dermatopathologist than Tony Stannard. Tony was formally recognized for his teaching excellence, having received the Norden Distinguished Teaching Award in 1994. His lectures, which were delivered in a simple, no-nonsense, yet humorous manner, were eagerly anticipated by students and practitioners throughout the world. Tony's greatest legacy, however, are the numerous dermatology residents whom he helped train and who are now in academic positions and in specialty practices throughout the country. No faculty member of the School has had more of his or her residents go on to academic careers. Dr. Julie Yager, in her editorial eulogy in Veterinary Dermatology, said it best: "He will be remembered . . . for his ability to go on inspiring in us our own search for knowledge--learning to ask better questions, to keep an open mind, to reason more clearly and struggle to understand better."
Tony is sorely missed by his colleagues. He was the faculty's greatest advocate and spokesman. He both loved and hated political intrigue and possessed an uncanny ability to pick out the right course. Tony was frank in his opinions, succinct in his points, and cutting in his evaluations. Dogma was forbidden, closed minds were suspect, and no option, including his own, was closed to discussion. There was not a member of the faculty whose opinion was more respected or sought after. This character extended to his scientific and clinical life as well. Paraphrasing that old cliche, "when Tony talked, everyone shut up and listened." Tony not only knew what to say, but he knew when to say it. In a memorial service to Tony, a fellow department Chairman, Dr. Bob BonDurant, summarized it best when he said, "Thanks for your insight, which cut through the fog of complex issues like a laser. I don't know of anyone who could distill an hour's worth of heady discussion down to two or three armor-piercing bullets . . . You were the fire in our collective bellies, and you made us all feel the burn."
Tony took great pride in his young faculty, who were called "our seed corn." One was never to "eat your seed corn," and Tony made sure that new faculty were planted in the right spot, given the proper nutrients, water and sunlight, and protected from weeds and pests.
Tony was devoted to his wife, Jan, and to their sons, Jason and Randy He lived to see the marriage of Jason to Kathy Tony loved soccer and refereed many competitive games at a community and regional level. He had a deep love of the delta and ocean and was an ardent sailor. His most recent thoughts were of retirement to the coast where he could be nearer to his sons and the sea. Tony had a big heart under a thinly veiled veneer of gruffness; he often became emotional to the point of tears and cared deeply about his family, friends and colleagues. He dressed informally and believed that neck ties were one of the greatest cause of cerebral hypoxia and muddled minds.
Tony lived a meaningful life and left the world and his profession better for it; he left behind a loving and successful family; and he left veterinary dermatology with not one, but many bright stars to perpetuate his career.
Robert F. Steidel, Jr., Mechanical Engineering: Berkeley
| 1926-1997 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Bob Steidel, an outstanding engineering educator and for many years a key figure in Cal's intercollegiate athletics program, died of cancer on March 2, 1997. Bob was born in Goshen, New York, on July 6, 1926. He received the bachelor's and master's degrees from Columbia University in 1948 and 1949. He taught at Oregon State University from 1949 to 1952 and then entered the doctoral program at Berkeley, where he received the first Doctor of Engineering degree awarded by our campus in 1955.
Steidel was an outstanding classroom teacher. His ability to enter a large undergraduate class of several hundred students and know all by name within a few weeks was legendary. He was honored by the Berkeley campus Distinguished Teaching Award in 1960, one year after the award was established. Other awards from student honor societies and national awards for teaching followed in later years. His influence as a teacher went beyond Berkeley with his widely used text An Introduction to Mechanical Vibrations (Wiley, 19771) and his books The Graphic Languages of Engineering (Whey, 1983), co-authored with Professor Henderson of UC Davis, and Ten Cases in Engineering Design (Longman, 1973), coedited with the late Professor Fuchs of Stanford. His emphasis on the use of case studies to introduce students to the real world of engineering received national recognition with a grant from the Ford Foundation and an award from the American Society for Engineering Education. In a 10-year period no fewer than 65 students at Berkeley undertook case studies under his direction to satisfy the independent study requirement for the master's degree.
Steidel's research focussed on engineering design, mechanics, mechanical vibrations, and geothermal engineering. He had superb physical insight and was in demand as a consultant for many projects which he accepted judiciously. For one semester he was on leave working as a project engineer at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). In this period he used his design talents to make an imaginative and extremely valuable contribution to a classified project of great importance to national security at that time.
Steidel's University service was broad and extensive. He served as Chairman of the Division of Mechanical Design (1961-64) in Mechanical Engineering during the era in which the Department consisted of four almost autonomous divisions with independent budgets. Later he was appointed Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (196974). Under his leadership the four divisions agreed to merge into a single unified Department. From 1980-86 he served as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, where he had responsibilities for budget and planning during a critical period of diminished state funding.
Steidel was also well known as the faculty representative of the campus to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) from 1972-90. In that role he monitored all academic issues pertaining to student athletes, including eligibility to compete and compliance with NCAA regulations. He became a leading figure in the NCAA and served four years on its highest governing body. In addition, he was an advisor to countless Cal athletes, encouraging them to complete their degrees and keep education a priority. In a letter to him in 1990 then Chancellor Heyman wrote:
"Our athletic program has been greatly strengthened by your time and effort. I especially want to thank you for your commitment, as a full-time faculty member, to the students at Berkeley and to the academic success of our student-athletes. The 'Faculty Rep' position is not an easy task under the best of circumstances, but you arrived on the job when the program was in shambles and was a national disgrace. You deserve much of the responsibility for the high regard for the current program. Bob, you are one of that group of campus citizens who really enable this place to run."
Steidel was also an avid supporter of the Cal Band and the UC Botanical Garden, serving on several committees and boards for each.
He is survived by his wife, Jean, who lives in Berkeley, and their four sons--John of Kennewick, Washington; Mark of Danville, California; David of Quincy, California; and Steven of Boise, Idaho--and their families.
Roy H. Steinberg, Physiology; Ophthalmology: San Francisco
| 1935-1997 | |
| Professor |
Roy H. Steinberg died at his home on July 26, 1997 after a four-year battle with multiple myeloma. He was 61. Steinberg made fundamental contributions to understanding the function, structure and degeneration of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). He is survived by his wife, Dr. Jane M. Gitschier, a human geneticist at UCSF, and their adopted daughter Annie Xiao-Peng Steinberg. He is also survived by his former wife, Dr. Lois Silverstein, their son Julian Steinberg, and his sister Norma Fox.
Roy had a lifelong interest in human psychology and studied it at the University of Michigan where he received his undergraduate and master's degrees. Following medical school at New York Medical College and internship at Boston University, he obtained a doctorate in brain research with Herbert Jasper at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University. During the Vietnam era he carried out research for the U.S. Army and Navy at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, Pensacola, Florida under the direction of Ashton Graybiel. He went to UCSF in 1969 to work with Kenneth Brown and remained there throughout his professional career.
Roy was most widely known for his pioneering studies on the RPE, with a strong interest in the adjacent neural retina. With his colleague Sheldon Miller, he studied the ionic mechanisms of the RPE that control the makeup of the environment surrounding the rods and cones, thereby modulating their function and metabolism. He also advanced our understanding of the contributions of the RPE to the electroretinogram, which is widely used as a non-invasive measure of retinal function. He demonstrated that the cone cells of the human retina help to renew themselves by disc shedding in preparation
In the late 1980s he, along with UCSF medical student Ella Faktorovich and his colleague Matthew LaVail, demonstrated that intraocularly injecting growth factors could slow or prevent inherited or environmentally induced degenerations of rods and cones in rats. He became devoted to the potential therapeutic use of these agents, and at the time of his death was involved in further animal experiments that he hoped would soon lead to the treatment of such blinding diseases as retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration.
Roy had a keen mind, a great breadth of basic and clinical knowledge, intensely sharp focus and great dedication to his research. As a consequence he accomplished more during his career than most scientists. In recognition of his remarkable contributions, he received the Jonas S. Friedenwald Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in 1987. The same year he received the MERIT Award from the National Eye Institute. For his most recent research, he was co-recipient of the first John A. Moran Prize in Visual Science in 1997. While maintaining an active and vigorous research program, he served unselfishly as an advisor to the National Institutes of Health, and particularly the National Eye Institute, in many capacities, resulting ultimately in his appointment to the National Advisory Eye Council in 1994.
Vision research and ophthalmology have lost an intense, committed, creative, and most productive scientist and friend in Roy Steinberg. We are greatly saddened by his loss, but are buoyed by his lasting contributions, the most significant of which are the influences he has had on the many students, fellows, scientists and colleagues who worked with him.
Clarence Sterling, Food Science and Technology: Davis
| 1919-1996 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
It is our sad duty to report that our distinguished colleague, Clarence Sterling, died on August 13, 1996. Fifty-one of his 77 years were spent in association with the University of California. Professor Sterling graduated from the Berkeley campus of the University of California with an A.B. in botany and forestry in 1940 and a Ph.D. in plant anatomy and morphology in 1944. Clarence taught at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Louisville before he returned to the University of California, Davis as an Assistant Professor of Food Technology and Assistant Food Technologist in the Experiment Station. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1956, to Professor in 1960 and became an Emeritus Professor in 1981.
His primary research areas included plant anatomy and the microscopic, sub-microscopic and molecular structure of foods. He was also widely recognized as an expert in floral morphology and reproductive morphology of gymnosperms, roses and lilies. The impressive breadth of his research capabilities is shown by his membership and active participation in five graduate groups, namely food science, agricultural chemistry, botany, biophysics, and textiles. A major research strength was Clarence's abilities as a stand-alone research scientist. He was the sole author in over half of his 165 research publications. This characteristic of being a stand-alone scientist is in stark contrast to the typical multi-authorship of most scientific works. Clarence's efforts in the areas of plant morphology and the microscopic structure of gels is characteristic of the type of scientific work that can be carried out by a single dedicated scientist. Furthermore, his research was conducted with only modest financial resources, rarely bolstered by extra-mural funding. Other examples of Clarence's breadth in research are to be found in the topics
In 1956-57, he was appointed a Guggenheim fellow and received a second Guggenheim award in 1963-64 for the crystallographic study of molecular structure at the University of Vienna. Also in 1956-57 he was awarded a Fulbright grant for advanced study at the Delft Technological Institute in the Netherlands.
Clarence's primary teaching responsibilities were in the course FST 113 on the structure of food materials. He also taught occasionally a graduate course, FST 213, on macromolecular gels. His courses were characterized by his dedicated scholarship and his thorough command of the topics in the courses. Clarence's main strengths included quiet dedication to his research and his forthright discussion for example, in faculty meetings. Clarence served faithfully and well on many departmental, college, and University committees participating in many diverse areas of service.
Clarence was a member of the Botanical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Crystallographic Association, Sigma Xi, the Linnean Society of London and Phi Beta Kappa.
Clarence Sterling was the ultimate university scholar, a hard-working, quiet and unassuming professor, always seeking intellectual truths without pursuing acclamations or scrambling for awards or financial support. Yet he still gave his time and energy to support or dispute developments in his department and the University. His proposals were thus not always popular, but usually succeeded in more thoughtful considerations by faculty and administrators. He was a valuable and refreshing member of the faculty.
In addition to his wife, Nora, he is survived by five children, Marjorie Stone of Menlo Park, Nathaniel Sterling of Palo Alto, Janet Sterling of Davis, David Sterling of Auburn, and Robert Sterling of Ashland, Oregon; and 12 grandchildren.
Yasundo Takahashi, Mechanical Engineering: Berkeley
| 1912-1996 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Yasundo Takahashi died of cancer at his home in Kensington, California, on October 29, 1996. He was a pioneer in development of methods for applying the newly emerging field of automatic control systems to mechanical engineering. During his tenure of 22 years as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley from 1957 until his retirement in 1979, he worked tirelessly at developing new control methodology and adapting contemporary research results to control-system curricula. He was the primary author of an early influential text on the subject (Control and Dynamic Systems, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1970, with M. Rabins and D. Auslander). In total, he is author or co-author of six books, two in English and four in Japanese.
He came to Berkeley from the University of Tokyo, where he had been teaching since 1944, via a Fulbright appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At that time, he had been studying the control of heat exchangers, ubiquitous components in a wide variety of industrial applications, and was world-renowned for this work.
Takahashi also extended his activity to the national and international professional domain. He was instrumental in bringing the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Automatic Controls Division (as it was then called) from its earlier focus on process control (and nearly inactive status) to a broad orientation reflected in its current name Dynamic Systems and Control Division. He helped to found the ASME transactions journal Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control and was its second editor-in-chief.
Subsequent to his retirement from Berkeley, Takahashi served on the faculty of the Toyohashi University of Technology and Science
Born in Nagoya-shi, Japan, on June 12, 1912, he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) in 1935 and returned to finish his doctorate in mechanical engineering in 1946. In the interim, he served as an assistant design engineer with the Japanese Government Railways (1935-37) and as a professor at Yokohama Technical College and Nagoya Imperial University.
The value of Takahashi's work has been recognized all over the world. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded him three of its highest honors: Life Fellow, Calvin Rice Lecturer, and the Oldenburger Medal. The citation for the Oldenburger Medal reads: "in recognition of his attainments in applying the science and technology of automatic control." It is awarded for career accomplishments of those control engineering professionals who have had the most impact on the field. He was an honorary member of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers and he received the first Koseki-Sho (lifetime achievement award) from the Japan Society of Instrument and Control Engineers. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Grenoble in France and was awarded the Berkeley Citation on his retirement from active service on the University of California faculty.
In 1994 he received one of Japan's most prestigious awards from Japanese Emperor Akihito, the "Third Class Order of the Sacred Treasure," given to Japanese and Japanese-Americans to honor a lifetime of achievements. Toyohashi University, where he served as a professor from 1978 to 1981, initiated the action recommending the award.
In keeping with his international bent, Takahashi has served as visiting professor at MIT, the University of Grenoble (France), the Institute for Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Keio University (Japan), the University of Tokyo, and the University of La Plata (Argentina).
He is survived by his wife, Kuwako, his son-in-law James Earle Canfield, and granddaughter Maya Canfield, both of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Kenneth V. Thimann, Biology: Santa Cruz
| 1904-1997 | |
| Professor |
Professor Kenneth V. Thimann, one of the world's leading botanists, died peacefully at his home on Wednesday, January 15, 1997 at The Quadrangle, Haverford, Pennsylvania, following a long illness. He was surrounded by family members and friends. He was 92.
Professor Thimann was a pioneering researcher in the field of plant physiology. He was best known for describing the functions of hormones in the control and development of plants. In particular, he identified the first growth hormone, auxin, and characterized its chemical structure. It was a discovery of seminal importance to the agriculture and horticulture industries, as well as a major contribution to our basic understanding of plant development and physiology. He continued his investigations of the functioning of plant hormones for the next 50 years, long after his official retirement. He was one of the few physiologists who had the breadth and vision to lead the way in attempts to understand the integrative role of hormone action in the life of the whole plant. During his scientific career he trained a large and distinguished group of graduate students who now hold important positions at institutions throughout the world. He wrote or co-authored about 300 research papers and several books. The Life of Bacteria (1955) was an influential contribution to microbiology; Phytohormones (1937), co-authored with FW Went, and Hormone Action in the Whole Life of Plants (1977) are considered landmarks in the development of modern botany.
For his contributions, Thimann received the prestigious Balzan Prize in 1982, an honor awarded yearly in areas not covered by the Nobel Prizes. "The impact of [Thimann's] discoveries on agriculture and horticulture cannot be overestimated," wrote the Balzan Prize
Thimann's numerous other honors included membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and international scientific societies in England, France, Germany India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Romania. He held honorary degrees from Harvard University, the University of Basel in Switzerland, the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France, and Brown University. The degree from Brown, awarded in 1989, included a citation that read, in part, "As a statesman of science, and one whose own discoveries have had far-reaching application to the feeding of our planet, we honor you today for your achievements both human and humane."
Kenneth Thimann was born in Ashford, England, on August 5, 1904. He earned his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in chemistry and biochemistry from imperial College, University of London, and a diploma from the University of Graz, Austria. He taught at the University of London for several years before coming to the California Institute of Technology in 1930 as an instructor in bacteriology and biochemistry Thimann joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1935 and remained there for 30 years. He was director of Harvard's Biological Laboratories from 1946 through 1950 and was Higgins Professor of Biology from 1962 to 1965. He also was a technical consultant to the U.S. Navy during World War II, working with the Navy's operations research group in Washington, D.C., London, and Pearl Harbor.
In 1965 Professor Thimann moved west at the urging of UCSC's founding chancellor, Dean McHenry, to become professor of biology at UCSC and the first provost of Crown College. He was the chief architect of the biological sciences at this fledgling institution, and as an early dean, was responsible for appointments in all other fields of science as well. He guided the shaping teaching programs, and obtained early systemwide approval for a Ph.D. program in biology. UCSC honored Thimann's pioneering contributions to his field and to the early growth of the campus by renaming its first biological sciences research facility Natural Sciences 1, for him in 1972. At Crown College he assembled a distinguished and diverse group of faculty fellows, which held him in high regard as a true Renaissance man and scholar. He was a renowned lecturer, patient and encouraging
Among Professor Thimann's most noteworthy contributions to the campus was his nurturing of the UCSC Arboretum into an internationally known botanical collection. He chaired the chancellor's committee on arboretum and plantations for 15 years and helped to launch the Arboretum Associates, a community support group, in 1977. He was a broadly cultured man whose enthusiasm for life often took him beyond the sciences. A trained musician and accomplished pianist, he founded the Crown Chamber Players with his wife, Ann Mary Bateman Thimann, a skilled weaver who died in 1987.
Professor Thimann retired as provost in 1972 but remained active in research and university affairs for many years. He moved to Haverford in 1989 to be near his three daughters: Vivianne Nachmias of Philadelphia, professor of cell biology at the University of Pennsylvania; Karen Romer of Providence, Rhode Island, associate dean for academic affairs at Brown University; and Linda Dewing of Providence, an artist and businesswoman. He is also survived by six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
James Philip Thornber, Biology: Los Angeles
| 1934-1996 | |
| Professor of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, Emeritus |
Philip Thornber was born in Yorkshire and received all of his formal education in England. He earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1961. It was there that his interest in plant biochemistry and photosynthesis was developed, an interest that was to continue throughout his scientific career. After receiving his degree, Philip took a position in London at the Twyford Laboratories, a Guiness laboratory that was involved in basic biological research in a number of areas including plant biochemistry. While there, Philip initiated the studies of photosynthetic organisms that served as the focal point for his research throughout the remainder of his career in science. Philip was also an excellent "company man" and took a keen interest in their products. In 1967, he accepted a temporary research position at the Brookhaven National Laboratories in the U.S., where he remained until he moved to a faculty position in the Department of Biology at UCLA in 1970. He remained at UCLA until his retirement in 1994, and became a U.S. citizen in 1987. Philip was widely recognized as a pioneer and leader in photosynthesis research and was an author of more than 100 research papers. He was also a very effective teacher and administrator, and was generous in his service for the benefit of others.
A chance observation and a spur-of-the-moment experiment carried out by Philip in the Twyford Laboratories in 1965 served to launch him on a three-decade study of the organization of photosynthetic pigments in the photosynthetic apparatus of many diverse organisms. He noted while cleaning glassware from the experiments of the week that the detergent being utilized was capable of converting the chlorophyll-containing water-insoluble residue in the glassware
In subsequent years, Thornber and his associates, including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and numerous collaborators from other laboratories around the world, contributed greatly to our current understanding of the structure and function of these photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes that are central to the process of photosynthesis. The essential correctness of Thornber's hypothesis based on those initial simple experiments has been elegantly demonstrated in recent years by the structures of photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes determined by X-ray crystallography.
Philip was an excellent mentor for graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and beginning faculty members. His open and friendly manner, enthusiasm, sense of humor and infectious laughter, coupled with a keen intellect and knowledge of the field, facilitated productive interactions with students, colleagues and others. Perhaps the best insights into Philip's outlook and character are provided by his own words from the introductory paragraph of his Personal Perspective published in Photosynthesis Research, vol. 44, pages 3-22 in 1995 not long after his retirement.
"Scientific research, like life, has its ups and downs. Nevertheless, I hope that the enjoyment and excitement I have had during my career comes across to the reader in my personal historical perspective of one area of photosynthesis research. I also hope that I relay the spirit of camaraderie that I have found in my research area, because it was openness and friendship with my colleagues that mainly guided my approach to scientific research. I would like students to look at my career as an indication that from simple beginnings much is possible, and that all the hard
― 168 ―work and frustrations of their training can indeed be worthwhile. Over the past 30 years I have made many friends in photosynthesis research who had an impact on my education as a research scientist, and it is to them that I dedicate this article."
Philip also stated in his Personal Perspective,
"When I accepted the faculty position, I was unaware of all the talents needed . . . my British education had not adequately prepared me to be a teacher, administrator, editor, amateur psychiatrist, travel agent, repairman, fund-raiser and movie consultant. . ."Nonetheless, he performed at a very high level in all of these endeavors as exemplified by his administrative contributions, which included outstanding service as Chair of the Biology Department from1980 to1984 and as member and chair of the campus-wide Council on Academic Personnel.
Philip, along with Robert Goldberg and Elaine Tobin, assumed a leadership role in establishing a graduate training program in the molecular plant sciences at UCLA. They led a successful effort in the 1980s to obtain training grant support, curricular changes, and a seminar program devoted to the benefit of students, faculty and others engaged in research in the molecular plant sciences. This occurred at a time when the molecular aspects of plant sciences were developing and expanding generally, and helped to bring UCLA into the mainstream of this movement.
Philip's enthusiasm extended beyond his scientific endeavors. As he stated in his Personal Perspective, "Those who knew me. . . will realize that I have never taken my science overly seriously; I always felt it was there to be enjoyed and to be balanced by other interests." Those other interests were extensive and included such things as reading, painting, woodworking and cooking. He was an avid sports fan, especially for cricket and UCLA basketball matches. He was devoted to his family and family activities. Philip Thornber enjoyed life in its many aspects, and influenced those around him to enjoy it as well. It is sad that he died so soon after his retirement, because he was so enthusiastic about the opportunities he would have to explore new interests. He is missed, but he has left behind a rich legacy of memories and accomplishments that will live on.
Ernest Tuveson, English: Berkeley
| 1915-1996 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Ernest Tuveson died at Kaiser Hospital, Oakland, on September 20, 1996, of complications of old age, having just passed his 81st birthday.
Tuveson was born in Oregon on September 15, 1915. In 1934 he received the A.B. degree from Reed College and for a time taught in secondary schools in the state of Washington. Subsequently he entered graduate school at the University of Washington where he received the M.A. degree in 1941. From 1943-1945 he served in the armed services during World War II. He then entered graduate school at Columbia University and received the Ph.D. in 1949. From 1946 to 1948 he was instructor in English at Brown University and also held the Cutting Travelling Fellowship from Columbia from 1947-1948. He came to Berkeley in 1948 and remained here for the rest of his distinguished scholarly career, retiring in 1983.
He was a devoted teacher during his long career at Berkeley, not "charismatic," as the current adjective has it about very popular teachers, and not Socratic, eliciting interesting responses from students by skillful questioning. He was preeminently a lecturer whose powers resided in the combination of an immense amount of cultural, historical, and literary knowledge about the subject at hand with singularly lucid powers of exposition of complex ideas and circumstances. He also had a wry sense of humor and irony, some of which may have been "caviar to the general." For example, when being proposed by his chairman for a promotion to one of the higher steps in the upper professorial ranks, he read in the manual the requirements needed to fill this exalted rank and, overwhelmed by these
In the area of service, both to the university and to his profession, he contributed most notably in his earlier career when he served on three Academic Senate committees, Library, Editorial, and Budget. He was a member of the College English Association of the Bay Area and served as its president from 1956-1958. In the English Department he was one of three members of the faculty who had once been teachers in the secondary level and were appointed to acting as liaisons with local high school English teachers. He was especially interested in the problems of prose composition and taught many courses in that area.
It was as a scholar that Tuveson's achievements were truly outstanding, the preeminent practitioner of his time of what is called “the history of ideas.” That school of thought consisted of surveys of the evolution, permutations, and final meanings of certain basic ideas concerning human experience--“utopia,” “primitivism,” “infinity,” “nature”--over a period of time, e.g., “Concepts of the good in eighteenth and nineteenth century England.” This interdisiplinary approach to cultural history was established by A. O. Lovejoy, the eminent philosopher and cultural historian in the 1920's. Lovejoy's prize student was Marjorie Nicolson, the distinguished historian of ideas who taught for many years at Columbia. And Nicolson's prize student was Ernest Tuveson whose Columbia dissertation, done under her direction, Millennium and Utopia became his first book in 1949.
Tuveson's scholarship is impressive in quality, range, and quantity. There were three major books. The first, Millennium and Utopia (UC Press, 1949), dealing principally with the culture of seventeenth-century England, showed how the revival of millennial
expectations that followed the Protestant Reformation was linked to, and reinforced, the secular idea of progress in England
and America. His second book, The Imagination as a Means of Grace: Locke and the Aesthetics of Romanticism (UC Press, 1960) showed how certain ideas latent in John Locke's philosophical system were given a theological cast. Thus,
for example, the thought of immensity in space came to be regarded as the faculty by means of which man can perceive God.
Bearing witness to this argument, and many others, are the major, and numerous, secondary writers and philosophers of the
18th century. His third book, Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America's Millennial
Tuveson's area, the conjunction of religion, ideology, and literature in the post-reformation English-speaking world was so broad and profound as to attract and influence not only scholars of literature but many historians across a broad spectrum, cultural, theological, Biblical, ideological. In an admiring essay the historian Conor Cruise O'Brien called Redeemer Nation a “brilliant pioneering” book. Martin E. Marty, the distinguished historian of religion of the Divinity School, University of Chicago, calls the same book a “landmark essay,” and says that Tuveson's entire intellectual output has put him in "the first rank" of this interdisciplinary field, one of his sole peers being the great Perry Miller of Harvard, and a comparison between the two does not, according to Marty, put Tuveson at a disadvantage.
As a scholar Tuveson was virtually unique. His rare combination of intellectual adventurousness, immensity of learning, and clear, lucid prose (an admirer said “he writes like an angel”) has neither predecessors nor, so far, successors. He was unique too in being simultaneously comprehensible and enlightening to both the merest neophyte and the most expert scholar on any of his many subjects. Bertrand Bronson, himself one of the preeminent humanistic scholars of his time, in reviewing Tuveson's Imagination as a Means of Grace, called him a “dramatist of ideas” in whose skillful hands “ideas come alive;” there is “a wonderful excitement in Tuveson's writing;” it is “a kind of miracle how anyone can take such impalpable things and make them so real and so vivid, finding in them such dramatic conflicts without departing in the slightest degree from the most rigorous historical truth.” Bronson concludes his estimate of Tuveson's grasp of his subject and his rhetorical prowess by saying, “I can do nothing but applaud.”
In his personal life Tuveson was a very private, even reclusive person, and never married, or owned a home or a car. His life was his work, and his work was his life, and within those parameters, his efforts of a lifetime were creative and resonating.
Marshall Van Deusen, English: Riverside
| 1922-1994 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
When Leslie Marshall Van Deusen died of heart failure on June 20, 1994, the entire University community was sorely diminished. “Marsh” almost perfectly embodied the noblest ideals of our profession. He was a leading intellectual and moral light of his campus, a rigorous thinker, and a wonderfully humane and humanizing presence. He chaired committees during difficult budgetary times and times of violence against students. Intelligent, gentle, and fair, he more than once preserved the University's future. He wrote brilliantly about American writers and critics. Generations of students and scholars learned from Van Deusen the glory of American literature and the joy of thinking. Many of his colleagues recall him greeting them at the commencement of their careers and sustaining them during dark days. He was a distinguished and wise department chair, an admired teacher, a modest but brilliant scholar, a good colleague, and a precious friend.
Marshall Van Deusen was born in New York's Hudson River Valley on June 14, 1922. His family soon moved to Berkeley, and he grew up in a house about four blocks from the north gate of the UC campus there. In 1940, he graduated from Oakland's University High School. In 1943, he graduated from Williams College with a degree in English and history, having been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. That year he entered active military duty in the U. S. Army; he saw service in the European theater and was honorably discharged in 1946. Marsh then resumed his education, receiving a Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania in 1953. After teaching briefly at Stanford and UCLA, he arrived in 1954 to teach in the first full year of the new College of Letters and Sciences at UCR,
Van Deusen wrote two finely crafted and thoughtful books. The first was a monograph entitled A Metaphor for the History of American Criticism (Copenhagen 1961), which resulted from a lecture series he gave at the University of Oslo in 1958. The second book was Joel Spingarn (New York 1971). Most scholars think that this volume is the best study of Spingarn ever written. Spingarn, a critic and theorist who taught at Columbia University in the first part of the twentieth century, was the leading figure in the engagement of U. S. intellectual life with the thought of Benedetto Croce. Two aspects of Van Deusen's book are especially interesting to those who knew its author. One involves Spingarn's role as a public citizen. Spingarn was a founder of the NAACP, eventually defending its civic idealism and universalizing principles against an increasingly disenchanted W E. B. Du Bois. Moreover, Spingarn actively opposed President Butler's administration of Columbia, feeling that Columbia participated in the corruption and coercion that muck-rakers had attacked elsewhere in the United States. Van Deusen, like Spingarn, felt a nearly spiritual identification between moral and intellectual life, an identification that now seems an increasingly rare and heroic form of integrity. Another interesting aspect of Van Deusen's work on Spingarn is the way it prefigures the theoretical revolution that has recently transformed the humanities and the arts: it posits that “the terms of knowledge are called into being by the act of knowing.” Although Van Deusen knew that the idealism behind that formulation was out of fashion, he also sensed that the formulation predicted the radical contingency of critical theory after Wittgenstein and up to Foucault and Derrida.
Van Deusen made an impact on scholarship through his articles as well as his books. A reviewer once observed that one learned more from one of Van Deusen's articles “than from most books on American literature.” Van Deusen wrote brief but illuminating studies of authors ranging from Emily Dickinson to Sadakichi Hartmann and Michael Herr. He also wrote three long and now-classic essays. One was “In Defense of Yvor Winters” (Thought 1957), which revealed the debt of the New Criticism to Yvor Winters' idea of poetry as a form of statement with an obligation to truth. Van Deusen could simultaneously admire Winters' hard-headed emphasis on truth value
Marshall Van Deusen was many things to us: a scholar who helped to shape the international discussion of American literature; a much-loved teacher to generations of UCR students; an active participant of our self-governing community renowned for his insight, fairness, courtesy, and kindness; and a powerfully affective personality who spoke in understatement and through layers of irony His personal modesty was characteristic and integral. He reminded some of Henry Adams, a writer he loved to teach. But Adamsian modesty cloaked a sense of privilege that was wholly alien to Marsh. At his funeral, his colleague and friend, Ruth apRoberts, said of him: “He was supremely modest, so truly and completely that some people would take him at his word and underrate him. And he didn't mind. He was that modest. But we saw through him. We knew something of the depth of his learning, of his wisdom and insight, and the grace and charity he exercised in his teaching as well as in his life. There was a fineness in all he did, nothing ever shoddy or slick, but always the searching and discriminating mind. His scholarship was meticulous and wise, and in his writing he had a great sense of style. But there was style in everything he did. He was debonair.”
Marsh's modesty was sometimes self-deprecatory, but it communicated an earnestness that facilitated intellectual exchange. Despite having written a widely-admired book and several famous articles, he was sincerely astonished whenever he discovered that someone
David Arnold, now a professor himself, paints a complementary portrait from a student's perspective: “We all remember Marsh as a man whose modesty never quite covered up his wide learning and his deep insight, and whose care made learning literature and being a scholar the happy experience it should be. He has been an inspiration to me, a central influence in my decision to study American literature, and a source of emotional and intellectual support throughout my education.” Marsh's other students share this affection. One told me about a time she came to his office scattered and in a frenzy near the end of her Ph.D. exams. After listening, Marsh moved to his well-stuffed shelves and pulled down a definitive source on the matter. He handed it to her with a wry look leavened with gentleness, saying, “Now I'm sure you've already read this. . . .” Another student recalls questioning Marsh on a certain subject and having him tell her, “Oh I don't know anything about that; you ought to consult an expert.” Tracking down the subject in the library, she discovered that the definitive voice on the subject was Marsh's.
Marsh loved American things--jazz and baseball, for example. Baseball he saw as the essential American game. He was himself a good athlete, and he knew a lot about sports in general. But in baseball he found nearly Mozartian characteristics such as grace, light, astonishing skills performed with seeming nonchalance, and all carried out within a framework of order. He knew that the owners might be grasping vulgarians and some of its performers foul-mouthed boors, but for Marsh the elegance, clarity, and order of the ideal game could redeem even the worst of its venality. Thus, his favorite game served him as a metaphor for activities of life in which a noble and virtuous ideal appeared all but submerged in the rascalities of practice. Where, for example, some might see in democratic politics only a squalid melee of selfish interest, demagoguery, and sullen, befuddled voters, Marsh, revering the values underlying the idea of the democratic
Marsh was the central figure of a long-lived informal institution at UCR. That was the luncheon table at the UCR Commons dining room. The distinguished poet and essayist, Vikki Hearne, herself one of Marsh's former students and a regular at the “roundtable,” has written in The New Yorker that it was, for her, “the intellectual center of Western Civilization.” Professors from the sciences and the humanities as well as writers like Hearne and Harry Lawton sat at the table, but there is no doubt that Marsh was its guiding spirit. It all began about 30 years ago when a number of interesting people from every quarter of the faculty just wanted to have lunch with Marsh. They began doing so on a steady basis, and the tradition was born. The members of this roundtable spanned the generations, and there were students sometimes, too. The conversation covered all that Hearne's description implies. It was not a permanent seminar on Great Ideas, however. Neither was it ever self-consciously “academic.” Wit abounded. Pomposity was not so much frowned on as subtly mocked and swiftly abandoned. Marsh's own values and style seemed to seep into the whole sense of it. It disappeared from view with his death.
Marsh became Chair of the English Department at one of the most divisive times in its history, but the effect of his chairing was to bring to the department a calm which remains his legacy to the present day. He was, in the best sense of the word, a peacemaker. A hallmark of his leadership was his courtesy With a kind of invariably elegant humility, if he wanted to see you, he came to you. A small matter, you might say, but in some ways the heart of the matter. The particular grace of Marsh's chairing was of a quiet contemplative sort, like the subtle elegance he ascribed to baseball.
Marsh Van Deusen was the teacher of many notable poets--Frank Bidart and Vikki Hearne among them. But it is little known that he also wrote poetry himself. It is therefore appropriate to quote the end of what was probably his last poem, in which he wonders, with characteristic devotional wit, whether finally
| To play it bold | |
| And pretend | |
| To apprehend | |
| The voiceless voice beyond the end. |
The impression Marshall Van Deusen left on his students and colleagues was preeminently that of a great human being as well as a wise friend, scholar, and teacher.
Samuel P. Welles, Paleontology: Berkeley
| 1909-1997 | |
| Principal Museum Scientist, Curator, Retired |
Samuel P. Welles, Principal Museum Scientist in the Museum of Paleontology, retired in 1974 after 44 years of service to the University. He died of old age at his son's home in San Mateo on August 6, 1997. He is survived by three children, Paul, John, and Ruth Anne.
Welles was born on November 9, 1909, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. His parents moved to Berkeley when he was four years old and he remained a Berkeleyan for the rest of his life. He studied history and political science at UC, graduated in 1930, and took a position as preparator in the Museum of Paleontology under W. D. Matthew. His first fossil collecting experience was at the Hagerman, Idaho, horse quarry, under J. W. Gidley of the U.S. National Museum, where he secured specimens for the university. Later he worked with R.A. Stirton in the Texas Neogene and especially with Charles Camp in Permian and Triassic of Arizona and New Mexico. He led the field party that collected Cretaceous marine reptiles from the Panoche Hills in Fresno county in 1937, including the long-necked plesiosaur Hydrotherosaurus alexandrae, which he named for Annie Alexander, the long time benefactor of the university's Museum of Paleontology.
As a staff member he could enroll in one course per semester during the 1930s, and he earned the doctorate in paleontology in 1940 with a dissertation on Cretaceous plesiosaurs.
Together with Camp he discovered in 1938 a rich deposit of labyrinthodont amphibians and fishes in the early Triassic Moenkopi formation near Meteor Crater, Arizona. Other fossiliferous deposits in the Moenkopi were found near Holbrook and Cameron, and these faunas became the basis for 50 years of research by Welles. While
In 1940 Welles was appointed part-time lecturer in the Paleontology Department in addition to his position in the museum. He taught the introductory course in vertebrate paleontology for several years, gave Paleontology I at times, and continued his research on plesiosaurs and labyrinthodonts. He collaborated closely with Camp on studies of Triassic reptiles.
During World War II paleontological research was suspended, and Sam was in charge of the radio instruction program in the War Training program of the Electrical Engineering department. In 1946 he returned to full-time with the museum. He actively aided Camp in compiling the Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates during the 1940s and 1950s.
In 1947 Welles led a group of 10 students to a locality in the Moenkopi near Cameron, Arizona. The students received college credit, and the museum benefited by their collections. This preceded the University's University Research Expeditions Program (UREP) by several decades.
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology held a field conference on the Triassic of Northern Arizona in 1947. After visiting late Triassic localities near St. Johns, they examined older outcrops of the Moenkopi formation where Sam was delighted to discover a new locality for amphibian skulls. Thence the group went through the Petrified Forest National Monument and Painted Desert to Holbrook. The next day they looked at Moenkopi exposures southwest of Winslow. As the party reassembled to continue to Meteor Crater, Welles suggested that rather than retrace their tracks over rough roads to Winslow and follow the highway west, they should take a shortcut, heading more directly across country toward the crater, plainly visible across the flat plain. After crossing three or four increasingly deep and steep-sided arroyos, the caravan paused by a water tank, and to the consternation of his companions, Welles climbed the windmill to spy out the route ahead. Fortunately they had passed the last real obstacle. From Meteor Crater they continued to Flagstaff and spent the final day at localities in the Moenkopi near Cameron, and the Tuba City dinosaur locality.
In 1948 he attended the International Geological Congress in London and collected Devonian fishes on an excursion to the Welsh Borderlands and Scotland.
During the 1950s he assisted Camp in excavating large Ichthyosaurs (whale-like marine reptiles) from Triassic rocks near Berlin, Nevada. This site became Nevada's Ichthyosaur State Park. In 1982 and 83 Welles led UREP expeditions to this site to stabilize the insitu skeletons and install a diagram of the exposed specimens. He was honored by the State of Nevada for his efforts in developing and protecting this site.
Other studies of aquatic reptiles included mosasaurs from the Cretaceous of Wyoming and from the Panoche Hills, plesiosaurs from Colombia, and from Montana. He spent 1969-70 in New Zealand working on plesiosaurs and other marine reptiles.
Welles searched for Triassic fossils in Mexico in 1956, returned to Meteor Crater in 1958, and did further work in the Moenkopi in 1966. He devoted much of the 1960s to describing his extensive collections, especially finishing studies of various labyrinthodont families.
Welles was primarily a skilled and active field collector and a descriptive paleontologist. He was elected president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology for 1962, and became an honorary member of the society in 1990.
Retirement from the Museum in 1974 in no way diminished his activity. In 1977 he restudied the "Kayenta" or Tuba City dinosaur Dilophosaurus. This project took him to England and Germany for comparisons with various European fossils.
During the 1980s he continued studies of fossil amphibians and reptiles, describing a long-snouted labyrinthodont from the Moenkopi, a plesiosaur from the Sierra Nevada, and completed additional studies of dinosaur anatomy and classification. He led a party from the museum to the Triassic Chinle beds in the Petrified Forest and St. Johns areas of Arizona in 1989 which produced new collections from localities worked by Camp in the 1920s.
Welles continued active research in the museum until shortly before his death. After the museum moved to the Valley Life Sciences Building he worked at home but came to the museum frequently to examine specimens. He always was looking forward to the next specimen to be studied and problem to be solved.
He married Harriet Giles early in the 1930s. They had three children. During the 1930s Harriet frequently accompanied him in the field. With a wife by a later marriage, Doris O. Hampton Welles, he provided the UC Museum of Paleontology with a generous endowment for research and scholarships.
Harry Wellman, Agricultural Economics: Berkeley
| 1899-1997 | |
| Vice President of the University, Emeritus | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Harry Wellman, who was associated with the University of California as a student, academician, and administrator for some 46 years before retirement, died August 18, 1997, of a heart attack. He was born in Canada on March 4, 1899, and shortly thereafter moved with his family to an Eastern Oregon wheat farm, where he lived through his younger years. Wellman graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1921 after service in the Navy in World War I. He was married to Ruth Gay from 1922 until her death 1992. He is survived by a daughter, Nancy Parmelee, and son-in-law Robert Parmelee, three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He earned the master's and Ph.D. Degrees from Berkeley in 1924 and 1926, respectively. His service to the University commenced as a research assistant in 1923 and continued through 1952 in Berkeley, when he was Director of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics and Chair of the Department of Agricultural Economics. This was followed by statewide service as Vice President of Agriculture Sciences; Vice President of the University and Acting President during his last year of active service in 1967, prior to retirement.
Wellman started his career with the university in October 1925 on completion of his Ph.D. dissertation as a specialist in Agricultural Extension. His service with the College of Agriculture continued for 27 years. The year 1933-34 was spent in Washington as director of the General Crops section of the Agriculture Adjustment Administration. He was appointed to the Department of Agricultural Economics and the Giannini Foundation in 1935. His research
President Sproul appointed Wellman to the newly created position of Vice President of Agricultural Sciences in 1952. He was responsible for the development of teaching and research programs at both Davis and Riverside in his administration, along with a major growth in faculty and staff in Agricultural Sciences. A number of new departments were established at those two campuses under his administration. The establishment of the College of Letters and Sciences at Davis in 1951 was one of his accomplishments. This led to the later designation of Davis as a "general campus" with graduate studies and professional schools. At Riverside he was responsible for the establishment of the College of Letters and Science in 1949. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Institute of Science and Technology at the graduate level in La Jolla, which later became the San Diego campus. As a member of President Sprout's top staff, Harry made a report on greatly improving the structure of the university budget, decentralizing its preparation, making a macro instead of a micro budget that specified every new file cabinet and typewriter leaving such micro decisions to local action. He is credited with initiating at Davis, Riverside, and San Diego much of what became the "new university" of California with its eight "general" campuses. He took the first step within the university administration toward decentralization of the university. Harry Wellman was the last high official of an illustrious period in university history the presidency of Robert Gordon Sprout.
Clark Kerr was appointed President of the University in 1958 and named Wellman to the position of Vice President of the University, a position that had been created by the Regents but never used. Kerr gave Harry responsibilities for two budgets of the University--the operating budget and the capital-improvement budget. He also had the responsibility of reviewing faculty appointments and promotions to tenure--the most important series of decisions in the University. At the time of his appointment as Vice President, Kerr was heavily involved in the planning of three new campuses and the development
Wellman had completed his plans for retirement when he was asked to continue as Acting President of the University during a particularly troublesome time in the university's history. He was a calming influence during the period of time he was Acting President and before the appointment of a new president. Wellman Hall at Davis and Wellman Hall at Berkeley and an honorary degree acknowledge the many contributions that Harry made in his 75 years of association with the University. He will always be remembered by his colleagues and associates as being friendly, empathetic, self-effacing, thoughtful, charitable, tolerant--never antagonistic, never combative, never scheming, in the words of a close associate and friend at the University.
John A. R. Wilson, Education: Santa Barbara
| 1911-1997 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
With the passing of John Wilson, the University of California lost a productive scholar, a beloved teacher, a loyal colleague and one of the finest human beings the Santa Barbara campus has ever known.
Professor Wilson was born in Trout Lake, British Columbia on August 25, 1911 and he died in Costa Mesa, California on March 10, 1997. At UCSB John taught Educational Psychology from 1951 to 1979. For a period of 17 years, prior to coming to Santa Barbara, he taught various grades at a number of schools in Canada. Upon retirement he remained active in higher education.
Dr. Wilson spent many years studying learning and teaching theories as they apply to schools. He was trained at the University of British Columbia and gained first-hand experience in schools. He put his training and practical teaching experience to use when he came to UCSB. At the Graduate School of Education he has heavily involved in teacher training, teaching educational psychology courses and publishing in areas related to educational psychology, including the physiological dimension of learning.
Wilson's impact on both the academy and on school practice has been highly significant. Among his published works are the 1967 book with Mildred Robeck, The Kindergarten Evaluation of Learning Potential (McGraw-Hill), the 1969 book with Mildred Robeck and W. B. Michael, Psychological Foundations of Learning and Teaching (McGraw-Hill) and the 1974 book with Mildred Robeck, The Psychology of Reading: Foundations of Instruction (John Wiley and Sons). He also edited the 1971 Learning Difficulties (McGraw-Hill and the 1976 Research Guide in Education (General Learning Press).
Wilson was a thorough experimenter. He was curious and highly intelligent. He was a reflective educational psychologist. He believed that learning was a profession that began with memorization and repetition and evolved into self-direction.
John is survived by Nora, his wife of 57 years, now of Costa Mesa; their son John Wilson and his wife Mary of Costa Mesa; their son Douglas Wilson and his wife Prudence Berry of Rowe, Massachusetts; a brother, the Rev. Dr. Reginald Wilson and his wife Dorothy of Vancouver, British Columbia; granddaughters Amy Molstad of Costa Mesa and Christine Olson of Placentia; and great-granddaughter Allison Molstad of Costa Mesa.
Constance Wofsy, Medicine: San Francisco
| 1943-1996 | |
| Professor |
Constance Bell Wofsy, UC San Francisco professor of medicine and co-director of the AIDS Program at San Francisco General Hospital, died on Monday June 3. Wofsy was 53 and had suffered from cancer for several years.
Wofsy was associate chief of infectious diseases at SFGH and was recognized internationally for her leadership in AIDS care and research and in the education of AIDS health care providers. She created and directed the APEX Training Program (AIDS Provider Education and Experience) which brought hundreds of AIDS caregivers from around the world to study at SFGH and to learn the latest in HIV/AIDS care to take back to their countries.
Wofsy had been a leader in the fight against AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic. She and Paul Volberding co-founded the AIDS Program at SFGH in 1983. Wofsy established herself early as an advocate not only for patients with AIDS but, in particular, for women with the disease.
In the early days of the epidemic, Wofsy was influential in providing medical services for young gay males, the predominately affected group of people with AIDS. Subsequently, she brought to public attention the plight of women who had AIDS and worked to establish new protocols for treatment of women. She co-founded AWARE (Association for Women's AIDS Research and Education) which was a community-based organization that worked with women at high risk for contracting HIV, offering them confidential HIV testing and counseling. AWARE also published some of the first data on the actual prevalence of HIV in high risk women in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Wofsy was one of the first AIDS experts to address the issue of AIDS and AIDS discrimination in the workplace. She established
Among her many achievements, Wofsy served as co-investigator of the Women's Interagency HIV Study of the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as chairperson of the communications committee for the Sixth International Conference on AIDS in 1990, as American chair of the First Sino American Conference on HIV in Beijing, and as program director of the WHO Eastern European HIV Training Program.
She was the founding chair of the Women's Health Committee of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group of the NIH and won the FREDDIE Award in 1992 and the CINE Golden Eagle Award for the production of a documentary film for AIDS education called HIV and the Health Care Worker. This film was a project with her SFGH colleague Julie Gerberding, a UCSF associate professor of medicine. "More than any other clinician, Connie was the leader in making this disease real, not only to those at risk but also to the people who work with the people at risk," said Gerberding. "Her contributions to the education of health care providers had an enormous impact on the quality of care we give our patients and to the dignity with which it is given and received."
Her many awards included being selected as the 12th Anniversary Honoree of the Equal Rights Advocates in 1986, as the Annual Dinner Honoree of the Harvey Milk Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club in 1987, and receiving a Career Achievement Award from the Women's Faculty Association and the UCSF Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women in 1994.
Wofsy received her bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley, with honors in bacteriology. She received her master's at UCB and her M.D. from the University of Southern California. She came to UCSF as a Clinical Instructor of Medicine in 1975.
She had published extensively in her specialty of infectious diseases as well as HIV disease. She was a member of several professional societies and was a fellow in the Infectious Disease Society of America.
Wofsy will be personally remembered by her friends and family for her enthusiasm for the arts and nature, for her commitment and dedication to her patients, and for her kindness and generosity of spirit.
She is survived by her husband David Wofsy, a UCSF professor of medicine, her son, Kevin and her daughter, Susan, all of San Francisco; and her mother Ruth Blitman, of Novato, California.
David A. Wood, Pathology: San Francisco
| 1904-1996 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
David Alvera Wood, a prominent supporter of cancer research, a distinguished researcher and the first director of the Cancer Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), died November 6, 1996. He left a legacy of innovative cancer research at UCSF and many proteges, colleagues and friends. He is survived by his wife, Orabelle, one daughter, Kate Lord, and four sons, David Alvara Wood III, John Archer Wood, William Allen Wood, and Charles Evans Wood, 16 grandchildren and one great-grandson.
Dr. Wood was born in Flora Vista, New Mexico on December 21, 1904, and received his bachelor's degree in 1926 and medical degree in 1930, both from Stanford University. He remained there as a member of the faculty and Chief of Pathology for 20 years before coming to UCSF in 1951. He specialized in pathology (oncology), particularly the field of gastrointestinal cancers. He took a military leave of absence from Stanford to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He retired from the Navy as a Captain.
Wood devoted his professional career to the fight against cancer. He was active in research and teaching, and served on numerous professional societies and government panels. He was, for example, an advisor to Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, and was instrumental in establishing the American Cancer Society branch in California. Wood was the Director of the UCSF Cancer Research Institute from 1951-1972; he was President of the American Cancer Society from 1956-1957, and continued as Life member of the Board of Directors. In 1972, he received the highest award of the American Cancer Society, the Distinguished Service Award. The award citation noted his "lifetime of dedication in the pursuit of cancer control as a
From 1968-1970, Wood served on the key National Cancer Institute (NCI) Advisory committee, which was instrumental in drafting the National Cancer Act in 1971. This act accorded high priority and increased funding for cancer research programs administered by the NCI. Wood served as President of the College of American Pathologists from 1952-1955 and of the American Association of Cancer Institutes from 1971-1972. He was Chairman of the Cancer Advisory Council of California from 1958-1960 and from 1963-1967. Wood was also at various times a consultant to the NCI, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Veteran's Administration.
Wood's numerous published works dealt with hospital-physician relationships as well as cancer of the gastrointestinal tract. He was keenly interested in distinguishing the various morphologies of cancer cells and in the staging and clinical application of cancer and its epidemiology. After his retirement from UCSF in 1972, he remained active in the fight against cancer, serving as consultant to the California Chapter of the American Cancer Society and as historian for the American Association for Cancer Education, from which he received the Margaret Hay Edwards Achievement Award in 1988. In 1983, Wood's contributions to the University were honored through the establishment of the David A. Wood Chair of Tumor Biology and Cancer Research.
Dr. Wood left a large legacy of achievements, innovations, and proteges, of whom I am pleased to be one. He was an excellent mentor, an energetic and passionate researcher, and a dear friend. His early recognition of the importance of organized cancer research led to the creation of the Cancer Research Institute at UCSF, and his appreciation of the many factors that can lead to cancer brought several creative approaches to the University. The David A. Wood Chair is a lasting tribute to a long-standing contributor to the University. He will be greatly missed.
Henryka Yakushev, Slavic Languages and Literatures: Berkeley
| 1924-1997 | |
| Senior Lecturer of Slavic, Emerita |
Henryka Yakushev died of cancer on August 7, 1997. Her life was shaped by the great upheavals of 20th-century European history. Like so many of her time and place, she would lose her family and home, becoming an emigrée many times over. She rarely, however, spoke of difficulties to her colleagues in Berkeley. And yet, even those of us who knew her only in relatively recent years will always be able to recall the energy and laughter she brought to challenges throughout her life.
Born Henryka Lipkies on July 7, 1924, in Bialystok, she spent the first 15 years of her life in what was then north-central Poland. With the Nazi invasion of Poland in the late summer of 1939, Henryka and her family suddenly found themselves just on the Soviet side of the Soviet-German border. Two years later, in June 1941, Henryka was sent by her parents to a summer vacation camp in what is now Belarus. While she was at the summer camp, Nazi armies launched attacks on the Soviet Union. Bialystok was soon deep within German-occupied territories, and Henryka found herself unable to return to her family due to heavy bombing and the destruction of major roads and bridges.
Now, barely 17 years of age and under the most difficult of conditions, Henryka began to struggle for survival on her own. Together with the other Poles from the vacation camp, she was transferred to the small village of Karakulina, away from the battle fields, in Udmurtija in the Russian S.F.S.R. She and the others were housed in an orphanage. The director, the teachers, and the students at the orphanage became Henryka's family during the war, her only recourse. She had no news of the fate of her family. Only later would
In 1944, in the last year of the war, Henryka became a student of Russian Language and Literature at Moscow State University. In 1947 she returned to Poland to continue her studies, now at the University of Lodz, where she soon completed a master's degree in Slavic philology. From 1948 to 1950 she taught as a lecturer in the Institute of Slavic Philology at Warsaw University. In 1950, Henryka returned to the Soviet Union to work on a doctoral degree in Russian philology at Moscow State University. She would complete this program in 1954. That same year she married Alexei Yakushev, then a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at the Moscow Institute of Economics. In 1956 their son Andrew was born.
For the next 10 years, Henryka worked in the Cultural Section of the Polish Embassy in Moscow, where she met and made friends with many Polish and Russian artists, writers, and poets. In 1966 the family moved to Warsaw. Henryka now held the position of Associate Professor at Warsaw University. Only two years later, however, in the midst of new unrest in Polish society and political life, Henryka once again became an emigree, moving now with her family to Australia. Over the next three years she held academic positions at the University of Melbourne, at Australian National University in Canberra, and at the University of New South Wales. In 1971 the family moved to the United States. From 1971 to 1972 Henryka taught at Columbia University and from 1972 to 1978 at the University of Michigan. In 1979 she was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Berkeley. She served the department for 15 years until her retirement in 1994, and she continued for two years after that to direct instruction of Russian.
Constant in Henryka's professional life was an interest in the languages, arts, and cultures of Poles and Russians. She published scholarly articles on Polish and Russian literature of the 20th century. She translated Polish novels and film scripts into Russian, and Russian literary criticism into Polish. She contributed to Polish-Russian and Russian-Polish dictionaries. She wrote on the problems of teaching Russian and Polish. She lectured on all these topics. A mediator between the two cultures at home in Russia and Poland, she became a representative of those two worlds to American students in her new home. At the University of Michigan enrollments in her first-year Polish grammar course once reached as many as 30 enthusiastic students.
At Berkeley, Henryka supervised instruction of beginning and advanced Russian grammar, for which she developed highly regarded teaching materials and workshops. She taught advanced Polish grammar and Polish literature to many of our undergraduate and graduate students. She had a wide following among her students, among the graduate student instructors she supervised, and among her colleagues. We all appreciated her devotion to our program in the field of Slavic cultures, her hard work, and her good sense of humor. Her graduate student instructors valued the "personal support system" she provided them. Several generations of our graduate students, in the rite by which American students of things Slavic have long shown their fondness and respect for their European teachers, passed down the secret of imitating her innovative English. Even in her long illness, Henryka continued to share generously of her knowledge and of her whole being with the community. She is remembered with a smile by her students, colleagues, and friends in Berkeley.
Henryka is survived by her husband Alexei and by their son Andrew.
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Title: 1997, University of California: In Memoriam
By: University of California (System) Academic Senate, Author
Date: 1997
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