University of California: In Memoriam, 1949A publication of the University of California |
Benjamin McA. Anderson, Economics: Los Angeles
| 1886-1949 |
BENJAMIN MC ALESTER ANDERSON (May 1, 1886-January 19, 1949), son of Benjamin McLean and Mary Frances (Bowling) Anderson, was born in Columbia, Missouri. He married Margaret Louis Crenshaw May 27, 1909. He is survived by his wife and three children, John Crenshaw, William Bent, and Mary Louise (Brown). A fourth child, Benjamin M. Anderson III, died in 1919.
Professor Anderson received the A.B. at the University of Missouri in 1906, the A.M. at the University of Illinois in 1910, and the Ph.D. in Economics at Columbia in 1911. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and an active member of the American Economic Association, in which he served as vice-president and a member of the Executive Committee. He served as Professor of History in the State Normal School at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1905; Professor of English Literature and Economics at Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri, in 1906; Professor of History and Economics at the State Teachers College, Springfield, Missouri, from 1906 to 1911; Instructor in Economics at Columbia from 1911 to 1913; Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia, 1913; Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard, 1913-1918; economic advisor in the
Professor Anderson enjoyed a rich experience as a youth in his home at Columbia, Missouri. His father was for many years a prominent member of the Missouri State Legislature. Their home was the scene of innumerable political conferences to which Dr. Anderson was invited and from which he developed a keen interest in the then current political and economic problems.
Dr. Anderson's publications were extensive, including four books and many articles and reviews. Outstanding among them were his books, Social Value, 1911; The Value of Money, 1917; Effects of the War on Money, Credit and Banking in France and the United States, 1919; Financing American Prosperity (coauthor with J. M. Clark, Columbia; A. H. Hansen, Harvard; S. H. Slichter, Harvard; H. S. Ellis, California at Berkeley; and J. H. Williams, Harvard), 1945. Much of his time during the last few years of his life was devoted to the writing of another book entitled Economics and the Public Welfare, a financial and economic history of the United States, 1914-1946. This extensive work was ready for proofreading at the time of his death. The book has now been published. It is a further major contribution
He contributed articles to many magazines and journals. Among them were the American Economic Review; Annals of the American Academy; Political Science Quarterly; Quarterly Journal of Economics; The New York Times; The Commercial and Financial Chronicle; The Bankers Magazine (London); The London Times; and the Wall Street Journal. During the past ten years he has published eight issues of the Economic Bulletin under the sponsorship of the Capital Research Company of Los Angeles. He associated himself for many years with a group of well-known economists in the organization known as the Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy, and served as President of that organization. Several of his articles were reprinted and circulated on a wide basis by that organization.
While economist for the Chase National Bank of New York, Professor Anderson published over two hundred issues of theChase Economic Bulletin, which was distributed and read extensively in government, banking and educational circles in many countries. Representing the Chase National Bank he traveled extensively in foreign countries to conduct negotiations with leading government and banking officials. He was called on numerous occasions to testify before committees of the U.S. Congress and the New York State
The firsthand contact with practical banking, with American and foreign banking officials, and with government agencies concerned with our economic and monetary affairs, which Dr. Anderson had enjoyed through many years, greatly enriched the content of his teaching and enabled him to provide for his students a sound and thoroughly practical experience. He originally possessed a scholarly command of history, literature, and languages which added impressively to his work, and he brought to his teaching and advisory tasks a broad perspective and keen judgment which made his pronouncements on economic affairs surprisingly accurate and wise.
Professor Anderson was a modest and distinguished scholar and a man esteemed by his colleagues for his personal qualities of kindly manner, stimulating humor, sympathetic appreciation and helpful cooperation. As a scholar and as a man he made a memorable contribution to the community in which he lived.
Katherine Fairchild Ball: Santa Barbara
| 1888-1949 |
KATHERINE FAIRCHILD BALL was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, July 9, 1888. She attended school there, majored in music at the University of Pittsburgh, and received her bachelor's degree at Pomona College in 1917. She was also a graduate of the library training class of the Los Angeles Public Library. After teaching high school in several California communities, she was on the staff of the Santa Barbara Public Library from 1922 until she became college librarian in 1926. From this position Miss Ball retired in August, 1947, after having been on sick leave for several months.
When Miss Ball came to the college in 1926, the library was in small, temporary quarters; the next year she moved the collection to the second floor of the Administration Building. Here Miss Ball continued the process of organizing a library on accepted principles of operation. During the next 20 years the collections quadrupled in size, and the Wyles collection on Lincoln and the Civil War was added. Miss Ball, in effect, was administrator, order librarian, catalog and reference librarian. She saw the library through the
Miss Ball continued her education informally in two long trips to Europe; she maintained an active interest in fine arts and made a hobby of forming a well-known collection of bookplates. Between 1935 and 1938 two series of book lists with the title Burning Lamps were edited by Miss Ball. She was active in professional and charitable organizations. For over 20 years she was interested in the welfare of the blind; purchased a Braille writing machine and transcribed not only magazine articles but several full-length books into Braille, and taught other interested persons this skill, thus increasing the production of reading matter for the blind.
Her faculty colleagues remember Miss Ball as a person devoted to duty; a quiet friendliness characterized her constant efforts to improve the library. Her pride in the College was in part due to the fact that her father had been the second president of the institution from 1916 to 1918.
Miss Ball's passing is regretted not only by the college family, but also by the many friends she made in the community.
Raymond Garfield Gettell, Political Science: Berkeley
| 1881-1949 |
Raymond Garfield Gettell was born March 4, 1881, at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. He was the son of John Jacob and Zora Lindlay Gettell. His family had been residents of that part of this country for six generations.
He graduated from Ursinus College at Collegeville, Pennsylvania, in 1904, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude. He received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1906, and from Amherst College in 1916. From Trinity College, in 1941, he received the degree of Doctor of Letters.
Dr. Gettell taught initially at Ursinus College and at Bates College, Maine, then at Trinity, from 1909 to 1914, where he was Northam Professor of History and Political Science; and at Amherst College from 1914 to 1923. He came to the University of California first as a visiting professor and then as a member of the Department of Political Science, and remained here an active teacher and administrative officer until his death.
He was pre-eminently a teacher of politics and of political philosophy. His History of Political Thought (1924) was a broad and informative review of man's conception of the state and of government from the teachings of Aristotle to the present day. It had its place in the salutary revival
He followed this influential work with another, History of American Political Thought, 1928, and Political Science, in 1933. Previous to these works he had published Introduction to Political Science, 1910; Problems in Political Evolution, 1914; and, in 1924, The Constitution of the United States.
His success as a teacher was notable. He had a mind of great clarity and orderliness; and his teaching was distinguished by the logical and systematic manner in which he developed his subject, as well as by his fluent presentation. His preparation was always careful, and his exposition, convincing. His seminars, always meticulously organized, furnished his many graduate students through the years with valuable insights into the thinking of the chief political theorists, past and present. He was a man of remarkably regular habits. Each day's work was carefully organized and promptly done, and his engagements, conscientiously met.
He was much sought by other universities as a visiting professor. The list of such institutions includes the universities of Maine, Illinois, Texas, Michigan, Columbia, Cornell, and Hawaii. His
On the administrative side, Doctor Gettell served more than once as Head of the Department of Political Science, and, from 1935 to 1942, as Dean of the Summer Sessions, University of California. He was much sought after as a public speaker; and, for many years, gave a bi-weekly summary of political and social occurrences before the Oakland Forum. He was a brilliant conversationalist in private or literary gatherings. He had a continuing interest in the affairs of the student body and in its athletic competitions, and, while at Amherst College, was the coach of the football team. In his personal relations he was a rather quiet man-friendly but entirely unassuming and inclined toward reticence. He was married in 1906 to Nelene Groff Knapp. Their two children, Dorothy Bates and Rich Glenn, have survived the death of both of their parents.
William Brodbeck Herms, Entomology and Parasitology: Berkeley
| 1876-1949 |
William Brodbeck Herms, Professor of Parasitology, Emeritus, passed away suddenly on May 9, 1949, as a result of a heart attack.
In reviewing his career of many facets, it is difficult to decide where the emphasis should be placed, as he was a dynamic leader in every undertaking to which he directed his unbounded energies. As a scientist, his colleagues had elected him to the presidency of both of the national entomological societies--the Entomological Society of America and the American Association of Economic Entomologists, a distinction that is shared with only one other person in the last half century. His long service with the Boy Scouts of America had brought him the title of Councilor of Boy Scouts of the Western States and Hawaii. The citizens of Berkeley had awarded him the Benjamin Ide Wheeler medal for distinguished citizenship for long service on the Berkeley Board of Education and in other civic enterprises. Surpassing all these citations, however, are the memories in the minds of thousands of former students of an ideal college teacher--scholarly, friendly, approachable, and infinitely wise.
He was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, on September
From early boyhood he had seen the ravages of malaria that followed the annual spring flood of the Ohio River, and with the impetus of Sir Ronald Ross' discovery of the transmission of this disease by anopheline mosquitoes, his interests turned to medical entomology. He consistently emphasized the ecological aspects for, as he once phrased it himself, he had “an overwhelming desire to know what goes on in nature in the rough.”
He won fellowships at Western Reserve, Ohio State, and Harvard. During this time he did pioneering work on the reactions of insects to light which is still considered an authoritative, accurate, and effective starting point for all workers in this field.
In 1908 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Entomology at the University of California. This title was changed in 1912 to Assistant Professor of Parasitology, making him the first person to hold an academic title in the field of Parasitology in the United States. He became Associate Professor in 1915 and Professor of Parasitology and Entomologist in the Experiment Station in 1921.
In the winter of 1909-1910, business men and fruit growers in Placer County asked his aid in reducing the ravages of malaria in that area. He undertook, with the help of his students, to carry on an intensive mosquito control campaign over an area of eight square miles. This was the first antimalarial mosquito control campaign to be conducted in the United States. The district involved was one where a small amount of well-planned work was able to accomplish results that verged on the miraculous.
As a result, Professor Herms was called upon to inaugurate mosquito abatement programs for the control of malaria throughout the state. In many cases it was an up-hill fight, as some local Chambers of Commerce bitterly resented the implication that their communities were centers of malarial infection. With true missionary zeal, however, he fought on, even in the face of personal violence, and lived to see malaria almost eradicated from his adopted state. His record in the control of malaria is shared by but few other scientists in the world.
When World War I was imminent, he volunteered his services and was made a Captain and later a Major in the Sanitary Corps. After duty in Texas, he supervised antimalarial mosquito control over a widespread encampment area in tide-water Virginia, with spectacularly successful results. Although over age at the outset of World
Returning from World War I he was made head of the Division of Entomology and Parasitology in 1919, a position he held with distinction until shortly before his retirement on September 22, 1946.
His text, Medical Entomology, is one of the most widely used references on the subject in the United States.
William Brodbeck Herms was a keen scientist of international repute; an inspiring teacher for many generations of college students; a conscientious citizen who gave of his services unstintingly to all worthy civic proposals; and lastly, a kindly friend whose council was sought in times of trouble, doubt or indecision by countless acquaintances.
His wide range of friends in all walks of life sympathize with his widow and sons, and mourn his passing; but glory in the fact that because of his living, their own lives were made richer and brighter by his presence and example.
Dennis Robert Hoagland, Plant Nutrition: Berkeley
| 1884-1949 |
Dennis Robert Hoagland, Professor Emeritus of Plant Nutrition, died September 5, 1949. His life had been fruitful in achievement and stimulating in quality.
Professor Hoagland was born in Golden, Colorado, April 2, 1884. He attended the Denver public schools and in 1903 entered Stanford University, graduating with an A.B. degree in the Chemistry major in 1907. After a fall semester of graduate work he accepted a position at the University of California in January 1908 as Instructor in Animal Nutrition. From that time until his retirement June 30, 1949, with the exception of the period 1910 to 1913, his academic life was associated with the Berkeley campus.
About 1910 the U. S. Department of Agriculture became concerned with the alleged injurious effects of food preservatives on humans. A consulting board of scientific experts was set up and Professor Hoagland became a member of its staff. This assignment took him to the University of Pennsylvania where in addition to his research he found opportunity to continue his graduate studies in chemistry. It is evident that this early experience introduced him to the intriguing problems of biochemistry and this interest once developed became his major scientific concern the
In the fall of 1913 he returned to California as Assistant Professor of Agricultural Chemistry. This area of knowledge, through the stimulating domination of Professor Hilgard, concerned itself with the soil and crop problems confronting California agriculture. Professor Hoagland found no difficulty in adapting himself to this new emphasis. It was probably his diversified early experience that made it possible for him later to develop on this campus a world center for the study of interrelated plant and soil problems. His broad interest did not lead him to scatter his efforts however. He early demonstrated an ability to clearly outline a segment of the field and vigorously attack it, without restricting his vision of the entire complex problem. It was this quality which enabled him to achieve so significantly.
Professor Hoagland became head of the newly created Division of Plant Nutrition in 1922. Under his guidance and stimulation, this became more than a “Division” in the College of Agriculture: it was in effect what the Germans might have termed an “Institut für Pflanzen und Boden Wissenschaft.” It was a dynamic research center in which both basic and practical problems of plantsoil
Professor Hoagland entered fully into the academic life of the University. He served as a member, then as chairman, of the Budget Committee and as a member of many other Senate and administrative committees. He was a member of numerous scientific organizations, including the National Academy of Science, and served on important national scientific boards. Many honors came to him. The American Society of Plant Physiologists presented him with the Stephen Hales
Professor Hoagland was married to Jessie A. Smiley in 1920. She died in 1933 leaving three sons, all of whom are graduates of this University. He did not possess a rugged constitution and the last few years of his life were marred by illness. But almost to the last he kept a faculty for keen appraisal of scientific and social situations and an interest in human events of the most diverse sort. He was a man of judgment, of tolerance, and of discernment, one who abhorred hypocrisy and admired honesty. He was the quality out of which great human structures are built.
Walter Lafayette Howard, Pomology: Davis
| 1872-1949 |
Walter Lafayette Howard, Professor of Pomology, Emeritus, was born May 12, 1872, near Springfield, Missouri. He received the degrees of B.Agr. and B.S. at the University of Missouri in 1901 and M.S. in 1903. At that university he was instructor in horticulture 1903-4, assistant professor 1905-8, professor 1908-15. He had studied at the University of Leipzig in 1905 and received the Ph.D. degree at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1906. He studied in France in 1921-22 and at the East Malling Research Station in England in 1930. In 1915, he came to the University of California as Associate Professor of Pomology, and in 1918 was advanced to the rank of professor. He served as director of the branch of the college of agriculture at Davis from 1924 to 1937, when at the age of 65 he retired from administrative duties and devoted full time to his professorship until he became professor emeritus in 1942. For several years after his retirement he was actively engaged in the preparation of material for publication, and seemed in reasonably good health until a few days before his death on October 17, 1949. He is survived by his wife Maybelle Cooper Howard, and by three sons: Robert, Edwin, and Walter.
Doctor Howard was most active in research during the years from 1905 to 1915, when he was making a very extensive study of the rest periods of woody plants, seeds, and bulbs. He reported this work in five extensive research bulletins that are widely quoted. In California, however, where he found many of the fruit growers new to the industry and in great need of information that would help them to save their investments, he spent most of his time that was not required for administrative duties in helping them. His bibliography includes about 115 research and extension publications.
He was a member of Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta, and Sigma Kappa Zeta, and of the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, was president of the American Society for Horticultural Science in 1915, and was awarded the Croix de Chevalier du Merite Agricole in 1934.
Before going to the University of Missouri, Doctor Howard was for several years a reporter on one of the two daily newspapers in Springfield, Missouri, one rather violently Democratic, and the other as strongly Republican, each denouncing the other in terms that pleased their readers, but both belonging to the same man. If he came in contact with much that was sordid, some of it among people who were highly respected, he also reported Chautauqua and other lectures by such inspiring people as Dr. Lyman Abbot. Without
His associates feel his loss deeply for many reasons, but especially for his even-tempered fairness and tolerance, and a genial sense of humor.
Harry Ernest Jacob, Viticulture and Fruit Products: Davis
| 1896-1949 |
Harry Ernest Jacob was born at Columbus, Ohio, on October 30, 1896. He received the B.S. degree in 1918 from Ohio State University. The following summer and autumn he spent with the National Geographic Society's survey party in making survey of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Alaska. During 1919-20 he was a graduate assistant in Agriculture at the University of California and earned the M.S. degree in Plant Pathology. In January, 1921, he joined the College of Agriculture as Assistant in Cold Storage Investigations. At the end of that year he transferred to the Division of Viticulture, where he served until his death, March 12, 1949.
Professor Jacob gave much of his time and effort to teaching. He taught a general year course in grape production and a semester course in fruit handling, certification, and inspection. He was keenly interested in students and gave unsparingly of his time in advising them upon personal as well as educational matters. The good influence of his instruction has been extended broadly through the application of better practices and methods by former members of his classes and by those who came under his guidance.
He engaged in research with vigor and cooperactive enthusiasm. Soon after joining the division
Although resolute of purpose, Professor Jacob was admired by his colleagues for his wisdom and his willingness to share the burdens of divisional work. This same character entered into his capacity for doing things well. His lectures were well organized and clearly delivered. The researches he undertook were pursued with meticulous care. His other services, whether as a member of civic groups, or faculty committees, reflected clarity of thought and analysis.
In 1923, Professor Jacob married Gladys Ola Slack of Columbus, Ohio. He is survived by his widow; two sons, Frederick, a member of the Agricultural Engineering staff, and Wendel; and a daughter, Mary Ellen.
Raymond Constantine Martinelli, Mechanical Engineering: Berkeley
| 1914-1949 |
The death of Raymond Constantine Martinelli in Oakland, California, on January 9, 1949, at the age of thirty-five, stopped in mid-career the progress of a young educator whose many contributions to the University as a teacher, and to industry as an authority in the field of heat transfer, were but a forecast of great and enduring accomplishments to come, had he been granted a normal span of life.
He was born in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, on April 27, 1914, the son of Angelo Martinelli, Professor of Economics and Adele Martinelli. At the age of nine, he came to the United States with his mother and brother. He enrolled in 1932 in the College of Engineering on the Berkeley campus of the University of California, where his scholastic attainments first won him election to Tau Beta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi, and then the University's most distinguished undergraduate scholastic award--the University Medal, bestowed when he received his baccalaureate in electrical engineering in 1936. He was awarded his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 1939, and the Ph.D. degree in 1941.
He served the University in the capacity of
As a teacher, his place will never be filled in the hearts of the students who received the benefit of his guidance. To them, his name had the aura of excellence in engineering accomplishment, for what seemed to them insoluble problems were reduced to their basic elements by his ingenuity and capacity for clear analysis. In discussions, they found he had a faculty for sensing their thoughts and reexpressing them to establish a synthesis of the thinking of teacher and student. To his students, his influence will live on through the methods, techniques, and concepts which he thus imparted to them, to become characteristics of their very being.
As a faculty colleague, he was beloved by his associates for his generous and kindly assistance in the solution of the many problems discussed with him, and for his patience and consideration in sharing the many irregular and unpredictable administrative duties which arose during the period of World War II.
In the field of research, he gained international recognition because of his studies in the field of heat transfer. These led to the publication of twenty-seven scientific papers of which he was
The practical value of his instinct for research in industry was recognized by two periods of service with the Shell Oil Company, and one each with Associated Oil Company and with Standard Oil Company of California, Douglas Aircraft Company, and General Electric Company. During a two-year leave of absence from the University from 1946 to 1948, he served as head of the Heat Transfer Section of the Atomic Power Division of General Electric Company.
He was also in close touch with current industrial trends through his membership in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Automotive Engineers, and the Society of American Military Engineers.
But despite his recognition by industry, he returned again and again to his academic work because of his sincere interest in students and his untiring devotion to graduate research. And despite the calls which his professional attainments brought from some of the foremost educational
He is survived by his widow, the former Charlotte Alicia Prowse, three children, Muriel, Peggy, and David, his mother, and a brother, Ernest A. Martinelli. To them, and to all his students and associates, his memory will ever be an inspiration.
Robert Frederick Miller, Animal Husbandry: Davis
| 1889-1949 |
Professor Miller was born at New Ulm, Texas, August 20, 1889. He received the B.S. degree at Texas Agricultural College in 1909 and the M.S. degree at Iowa State College in 1912. In the latter year he became Instructor in Animal Husbandry at Montana State College and in 1914 was appointed Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry in the University of California at Davis. In 1919-1920 he served as Professor in his chosen field at Texas A & M College, but then returned to Davis as Associate Professor. He was made Professor of Animal Husbandry and Animan Husbandman in the Agricultural Experiment Station in 1939, and served until his death on October 2, 1949.
From early in his years at Davis, Miller specialized in work with sheep and sheep production, becoming a recognized authority on this industry in California and other western states. Besides his regular University classes, he was frequently invited to speak at farmers' meetings and other public gatherings where problems of the sheep industry were considered. His services were much in demand at livestock shows as a judge of sheep, and he was repeatedly invited to serve in this capacity at the Chicago International Livestock Exposition, the Pacific International at Portland,
His interest in research lay in the nutrition of sheep and production of fat lambs. He planned and directed many digestion experiments and feeding trials with various feedstuffs peculiar to and available only in California and other western states. A five-year study using breeds of black-face rams in the production of market lambs was enthusiastically accepted by the industry.
As a teacher, Professor Miller was generous and enthusiastic, and gained the reputation of being honest, patient, and sincere with students. He gave freely of his time and effort and he expected a similar response from them. The firm friendships formed in the classroom and outdoor laboratories continued through the years as returning alumni visited him frequently to discuss their problems.
Professor Miller was a member and one-time officer of the American Society of Animal Production and was active in campus programs of Sigma Xi and Alpha Zeta. He participated freely in community affairs and served for several years as a trustee for the Davis schools. He was a honorary director of the California Wool Growers Association and for upwards of a quarter century had an active part in formulating its policies.
Joseph Haines Moore, Astronomy: Berkeley and Lick Observatory
| 1878-1949 |
Joseph Haines Moore joined the staff of Lick Observatory in 1903. He was retired from active service a few months before his death, which occurred on March 15, 1949. For the greater part of his life he devoted a singularly lucid and inquiring mind to the service of the University and the Observatory.
Moore was born in Wilmington, Ohio, on September 7, 1878, the only child of John Haines Moore and Mary Ann Haines. His parents were members of the Society of Friends, with long lines of Quaker ancestry, and Joseph was raised in the wholesome discipline of that sect; in youth and manhood he held to its philosophy of conduct, and he maintained his relations with the Society throughout his life.
Following his elementary education Moore attended Wilmington College. He took the classical course, and received the A.B. degree in 1897. While his studies there did not especially fit him for the career of scientific research to which he devoted his later years, he came, happily, in his senior year, under the inspiring influence of Professor W. Bennett, an enthusiastic teacher of astronomy, from whom he acquired the deep and lasting interest in that subject, and in the broad
The immediate consequence of Moore's collegiate experience was that he entered Johns Hopkins University with the purpose of studying astronomy under Simon Newcomb, then the most eminent astronomer in this country. At the university, however, he found his preparation for advanced study in science to have been inadequate, and it was necessary for him to take two years of under-graduate work. At Johns Hopkins he came under the instruction of Newcomb, in astronomy, and of Rowland, Ames, and R. W. Wood in physics. His major study was in the latter field, and he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1903. He came at once to Mount Hamilton, and entered upon his career as an astronomer.
Moore began as assistant to W. W. Campbell in the measurement, by means of the spectroscope, of the velocities of the stars in the line of sight. Dr. Campbell had, a few years before, initiated a large undertaking in that field, but in the meantime had been appointed director of the Observatory. The management of a scientific institution in so isolated a situation as Mount Hamilton demands attention to a multitude of administrative details, and it was essential that the new assistant take over as much of the spectroscopic observation as possible. The work was of a pioneer character, and the strategic position of stellar radial velocities in
Among the objects of Moore's particular attention were the spectroscopic binary stars. These are stars which in the most powerful telescopes appear single, but which spectroscopic examination shows to be double. He discovered many of these interesting objects, and calculated their orbits. The field is an important one, and touches many other areas of astronomical knowledge; it requires close discrimination in the interpretation of observations,
From his early position as assistant, Moore passed through the regular grades to that of astronomer. In 1936 he became assistant director of the Lick Observatory, and in 1942, director. He served on five of the observatory's eclipse expeditions to various parts of the world, and was in direct charge of two of them. He was acting astronomer in charge of the observatory's southern station, at Santiago, Chile, from 1909 to 1913. Beginning in 1944 he suffered some distress caused by the altitude of the observatory, and on November 30, 1945, following the advice of his physician, he relinquished the office of director, and was transferred to Berkeley. There he gave instruction in the University and engaged in research until his retirement on September 6, 1948. While in Berkeley he enjoyed apparently normal health. On the morning of March 15 he died during sleep. He was a member of the principal learned societies within the fields of his interest, and of the National Academy of Sciences.
To astronomers in many lands Joseph Moore is known as the source of a great amount of dependable
On June 12, 1907, Dr. Moore was married to Miss Fredrica Chase, of Payette, Idaho, a graduate of Vassar College, who had come to the Lick Observatory as an astronomical assistant in 1905. Their association was an ideal one, and brought happiness to the observatory community as well as to themselves. They had two daughters: Mary Kathryn (Mrs. H. Vern Gates) and Margaret Elizabeth (Mrs. Vinton S. Matthews). Dr. Moore is survived by Mrs. Moore, their two daughters and five grandchildren.
Albert Henry Mowbray, Economics: Berkeley
| 1881-1949 |
Albert Henry Mowbray, Professor of Insurance in the Department of Economics, died in Berkeley, California, January 7, 1949, of a coronary occlusion. Professor Mowbray was born in San Francisco on March 30, 1881, and graduated from the University of California in the class of 1904. Following graduation he entered the actuarial department of the New York Life Insurance Company. Between 1905 and 1923 he continued the practice of insurance mainly, though not entirely, in the East. At various times during these years he was actuary in the insurance department of the State of North Carolina, actuary and secretary and actuary and vice-president of the Massachusetts Employees Insurance Association later known as the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, actuary of the State Industrial Commission of the State of New York, and actuary of the National Council on Workmen's Insurance. This later organization was the central rate-making body for both stock and mutual companies in the United States. Between 1908 and 1910 he was actuary in the Insurance Department of the State of California, and during 1910-11 he served as Instructor in Insurance, ad interim, at the University of California.
Professor Mowbray resigned his position with the National Council on Workmen's Compensation in 1923 because of ill health of members of his family. He was, in that year, appointed Associate Professor of Insurance in the Department of Economics at the University of California. In 1926 he was advanced to the full professorship, a position which he held until his death. Between 1928 and 1934 he was chairman of the Department. Here, during many years, he was entirely responsible for instruction in insurance and, in addition, carried a load in the field of statistics which became increasingly heavy as enrollment grew.
While he was always acutely conscious of his University responsibilities, Professor Mowbray's judgment and experience enabled him to be of service to a number of city, state, and national organizations after his transfer to the West. Thus he advised, at one time or another, the state industrial commissions or workmen's compensation funds in the states of Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. He made reports upon a pension fund for firemen and policement in the City of Berkeley in 1928, on a proposed retirement system for employees of the City of Palo Alto in 1930, on a retirement system for the city of San Francisco in 1934, and on a revision of the teachers' retirement system for the State of California in 1943. In 1998 he served as consulting actuary for the California “Commission on Pensions of State Employees” in
Professor Mowbray's knowledge of the entire field of insurance was comprehensive. The best evidence of this is to be found in his general book on insurance, which was adopted as a text by more than 60 colleges and universities. It was also displayed in a long series of technical papers and addresses read at meetings of the Actuarial Society of America and elsewhere. He was also an acknowledged expert in particular fields, such as workmen's compensation and casualty insurance. He has been referred to as the leading man in the United States in the theory of casualty insurance and also as the leading man in workmen's compensation insurance. His long continued effort,
Personally, Professor Mowbray was modest, interested in and proud of his students, capable of warm friendships, sturdily independent, and of a sterling integrity on which his friends and associates, both inside and outside of the University, completely relied. His career displayed a remarkable combination of scholarly pursuits and professional attainment.
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Gray Mowbray, and by two children, Mary Elizabeth (Page) and Albert Gray Mowbray.
Benedict Frederick Raber, Mechanical Engineering: Berkeley
| 1882-1949 |
Benedict Frederick Raber served the University of California as Associate Professor and Professor from 1915 to his retirement in 1949. He brought to engineering instruction at Berkeley the philosophy, methodology and practices of Purdue University, his Alma Mater, which was making large contributions to engineering education. Professor Raber served under Dean C. L. Cory (Purdue 1889) and he contributed in ways similar to those of Cory in strengthening and continuing the tie between the two engineering institutions.
One of his first contributions was the planning and development of two of the mechanical laboratories, the Heat Power Laboratory and the Automotive Laboratory. His long-range plans for these laboratories were noteworthy as was also the execution with very limited funds. His concept of the place of laboratory experience in the education of the engineering student included critical ideas as to what should be contributed by that experience. In collaboration with his colleague, R. S. Tour, he made this philosophy real in the College of Engineering. His ability to introduce ideas into existing educational philosophy and practice had
Professor Raber was known for his orderly thinking and habits. He was a direct and meticulous instructor who impressed students with the importance for the engineer of direct, detailed and orderly thinking. The students who came under his influence would later recognize the excellence of his approach to understanding the job of the engineer. He was a leader in the use of classroom teaching aids, especially charts (plates, as he called them) and sectioned models.
During the period 1924-1930, Professor Raber served the University as a consultant in the use and adaptation of campus buildings and in the programming of buildings under construction. He emphasized the wisdom of constructing buildings to serve not merely the needs of the departments housed, their research and public service, but also some general needs of the University. He was skillful in designing for efficient use, in providing for changing needs, and in appraising the role of buildings as a determinant in University policy. Many results of his analyses and designs are to be found on the Berkeley, Davis, and Los Angeles campuses. The heating plants at Davis, Berkeley, and Los Angeles illustrate his professional design. As a service contribution to the State, he designed
During World War I Professor Raber was commissioned by President Benjamin Ide Wheeler to receive instruction from the Military on the establishment of a U. S. Army School of Military Aeronautics on the Berkeley campus. Throughout the war years he served as one of the principal directors of instruction in this school, supervising instruction in airplane engines and related subjects.
As a practicing engineer, Professor Raber was responsible for the equipment in the city water supply pumping plant of the City of Sacramento. He also served as a consultant to the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce on power and pumping problems.
In the 'thirties, Professor Raber directed his studies to the field of air conditioning. He served as consultant on numerous
projects. In 1912 he had assisted in the preparation of the Handbook for Heating and Ventilating Engineers by J. D. Hoffman, published by McGraw-Hill Book Corporation. He and Baldwin M. Woods were co-authors of Air Conditioning for California Homes, California Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 589, March 1935. He wrote with F. W. Hutchinson Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
During World War II, he served as Chairman of the Department and Division of Mechanical Engineering from 1943-1946. During this period the Department experienced the impact of war and began its plans for the postwar period. As chairman he earned wholehearted support of his colleagues through his sympathetic understanding of their problems and his concern for high standards of engineering performance and scholarship.
Professor Raber was born in Farmington, Iowa, on October 8, 1882; was graduated by Purdue University in 1907 with honors in Mechanical Engineering. He was married to Clara Leese on December 31, 1922. He died on August 15, 1949, soon after his retirement. Only a few days before, he had boxed some of his engineering magazines for use in the Engineering Library on the Los Angeles campus.
Professor Raber was a member of the honor societies--Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Sigma Tau--and the following engineering and scientific societies: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society for
His excellent paper (with F. W. Hutchinson) entitled Rational Analysis of Panel Heating and Cooling Systems was the basis of a medal award by the International Heat Congress in 1947.
Professor Raber was a kindly man but one of deep convictions. He believed in the responsibilities of the teacher and labored unceasingly to attain the standards he visualized as sound. He contributed to the professional development of students, supplementing their scientific studies with observations and conclusions concerning trends in the engineering profession, its requirements and its ethical standards. He continued professional development to the end of his life and was in the midst of preparations for two books in the field of air conditioning at the time of his sudden death. Faculty and students of the College of Engineering were fortunate to have his able collaboration and services for more than a generation.
Sarah Huntsman Sturgess, Dramatic Art; Public Speaking: Berkeley
| 1879-1949 |
Sarah Huntsman Sturgess was born on April 5, 1879 in Wellsville, Utah, the daughter of William Huntsman and Ingrid Asklund Huntsman. Her childhood and youth were spent in Utah. In 1899 she graduated from the State College at Logan, and then in 1901, from the Emerson College of Oratory in Boston. She spent the next year at the University of Chicago; summer session studies took her to Harvard in 1900, and to Chicago again in 1910.
Mrs. Sturgess taught English and Public Speaking first at Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois, then for a year (1903-04) at the New Mexico Normal University at Las Vegas. For the three following years at Michigan Seminary at Kalamazoo, Michigan, she was an Instructor of English, in charge of Public Speaking. Returning to Utah State College in 1907, Mrs. Sturgess was an Instructor until 1914, then an Assistant Professor until 1921, being for the last eleven years of this time in charge of all dramatic activities and oratorical contests, and, for the last six years, in charge of instruction in Public Speaking.
Coming to the University of California at Berkeley in 1921, Mrs. Sturgess was Assistant Professor
She was married in 1928 to Fredrick Ainsley Sturgess. She died in Berkeley on January 13, 1949, leaving no immediate survivors.
For the twenty-two years of her active time at California, Mrs. Sturgess taught classes in Fundamentals of Expression and Interpretation, in Literary Interpretation, and in Play Production. In addition for many years she directed an annual student play production in Wheeler Hall. Outward Bound (1925), What Every Woman Knows (1926), The Tragedy of Nan (1927), The Sea Gull (1928), The Life of Man (1932) and The Moon in the Yellow River (1933) all were given praiseworthy presentations under Mrs. Sturgess' guidance. In 1935 she directed a series of radio readings of plays by Shakespeare, including As You Like it, Henry IV, and Henry V. Herself a gifted reader of plays and poems, she gave through the years many formal and informal programs including in 1931, two lecture readings entitled “The Development of the Modern Literary Ballad,” and in 1935, a reading of Sean O'Casey's play, Within the Gates.
Mrs. Sturgess' career covered a time of changing concepts of the place of theater in society at large, and in education. In her classes, in public
Schurer Olaf Werner, Industrial Education: Santa Barbara
| 1884-1949 |
SCHURER OLAF WERNER, Associate Professor of Industrial Arts at Santa Barbara College, died November 22, 1949, in his sixty-fifth year. He came to Santa Barbara College in 1927 as a part-time instructor, and continued in various professional capacities until his death. He had expected to retire within the next two years when he would have reached the retirement age of sixty-seven.
Mr. Werner was born in Oestersund, Sweden, October 25, 1884. He immigrated to the United States in 1895 and resided in Fairbault, Minnesota. His early education began in Sweden and was continued in America. Coming to California in 1924, he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at Santa Barbara State College, and a Master of Arts degree at Claremont College in 1940.
Mr. Werner was greatly interested in advancing scholarship and was the original sponsor of Pi Sigma Chi, honorary industrial arts fraternity. He served in that capacity for several years, until the group became affiliated with the national group of Epsilon Pi Tau. He was also a member of Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Delta Kappa, and the American Association of University Professors. Mr. Werner was a high school instructor at the South High
Professor Werner was the coauthor of Simplified Roof Framing, which has been used for twenty years in schools. He also wrote Simplified Stair Layout, as well as numerous magazine articles. One of his recent projects was the translation from Swedish of some of Albert Schweitzer's writings.
Mr. Werner's passing is deeply regretted and constitutes a great loss to this department and college. Both his students and other faculty members were constantly praising his high standards of scholarship and his methods of teaching. He not only displayed a high degree of skill and knowledge in his subject matter field, but would delve deeply in a scholarly manner into the aesthetic background of architecture and the influence of art upon it.
He was a lover of good music and maintained a fine collection of classical recordings. He was an accomplished organist and a pianist. His father
The students and faculty will remember Mr. Werner as an erect, dignified gentleman whose white hair so appropriately emphasized his purity and fine character.
Surviving Professor Werner are his wife, Sophie H. Werner, and a daughter, Anna. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Oscar Swenumson, of Carpinteria. He was a member of the Unitarian Church.
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Title: 1949, University of California: In Memoriam
By: University of California (System) Academic Senate, Author
Date: 1949
Contributing Institution: University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info
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