University of California: In Memoriam, 1980

A publication of the University of California


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Frederick Henry Abbott, Dairy Industry: Davis


1891-1979
Associate Specialist in the Experiment Station
Lecturer

Fred Henry Abbott died at eighty-eight in Davis on September 25, 1979. Born in London, England in 1891, he was brought to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1894, where the family lived on a small, one-cow farm. He was not able to attend high school until he was twenty-one years of age and, went on to graduate in Dairy Industry from Iowa State College, Ames.

Fred, after graduation, managed dairy plants in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. During this time he spent one year in the army during World War I. He was brought to the Dairy Industry Division at Davis in 1922 and stayed for thirty-seven years until his retirement in 1959.

One of his many activities started in 1922 when he was elected Secretary/Treasurer of the California Creamery Operators Association. This activity continued after his retirement until 1971: fifty years of service. The Association, founded in 1900, was instrumental in establishing a Dairy School at Davis, brought about by a legislative act in 1905 with the assistance of Judge Peter J. Shields of the Creamery Operators Association.

Fred instructed many of the students enrolled in the two-year dairy program at Davis and helped with students in the four-year program. He was involved in many student activities, was a faculty advisor for Kappa Sigma Fraternity, and was an early president of the Faculty Club.

Abbott played a major role in the development of the California Dairy Industry. Early in his career he assisted in securing passage in California of the country's first butter labeling act. He was presented with a California Golden Bear statue by the California State Fair for his success at improving dairy products while serving for many years as superintendent of the dairy products exhibit. During World War II, Abbott received a letter of appreciation from the president of the United States for his work with various war boards and the Administration. His work during this period enabled California to increase its output of critically needed dairy products. In 1951, he was awarded membership in the National Dairy Shrine, an honor reserved for only a few dairy leaders in the U.S. and based on their outstanding leadership and accomplishment.


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Fred, an avid fisherman, was well versed in the better fishing areas of California. He was often accompanied by Robert Sproul, Claude Hutchison, and others of the University administration.

Abbott's first wife, Zelpha Mae, died in 1963. His second wife, Lillian M., died in 1976. Two sons, Fred, Jr., and Robert, both of Woodland, and a daughter, Irene, of Burlingame, survived him. At the time of his death, there were eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

B. E. Hubbell R. Bainer E. B. Collins


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John Milton Adams, Pediatrics: Los Angeles


1905-1980
Professor Emeritus

John Milton Adams was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1905, and died on June 30, 1980. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn, who is fondly known by members of the faculty and friends as Carrie, and three sons, John M. Jr., Herbert, and William. John Adams received his B.S. from Princeton in 1929, his M.D. from Columbia in 1933, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1943. His clinical training included a year as an intern in pediatrics at Yale's New Haven Hospital and a year as an intern in surgery and an additional two years as resident in pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Hospitals.

John, or Jack as he was known to many of his earlier friends and colleagues, was a remarkably versatile and gifted person. He played golf and tennis at near professional levels, was a respectable amateur artist, and a creditable mason-carpenter.

Above all, however, John Adams was a highly creative medical academician. After completion of his pediatric residency in 1937, he engaged in private practice at the Nicollet Clinic in Minneapolis. Concurrently he directed the diabetic clinic at the Minneapolis General Hospital and reorganized the outpatient clinic of the University of Minnesota Hospitals. He joined the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics at Minnesota as assistant professor in 1941 and advanced to associate professor in 1946, becoming the right-hand man of the renowned Irvine McQuarrie. Over the next several years Dr. Adams was associated with the training of many leading academic pediatricians of his era.

In 1950, Dr. Adams became the founding chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he had a profound influence not only in pediatrics but on the development of the new school. With A. H. Parmelee, Jr., for example, he insisted on the importance of approaching diseases of individual children through their family unit and on the importance of emphasizing psychosocial aspects of medical care generally.

At Minnesota, Adams had pioneered in studies of respiratory infections of children. This research led to the recognition that respiratory viruses,


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many of which remained to be explicitly defined by rapidly advancing technology, were major causes of respiratory disease of children. Later at UCLA in collaboration with David T. Imagawa, he initiated studies elucidating the role of long latent infection with measles virus in the pathogenesis of disease of the central nervous system. He and Imagawa also discovered that measles virus was the human prototype of a family of viruses, other members of which caused canine distemper and cattle plague.

Adams was a prolific contributor to pediatric text books and reviews as well as to general surveys of viral infections for lay readers. He was a vigorous and articulate advocate of viral latency as pathogenic mechanism long before the great importance of this concept was generally appreciated. He was handicapped in his post-retirement years by a series of illnesses, but he remained intellectually active and was enthusiastically engaged in writing a new book at the onset of his terminal illness.

A. H. Parmelle, Jr. D.T. Imagawa A. F. Rasmussen, Jr.


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Howard S. Babb, English; Comparative Literature: Irvine


1924-1978
Professor of Enlgish

Howard S. Babb, Professor of English, chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, and charter member of the UCI faculty, was born in Portland, Maine, and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of the generation whose education was interrupted by the second World War, Howard attended Bard College and Cornell University (in the V-12 Program) before going on active service as a naval officer. He took his B.A. at Kenyon College in 1948, and earned his M.A. (1949) and Ph.D. (1955) at Harvard University. Before coming to UCI he taught at Kenyon and The Ohio State University where he progressed from assistant instructor to associate professor and vice-chair of the English department. Howard died suddenly on June 24, 1978. He is survived by his wife Corinna, their son Stephen, and two brothers.

Howard's scholarly interests in English and American literature ranged widely. He published articles on such different figures as Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sherwood Anderson. However, his main concern was with the novel, and especially with style in the novel. His first book, Jane Austen's Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue (1962), focuses on what its subtitle suggests. According to Harry Levin, one of Howard's teachers at Harvard, Howard was one of Jane Austen's “sanest interpreters,” and his dissertation director, Douglas Bush, comments that the book was “a fresh and valuable exploration of Jane Austen's Art.”

His next book, The Novels of William Golding, appeared in 1970, and applied his interest in style to the work of a contemporary novelist, exploring the relationship between the author's language and his moral themes. Howard continued to pursue and broaden his interest in style in editing an anthology entitled Essays in Stylistic Analysis (1972). At the time of his death Howard had completed several chapters of a book on omniscient narration in the novel, a book in which he planned to range from Don Quixote to Tom Jones to Middlemarch and Les Faux-Monnayeurs. Had he lived to complete it, this would have been an important contribution to the criticism of the European novel. As Douglas Bush notes, “His death, in mid-career, is a


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great loss not only to his family but to his department and university and the world of scholarly criticism.”

More than most, Howard believed that scholarship and research should be genuinely balanced by teaching and university service. In describing his own career Howard wrote: “Blessed with some extraordinary teachers myself, I have always taken my own teaching very seriously. This has meant, for one thing, that almost all the writing I have done has grown more or less directly out of experience in the classroom.” As a teacher Howard was versatile--he taught widely different kinds of courses and handled a variety of literary periods and types--but what one most remembers is the focused intensity he brought to the examination of a literary text. Whether lecturing to humanities core course freshmen on Robert Penn Warren's treatment of evil or discussing with graduate students Henry Fielding's fictional technique, Howard Babb was overwhelmingly there, his powerful body vibrant with the seriousness or the beauty or the sheer joyfulness of his subject matter. He filled rooms as inescapably as he filled minds, even those minds most resistant to his brand of New England strenuousness. He was one of those few men who can make the word intelligent sound like the highest moral praise. And he made students aware that all learning, since it is a human endeavor, must always be a moral endeavor. Howard Babb refused to believe that a man, if he would be a man of principle, had the right to permit himself to think carelessly, indifferently, unintelligently. Indeed, for him a willful stupidity was the worst form of self-indulgence. Some students were made acutely uncomfortable by this moral challenge coiled at the heart of his teaching--as it must be at the heart of all great teaching.

Howard Babb's service in the Academic Senate and later the Representative Assembly was varied and persistent. He chaired the Committee on Educational Policy (1968-69), the Committee on Courses (1974-75), the Committee on Privilege and Tenure and Academic Freedom (first chair, 1966-67); served on the Committee on Student Affairs (1974-75). Further, he was Irvine's representative to the Universitywide Committee on Privilege and Tenure (1967-70) and served on the Senate Regental Committee on Political Tests (1969-70). Other tasks included service on six special committees.

Throughout the performance of these duties Howard Babb was a formidable personality, never sparing his colleagues his special kind of moral challenge. During the troubled years of the late sixties and early seventies his voice was the most eloquent and persistent in questioning what he thought were the uncritical pieties of those who believed that students were victims, and the traditional liberal arts curriculum a form of thought-control. Few of us present on campus in those years will forget Howard's sturdy figure rising in meetings of the Academic Senate to contradict opinions he considered less than rational. And over the years, as we heard and were sometimes


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scolded by him, we came to cherish the man for his always energetic commitment to principled intelligence. We saw that the commitment grew out of a wonderful plenitude, out of the warm and sometimes volcanic richness of his complex humanity. We saw a man of humor, charm, towering anger, eloquent profanity, and considerable judgment.

Howard's friends and colleagues in the Department of English and Comparative Literature have been most sharply aware of his special qualities. Howard was twice chair of the department, almost completing his second period in that demanding position when his death occurred. His particular virtues appeared in his ability to interview prospective faculty, his capacity to understand sympathetically views not his own, and the intensity of his commitment to literary study. For Howard that commitment and that study were major enterprises, and he lacked patience with those unwilling or unable to place them above more practical concerns. When they showed, careerism in his colleagues and intellectual indifference in his students profoundly disappointed him, and one suspects he did not really understand how others might yield to such temptations.

Yet Howard certainly understood, and was sympathetic to, needs other than the merely academic. His department chair at Ohio State University, Robert M. Estrich, has this to say about his years there: “We respected and admired him as much as we loved him. Our admiration sprang, I'm sure, from the wide range of his abilities--a range that spread from his acute awareness of the style of Jane Austen to his ability to direct Freshman Composition, from his gift for handling any emergencies to his sense of the bonds that tie art and life together. And there was always his true kindness, his gift for love, and his deep sense of his relation to other people.”

These human qualities seemed to intensify during Howard's years on the UCI campus. More than a few of us, those who had need of his kindness, got to know his willingness to lend a judicious and sympathetic ear to our personal as well as professional problems. His character inspired a fundamental trust. His generosity brought him the burdens of others. He never hoarded himself. Thus, it must be said of Howard Babb that he was a man who for thirteen years spent unreservedly of himself toward the building of the UCI community. He never forgot that a man's devotion to high academic principle can be sustained only within a context of devotion to each man's humanity. He taught us that lesson by never permitting us to overlook his own humanity.

Robert Montgomery Edgar Schell Albert Wlecke


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Kurt E. Baer, Art: Santa Barbara


1903-1979
Professor Emeritus

Kurt Baer was a man of many talents whose wide-ranging interests led him to participate in an extraordinary variety of artistic activities. He was both a creative artist and a scholar, participating in fields as diverse as dance and theater design and acting, painting and drawing, art history, and archaeology. Above all, he was preeminently a teacher whose vitality and devotion to the arts was only matched by his profound commitment to humane values.

Born in Switzerland, Kurt Baer - Kurt Baer von Weisslingen - became a Californian in 1909 when his parents came to live in Santa Rosa. He did his undergraduate work and obtained his M.S. at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1927, following a period of study at the Rudolf Schaefer School of Design in San Francisco, he went to Europe to pursue further work in theater design, dance, drawing and painting, and art history. During these years he worked in Paris, Berlin, and Munich with some of the most distinguished and innovative artists of Europe, including Hans Hoffmann and Mary Wigman, and supplemented his formal training with travels that took him as far eastward as Czechoslovakia.

Returning to this country in 1931, he settled in Los Angeles and began a period of extraordinary activity. In 1936, he received the Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, where he held a teaching appointment for several years. He remained active in the theatre, directing pageants and ballet and teaching at the Max Reinhardt School, as well as teaching at art schools at Occidental and at the Immaculate Heart Colleges, and summer schools at San Francisco State College and the University of California at Los Angeles.

In 1947 Dr. Baer moved to Santa Barbara to join the faculty of the University of California there. Here he taught courses both in studio art and the theory and history of art. From 1955 to 1957, he served as director of the summer session special programs, and in 1956-57 was acting chairman of the art department. Although he continued to be active in the theater and exhibited paintings and theater and costume design in a number of regional shows, Kurt's interest in the art and architecture of the California


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missions led him to direct increasing portions of his energy toward the study of the Hispano-American tradition. Early in the 1950s he undertook archaeological excavations at the Mission Purisima Conception and did catalogues for two festivals of the Madonna and also spent three summers in Mexco doing research on the backgrounds of the missions. His Painting and Sculpture at Mission Santa Barbara (1955) and The Treasures of Mission Santa Ines (1956) were followed by Architecture of the California Missions (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1958). This book, illustrated with photographs by Hugo Rudinger and dedicated to the author's son Roderick, established Dr. Baer as the leading authority on mission architecture. In 1960, he received a fellowship from the Organization of American States for seven months of research and lecturing in Mexico, spent the following year in Peru under the auspices of the Fulbright program, and in 1962-63 served as traveling cultural affairs agent for the US Department of State.

Kurt Baer held memberships in many organizations: Phi Beta Kappa, Academy of American Franciscan History, Spanish Colonial Arts Society, California Writers Club, American Society of Aesthetics, to mention a few. He was appointed official art historian for the Franciscan missions in California, and he served on the advisory boards for La Purisima Concepcion Mission and the Presidio chapel restoration at Santa Barbara.

In later years, Kurt was seldom free from pain resulting from injuries and illnesses, but his spirit did not flag. His unquenchable enthusiasm and broad knowledge together with the warmth of his personality earned him the admiration and affection of the students who took his courses. He never ceased to be an adventurer at heart, even when he was physically prevented from travel, and his conversation often turned to reminiscences of his experiences in remote places, notable people he had known, foreign languages and customs, and always the arts. His home was full of art and interesting artifacts that he had gathered on his travels as well as the work in progress.

After his retirement and up to the time of his death, he worked on several projects: a work that he called Sculpture and Painting in the California Missions, a study of the Good Shepherd in art, Peruvian folk tales, a critical bibliography on the history of the California missions, and a series of stories. To the end, his balance of realism and idealism made him a stimulating companion. He is survived by two brothers and by his son Rod, two grandchildren, Dana and Kurt, and a daughter by marriage, Marcelina, whose love and understanding held him strong until his time. His wit, his generosity of spirit, and his gift for friendship will be always remembered with affection and gratitude by those who knew him.

William Rohrbach Gary Brown Prudence Myer


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Harry Paul Bailey, Geography: Los Angeles and Riverside


1913-1979
Professor

Harry Bailey was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1913. He moved to Pasadena with his family in 1927 and attended Pasadena Junior College and Los Angeles Junior College before transferring to UCLA in 1937. Taking eight years for the baccalaureate is frowned on by the California legislature these days, but in this case the product was truly a learned man. He had successively majored in half a dozen fields from music to astronomy, and in all of them he maintained a deeply informed interest throughout his life. At UCLA he found in geography an academic home where he could combine his broad interests with the rigorously focused investigations in climatology that were to dominate his research activities throughout his life.

He took his A.B. in 1939 and his M.A. in 1942, in many ways an autodidact serving as a scholarly model for fellow undergraduate and graduate students who included two members of this committee. During World War II he served in Weather Central in the Pentagon and worked with distinguished meteorologists and climatologists, assembled there under emergency conditions, to make long range operational forecasts on a climatological basis. It was a messy business scientifically though it enjoyed some operational success, but Harry Bailey was convinced that a higher level of climatological rigor was attainable and quietly devoted his lifetime to its pursuit.

He returned to UCLA after the war and took his Ph.D. in Geography in 1950 and accepted a position at Los Angeles State College. He returned to UCLA in 1951 and taught in the Geography Department until 1963, when he transferred to the University of California at Riverside where he completed his career. During the 1950's physical geography was not very popular among geography students, and Harry used some of his time to pursue his own research and to cultivate intellectual fellowship in the Departments of Geology and Geophysics where he served on many doctoral committees. It was at this time that Daniel Axelrod recognized how valuable Bailey's climatological insights were in his own paleobotanical investigations, and they began a fruitful collaboration that persisted through Axelrod's transfer to the University of California at Davis and until Bailey's death.


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Their last joint paper in 1976 “Tertiary Vegetation, Climate, and Altitude of the Rio Grande Depression, New Mexico-Colorado” in Paleobiology exhibits the effective synergy of truly collaborative work.

A major product of Harry Bailey's work was the development of a complex nomogram that can characterize station and regional temperatures and moisture need with almost unbelievable precision and comprehensiveness. He was working on a means to integrate the nomogram with a comparably precise exposition of station precipitation characteristics. Each of his papers was honed carefully for lucidity to the audience that would read it, as exemplified in his semipopular monograph “The Climate of Southern California” which has been maintained in print since 1966 by the University of California Press. Looking at old problems in new ways was one of his extraordinary capabilities. The astronomical means of determining latitude by determining the angular distance of celestial bodies above the horizon has been established for well over 2000 years. Bailey's approach of timing their intersection with the horizon gives comparable accuracy with simpler instrumentation.

The breadth of Harry Bailey's interests and learning proved to be especially valuable when he transferred to the small Geography Department at Riverside. Departmental requirements made teaching outside his research specialty a necessity, but he undertook such responsibilities with enthusiasm and could inject a freshness and originality of approach into a course in economic geography that a specialist in the subject would find hard to match. Students found him gentle, courteous, and concerned with both personal and intellectual welfare. One of his most outstanding qualities was patience--not only with students, but with his fellow faculty members as well. He was always receptive to new ideas, even though at first he might be inclined to reject them. But in such cases he always presented his reasons in a patient, scholarly manner.

He and his wife, Shirley, had students to their home regularly, both for seminars and for social occasions. The intensity of commitment he demanded in research meant that only a select few would become full disciples, but all students who encountered him, and he taught both elementary and advanced courses, had a mind-stretching experience where humanistic learning was mixed with scientific rigor.

Primarily because of reports from able students in the agricultural sciences, for Harry was averse to blowing his own horn, it became evident that his climatological work had relevance to the Agricultural Experiment Station, and in his last five years he held a joint appointment in the Station. He enjoyed the extra time for research and the support available for extensive computing activities. Efforts to characterize climates using ordinary instrumental records so that they would be generally applicable to and predictive of multiple crop responses were underway and are beginning to bear fruit.


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Their value may be enormous as we seek sustenance from our ever more crowded planet.

Some three and one-half years before his death, Harry Bailey was advised that he had leukemia. He consciously chose a course of treatment that would maintain his vigor and productivity as long as possible even at the risk of reducing survival time. He mentioned his health problem to his colleagues only when it was necessary for departmental planning and then did not return to the subject. His last three years were devoted with enthusiasm to teaching and research. There was more to say, and he was dictating into a tape recorder almost until he passed away on the night of December 15, 1979.

He leaves his wife Shirley, a painter of distinction whom he married in 1942, and his daughters, Barbara, Marian, and Ellen, all now launched on professional careers.

Homer Aschmann Daniel I. Axelrod Lewis H. Cohen F. Burton Jones Robert W. Pease


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Richard Cecil Baines, Plant Nematology: Riverside


1905-1979
Nematologist Emeritus

Richard C. Baines was born near Liverpool, England, June 13, 1905. He died August 4, 1979, in Fontana, California. He is survived by his wife Dorothy and sons Fred and Robert.

Richard, called Dick by his friends, came to the United States before he was school age and was raised in Oakland, California. He attended schools there and graduated from Fremont High School in 1923. In the fall of 1923, he enrolled at the University of California, Davis, where he received a B.S. degree in plant science with major in horticulture in 1927. During this period he took course work at both the Davis and Berkeley campuses.

From May, 1927, to October, 1929, he was an orchard supervisor for the E. C. Horst Co., a large Sacramento Valley farming company involved in the production of fruit and nut crops. During these two years he welded the excellent scientific training of the University to the practical knowledge associated with horticultural production at the farm level. This field experience served him well throughout his scientific career.

In December, 1929, he entered graduate school at Purdue University and was appointed a half-time research assistant in the Department of Plant Pathology. His M.S. thesis was supervised by Dr. Max Gardner and entitled “Hosts and Cultural Characteristics of the Apple Sooty Blotch Fungus.” His Ph.D. thesis research was under the guidance of Dr. R. M. Caldwell and was on Phytophthora Trunk Canker, a serious disease of apple trees in Indiana and other midwestern states. Dr. Baines received his degree in June, 1937, and his excellent research on the trunk canker or collar rot disease of apple, caused by the fungus Phytophthora cactorum, was published in the Journal of Agricultural Research in 1939. This research did much to stabilize the apple industry in Indiana and neighboring states.

Baines continued his employment with the Department of Plant Pathology, first as an Assistant Plant Pathologist and from July, 1939, to June, 1943, as Associate Plant Pathologist at the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station.

In July, 1943, he joined the United States Department of Agriculture as a plant pathologist and was involved in the war effort. One of his duties


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during this period was surveillance of important agricultural crops of the midwest states for new diseases that might have been clandestinely introduced into the U.S. This led to another opportunity in disease surveillance and detection work and in April, 1944, he joined the Bureau of Plant Pathology, California Department of Agriculture, Sacramento, as an Associate Plant Pathologist. Under the direction of D. G. Milbraith, he worked on the California Potato Seed Certification Program and was also involved in the stone fruit virus detection and suppression program of the department. During this period he renewed his contacts with Dr. Max Gardner, then chair of plant pathology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. J. B. Kendrick, a former Purdue University staff member, who was chair of plant pathology at the Davis campus. Extensive travel in California brought him into contact with many staff members of the UC Agricultural Experiment Station and with U.S.D.A. employees.

In April, 1947, he was appointed an Assistant Plant Pathologist, Department of Plant Pathology, UC Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, to assist a team of scientists working on the perplexing citrus decline problem. Baines was assigned the task of determining the role of nematodes. Before moving from Sacramento to Riverside he spent six weeks in the laboratory of Gerald Thorne, the well-known U.S.D.A. nematologist at Salt Lake City, Utah. Under the tutelage of Thorne he learned the basics of working with these microscopic worms that were just beginning to receive increasing attention by agriculturists around the world.

It did not take long for Baines and others working on the problem, particularly L. J. Klotz of plant pathology, J. P. Martin of soil science, W. P. Bitters and J. W. Cameron of horticulture, and F. J. Foote of the Limoneira Co. at Santa Paula, to show the very important role that the citrus nematode, Tylenchulus semipenetrans, played in the problems of reestablishing new citrus orchards on old sites and reduced yields in many established groves.

Extensive, carefully conducted trials, carried out in cooperation with colleagues from other disciplines, helped to delineate the relative importance of fungi, viruses, and nematodes in the replant problem. Certain rootstocks selected for resistance to virus and fungus diseases proved to be resistant also to nematodes. These, coupled with chemical treatments for soil, gave rise to standard procedures for establishing vigorous groves in formerly infested soil. Because of his previous experience in horticulture and with the California Department of Agriculture, R. C. Baines also played an active role in upgrading the standards of the citrus nursery industry so that growers could obtain clean stock to plant in the new groves.

The development of the soil fumigant 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP) in 1954 provided R. C. Baines with a tool to attack the nematodes on established trees. Extensive field research demonstrated the efficacy of


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this compound in reducing nematode populations and restoring trees to a productive level. His contributions to the citrus industry were recognized when he received the Citrograph Research Award in 1965.

In 1954, for the first time in any U.S. university, a statewide Department of Plant Nematology was established under the chairmanship of Dr. D. J. Raski, at UC Davis; Dr. Baines served as vice-chairman at UC Riverside. His efforts on behalf of this new department were instrumental in obtaining adequate space and facilities for effective nematological research and his productive research did much to convince University administrators and state officials of the importance of nematodes in California agriculture and helped establish nematology as a research discipline within the UC Agricultural Experiment Station.

R. C. Baines was promoted to Associate Plant Nematologist in 1949 and to Nematologist in 1955. During his career he published ninety-six papers on many aspects of plant pathology and nematology. His work on control of the citrus nematode earned him recognition as an expert on nematicides and soil fumigation. His previous work on Phytophthora collar rot of apple plus extensive cooperation with L. J. Klotz and T. A. DeWolfe on Phytophthora citrophthora and P. parasitica on citrus gave him insights into soil fungus-nematode interrelationships beyond that recognized by most nematologists. In addition to his expertise in plant pathology and nematology, Baines was recognized as an excellent citriculturist, very knowledgeable about citrus rootstocks and their uses. In cooperation with S. D. Van Gundy and E. P. DuCharme, he wrote the chapter on nematodes attacking citrus, for volume IV of The Citrus Industry.

He was an active member of the American Phytopathological Society and a charter member of the Society of Nematologists. He was elected to honorary membership in the latter society in 1975.

Dick officially retired from the University in June 1972, but continued to be active in the Nematology Department until shortly before his death. Although he never was directly involved in the formal teaching program of the department he was keenly interested in the graduate students, both in their research and their personal welfare. He was always available to them for consultation and encouragement.

Richard C. Baines' association with UC spanned some fifty years, including thirty years as a staff member. He loved the University and was proud of its service to California agriculture. His contributions are reflected in the improved health of citrus in California and around the world.

A. M. Boyce E. C. Calavan D. J. Raski L. H. Stolzy I. J. Thomason


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Margaret Isabel Beattie, Public Health: Berkeley


1893-1977
Professor Emerita

Margaret I. Beattie, Professor of Public Health, died in January 1977. Born in Canton, China, of missionary parents, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1915, and later completed an M.A. degree. During World War I, she served in a field laboratory at an American Expeditionary Forces hospital in France. It was this experience that vividly demonstrated to her the need for accurate and reliable laboratory work in medical and public health settings. Returning to Berkeley, she took a Gr. PH degree in the then Department of Hygiene and was appointed an Assistant Professor in 1922.

Here she instituted a curriculum in public health laboratory work, primarily at the upper division level, which stressed quality of technique and reproducibility in performance. She continued to expand and refine these laboratory procedures throughout her academic career. From her students she demanded a significant academic background and demonstration of great expertise. As a result, her graduates soon set standards for excellence in public health laboratory techniques for the State of California.

In 1954, the American Association of Bioanalysts recognized her contributions by establishing the annual “Margaret Beattie Lecture”; the first of these lectures was given in 1955.

Her research concerned itself with two of the major diseases of her time, tuberculosis and diphtheria, focusing primarily on bringing about significant improvements in existing laboratory techniques, particularly improved means of cultivating and recognizing the organisms. She was successful also in improving the existing skin tests for diphtheria.

She will be best remembered for her impact on the hundreds of students who passed through her classes. She combined demanding requirements with personal concern for each individual, many of whom she helped in a variety of ways, including “digging” into her own pocket to help deserving students. All was done without thought of any personal gain and with only the students' welfare at heart. She will be missed not only by friends and loved ones, but by a legion of students to whom “Miss Beattie” will always represent the best the teaching profession has to offer. One of her


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last wishes reflects this so well; it was to establish an annual award for the best student in Biomedical Laboratory Science.

S. H. Madin N. F. Hollinger A. P. Krueger W. C. Reeves


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John Nicholas Belkin, Zoology: Los Angeles


1913-1980
Professor of Biology, Emeritus

The field of Biology has lost one of its most ardent contributors in the person of John Belkin, who for the last quarter of a century has been one of the leaders in the field of systematic entomology. John was born in Petrograd in 1913 and, after a sojourn in France, emigrated to the United States where he became a naturalized citizen. While attending school at Cornell University, he worked part-time at the American Museum of Natural History and, after receiving his baccalaureate degree, became an assistant to the medical entomologist at Cornell, Dr. Robert Matheson. John worked as entomologist for the Tennessee Valley Authority briefly before being commissioned as an officer in the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army. He was Commanding Officer of the 450th Malaria Survey Detachment and served in the Solomon Islands from 1943 to 1945. During this time he was responsible for the collection, identification, and preservation of an extensive assemblage of mosquitos that was later to be used for his celebrated monograph of the mosquitoes of the South Pacific area. At the end of the war, John served on General MacArthur's staff as a liaison officer with the Russian military mission and served as an interpreter to the Russians at the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri.

After the war, John returned to Cornell University to complete his doctoral degree. He worked at Cornell, Rutgers, and the Associated Colleges of Upper New York before joining the faculty of UCLA in 1949. He retired from active teaching in 1979 but continued his research on mosquito systematics until his death on April 23, 1980.

John Belkin's systematic research was of the highest quality. He systematized the collecting and taxonomic analysis of mosquitoes, which had not previously been done. His first great work, The Mosquitoes of the South Pacific, was a standard for the measurement of all future systematic studies of mosquitoes. His rigorous and comprehensive treatment of morphological characters of all stages of mosquitoes, which was only incidental to systematic work, led to a codification of mosquito morphology by others. John later monographed the mosquitoes of New Zealand and Jamaica and was engaged in his largest project, the mosquitoes of Middle America, at the time of his death.


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John was extremely productive, having published more than a hundred papers on mosquito systematics and related subjects. He and his students are responsible for the recognition and naming of more than a hundred species of mosquitoes which were previously not recognized. Many of these were not readily recognizable as new but were the result of painstaking analyses of a multitude of morphological characteristics. Indeed, the systematic method used for the study of mosquitoes today is that of Belkin, and many of its practitioners were his students or collaborators.

John was involved in many professional activities. He was a superb editor and for years was co-editor of publications of the American Entomological Institute and of Mosquito Systematics, Last year he was presented with the Medal of Honor of the American Mosquito Control Association in recognition of his singular contribution to the field. The most fitting tribute to John was the dedication of an issue of Mosquito Systematics to his memory. In the words of its editor, “John was a unique and dedicated scientist, the acknowledged leader in his field.”

John is survived by his wife Sharon, seven children and four grandchildren.

Meridan R. Ball Walter Ebeling Ralph Barr


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Eric Cyril Bellquist, Political Science: Berkeley


1904-1979
Professor Emeritus

Eric Cyril Bellquist, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, died on August 18, 1979, at the age of seventy-five, after a short illness. His career at Berkeley, if we combine his years as student and as active member of the UC faculty, spanned fifty-six years; he was thus a link to the early days of the Political Science Department. His long career linked both the campus and the Department to an earlier era in Berkeley's academic history.

Bellquist, born in New Jersey and educated in Tennessee and California, enrolled at Berkeley as an undergraduate in 1923, and received the Ph.D. degree in political science in 1932. First appointed Instructor in 1936, he subsequently served as Professor, as chairman of the department, and at various times as Assistant Dean of Students. His scholarly interests combined research and teaching in comparative politics and American foreign policy. He maintained an almost life-long interest in Sweden, his parents' country of origin, serving briefly (1949-1951) as First Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm. In recognition of his long service to Swedish-American relations, in 1973 he was honored by the Swedish government as Swedish-American of the Year. Among his many academic and public honors, he was recipient of the Berkeley Citation--the highest honor on a campus of the University (1972); Knight Commander, Order of the North Star (Sweden, 1972); and an Honorary Doctorate, University of Uppsala (1973), where he served as Chief of the European and British Commonwealth Division.

During his long career as a member of the Political Science Department, Bellquist displayed an unflagging affection for students--particularly undergraduates--and became his department's informal “ambassador” to other parts of the Berkeley community. The range of his friendship and commitment to University activities reached far, to include, as well, a galaxy of former undergraduate and graduate students. A perpetual fan of Berkeley campus athletes, he gave the same kind of encouragement to them that he gave to his students. The affection was reciprocated.

As founder and long-time member of the Northern California Political Science Association, Bellquist helped to knit the Berkeley campus with scholars in nearby institutions. During a long term of institutional growth,


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when the discipline of political science expanded greatly, and became ever more specialized, Bellquist's abiding concern as generalist for his discipline, its teaching responsibilities, and its place on the campus made him a truly unique figure.

His gruff demeanor was a thin veneer for a profoundly humane disposition. A liberal in the best sense of the term, Eric Bellquist had a judgmental gyroscope of great value to those who worked with him as a colleague. Committed to the vital needs of a democratic society in a dangerous world, he also defended the values of civil rights even in times of crisis. During the anti-Japanese hysteria in California, which prevailed in the months after Pearl Harbor, Eric Bellquist and his wife worked ceaselessly to mitigate the suffering of dislocated Japanese-American citizens. His sense of fairness combined with a sense of firmness gained him the respect of all who had the privilege of knowing him.

Eric is survived by his wife, Imogene, his son, John, and two grandchildren.

Paul Seabury Thomas C. Blaisdell Eric O. Johannesson Victor Jones


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Murray Reid Benedict, Agricultural Economics: Berkeley


1882-1980
Professor Emeritus

The death of Murray Reid Benedict on September 11, 1980, ended a long life (eighty-eight years) of remarkable consistency and productivity. His professional interest in agricultural economics and public policy was deeply rooted and faithfully pursued.

He was born into a farm family near Neillsville, Wisconsin, on January 23, 1882, and received the B.S. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1916. While still a student in Madison, Professor Benedict worked part time as a legislative page and in Boscobel, Wisconsin, as a high school instructor and coach. Following graduation from the University, he successively served as high school instructor, county agricultural extension agent, and a member of the faculty in agricultural economics at South Dakota State University--eventually as professor and head of the department. While on leave during this period, he also held appointments as secretary of the State Farm Grange Federation and as Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture.

In 1928, with the aid of a Social Sciences Research Council fellowship, Benedict enrolled in graduate study in economics at Harvard University, was appointed lecturer in the following year and was awarded the Ph.D. degree in 1931. In the same year, he joined the faculty of the University of California in agricultural economics and the Giannini Foundation. Here his work centered on agricultural finance and policy, and it quickly led to service assignments within and outside the University. His service to the Berkeley campus included membership on the Committee on Budget and Interdepartmental Relations; the Executive Committees of the Institute of Social Sciences, School of Business Administration, and College of Agriculture; and countless other campus and departmental committees. After retirement in 1961, he continued for a year in University service as Special Assistant to the President.

In public service--at times on leave from the University--Benedict was economic advisor to the California Farm Debt Adjustment Committee, director of the San Francisco Bay Defense Rental Area, staff consultant on foods to the Lend-Lease Administration, chairman of an advisory committee


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on the reorganization of the U.S. Farm Credit Administration, and a member of an advisory committee on Forest Credit Programs. He served on an advisory committee to the director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census from 1937 to 1964. Numerous other assignments included committee and consultative service with the National Planning Association and the Farm Foundation, the Society of American Foresters, and Resources for the Future. In the period from 1951 to 1956, he was research director of the Twentieth Century Fund's farm policy studies; and, while on leave in that capacity in 1953-54, brought to fruition three major books.

A committed writer, Benedict's bibliography contains in excess of two hundred titles. These include eight books and monographs, papers in a dozen different professional journals, frequent contributions to proceedings of professional societies and to legislative hearings, many reports to government and planning agencies, and numerous articles for non-professional readers. A noteworthy accomplishment and one indicative of the high regard he enjoyed was the publication of more than twenty book reviews in a wide range of professional journals that he had been invited to write.

Contemporary evaluations of Benedict's research and public service noted his extraordinary thoroughness and the frequency with which his published work was cited. He was described as a powerful influence, frequently advising, consulting, and suggesting--all with the goal of the improvement of American agriculture.

Nobel laureate Theodore W. Schultz has said of Professor Benedict: He “... was my first instructor in economics at South Dakota State College in 1926, always precise, demanding exact work, and sensitive to my unpreparedness. He directed my field study of migrant workers, California, the summer of 1927, then strongly urged me to proceed to do graduate work; he also was my editorial critic of my first professional paper. In the years that followed, he continued to advise, criticize, and encourage me. My personal and professional debt to Professor Benedict is indeed large.” Other former students have lauded Professor Benedict's emphasis on the analysis of events and understanding of people in the exposition of evolving policies regarding U.S. agriculture, his communication to students of an appreciation of thoroughness and documentation in the analysis of policy issues, his insistence on clarity of oral and written presentation, and his warmth in individual relationships with his students.

Numerous awards and honors received by Professor Benedict are a measure of his professional contributions and stature. Among these are election as a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Farm Economics Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as to the Office of the President of both the Western and the American Farm Economics Associations.

In the University's tradition of excellence, Benedict came to the University in 1931 with Harvard University's Ricardo Prize for outstanding writing


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in his field; and, on retirement thirty years later, received, from the University of California, the honorary LL.B. degree. He found particular gratification in his invited participation in the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies in 1955 and in his designation as chairman of the faculty of this seminar in 1966.

A formal but friendly manner, great personal and professional integrity, excellent schooling in the theory of a market economy and in the institutions of agriculture and government, and an unusual mix of experience in teaching and research and in the administration of agricultural programs were the basis for the trust and respect in which Professor Benedict was held. They also formed the fabric of his consistent, dedicated engagement with issues affecting agriculture and were the continuing motivation of a highly productive life.

Professor Benedict is survived by his wife, Martha, and their daughter, Barbara. Also surviving are two children, Bruce and Elizabeth, from his first marriage to Elizabeth Tucker who died in 1930, six grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Loy L. Sammet J. Herbert Snyder Harry R. Wellman


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Raymond Thayer Birge, Physics: Berkeley


1887-1980
Professor Emeritus

Raymond Thayer Birge, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, died on March 22, 1980, at age ninety-three. Birge was a member of the physics faculty at Berkeley from 1918 until his retirement in 1955, and he was chairman of the department from 1932 to 1955. He was widely known to physicists for his work on the fundamental constants and to members of the Berkeley campus for his work in physics and for his activities in Academic Senate and administrative affairs.

Birge was born in Brooklyn on March 13, 1887. When he was eleven, his family moved to Troy, New York, where he remained through his high school years. He graduated from high school in 1905 as valedictorian of his class. He took both physics and chemistry in high school and particularly liked physics. Because of the failure of his father's business in 1905, he entered business college in Troy and was soon asked to teach in the night sessions. When his uncle, Charles T. Raymond, offered to pay his college expenses, he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the spring semester of 1906. The reason for this choice was that another uncle, Edward Asahel Birge, was a professor of biology and dean of the faculties there. E.A. Birge was a pioneer in the study of limnology, a distinguished member of the faculty, and from 1918 to 1925 president of the University. R.T. Birge took physics in the academic year 1906-07, found it interesting and elected it as his major. He did a senior thesis under Professor L.R. Ingersoll on the reflecting power of metals but later wrote that as an experimental physicist his talents were “strictly circumscribed.” He graduated in 1909 after three and a half years and a summer session, with very high grades. He then entered graduate work and received his Ph.D. in 1913; his thesis concerned the measurement of the band spectrum of nitrogen under high dispersion. In spite of the fact that exposures took several days, he preserved the dispersion by staying with the apparatus and changing the temperature by hand to compensate for changes in barometric pressure. For three of his four years he was a teaching assistant in physics. He wrote that he did not easily attain a true understanding of physical phenomena but he worked hard at it, for he was not satisfied with teaching, which he enjoyed, until he had achieved such an understanding.


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In the summer of 1913, he married Irene A. Walsh who had also been a student in Madison whom he had met four years earlier through a walking club that he had helped to form. The two moved to Syracuse University where he had accepted a position as instructor in physics. He went to Syracuse because F.A. Saunders, an important spectroscopist (Russell-Saunders coupling), was there. Unfortunately for Birge, Saunders was on sabbatical leave for the year 1913-14 and then accepted a position at Vassar College where he remained until going to Harvard in 1919. Birge stayed at Syracuse for five years and he taught a variety of courses and did research in spectroscopy, measuring and interpreting spectra obtained during his years as a graduate student and a summer spent at Madison. He started in computing because there was no equipment for experimental work, and this interest in computing shaped much of his research for the rest of his life. The atmosphere at Syracuse was oppressive for scholars. When an opportunity came in 1918 to join the faculty at Berkeley, Birge happily took it even though the appointment was as Instructor and he had been promoted to assistant professor at Syracuse. After serving as Instructor for two years, Assistant Professor for two years, and Associate Professor for four years, he was promoted to the rank of Professor in 1926. In November of 1932, E.E. Hall, the chairman of the physics department, died suddenly and Birge was named acting chairman. His appointment as chairman was confirmed in 1933 and he continued in this position until his retirement in 1955.

The Birges lived for many years close to the campus at 1639 La Vereda Road in Berkeley, where, over the years of his chairmanship, several hundred graduate students in physics were supper guests in their home. They had two children, Carolyn Elizabeth (Mrs. E.D. Yocky) and Robert Walsh, Associate Director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory for Physics, Computer Science, and Mathematics for the years 1973-81. They had six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Irene died just three weeks before Raymond. He was a loving and kind husband, father, and grandfather although reserved and shy in public.

When he came to Berkeley, he found a sharp division between the physics and chemistry departments. The “cubical atom” of G.N. Lewis was the fashion, and Birge, with his espousal of the Bohr atomic theory, was at first not popular among the chemists. For many years, however, he taught a course in atomic structure, and many chemistry students, including two Nobel prize winners, Giauque and Urey, took this course. In a biographical account, he lists as one of his greatest accomplishments the bringing together of the physics and chemistry departments. Most of his research work before 1929 was in the field of molecular spectra. In 1926, he wrote for the Bulletin of the National Research Council an extended section on electronic band spectra as part of its “Report on Molecular Spectra in Gases” . This


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comprehensive review was for many years the standard on the subject. In 1926, with Hertha Sponer, an international fellow in chemistry, he published a method of determining the heat of dissociation of diatomic molecules from spectroscopic data. The Birge-Sponer method provided the only method of determining this quantity, very important in understanding diatomic molecules, for such molecules as oxygen, nitrogen, carbon monoxide and nitric acid which are relatively little dissociated at temperatures available in the laboratory. Her knowledge of physical chemistry complemented his of spectroscopy, and this important discovery showed the value of joining physics and chemistry.

Birge was well known to physicists from 1929 on for his work in establishing the best values of the physical constants. He realized, for example, that accurate measurements of the wavelengths of spectral lines in hydrogen determined an accurate value of the Rydberg constant which involved the charge and mass of the electron, Planck's constant, and the speed of light. With his superb ability to correlate data and determine probable errors for related quantities, Birge calculated for the first paper in the first issue of the Reviews of Modern Physics in 1929 a set of best values for the physical constants, many of them derived from measured quantities such as the Rydberg constant. His pioneering work in this field lasted into the early 1950's and required him to delve into many branches of physics and chemistry. This he did with great thoroughness to the benefit of the whole scientific community.

There is an interesting story about Birge's part in the discovery of the isotope of C13 which he published with A.S. King in 1929. King, who was at the Mt. Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, had come to Berkeley for a meeting, bringing a picture of the spectrum of some bands of carbon that he had taken in his laboratory. He showed it to Birge, mentioning that there were some faint lines that he thought might be due to an isotope of carbon. Birge at once measured them, did the necessary calculations and interpretations to show they were from C13, typed up the paper himself and mailed it to the Physical Review, all in eight hours. In his history of the Department of Physics, he points out that this is probably some sort of record.

In 1931 with D.H. Menzel, he published a paper on atomic weights, pointing out that the values indicated the existence of an isotope of hydrogen of mass two. Their prediction, later found to be based on two compensating errors in the experimental measurements, led Urey to his discovery of deuterium. Birge earlier realized that the usual methods of statistics were not in forms which could readily be used by physical scientists and, with W.E. Deming, he wrote several papers providing useful methods of least squares fitting and maximum likelihood.

More than any other person, Birge is responsible for the building in Berkeley of an outstanding Department of Physics. In the late 1920's, he


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took an active part in recruiting new members for the Department. E.O. Lawrence came to Berkeley in 1928, and J.R. Oppenheimer came in 1929, first spending part-time in Berkeley, part-time in Pasadena at Cal Tech. During World War II about half of his faculty was gone from Berkeley on “war work,” but he still had to staff the courses particularly for the large numbers of army and navy students. Aided by F.A. Jenkins, he was able to recruit members of other departments to help in both lecture and laboratory courses. Only a very few of the graduate students remaining in Berkeley were not involved in the uranium isotope separation and hence could serve as teaching assistants. Very much occupied with departmental problems, Birge was rarely able to devote time to his research.

When the war was over he was able to resume his program of building a great physics department. Lawrence had not taught since about 1939 and was too involved in managing the vastly expanded Radiation Laboratory to resume teaching. Oppenheimer, although he returned several times for short periods, finally, in 1947, left permanently to become director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. However, Alvarez, Brode, McMillan, and Segré returned to faculty positions. Serber and then Wick took over the work in theoretical physics and younger people were added to the faculty. Distinguished work was being done in Berkeley in discharges in gases, cosmic rays, and spectroscopy as well as in both theoretical and experimental nuclear and high energy physics. The department realized that solid state physics was an important area in physics, and so, in 1951, Charles Kittel and Arthur Kip were added to the faculty to start work in this field. Further additions have secured for Berkeley a prominent place in this area. As J.D. Jackson said in the memorial service for Birge at the Faculty Club on April 8, 1980, “No small part of the pre-eminence (of the University of California at Berkeley) can be attributed to the development of a great Department of Physics, with Raymond Birge as its energetic and creative Chairman.” Between 1933 and 1955 the numbers of graduate students grew from about sixty to about two hundred and fifty, the number of faculty from thirteen to thirty, and the number of Ph.D.'s awarded in physics from sixty-eight to four hundred and one. But the most important influence of Birge was in the distinction of the faculty. The number of National Academy members grew from one (Birge) to eight and five Nobel prize winners were or became members of the faculty during his tenure as chairman.

The several years beginning in 1949 when The Regents imposed a loyalty oath were especially difficult for Birge. Several faculty members were lost from Physics. However, his fierce loyalty to the University made him decide he should fight from within rather than leave. Thus, he signed the oath but appreciated the point of view of those who refused. He was outspoken in his opposition to the oath and worked hard to get it rescinded.


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Birge was very proud of his appointment as Faculty Research Lecturer in 1946. His faculty research lecture sets forth not only the history of his own research covering spectroscopy, methods of computation, and the determination of the best values of the physical constants, but also contains his philosophy on scientific research. He closes by saying:

“Science requires, in principle, a completely objective study of nature in which personalities play no part. Unfortunately, however, scientists are only human beings and personal feelings and prejudices, both local and national, do play a very large part... Everyone makes mistakes, but the real scientist tries to discover and correct such mistakes, not to conceal them... only by being completely honest with oneself can one hope to obtain any true understanding of a universe whose structure and magnitude must remain forever a source of profound wonder and admiration.”

Birge's distinction as a member of the Berkeley faculty was also recognized in part by his election to the Committee on Committees for the years 1944 through 1950. He was a member of the Graduate Council in 1930-31, 1932-33, 1933-34 and of the Committee on Educational Policy in 1939-40 and 1940-41. By many colleagues he is best remembered for his service to the Committee on Research on which he served in 1935-36 and then from 1941 to 1953, the last eight of these years as chairman. Financial support of research on the Berkeley campus has always been difficult; but Birge brought to it a satisfying degree of fairness which accompanied his tenure in office. Although he served on a number of other committees (Memorial Resolutions, Undergraduate Scholarships, Honorary Degrees, Coordinating, Representative Assembly and Faculty Research Lecture), he is perhaps second best remembered for his work on the calendar. He was the chairman of the Administrative Committee on the calendar (1953-1955) and the real expert for many years before on its intricacies. Some non-scientists on the campus jokingly complained that Birge in the days of the “old Berkeley calendar” (first semester ended before Christmas) made it up so that chemists and physicists could attend during spring vacation the meetings of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society. In connection with the calendar, he once wrote that he had received an ideal calendar suggestion; at least it was ideal until he counted the number of weeks in the year and found it totaled fifty-three.

When he retired in 1955, he had stopped active work in the field of the best values of the physical constants, and he took up the task of writing a definitive history of the Department of Physics. This rather lengthy document was written with meticulous care, and it records with characteristic honesty everything that he was able to find out about the department before 1918, when he came to Berkeley, and everything that he had lived through


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up to 1950. He intended to continue the history but was prevented by the fact that much information was confidential. It is preserved in the library of the Department of Physics. He also contributed an oral history to the archives in the Bancroft Library.

From his concern with statistics, he became interested in experimental tests of parapsychology. He approached the subject with a fair and open mind, did a great deal of reading on work in the field and did some statistical tests of his own on the data. He gave many popular talks on the subject and concluded that there were not any experimental demonstrations of the reality of parapsychology.

December 21, 1964, was a proud day in the life of Raymond Birge. The American Physical Society met in Berkeley and set aside the afternoon to honor him by dedicating the new physics building, Birge Hall. He was active in the American Physical Society throughout his professional life. He served as Pacific Coast Secretary from 1942 to 1947. In 1954, he was elected vice president and succeeded to the presidency in 1955. He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society. As he retired in 1955, he was awarded the L.L.D. degree by the University of California in Berkeley, a fitting conclusion to his illustrious career.

Birge was a man of utmost honesty and of the very highest integrity. He was known throughout the world of physics and on the campus for this honesty and for his scrupulous accuracy. As is natural for men of strong character, there are many stories about him; perhaps the most famous is that told by Harold Urey at the dedication of Birge Hall. Dick Crane of Michigan came to Berkeley to teach physics in the summer of 1949. When he asked Birge about his classroom assignment, Birge thought a moment and then answered, “Let's see. You're teaching 121. Last year Fermi taught that course and we had to move the class twice to larger rooms, but we won't have that trouble with you teaching the course, will we?” He loved to teach and took care that the teaching in the Department of Physics was good. His own lectures were models of accuracy and clarity. He believed in a nice balance between teaching and research and, in addition, he himself was outstanding in campus and university service.

In one of his last papers, presented at the Avogadro Centenary Symposium in Italy in September 1956, he spoke the following words:

“Now to me the study of science is, in a sense, a religion. For there can scarcely be anything more marvelous than the structure of nature, nor anything more satisfying than to aid, even in the smallest way, in the gradual unfolding of the intricacies of our universe. From the beginning of the human race, man has speculated on the wonders of his environment, but there is and can be nothing in even his wildest speculation in any way comparable to the actual facts of nature. For just this reason, the
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true objective study of science offers a never ending and wholly satisfying human endeavor; at least I have found it so.”

E.M. McMillan R.B. Brode A.C. Helmholz E.W. Strong


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Leonard James Black, Electrical Engineering: Berkeley


1904-1980
Professor Emeritus

The death of Leonard Black on March 7, 1980, brought to an end a life of outstanding devotion to the University of California, which he had served for thirty-eight years as an inspiring teacher, a brilliant research scientist, a capable administrator, and a warm friend, loved and esteemed by both his students and his colleagues. He is survived by his wife, Helen, his childhood sweetheart and for forty-three years, his loving and much loved wife.

Black was born in Santa Clara, California, on July 29, 1904, to James William and Annie Catherine Black. Shortly after his birth, the family bought the property in Oakland that became Leonard's home for the rest of his life. His mother, born in Ireland, became an invalid soon after his birth, so he learned early in life to take responsibility for her care, as well as for running the home. As a student at the University of California, he earned his way by working on Saturdays and during summer vacations as a longshoreman at the docks, and later as installer and cable tester for the telephone company. He was one of the most lovable, as well as one of the most brilliant students. He received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering in May, 1928. He spent the next year as a transmission engineer for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, then returned to the University on a John W. Mackay, Jr., graduate fellowship and received the M.S. degree in 1930. He started his career as a University of California teacher and research scientist in July 1931, and for the next thirty-eight years played a major role in making the Department of Electrical Engineering one of the distinguished leaders in its field.

His research for the Ph.D. degree involved a study of the electrical response of the cochlea of the inner ear, in cooperation with Dr. W.P. Covell of the George William Hooper Foundation, University of California Medical Campus in San Francisco. This research, conducted on both cats and people, was part of a larger project to determine whether the hearing loss that often follows childhood diseases is primarily caused by the disease itself or possibly, at least partly, by the medicines used to combat the disease. Initially Covell supplied the surgical skill; Leonard, the expert


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knowledge of electronics and skilled measurements. Soon both became adept in all phases of the research. This research uncovered such startling new concepts that Black and Covell were requested to demonstrate their technique before the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons at the Hooper Foundation in San Francisco, before the San Francisco County Medical Society, before the American Medical Association in the Civic Auditorium, and before the San Francisco Section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. Black discovered he was a skilled showman who could hold an audience. He gave numerous later demonstrations before the Regents of the University, the California Assembly Ways and Means Committee budget hearing, the Sigma Xi Club, the Institute of Radio Engineers, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. The same skill was shown in daily laboratory and lecture demonstrations.

Leonard was married June 19, 1937, in Dixon, California, to Helen Leona McArdell. The warm associations of Leonard and Helen with other Electrical Engineering professors and their wives enriched all of our lives.

Black quickly became active in the development of a graduate program that induced the Navy to send its outstanding young officers to the University of California for advanced degrees for a period of about ten years preceding World War II. Several of these young men later became distinguished admirals of the U.S. Navy.

In 1943, Ernest Lawrence requested three professors in Electrical Engineering, including Black, to work with him in the top-secret research leading to the development of the atomic bomb. Our chief contribution, under the leadership of Dr. Miller, was in developing methods of separating uranium 35 from uranium 238. Miller regarded Black's contribution as highly significant. This association at the Radiation Laboratory continued until the success of the project ended the war in 1945.

The University in 1945 was assigned $250,000, under a grant from the Bureau of Ships and Office of Naval Research, for a research project to design new types of antennas for naval vessels. Black was connected with this research from its inception, and in January, 1951, was assigned $105,000 for a new project, “Carrier-controlled Approach Antennas,” which was admirably completed November 30, 1953.

Black's breadth of interest and ability to cooperate harmoniously was demonstrated by his joint research with Dr. Covell, Professors Paul Morton, B.L. Robertson, and Herbert Scott of the University of California, and with J.T. Bolljahn of the Stanford Research Institute. In collaboration with B.L. Robertson, he wrote the highly successful textbook, Electric Circuits and Machines. With Robertson he developed the laboratory course on electric circuits and machines, with Morton the laboratory course for basic electronics, and with Scott and Reukema the laboratory courses in radio engineering and ultrahigh-frequency communication. He also developed


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graduate courses in acoustics and in architectural acoustics, the latter a required course for architectural students in the College of Environmental Design.

Black contributed significantly to the San Francisco Chapter of the Institute of Radio Engineers, serving successively as secretary-treasurer in 1938-1939, vice chairman in 1940, chairman in 1941; he was also on the Educational Committee of the I.R.E., and director of the West Coast Electronics Show and Convention. In 1953 he was made a Fellow of the I.R.E. “for research in the field of electromagnetic research and a distinguished record in teaching radio engineering.” He was also a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Institute of Physics, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu, and contributed significantly to the activities of all of these societies.

His research was published widely in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, the Proceedings of the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, the Laryngoscope, Electrical West, American Journal of Physiology, Electronics and Electrical Engineering.

His administrative ability was demonstrated by his membership on dozens of departmental, college, and university committees, and his chairmanship of many. Particularly significant were his contributions in the Graduate Council and as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering.

L.E. Reukema C.F. Dalziel H.J. Scott


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Eileen Agnes Blackey, Social Welfare: Los Angeles


1902-1979
Professor Emerita

Professor Emerita and Dean of the UCLA School of Social Welfare from 1963 to 1968 Eileen Blackey died on September 18, 1979, in North Carolina where she and three longtime friends had established their conjoint “retirement home.”

After graduating from high school and the State Normal School in Milwaukee, Miss Blackey took her A.B., degree (in Sociology and English) at the University of Wisconsin (1925). She received a master's degree from the Smith College School of Social Work (1930) and her doctorate from Case Western Reserve's School of Applied Social Science (1956).

Professor Blackey's career was characterized by contributions to four interrelated fields: staff development in social welfare agencies; formal social work education; supra-national social welfare service; and political and social activism in support of liberal causes, specifically, minority and women's rights.

After serving in Rochester, N.Y., as a school social worker (1934), Professor Blackey moved into staff training positions in the Emergency Relief Administrations in West Virginia (1934), Florida (1934-36 and 1941-43), and in the Puerto Rico Department of Health and Welfare (1943-44). As Director of Staff Development in the Social Service Division of the federal veterans' administration (1948-54), Professor Blackey won nationwide recognition for her leadership in this field, and a monograph that grew out of her doctoral dissertation, Group Leadership in Staff Training, was published by the Government Printing Office (1957).

Between in-service training posts, Miss Blackey engaged in more formal social work education in Hawaii where she served as Director of the School of Social Work (1936-39). During this period she taught in summer sessions at the Smith College School of Social Work. For her organization and as dean of the School of Social Work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1957-63) she won high honors both in Israel and in the international social welfare community. In 1978, when Hebrew University conferred honorary degrees upon a group of distinguished individuals associated with that institution, Professor Blackey was among them. She was honored and


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selected by other recipients to respond on their behalf to the University. It was from Hebrew University that “Blackey”--as she was known to her friends--came to the deanship at UCLA.

Her further contributions to social work education included being a consultant to State education authorities in Georgia (1963), Arkansas (1966-67) and, after retirement, in New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Post-retirement teaching included a year at the University of Kentucky's College of Social Professions. Blackey's supra-national interests may well have been foreshadowed by circumstances surrounding her birth in Blackpool, England, where her English father and Irish mother were enroute from Ireland to emigrate to the United States. She became a U.S. citizen in 1914 through the remarriage of her mother. Exposure to social welfare services outside the continental U.S. came in the previously noted service in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Israel.

During the last stages of and after World War II (1944-47), Professor Blackey served as the Director of Child Search and Repatriation for the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) Displaced Persons Mission to Germany. In this post, Blackey was responsible for identifying, and returning, primarily to Norway and Poland, children who had been stolen from those countries early in the war. Although captured files made possible the location of many children who had already forgotten their native languages and relatives, ingenious sleuthing,--following up a child's chance mention of a Norwegian or Polish name of a long-separated sibling, or even a pet--was required to ferret out and rescue others who were then returned to their native countries. Judging from later conversations and discussions with students who were invariably fascinated by the necessary detective work she described, Blackey seemed to look back upon this assignment as among the most satisfying experiences in her career. She later rendered further international service, under the auspices of the United Nations, in consultation on social work education in Greece and Iran (1966-67).

An ardent activist, Blackey vigorously championed underdogs and political causes she saw as benefiting them. During her deanship at UCLA during the “seething Sixties,” she vigorously espoused for the School of Social Welfare an admission policy designed to increase the number of minority students and policies to liberalize faculty and student participation in the School's governance. Her interest in politics led her, after first retiring to the Washington area, to volunteer with Common Cause on a virtually fulltime basis. She continued her ardent support of Israel but did not hesitate to criticize policies she believed inimical to peaceful resolution of conflicts with its neighboring nations.

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she once served); the Council on Social Work Education (in which she served in various leadership capacities); the National Conference on Social Welfare and the International Association of Schools of Social Work. Soon after coming to California, she served on the Governor's Advisory Board on Corrections (1963-64).

“Blackey” was one of the last modern social workers who considered social work a vocation. Her models were a number of remarkable women from the period of 1900-1930 who were the founders of the profession and who, like her, consecrated themselves to a more just and humane society. Beyond continuing to appreciate Eileen Blackey's professional achievements, former associates and her many friends will recall her vivacity and love of fun and jokes, her commitment to the highest standards of social work education, and her passion for improving the lot of those who--at home or abroad--were disadvantaged.

J. Giovannoni D. Howard H. Wasserman


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Leonard Walter Bowden, Geography: Riverside


1933-1979
Professor

Leonard Walter Bowden, born February 28, 1933, was in the forefront of research into the use of remotely sensed imagery in the solution of geographic problems and was a major contributor to the growth of this sub-discipline.

Raised on the family homestead near Yuma, Colorado, in the high plains, Len had an understanding of an appreciation for the rural, agrarian life style of mid-America. This affection for the land was to have a profound impact on the direction and nature of his research. However, Len would on occasion comment that despite his love for the high plains there were many times when his desire for an education was sorely tested by the prospect of a ride of several miles in a blizzard on a mean and reluctant horse just to get to school.

In the fall of 1950, after graduating from Yuma Union High School, Len entered the University of Colorado. Upon graduation at Boulder in 1954 with his B.A. he entered the U.S. Air Force as a young second lieutenant. During his five years as a navigator and intelligence officer with the air force he had many opportunities to observe rural life in differing cultures and to develop an interest and skill in what was to become known as remote sensing.

After leaving the Air Force Len returned to Boulder to work on his M.A. in geography and thence went on to Worcester, Massachusetts, and Clark University for study toward the Ph.D. While at Clark he did field research in the area around his hometown of Yuma. The result of this research was his seminal dissertation on the diffusion of deep-well irrigation in the high plains of northern Colorado. For this work Clark awarded him the Ph.D. in 1964.

While in the Air Force Len had been stationed at March Air Force Base and owned a home in Riverside. Thus, he lived in Riverside and commuted to Los Angeles during the year 1963-64 when he was teaching at the University of Southern California. He joined the Geography Department of the University of California, Riverside, in 1964. His second year at


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Riverside was spent in Washington, D.C., on leave to the Office of Naval Research, Geography Branch. At ONR he was directly responsible to Evelyn Pruitt, director of the geography branch, and a proponent of the use of satellites and other high altitude platforms to gather geographic data by remotely sensed imagery. His interest in agricultural land use, his interpretive skills acquired in the service, his educational background, and his recognition of the potential of remote sensing for land use analysis, plus the contact with Evelyn Pruitt combined to influence Len's research throughout his career.

In 1967, Len received the first of a long series of research grants and contracts related to remote sensing. Under his direction this research effort led to major breakthroughs in techniques of crop assessment, housing evaluation, and water supply need estimates based on probable user demand, using data acquired through remote sensing. His contributions to remote sensing brought Len wide recognition. The academic world and industry both sought his advice in such matters, and he was asked to speak on remote sensing in places as different from each other as Fullerton, California and Pretoria, South Africa; as near as Pomona, California and as removed as Melbourne, Australia. Professional recognition of his contributions to the discipline came in many forms but his most esteemed was the request by the American Society of Photogrametry that Len act as editor for the second volume of a projected two-volume work on remote sensing. This work is known as the Manual of Remote Sensing and covers the field at the “state of the art” level. Having had him successfully perform this task and acknowledging his superior performance, the Society asked Len to serve as editor-in-chief for the coming revision of both volumes of the Manual, a task he was not able to complete.

Len's grants and contracts also provided students with opportunities to develop their own skills in remote sensing and to exercise their “nose for research.” During the last seven years, six students completed their Ph.D. research under his direction and numerous others with his assistance. It is the positive impact on students that his research and teaching had that we believe pleased Len most of all his accomplishments.

Taking sabbatical leave, Len returned to Yuma to look again at the area where he had done his doctoral research some fifteen years earlier. Many changes had occurred in that time and the assumptions of his earlier work required reexamination. Further, he desired to experience anew the working of a high plains farm while finishing his monograph on the farmers on northeastern Colorado whom he knew and understood so well.

Len is survived by his wife, Geraldine, his son Dean, his two daughters, Melanie and Jacqueline, and his mother Eva Bowden.


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Len was a fine friend who enhanced our lives in many ways. We thank him.

Carl L. Hansen H. Homer Aschmann George A. Knox


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Albert Ben Carson, Accounting: Los Angeles


1913-1979
Professor Emeritus

Ben Carson, Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, in the Graduate School of Management at UCLA died at the age of sixty-six on August 31, 1979, in Laguna Hills, California. Because of failing health, he took early retirement in November 1973. Although retired, he continued to work on revisions of his very successful textbook, College Accounting. He also maintained contact with his colleagues at the Graduate School of Management and usually managed to attend monthly meetings of its poker club which he helped to organize in 1969.

Ben Carson was born in Sedalia, Missouri, on August 30, 1913. His father was a railroad executive and his mother was one of the first women graduates of Stanford University.

Carson received his A.B. degree from Colorado College in Colorado Springs in 1935, his M.B.A. degree from Northwestern University in 1937, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1943. Later, he became a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Utah.

Carson obtained his first teaching assignment in 1937 as an accounting instructor at Morningside College in Iowa. One of his classes at Morningside included a lively pair of twins--two girls who looked and dressed so much alike that few could tell them apart. Consequently, they sometimes performed each other's class assignments without detection. The twins are now better known by their pen names: Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby,)

Ben married Ruth Bradley, a classmate at Colorado College, on December 24, 1937.

Later, Carson served as an instructor at the University of Nebraska from 1938 to 1943. During World War II, he was an accountant for Kaiser Co., Inc., in the shipyards at Richmond, California. After the war, he was assistant professor of accounting at the University of Utah from 1945 to 1947. He also was employed as an accountant by Beesley, Wood and Co., a firm of CPA's in Salt Lake, Utah from 1946 to 1947.

Ben Carson came to UCLA in September 1947 as an Assistant Professor of accounting in the College of Business Administration, later known as the Graduate School of Management. He became a full Professor in 1958.


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While at UCLA he taught most of the courses offered in accounting but his specialties were cost accounting and the graduate seminar in accounting theory. He was particularly effective in the Executive Program, where his lively wit made his presentations a favorite part of the regular program for two decades.

Ben also was in demand as a visiting professor. One such assignment, which he enjoyed very much, was at Arizona State University in 1965-1966. However, he said after observing the torrential desert rainstorms that “It's the only place in the world where you can stand in water up to your knees and have dust blow in your face!” He was a Fulbright lecturer in Australia in the summer of 1962 and also a visiting professor at the Australian National University at Canberra in 1968.

Carson served as chairman of the Accounting Division of the Graduate School of Management at UCLA from 1957 to 1965. In this role he encouraged the advancement of the doctoral program and accounting research, directly as chairman of doctoral committees and indirectly through the faculty appointments he helped to make. He was extremely successful in placing graduates as teachers in other schools and as practitioners in accounting firms. As chairman, Ben had another attribute that is rare in any field. He was not merely tolerant of colleagues who had different interests, he actively encouraged them. The result was a highly diversified faculty in accounting. Carson served the School of Management as Acting Associate Dean in 1958-1959.

His service to the University was extensive--as a member of fifteen committees of the academic senate--he had many acquaintances and friends in all parts of the UCLA campus.

His service to the profession was also outstanding. He was on the educator-consultant committee to the Comptroller General of the United States. He served on committees on the international exchange of persons. He was editor of a section of the Accounting Review, and later served as director of research for the American Accounting Association, which includes in its membership most of the instructors in the field of accounting. He was elected president of the AAA in 1961 and later served on its continuing committee of past presidents.

In addition to publishing numerous journal articles and monographs, Carson contributed to the Accountants' Cost Handbook and to Encyclopaedia Britannica.

He is survived by his wife, Ruth; two daughters, Mary Carson Fulton and Nancy Carson Miller; and three grandchildren.

Ben Carson was a teacher, a scholar, a gentle man, and a dear friend whose like we may not see again.

Paul Kircher Robert M. Williams William F. Brown


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Rosalind Cassidy, Physical Education: Los Angeles


1895-1980
Professor Emerita

Rosalind Cassidy, distinguished humanist educator, was born in Quincy, Illinois, on July 17, 1895, one of two daughters, to Margaret Ashbrook and John Cassidy. She is survived by two nephews, James and John Marr of Sacramento and Hawaii respectively. Professor Cassidy spent her last few years at the beautiful La Casa Dorinda retirement residence in Montecito, California, where she died on November 4, 1980.

Dr. Cassidy held professorships at Mills College (1918-1947) and at UCLA (1947-1962). At Mills College she was given her first college position as instructor of physical education (1918) following her completion of a B.S. degree there. She was later to become chair of the department of physical education, assistant to the president, and convenor of the school of education and community services. During this time she continued her education at Teachers College, Columbia University, receiving an M.A. degree in 1923 and the Ed.D. degree in 1937. She was elected as an alumna member of the Mills College Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, in 1944. Mills College gave special recognition to her work in 1950, presenting her with the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.).

In 1947, Professor Cassidy joined the UCLA faculty, since she felt that physical education there and the University itself best represented her concern for educational change. During her years at UCLA she made significant contributions to her department and to the profession. In 1952, she became coordinator of the Women's Department and exerted leadership in helping to form a unified department from the then separate departments for men and women. Her curriculum expertise was utilized in describing the body of knowledge of the subject field of human movement and particularly in describing courses related to the social-cultural influences of the `art and science of human movement.' The name change, from physical education to kinesiology, which she so valiantly advocated, came to fruition following her retirement.

Professor Cassidy had a singular focus. That focusing, which gave direction to her personal life and professional career was the idea of `the wholeness of the purposing human within a democratic society,' and her


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concern for `interpreting physical education within that framework.' This focus led to her organizing her university work and her speeches and writings around two interrelating themes: (1) the cultural framework that influences the education of children and youth in time-place; and (2) the definition of physical education as a name, as a profession, and as an academic body of knowledge. She wrote some fourteen books and many articles explaining, implementing, and describing these interrelating themes and emphasizing the idea that the name “physical education” is a divisive term based on an outmoded dualist mind vs. body philosophy.

Her gracious good humor, personal warmth and humaneness endeared her to students, colleagues, and the outer community who were the focus of her caring during counseling sessions and the myriad of committee meetings in which she participated over the years.

Rosalind Cassidy has been the recipient of the highest honors awarded by the profession of physical education. These include membership in the American Academy of Physical Education (1938) and its highest award, The Clark W. Hetherington Award, 1966; The Luther Halsey Gulick Award presented by the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation in 1956; and the Amy Morris Human Lecturer in 1970, the highest honor of the National Society of Physical Education for College Women.

Her autobiography is preserved at the UCLA library as part of the Living History Tapes. Her many Who's Who reports have been summarized in the History of Who's Who. Her philosophical biography was completed as a Ph.D. dissertation by Stratton Caldwell, at the University of Southern California in 1966, under the title: “Conceptions of Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America: Rosalind Cassidy” .

Donald Handy Ben W. Miller Camille Brown


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Homero Castillo, Spanish and Classics: Davis


1918-1980
Professor of Spanish

Homero Castillo ended a lifetime of service to the cause of education when he taught his last class in the fall quarter of 1979; happily the subject matter of the course, the Modernist poets, was one of his most beloved topics, for during the quarter he was burdened by the knowledge that he would teach no more. He died January 7, 1980.

Joe, as he was known to his friends, was born December 7, 1918, in Valparaíso, Chile, where he received his elementary and secondary education and finally the degree of Licenciado en Filosofía y Letras from the Universidad de Chile in 1944. Later in that same year, a fellowship from the Institute of International Education brought him to the United States. At St. Louis University he began his career in this country as a teacher of Spanish language and literature. After completing his M.A. in education at St. Louis, he joined the faculty of Northwestern University and began his studies for the doctorate at the University of Chicago, where he earned the Ph.D. in Romance Languages in 1953. In 1964, he was appointed a professor of Romance Languages at the University of Iowa. In 1966, he came to the University of California, Davis, as Professor of Spanish. He served as chairman of the Department of Spanish and Classics from 1970 to 1976.

When Joe chose the short stories and novels of his compatriot Mariano Latorre as the subject of his doctoral dissertation, he established a line of research which he never abandoned. His published work includes a series of articles on varied aspects of Latorre's writings, but his interest was not confined to Latorre alone. His investigations carried him to a wider study of the criollista school, which remained dominant in Chilean letters until the mid-twentieth century. His fundamental interest in prose fiction led him to the study of the development of fiction in Spanish-America, a field in which he became an internationally recognized authority. A second major interest in his scholarly work was the evolution and significance of the Modernist movement in Spanish-American poetry. Here again his work has been acknowledged both in Europe and in America. In his extensive bibliography, studies in twentieth-century prose fiction and Modernist poetry


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reflect the primary focus of his endeavors, but also on occasion he turned his attention to other periods and areas, exploring facets of Spanish Golden Age literature and studying the relationship of Peninsular writers to Spanish-America.

Though a dedicated and effective scholar, Joe never lost sight of his role as teacher. For him, teaching was an art, constantly to be cultivated and refined. Throughout his career he maintained a keen interest in devising means and methods for improving the quality of his own teaching and that of apprentice teachers under his supervision. It was, in truth, one of his great pleasures to train and guide young teachers and to watch their development from novices to skillful professionals.

He was most generous in sharing with his students his time and materials; many remember with gratitude that he entrusted them with documents from his overflowing files which provided them with information not readily available elsewhere. Whether he was teaching a foreign language to the merest beginner or guiding a Ph.D. candidate through the dissertation, Joe maintained a sympathetic understanding of the student's difficulties. If he was firm in his demands for performance, he tempered the firmness with his well-developed sense of humor.

While his own teaching was confined to the University, he realized that good preparation for students who enter the University is vitally essential. To this end he offered his cooperation to teachers in elementary and secondary schools who frequently profited from his interest and advice. His concern for language instruction was not limited to the traditional classroom. Recognizing the desirability of special programs for professionals who need intensive language training and for adults who wish to expand their knowledge of foreign languages and cultures, he was instrumental in the development of several such programs. He staunchly supported the cause of foreign language study during the troubled 1960s and early 1970s, firm in his belief that the knowledge of foreign languages and literatures is essential to a liberal education.

A brave spirit, a warm and loving friend, colleague and teacher. Vale.

D. G. Castanien G. Rojas C. A. Bernd


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Charles William Cheng, Education: Los Angeles


1937-1979
Professor

Charlie Cheng was an engaging, humane, and provocative member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Education. The aircraft accident that took his life deprived the University community of a dynamic scholar intensely involved in current educational issues. He influenced virtually every Education faculty member with strong, clear positions on sensitive policies and incisive arguments about conflict-ridden decisions. While not everyone agreed with him on all issues, everyone respected his integrity, principles, and scholarship.

Charlie graduated from a Detroit high school in 1955, received a B.S. degree from Eastern Michigan University in 1959, an M.Ed. degree from Antioch Graduate School of Education in 1972, and an Ed.D. degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Education in 1975.

Long involved in teacher organizations and collective bargaining, Charlie chose for his dissertation topic the public's role in collective bargaining in public education. The faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education honored his work as one of the three most distinguished dissertations of the year, and Praeger published it as a book entitled: Altering the Collective Bargaining Structure in Public Education.

He was a campaign coordinator for the collective bargaining election of the Flint Michigan Federation of Teachers, an assistant to the president of the Washington, D.C., Teachers Union, and a participant in Asian-American affairs across the nation. Beginning with his appointment as an Assistant Professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education on July 1, 1976, Charlie's commitment to social justice and scholarly interests exerted sustained influence on the development of the specialization in administrative policy and studies in education.

Charlie earned national acclaim through his efforts to increase citizen involvement in educational decision-making. He also committed much of his seemingly inexhaustible energy to the scholarly examination of civil rights issues and worked creatively to improve the economic opportunities of the disadvantaged, to secure recognition of the civil rights of the disenfranchised, and to assure meaningful public school integration. Charlie


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participated in school board hearings, was a member of the school site improvement council for his children's school, and a member of the court-appointed committee monitoring the implementation of the Los Angeles Unified School District desegregation order.

Students remember Charlie as a fair, stimulating, and exacting professor whose classroom extended to the gathering spots in Westwood. He had a way of bringing the best people and resources together at the right time to accomplish important goals. He expressed his care for students in thoughtful acts such as calling each student taking the comprehensive exam to wish him or her every success and inviting the administrative policy and studies in education students to celebrate the finish of the exams with a beer at the faculty club as his guest.

Close friends will remember the marathon ping pong matches, the inevitable cigar (preferably Cuban), and long conversations lasting until dawn, broken only by Charlie's nonchalant calisthenics. Most of all, they remember his fierce commitment to equality. None will forget his warm, tender relationship with his wife, Judy, and daughters, Sue Lin and Mai Lin. We share their pride in Charlie's legacy: the memory of a strong man, both tender and bold, who committed his life to justice and equality and lived it with humor and tenacity, and courage. We miss him.

Laura M. Miller Richard C. Williams John N. Hawkins


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Marion K. Cobb, Library and Information Science: Los Angeles


1919-1980
Lecturer

During the early weeks of December, 1980, Marion Cobb communicated to his colleagues on campus at UCLA the excitement still retained from his visit to the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. He spoke of that visit as “one of the most exciting happenings of my life.” He had attended the New York Center's opening and dedication by invitation in September, 1980. Here, he also participated in a symposium on “Black Studies--New Directions in the 1980's,” the first program offered at the historic Center's new building. Ironically, it was on December 25, 1980, during a holiday visit to Arizona, that Marion died suddenly from a heart attack.

Marion Cobb was appointed to the Graduate School of Library and Information Science as a Lecturer and Librarian on January 1, 1969. He was later responsible for the establishment and development of three courses in the School: Afro-American Bibliography--229A; Afro-American History and Culture--111B; and Library Services to Special Population Groups--289A.

Mr. Cobb first became a member of the Library and Information Science staff in 1968. Just prior to that, he served as Acquisition Librarian at California State College, Dominguez Hills. From February, 1966, to December, 1967, he was one of the first “adult specialists” assigned to an experimental bookmobile service at the Los Angeles Public Library, a project designed to provide information and reading services for isolated and poor communities.

Marion Cobb's years at UCLA are especially notable for his support of the developments at the UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies. He served as a member of the Center's Library Committee. He also gave considerable input to the School of Library and Information Science's minority recruitment program. Mr. Cobb kept attuned to professional developments in library and information science through his membership in the California Library Association (CLA) and the American Library Association (ALA). In these organizations, he served on various committees and roundtables including the Social Responsibilities Roundtable and the


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Library Education Division of the ALA and the Legislative Subcommittee of CLA. He was also a member of the Alumni Association of the University of California Library School, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. His other professional activities included attendance and participation in many local, state, and national seminars and institutes and visits to libraries around the country. Examples of these activities are his participation in 1969 and 1972 in the institutes at Wayne State University titled, “Public Library Services to the Black Urban Poor.”

His memberships included community organizations such as the South Central Area Welfare Planning Council Education Committee, and the Association for the study of Negro Life and History.

Pursuant to his interest in the study of Black literature, history, and culture, Marion's writings included, “The Dred Scott Decision in Retrospect--A Selective Annotative Bibliography of the Negro in the U.S. during the 1950s” and “A Critical Investigation of the Writings of John Alfred Williams” .

Marion Cobb's friends, family, and colleagues remember his as a warm and human, gentle man. He had an uncanny capability for the retention of facts, names, and memorabilia. A connoisseur of opera, his life was immersed in the beauties of art and music. He is survived by two sisters and one brother.

Oscar Sims Binnie Tate Wilkins Cheryl Metoyer-Duran


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Stanley Coopersmith, Psychology: Davis


1926-1979
Associate Professor

In the many aspects of his career, as educator, as personality theorist, researcher, and writer--as teacher, as mentor--and finally as a guide and therapist to troubled children and adolescents, Stan Coopersmith lived as well as taught the message that education and life should be a unity. During the late 1960s, when the most urgent feelings of American college students were being expressed in near violent confrontations with their university administrations, Stan was the catalyst for a unique experiment on the Davis campus. He was instrumental in organizing a large number of students to make a powerful symbolic gesture, in the form of a fast, as an expression of their antiwar concerns. Like so many other contributions that Stan made during his years at Davis, this was his way of helping young people to learn that a forceful and personal statement of such concern might be self-fulfilling yet non-violent. He used the very situation of antiwar protest, which was then dividing group from angry group, to teach the unifying value of a commitment to both personal growth and the social good. He will be remembered for this unswerving humanism that infused his contacts with his colleagues, his students, and his many friends in the Davis community.

Born and educated in New York City, where he received his B.A. degree from Yeshiva University in 1946, he spent some time in the family business before turning to an academic career. He then obtained his M.A. degree from Brandeis University in 1955 and his doctorate in developmental psychology from Cornell University in 1957. For the next six years he taught at Wesleyan University, and during this time he also spent a year as a Social Science Research Council fellow, in the capacity of visiting lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. He came to UC Davis in 1963 as Associate Professor, where as chairperson of the Psychology Department for the next four years he played a major role in its rapid growth.

In 1967, Stan returned to the combination of teaching, educating, and research that he made uniquely his own. His departmental colleagues remember the groups of students who seemed to fill his office at all hours, in continuing testimony to his skill at engaging their interest and often


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their devotion. During this time he also worked on the research area that was his lifelong concern, the sources of strength in the individual personality. His efforts resulted in a pioneering work that established his reputation, The Antecedents of Self-Esteem, published in 1967. The stance of the humanistic scholar, so evident in this book and in his memorable career as a teacher, appeared as well in his tireless work with parent groups, with teachers, and with administrators in the Davis school system.

During his years at Davis, until he retired for reasons of health in 1977, Stan was nationally recognized for his work on the adolescent personality. He served in a number of research, consultant, and editorial capacities for the National Institutes of Child Development and of Mental Health and the federal Office of Child Development. His final work, co-authored with Mary Regan and Lois Dick, was The Myth of the Generation Gap, in 1975. It was a major contribution to the study of inter-generational conflict, explored by means of a careful and reasoned survey of representative attitudes.

In 1977, Stan retired from formal teaching and established the Lafayette Therapy Center, in Lafayette, California. Continuing his lifetime interest in children's growth and development, he undertook to work directly with the school systems of Walnut Creek and Diablo Valley, as well as carry on a private practice with adolescents and adults. This clinical work was for him both the beginning of a second career and the culmination of his commitment to education in its truest sense. However, there remained for him only a short time to demonstrate again his gift for joining teaching with guidance and personalized interest with broad social concern, before his active life was abruptly cut short at the age of 53. He leaves a daughter, Karen, and two sons, Mark and Eric, who share with his friends and former students a great loss but also an enduring memory.

Joseph Lyons Mary C. Regan Marvin Zetterbaum


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Warren R. Cothran, Entomology: Davis


1938-1980
Associate Professor

Warren R. Cothran, Associate Professor of Entomology on the Davis campus, died on January 2, 1980, at the age of forty-one. After graduating from Dos Palos High School in 1956, Warren entered San Jose State College where in 1962 he received his Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences and a teaching credential. He went on to Cornell University and earned the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Entomology in 1967. After a brief postdoctoral appointment at Cornell, Warren joined the Department of Entomology at Davis in 1968 as an Assistant Professor of Entomology and Assistant Entomologist in the Experiment Station. He was promoted to Associate Professor and Associate Entomologist in 1974.

Warren's arrival at Davis coincided with the ecological awakening that spawned the environmental movement of the seventies. His undergraduate course in Insect Ecology soon became one of the most popular courses in biological sciences at Davis, largely due to Warren's ability to relate to young people and his firm commitment to undergraduate education. Warren also showed a strong interest in and was actively involved with the new graduate group in ecology. This ecology group has now grown to over 140 faculty members and 250 graduate students. This is no small tribute to people such as Warren Cothran who contributed so much to the Ecology Group during its early years.

As a research entomologist, Warren was known for his many contributions to ecology and to the control of the insect pests of alfalfa, especially the alfalfa weevil. He and his coworkers developed methods for rearing and sampling alfalfa insects and contributed substantially to both chemical and biological control of them. Warren was deeply committed to practical solutions to pest problems and was actively involved in research to determine precisely when chemical insecticides should be applied in order to obtain maximal economic benefit with minimal environmental contamination. Finally, his keen interest in sampling insect populations served as a constant reminder to his colleagues that the accuracy of our field data was directly related to the quality of the sampling program. Prior to his death, Warren had entered a new and personally satisfying area of research, viz., ecology


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and management of insect pests in urban vegetable gardens. It is unfortunate that society will not reap the benefits that would have accrued from this research.

Many characteristics most closely associated with Warren must have developed as a result of his being reared in a rural area of central California. Here, his interest in and love for nature presumably developed. These feelings continued to develop throughout his life and were exemplified by his interests in ecology and his frequent excursions to the mountains, deserts, and coastal areas of California. These were not passive interests, for mountain climbing and speleology were among his many activities. Awareness and sensitivity extended to Warren's dealings with students and associates. Undergraduate students enrolled in his ecology class in large numbers and praised his effectiveness as a teacher. In the same fashion, his rapport with graduate students was unusually close as well as productive. Warren's personal library consisted of several hundred volumes on subjects ranging from anthologies and biographies to ethics and morals. He was a devoted student of John Steinbeck and donated several first editions to the Steinbeck Library. His extensive reading extended his empathy for both his fellow man and nature and led to a deep concern over environmental problems.

In the summer of 1977, hospitalization for a seemingly minor medical problem eventually left him to face life in a wheelchair. Suddenly and irrevocably he had lost both the independence and joy of a very kinetic life and was left with longings that the most vivid images of memory could not satisfy. His mind, deprived of the tools of creativity and wellsprings of experience, was caught between distracting pain and dulling analgesia. He remained a sensitive conversationalist, still enjoyed music and, always an avid bookman, spent the final two years of his life reading as much as his failing eyesight permitted. He strove to find a rationale and philosophy for his altered life and for resuming his work. His struggle to overcome the many overwhelming obstacles was a lonely journey that his friends painfully watched but were unable to change. However, through all this, Warren still kept in professional and personal contact with his former students. He is survived by his mother; his students, colleagues, and friends are his remaining legacy. He did not forget them, and they have so much to remember.

L. E. Ehler C. L. Judson G. A. H. McClelland D. L. McLean


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J. Leroy Davidson, Art: Los Angeles


1908-1980
Professor of Art History, Emeritus

Joseph Leroy Davidson, Professor of Art History, Emeritus, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1908. He received his undergraduate education at Harvard, graduating in 1930. His master's degree came from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in 1936, and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1951. Professor Davidson had a distinguished career in art before he accepted a teaching post at UCLA in 1961.

Leroy's professional career in the arts amply demonstrates the breadth of his scholarship and the range of his ability as an administrator and teacher. His early training, under some of the most distinguished European and American scholars of the time, prepared him for the varied assignments he was to assume in the following years. From 1939 to 1943, he was assistant director and curator of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he was charged with coordinating its growing collections with the needs of the community and university. During World War II, he was stationed in Washington, where he saw service with the War Department. He afterward moved over to the State Department, taking charge of its International Art Program. During these years his activities were chiefly in the field of contemporary art.

His graduate studies at Yale University, however, concentrated on Chinese art and archaeology and his doctorate was earned in that area. His important study The Lotus Sutra in Chinese Art: A Study in Buddhist Art to the Year 1000 published in 1954 is, to this day, regarded as a seminal study in Chinese art. Had he published nothing else, his reputation in scholarship was assured at that time, but Leroy was to continue his teaching, research, and publication in Chinese art throughout his career. In 1953, following a Fulbright scholarship to India, he extended his studies to that area, beginning a scholarly love affair with Indian art and archaeology which was to last for the remainder of his life as a teacher-scholar. His many research trips to India almost always involved the graduate students who were then working under his direction. The Alampur Temple project, which he organized and directed, was one of his important projects in later years.

Leroy taught at the University of Georgia before he moved to California in 1956 to serve as professor and head of art studies at the Claremont


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Graduate School. He joined the UCLA art faculty in 1961 as Professor of Art History, bringing to a fledgling program his unusual talents in both Chinese and Indian art. From 1969 to 1972, he was also chairman of the Department of Art.

The graduate students who were privileged to work closely with him at UCLA and in the field shared the enthusiasm and joy he felt for art, whether it was of Southeast Asia or of contemporary America. His skill as a teacher and raconteur was to become legendary at the University. He was ultimately to receive the Graduate Students Association distinguished teaching award.

Leroy was equally recognized in the Los Angeles community for his knowledge and expertise. He encouraged the collecting of Indian art and, indeed, the recognition today of Los Angeles as a center for study in the field is largely due to his strenuous efforts. A landmark exhibition, The Art of the Indian Subcontinent from Los Angeles Collections, was organized by Leroy and his graduate students and shown in the art galleries at UCLA in 1968. It served not only to illustrate the range and quality of collections of Indian art in the community, but equally demonstrated a remarkable collaboration between a teacher and his students in a museum-oriented research project.

Martha Davidson, Leroy's wife and companion of many years, is a distinguished art historian in her own right. A renowned art critic and writer on a wide range of subjects, she is perhaps best known for her contribution to the Arts of the United States, a publication which culminated a five-year Carnegie study.

D. Klimburg-Salter E. M. Bloch


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Luther Dent Davis, Pomology: Davis


1895-1980
Professor Emeritus

Luther Dent Davis was born in Mooreland, Indiana, on July 19, 1895, to Mary Jane and Thomas Davis. He was raised on their farm which had been deeded to his grandfather under the Homestead Act. The deed, signed by Andrew Jackson, was one of his proud possessions. He often reminisced how his father hunted on the place and how pleased his mother was to receive paw-paw fruits which grew wild in the woods.

Luther taught high school for one year and then enrolled at Indiana University. His education was interrupted by the first World War in which he was disabled in France. Upon returning to his native Hoosier State, he resumed teaching in a high school and then a year later enrolled at Purdue University. He changed his major from chemistry to horticulture and was awarded the Bachelor and Master of Science degrees. Upon receiving an offer as a research assistant from Warren P. Tufts, Chairman of the Department of Pomology at Davis, Luther proposed to Marie M. Marshall, a hometown girl. They were married on June 19, 1926, and on the very next day boarded a train and came west to Davis, California. They were greeted by Omund Lilleland, another research assistant and future colleague, who was studying under Dr. Hoagland on the Berkeley campus.

Two years after his arrival, Luther finished his doctoral thesis dealing with the carbohydrate and nitrogen relationship in `sugar' prunes under the guidance of Professor E. Louis Proebsting. With persuasion by Dr. Tufts, he accepted a position as Junior Pomologist in the Agricultural Experiment Station. Thus, he was initiated into a nucleus of horticulturists who were laying the foundation of the College of Agriculture on the site of the University Farm which had been established twenty-three years earlier in 1905. Some of his senior mentors and colleagues of this era were: William H. Chandler, James P. Bennett, Dean E. J. Wickson, Walter L. Howard, Ben D. Moses, and Arthur H. Hendrickson.

Being nurtured in such an environment, Dr. Davis blossomed and for the ensuing thirty-four years until his retirement in 1962, dedicated his career to teaching, doing research, and participating in the governance of the University. He taught the introductory course in pomology continuously


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from 1929 until he retired. On the days he lectured, he would be in his office early in the morning going over his notes which he updated annually. He also taught the seminar course for pomology students and guided many graduate students in their quests for higher degrees. His former students are widely scattered throughout this country and abroad.

In recognition of his research on flower initiation and nutrition of prunes and the gumming problem of peaches, he was selected by the Academic Senate in 1952 as the Faculty Research Lecturer. Since this event coincided with his twenty-fifth year on campus, the departmental staff, with the blessing of the campus administration, and leaders of the canning peach industry hosted a gala party. Ten years later, when he became Professor, Emeritus, again his colleagues and their wives, farm advisors, former students, peach growers and packers gathered in Freeborn Hall to honor him. During this last decade, he, with the able assistance of Pedro Baudonnet, had introduced several flavorful canning peach varieties which he had named for farm advisors, grower-cooperators, and members of the Clingpeach Advisory Board. A clock presented to him at this party by the Canners' League of California and a gold-plated caliper, a gift from members of the advisory board, rested on his fireplace mantle, reminders of years of close cooperation and friendships.

Professionally, he was a member of the American Society of Plant Physiologists and the American Society for Horticultural Science. He served on several committees in the latter organization before being elected its president in 1957. When the society initiated the program of electing Fellows of the Society in 1965, he was among the first class of thirty-seven horticulturists.

As an active member of the Academic Senate, Luther served on numerous administrative committees, chairing several. One of these was the Building and Campus Development Committee on which he spent hours poring over designs and plans, weighing the pros and cons presented by the architects and future inhabitants of proposed buildings. Later he chaired The Regents' Scholarship Committee, which he truly enjoyed because it gave him opportunities to meet bright young people outside the regular classroom environment.

University President Clark Kerr conferred upon him the honorary law degree in 1964 for his untiring effort and achievements to improve our University and its relationship with the agricultural community of the state.

Outside academia, Dr. Davis was just “LD” or “Davey” to his friends, but within this social circle, his wife, Marie, would refer to him as “daddy,” and he, in turn, would call her “daughter.” Children of his friends addressed him as “Uncle Luther.” As a pastime, they refinished the painted furniture from his Indiana home and were pleasantly surprised to discover that these pieces were constructed of solid hardwood. Mrs. Davis was more than a


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housewife; she was a collaborator who jointly published an article dealing with the mathematics of the peach growth curve, and she assisted him in deriving equations to predict the harvest sizes of peaches from samples taken early in the season. Handling numbers came to her as second nature because she had taught for thirteen years in the Mathematics Department.

Dr. Davis was truly a gentleman, conservative and reserved in his manner. Marie often related how she could never get him to wear colored socks, while his colleagues cannot recall ever hearing him raise his voice in anger. Not wishing to offend anyone, he refused to discuss politics and religion. Yet he had a keen sense of social consciousness and an acute appreciation for his rural heritage, the roots of which ran deep. He was forever grateful and proud of our society which allowed a grandson of a struggling homesteader in Indiana to become a professor in a prominent land grant college. His friends believe that it was because of this sense of gratitude that he bequeathed the lot on which his home stood and adjoining property where he spent his youth, to the city of Mooreland. Along with the real property, an old family quilt stitched in 1855 was donated to the Henry County Historical Society Museum where it now hangs as an example of handcraft of that period. To reciprocate for what the University had done for them and to show their love for young people, Marie M. and Luther D. Davis endowed the Davis Campus of the University of California with their home in Davis and a generous sum of money for the purpose of establishing an undergraduate scholarship fund. These scholarships are open to promising students majoring in fields within the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. So while they had no children of their own, they have generously provided that other people's children might follow in their footsteps.

Kay Ryugo Julian C. Crane Dale E. Kester


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Annita Delano, Art: Los Angeles


1894-1979
Professor Emerita

Annita was born in Hueneme, California, on October 2, 1894. She attended elementary school in Los Angeles. Later her family moved to Terra Bella, California, and she graduated from Porterville Union High School in 1914 and was her class valedictorian. She then went to Los Angeles to attend State Normal School on Vermont near Melrose. In 1919, the Normal School became the University of California Southern Branch. By the early 1920's it was housed in its own building, and in 1929 it moved to the Westwood campus. The Normal School was associated with the teachers college, but its curriculum had breadth and included stagecraft, drawing, painting, life drawing, history of art, design, graphic arts, and crafts. The reputation of its art department was known throughout the country. In the last part of the 1920's it was represented at an international art conference in Vienna, Austria. An exhibition of student work was sent, and Annita represented the Art Department for the University. She taught forty-two years at UCLA until she retired in 1962 and was important for the growth and development of this teaching training college into the large and vital professional school of the arts that it is at the University.

She received her training in art history studies and the formal preparation in painting and drawing from Columbia University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Barnes Foundation. She studied at The Otis Art Institute and in the studios of noted individual artists such as Dixon Morgan and Norman Bel Geddes. Her singular feeling for color, color structure, and light emerged as central creative concerns that persisted throughout her painting career and became very important in her teaching. A two-year period of research with the Barnes Foundation, including four months of research abroad, brought her in contact with the modern French masters, accelerating her development toward her own personal expression. Merged with her formal studies in painting analysis were her personal mystical feelings for the visual resources of the western region, including her increasing interest in American Indian lore and artifacts.

Her drawings and paintings exhibited from this period, although varied, were at first understood within the context of western regional art. As her


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ideas developed, her creative work began to be viewed as distinctive and original. In the 1950's and 60's, her work further evolved, becoming richer in symbolic content and syntax and more complicated in its painterly process.

Since 1929 when she had her first one-man shows in San Francisco and Fresno, she has had thirty solo shows and participated in many exhibitions across the country, most of them seen in our western regions. She was honored with a prestigious show at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, and an exhibition of work from living artists in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1940's at a time when such exhibitions were not customary. In her last years, after her retirement, she had three major exhibitions: in the Cee Jee Gallery, Los Angeles, the Zara Gallery in San Francisco, and the Santa Monica Gallery, Santa Monica.

Annita's record includes commissions for designs and murals for the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles; the Hollander's store, New York City; supervision of an exhibition of modern paintings, sculptures and architecture for Bullocks. She was president of the Art Teachers' Association of Southern California, and editor of the magazine Dark and Light. In addition she wrote articles for Art Education and for The California Art Bulletin. She was associated with numerous art associations including the California Watercolor Society, the Los Angeles Art Association, the American Society of Aesthetics, the Southwest Archaeological Federation, the Museum Association, the Art Teachers' Association, and others. Over the years she gave many talks, lectures, and demonstrations to the public and to community art groups from different parts of the state.

Annita was devoted to teaching as she was to her creative research. Forty years of teaching put her in contact with undergraduate and graduate students who may be numbered in the thousands. In addition to courses in fine arts, she taught courses in applied design and art history.

In addition, she contributed to administrative assignments at all levels in the University. Since she grew up with the University, she knew generations of its faculty. Her counsel in teaching and in administrative matters was sought by all.

This biographical statement is short and leaves out many details of her life and the qualities that she shared with friends: her house in the Santa Monica mountains, which she loved; her collection of Indian pottery, basketry, and jewelry; an outstanding library on the American Indians; and her splendid garden; these are all an integral part of Annita's biography.

Her many friends and colleagues remember Annita as a frank, open, lovely person who was devoted to teaching, to the University, and to her


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friends, and who was involved with her community. She particularly wished to be remembered as a committed and intense artist. We will miss her.

L. Andreson A. McCloskey S. Amato


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William Douglas Denny, Music: Berkeley


1910-1980
Professor Emeritus

William Douglas Denny, Professor, Emeritus, of music at the University of California, Berkeley, died on September 2, 1980, in Berkeley, California.

Born July 2, 1910, in Seattle, Washington, Bill Denny demonstrated early signs of his musical vocation by composing at the age of five. His mother was a church organist and it was only natural that Bill should turn to the organ as the instrument for his precocious musical experiences. In later years, he was the first composer of the Berkeley Music Department to write two major musical compositions for the Edmond O'Neill Memorial Organ in Hertz Hall: the Partita (1958), composed for the dedication of the organ in Hertz Hall, and the Aria, Toccata, and Fugue (1966), written for his friend and colleague, the University Organist Lawrence Moe.

After receiving his early training at Modesto Junior College, Denny transferred to the Berkeley campus in 1929, obtained his B.A. in music in 1931 and his M.A., also in music, in 1933. Modeste Alloo and Edward Stricklen were among the teachers who influenced him the most during those years. In 1933 he was awarded the University's George Ladd Prix de Paris which enabled him to study with Paul Dukas at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris for two years. In 1935, he returned to Berkeley to further his studies, receiving an appointment as a Lecturer in Music from 1938 to 1939. In 1939, he was offered a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome but with the outbreak of World War II he was permitted to replace his stay in Rome with private study in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City. His election as member of the American Academy in Rome followed in 1941 and that same year Denny was appointed instructor in Music at Harvard. He also taught music for three years at Vassar before returning to join the Berkeley faculty, where he remained until his retirement in 1978.

In addition to the two major musical compositions for organ already mentioned, Denny composed an impressive array of works for orchestra, string quartet and other string combinations. Both Pierre Monteux and Enrique Jordà included his orchestral compositions in their programs, to great public and critical acclaim. As early as 1939 Alfred Frankenstein


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wrote of Denny's Concertino for orchestra that it was “by far the best of the many short American novelties the orchestra has introduced during the Monteux regime.” More often than not, Denny was the conductor of his own music with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. His second and third string quartets were performed and recorded by the Griller, Budapest, and Juilliard Quartets. Denny's music was thoughtful, clear, logical, skillful and imaginative. He always had something to say to those interested in listening to him.

As a colleague, during the many years he was the vice-chairman of the department and during his tenure as chairman, Denny was invariably the counsel for the defense and never the district attorney. His loyalty to the department, devotion to a meaningful curriculum in music, and unflagging support of his colleagues were exemplary. The fruits of his orchestral expertise were readily available to students and colleagues alike. His peerless command of harmony and particularly of counterpoint was a source of great stimulation to his students at all levels.

As for his human qualities, how can one forget his strong interest in travel, gastronomy, history, and geography? How can one forget the gentle tenacity of his enthusiasm, the depth and breadth of his information, and the perceptiveness of his appreciation? All of this and much more were transmitted to his students and to his friends and colleagues with the open generosity of a human being who took particular pleasure in doing, giving, and helping.

William Douglas Denny is survived by Jeanne Moyle Denny (U.C. class of 1939), whom he married in 1940, his mother Mrs. R. V. Denny, his brother Max E. Denny, his daughters, Gail Schwarzbart and Lee Palsak, and three grandsons.

J. M. Nin-Culmell B. Mates L. H. Moe


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James Russell Douglas, Veterinary Microbiology: Davis


1912-1980
Professor of Parasitology, Emeritus

James Russell Douglas, who died on May 6, 1980, was born in Los Angeles on September 29, 1912. A product of Hemet High School and Chaffey Junior College, he continued his education at UCD and UCB, receiving the Bachelor of Science degree in 1935 and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1939. Following two years in research at the George Williams Hooper Foundation, at the University of California at San Francisco, Doug served on active duty in the U.S. Navy from April, 1942, to January, 1946. He remained in the naval reserve and ultimately retired with the grade of Captain.

His long and productive academic career at the University of California began with his appointment in January, 1946, as Assistant Professor of Parasitology and Assistant Entomologist in the Agricultural Experiment Station. He retired as Professor, Emeritus, in October 1973.

A respected teacher of undergraduates and graduate students, Doug was a productive investigator in the pathogenesis of parasitisms as well as the biology and control of internal and external parasites. His effective support of graduate study is reflected in his record of a dozen years as program director of a National Institutes of Health research training grant and in his chairmanship of the Graduate Group in Comparative Pathology.

A member of the founding faculty of the School of Veterinary Medicine, Doug exerted a very substantial influence on the school's development during its first quarter-century. His influence was wielded in many ways. He chaired the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and its precursor unofficial group for more than a decade. He served most effectively on many of the school's committees. From 1966 to 1972 he was Associate Dean, performing as a sort of executive vice president during a busy period of expanding enrollment, curricular change, and physical plant expansion. He was Acting Dean in 1968-69.

The complete university man, Doug's interests and loyalties encompassed the entire University. He had friends in all parts of the institution and at all levels. An academic statesman, he had an impressive knowledge of University policy and operations, which, coupled with his own quiet problem-solving


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ability, made him a most effective committeeman. Over the years he served on many of the important committees of the University, both administrative and Academic Senate. Among these were the Budget and Interdepartmental Relations Committee and the Educational Policy Committee, both of which he chaired. He also served on the Davis campus's Committee on Committees and in the Representative Assembly of the Senate. His long service in academic affairs was climaxed by his selection as Chairman of the Davis Division of the Academic Senate in 1964-65.

Doug's influence was also felt beyond the University. Locally he was a trustee of the Yolo-Sacramento County Mosquito Abatement District for several years. Overseas his personality and knowledge ability made him an excellent ambassador of the University, beginning with his first sabbatic leave in New Zealand. As Doug became more experienced in veterinary school operations, he was frequently sought as an advisor by other schools. He served as an AID consultant at Taiwan National University in 1957 and was deeply involved in the University of California--University of Chile convenio, spending a year in Chile and serving on the policy committee in subsequent years. A final leave and much of his retirement were spent in advising new veterinary schools in Florida, Mississippi, and abroad.

As a person, Doug is remembered for his calm and considerate attitude, his generosity with his time, his availability for advice to anyone with a problem, and his ability to devise a workable solution in a floundering committee or faculty meeting. He was a man who had many friends and enjoyed their company.

Doug is survived by his wife, Kathleen Allen Douglas, a daughter, Kathleen Whitmire, and a son, James Allen Douglas.

N. F. Baker D. R. Cordy J. W. Osebold


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Donald Marquand Dozer, History: Santa Barbara


1905-1980
Professor Emeritus

Donald Marquand Dozer was born in Zanesville, Ohio, June 7, 1905, and grew up in that state. He received his B.A. degree from the College of Wooster, Ohio, then earned an M.A. and Ph.D. (1936) at Harvard University. Between these student years and his death on August 4, 1980, at Saint Francis Hospital, Santa Barbara, Professor Dozer achieved national and international distinction as an authority on Latin American history and United States-Latin American relations.

While engaged in graduate studies, he served as a part-time instructor at Harvard, Radcliff College, and Boston University; then he spent a year as archivist for the Department of State in the National Archives. From this position, he moved to the faculty of the University of Maryland, where he taught from 1937 to 1942, and again from 1956 to 1959. He came to the University faculty at Santa Barbara in 1959 and became emeritus in 1972.

Professor Dozer's active academic career was interrupted during World War II and for some years thereafter by government service. In the early war years, he was an officer in the division of the Coordinator of Information (later OSS) in Washington, until 1943. During 1943-44, he was liaison officer, Caribbean office, for the Lend Lease administrator in Washington. He then transferred to the Department of State, where he served as research analyst, assistant chief and coordinator of the National Intelligence Survey, and as assistant to the chief of the division of research for the American republics in the historical section until 1956. In the course of his governmental activities, he participated as a representative of the Department of State in a special conference in the Panama Canal Zone and in 1948 as assistant technical secretary for the United States in the delegation to the Ninth International Conference of American States (Bogotá).

During is career, Professor Dozer published nearly one hundred articles and reviews, in major scholarly journals such as the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, the Pacific Historical Review, the American Historical Review, Foreign Affairs, and the Journal of International Relations. Within these writings were important studies on Secretary of State Elihu Root,


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anti-expansionism in the administration of President Andrew Johnson, American opposition to Hawaiian reciprocity in the late nineteenth century, Benjamin Harrison and the presidential campaign of 1892, revolution in Latin America, and on history of the politics and diplomacy of the Panama Canal.

Doctor Dozer's scholarly reputation rests mainly on his books on Latin American history and inter-American relations. Several of these have become standard works in their field and are being reprinted. He wrote: Are We Good Neighbors? Three Decades of Inter-American Relations, 1930-1960 (1959); Latin America: An Interpretive History (1962), translated into Portuguese in 1966 and also recently reprinted in English; The Monroe Doctrine: Its Modern Significance (1965), revised edition in 1976; Panama Canal Issues and Treaty Talks (1967); and Portrait of the Free State: A History of Maryland (1976). The latter book was commissioned by the Maryland Bicentennial Commission.

While at UCSB, Professor Dozer achieved a fine reputation as both an undergraduate and graduate teacher, noted for fairness and meticulous scholarship. During the thirteen years before his retirement, eleven Ph.D. dissertations were completed under his direction. During these years he accumulated most of his honors and acquired his international reputation as a scholar. In 1968, he was appointed member and later chairman of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of California, leading the state's observance of the nation's 200th birthday. He was awarded a Fulbright fellowship in 1971.

That same year, Dozer received the Alberdi-Sarmiento Award given by the distinguished Buenos Aires newspaper, La Prensa, and annual honor accorded to “the person who has made the greatest contribution to Inter-American relations.” Dozer was the first U.S. citizen to receive this distinction since 1954. This award paid tribute to his career as an historian of Latin America and inter-American relations, and also to his service as Fulbright lecturer in South America. He was a guest of the Argentine government on the occasion of his acceptance of this presentation.

Professor Dozer was a member of various professional and honorary organizations, including Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Delta Sigma Rho. His membership in the Mont Pelerin Society, a prestigious international society of social scientists, is particularly noteworthy. He has long been listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and in other directories of professional distinction.

After receiving emeritus status at UCSB in 1972, Doctor Dozer continued teaching for the American Graduate School of International Management, at Glendale, Arizona. He also taught courses for this school's branches at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973, and at the Institute for International Studies and Training, in Boeki Kenshu, Japan,


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in 1975. In 1976, he was visiting lecturer at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín, in Guatemala.

On August 2, 1941, Dozer had married Alice Louise Scott (no deceased), in Washington, D.C. The personal charm and fine hospitality of Alice Dozer is fondly remembered by the many university students who knew her, and she was always a highly-valued co-worker in her husband's writing and other professional activities. They had three children: Charles Scott Dozer of Glendale; Jane Blythe Dozer (recently a UCLA Ph.D. and now on the faculty of the University of Washington), of Seattle; and Hilary Marquand Dozer, of Stockton; and twin granddaughters.

At his death, Doctor Dozer was eulogized on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and accounts of his career were carried in the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Alexander DeConde C. Warren Hollister Philip W. Powell


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Delbert James Duncan, Business Administration: Berkeley


1895-1980
Professor of Marketing, Emeritus

With the death of Delbert J. Duncan on November 16, 1980, the field of marketing in business administration lost one of its early leaders and his colleagues, an able teacher and loyal friend. He served the University as Professor of Business Administration from 1950 to 1953, and from 1956 until his retirement in 1962. During the interim period he served as dean of the business school at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Bert, as he was known to all, wrote two of the most widely used volumes in the field of marketing. The first edition of his Retailing: Principles and Methods was published in 1941 and was followed by Marketing: Principles and Methods in 1948. Their widespread adoption throughout the world provided the basis for both a scholarly career of revision and the growth for a young, business text publishing company, Richard D. Irwin, Inc. The ninth edition of the retailing text was published as recently as 1976. The success of these books was derived from the author's ability to make theory and content meaningful to the student by tying them to events in the business world.

His scholarly work is also represented by a number of publications that appeared in journals, such as the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Purchasing, as well as monographs on petroleum industry structure, industrial purchasing, and personal selling. In recognition of his various contributions he was elected to the Hall of Fame in Distribution in 1953.

His personal influence was felt through the continued liaison he maintained with many business groups, especially within the area of retailing, and his willing contribution of time and energy to university and professional marketing committees.

Born on June 8, 1895, in American Fork, Utah, he graduated from the University of Utah in 1918, serving briefly as an officer in the fledgling U.S. Air Service. He ventured eastward to obtain an M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School in 1921, but came back after graduation to take a management position in a drug store chain in Salt Lake City. He returned to academia three years later by accepting a position at the University


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of Colorado as an assistant professor. He subsequently became active in a new association of faculty in the field of marketing, the American Association of Marketing, serving as a national director and committee chairman.

He left Colorado in 1930 to work with Fred Clark and his marketing group at Northwestern University, where he later also received the Ph.D. degree. In 1936, he initiated a new program in graduate retail education. The program became noted for both its academic and managerial appeal as its graduates moved into leading positions in both areas. The quality of this program was also marked by many unusually strong friendships between student and instructor that were severed only by Duncan's death.

In 1946, Duncan moved to Cornell University to help with the development of a new school of business and public administration. In 1950, he came to the Berkeley campus. His initiative and foresight here were responsible for a major conference of marketing teachers from the far western states held at Berkeley in 1958. An innovation in business education for the time, the conference provided the opportunity for teachers, in a region hitherto highly isolated from direct contact with the mainstreams of intellectual development, to discuss recent research on a personal basis with leaders in the field from around the country. The proceedings from the conference, edited by Duncan, became in great demand around the world. Preceding the Carnegie and Ford Foundation studies of business education, they gave early direction for much of the change that was subsequently to occur in marketing curricula.

Looking across the history of scholarly development in business administration, Duncan's career may be seen as spanning an era during which the essence and bounds of the subject matter were being defined. During this period, much education was in the hands of business professionals whose teaching was often based on little more than personal insight and experience. He was one of the leaders in recognizing the need for better teacher training, sustained scholarship, and research as the means for improving and upgrading the educational process. At the same time, he never lost sight of the need to infuse teaching with the excitement and interest that could be stimulated by relating abstract ideas to current activities in the business world. His teaching and writing reflect his unique skill in synthesizing the two.

To his immediate colleagues, however, Bert's most valued characteristic was his humanity. He was always available to junior faculty who sought his advice and especially helpful to those younger faculty insecure about their future at Berkeley. For those who felt it wiser to leave this campus, Bert used his wide contacts in the academic and business worlds to help them obtain new positions. For those who stayed, he provided insights for their research and often asked them to join his consulting projects with industry.


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He is survived by his son, Bruce, daughter, Kaye, and wife, Elizabeth Peairs Duncan, affectionately known as Billy, who participated fully in the various roles of his academic life.

L.P. Bucklin M. Conant E.T. Grether


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Brainerd Dyer, History: Los Angeles


1901-1980
Professor Emeritus

Brainerd Dyer, Professor of History, Emeritus, at UCLA, died April 27, 1980, after several years of declining health. Born in Wheaton, Illinois, November 9, 1901, he grew up in Chicago and Tacoma, Washington, where his father, a Congregational minister, held pastorates. He obtained his bachelor's degree at Pomona College in 1923. There he was Phi Beta Kappa and participated actively in varsity football and basketball, foretelling a lifelong interest in sports. He did his graduate work at Harvard University (M.A., 1925 and Ph.D., 1932), working under Professor James Phinney Baxter III.

Professor Dyer began his teaching at Dartmouth College in 1926. He returned to Harvard in 1927 as a Parkman fellow, then went back to Dartmouth in 1929, before moving to UCLA in 1930, where he remained until his retirement in 1969. His field was United States history with specialization in constitutional history and the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. He conducted upper division courses and graduate seminars and also taught regularly the lower division survey course. From 1947 to 1953, he served as chairman of the history department, from 1955 to 1956, he was a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Some eighteen doctoral candidates wrote dissertations under his supervision.

His service to the University was considerable during his forty years at UCLA. He was on numerous committees; was chairman of the faculty of the College of Letters and Science (1966-67); and secretary of the Academic Senate, University-wide (1963-64). His extramural service included membership on committees of the Southern Historical Association; membership on the Board of Editors of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association; and chairmanship of the program committee of the American Historical Association for its annual meeting in 1965 in San Francisco--its first on the Pacific coast--a major and demanding responsibility which he carried off with his usual competence. In the Pacific Coast branch of that Association he served as a member of its Council (1952-55), it vice-president (1965-66), and its president (1966-67). His presidential address, “One Hundred Years of Negro Suffrage,” was impressive and well received.


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With students he was searching and forthright in his criticism. He demanded clarity in organization and writing, accuracy of detail. Though students might smart under his criticism, he was always fair, gave generously of his time, and read their work promptly and carefully. He insisted on a high standard of performance. What he demanded of others he demanded of himself.

His publications consisted of two monographs--The Public Career of William M. Evarts, a cabinet member under Andrew Johnson and Rutherford B. Hayes, his doctoral dissertation, published in 1933 by the University California Press; and Zachary Taylor, a political biography, published in 1946 by the Louisiana State University Press--and many articles in his special fields in such journals as the Pacific Historical Review, Huntington Library Quarterly, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Journal of Negro History, and Civil War History, as well as several biographical articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica and about fifty book reviews. At a more popular level he wrote a daily column for several years in the Los Angeles Times, “Today in History.”

Professor Dyer's approach to history might be regarded as old-schoolish by younger historians today, a comment as much about them as about him. He was more the purveyor of received knowledge than an originator of new theories or interpretations. But in that purveyance he insisted on careful research, reliable evidence, and accuracy. His mastery of historical data in his fields was superb. Those arguing factual matters with him usually came off second best.

His greatest service in the University was perhaps his role as a mainstay in the Department of History. He insisted on adherence to agreed-upon administrative procedures, on respect for the democratic process in determining departmental policy and in selecting its personnel. It was not in him to shilly-shally or avoid embarrassing questions. His chairmanship coincided with the early years of the postwar expansion of faculty at UCLA, and the high quality of the appointments made in the department then and subsequently was due in no small measure to his guidance and wisdom. One of his colleagues thought him on initial acquaintance the worst chairman he had encountered--he could be quick of temper and abrasive in comment and manner--but with further contact regarded him the best--he had much common sense, personal and intellectual integrity, and a deep commitment to the academic ideal. And that is the way that those who knew him at close hand will best remember him.

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Frank Morris Eaton: Riverside


1893-1977
Research Chemist

Frank Morris Eaton was born in Aurora, Nebraska, January 12, 1893. He died in Riverside, California, October 23, 1977

Graduating from Aurora, Nebraska High School in 1911, he spent two years at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He worked for a year and a half for the CB&Q Railroad in Lincoln, Nebraska and then took a job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., where he attended George Washington University for a year. After another period as a laboratory aid and assistant in plant nutrition with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), he completed his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota majoring in chemistry, botany, and plant physiology. Following completion of the requirements for his Ph.D. in December 1924, he taught botany at the University of Minnesota until June, 1925, and then accepted a position as Assistant Physiologist with the USDA at Sacaton, Arizona, until June 1925. Then he worked on cotton physiology problems until 1928 when he came to Riverside as an Associate Plant Physiologist with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Western Irrigation Agriculture. He was put in charge of boron investigational research, and in the course of a twelve-year period of intensive work made a statewide study of the boron and salinity status of irrigation waters in California, and at the same time he set up extensive plant nutritional experiments to determine the boron tolerance of a wide range of field, vegetable, and tree crops.

During this period he became aware of the need for general salinity tolerance studies of plants as well as soil salinity studies in general and also the need to classify the value of different waters for irrigation purposes. Impressed by the extensive and solid achievements that he and his staff had made, his superior, Mr. C. S. Scofield, in Washington, D.C., used his influence to secure necessary congressional approval for the establishment of a Regional Salinity Laboratory in Riverside.

Dr. Eaton's earlier work with cotton and his association with outstanding scientists in cotton research led him to accept in 1940 a position with the USDA at College Station, Texas. He remained there until 1956.

Dr. Eaton's contributions in all areas of his interest were outstanding. His research on boron, salinity, and water quality particularly led to a


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considerable number of consulting assignments. In December, 1947, he spent five months as a consultant for FAO in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Turkey. His observations in the Nile River Valley and in the Tigris and Euphrates Valley in Iraq led to the publication of an important paper in soil science concerned with the amounts of carbonate and bicarbonate in irrigation water in relation to the calcium plus magnesium content. In waters where the aforementioned anions exceed the calcium and magnesium equivalents, sodium carbonate and bicarbonate concentrate in the soil solution, leading to the replacement of the divalent cations by sodium and the subsequent development of black alkali and soil impermeability. Eaton's contribution was recognition of the importance of the carbonate plus bicarbonate content of irrigation waters in relation to the amounts of calcium plus magnesium.

In 1950 and 1951, Eaton spent about six months for the United Nations as a soil specialist in Haiti, and in 1952 he was sent to Pakistan for several months on soil salinity problems.

April, 1956, he decided to accept an offer from the University of California at Riverside, to return there and do promising cotton research and resume investigations in the fields he loved: salinity, water quality, the leaching and gypsum requirements of irrigation water, and plant nutrition.

He was a highly motivated scientist. He was innovative and in whatever situation he found himself, rapidly penetrated to the heart of a problem without wasting time on routine or duplicative efforts.

Dr. Eaton reached mandatory retirement age with the University of California January 31, 1963. He went to Egypt under Ford Foundation auspices and spent some nine months as a consultant and visiting professor at the University of Alexandra. He remained actively engaged in research for another ten years. Then with declining health and the loss of his beloved wife Elizabeth, he chose to spend time in consulting work--on both water problems and cotton.

During his forty-five years of active research, teaching, administration and consulting, he published sixty-four solid technical papers, plus a number of semitechnical articles.

He is survived by two married daughters--Mrs. Robert(Elizabeth) Irving of Riverside, California, and Mrs. F. W. (Frances) Hensel of College Station, Texas, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. His lovely wife, Elizabeth, predeceased him by a number of years.

Those of us who knew Frank Eaton intimately over a period of years miss him greatly. He was a very friendly, outgoing, pleasant, and generous person to be with. He had a wonderful sense of humor, but was outspokenly critical of people or events he did not like or approve. He was never dull, and until the very last kept abreast of current events and national trends


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Sturla Einarsson, Astronomy: Berkeley


1879-1974
Professor Emeritus
Director of Leuschner Observatory, Emeritus

Sturla Einarsson died on March 25, 1974, at the age of 94. His many friends will particularly remember his great personal warmth, his rich family life, and his devotion to a variety of organizations in which he had long been deeply involved.

Einarsson was born in Iceland on December 14, 1879. His parents immigrated to America and settled in Duluth, Minnesota, when he was a child of only four, so practically all his life was spent in the United States. The transition to America was not without difficulties for the family. Sturla Einarsson's father, as a younger son, had to make his own way and to establish his family on his own, in accord with Icelandic traditions. His older brother, again by tradition, received the lion's share of what the family could provide. He attended university and became an actor of major stature in Iceland.

As a child in Duluth, Einarsson attended grade school and graduated from high school rather late, at age 21. (He was fond of telling that he remained in the first grade for three years-- since he heard Icelandic at home, he had to learn English at school.) He attended business college for a year, but his interest was in more academic pursuits. He thought of becoming a high school teacher. A friend of the family recognized Einarsson's intellectual potential and offered to lend him the money to attend the university. Einarsson seized the opportunity, enrolled in the University of Minnesota in 1901, and received his A.B. degree in 1905. During his junior and senior years at Minnesota, Einarsson served as assistant in astronomy. That set the course of his life.

Immediately after he received his A.B. degree, he was invited (by A.O. Leuschner) to come to Berkeley as an assistant in practical astronomy and to pursue graduate studies in astronomy. He came--and never left! He was assistant in practical astronomy from 1905 to 1910; Instructor in practical astronomy from 1910 to 1918 (he received his Ph.D. degree in 1913 for a thesis entitled “On the Orbits of Minor Planets (624) Hector


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and (588) Achilles of the Trojan Group); Assistant Professor of Practical Astronomy from 1918 to 1920; Associate Professor from 1920 to 1928; and Professor in 1928. He was chairman of the department from 1946 to 1950, the year of his retirement.

Einarsson was an excellent teacher; he was clear, direct, always ready with an example, and had a deep interest in his students. His work tended strongly toward the practical aspects of astronomy--the determination of time and position on the earth, and surveying. For more than forty years Einarsson taught very nearly all the classes in astronomy for engineers in the fields of surveying and practical astronomy. And for many years he was one of the instructors in Civil Engineering 103, the summer surveying camp of four weeks duration, which he appears to have greatly enjoyed.

Einarsson's expertise in practical astronomy led to service as an instructor in navigation during both World Wars. In 1917-18, he was in charge of instruction at the United States Shipping Board Navigation School in San Francisco and the Commissioned Officers Training School of the United States Navy. After World War I, Einarsson taught navigation on a regular basis in the astronomy department at Berkeley. In the 1930s and later, his classes became the Naval ROTC upper-division courses in navigation. The S.S. Golden Bear, the large, steerable model ship on which all advanced navigation students learned to compensate the compass, and large numbers of students “shooting” the sun with sextants were familiar sights in the central courtyard of the students' observatory at the foot of Euclid Avenue. During World War II, enormous numbers of “ninety-day wonders” were taught by Einarsson, his collaborators, and his assistants.

Einarsson was an active participant in a number of academic, astronomical, and social organizations. The knowledge he had gained from business college was frequently put to good use. Einarsson was the perennial secretary-treasurer, a conservative, steadying influence in the financial decisions of many organizations. He was secretary-treasurer of The Faculty Club for twenty-nine years, from 1929 to 1958. (Many will remember him as a familiar figure each day at lunch at “The Club” at the exclusive “statesmen's” table.) He was secretary-treasurer of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific from 1950 to 1965. He was greatly interested in the Astronomical Society and guided it through its most active period of financial growth. It is the solid financial base put down during Einarsson's tenure that has enabled the Society to expand into the many new educational and scientific activities in which it is now engaged. Einarsson was one of the founders of the California Chapter of the American Scandinavian Foundation and served as its secretary-treasurer for many years. He was an honorary member of the Foundation when he died.

In 1914, Einarsson married Anna Rodman Kidder, who was then a graduate assistant in Astronomy. Their shared interests and her New England


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upbringing, sense of community responsibility, and love of the outdoors, produced an active, happy home. Their four children are Alfred, Elizabeth (Cook), Margaret (Dechant), and John.

Family outings, particularly in summer were frequent. A family camping trip to Echo Lake in 1927 was especially memorable. They found a choice bit of land to be available there, and the next year built a cabin so they could spend a part of each summer amid the rugged beauty of the Sierra. The cabin remains a family treasure to be used by Einarsson's now-three-generations of descendants.

Anna Einarsson died in 1940. In 1946 Einarsson married Thea Hustvet, whom he met through his sister. Thea, who was trained in business, assisted Einarsson in his work with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. For some years after Einarsson retired as an officer of the Society, Thea helped guide the destinies of the Society as assistant secretary-treasurer.

Thea survives Einarsson, as do his four children, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

The quiet, solid success of Einarsson's long and productive life stemmed from ability, perseverance, and the boldness to seize opportunity when presented, combined with humor, honesty, and a strong sense of community. Parts of his biography read like incidents in a novel set in an earlier, simpler America that was vigorous, interesting, and full of opportunity. Many look at such a time with considerable nostalgia.

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Henry W. Elliot, Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Anesthesiology: Irvine


1920-1976
Professor of Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Chairman of the Department of Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Lecturer in Anesthesia

Dr. Elliott was born in Seattle, Washington in 1920 and died August 1, 1976 in Santa Ana, California. He devoted 35 years of his life to scientific and academic achievement and contributions in the field of Pharmacology and Clinical Therapeutics. He received his B.S. in Chemistry (cum laude) in 1941 and his M.S. in Biochemistry in 1943, both from the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1946 and he earned the M.D. degree from the University of California at San Francisco in 1953. He remained on the School of Medicine staff at the University of California, San Francisco, achieving status of Professor of Pharmacology in 1964. He became Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine in 1968, a post which he held at the time of his death on August 1, 1976.

Dr. Elliott combined pharmacology and anesthesiology in his career, being a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology and a Fellow in the American College of Anesthesiology (1967) as well as maintaining scholarly activities in the pharmacology field as Chair of the Subcommittee on Pharmacology Evaluation (SCOPE) (U.S. Pharmacopeia), associate editor of the Annual Review of Pharmacology and editor of the Annual Review of Pharmacology (1965-1976). He was a member of the editorial board of six broad-ranging professional journals and was active in the American Medical Association and California Medical Association Sections on Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, acting as chair and member of several advisory panels. In the University of California sphere he was past chair of the Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee and member of the Committee on Graduate Academic Programs of the College of Medicine. He has been honored as a member of Alpha Omega Alpha as well as sixteen other honorary professional societies. He had supervised pre-doctoral candidates since 1968 at the UCI College of Medicine including the Ph.D. Program in Pharmacology.


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Professor Elliot was a man of many talents. Not only had he published over 140 scientific publications in high quality medical journals, but he had served and was continuing to serve as chair of the subcommittee on the U.S. Pharmacopeia SCOPE since 1970. He was largely responsible for the renewed vigor in which an improved drug selection program was possible and he was the person mainly responsible for a complete review of all drugs used in the United States and identified by the U.S. Pharmacopeia. This resulted in putting the decisions of the U.S. Pharmacopeia with respect to drug selections on a more substantial foundation than previously. The review of drugs was a unique and fundamental improvement in drug listing since the listing was done by clinical indication rather than by broad chemical categories. This effort resulted in the 1976 U.S. Pharmacopeia Guide to Select Drugs. It is a tribute to Professor Elliott's long desire to provide recognition on a national level to the “also useful” and effective drugs while at the same time preserving the “cherished blue ribbon” list.

Professor Elliott had been prodigiously involved not only in academic pharmacology during his entire career, but had also served as anesthesiologist at the San Francisco and Irvine campuses of the University of California.

Dr. Elliott's mastery of the disciplines of both pharmacology and anesthesiology gave him a breadth of clinical knowledge and basic science background which is found only rarely in medicine. He was active in teaching not only undergraduate and graduate pharmacology but was constantly teaching the fundamentals of anesthesiology in the operating room at UCI every week. His ability and obvious delight in teaching produced a very effective experience for the students at all levels under his influence, including medical students, interns, residents in the surgical specialties, and faculty. He was always alert to fundamental developments and was a responsible, concerned physician at all times. Professor Elliott fulfilled an urgent need for anesthesiology at the UCI College of Medicine from the time of his arrival in 1968 until his death, during which time there was no formal department or division of anesthesiology. Dr. Elliott was able to give not only considerable service to sick patients, but was an active supporter for the development of anesthesiology at UCI.

Dr. Elliott was a kind and considerate man. His relationship with many patients was always one of gentle understanding. He had a sympathetic view of patient problems and was an effective member of the full-time clinical faculty. His dedication to high quality academic and clinical performance in spite of the adversities associated with the development of a new medical school remains a glowing tribute to his persistence and insistence on excellence. He gave of himself to the extreme in his efforts to help develop a young medical school. Dr. Elliott will be long remembered as one of the early full-time clinical faculty who understood the immense problems involved in building an outstanding medical school and yet was


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willing to strive with complete dedication toward goals not yet reached. He will be deeply missed by all of his colleagues in the University of California, especially at the UCI College of Medicine.

Eldon L. Foltz, M.D. Louis A. Gottschalk, M.D.


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Ralph Emerson, Botany: Berkeley


1912-1979
Professor

With the death of Ralph Emerson, the Berkeley faculty and the nation lost an outstanding teacher and investigator in the field of botany. Not only was his own mycological research accorded the highest honors, but he left a virtual dynasty of former students active in the same general area of experimental mycology.

Ralph was born in New York City, April 19, 1912, the youngest of five children of Grace and Haven Emerson, a leading pioneer in public health who served as Commissioner of Health for the City of New York and as professor at Columbia University. Ralph's brother, Robert, was a distinguished student of photosynthesis. Ralph attended Fieldston High School (a private school) in New York City, and then entered Harvard University, where he was awarded the bachelor's (cum laude) and master's degrees (1933, 1934), and Ph.D. (1937). In the summer of 1933 he studied general bacteriology and made a preliminary investigation of the growth requirements of the fungus Allomyces with C. B. van Niel at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University. In the spring of 1935 he was photographer for an expedition to the west coast of Mexico, financed by Major Max C. Fleischman, for the purpose of obtaining data and illustrations for a book on the game fishes of the Pacific coastal region. One of us (G.F.P.) was told by the distinguished ichthyologist Carl L. Hubbs that Ralph's photographs were the best that had ever been made of fishes. Following his receipt of the doctorate, he spent two years as a National Research Council fellow in the laboratory of F.T. Brooks at Cambridge University. After a return to Harvard for one year as a Harvard research fellow, he joined the faculty at Berkeley in 1940 and spent his entire career there, in spite of many attractive invitations to go elsewhere. In 1942 he married Enid Merle Budelman.

Emerson's field of investigation emphasized the water molds, especially the genus Allomyces, which became closely associated with his name. His approach was broadly biological, involving trapping the organisms in their natural habitat, culturing them and determining their nutritional capabilities, and analyzing their cytology and genetic potentials. Although properly


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termed experimental mycology, it was also mycological biosystematics of the best kind, since its ultimate goals encompassed questions of phylogeny and classification, including the description of two new genera and several new species. Nonetheless, he would not have been happy to be remembered as a taxonomist; he always liked to think of himself as a biologist.

While he was at Cambridge, England, Emerson with Denis L. Fox identified the male gamete pigments, largely y-carotene, in Allomyces, and in 1954 he and Charles M. Wilson published a major paper on the cytogenetics and cytotaxonomy of the genus. During World War II he served as microbiologist with the Guayule Rubber Extraction Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture, at Salinas, California. From this experience were derived a joint study with Paul J. Allen on the retting of fiber and a book with his student Donald G. Cooney on thermophilic fungi. Part of two sabbatical leaves spent in Costa Rica involved him in the collection and study of tropical fungi.

Emerson's teaching was so renowned that it tended to overshadow his reputation as an investigator. Indeed, he himself always gave it priority and allowed nothing to interfere with it. His closest friends discovered that he was not amenable to interruption when preparing for his class. His teaching was modeled on that of his major professor, William H. (“Cap”) Weston, Jr., himself a legendary lecturer. It involved meticulous preparation not only of the lecture but of a parallel series of lecture/laboratory demonstrations, so that almost every biological phenomenon mentioned could be immediately demonstrated. He established a “microgarden,” under the long-time supervision of Robert Berman, to provide the necessary materials.

Ironically, Emerson was brought to Berkeley to replace William Albert Setchell, the distinguished student of marine algae, and in order to familiarize himself with the algae of this coast he spent the summer of 1941 in Pacific Grove, where he took Gilbert M. Smith's course on the algae at the Hopkins Marine Station. It was not until 1947 that Ralph was enabled to teach his mycological course, Botany 101, for the first time. The course became famous and was remembered not least for its uncompromising demands and the laboratory stretching well into the evening.

Emerson was always a strong exponent of the unity of biology. In 1957-58 he and Richard Eakin, another exceptional teacher, designed and first taught Biology 11, forerunner of many successful joint efforts of the Departments of Botany and Zoology in the field of biology. He was active in the creation of the Biology Council, and a vigorous sponsor of the founding of the Bodega Marine Laboratory. Emerson was unusually successful as a teacher at all levels. In 1963 his outstanding teaching was recognized with the Distinguished Teaching Award of the Berkeley campus. In 1972 he organized his very popular course “Molds and Man,” Biology 12. Many students' appraisals rated him simply as “the best teacher I ever had.” His graduate students were life-long friends and colleagues.


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Emerson served ably and willingly on bodies such as the Senate Committee on Educational Policy, the Standing Committee on Courses of Instruction, the Graduate Council, and numerous search and promotion committees, which he believed to be concerned with maintenance of quality of education. It was especially in these committees of his peers that Ralph displayed the strength of his convictions; and when principle was involved, he could muster an intensity of feeling and argument that seldom failed to wilt the opposition. He was an invaluable member of the committee that planned the re-organization of the College of Letters and Science. He served as special assistant to Chancellor Kerr (1955-56), as convener and chairman of the special all-university faculty conference on biology, June 8 to 10, 1963, and as departmental chairman during the troubled days of the late 60's, but he consciously avoided the numerous administrative assignments proffered him. Teaching came first.

On the national and international scene, offices and honors came to him in profusion. He was a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Science, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was president of the Mycological Society of America and the Botanical Society of America, vice-president of the British Mycological Society and the California Academy of Sciences, and a member of the governing board of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. He received two Guggenheim fellowships, held a Miller Professorship, and was a Faculty Research Lecturer in 1977. Among his most prized recognitions was being invited as keynote speaker for the First International Mycological Congress, held at Exeter, England. At the conclusion of his address he was given a standing ovation, an honor accorded him also at Columbus, Ohio, when, as retiring president of the Botanical Society of America, he gave his famous address titled “Environments of Men and Molds--Another Look at the Emperor's New Clothes.”

On a more personal level, his friends who met regularly with him at the Harmon Gymnasium pool for lunch and conversation remember him for his wise observations on science and the scholarly life.

Melvin S. Fuller and Ralph's other students and colleagues planned a special workshop and celebration in honor of his pending retirement at the fall 1978 meetings of the Mycological Society held at Athens, Georgia. (A book on the laboratory culturing of the lower fungi was published to commemorate the occasion.) However, during early summer he sadly indicated his inability to attend, and on the following March 12 succumbed to the ravages of cancer, after a courageous year-long struggle, selflessly aided by his wife. He is survived by his wife, a son, Peter, a daughter, Grace, and six grandchildren.


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His influence on his students, colleagues, and friends will long be felt and cherished.

George F. Papenfuss David D. Boyden O'Neil R. Collins Lincoln Constance William B. Fretter


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William J. Flocker, Vegetable Crops: Davis


1917-1980
Professor

Bill Flocker will be longest remembered for his humanitarian efforts, particularly with students. Any student with a problem found a sensitive ear if he or she approached Bill with a problem. Bill would move heaven and earth and sometimes even the administration to solve a student's problem. If the problem was financial, Bill would try every avenue of aid. If no money was obtainable from loan or grant sources, he would often loan the student money out of his own pocket.

Bill's interest in students is best demonstrated by his creation of the course, Plant Science 2, in 1965. It was designed to orient students in plant science and to develop in them an awareness and an appreciation of agriculture. He soon recognized both the need and the potential for new approaches to teaching agriculture. His pioneer work in audio-tutorial teaching techniques created Plant Science 2 as an outstanding example of these innovative techniques. Much of Bill's success as a teacher was due to his dedication to advising both undergraduate and graduate students, especially his ability to relate with each student.

The practical experience in farming that Bill acquired before coming to the University of California enabled him to appreciate the importance basic research has for actual farming practices. He was an authority in soil physics, soil physical properties, and soil-water movement. His interests included procedures for maintaining and improving soil structure for maximum crop production. He showed the importance of the soil compaction problem in commercial tomato and potato production. With the increase in interest in environmental quality, Bill did research on incorporating solid wastes, particularly cannery wastes, into soil to improve marginal land. For this research he was given an environmental quality award from the American Society for Horticultural Science.

Bill had a varied career. He was born and raised on a farm in Clinton, Indiana. After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1936, he joined the U.S. Air Corps and served as a fighter pilot and squadron commander in World War II. After the war he returned to farming in Illinois and in Arizona. However, his practical and academic desires led him to return to


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school. He obtained his Ph.D. in Agricultural Chemistry and Soils at the University of Arizona in 1955. Shortly thereafter he joined the Vegetable Crops Department at UCD.

The surviving members of Bill's family include his wife, Betty, three children, and three grandchildren.

We will all remember Bill for his compassion and understanding of our problems and the comfort and aid he willingly gave students and colleagues.

James Harrington Lloyd Lider Oscar Lorenz Arthur Spurr


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Donald Frederick Fogelquist, Spanish and Portuguese: Los Angeles


1906-1980
Professor of Spanish, Emeritus

Donald Fogelquist was born in Sioux City, Iowa, August 23, 1906, and died in Los Angeles on December 10, 1980, after a long illness. He is survived by his wife, Helen, and his three sons, Alan Frederick, Mark Stephen, and James Donald. Shortly after Don's birth his parents moved to Selah, Washington. Here Don had his early schooling and later received both his A.B. and M.A. degrees from Washington State University. His father, who had been a cabinet maker in Sweden, taught manual arts in the Selah high school. Don had very happy memories of the family home there, which was constructed entirely by the Fogelquists. It was a large white house high on a hill, surrounded by a big yard, a fine garden, and many fruit trees.

Donald continued his graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin under some of the most distinguished Hispanists in the United States, and he was awarded the Ph.D. degree by that institution. During the years from 1939 to 1942, Don taught at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and at the University of Miami, Coral Gables. From 1942 to 1945 he was a professor at the Naval Academy in Annapolis and held the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserves. During the period from 1946 to 1947 he was director of the Paraguayan-American Cultural Center in Asunción, Paraguay. After this he joined the faculty at Washington State University and finally in 1948 he came to UCLA where he remained until his retirement in 1974.

In 1959, Don was selected by the Department of State to go on a goodwill tour of Latin America and deliver a series of lectures in that area. In Bogotá, Colombia, he was faced with a hostile audience of leftist students who heckled him and tried to shout him down. Don waited until the noise had subsided, and then in his own calm and inimitable way he explained that he was not a government or business representative but a professor who had dedicated his entire life to making Latin America better understood in the United States. He would be glad to meet with smaller groups of the students later to discuss their grievances and to convey their complaints


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to the people in Washington upon his return. His sincerity and fluent Spanish soon won them over, and the audience finally gave him a rousing ovation. The remainder of the tour was a resounding success.

From 1962 to 1963, Don was on a Fulbright research fellowship in Spain. He gathered material for his book, Españoles de América y americanos de España, later published in Madrid. While in Spain he enjoyed a long visit with the common law wife of the famous Spanish American poet, Rubén Darío, and he also spent some time with members of the family of the Nobel laureate Spanish poet, Juan Ramón Jiénez, whom Don had come to know intimately while they were both teaching in Coral Gables, Florida. After his retirement from UCLA, Don published a masterful book on Juan Ramón, in which he translated into beautiful English many of that writer's finest poems.

Don served for several years as chairman of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. He was the ideal intellectual leader and administrator, persuasive, incisively witty and humorous, always calm and collected, unswervingly democratic, and always the perfect gentleman. Under his chairmanship the Department pursued a policy of vigorous recruitment that greatly strengthened its staff and offerings in all the areas of Hispanic and Portuguese languages and literatures. The Department was recognized as offering more courses in Latin American literature than any other in the United States, and students came from far and wide to study in this field.

Don's specialty was Hispanic poetry, and he brought to his classes a sensitivity and insight that profoundly touched his students. He invariably gave his lectures in Spanish. Outside of class he was always available, and he helped many a floundering student to find a steadier course in life. In and out of class he was a warm and gentle humanist, who had little regard for the pedantic and stuffy kind of literary criticism so prevalent in scholarly circles. He became an internationally known authority in Spanish American literature and was invited by many universities, including Harvard, as a visiting professor.

Don loved good books and good music, especially Mozart, and his three sons became accomplished musicians. Mark still directs a professional Mariachi group in Southern California, James is a Ph.D. from Yale who now teaches at Mount Holyoke College, and Alan is just finishing his doctorate in Balkan studies at UCLA. Don's family was always the center of his universe. He was devoted to his wife, Helen, and was immensely proud of his three sons. He was a wonderful husband, father, and professor, who was loved and respected by everyone who knew him. He never said or did anything that was unkind or untrue. His students, colleagues, and


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friends all admired his absolute integrity, cherished his friendship and his loyalty, and will forever miss his enlightening presence upon this earth.

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Max William Gardner, Plant Pathology: Berkeley and Davis


1890-1979
Professor Emeritus

Max Gardner was a leading personality in the field of plant pathology in the United States from about 1928 until he retired in 1957. He was born in 1890 in Lansing, Michigan, where his father was a druggist. He early became interested in nature and from the age of fourteen to twenty-one kept an extensive diary of his observations, primarily of birds. This diary, in four volumes, has been typed and bound by his grandson, William Gardner Schottstaedt.

At Michigan Agricultural College, now Michigan State University, he received a B.S. degree in forestry in 1912 and an honorary Sc.D. in 1950.

His first professional job was with the Pennsylvania Chestnut Blight Commission in Philadelphia, where he worked with F. D. Heald who encouraged him to take graduate work in plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, under L. R. Jones.

Here he received the M.S. degree in 1915 and the Ph.D. in 1918. During these years he worked intermittently with the U.S. Office of Truck Crop Diseases with G. K. Link.

His first academic position was as instructor in botany at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1917-18. In 1919 he moved to the department of Botany at the Agricultural Experiment Station of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, under H. S. Jackson. He became chief of Botany and initiated the first graduate work in plant pathology there in 1929. In 1932 he joined the Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Berkeley and Davis, where he succeeded R. E. Smith as chairman in 1936.

After he arrived in California one of his principal research projects was a study of an epidemic of the virus disease of tomatoes, lettuce, and other truck crops. Ornamental plants were also attacked and Dr. Gardner identified the cause as the spotted-wilt virus. He became an authority on this virus and helped to work out its symptomatology, epidemiology, its spread by thrips, and its eventual control. The study of this disease in the field uncovered other diseases which he encouraged his younger staff to investigate.

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course in the department. Here he inspired much enthusiasm in the students for detecting and diagnosing diseases of field and truck crops and later, of all crops.

Approximately half of the course was devoted to field observations and to collecting diseased plants and half to studying and culturing the pathogens in the laboratory. He was a superb diagnostician. Growers and pathologists had a high regard for his judgment. He had a contagious enthusiasm for scientific observation. For example, he enjoyed showing others how he looked for fungus on plants.

He served on many professional committees including the Division of Biology and Agriculture of the National Research Council. He was a life member of the American Phytopathological Society, serving as vice president in 1930, president in 1931, and editor of Phytopathology from 1959 to 1964. He was author or co-author of 180 publications.

In administration he tried to follow the dictum of his superior, Dean C. B. Hutchison, who advised: “Choose good men, give them good facilities, and leave them alone.”

After his retirement in 1957 he continued his professional interest by building up the separates collection in the Plant Pathology Library. This collection became one of the finest in the country. It attracted pathologists from other parts of the world who were writing books. It is one of his lasting contributions to the Department.

Max continued to aid and encourage his younger colleagues. He was noted for his kindly concern for the interests of all his friends. For example, he returned to his earlier interest in birds. He could identify them by songs, behavior, and habitat and was often asked for help in identification.

His broad interest in biology took him into the field right up to the last. One of his favorite outings was to the U.C. Botanical Garden where he went at least once a week for many years. He liked to observe seasonal changes in plants, and he collected powdery mildews (Erysiphaceae), many of which were new to the United States.

From early in his life Max Gardner took delight in collecting Indian artifacts, especially arrowheads. He had hundreds, mostly from fields in Indiana.

His wide reading extended to such works as Irving Stone's The Greek Treasure, James Westfall Thompson's books on medieval history, and Charles M. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta.

In 1922 he married Margaret Briggs, a minister's daughter who was then deputy state chemist at Purdue University. They had two children, Mary Frances Schottstaedt and Murray Briggs Gardner. The former was University of California Scholarship Medalist in 1945 and now is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas medical branch in Galveston. Murray is professor of pathology at the University of Southern California School of Medicine.


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Max and Margaret furthered the social life of the department by entertaining associates and students in their lovely home at 1441 Hawthorne Terrace, Berkeley.

Max died of a heart attack October 31, 1979. His younger brother, a professor of electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also died in 1979.

Dr. Gardner is survived by his wife, his two children, and eight grandchildren.

C. E. Yarwood W. Bingham W. C. Snyder


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Edwin Ernest Ghiselli, Psychology: Berkeley


1907-1980
Professor Emeritus

Edwin Ghiselli was born and reared in San Francisco. He entered the University of California at Berkeley as a freshman, and earned his A.B. degree with a major in Italian in 1930. He then worked briefly in a bank, but had been so intrigued by a course in psychology taught by Professor Robert Tryon, that he decided to make that discipline his career. He returned to the University to earn his doctorate, completing his dissertation in 1936 under the supervision of C.W. Brown, on a topic concerning brain mechanisms in learning.

The next year was spent as a National Research Council Fellow in the laboratory of K.S. Lashley at Harvard University. Ghiselli then moved to Cornell University as a teaching fellow, where he was profoundly influenced by an eminent applied psychologist, Professor Jack Jenkins. Switching his specialty, he moved with Jenkins in 1938 to the University of Maryland to accept a position as instructor.

In 1939 he accepted an invitation to return as Assistant Professor to Berkeley, with a mandate to develop a broad program of teaching and research in applied psychology. Always an innovator, Ghiselli's initial proposal included not only a well designed curriculum, but also a plan, in cooperation with local business and industry, to give students practical experience in research.

Subsequent adoption of his program was so successful that Berkeley became internationally recognized for the excellence of its training and research in applied psychology. This achievement was partly due to his own talents as a teacher and researcher, partly to the excellence of the younger faculty members he was able to recruit to his team. Together with various colleagues over a period of years, he produced an impressive series of studies on personnel selection, managerial skills and industrial psychology in general. His classic studies of managerial styles in several different countries, carried out in collaboration with his friends and colleagues, Mason Haire and Lyman Porter, are perhaps the best known.

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warm counsel or patient tutoring when they were needed. He was equally skillful at drawing out the best in his graduate seminar students and at clarifying difficult concepts for bewildered undergraduates in his large lectures.

Ghiselli was dedicated to the welfare of his department. He twice served as its chairman in difficult times when the strains of rapid internal growth and the differences between administration and department made the task especially taxing. Always a champion of the rights of his colleagues, he was a doughty warrior in their defense regardless of the physical and emotional cost to himself.

Notwithstanding his investments in teaching and University service, Ghiselli was first and foremost a research scientist. In this role, he achieved a high and permanent place in the history of applied psychology. His publications included five major books and more than one hundred research papers in professional journals. Never was the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, which he received in 1972 from the American Psychological Association, more richly deserved. The APA gave him also the Walter Bingham Award for his development of measures to identify talented young people. At different times he was President of the APA Division of Industrial Psychology, and President of the Western Psychological Association. He was Donald G. Paterson Memorial Lecturer at the University of Minnesota and delivered the Annual Lecture before the Canadian Psychological Association. After retirement, he returned to the Berkeley campus to deliver the Robert Choate Tryon Lecture on the Psychology of Individual Differences, which honors his lifelong friend and colleague. Among his international recognitions was an invitation to serve as Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna, where for a year he took major responsibility for developing a research and teaching program in industrial psychology.

Ghiselli was a warm and outgoing individual with an unusually strong and sincere interest in and concern for people--for his friends, for acquaintances, and even for strangers he met on a journey or at some social gathering. He possessed a rare capacity for sympathetic listening which made it easy for intimates and strangers alike to talk to him about their experiences and problems. His lively sense of humor and appreciation of the same quality in others were among his most endearing qualities.

In 1938 Edwin married Louisa Hickox whom he had met at Berkeley when he was a graduate and she an undergraduate student. They married during his employment at the University of Maryland and moved to Berkeley in 1939. Except for three years spent in Texas while Edwin was serving as military officer in the Aviation Research Program, Berkeley remained their home until the time came for retirement. They had three sons, William, John and David, and their gracious hospitality made the Ghiselli home a center for many happy gatherings of friends and professional colleagues.


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After retirement, the couple moved to Mountain View, California, partly in order to be closer to two of their sons and their families. The third son followed his father's footsteps into psychology. A joint paper, published by William Ghiselli of the University of Missouri and Edwin Ghiselli of the University of California was a source of special pride to them both. Louisa died in 1976, but Edwin maintained the same residence and continued to enjoy close ties with his children and grandchildren. His death from a heart attack came while he was traveling in Italy with his eldest granddaughter.

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Robert Aaron Gordon, Economics: Berkeley


1908-1978
Professor Emeritus

When Aaron Gordon was struck down by a final heart failure in his home on April 7, 1978, it came as no surprise to his friends. Despite several hospitalizations for the same problem, he continued, as he had done all his life, to burn the candle at both ends to serve his academic discipline and the welfare of his country. Family, friends, and physicians warned him repeatedly, but he probably preferred it this way. It is for his indefatigable efforts to improve his discipline, his department, his University, his local society, and his government's economic policy that he will be remembered.

A Harvard Ph.D. of 1934, he joined the Department of Economics at Berkeley in 1938 and remained here until his retirement in 1976. His first major work, Business Leadership in the Large Corporation (1945), reflected a secondary teaching and research interest that continued throughout his life. He came to Berkeley during the period when the department of economics was the personnel unit for course work in commerce and business, and he continued his active association with the School of Business after a separate department was created in 1942. This whole set of interests culminated in 1959 in the very influential Gordon-Howell volume, Higher Education for American Business, supported by the Ford Foundation. This volume and the financial support by the Ford Foundation in succeeding years made a substantial impact on American business schools.

But already before World War II he had turned his attention to what would become a life-long preoccupation; business cycle theory and policy, with special emphasis on man-power problems and unemployment. His books on The Dynamics of Economic Activity (1947) and Business Fluctuations (1952) were for many years standard reading at American universities, and it was an obvious choice when in the early sixties the American Economic Association asked him to coedit (with Lawrence Klein) its second volume on Readings in Business Cycles (1965), his most outstanding contributions in this field. His last book in this field was Economic Growth and Instability (1974). His primary interest, however, was in the more narrow field of unemployment, which he saw as his country's most serious


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social problem. He chaired the President's Committee on Employment and Unemployment Statistics, was principal author and editor of its report (1962), and followed up this basic piece of work with a number of important, widely discussed books and papers, among them The Goal of Full Employment (1967). This last title indicates a shift of attitude about full-employment problems, concentrating more on individual groups than national averages. Here we meet Gordon's intense interest and concern for minority problems. This was also the approach he later would try to impress on federal policy in relation to the Humphrey-Hawkins Act.

Theoretically, Gordon was from his youth a Keynesian. He always emphasized that he was not one of those who belittled monetary policy. He was, however, very negative (if not outright hostile) to monetarism in the sense of Chicago-style theory and philosophy. He believed strongly in discretionary fiscal, monetary, and manpower policies, and despite his misgivings with the Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and what he experienced of the Carter administrations, he continued to trust that enlightened government could and should put the American economy on a better track. Although quite critical of some of the work of econometricians, he was active, as chairman of the Committee on Economic Stability of the Social Science Research Council, in encouraging several large experiments with econometric models. He also participated actively in the LINK project, which was an attempt to coordinate econometric models of a number of individual countries.

Gordon's research was always closely geared to his service to the public as advisor, consultant, and critic. In his vita the list of activities occupies about four full pages. He was constantly on a plane to or from Washington, participating in conferences and committees, testifying at Congressional hearings, or giving advice to politicians and administrators. [This last effort was related to the Humphrey-Hawkins Act.] He was in continuous contact with members of Senator Humphrey's staff about revisions and clearly saw dangers in oversimplifications of the unemployment problem.

His many years of effective participation in the activities of the American Economic Association were recognized by selection as Distinguished Fellow (1972) and President (1975).

Gordon was as active in University matters as he was in federal and local policy design, was a devoted and conscientious teacher, and gave unstintingly of his time and energy to the work of Academic Senate and administrative committees. He was an active and innovative chairman for the Department of Economics from 1959 to 1963 and secured lasting benefits for the Department. He was awarded the Berkeley Citation at his retirement.

Gordon was chieftain of the Gordon Clan--as the family was known to the profession, colleagues, and friends. His wife Margaret (Peg) and his sons, Robert and David, are all well-known economists, and although the


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family members specialized in very different fields and have held very different views, on some basic policy issues ranging from moderate conservative via liberal to moderate radical, the family has always appeared to the outer world as a tightly knit group, a true little clan which Gordon loved to present as his main achievement in this world.

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William McAllen Green, Classics: Berkeley


1897-1979
Professor of Latin, Emeritus

William McAllen Green, Professor of Latin, Emeritus, died in Santa Rosa, California, on October 21, 1979, aged eighty-two. He was born June 26, 1897, in Westminster, Orange County; California. He received his higher education entirely from the University of California in Berkeley: here he took the Bachelor of Arts degree, probably in Latin (but he made a special study of mathematics and Greek also), in June 1919, and here again, after an absence of seven years during which he did administrative work and taught at the secondary school level, he returned for four years of additional study and the receipt of his doctorate in Latin in 1930. Although he had spent the years which ensued between the baccalaureate and his return to Berkeley in 1926 in such diverse and exotic places as Pago Pago (where he was principal of the high school of American Samoa), Los Angeles County (where he served for a year in the same capacity for El Monte High School), and the Alhambra High School (where for five years he taught classes in Latin), it was graduate study in the Department of Latin in Berkeley (following the death of his first wife, Sarah Louise Mallory, whom he had married in September, 1918) which, in the main, determined the orientation of his career. The dissertation which concluded his graduate studies, “Fifth Century Paganism as Implied in Augustine's City of God”, adumbrated what was to prove to be the dominant concern of his later years in Augustine and his writings. And it was here, as well, as early as 1927, when he was appointed Associate in Latin, that he began a professional association with the University of California which was to persist uninterrupted for thirty-five years.

Throughout the whole of his professional career in Berkeley and, indeed, to the very end of his life he was supported in all that he did and sustained in whatever he may have suffered by Ruby Lanier whom he had married in 1928. He is survived by her, their two sons--Dr. William L. Green of Bellevue, Washington, and Dr. Ralph L. Green of Santa Barbara, California, their daughter and youngest child, Carolyn--now Mrs. Jerry Tucker of Beaverton, Oregon--and eight grandchildren.

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his early scholarly interest “Notes on the Augustan Deities” (Classical Journal, 1927) and “Greek and Roman Law in the Trinummus of Plautus” (Classical Philology, 1929). These were favorably received by his teachers, and their result in Berkeley was his appointment to an instructorship in Latin, which was closely followed, in 1932, by promotion to the assistant professorship. Thereafter, however, the cursus honorum slowed for him: he did not become Associate Professor until 1948 or Professor until 1960. How far, if at all, this retardation of recognition may have affected his decision to terminate his association with the University of California in 1962, is impossible to say; but, in any case, at that time, aged sixty-five, he left Berkeley to accept a chair in Ancient Christian Literature at Pepperdine University, where, for the remainder of his academic life--twelve years in all--he taught his subject happily and with distinction.

Green's publications down to about 1937, which were impressive in number, reflect his early interest in Roman religion and institutions for the most part; but from 1949 on, with the appearance of his first long article, “Initium Omnis Peccati Superbia: Augustine on Pride and the First Sin” (U.C. Publ. Classical Philology 13.13 407-431), he devoted virtually all the rest of his scholarly energy to the study of Augustine's writings. One article in particular, published in 1959, “A Fourth Century Manuscript of Augustine,” had especially great significance for Augustinian scholarship; in this he dated Codex Leningrad Q v.1,3 of De doctrina Christiana, to 396, the year of the work's publication, or soon thereafter. This article more than anything else, in all likelihood, won him promotion to the professorship in 1960.

From the early fifties to 1972 most of his time was spent in the editing and translating of Augustine's works: for the Utrecht series of Latin fathers he edited Contra Academicos (1956); for the Vienna corpus De libero arbitrio (1956), De vera religione (1961), and De doctrina Christiana (1963); for the Loeb series of Latin authors he not only edited but also translated three volumes of the City of God (1963-1972; one with Eva Sanford), preparing, as well, the index for the final volume.

The editing of Augustine's texts and the labor of poring over microfilm copies of manuscripts apparently suited William Green best. He was a competent and careful editor, and, as such, without predilection for historical research, the critical interpretation of texts, the history of ideas. Once, it is true, having published an article on Augustine's views concerning the teaching of history, he did ponder the writing of a book on the Greek and Roman concept of the past; but he did barely more than make a start at collecting passages of evidence for his thesis before deciding that the editing of texts was, more appropriately, his métier. Because his labors were thus restricted by a restraint of view concerning his own limitations and those of legitimate and useful scholarship, many of his colleagues, with other


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interests, did not accord his work the value which European scholars placed upon it, and, in consequence, promotion to the associate professorship and, later, to the full professorship, was denied him more than once. Nevertheless, he bore such disappointments as these, if disappointments they were, with Christian patience and humility, always with amiable dignity, doing always the work that he could do best. With his students he was a kind, a sweet-tempered, and a generous man. Upon them he lavished an attention from which many profited, and of which many to this day continue to think well, despite the impediment of the deafness which had befallen him early in his career and which occasionally caused difficulties in communication.

Throughout his life, Green was a devout member of the Church of Christ, active in its work in general, an elder of it for nearly forty years, and in particular doing much to help the colleges which it had founded in furtherance of its educational ideals. His association with Pepperdine, for example, began in 1944 with the teaching of summer classes in the history of religions; he was visiting professor at Harding University in Arkansas, at Abilene Christian University in Texas, and at the Florence Bible Institute in Italy. The year 1967-1968 he spent in Japan as dean at Ibaraki Christian College. In 1980, Pepperdine University, in grateful recognition of his devotion, established the William Green Lecture Programs in his honor.

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Albert R. C. Haas: Riverside


1888-1979
Plant Physiologist

Dr. Albert R. C. Hass was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on May 29, 1888. He received his B.S. degree in forestry in 1913 from Pennsylvania State College. In 1914, he was awarded an M.S. degree in botany from the same institution. At Harvard he first obtained an M.A. degree in plant physiology in 1916 and then a Ph.D. degree in 1917. He did graduate work at the University of Chicago during the summers of 1913 and 1914 and at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts in 1916 and 1917. Following the receipt of his Ph.D., he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corp in World War I. From 1918 to 1919 he was assistant and then instructor in agricultural bacteriology and soils at the University of Wisconsin. In 1919, he joined the staff of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station as Assistant Plant Physiologist. He spent the rest of his professional career there and retired on June 30, 1955, with the rank Plant Physiologist. Dr. Haas died on Monday, November 12, 1979. He is survived by his wife, Emma, and his daughter, Marion Jeffries.

In over thirty-five years of active research, Dr. Haas made many contributions related to the physiology of tree crops. His first studies were on respiration and photosynthesis. At Riverside, his main efforts shifted to mineral nutrition studies, particularly the effects of sodium, potassium, and calcium on citrus and walnuts. In 1929, he coauthored with F. F. Halma some of the first work on the chemical identification of citrus rootstock varieties. He also was a pioneer in studies on the effects of minor element deficiencies in citrus and avocados. He had a longtime interest in the effects of pH on plant growth and on soils.

The California Avocado Society presented him their award of honor in 1949 for his research on mineral nutrition of the avocado.

His research productivity is recorded in one hundred and ninety technical and popular articles. Although Dr. Haas had considerable cooperative work with colleagues in plant pathology and soils, much of his research was done on an independent basis.

Dr. Haas was an enthusiastic horseshoe player and could be counted on for strong competition during the noon-hour tourney that went for many years at the Experiment Station.


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He was devoted to his wife and daughter, and in later years, to his grandchildren. With the exception of a relatively short period, his retirement years were active.

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Milton E. Hahn, Psychology: Los Angeles


1903-1980
Professor Emeritus

Milton Hahn earned the B.A. degree in Biological Science and Economics from Hamline University in 1927 and after a few years away from academic work earned the M.S. degree in Applied Psychology and Psychometrics at the University of Minnesota in 1938. In 1942, he was awarded the Ph.D. degree from the same university in the fields of Educational and Professional Psychology. He was one of E. G. Williamson's prize doctoral students in Counseling Psychology.

“Milt,” as he was known affectionately, completed his doctoral degree about the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor and shortly thereafter enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps with the rank of Lieutenant. He was assigned to the Classification Division of the USMC in Washington, D.C. and served in the capacity of Classification Officer until 1945, advancing to the rank of Major.

After the termination of his military service, Hahn accepted a position as Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Syracuse University where he founded the Psychological Service Center. He left Syracuse University as a full professor in 1948 to accept the position of Dean of Students and Professor of Psychology at UCLA under Provost Clarence Dykstra.

Dean Hahn brought the pattern of undivided student personnel services to UCLA from Syracuse where he also had been Dean of Students. At that time, UCLA had a typical loose conglomeration of independent services, a well-loved faculty member as part-time Dean of Men, a Dean of Women, as well as assorted other offices that helped with job placement and other services. With the coming of the Minnesota pattern, all services that existed on campus, or needed to be created for a full network of resources, were united under one head, Dean Hahn. Administrators of the various services met weekly with the Dean to exchange notes and discuss policy. Now, when a student surfaced anywhere in the net, all elements could be alerted and any relevant services could be brought to bear. This coordinated structure established at UCLA by Dean Hahn has long since been broken up, but the spirit of that enterprise lingers on with a few first generation appointees


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and several second generation men and women who received their training under those whom he had trained.

The first course in the Department of Psychology offered by Hahn was entitled “Psychological Bases of Counseling.” This was the beginning of a structured counseling program in the department involving, eventually, graduate courses, seminars, and supervised field work concentrating in the educational and vocational areas. What appealed to Hahn was working with bright and able students, offering counseling, rather than “therapy,” to the future leaders of society to help them develop their talents and to meet the crises they faced in realizing their aspirations. He relished talking about the “hierarchy of good traits,” the high levels of all positive qualities found in the able. He liked to have the bright around him, using the Miller Analogies Test to select his assistants in the Dean's Office, an instrument commonly used at that time for selecting capable graduate students.

By the time Hahn resigned the Deanship to assume full responsibilities as a professor within the Department of Psychology, the counseling program he started had realized its full potential. He continued working with his Counseling Psychology program for a while after resigning the Deanship but retired early. He was a fighter and not always an easy man to deal with. Like many of us, he was sometimes his own worst enemy. He resigned from the Deanship after a round of particularly difficult infighting. Despite these occasional problems in administrative relationships, Milt was considered to be a good friend and fine colleague by those who knew him. His many notable contributions to psychology and to UCLA will be long remembered.

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Haakon Hamre, Scandinavian: Berkeley


1914-1972
Professor

Haakon Hamre's death on December 26, 1972, was a sudden and profound loss to his family, his colleagues, his students, and to his countless friends in this country and abroad. It was, above all, a premature loss of a distinguished scholar, a dedicated teacher, and an exceptional man who was still in his prime years.

He received most of his varied, scholarly training in his native Norway and elsewhere in Europe until he was invited to join the Department of Scandinavian at this University in 1952.

In preparation for his Embedseksamen degree (the equivalent of our Ph.D.) at the University of Oslo (1944), he had also studied at the Universities of Berlin, Copenhagen, and Reykjavik. After receiving his degree he pursued linguistic studies at the University of Copenhagen, in the Faroe Islands, and in Iceland. His first teaching assignment was at the University of Bergen where he was a fellowship holder and a lecturer. A subsequent tenure as lecturer at the University of Reykjavik earned him the distinguished honor of the Knight's Cross of the Icelandic Falcon. From 1949 until his invitation to Berkeley, Haakon Hamre headed the Dialect Archives at the University of Bergen.

With such extensive training and background, he arrived a seasoned expert in the diverse fields of West Norwegian dialects, the languages and dialects of the Faroe Islands, as well as Old Norse. He was also one of the select few scholars in his field to speak modern Icelandic with native fluency. With growing erudition, he became a preeminent expert on the historical and contemporary interrelations of these languages and dialects. Among his foremost, learned contributions were Vestnorske Ordsamlinger fråa 1700-talet, published in 1961, and Erik Pontoppidan og hans Glossarium Norvagicum, published posthumously. His numerous other contributions speak for themselves and need no elaboration.

It was above all as a teacher and colleague that Haakon Hamre gave his erudition living and inspired form. His students remember him as a soft-spoken yet authoritative teacher who with a quiet sparkle in his eye would make the most exasperatingly difficult points seem simple. His style of


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teaching embodied three of the most admirable qualities in the scholar and the man: wide learning, scrupulous honesty, and a genuine love for his subject and students. Many students still remember him as the trusted mentor and friend to whom they could always come in times of stress. He wore the cloak of a father confessor with natural ease.

The facets of Haakon Hamre were indeed many. As his colleagues we remember his long stewardship, all of six years, as Chairman of a still young department. Once more it is his solidity, his sense of direction and his fairness, coupled with an abiding respect for tradition, we remember him best. He was a skilled and resourceful administrator who knew the ship had to be guided, and firmly. Yet, in his guidance there was a gentle and protective quality that spoke from the quiet and loving authority that now seems to us the substance of the man.

Those qualities seemed to run as a steady undercurrent in all of Haakon Hamre's life. He was also a devoted and gentle father, and understanding and considerate companion to his wife. And he was a superb host. The hospitality of the Hamre family remains legendary. In the best of the old Norse tradition, of which he also was the noted scholar, he lived out the spirit of hospitality in a home that was always open: to students, visiting scholars and dignitaries, and anyone in need. This hospitality, generously shared by his wife, Sigvor, probably contributed to his high and much deserved recognition as a cultural ambassador par excellence. In 1970, he was awarded the coveted Knight's Cross, 1st class, of the Royal Order of Saint Olav.

So many things remain to be said about Haakon Hamre. He was a fine scholar, a compassionate and generous man, a humanist who lived what he believed. He was also a man whose considerable learning was informed by a lively curiosity about most things, big and small, from rare books and medieval maps to good food or the flora of his adopted state. He might well have taught many a well-informed, native Californian an erudite lesson or two in the botany of our wild flowers had his equally native modesty not forbidden him.

A wistful and appropriate image comes to mind in remembering Haakon Hamre. On a late Friday afternoon after most University chores seemed done, Haakon might say: “I think Sigvor and I will take a little trip up in the country tomorrow. The lupines are in bloom.” No understatement could better express the love of learning and life that spanned his too brief years like a wide and generous arch.

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Roy Harris, Music: Los Angeles


1898-1979
Professor in Residence

Roy Harris, distinguished American composer, died at Santa Monica on October 1, 1979. He is survived by his wife, Johana, a Lecturer in the UCLA Department of Music; by two sons, Shaun and Daniel; and by three daughters, Patricia, Maureen, and Lane.

Roy, whom Irving Kolodin called one of the “founding... leaders of America's new... music,” was born in a log cabin in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, on Lincoln's birthday, February 12, 1898. In 1903, his family moved to Southern California. There, in the San Gabriel Valley, he attended school, participated in athletics, and began his musical studies, all the while helping his father farm their land. Following his discharge from World War I military service, two semesters at the Los Angeles State Normal School, and a period at the University of California, Berkeley, he began intensive training in composition, chiefly with Arthur Farwell. In 1926, Roy journeyed to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger. Two consecutive Guggenheim grants allowed him to continue his stay there.

In a landmark article published in The Musical Quarterly (1932), Farwell hailed the young Harris as a composer who one day would challenge the world. Quickly Roy established himself as one of America's foremost composers. His Symphony No. 1 (1933) was the first American symphony to be recorded. The Symphony No. 3 (1938) quickly won universal acclaim, many authorities now regarding it as the greatest American symphony ever composed.

Throughout his career, Roy maintained a deep commitment to teaching. The roster of institutions is impressive: the Westminster Choir College, Cornell University, Colorado College, and Indiana University, to name but a few. His appointment at UCLA in 1961 fulfilled a long-cherished dream of returning to California. For twelve years, he taught theory, composition, and orchestration courses, served on numerous important committees. He inspired students and faculty alike with his enthusiasm and buoyant optimism. Following his official retirement from the University in 1973, he was named Composer-in-Residence at California State University, Los Angeles. There, in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday, a Roy Harris Archive was established.


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Honors were legion. Rutgers University (1941), the Eastman School of Music (1946), the Philadelphia Academy of Music (1956), and the Westminster Choir College (1963) all conferred honorary doctorates. As a sample of other tributes, in 1940, the National Association for Composers and Conductors presented an Award of Merit “for outstanding contribution to American Music.” For “eminent services to Chamber Music,” he received the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal in 1942. Nineteen fifty-seven saw his election to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame as a Native Son, and in 1958 he became the first American composer to conduct his own work, Symphony No. 5, in Russia. In 1965, the Swedish government decorated him with the title and rank of Knight Commander in the Knightly Order of Saint Brigitte. In 1977, the California Legislature named him Composer Laureate of the State. Roy himself treasured his appointment as an Honorary Chief of the Ponca Indian Tribe.

While Roy contributed with distinction to many fields--among others, editing, writing, and performance, his music is his true monument. Over one hundred and forty compositions are listed in the Roy Harris Catalogue (pub. 1973; since then the number has swelled), almost three-quarters of them commissioned by America's leading orchestras, performing artists, and universities. With the exception of opera, practially every conceivable work type is represented: compositions for symphony orchestra and chamber orchestra, concertos, chamber music, band works, choral works, solo vocal works, piano compositions, organ works, and music for ballet, film, and theater.

Although his preeminent position in music history was already assured by his very first works, Roy's return to Los Angeles triggered one of the most fertile creative periods of his life. Between 1961 and 1969 alone, and while working at the University of California, he produced a veritable flood of major works, among the five symphonies: Canticle of the Sun; Epilogue to Profiles in Courage: JKF; Horn of Plenty; Salute to Youth; Fantasy for Organ, Brasses and Timpani; Jubilation; and Concerto for Amplified Piano, Brasses, String Bass and Percussion. Many of these works were written for his beloved wife and partner, Johana, the definitive keyboard interpreter of his music. UCLA, the site of several premieres, remains actively involved with the Harris legacy, as the recent recording of his compositions for organ and brass demonstrates.

Roy Harris wrote not for a specific time but for all time. His compositions, which span over half a century, bear an indelible stamp. Reflecting his love of America, especially the Oklahoma plains and the rugged west coast, they capture, “the essence of American life, its vitality, its greatness, its strength” (Serge Koussevitzky). Through his warm humanity, his teaching, his service, and his towering legacy, Roy brought great honor to the University and to the nation. He fulfilled magnificently Arthur Farwell's


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vision of 1932: “I predict for him no mere vogue, but a wide, dynamic and enduring influence upon the art of music.”

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Robert Fleming Heizer, Anthropology: Berkeley


1915-1979
Professor Emeritus

Robert Fleming Heizer was born in Denver on July 13, 1915, and died in Berkeley on July 16, 1979. During all but six of his adult years he was associated with the University at Berkeley: 1934-41, as an undergraduate and graduate student; 1947-77 as instructor, assistant, associate, and full professor; and 1977-79, as professor, emeritus. After taking early retirement in 1977 for personal reasons, he continued to teach one course a year, the last time in the spring quarter of the year he died.

Few Berkeley alumni, and few of its professors, have had such distinguished careers, or have contributed so much to the University. Bob's scientific production was prodigious: author, co-author, or editor of 24 books and nearly 400 scientific articles on a broad range of subjects such as aboriginal whaling in the Pacific (his dissertation), the Hopi snake dance, the ethnography and history of the California Indians, and the sad lot of minority populations in California under Spanish, Mexican, and American domination. He was, of course, known above all for his archaeological research and writing on Western North American and Mesoamerican topics.

Bob's broad range of interests is explained primarily by an insatiable curiosity, and secondarily by the kind of training he received at Berkeley under Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, and Edward Gifford. Prior to World War II anthropology was a unitary discipline, and all doctoral candidates were expected to be acquainted with its major branches: cultural anthropology and ethnography, archaeology and prehistory, physical anthropology, and linguistics. The combination of basic intellect, curiosity, and broad training produced one of American's last “general” anthropologists who could talk and write knowledgeably in areas of the discipline far transcending his primary passion, archaeology.

In this latter field Bob excavated or otherwise engaged in archaeological research in California, Nevada, Alaska, Mexico, Guatemala, and Egypt. His work was always marked by great attention to detail, the recognition that archaeological facts are but parts of wider cultural systems into which they must be fitted, the early use of new methods and techniques not primarily archaeological (e.g., X-ray fluorescence and neutron activation analysis),


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and collaborative research with colleagues in other fields, especially Sherburne Cook (population and nutritional studies), Howell Williams (ancient heavy transport and the source of massive archaeological stones) and Fred Stross (chemical analysis of archeological remains). Among the scientific contributions for which Bob will be best remembered are his findings at Lovelock Cave in Nevada, his excavations in the Sacramento delta, his discoveries at the Olmec site of La Venta in Tabasco, Mexico, and his research leading to the discovery of the quarries from which the stone for the Colossi of Memnon in Egypt had come. But no brief list can begin to do justice to the remarkable range of topics to which Bob made major scientific contributions.

Bob's scientific achievements were recognized in many ways: Guggenheim fellowships (twice), fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, many grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society (which underwrote his research in Mexico, Guatemala, and Egypt), an honorary Sc.D. from the University of Nevada, and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.

Bob's ability and success as a teacher can be gauged by the large enrollments in his undergraduate courses, and by the number of professional archaeologists trained by him who are now teaching or engaged in research at universities and other institutions throughout the country.

To some extent, Bob was a lone, work-addicted man whose prodigious production required rigid self-discipline. Yet he could be extremely witty and good company. His many friends remember him for his wry and often sardonic humor, for his willingness to share his knowledge and ideas with them, for the magnitude and depth of his scholarship, and for the stimulus that he gave to anthropology in general.

He is survived by two sons, Michael and Stephen, a daughter, Sydney, and one grandson.

J. Desmond Clark George M. Foster David G. Mandelbaum


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Joram Heller, Ophthalmology: Los Angeles


1934-1980
Professor

Friends and colleagues were shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden death of Joram Heller, M.D., Ph.D., on January 9, 1980, as a result of a brain tumor. Greatly admired by all who knew him, Joram had a distinguished career as a research scientist devoted to the biochemistry of vision.

Joram was born in Israel and received most of his education in that country. After graduation from the gymnasium, he attended the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, from which he received the M.D. degree in 1959. Subsequently, he completed a medical internship at the Tel-Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv and commenced the course of study that would lead to his career as a vision research scientist.

From 1960 to 1963, Joram studied chemistry and biochemistry at the Haifa Institute of Technology and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, graduating with an M.Sc. degree from the latter. Thereafter, his special interest in protein chemistry brought him to the United States to study under Professor Emil Smith in the Department of Biological Chemistry at UCLA. He received the Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1965. This was followed by a year of postdoctoral fellowship study with Professor D. R. Helinski in the Department of Biology at the University of California, San Diego.

In July of 1966, Joram joined the Ophthalmology faculty at the UCLA School of Medicine. At this time, construction of the Jules Stein Eye Institute was nearing completion, and Joram was a member of the various committees concerned with the utilization of space, faculty recruitment, and planning of the excellent symposium marking the opening of the Institute. From 1966 until his death, he remained an active member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute and of the Department of Ophthalmology. Among other distinctions, Joram received the John and Mary Markle Scholar Award in 1969 and appointment as Professor of Ophthalmology in 1974.

Joram's scientific contributions to the field of vision were enormous. Initially, he devoted his attention to isolating and purifying rhodopsin, the photosensitive protein of rod photoreceptor cells. By applying modern techniques of protein chemistry to this problem, he quickly achieved these objectives, and made some fundamental observations concerning the physical


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and chemical properties of rhodopsin. He was the first to show that the Stokes radius of the native visual pigment changes upon exposure to light. Joram also was the first to realize that rhodopsin is a glycoprotein. This significant work, carried out between 1966 and 1970, provided an important basis for our current understanding of the chemistry of the visual pigment rhodopsin.

In 1974, Joram commenced investigations related to the delivery of vitamin A to the retina--a topic about which little was known. In a series of collaborative investigations with colleagues at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, he studied the properties of retinol-binding protein, and thereafter elegantly showed that this protein binds to a specific receptor on the retinal pigment epithelium prior to delivering vitamin A to this tissue, and thereafter to the neural retina. At the time of his death, Joram's research efforts were directed toward understanding the mode of transport and storage of vitamin A within the liver and pigment epithelium.

Joram Heller had a voracious appetite for work, but when he set aside his work to pursue other interests, he ventured intrepidly into realms at which his colleagues marvelled. For example, at one time he was intensely interested in solar energy and its applications. Joram was an avid outdoorsman; his wanderings took him on such diverse adventures as hiking alone in the Swiss Alps and following the whales on a square-rigged schooner in the Atlantic. Always searching for new experiences, at the time of his death, he had just begun a year's leave of absence from UCLA in order to practice general medicine in Petaluma, California. He made many friends in the short time he spent in Petaluma, and they were saddened by his untimely passing.

Joram Heller is survived by his wife, Inge, his mother, Mrs. Margarete Heller, and his brother, Dr. Eri Heller. He will not be forgotten by those who knew him, either as a colleague in science or as a friend.

D. Bok M. O. Hall J. Horwitz B.R. Straatsma


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Jorgen Holmboe, Meteorology: Los Angeles


1902-1979
Professor Emeritus

Warm, energetic, and enthusiastic as a person, rigorous and demanding as a researcher and instructor, these are the characteristics that Jorgen Holmboe has etched into the memories of all who had contact with him. Particularly the cordial hospitality which he and his wife, Kirsten, showed his colleagues, students, friends, and visitors to the department when entertaining in their home will not be forgotten by the many beneficiaries thereof.

Jorgen Holmboe was born November 8, 1902, near Hammerfest, Norway, on an island at about 71°N latitude, a short distance from the northernmost point in Norway. He received his early education from his father, who was a minister, attended secondary school in Tromsö, and took his university entrance examinations in Bodö, all north of the Arctic Circle. He entered the University of Oslo in 1922. In 1925, he was appointed research assistant to Professor Vilhem Bjerknes, who had moved from Bergen where as founding director of the Geophysical Institute he had led development of the Bergen School of Meteorology. Under V. Bjerknes, Holmboe received thorough training in hydrodynamics and theoretical meteorology, as well as an introduction to the polar front theory of cyclones, which was the revolutionary innovation of the Bergen School. In 1930, he passed his Candidate Real examinations and took a position as meteorologist in the Norwegian Weather Service in Tromsö. In 1932, he was transferred to Bergen, and, from 1933 to 1935, he served as meteorologist with the Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition.

In 1936, he was invited by C. G. Rossby to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as assistant professor. In 1940, he was asked by J. Bjerknes, son of Vilhelm, to join him in establishing a meteorology program at UCLA. The program was initially part of the physics department; it became a separate department in 1946. Holmboe was chairman for the first year after the Department of Meteorology was established and served as chairman again for the period from 1949 through 1958.

At UCLA, his lectures in dynamic meteorology were models of clear and concise exposition, bringing sharply into focus the basic concepts. His


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emphasis on delineating unsolved problems inspired a number of students, including many present leaders of the field such as Jule Charney, to tackle and solve them. The excellence of his lectures is reflected in the textbook Dynamic Meteorology , which he published with two of his students as coauthors.

In his research he was concerned principally with wave motion in the atmosphere on various scales, from very short waves, the instability of which plays a role in turbulence, to planetary-scale waves in the westerlies. He was among the first to suggest that the instability inherent in some stratified fluid shear layers is a cause of clear air turbulence. His 1944 paper, done jointly with J. Bjerknes, “On the Theory of Cyclones” was a landmark contribution to the understanding of the motion of westerly waves and their intensification into cyclonic storms.

In the 1950s, he headed an observational and theoretical study of the stationary waves that form under certain circumstances in the air flowing over the Sierra Nevada. The final report of the Sierra Wave Project, issued in 1957, has been of such lasting significance that it was reprinted in 1979, ten years after his retirement. Among the major publications of his later years was his contribution to the volume published in 1962 on the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of his mentor, Vilhelm Bjerknes, an article “On the Behavior of Symmetric Waves in Stratified Shear Layers.” This article, in three chapters, brought together many of the elegant theoretical results that Holmboe had refined through years of careful analysis. In recognition of his work he was elected fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union and foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. In 1944, Holmboe became a naturalized citizen and remained for the rest of his life an avid reader of primary sources of U.S. history.

Jorgen Holmboe was an avid out-of-door person, hiking, skiing, and gardening throughout his life. One daring ski run down the mountains outside Bergen shortly after his return from Antarctica had both disastrous results--broken bones and hospitalization--and happy consequences, since it introduced him to his nurse, Kirsten Bendixen, whom he subsequently married. Colleagues and students remember well hiking with him in the early years in the canyons of the Santa Monica mountains. It was all they could do to keep up with his long rapid strides; while he eloquently propounded on his current ideas on science, politics, or the arts, they were too breathless to agree or dissent. His gardening skills were shown by the beauty of the flowers, shrubs, and fruit trees surrounding their home, and particularly his outstanding collection of cymbidiums, orchids of spectacular beauty and variety.

Mention must again be made of the generous hospitability with which he and Kirsten entertained the department faculty, non-academic staff,


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students, and visitors at parties and dinners through the years. Their home was the unofficial social center of the department, not only while he was chairman, but during much of his active career. Illness interfered with his generous impulses in later years. After his retirement in 1970, he reduced his professional and social contacts greatly, and devoted most of his time to home and garden.

A few months before his death he participated in a symposium on “The Impact of the Bergen School on the Development of Meteorology in the United States.” His sagacious lecture, together with an interview in which he presented some personal recollections, have been preserved in a videotape that will bring to future generations of students and practitioners of meteorology an insightful perspective of the evolution of the subject, as well as a view of his dynamic personality.

Jorgen Holmboe died on October 29, 1979. He is survived by his widow, Kirsten, their daughter Anna, and three grandchildren.

Morris Neiburger James G. Edinger Norton G. Wurtele


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Sidney Samuels Hoos, Agricultural Economics; Economics; Business Administration: Berkeley and Systemwide


1911-1979
Professor Emeritus

A native of Buffalo, New York, Sidney Hoos spent his boyhood and adolescence in Old Town, Maine, where addiction to hard work is said to have been endemic and highly contagious. Love of music led to some early plans, subsequently abandoned, for a career of teaching and playing the violin, an instrument for which he retained a deep affection to the end of his life. Two years at the University of Maine stimulated his academic interests. He completed his college education at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1934 with a major in mathematics. In his first graduate year at Ann Arbor, he enrolled in a course offered by Holbrook Working, a visitor from Stanford's Food Research Institute. This, as Hoos was wont to remark, changed the course of his life. With his major interest shifting permanently to economics, he transferred to Stanford (after obtaining a master's degree at Michigan) to study with Working, who guided his doctoral dissertation. Upon completion of the doctorate in economics (1939), he accepted an appointment in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Berkeley.

The ominous events in Europe and some uncertainties in the department induced Hoos to go to Washington in 1941, first to the Commodity Credit Corporation and, after Pearl Harbor, to the Office of the Quartermaster General in the War Department, where he remained for the duration of the war as Chief Economist and Deputy Chief of the Requirements Branch. There he played a leading role in the development of an efficient supply-requirements system for which he received a special commendation in 1945. An enduring achievement of Hoos' Washington years, accomplished in defiance of the old cautionary adage, was his marriage to Ida Simone Russakoff in 1942, after a courtship said to have encompassed all of two meetings.

At the end of the war, Hoos returned to Berkeley to resume his work in the Department of Agricultural Economics, accelerating a prodigiously productive career of research, teaching, and University service. His research,


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dealing largely with controlled agricultural marketing, included detailed quantitative studies of the major California specialty crops, extending the price analysis work initiated by Harry R. Wellman in the 1930s; analysis and appraisal of the instrumentalities of controlled marketing, such as marketing agreements and state and federal marketing orders in this country and marketing boards abroad; and studies of cooperative bargaining processes and organizations. These endeavors, recorded in 450 papers and reports and in two books, established Hoos as one of the leading scholars in the field. Characteristic of Hoos' approach to research in this area was his systematic and notably successful effort to maintain working contacts with the numerous private, semipublic, and public agencies that crowd the agricultural marketing landscape. This he deemed essential to a realistic understanding of marketing problems and helpful in encouraging the application and implementation of his research findings. The relatively high level of economic literacy characterizing some major segments of California agriculture is in no small part due to his efforts. This aspect of his work was a contribution of great significance to the University tradition of public service.

For many years Hoos was the dominant influence in setting the academic ambience of the department. A dedicated teacher, he was deeply involved in framing and tending to a doctoral program that emphasized the analytical quantitative approach to problems and high standards of technical competence. A departmental program in economic theory was his creation; the graduate microeconomic theory course he taught for many years became the instructional showpiece of the department and exerted some influence on similar offerings in the Departments of Economics and Business Administration, departments where he also held professorial appointments and where he occasionally taught. Much of his teaching effort went to his patient and exacting nurturing of doctoral dissertations--experiences not easily forgotten by his many students or, for that matter, colleagues who served on the thesis committees he chaired.

Hoos was remarkably active in University governance. He served with distinction numerous faculty, Senate, Chancellor's and President's committees including the Budget Committee which he chaired for two successive terms. From 1964 to 1967, he served as University Dean of Academic Personnel (Statewide), effectively discharging the duties of this office without perceptibly affecting the pace or quality of his research and teaching. Nor did he neglect community affairs. He served on and chaired the budget and allocations committee of the local Community Chest and was President of Temple Beth El for a series of terms.

In 1969, Hoos suffered a serious stroke. With characteristic energy and determination, he set about to achieve complete recovery; but some residual effects remained. The frenetic pace of research he had maintained for many


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years had to be reduced to more normal levels and a few other activities curtailed. The years following the stroke were a difficult period for him; but outwardly, at least, he remained his usual genial, considerate self, actively pursuing ongoing research projects he deemed important, participating in several international conferences, teaching and guiding research of graduate students. More honors came his way, among them election as a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and the award of the prestigious Berkeley Citation. His last publication (1979) was a book on agricultural marketing boards, which he conceived, structured, and brought through a long period of gestation as editor and contributor. He died suddenly in September, 1979, barely a year after his retirement, while busily planning a revised edition of this book. He is survived by his wife Ida, a noted sociologist with the Space Sciences Laboratory at Berkeley; two daughters, Phyllis De Leon and Judith Fox; and two grandchildren, Manya and Deborah De Leon. His presence will be sorely missed by the many who knew him, both in this country and abroad.

G.M. Kuznets E.T. Grether L.L. Sammet H.R. Wellman


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Claude Burton Hutchison, Agriculture: Systemwide, Davis, and Berkeley


1885-1980
Dean of the College of Agriculture, Emeritus
Vice President of the University, Emeritus

Claude Burton Hutchison, more than any other individual, was responsible for the hiqh quality of agricultural sciences prevailing at the University of California today. He led the way.

For twenty-two years, from 1930 until his retirement in 1952, he served as Dean of the then Universitywide College of Agriculture, reporting directly to the President of the University who, at that time, was Robert Gordon Sproul. In 1945, Hutchison was given the additional title, Vice President of the University.

Dean Hutchison administered with great skill, foresight, and devotion a large, complex enterprise involving resident instruction on three campuses of the University, research on four campuses and nine field stations, and an Agricultural Extension Service with offices in nearly all fifty-seven counties of the State.

Hutchison believed firmly that the application of science was essential for the solution of agricultural problems. He, therefore, wanted a faculty that was highly trained in the sciences pertinent to its work, and he took the necessary steps to obtain such a faculty.

He established the policy that all new faculty appointees, even those at the instructorship level, had to have a background in thoroughgoing graduate study. At the time he became dean, relatively few faculty members in the College of Agriculture had a Ph.D. degree; by the time he retired, a large majority did.

Hutchison submitted his recommendations for appointments, salary increases, and promotions to the critical review of committees of the Academic Senate, much to the displeasure of some of the old-timers. He insisted that faculty members in the College of Agriculture meet the same high standards in teaching and research that faculty members in other colleges of the University had to meet.

In addition to his belief in the efficacy of science in the solution of agricultural problems, Hutchison also felt strongly that a college of agriculture should be an integral part of the University, not a separate entity or one


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merely attached to a university, as was the common situation in this country fifty years ago. One time he said to President Sproul, “You can have a great university without a college of agriculture,... but you cannot have a great college of agriculture without a great university.” He was highly successful in weaving the College of Agriculture into the fabric of the great University.

Hutchison actively encouraged faculty association with the agricultural industries of the State. He had the confidence of the leaders of those industries, and they gave strong budgetary support not only for the teaching, research, and extension activities of the College of Agriculture but also for the entire University.

The principles which guided Hutchison in the development of the Universitywide College of Agriculture, while serving as its dean, also guided him in administering the branch of the College of Agriculture at Davis during the two years (1922-1924) he served as its director. At that time, he started the Davis campus upon the path of eventually becoming a comprehensive and distinguished center of higher education. During the years he was dean of the Universitywide College of Agriculture, the Davis campus was under his jurisdiction. He established there a School of Veterinary Medicine which today is recognized as one of the top schools of veterinary medicine in this country and abroad. He nourished the physical and natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities along with the agricultural areas. On his recommendation, a College of Letters and Sciences was established at Davis in 1951. He strongly supported turning both the Davis and Riverside campuses into general university campuses.

Hutchison left the directorship of the branch of the college of Agriculture at Davis in 1924 to go with the International Education Board as associate director and later as director for agricultural education in Europe. After four years in that work, he returned to the University of California as the first director of the newly established Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. He launched that unit upon an expanded program in research and extension in marketing, finance, and management problems of California farmers.

During his years as dean of the College of Agriculture, Hutchison was the University's chief representative at the National Association of Land-Grant Colleges, and there he played an important role. He helped convince other deans of agriculture and presidents of land-grant colleges that the scientific side of agriculture must be strengthened and that the calibre of agricultural teaching must be equal to that in other university subjects. In 1944, he served as president of the association.

At the request of President Harry S. Truman, Hutchison led the U.S. Agricultural Mission to China in 1946. He visited many areas and, in tramping over the land, it was said that he wore out not only his own


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colleagues but also his Chinese hosts. He served for twenty-four years as a member of the board of trustees of the China Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture.

In the course of his long career, Hutchison was decorated by the governments of Belgium, Czechoslovakia and France. He was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Missouri, the University of Sofia, and the University of California.

Born in Missouri of agricultural people, Hutchison intended to follow in his father's footsteps as a farmer and, therefore, studied agriculture at the University of Missouri during a time which he says was a sterile period of agricultural education. By almost happenstance, his older brother took over the farm--it was not large enough for the two of them--and he continued in college work as instructor at Missouri, took graduate work at Cornell and Harvard, and was professor of plant breeding at Cornell University when he accepted the offer from the University of California to become director of the branch of the College of Agriculture at Davis.

Following his retirement from the University of California in 1952, Hutchison served for two years as dean of the College of Agriculture of the University of Nevada. Then he served eight years--two terms--as Mayor of the City of Berkeley. He was instrumental in founding the Association of Bay Area Governments and became its first president. In 1963, he was awarded the Benjamin Ide Wheeler medal, Berkeley's highest civic award.

Hutchison is survived by his wife, Brenda--they were married in 1932-- and their son Claude Burton, Jr., and three grandchildren. Also living are three daughters by his first marriage, Mrs. Proctor O. Shelly, Mrs. Elmer T. Morgan, and Mrs. Alfred Pulver, and 10 grandchildren.

As commemorated in the Resolution adopted by The Regents on Hutchison's death, “throughout his lifetime Hutchison demonstrated a deep commitment to teaching, research, and public service; and he carried out his myriad responsibilities with unfailing good humor and contagious enthusiasm.”

H.R. Wellman Willa Baum A.M. Boyce E.T. Grether E.G. Linsley Emil Mrak


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Neil H. Jacoby, Management: Los Angeles


1909-1979
Professor Emeritus
Dean of the Graduate School of Management, Emeritus

Neil Herman Jacoby, founding dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Management, combined the careers of scholar, administrator, and corporate director. Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, on September 19, 1909, he received his B.A. degree in 1930 from the University of Saskatchewan, which in 1950 also awarded him an honorary doctorate. His Ph.D. degree in economics was conferred in 1938 by the University of Chicago, where he subsequently became Professor of Finance and vice president. He was Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Management at UCLA from 1948 until his early retirement in 1973. In 1978, he received the Alumni Association Award for University Service.

Dean Jacoby was widely recognized as an expert on matters of taxation, finance, economic policy, and business-government relationships. He served on President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers from 1953 to 1955. He was U.S. representative in the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in 1957 and headed official missions to India, Laos, and Taiwan during 1955, 1960, and 1965. A past president of the American Finance Association, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association from 1963 to 1966. He served on the National Council of the National Planning Association and, from 1965 to 1967, was a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development and a trustee of the Logistics Management Institute. He was a director of the Council on International Progress in Management from 1967 to 1969 and in 1968 was also a consultant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

In 1969, Dean Jacoby chaired the President's Task Force on Economic Growth; he served as a Public Member of the Federal Pay Board from 1971 to 1973, the year he was named a fellow of the International Academy of Management. He was a consultant to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, a member of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Postgraduate


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School of Monterey, and a trustee of the Center for International Business. In 1978, he was appointed by the governor to the California Commission on Government Reform. Dean Jacoby was also the organizer or director of several corporations and as a vigorous participant in community affairs, Dean Jacoby was a consultant on taxation and finance for the Los Angeles City Council, a trustee of the California Institute for Cancer Research at UCLA, and president and member of the Board of Directors of the International Student Center.

Neil Jacoby was the product of a golden age of economic scholarship that developed at the University of Chicago in the 1930s. This is a period in which great debates raged on economic philosophies and on public policy. Oxford and Cambridge were the leaders in England; Harvard and Chicago in the United States. Here the great intellectual battles of the 1930s were fought, and Neil was in the midst of them. His teachers were among the legendary greats of the discipline. What these men stood for tells you what Neil Jacoby became: a first-rate scholar with a deep drive for knowledge and understanding, a concern for social policy, tough in controversy but tolerant of other views, making continuing efforts to find answers to take us forward rather than enmesh us in more problems.

Neil Jacoby was a teacher in the broad sense: scholar, counselor, inspirer. He taught by concept and example, giving valuable guidance to graduate students and faculty colleagues. As a scholar, his record more than speaks for itself--seventeen books, over two hundred journal articles, and hundreds of public addresses put into formal manuscripts. His books include United States Monetary Policy (2nd ed., Praeger, 1964); United States Aid to Taiwan (Praeger, 1966); European Economics-- East and West (World, 1967); Corporate Power and Social Responsibility (Macmillan, 1973); Multinational Oil (Macmillan, 1974); The Business-Government Relationship: A Reassessment (Goodyear, 1975); and Bribery and Extortion in World Business (Macmillan, 1977). He was a long-time associate of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Santa Barbara and a frequent contributor to The Center Magazine.

Neil Jacoby believed that a free society is preferable to any other. He recognized that the economic sphere in society is destined to play an important role and that it must embrace voluntary enterprise in the liberal free-market setting. Fairness and equality of opportunity were central in this belief. As a scholar and administrator, Neil lived by these precepts. Individual freedom was an abiding concern whether in his own faculty, the student body, or in the society. He exemplified this concern in many ways but especially during the loyalty oath controversy, when he was a leader in opposing the oath and supporting his colleagues who were most endangered.

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in the use of language. He took a pioneer faculty of fifteen people and enlarged it more than sixfold. An undergraduate college of business administration with a four-year curriculum was converted in phases to the present Graduate School of Management. The national and international reputation of the UCLA Graduate School of Management and what it has achieved would not have been possible without Neil Jacoby's accomplishments.

J. Fred Weston Harold D. Koontz George W. Robbins George A. Steiner


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Gertrude Jaeger, Sociology: Berkeley


1915-1979
Professor Emerita

After a long illness, Gertrude Jaeger, Professor of Sociology, died on September 4, 1979, at the age of sixty-four. With her passing the University of California lost one of its most fertile minds, one of its truly dedicated and exciting teachers, and a faculty member whose contribution to the opening of opportunities for women in academic life is inestimable.

According to the official campus press release, she was a “noted scholar and feminist.” A noted scholar she was. And her feminism (which was always linked to a larger humanism) did not arise simply from abstract scholarly ideals, but from a lifelong struggle to realize her potential in an era in which social institutions and public attitudes discouraged the full intellectual development of women. In high school she was forced to wrap her school books under plain covers so that her mother who wanted her to be a secretary might not know she was taking mathematics. Finding the intellectual and cultural climate of her family too confining, she left home at seventeen, supporting herself through secretarial and similar work, and taking college courses at night.

Like so many women of her generation, the broad outlines of her career were shaped by constricting stereotypes and opportunities. Like many other faculty wives, her specific movements in time and space were linked to those of her husband, Philip Selznick, for more than forty years her intellectual companion and co-worker. In the late 1930s Selznick and Jaeger were active in the socialist movement, and they married in 1939. When Selznick was working on his study of the Tennessee Valley Authority, she completed her undergraduate work at the University of Tennessee, majoring in mathematics and philosophy and graduating with honors in 1943. When her husband went into the army, she attended the University of Chicago where she received her M.A. in philosophy in 1947, the same year their daughter Margaret was born.

The Chicago experience was especially important to Gertrude Jaeger. Although her main interests were ethics and pragmatism, she was also a close student of Rudolf Carnap and helped him with his book, Meaning and Necessity. She was a contributor to the Great Books project “Syntopicon,”


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which was then being prepared, and she was part of a lively intellectual circle that included Daniel Bell, Saul Bellow, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Irving Kristol.

When Selznick became a Professor at UCLA, she entered the Ph.D. program in philosophy there. Her dissertation on “Functionalism, Freud, and the Philosophy of Value,” analyzes the development of the Freudian model and compares it with John Dewey's psychology and theory of value. With the responsibilities of motherhood and faculty wifedom it was not until 1960 that she completed the degree requirements. In addition to Freud, she was a keen student of the American pragmatists, and had a special interest in philosophy of science and the logic of inquiry.

With the first class citizenship of an academic appointment closed, Gertrude Jaeger concentrated on writing and research. She made important contributions to her husband's authoritative introductory textbook in sociology (written with Leonard Broom), and in 1959 published her own text in Social Problems with Earl Raab. She also collaborated with Selznick in the influential essay, “A Normative Theory of Culture,” the scholarly contribution of which she was the most proud.

In this period, she also contributed immensely to the building of community feeling in the Department of Sociology at Berkeley. At the parties and dinners for which she and Philip Selznick were famous, Gertrude Jaeger displayed a consummate graciousness, a sparkling conversational ability and wit, the finest in gourmet cooking, and the ability to make graduate students and young faculty members feel at home.

Critical to her development as a sociologist was her appointment as a research associate at the Survey Research Center in 1959. For more than a decade, with Charles Glock as director, SRC became her intellectual home. Her acute logical powers flowered--she was, in Glock's words, “The Paul Lazarsfeld of SRC;” also the generalist, the institution's idea person, and in addition became proficient in quantitative data analysis. All of these attributes were expressed in her major research monograph on anti-semitism and racism, The Tenacity of Prejudice, (with Stephen Steinberg, 1969).

In 1966, Ms. Jaeger began teaching in the Department of Sociology as a lecturer, without stipend, because of the nepotism rule. She pioneered in the revision of that rule, and also in the opening of that other provision so important to women academicians, the half-time appointment. When a regular appointment became possible in 1972, she was immediately made a full Professor, passing over the lower ranks. And sociology had its first tenured woman faculty member since the retirement of Margaret Hodgen more than a generation earlier. In the same year, she was elected president (the first woman in that position) of the Pacific Sociological Association. Her presidential address was “The Concept of the Social Self in Mead and Freud.”


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In the department Gertrude Jaeger served as a model of an intellectually powerful woman, a brilliant scholar and a dedicated teacher. More comfortable in the give-and-take of discussion than in the lecture hall, her seminar on Freud, a legend in its own time for intellectual excitement, was a perfect vehicle for her acute, penetrating mind and a “must” experience for any graduate student seriously interested in social theory. If, when her students arrived for the seminar, she would be playing Beethoven on the piano, she would begin that class comparing the composer with Freud. Neither such creativity nor the energy and intensity of her intellect could be confined. She honored the halls, the office, wherever she went, with her disputations, the “what-follows-from-what,” unthreading the weave in some student's assertion. Her sentences and her laughter echoed through Barrows Hall: “How can you say that Mead didn't write about culture?”

Professor Jaeger worked closely with some of the department's best students, upon whom she made lasting intellectual and personal impacts. She had a special interest in women and insisted that they continue to work and grow intellectually, even during personally difficult times, both for themselves and, as she would say, “for other women.” And while with the most gifted she could be extremely supportive, her strict standards did not make for easy relations with some women students, for whom perhaps she expected even higher than usual levels of excellence. In her memory, the department has established an annual Gertrude Jaeger prize for the best theoretical paper by a woman graduate student.

Her students were especially prominent among those who came to visit and say goodbye during her long and courageous struggle with cancer. With these friends she talked freely and honestly about her illness, setting an example in death as well as in life. Also memorable in her last year were two formal ceremonies which brought her together with her friends, admirers, fellow scholars, and feminist comrades. First, at a “retirement dinner,” sponsored by the Society for Women in Sociology, and second, at a Department of Sociology evening, people paid tribute to her accomplishments and to her character: the honesty, sense of conviction, personal dignity, and above all, her passion for ideas, or as Philip Selznick put it, “her unflagging devotion to examined life.” In his moving statement Selznick also thanked his “best friend and closest colleague” who “has furnished my mind and nourished my spirit.”

To those whom she touched most profoundly, Gertrude Jaeger gave a philosophy of life and the object lesson that in order to be at once a human being and an intellectual, a woman and an academic, one has to fight and struggle, to seek always to grow.

Bob Blauner Arlie Hochschild Leo Lowenthal


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Thomas Paul Jenkin, Political Science: Los Angeles and Riverside


1915-1980
Professor Emeritus

Thomas P. Jenkin served the University of California with devotion for the whole of his professional life as teacher, scholar, and administrator. In each of these endeavors, Jenkin was conspicuously successful, and yet it is the wise and witty and kindly colleague that we remember best and miss the most.

Tom Jenkin was born in Elcho, Wisconsin, on June 3, 1915. To those who knew him Tom seemed a proper son of the upper midwest in his sturdy physique, his straightforward manner, and his direct speech. Tom's father, who died when Tom was a young boy, was a Methodist minister and much of the tradition of “nonconforming” Anglo-American Protestant Christianity also seemed to cling to Tom, best expressed, perhaps, in his lifelong commitment to political democracy and to social justice. What is more important than any specific traits, however, is the fact that Tom Jenkin was an integral man. Though without even a trace of complacency or self-righteousness, he knew who he was and what he was and from what matrix such a character had grown up. Little wonder, then, that to the modern young Californians who studied political theory with him, Tom Jenkin stood like a mountain of strength.

Tom graduated from Bear Creek High School in 1932 and started his academic life in 1933 at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin. His widowed mother, Bessie Due Jenkin, who had moved to Appleton, worked in the kitchens and dining rooms of the campus and Tom himself worked at many part-time jobs so that he could attend college.

Lawrence was a fine and fateful choice for Tom. He majored in natural science there and to satisfy his great interest in politics he went to work for the school newspaper. This introduced him to a slender, pretty, high-spirited young literary editor with a swift intelligence to match his own and a darting vivacity of temper to complement the solidity of his temper. Her name was Mary Fulton, and she and Tom fell in love to stay. Tom graduated and made Phi Beta Kappa in 1937 and moved on to graduate study in political science at Ann Arbor. He and Mary were married at Ann Arbor in 1938. Tom Jenkin was a man reserved of manner to the point of


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austerity and the more vivacious Mary came to accept his ways. Neither of them would by word or gesture make any public display of their mutual devotion but all who knew them knew also that each loved the other utterly.

Tom never lost his interest in nature despite his election of political science as a field for graduate study. He remained, for example, a keen and expert birdwatcher. Mary, whose interests were literary and artistic, came to share Tom's own deep interest. They were not simple afternoon strollers hoping to catch a glimpse of some rara avis but serious amateur ornithologists and active promoters of measures to rescue bird habitat in America. Tom and Mary loved to travel and frequently they selected faraway places for the varieties of ornithological experiences to be had there. Just as Mary came to share Tom's interest in ornithology, he learned to share her artistic interests and through them came to another fascinating activity, one which might seem surprising to those who knew Tom only casually. He had a genuinely notable collection of netsukes, the delicate products of a Japanese miniature art, functional ornaments reflecting the Japanese fusion of art and everyday life. Mary loved art and was herself a talented painter. Tom, through his interest in the natural world became a highly skilled amateur photographer. Bird walks with Tom and Mary, then, were also sketching and photographing walks as well.

The years Tom was at Ann Arbor were exciting ones for a student of politics. At home the New Deal tide rolled to its flood and began to ebb in 1938 though FDR himself remained insouciantly victorious to the end. Abroad, Hitler moved by stages through his series of bloodless conquests to the attack on Poland which precipitated World War II, and in Asia, Japan, bogged down in its conquest of China, lashed in fury at Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile, Tom was studying political philosophy, international relations, British politics, and United States government and politics. Roosevelt had been elected in the year Tom graduated from high school. Tom admired Roosevelt and was fascinated by the New Deal and the changes it had wrought in American life and political thought. He decided to write his doctoral dissertation on that very subject. The result was his superb study, Reactions of Major Groups to Positive Government in the United States, 1930-1940. For that study, Jenkin received the Ph.D. from Michigan in 1942. Subsequently the University Press published it under the same title in 1945. It was the foundation of Jenkin's scholarly career and his most important work. In it he gave expression to his most enduring precepts: (1) that political theory is not alone a thing of the mind, the library, and the philosopher's study but is also directly involved with events or experience; and (2) that the most important sources of American political thought and expression were to be found not in the treatises of systematic philosophers but in the meanings of statutes, in the opinions of appellate judges, in the controversial literatures of the day, and in the claims, demands, and rationales of the many groups contending inside the public arena.


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Major Groups also rescued the Roosevelt New Deal from allegations, at the time comprising a sort of conventional wisdom, that it was incoherent in its ideas and without any bedrock of connected principles of political philosophy. Closely examining his favorite kinds of sources, including the speeches of Roosevelt himself, Jenkin showed that the New Deal had substantially modified traditional American thinking about the meaning and content of liberty and equality, the sources of political authority, the proper scope of governmental action, and the identity of the legitimate participants in the governmental process. All who have studied American political thought in general and the New Deal era in particular are forever in Jenkin's debt.

Tom joined the faculty in Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1942 and served a year as Instructor before going on military leave. He entered the U.S. Army as a private soldier in 1943 and rose to the rank of 1st Lieutenant in the Medical Administrative Corps after service abroad in the Caribbean. He returned to UCLA as Assistant Professor in 1946.

The years at UCLA, from 1946 to 1963, were happy and productive ones for Tom and Mary Jenkin. Tom was a marvelous teacher, admired by graduate and undergraduate students alike. He was a clear, precise, and stimulating lecturer to crowded undergraduate courses in American Political Thought, History of Political Philosophy, and Jurisprudence. His seminars in Political Theory attracted the best of the graduate students and generated a fine intellectual excitement. The 1950's were a time of change in political science. Especially in political theory there was great anticipation of a possible “general theory” of politics and, of course, intense conflict between the devotees of a “new political science” and those who were convinced that the really important things about politics had nothing to do with a search for a systematic empirical general theory. Jenkin was open to the new ideas, but he also made it clear that while a general theory was not yet in sight, there was plenty of exciting work at a lower level of generality for the student of political theory. This, in fact, was the message he had to give in his extended essay, “The Study of Political Theory” , published by Doubleday in 1955.

Tom was named Distinguished Teacher at UCLA in 1958. It is difficult to identify the attributes of any great teacher. Tom had obvious skills as a lecturer and seminar leader. But there was something beyond those formidable skills. In a way, he taught by example. He showed his students the serious, searching political theorist at work. He conveyed to them the whole idea of the importance and dignity of the enterprise itself and of the real demands it makes on those who would embrace it. His teaching style was integral with the man. He was never effusive or ebullient. Neither was he grave or solemn. His quick smile could light up a tense seminar.


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His students gratefully received that vast courteousness he unfailingly gave to them for by it he also gave them the realization that they had been admitted to the company of scholars. No one ever deserved more the title, Distinguished Teacher, than did Thomas P. Jenkin.

In 1951, Jenkin was made Associate Professor and Professor in 1956. From 1952 until 1956, he served as chairman of the Department of Political Science. He enjoyed being chairman and he was an excellent one. It was during this period that Tom began to realize that he was not going to publish anymore. Writing, the business of turning ideas into words, sentences, pages, had always been hard for him. His prose actually was not so clotted and gnarled as he feared that it was. As befit the son of a Methodist minister, Tom wrote in the plain style, a good readable prose. But he thought his style was “difficult” and he was not to publish again after The Study of Political Theory, a fact which probably bothered Tom Jenkin less that it did those who admired his scholarship.

In 1958, Clark Kerr became President of the University. Tom had worked with Kerr during the loyalty oath struggles of the early `fifties' and admired him. So it was that he began to think of administration. After his successful chairmanship of the Political Science Department, Tom served as Associate Dean of the Social Sciences at UCLA. His record as Associate Dean marked him as one of the University's most promising administrators. Then in 1963 he and Mary said goodbye to UCLA, to their handsome, agreeable house in Brentwood, and to the legion of good friends who cherished them as Tom accepted the post of Dean of the still new College of Letters and Sciences at the Riverside campus. This was a time of growth, of possibilities, of optimism in the air. Tom threw himself with pleasure into his new duties. He would not lose that enthusiasm for administration all through the agonizing decade after 1963. He became Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs in 1966 and The Vice Chancellor in 1968, always spurred by his awareness that the University he loved was in danger, beset at once by its own students who, astonishingly, imagined the University to be oppressing them and a state political leadership raucously demanding that the University “do something” about its students.

Tom faced these trials with courage and wit and lightly barbed irony. The faculty at Riverside, which like faculties everywhere goes in for pretty short honeymoons with top administrators, never withdrew its trust in and, yes, affection for Jenkin. In 1971, Tom lost one of those brief, deadly struggles which take place almost unseen in the unlit corridors of power and he was out as The Vice Chancellor. When a few friends in the faculty decided to have a dinner to honor Tom for his service they found the demand to attend was so great that a hall had to be hired, an orchestra booked, and a caterer brought in. Then from every department and rank there was an outpouring of the faculty to pay respect and say farewell to Tom and Mary. It seemed, and was, unprecedented.


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Tom was certainly a loyal administrator. He recognized himself to be a member of an administration team and not simply a member of the faculty. He understood administrative necessity and accepted it without doubt or regret. Yet there clung to him the aura of the scholar, the sense that he was, after all, a faculty man. It was not simply the habit of irony or the recondite memos or the hint of diffidence that he gave off. Tom actually enjoyed exercising power, and he was not reluctant to admit that he wanted more of it. But, scholar that he was, he had an incurable curiosity. He also liked to look at things from a certain distance. He rejected dogmas and he liked to leave ends indeterminate while insisting that every side be heard fully before even tentative decisions were made. Faculty men and women look upon those traits as virtues. Besides, Tom Jenkin had about him an unassailable integrity. Beyond that, and this is very important in trying to understand the appeal of Thomas P. Jenkin as Vice Chancellor, the faculty simply liked him as a human being.

Warmly welcomed, Tom returned to full-time teaching in the Political Science Department at Riverside. The department made heavy levies on his wisdom and experience. He became perennial chair of the Graduate Program. He took over and put his stamp on the dreaded required seminar in theory and method of political science. He worked up a highly thought of new course in American Legal Theory. He and Mary had time again for the travel they so loved and time to renew prized old friendships with colleagues at UCLA. The travels to such places as Yucatan and Thailand brought a bonus to Tom's friends. The man who found scholarly writing so irksome had a fluid, graceful, and witty epistolary style and those he favored with letters during his trips still cherish them. Tom and Mary also moved back to Brentwood to be closer to dear old friends from the UCLA days. He retired from active teaching in 1978. Tom and Mary looked forward to a long period together of travel and bird-watching, of painting and photography and the many studies their active minds always sought. They did have time for one splendid trip to Africa under the auspices of the Audubon Society. Then, in the early hours of a morning in January of 1980, Tom had a coronary seizure and died swiftly. He was a learned man and a good man and an attractive man. All those whose lives he touched will not forget him.

F. M. Carney O. A. Johnson R. B. March R. Ruibal J.L. Stanley


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Abbott Kaplan, Management: Los Angeles


1912-1980
Visiting Professor of Arts Management

It may be that the Renaissance Man has become an unattainable ideal. Yet Abbott Kaplan's extraordinary range of accomplishments and interests clearly exemplified that more contemporary ideal, the liberally educated person.

Born in New York City on January 12, 1912, Abbott received his B.S. and M.A. degrees in history, and his Ph.D. in adult education, from Columbia University, as well as B.J.A. from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He then began his first career, that of high school teacher and principal, and next was director of adult education, for the Springfield, Massachusetts, public school system.

In World War II, he served as lieutenant commander in the navy, and then was director for France of the American Joint Distribution Committee in 1945 and 1946.

Then came a succession of careers as a university administrator and professor. He joined UCLA's Institute of Industrial Relations in 1946 as a lecturer in labor economics and head of the Institute's extension service; then he served as assistant director and associate director until 1957. This led naturally to his second career field, that of continuing education. He worked with University Extension until 1966 as associate director, director, and Statewide associate dean, while serving as professor of adult education in the School of Education.

During Abbott's tenure, Extension grew dramatically, especially in the cultural and non-credit liberal arts field. His most notable personal accomplishment during this period was the founding, with Dean William Melnitz, of UCLA's professional theater group, which later became the resident company at the Music Center's Mark Taper Forum.

Abbott's increasing involvement in the performing arts resulted in his next move--to the College of Fine Arts as associate dean and professor of theater arts. This led to the proposal from the State University of New York that he become president of the new Westchester campus at Purchase. Abbott was reluctant to leave, for he found his life in Los Angeles immensely


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stimulating and satisfying, but he could not decline the opportunity to put many of his ideas and ideals into practice by creating the first university campus in the United States devoted solely to the teaching and practice of the arts. So he became the founding president at Purchase from 1967 until he reached the mandatory retirement age of 65. Then, inevitably, he came back to Los Angeles and to UCLA, where he joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Management as visiting professor in the Management in the Arts Program in 1977. There his courses in labor relations and the administration of arts organizations brought together two of the major strands in his various careers. Concurrent with this assignment he accepted the position of dean of the California School of Professional Psychology. This was the culmination of his intensive work in yet another field; while he was the president at Purchase he studied for a certificate from the Behavioral Therapy Institute, White Plains, New York, and then completed a two-year training program at the Post Graduate Center for Mental Health, New York.

Abbott's accomplishments in higher education were matched by his distinguished contributions to public service. In the field of labor relations he established a major reputation as an arbitrator and was a member of the American Arbitration Association. As an adult educator he was elected President of the Adult Education Association of the United States, and served as the U.S. representative at the 1953 UNESCO International Conference on Adult Education. In the arts he was the first chairman of the California Arts Commission (predecessor of the California Arts Council), a board member of the Performing Arts Council of the Los Angeles Music Center, and a panel member of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's study of the performing arts in America.

Nor did the administrative and community demands on his energies prevent his dedicated commitment to teaching and scholarship. He was a superb teacher, whose students testify to the pivotal importance in their lives of his seminars. And he was an extraordinarily eloquent public lecturer, intent on conveying his concern with social justice and the importance of preserving human values in face of pressures of technological change.

His publications reflect the several facets of his career interests--scholarly articles on labor relations; a major research study of liberal arts discussion groups in California; the editing of the proceedings of the 1963 Conference on the Cultural Arts in California. Yet his intellectual curiosity extended far beyond these topics into philosophy, politics, the sciences, and, in his later years, various fields of psychology.

Abbott died of cancer on July 13, 1980. He is survived by his wife of forty-three years, Beatrice Dresher, and by vivid and deeply affectionate


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Edward Chester Keachie, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research: Berkeley and Los Angeles


1907-1980
Professor of Industrial Engineering, Emeritus

Edward Chester Keachie's death brought great sadness among his many friends on the Berkeley campus and in the San Francisco Bay Area. Though he retired several years ago, he maintained strong contacts with present and past faculty in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Many, many past students remember him with warm affections; they had kept in touch whenever possible. This loss leaves us all deprived of a warm human spirit and a wise mentor.

Though Chet was born in Chicago, he spent his childhood and early youth in Massachusetts, and it was presumably there that he acquired his distinctively New England brands of individualism and outspokenness. He graduated from Bridgewater High School in 1924 and went on to study electrical engineering at Northeastern University, Boston. Moving to California in his early twenties, he continued his studies at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and received his B.S.E.E. in 1932. His first publication appeared in the San Francisco Peace Officer's Journal the same year. This was a brief account of electrical engineering in police work, written as a term paper for a criminology course at the University of California, Berkeley, with advice from Berkeley police chief, August Vollmer. His wife, Grace, took the same course and shortly afterwards graduated from the University.

After graduation, Chet joined the State of California Highways Division temporarily as a civil engineer, then with the onset of the Depression became a liveried chauffeur in Beverly Hills, and later an instructor at Bridgewater State Prison. Resuming his studies, he received his M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard in 1935, and then spent a year with the California State Division of Highways as an engineer in its Sacramento Testing Laboratory.

In November 1936, Chet was appointed Controller and Assistant Professor of Economics at Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon. In September 1938, he entered the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Stanford University, and was working on his dissertation in 1941 when he was appointed financial supervisor of the California State


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War Production Training Program, again in Sacramento. In January 1943, he was commissioned in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, became a labor and public relations officer in San Francisco, and retired as a captain in September 1945. From this time on he was active in veterans' associations and later held office in the American Legion Berkeley post.

After his war service Chet entered private industry briefly as a personnel manager with Newbery Electric Corporation, Los Angeles, and then taught part time at UCLA and at the University of Oregon while he completed his doctoral studies, interrupted by World War II. His dissertation, submitted in June 1948, dealt with problems of industrial training.

In September 1948, he was appointed Associate Professor of Business Administration at Los Angeles State College (now California State University at Los Angeles), and the next year he joined the Industrial Engineering Division of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, as Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering. Shortly thereafter the Division acquired its present status as an independent department, first of Industrial Engineering and (from 1966) of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and he remained on the faculty of the new department until his retirement in 1975.

Chet's education and practical experience in manufacturing, training, finance, and administration provided an excellent background for his lifelong commitment to teaching and research in human aspects of industrial engineering. For many years his courses in this area provided one of the essential components of industrial engineering education at Berkeley, both graduate and undergraduate. While not in the forefront of the mathematically oriented discipline of operations research that emerged as the “new wave” of industrial engineering in the `sixties, he continued to assert the traditional engineering emphasis on rational and, as far as possible, quantitative analysis of any and all design issues, allied to strong doses of common sense. His realistic approach may well have been retained by successive generations of students after particular scientific models and theorems had become blurred in memory. Certainly he maintained human sympathy and warm contact with students, causing his courses to be remembered with gratitude by most of those enrolled.

His research was concerned with human performance, industrial efficiency, and particularly with the phenomenon of manufacturing cost reduction through the so-called learning-curve. He was one of the pioneers in this area, which has recently come into widespread use for study of productivity and its improvement. He also contributed papers on international industrial development, wage incentives, and related topics.

Chet received a Fulbright grant in 1955 and became guest professor for a year at the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, Germany. He was active in several professional societies, holding office in the American Society


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of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute of Industrial Engineers, among others.

Keachie also gave generously of his time and energy for community service in and around Berkeley. He was at various times a member of the board of the East Bay Activity Center (a center for treatment of disturbed children), a budget panel member of United Way, and Commander of the American Legion Berkeley post. He was also an active member of the Berkeley North Congregational Church.

His family life was long and happy. He and Grace Parsons were married in 1931 and had four children, two grandchildren. Grace has been on the staff of the Berkeley Y.M.C.A. for a number of years as administrative assistant and swim instructor.

Chet is widely remembered for his breadth of humanist interests, his sociability, and his warm human concern for all who came in contact with him.

Edward R. F. W. Crossman J. Thomas Lapsley, Jr. Alexander S. Levens Ronald W. Shephard


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George Clayton Kennedy, Earth and Space Sciences: Los Angeles


1919-1980
Professor of Geochemistry

George C. Kennedy battled cancer for more than a year before his death on March 18, 1980. To the end, he fought that menace with all the tenacity and optimism that were his hallmarks. If he ever lost hope, he did not reveal it to us.

George was born on a ranch near Dillon, Montana, on September 22, 1919. He claims to have been educated by itinerant teachers, but at age sixteen, he had the necessary ingredients to win a fellowship at Harvard University, where he received his B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees and was appointed to the College of Fellows. He was lured from a faculty position at Harvard, beginning his incredibly productive career at UCLA in 1953.

In his lifetime of sixty years, George achieved world-class status in several disciplines. We remember him best as one of the outstanding experimental geophysicists, but he was also known internationally for his collections and knowledge of primitive art and of orchids. In company with his lovely wife, Ruth, he traveled extensively to Mexico, Alaska, New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar, India, and South America, stalking these artifacts and orchids and amassing some of the largest private collections of each. In addition to his hundreds of publications in geophysics, George published several papers monthly on the taxonomy of orchids, and he was an associate editor of The Orchid Digest at the time of his death. His energy and enterprise are legion; his admirers and associates included Nobel laureates and other luminaries in science, government, and the arts.

As a geophysicist, George shared his knowledge and enthusiasm with numerous associates, mostly visiting scholars and post-doctoral research associates. The results of his research are widely known and provide guidance to every beginning student in the Earth sciences. At national and international meetings, he never disappointed those who crowded the meeting rooms to hear him casually and informally (usually without slides) present new data and interpretations that would significantly affect our knowledge of the origin and evolution of the Earth.

George had a special quality that enabled him to recognize significant problems and to persist doggedly, following his intuition, until the necessary


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experiments were performed. In some instances he persisted against the advice of colleagues who argued that it could not be done: as when George conceived of measuring the Grüneisen parameter, which requires detection of very small temperature changes attending pressure changes of about 1 kilobar in piston-cylinder, high-pressure apparatus. Similar boldness and insight are evident in a perusal of George's publications. He and his co-workers developed a once-popular and much-copied version of the opposed-anvils high-pressure apparatus, which he later abandoned in favor of piston-cylinder apparatus, now capable of pressures to 80 kilobars because of his many innovations. He measured the pressure-volume-temperature relations of H2O-CO2 mixtures and solutions, providing petrologists and geochemists with data necessary for thermodynamic calculations of numerous equilibrium reactions. George and his research associates determined phase relationships in the systems NaCl-H2O and SiO2-H2O, which became models for salt and silicate systems at high pressures. The establishment and subsequent experimental verification of the relationship between volume change and temperature of melting resulted in the well-known Kennedy law of melting.

With Higgins, he applied his law of melting to the problem of the temperatures in the Earth's outer core. His conclusion was that the core must have, in part, a subadiabatic temperature gradient, and hence that core-wide convection was impossible. Based on contemporary models of convection in the core, the consequence of his conclusion was that the Earth could have no magnetic field! For a number of years many attempts were made to destroy the edifice of the “Kennedy paradox”; now, at last, models of convection in the core are emerging that are consistent with the Kennedy thermal model.

Kennedy's calibration of the high-pressure scale provided standards that were used in laboratories worldwide and established targets for theoreticians concerned with the extrapolation to pressures higher than those available in Kennedy's laboratory.

To his final month, George continued to pursue experiments that required the combined genius and skills of a physicist and a surgeon but which were elegant in their conceptual simplicity. He was capable of doing delicate measurements of utmost sensitivity and precision within the confines of apparatus capable of sustaining huge pressures and high temperatures. Measurements of thermal expansion at high pressures and the synthesis of large diamonds are examples

A scientist of strong convictions, Kennedy cut a powerful figure. He was a persuasive scientific advocate, and, in the scholarly debates that characterize the advance of knowledge, he was a formidable adversary. Yet, on those relatively rare occasions when George found himself on the wrong side of an argument, he demonstrated his complete honesty and the flexibility of mind that allowed a reversal of position. He was generous


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to a fault with his friends, but he deflated many a scientific ego with his outspoken manner and forthright scientific prose.

Although George crammed several lifetimes of achievement into his sixty years, his friends, the University, science, and the arts were deprived by his early passing. He leaves behind his wife, Ruth, his children, Scott, Deborah and Jennifer, and a legion of admirers.

W. Ernst L. Knopoff A. Boettcher


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John Ernst Kesseli, Geography: Berkeley


1895-1980
Professor Emeritus

When John Kesseli died in March of 1980 at the age of eighty-four, the Berkeley campus lost one of its most dedicated educators as well as one of its strongest personalities. Kesseli's lofty stature and imperial bearing were such that outside his home in the Department of Geography he was more than once mistaken for the famed university President Robert Gordon Sproul. Looming well above the crowd, his leonine head towered like the snow-capped crags of his native Switzerland, for which his affection was everlasting. Connoisseurs of human character recognized John Kesseli as unique. In his later years a student wrote perceptively of him: “Mountains, and rivers, and blowing sand seemed to be under his creased skin. His course was rooted in climbing through woods, feeling the warmth of the slope or the scent of the chamise, and thinking about the landforms under your backside. When this gruff man with the piercing blue eyes spoke-- and he didn't waste words--you felt that knowledge came from experience.” Appropriately, much of Kesseli's teaching and research had to do with landforms and topographic maps, whose jutting angles and intersecting lines seemed engraved on his visage. He also pioneered the study of photogrammetry on the Berkeley campus. His empirical analysis of the effect of vertical exaggeration in the three-dimensional study of landforms on aerial photographs stands as one of the most thorough investigations into this subject that has ever been conducted.

Born in Paris, but a Swiss citizen, Kesseli spent his early years in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Here his love for alpine mountains, later transferred to California's Sierra Nevada, was nurtured. His initial publications concerned alpine tectonics and glacial deposits. He studied geography, geology, and cartography at Halle, Munich, and Lausanne before coming to the United States in 1930. He taught briefly at the Thatcher School in Ojai, then came to Berkeley to resume his graduate studies in geography under Carl O. Sauer. In 1932, he was appointed to the Berkeley staff with special responsibility for geomorphology. His doctorate was based on detailed mapping and field studies of glaciation in the Mono Basin along the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada. Substantial portions of this meticulous work were


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later published in the University of California Publications in Geography. Shortly thereafter Kesseli produced his widely cited paper on the concept of the graded river, articles on soil slips in the central Coast Ranges, a revision of the Koeppen climatic classification for California, and his English language summary and critique of the German studies in slope development by Walther Penck and Sieghard Morawetz.

The early 1940s were spent in giving officers war-time training in physical geography and meteorology--work in which Kesseli took special pride. Years afterward it still gave him great pleasure to recount how “his boys” invariably outscored those trained elsewhere on standardized tests. Later he was with Army Intelligence in the Pentagon, returning to the campus in 1946 despite attractive offers to remain in Washington.

In his later years, Kesseli's interests shifted increasingly toward teaching and the improvement of his courses in physical geography, geomorphology, cartography, photogrammetry, photo interpretation, and his favorites, topographic map analysis and the geography of California. Every student who braved Kesseli's office first had his or her geographical origin pinned down, never, it seemed, to be forgotten. Long afterward Kesseli would make affectionate references to past students as “that girl from San Jose”, or “that fellow from Manteca.” Responsibility for the departmental field course, the graduate French and German language exams, and the maintenance of wall maps, aerial photos, and other departmental equipment all fell on him, to the increasing detriment of his own research activities. While Carl Sauer was the acknowledged commander-in-chief in the geography department, Kesseli was recognized by all as the “top sergeant” who kept the department machinery in proper operating condition. He had a fearsome reputation for putting students through the wringer in preparation for what he called “the really important work with Sauer.” An “A” from Kesseli came to be the ultimate accolade, the best evidence that one had the stuff to go on for an advanced degree. Those who could not cope with his demands for total intellectual honesty and rigor disappeared, and only the fittest survived Kesseli to work with Sauer--a fact that helps account for the later stature of so many Berkeley geographers.

Those who persevered discovered that beneath his formidable exterior, Kesseli had a double measure of humanity, with a touching fondness for all sorts of things, from valley oaks to scrub jays and Swiss yodellers, but most of all for his old students. The affection of the last was reciprocated. In 1962, a Festschrift edition of the California Geographer was dedicated to him. In the same year he became Professor, Emeritus, though he was recalled to teach again on occasions thereafter.

Kesseli's striking individual personality and his demanding attitude toward education were important in giving Berkeley geography its distinctive stamp during the thirty years of his association with it. His often acerbic,


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yet wise and deeply humane, counsel as graduate adviser made a profound imprint on many students. Between 1948 and his retirement in 1962, he directed five doctoral dissertations in geomorphology and was in charge of sixteen M.A. theses. It was his manner to work page by page over each manuscript with the student at his side until the job was done according to his exacting standards. He permitted no fuzzy thinking or insufficiently supported conclusion to go unchallenged. He devastated many student egos. But his critical analytical mind was the perfect whetstone for the serious young scholar, who not only learned to think rigorously and logically, but in the process acquired a new respect for the English language.

John Kesseli was a victim of emphysema and lymphatic cancer. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, long associated with the U.C. Library, and by the changes he effected in so many of us.

Theodore M. Oberlander Francis H. Moffitt James J. Parsons


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Frank Leroy Kidner, Economics: Berkeley and Systemwide


1910-1979
Professor Emeritus
Vice President of Educational Relations, Emeritus

Frank Kidner's long association with the University of California as a student and later as a member of the faculty and the statewide administration is summarized in the words of two former presidents under whom he served. President Emeritus Clark Kerr wrote: “Frank Kidner was one of the best all-round citizens of the University of California in its long history, as a teacher of undergraduates, as a leader in the Academic Senate, as administrator, and as participant in alumni and public affairs on behalf of the University.” President Emeritus Charles J. Hitch expressed his appreciation of Frank as follows: “Frank Kidner loved the University of California. He would undertake any task, no matter how difficult or thankless, to serve the University. His loyalty was an inspiration to all of us.”

Frank's undergraduate years were spent on the Berkeley campus and were followed by graduate study at Columbia University leading to award of the Ph.D. degree. He returned to Berkeley in 1939 as a member of the faculty and, except for a year as guest professor at the University of Leiden, he remained an active member of the Department of Economics until 1960. He had agreed at that time to go to Indonesia for two years as field chairman of the University's educational program in that country supported by grants from the Ford Foundation, but shortly before he and his family were scheduled to leave for Indonesia, President Kerr asked him instead to accept appointment as University Dean of Educational Relations. He acceded to the change in plans with his usual loyal response to the University's requests, and from 1960 until his retirement in 1975 he served fulltime in the statewide administration.

Frank was a truly distinguished teacher. The registrar's records show that more than 20,000 students were enrolled in Elementary Economics, Money and Banking, and Business Cycle courses taught by him during the years from 1939 to 1960, and typically his former students use the words “great,” “outstanding,” and “inspiring” when asked to characterize him as a teacher. His teaching, however, was not confined to large classes


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but included also graduate-thesis students, the apprenticeship training of scores of teaching assistants, and even the private tutoring in economics of the Governor of the State of California--Earl Warren. His interest in, and enthusiasm for, teaching continued after he joined the statewide administration. Beginning in 1962, he taught macroeconomics and monetary policy courses in the Executive Program, a four-week residential program for business executives offered by the School of Business Administration, and he was so successful that he was invited back each year up to the time of his death. Fifteen classes of executives learned economics from him, and after his retirement he also served as faculty coordinator for the programs.

He was not only an outstanding teacher but was also productive in research. Among the published results of his research were the book, California Business Cycles (University of California Press, 1946), and numerous studies dealing with the economic and industrial development of California, fiscal and monetary policies, and, more recently, problems in higher education. State and local government agencies and the business community frequently called upon him for advice in connection with problems involving the California economy, which was the area of his primary research interest. As the first Director of the Bureau (now Institute) of Business and Economic Research established in 1941, he played an important role in facilitating the research of his colleagues. He left the directorship for two years during World War II for U.S. government service in the Office of Price Administration (1943-44), the War Labor Board (1944-45), and as Assistant Executive Officer, United Nations Conference on International Organization (1945). At the conclusion of the war, he returned to the directorship and continued in that capacity until his appointment to the statewide administration. During the period of his directorship he was President of the National Associated Bureaus of Business and Economic Research (1949-50) and President of the Western Economic Association (1957-58).

The record of his University and public service is far too extensive to be recounted here, but it may be summarized by saying that he gave unstintingly of his time, skill, and energy to the Department of Economics, the Academic Senate, the University administration, and the community of which he was a part. He was always available in troubled times and tough assignments seemed almost invariably to come to him. His appointment in 1958 as Faculty Athletic Representative to the Pacific Coast Conference and the Athletic Association of Western Universities and member of the Intercollegiate Athletic Advisory Council is but one example of many difficult assignments he was asked to undertake.

As stated earlier, Frank was appointed University Dean of Educational Relations in 1960 and in 1966, on the recommendation of President Kerr, was appointed by The Regents as Vice President--Educational Relations,


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serving with distinction and bringing stature to that office. In addition to his many responsibilities, he accepted numerous special assignments, including in 1964-66 that of University Legislative Representative in Sacramento, which he carried out with sensitivity and skill.

As Vice President--Educational Relations, he devoted himself tirelessly to the direction of programs involving relations with schools, admission, registration, student information systems, educational placement, financial aid, student affairs, and educational opportunity. He also gave generously of himself as University liaison with the Coordinating Council for Higher Education, with the Interstate Commission of Higher Education, with the Articulation Conference of California, with the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and with The College Board.

From 1972 until his retirement, he directed and was responsible for the University's Executive Search Program and served as the University representative to the Newhouse Foundation, a program that resulted in substantial financial assistance to the University.

Following his retirement in 1975, he served as a special consultant to the University on legislative and faculty matters. In all his assignments, he adhered to the highest standards of performance joined with personal integrity and unswerving loyalty to the University.

What was there about Frank Kidner that made him a great teacher and leader in the academic community? To those of us who knew him well, several factors come immediately to mind. He came to the University later than the average student, the road was rough along the way, and he was on his own until the high level of his performance brought financial assistance in the form of scholarships and awards. Consequently, he developed a quality of realistic down-to-earth understanding and appreciation that can come only from personal experience. This understanding and sense of values were reflected in his teaching and even more in his personal relations and benefitted both students and faculty. When one adds to this his outgoing personality, his extraordinary wit and humor, his ability to stimulate people, his sincere interest in helping others, his inherent kindness and warmth, and his deep devotion to the University of California, the answer to the question raised above becomes clear.

He is survived by his wife Ann, a son Frank, Jr., and daughters Jane Powell and Freya Elizabeth Sands.

Malcolm M. Davisson James M. Carman Howard B. Shontz Angus E. Taylor Harry R. Wellman


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John William Knutson, Dentistry; Public Health: Los Angeles


1907-1980
Professor of Preventive Dentistry and Public Health, Emeritus

John William Knutson was born in Mineola, Minnesota, on November 3, 1907; he was one of ten brothers and sisters. He left the family farm in 1926 to attend school in Minneapolis and ultimately he enrolled in the School of Dentistry at the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1931 with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.). Thereafter, Dr. Knutson served as an intern in the United States Public Health Service hospitals in Chicago and Norfolk.

His advanced studies were at the John Hopkins University, where he earned the Master of Public Health and the Doctor of Public Health degrees. Following a career of about thirty years in the United States Public Health Service, he received the high honor of the distinguished service medal, a distinction in recognition of his pioneering work on the epidemiology of dental disease and his impact on preventive methods, notably fluoridation.

His highest national responsibility in the public health service began in 1952 when he was promoted and became assistant surgeon general and chief dental officer of the United States Public Health Service, a position that he was to hold for the following nine years. During that period he also held a number of other national and international offices. Among the most prestigious was his election in 1956 to the presidency of the American Public Health Association, the first dentist to be so honored. He also held various responsible positions within organized dentistry, such as with the American Dental Association, the World Health Organization, and the Federation Dentaire Internationale (FDI).

In 1961, Dr. Knutson accepted an academic appointment at UCLA and became one of the founding professors in the School of Dentistry with a joint appointment in the School of Public Health. He was at that time without a doubt the most outstanding professional in the world to assume responsibility for developing modern approaches to preventive dentistry and public health. His position at UCLA facilitated a unique approach to multi-disciplinary cooperative efforts between the School of Dentistry and the School of Public Health, and with other related departments on campus,


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notably the behavioral sciences. He served on many University committees, including committees on academic innovation, educational policy, and University welfare.

During his academic career, Dr. Knutson received many honors. These included, from his Alma Mater the University of Minnesota, the outstanding achievement medal; an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania; the H. Trendly Dean Fluoridation Award from the International Association for Dental Research; and in 1976, The Edward W. Browning Award for his contribution to the prevention of disease.

Dr. Knutson expressed himself with conviction both orally and in writing. Indeed to the very end he presented, with characteristic forcefulness, his views on preventive dentistry and public health through editorials in national journals dealing with these subjects. On his desk at the time of his death was the March 1980 issue of the American Dental Association, and he had recorded a thoughtful reply to a number of responses to his somewhat provocative views regarding priorities in dental care and dental insurance programs.

Dr. Knutson's first wife, Ethel, died in 1968 after thirty-three years of marriage and raising four children, Kristin, Karen, John, Jr., and Paul. In 1971, Dr. Knutson married Beverly Albertson who still lives in West Los Angeles.

He died at the UCLA hospital on Tuesday, March 11, following a cerebral hemorrhage. Only the day before he had been playing golf.

John Chapman Vladimir Spolsky Reidar Sognnaes


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Morton Levitt, Psychiatry: Davis


1920-1980
Professor
Acting Dean of the School of Medicine

Morton Levitt, Ph.D., died suddenly on January 13, 1980, in Davis. Dr. Levitt was Acting Dean of the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, a position he had held since April 1, 1979.

Throughout his career he had distinguished himself as a psychoanalyst, an academician, and an administrator.

Dr. Levitt had his undergraduate education in psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan; completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Michigan in 1955; and obtained his psychoanalytic training in Detroit.

In 1951, he began his academic career at Wayne State University School of Medicine as clinical psychologist and instructor in psychiatry. Within ten years he had attained full professorship. During this period he was chief clinical psychologist at Wayne State University's two major teaching hospitals (Detroit General and Children's Hospital of Michigan) and, in addition, served as director of two mental health hygiene clinics in southeastern Michigan.

In addition to his clinical accomplishments, Levitt soon was recognized for his scholarly achievements. He was the first to identify the condition “learning impotence,” and his careful delineation of the connection between ego strength and intellectual function formed much of the basis for later work that described the way children learn. This research has been widely acclaimed in psychoanalytic circles. He built a national reputation in the area of psychoanalysis in spite of the fact that he was one of only a few fully qualified nonphysician psychoanalysts in the country.

His achievements in student psychology were recognized by Wayne State University in 1957 when he was named assistant dean for student affairs and admissions in the School of Medicine. As director of admissions he was far ahead of his time in influencing policies in student admissions. He was, for example, a strong supporter of minority groups, students who lacked financial security, and those gifted students whose talents were not often immediately obvious. He held this position at Wayne State until 1963 when he was named associate dean for academic affairs.


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In September of 1970, Dr. Levitt was recruited to the Davis campus and was appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine. His appreciation for academic excellence and scholarship was soon apparent to his colleagues here at Davis, and his demonstrated compassion and interest in his patients soon reaffirmed his reputation as a skilled clinician. It was because of his great interest in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy that he continued patient care responsibilities in spite of his heavy administrative duties as medical school dean.

He played a central role in the development of the medical school at Davis. He rallied the faculty, and his experience and ideas shaped the curriculum. An outstanding psychoanalytic teacher, he was beloved by residents and graduate students. The school benefited from his information and skill; his patients and the community, from his compassion and wisdom.

During his career he contributed over eighty works to the literature, mostly in the areas of psychoanalysis and student psychology; he also received national acclaim for his innovative approaches to medical and mental health education.

His interests were broad and varied as shown by his many professional activities. From 1965 to 1968, Dr. Levitt served as a field selection officer for the Peace Corps, and from 1968 to 1970, he was chief field selection officer for the Gold Coast countries of Africa. He was a consultant to the Bureau of Health Resources Development for the U.S. Public Health Service; he served on the Panel on Mental Health in Education for the National Institutes of Health; he was a member of the UC Health Sciences Committee of the Academic Planning and Program Review Board; and he was a member of the Committee on Psychiatry and the Criminal Law of the American Bar Association. His memberships included: the American Psychological Association; the American Orthopsychiatric Association; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the New York Academy of Science; the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society; and he was at the time of his selection, the only honorary member of the Central California Psychiatric Society.

Dr. Levitt is survived by his wife, Lucille; their four children: Susan Eileen of San Francisco, Michael Lee of New York, David Max of St. Louis, and Richard Alan of Davis; and his mother, Gussie Levitt, of Oak Park, Michigan.

He had a zest for life unmatched by most, and it will be for this as well as for his great compassion and his unique sense of humor that he will be most missed by his friends, colleagues, and students.

Joe P. Tupin Guy Corkill Jerry P. Lewis


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Willard Frank Libby, Chemistry: Berkeley and Los Angeles


1908-1980
Professor Emeritus
Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Emeritus

Willard Frank (“Bill”) Libby was born on December 17, 1908, at Grand Valley, Colorado. After attending high school near Sebastopol, California, he entered the University of California, Berkeley in 1927. There he received his B.S. degree in physical chemistry in 1931, and went on to earn his doctorate in 1933, working with Professor Wendell H. Latimer. His remarkable scientific imagination, already evident while still a graduate student, brought him the rare distinction of a faculty appointment in the UCB Department of Chemistry directly upon receiving his Ph.D. degree. Thus began his life-time fascination with nuclear chemistry and his life-long romance with the University of California.

Professor Libby's scientific career embraced seven distinct periods: 1) Instructor and Assistant Professor in the UCB Department of Chemistry (1933-41); 2) Head, Chemistry Division of the Columbia University branch of the Manhattan Project (1942-45); 3) Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago (1945-54); 4) Atomic Energy Commissioner (1954-59); 5) Professor of Chemistry, UCLA (1959-76); 6) Director, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), UCLA (1962-76); and 7) Professor Emeritus, UCLA (1976-80).

Although nuclear chemistry was the key discipline underlying most of his research, the central theme dominating Professor Libby's life and career was the application of science to solving problems of profound social significance.

Pearl Harbor found Professor Libby at Princeton just beginning a sabbatical year on a Guggenheim Fellowship, a coveted award which, however, he quickly exchanged for war research on the separation of uranium-235 under what became the Columbia University branch of the Manhattan Project. Here, the main problems lay in the development of the diffusion barrier and the chemistry of uranium hexafluoride, UF6<--subscript-->. Bill Libby's insight, confidence and inspiration played an essential role in the success of the K-25 diffusion plant, particularly in carrying forward on a parallel and


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concurrent basis the design and construction of the plant while its most critical component--the barrier--was still undergoing development.

When he returned to academic life in 1945, Professor Libby joined the great exodus from Columbia to the University of Chicago. There his prewar invention of the screenwall counter for measuring low-level radioactivity made possible his determination of atmospheric hydrogen-3 (tritium) and carbon-14 (radiocarbon) produced by cosmic radiation. This work contained the germ of the magnificent conception of radiocarbon dating, which initiated the new field of research for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1960. There is little question that in the hands of Professor Libby and his followers, radiocarbon dating has become the single most important advance in the field of archaeology--with all that this implies for the reconstruction and understanding of the history of mankind.

In a closely allied development Professor Libby employed tritium to determine the recent history of water. He first determined the level of tritium produced by cosmic rays and by the atmospheric testing of thermonuclear devices. He then used the counting of tritium in water samples (and in dated bottles of wines to establish a scale) to trace the source and circulation of fresh waters. Again, this analytic tool opened up a whole new field of research in vulcanology, limnology, and circulation of the oceans.

In 1954, Professor Libby's keen sense of social responsibility led him to accept a five-year appointment as the scientific member of the Atomic Energy Commission. In this position he actively encouraged the development of power nuclear reactors, which now supply over ten percent of the U.S. electric generation capacity. In addition to his administrative burden, he continued his scientific investigations by launching a program for the worldwide collection of radioactive fallout. This program yielded much new information on the movement of the atmosphere relative to the earth, particularly on its vertical and latitudinal circulation, and the stratospheric residence time of such isotopes as strontium-90. In turn, this information led to the tracing of elements such as strontium-90 through the biosphere--their incorporation into plants, thence ingestion by herbivores, and ultimate appearance in the milk. Again, this research interfaced scientific discovery with social implications. As AEC Commissioner, he also helped organize the International Atomic Energy Agency and the first Atoms for Peace Conference. An active interest during this period was Project Plowshare, an investigation of potential engineering uses of nuclear explosions.

At the conclusion of this term with the Atomic Energy Commission, Professor Libby moved to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he continued to exemplify his concern for those scientific endeavors that most directly affect mankind. He was the prime mover in the establishment of the space research program at UCLA. As Director of the Institute of


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Geophysics and Planetary Physics, he recruited staff and participated by encouragement, discussion, and inspiration in a vast amount of research that ranged from soil science to high pressure chemistry.

In the early 1970s, Professor Libby's concern about environmental problems motivated him to institute a whole new graduate curriculum devoted to training the “Environmental Doctor.” This program, the first of its kind, specializes in training scientists to identify and investigate possible solutions to environmental problems. At this writing, graduates of this program are already actively employed by numerous industries and in the governments of several western states. Professor Libby was a prime mover also in the California Air Resources Board, whose main concern became the reduction of noxious automobile exhaust fumes. Again illustrating his direct approach, he set up a research program on heterogeneous catalysis which was designed in part to reduce air pollution through more complete fuel combustion.

Professor Libby regularly taught the freshmen chemistry course offered to the most gifted UCLA students. He engaged them in research early in their undergraduate careers and inspired and swept them along with his enthusiasm and love of research. His devotion to teaching and to the ideal of a well-informed electorate were combined in literally hundreds of expository public lectures on both science and national science policy.

Professor Libby was most generous with his time and contributions to many boards and committees advisory to state and federal agencies. Somehow he also found time to serve on the boards of numerous large industrial corporations and philanthropic foundations.

He was thrice holder of Guggenheim Fellowships (1941, 1951, 1959) and was elected to the most distinguished scientific societies, both US and foreign, including the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, the Heidelberg Academy of Science, and the Bolivian Society of Anthropology.

In addition to the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1960), Professor Libby's pioneering researches were recognized by many honorary degrees and awards, including the Columbia University Chandler Medal, the American Chemical Society Award for Nuclear Applications in Chemistry, the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Willard Gibbs Medal, and the Albert Einstein Medal Award.

His monograph “Radiocarbon Dating” (University of Chicago Press, 1955) has undergone three editions in English and has been translated into Russian, German, and Spanish.

In the breadth, profundity and diversity of his many contributions, Professor Willard F. Libby must rank among the foremost scientists whose lives and spirits have graced this planet.

C. Rainer Berger Leon Knopoff W. G. McMillan


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Michel Loève, Mathematics; Statistics: Berkeley


1907-1979
Professor Emeritus

In one corner of the Great Hall in the Faculty Club at Berkeley, a small brass plaque is fixed to the wall. It reads, “Michel Loève/1907-1979/He Inspirited This Place.”

Which place? One can read the plaque in many senses.

Loève did, indeed, inspirit that particular corner of the Great Hall. For many years he regularly led a luncheon conversation there, a conversation that ranged widely over the history and customs of mankind, that drew on all the realms of scholarship, that was informed with insight and with wit, that proceeded most often in French but lapsed easily into English to accommodate a provincial type who might happen along and yield to Loève's pressing invitation to join in.

But in a larger realm, Loève inspirited much of the Berkeley campus, where he started as a Professor of Mathematics in 1948, added the title Professor of Statistics in 1955, and was designated Professor of Arts and Sciences in 1967 upon recommendation of a committee of the Academic Senate. His friends were to be found among colleagues in dozens of departments and included students from freshmen to postgraduates for more than three decades. For Loève, a great university was truly a community of scholars, and he undertook almost as a personal mission to cross-fertilize the widest range of ideas. This can be seen most clearly from his course “Culture and the Individual,” created to fulfill his obligation as Professor of Arts and Sciences. Its goal was, he said, “to delineate how it is possible to compensate for the atomization of culture inside the University by demonstrating the actual lack of boundaries, and the fact that things are not unrelated.” In 1974, Loève was appointed Professor Emeritus and awarded the Berkeley Citation, highest honor bestowed by the campus.

Mathematicians everywhere were inspirited by Loève, who worked with them to help create the modern theory of probability. His influence extended far beyond his numerous research contributions because of the dominant position, both as a reference and a graduate text, achieved by his book “Probability Theory.” It has been called “the first comprehensive account


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of modern probability theory,” and was affectionately known as “the Bible.” Published originally as a single volume in 1955, it grew to a two-volume work by its third edition, and was further enlarged and revised in a fourth edition just a year before Loève's death. It was early translated into Russian, and later into several other languages. Just as he demanded much from his classroom students, so Loève also made demands on the readers of his book. In the preface to the second edition he wrote, “The reader will have to be armed... with patience, pen and calculus. Besides, in mathematics, as in any form of poetry, the reader has to be a poet in posse.”

Yes, Michel Loève inspirited “this place”--The Faculty Club, the Berkeley campus, the international community of probabilists. But in the largest sense the place that he inspirited was the world of mankind. For just as he would not accept impermeable boundaries between the scholarly disciplines, so Loève was unwilling to grant that the world of scholarship could be isolated from the broader concerns of humanity. His interest in politics, in justice, in art, grew simultaneously from his reading and from the broad experience of his life. While he would often comment on these themes with humor, or occasionally with irony, he did not hide the fact that his deepest views were held with a passion that sprang from his devotion to the human spirit.

Born on January 22, 1907, in Jaffa, Palestine, he later moved to Egypt and received his early education in French schools there. From the Université de Paris he received the A.B. in 1931, the B.L. in 1936, and the Docteur és Sciences (Mathématiques) in 1941; he was a doctoral student of the famous probabilist Paul Lévy. Loève was also awarded the title Actuaire by the Université de Lyon in 1936.

His studies were followed by a period of imprisonment in Drancy during the German occupation of France in World War II. From 1944-46 he held the position of Chargé de Recherches at the Institut Henri Poincaré of the Université de Paris; during 1946-48 he was first Lecturer, then Reader, at the University of London; and in 1948, after a term as visiting professor at Columbia University, he entered his position at Berkeley.

The French school of probabilists from which Loève emerged was world famous. Jerzy Neyman, Berkeley's premier statistician, brought Loève here with the hope that he would found an equally renowned cluster of scholars and courses in that discipline at Berkeley. The hope was realized, and Berkeley became a mecca for students and scholars of probability from all parts of the world.

Loève's success as a teacher was phenomenal. Reputed for the hard work he demanded, his classes were nevertheless jammed with students at both undergraduate and graduate level, for they knew that he would help them to penetrate to the core of the subject, to gain a feeling for its spirit as well as a knowledge of its theorems. He instituted an imaginative


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course in beginning calculus in which undergraduate tutors aided in the instructional process--tutors whom Loève prepared for their work in a parallel course on the problems of learning calculus. And he conceived the teacher's role broadly. He once wrote, “The teacher ought to come down from the podium, shed his magisterial aloofness, and expose himself to the buffetings of the groups he joins.” And he added, “The student must do; the teacher must help and catalyze, but never command.”

Loève's broad interest in culture and the humanities led to his appointment during 1950-58 to the Editorial Committee of the Academic Senate, which he chaired during the latter four of those years. Among his editorial contributions to the University Press was the development of a series of books on modern art. This brought him into lively contact with groups of painters, both in the Bay Area and in Paris--where he spent many summers and several sabbatical periods.

Despite his intense and persistent attachment to French culture, Loève took his place fully in the New World to which he moved. He became a naturalized citizen in 1953, and enthusiastically helped to form and inform public opinion on critical issues of a social and political nature.

For some years Loève's spirit was sorely tried by a painful affliction which defied medical diagnosis at home and abroad. With dismay his friends saw him limp painfully across campus with the aid of a cane; but comments of sympathy were waved away, or encountered a jocular tone. Fortunately Dr. Jerome Gavce was finally able to overcome the malady with a conjecture that Loève had sustained an extremely rare incapacity to utilize vitamin D. With treatment the pain abated, the cane was discarded, and Loève's many friends relaxed.

Loève's efforts to spare his friends from sharing his deepest troubles characterized him to the end. He died on February 17, 1979, of a pulmonary embolism. At the time he entered the hospital, a few days earlier, he did not mention it even to his closest friends. It happened that one of them extended a dinner invitation for the seventeenth; Loève responded only that he could not accept because he “would be away for a few days.”

On Thursday, March 8, 1979, a memorial service was held in the Great Hall of the Faculty Club at Berkeley. Colleagues, students past and present, friends and family, came from near and far. His wife Line and son Pierre came from Paris. Some spoke, all remembered. A fine spirit had lived among us, had enriched our lives and intensified our sense of participating in a community of scholars. Now the man is gone; but his spirit still dwells in “this place.”

L. A. Henkin S. P. Diliberto L. M. Lecam C. Muscatine J. Neyman


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Stephanie Orth Lombardi, Germanic Languages: Los Angeles


1912-1980
Lecturer in German

Stephanie Orth Lombardi, daughter of the German artist Wilhelm Johann Orth, died in Santa Monica on June 22, 1980, after a long illness that she had fought stoically and with courage.

She was born in Nuremberg, Germany, on June 22, 1912, and came to Los Angeles in 1925. She was a product of the California school systems, with B.A. and M.A. degrees from UCLA and, in 1946, her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.

Lombardi devoted her professional life to the teaching of German and the preparation of teachers of German. The only interruptions in her active teaching occurred during World War II when she became a shipyard worker in a San Francisco Bay military installation and, later, for short periods after the births of her two sons--Joseph and John Lombardi--who survive her.

Following completion of her doctoral work at UCB, she won appointment to the German department at Stanford University. After several years at Stanford she joined the Chula Vista school system as coordinator for foreign languages and teacher of German and Latin, a position she held for seven years.

Lombardi joined the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA in 1955 as Lecturer in German and remained at UCLA until her early retirement, for medical reasons, in 1980. During her twenty-five years at UCLA she contributed much to the Teaching Assistant training program in German and, for some years, was in charge of the elementary and intermediate German curricula. In conjunction with the Foreign Language Teaching Certificate program of the State Department of Education she was the liaison person for the UCLA campus language-teaching program. Lombardi's devotion to improvements in the teaching of German was most notable in leading her students to a better understanding of advanced problems in German composition and grammar. For more than two decades she successfully taught those required upper-division courses to departmental majors, most of whom went on to become excellent teachers and scholars.


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Lombardi, quietly and effectively, served the Department of Germanic Languages and the University well.

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Austin Harbutt MacCormick, Criminology: Berkeley


1893-1979
Professor Emeritus

The distinguished criminologist and prison reformer, Austin H. MacCormick, died on October 24, 1979. He was appointed as Professor of Criminology on the Berkeley campus in 1951 and served until his retirement on June 30, 1960. For a brief period he was Acting Dean of the School of Criminology and he was active in committee work of the Academic Senate. He was a member of the University Committee on Student Conduct during the entire period of his University service and was chairman of that committee for three years.

Professor MacCormick was born April 20, 1893, in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada, the seventh of eight children of the Reverend Donald MacCormick, a Congregational clergyman born in Scotland and Jean Green MacCormick, born in England. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where he lived until he graduated in 1915 from Bowdoin College, Brunswick. He obtained the Master of Arts degree in 1916 from Columbia University Teachers College. After a year as Instructor in English and Education at Bowdoin College, he went on active duty with the U.S. Naval Reserve, serving from 1917 to 1921 with ranks from Ensign to Lieutenant, Senior Grade. It was his naval experience that started his career in criminology for he was assigned as executive officer of the U.S. Naval Prison, Portsmouth, N.H. For a time his senior officer was Thomas Mott Osborne, the famous prison reformer.

From 1921 to 1929, he served as alumni secretary of Bowdoin College and in July, 1929, he was appointed assistant superintendent of federal prisons in the Department of Justice. In 1930, the Federal Bureau of Prisons was established and his title became assistant director of the Bureau. From 1934 to 1940, Professor MacCormick was commissioner of the New York City Department of Corrections, resigning on January 15, 1940, to become the executive director of the Osborne Association, Inc., of New York City.

During World War II, from 1944 to 1947, Austin MacCormick was special assistant to the Undersecretary of War and he served as chairman or vice-chairman of many important War Department committees concerned with military law and corrections. In 1946-47, he was vice-chairman of


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the Army's Advisory Board on Clemency. The subordinate boards established by the Advisory Board reviewed the sentences of 35,000 general court-martial prisoners and recommended reduction of 85% of the sentences. In 1947, he served as a member of a civilian committee of the Secretary of Navy to study the Navy's confinement policies.

From 1944 until he joined the faculty of the University in 1951, he returned to the Osborne Association under whose auspices he made important surveys of the prison systems of a number of southern states. During his tenure on the Berkeley faculty, he was very active as a consultant on prison and correctional affairs to California, thirteen Western states, Michigan, and New York. In 1957, he served as chairman of the California Special Study Commission on Correctional Facilities and Services. Of the twenty-one bills introduced in the 1957 Legislature by the Commission, eighteen were passed.

Following his retirement from the University, MacCormick again became full-time executive director of the Osborne Association at its national headquarters in New York City, where he worked until his death. During these last seventeen years of service to the Osborne Association, he continued his distinguished leadership of correctional reform. He was asked to evaluate many different state programs for both adult and juvenile offenders, and he was responsible for major reforms in a large number of juvenile-offender programs throughout the United States. He was also very active with committees and organizations involved with problems of alcoholism and drug addiction.

He received many honors throughout his long career of public and educational service. He received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Bowdoin College in 1934, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from St. Lawrence University in 1937, and the War Department's Exceptional Civilian Service Award in 1945. In 1947, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit (the highest award a civilian can receive for war service). He served as president of many different national organizations concerned with prisons, and correctional and educational activities.

MacCormick was the author of The Education of Adult Prisoners (1931); co-author of Handbook of American Prisons (1926) and Handbook of American Prisons and Reformatories (1929); editor and co-author of the Handbook of American Institutions for Delinquent Juveniles (1943). In 1964, he wrote The Death Penalty for the National Council of Churches of Christ. This monograph was very influential in the movement for the abolition of the death penalty. He was a contributor to many yearbooks and manuals, and he published over one hundred articles in professional journals, including every important correctional and criminology journal in the United States.

MacCormick's impact upon almost every aspect of the nation's correctional and juvenile institutions continues unabated. He was a powerful advocate


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for humanitarian reform of the treatment of all who were caught in the meshes of the criminal law. At all times, his goals were to eliminate repression and brutality within our correctional institutions and to develop rehabilitation opportunities for all offenders, adult and juvenile. Always kind and gentle, modest and unassuming, he will be remembered by his many students and colleagues as one of America's greatest criminologists and, perhaps, the most influential prison reformer of modern times.

Austin MacCormick was an inspiring leader and teacher. His humanism, his irrepressible sense of humor, and his instinctive wish to help others made him of the rarest and best of his kind. He left behind no stone monuments, nor works of art, nor theories of science, but what he bequeathed to friends, associates, and students is measurable best in the coinage of mind and spirit.

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Arthur J. Marder, History: Irvine


1910-1980
Professor Emeritus

Arthur J. Marder, Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Irvine, died at Santa Barbara, California, on Christmas Day, 1980, at the age of seventy.

He was born and educated in the Boston area, with undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. Initially he was drawn to prewar German diplomatic history. Then his mentor, William L. Langer, drew his attention instead to English history and the Haldane Mission of 1912. That became the subject of his senior distinction thesis. From there it was but a short step to British naval history. Of that Marder later said: “Nature abhors a vacuum and there was this fat subject lying about waiting to be picked up!”

Thus began his distinguished career as an historian of the modern British navy. Soon he was called the modern Admiral Mahan. Some British reviewers of his earlier thirteen published volumes expressed bewilderment that these excellent books should originate from the Hawaiian Islands, where Marder taught for twenty years. But A. J. P. Taylor said it all when he wrote:

From Professor Marder we can never have enough. His naval history has a unique fascination. To unrivaled mastery of sources he adds a gift for simple narration... he is beyond praise, as he is beyond cavil. This book, like its predecessors, is a model of humane learning. It sets a standard which few other historians can approach.

Arthur Marder's career developed through a variety of teaching and research experiences: University of Oregon, from 1936 to 1938; Guggenheim fellow on three occasions, 1941, 1945-46, 1958; research analyst in Washington, D. C. for Coordinator of Information (later Office of Strategic Services); Harvard University 1942-1943; Hamilton College, 1943-45; University of Hawaii, from 1945 to 1964; University of California, Irvine, from 1964 to 1977. In all these institutions he was appreciated as a phenomenally well-organized and remarkably productive scholar and an outstanding teacher.

Marder could turn disaster into advantage. When two over-zealous janitors at the University of Hawaii inadvertently destroyed several boxes of notes


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for Volume II of his From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, he successfully sued the University for $1800, obtained a semester's leave, and re-created the entire research program. In the process he found new and more illuminating information for the volume and pointedly acknowledged in his preface the unintended stimulation from the two janitors.

Generations of students will hardly forget Arthur Marder, the teacher. His lectures were meticulously prepared, always fresh and stimulating. He spoke with forceful authority. But he always had time for students, guiding their steps and stimulating them to independent study and thinking. And they soon learned that a strong evaluation from him required an extremely effective performance on their part.

His colleagues and correspondents on several continents will remember Arthur Marder for the assistance and advice that were always available to them. He did not suffer fools gladly, but, where competence and ability sought his aid or wisdom, he was unfailing in the support he offered. He was especially helpful to librarians, upon whom he made constant demands, but whom he assisted in their bibliographical work and to whose resources he added notable acquisitions of private libraries and collections of documents.

Marder's research moved from The Anatomy of British Sea Power, 1940, winner of the George Louis Beer Prize, to Portrait of an Admiral, 1952, on to three volumes of Correspondence of Lord Fisher (Fear God and Dread Naught), from 1952 to 1959, and culminated in the masterful tetralogy of British naval power at its greatest height, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, 1961-70. Thereupon followed two volumes of naval studies (1974 and 1976), and he was at work on the second volume of a two-volume study of Anglo-Japanese naval relations (from 1936 to 1945) when he died. The first volume published in 1981 is entitled Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Japanese Imperial Navy: Strategic Illusions 1936-1941.

Many honors came to him in the later years of his life. He was Eastman Professor at Oxford University in 1969-70, just after receiving the Chesney Memorial Gold Medal of the Royal United Services Institution in 1968. In 1971, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the American Philosophical Society. But the four greatest honors which always lay nearest to his heart were his honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Oxford (1971); an official letter from the Board of the Admiralty, expressing their Lordships' appreciation of his work for the Royal Navy, an honor unique for one who was not a British subject; a festschrift, Naval Warfare in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1945: Essays in Honor of Arthur Marder (1977); and the Distinguished Faculty Lectureship, the highest award University of California faculty members can receive from their colleagues. The Distinguished Faculty Lecture, “Bravery is Not Enough: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945),” was presented at UC Irvine on February 7, 1978.


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Professional relationships with Arthur Marder were never dull. He participated vigorously in academic affairs and department meetings. He carried his fair share of academic chores. At the culmination of his career he was president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, and he served on its main council from 1972 to 1975. In all aspects of his calling he served as a model of integrity, professional quality, and ready good humor. It was not only the British Navy that was well served by his efforts. Students and colleagues in half a dozen American colleges and universities over nearly half a century are much the richer for his presence among us.

He is survived by his wife Jan, a daughter and two sons.

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James H. McClure, Gynecology and Obstetrics: Irvine


1922-1980
Professor

James H. McClure was born in Wooster, Ohio, August 9, 1922. At the completion of high school, he matriculated at Ohio State University. His education, as were many, was interrupted by World War II. He served in the armed forces from 1942 to 1945. On his return, he continued his educational pursuits at Ohio State University and received his undergraduate degree there and then his M.D. in 1950. On completion of Ohio State's residency training, he was awarded a Master of Medical Sciences degree in 1954. Following his residency, he was named as Joseph B. Whitehead Research Fellow at Emory University in 1954. He continued at Emory as an instructor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. From 1955 to 1961, he was assistant and associate professor at the University of Illinois. In 1961, he assumed a professorship at the University of Alabama, and in 1963, came to California as professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the California College of Medicine.

These were trying years for the newly established college, and Jim was one of the mainstays who helped achieve a faculty and curriculum able to survive the scrutiny of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Among other accomplishments, Jim also served as acting chair of the Department of Surgery from 1963 to 1965, a rare distinction among his fellow obstetricians and gynecologists.

As its first chair, he established the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, obtained approval for a residency training program, and produced a core curriculum. He was an active participant on numerous committees, and was a strong supporter of the University of California, Irvine, affiliation. Jim suffered an acute myocardial infarction in 1972 and in 1973 resigned as chair of the department. He was able to continue his teaching responsibilities, and the residents and students have fond memories of Jim's wit and wisdom in the clinics and on the wards.

Jim was an emeritus member of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation and was an early researcher in maternal-fetal gas exchange. He was a Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and served


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as an associate examiner for the Board. He was a fellow in the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and chaired several of its committees. He was a founding member of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics and served as its secretary in 1964. He was a founding member of the Advisory Board of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists. In 1970, he was the recipient of the Ohio State University Centennial Achievement Award.

In 1974, the department originated the James H. McClure Award for the outstanding senior student in obstetrics and gynecology. This award is now perpetuated through gifts of faculty and former residents to the James H. McClure Memorial Fund.

Jim died on August 23, 1980, following surgery, a loss to all who knew him, and a loss to gynecology and obstetrics. He leaves his wife, Bonnie, and two daughters, Susan and Megan.

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William H. McGlothlin, Psychology: Los Angeles


1924-1980
Professor in Residence

William H. McGlothlin was born and raised in Tennessee. He was graduated from the University of Chicago and subsequently earned master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees in psychology from the University of Southern California. His early work involved the application of sophisticated statistical techniques and models to a variety of subject matters. His doctoral dissertation on gambling--“Stability of choices among uncertain alternatives”--became a classic in the field of decision making. From 1954 to 1966, he was employed by the RAND Corporation where he carried out research in a variety of topics ranging from national defense to drug abuse. In September, 1966, he joined the UCLA faculty where he held professorial rank in the Departments of Psychology, and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. His work at UCLA was supported for the past decade by a Research Scientist Award, first from the National Institute of Mental Health, then from the National Institute of Drug Abuse.

Dr. McGlothlin's best known work was on the psychological effects of psychotropic drugs, and their social implications. He studied many aspects of LSD, including both immediate and long-lasting effects, the role of subject expectation on drug experience, and medical consequences of LSD use on pregnancy, chromosomal patterns, and cognitive functioning. His work on cannabis was also distinguished, and included epidemiological research, investigation of auditory and visual effects, and studies of social policy issues related to the use of marijuana. Recently his research centered on opiates, including various patterns of use in Eastern and Western cultures, and the relative utility of different types of control policies, such as heroin and methadone maintenance programs and civil commitment. He was one who was fascinated in his work by the subtle relationship between the concerns of the individual and the rights of the state and maintained a singularly tolerant view of individual freedoms. This tolerance, a truly formidable mind and equally formidable notion of excellence, a wonderful warmth, and supportiveness stand out for those of us who were his students.

As a person, Bill was an inordinately shy and modest man. His carriage was terrible and he always shuffled down the hallways like a large bear


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in search of his den. His glance was ever downwards into his desk, or his chest, or his plate. And yet, when he laughed or was taken by something, he filled the room with his pleasure. The climbing accident which ultimately resulted in Bill's death also caused all of us to again appreciate the width of his spirit and the depth of his character. He personified the old-fashiond notion of courage: grace under pressure. And, as usual, he taught through example rather than words.

Professor McGlothlin was 56 at the time of his death in December 1980. He is survived by his wife Katherine and sons Russell and Robert.

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Lea Van Puymbroeck Miller, Design: Berkeley


1898-1979
Professor Emerita

Lea Van Puymbroeck was born near Portland, Oregon, to parents who had immigrated from Belgium. She obtained an education in art at the University of Washington, securing the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1924 and in 1934 the Master of Fine Arts. During this interval she taught art in the Seattle high schools or as an associate in the University itself. From 1934 to 1938, she served as instructor in the University's Department of Art.

In 1937, she married Robert Cunningham Miller, who had taken his Ph.D. in Zoology at Berkeley in 1923, and then served on the University of Washington faculty successively as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and full Professor. When they married, she lost her position and he resigned his, coming to San Francisco to assume the directorship of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. For some twenty-five years, Lea Miller served in the dual role of university teacher and creative artist in her own right, and as the wife of the director of an important San Francisco institution.

Originally trained as a sculptor, Professor Miller's interests gradually turned toward the subtle three-dimensional qualities of textiles, the interrelation of their space and substance, transparency and opacity, and the interplay within them of mechanical and optical color mixtures. When she joined the Department of Decorative Art (later Design) in 1942 as an Assistant Professor, she was deeply influenced by the studies and reconstructions of archaeologic Peruvian textiles by the anthropologist Lila M. O'Neale, then department chairman. This influence led Professor Miller to become deeply involved with how these ancient woven structures could be achieved on modern looms.

Study of pre-Columbian Peruvian gauzes led to interest in ancient Oriental gauzes produced on looms technically more advanced than those of Peru. In pursuit of this interest, Professor Miller travelled extensively in Japan and was aided in her studies by H. Kitagawa, known for having unraveled the mysteries of eighth-century Oriental gauze production.

In the 1940s and 50s, Professor Miller was early and influential in releasing handwoven textile design from the traditional limits of European


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folk traditions and in encouraging exploration of such sources of inspiration as those of abstract, ancient, and exotic art.

Throughout her career, Professor Miller was liberally represented at national and international exhibitions, both juried and invitational. In 1960, for instance, some ten pieces were chosen for three major exhibitions, from which four were juried to join traveling exhibitions. In the following year, she was invited to exhibit at the Fabric International Invitational Exhibition in Philadelphia.

Professor Miller will long and fondly be remembered not only for her fine artistry, but also for her devotion to undergraduate students whom she advised faithfully throughout her career and for her generous private financial aid to promising but needy students of the textile arts.

She is survived by her husband, of Berkeley, and three sisters, all in the Portland area.

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Daniel Green Morton, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Los Angeles


1903-1980
Professor Emeritus

Daniel Green Morton was born to Daniel and Ann Louise Morton on March 16, 1903, in Greenville, South Carolina. Dr. Morton's father, who was an executive in the cotton mill supply industry, had tuberculosis and moved his family to the higher altitude of Asheville, North Caroline, when young Dan was twelve. Dan lived there until he went off to St. James Episcopal Prep School in Hagerstown, Maryland. Here he was a quiet, studious, but very popular young man and he excelled in golf and swimming. He went on to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was awarded the A.B. degree in 1924. So successful was he in his studies that he was awarded a scholarship which allowed him to attend the Yale University School of Medicine, receiving the M.D. degree after being elected to Sigma Xi and Alpha Omega Alpha.

Dr. Morton interned and took a year as Assistant Resistant in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He left Baltimore in 1929, travelling to San Francisco, where Professor Frank W. Lynch offered him the position of Resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California Hospital, a position which he held for two years. He was appointed to the University of California faculty in 1931 and progressed through the ranks to Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology by 1948. He met Lila Newson on a trip to the Hawaiian Islands in 1935, and they were married shortly thereafter in San Francisco. In 1950 the Mortons left their home in St. Francis Wood (of San Francisco) and moved to Los Angeles where, with a group of pioneer faculty, Dr. Morton played a key role in the organization of the UCLA School of Medicine. He remained as chairman of obstetrics and gynecology until his retirement from UCLA in August of 1968. Dan and Lila Morton were very active socially in Los Angeles, and Dan particularly enjoyed golfing at the Bel Air Country Club until, in later years, his arthritic hip diminished his near-championship style.

When the mandatory retirement age required Dr. Morton to resign his chair at UCLA he could have stayed on quite comfortably as a Professor Emeritus but he felt that it might not be considerate to influence his successors,


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however kindly, by his continued presence, which was indeed awesome. So he left Los Angeles to practice in Palm Springs. The Palm Springs experience lasted less than two years. “Those people really don't need me.” Dr. Hart Baker, an old friend and colleague, was the Executive Administrator of the Southern California Kaiser-Permanente Hospital system and knew exactly where Dan was needed. He induced Dan to come to Kaiser-Permanente Hospital on Sunset Boulevard as Consultant in Gynecology and as Instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology residents. Here Dan worked hard but without pressure among patients who really needed him and residents who very much appreciated him, almost to the moment of his death.

Dan Morton was a superb teacher and a giant clinician. Surgically he could tackle just about anything in the pelvis and he performed the en bloc pelvic lymphadenectomy and radical hysterectomy with great facility. His major contributions followed naturally in the field of gynecologic cancer. His papers on the lymphatic spread of cervical cancer are considered classics in the literature. Although his major interests were in academic medicine and gynecologic cancer, Dan always enjoyed practicing obstetrics and continued providing the highest quality of obstetrical care to his patients right up until the time he retired from UCLA.

Dan was particularly noted for the superb organization of his residency training program. He was the main guiding force in the initiation of residency programs in obstetrics and gynecology at the Harbor General Hospital, the UCLA Hospital, and the City of Hope. By his example in practice and by his leadership qualities, he greatly improved the quality of patient care at such diverse hospitals as the Wadsworth Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles, the San Diego Naval Hospital, and the St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. He was also responsible for the affiliation of the obstetric and gynecology services of the Kern County General Hospital, the San Bernardino County General Hospital, and the Cedars-Sinai Hospital with UCLA, which greatly improved and extended University quality to those programs. He served for over a decade as Chief of Staff at the UCLA Hospital.

His former residents, on the occasion of his retirement, formed the Daniel Morton Society which meets yearly on his birthday, presenting a program of scientific papers in his honor. He had the rare quality of judging potential teachers well before their time and he possessed the knack of carefully nursing them along into full academic fruition. He gathered together a diverse but very effective faculty at UCLA which in the early years included William J. Dignam, Nicholas S. Assali, Donald L. Hutchinson, Luigi Mastroianni, and Edward J. Quilligan. He saw more than his share of younger faculty appointed to prestigious chairs across the country--an accomplishment which pleased him a great deal.

Dan Morton was well liked and greatly respected by his peers throughout the United States and in other lands. He was loved by his family, Lila,


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Lila June, and later, Jane Morton. How fortunate he was to meet and marry Jane soon after Lila's death. He remained particularly close to R. Gordon Douglas, with whom he had trained at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He frequently visited with his friend, Sir Lance Townsend of Sidney, and earlier with Charles Read of London and with James Heyman of Stockholm.

Naturally Dan Morton was a member and officer of the leading obstetrical and gynecological societies. He was made an honorary member of a surprisingly large number of prestigious organizations including, in his own community, the Los Angeles Obstetrical and Gynecological Society. It is noteworthy that he was President of the San Francisco Gynecological Society, the Pacific Coast Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, and the American Gynecological Society. For years he examined for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and served as a Director of the Board from 1948 to 1954. His was a full measure of success in his profession.

Dan Morton was a true gentleman. He was quiet but well spoken; articulate but not at all glib; levelheaded, kindly, understanding, comforting, giving advice only when necessary and then with just the right restraint. His sense of humor was also quiet and never mean. With all the honors accorded him, he was never pompous. All who knew Dan respected him a great deal and those who worked beside him truly loved him.

In 1971, Dan was diagnosed as having carcinoma of the recto-sigmoid colon. The lesion appeared confined and was segmentally resected, but two positive nodes were found in the mesentery. How ironic it is that his junior associate, Professor Donald Hutchinson, had an almost identical lesion and followed a similar but accelerated course, dying in 1973. Dan received postoperative irradiation and over the succeeding years did quite well, successfully recuperating from a right total hip replacement in 1973 and a left total hip replacement in 1976. However, two years ago a recurrence was noted. Irradiation; chemotherapy followed chemotherapy; pain was unremitting; but through it all Dan, as always, maintained his dignity and composure. He and Jane remained active in their circle of close friends. He died quietly at the UCLA Hospital on January 27, 1980. He is survived by his wife, Jane, and by his sister, Mrs. Henry Wood.

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Irwin Mayer Newell, Biology: Riverside


1916-1979
Professor of Zoology
Zoologist

Irwin M. Newell died at his home in Riverside on July 2, 1979. He had planned a sabbatical leave during the winter and spring quarters of 1980 at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography where he projected a review of the genus Agauopsis, a large genus of marine mites. On a previous leave at Scripps (1975-76), he reviewed the mite Family Halacaridae, and completed a monograph on the Antarctic marine mites.

During the summer prior to his death, he was in Zaire, Africa, working with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture on biological control of mealybug pest on cassava, a staple food in the tropics. While in Africa, he also collected marine mites off the coast of Zaire, near the mouth of the Congo River. In the summer of 1977, he was on the R/V Alpha Helix collecting subtidal mites off the coast of Brazil; on shore (in Brazil) he conducted a search for natural enemies of the mealybug, which had been introduced accidentally into Zaire and Nigeria.

These travels reveal Newell's research interests in academic taxonomy and zoogeography and in economic entomology. This dichotomy of interests is shown by the academic titles he held at different times during his career: Instructor of Biology, Professor of Zoology, Professor of Entomology, and Professor of Biological Control.

His life began on a farm in the Pacific northwest; he graduated from high school (diploma, 1934) in Idaho and received a B.S. in Zoology, 1939, and an M.S. in Entomology, 1941, at Washington State University. He married Fern Hope Watson in May, 1940, in Coeur D'Alene. They moved to the east coast where he completed an M.S. in Zoology, 1942, and a Ph.D. in Zoology, 1945, at Yale University. After a year as Research Associate at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the Newells moved back to the northwest. He was Assistant Professor of Biology and Associate Entomologist at the University of Oregon from 1946 to 1948; from 1948 to 1953, he was Associate Professor of Entomology and Associate Entomologist at the University of Hawaii. In 1954, he became one of the original staff of the Division of Life Sciences (later the Department of Biology) when undergraduate instruction began in the new College of Letters and Science at Riverside.


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While a student at Washington State University, he was a research assistant in the experiment station, working with mite and fruitfly pests of agricultural crops. This experience and the M.S. degree in entomology stimulated his interest in economic entomology. Later, his M.S. and Ph.D. degree in zoology at Yale established his interest in fundamental biology. G. Evelyn Hutchinson directed his dissertation research, which was a systematic and ecological study of marine mites. He maintained a lifelong interest in the study of mites, with an emphasis on the zoogeographical and taxonomic aspects.

In addition to acarology and entomology, he taught courses in general invertebrate and in arthropod zoology. In his studies of mites he was not limited to marine species but also worked on other species such as the giant red velvet mite in the Colorado Desert of southeast California. In 1960-61, he received a Fulbright award to study the African species of the Family Trombidiidae at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyassaland, Salisbury.

Newell will be remembered scientifically for his advancement of knowledge of the Acari. He was an acknowledged taxonomic authority on many groups of mites. His chapter on the Acari in the 1959 revision of Freshwater Biology (edited by W. T. Edmondson), demonstrates Newell's mastery of his field of study and is an example of his “tabular key.” Of all his accomplishments, he was most proud of his tabular key. In contrast to a conventional key, Newell's key is more than a means of identification, it is a means of information storage and retrieval which shows, in tabular form, the similarities and differences among taxa. Newell hoped to use his tabular key to organize the several hundred known species of the Family Halacaridae and to make this a model for future taxonomic studies.

Newell's lasting contribution to science probably will be his advancement of the knowledge of mite taxonomy and zoogeography. Prior to the general acceptance of continental drift by geologists, Newell found the ideas of F. B. Taylor and Alfred L. Wegener easy to accept, on the basis of his zoogeographical knowledge.

Newell continually returned to research in applied entomology, the field in which he began his career. His approach to pest problems was through knowledge of life histories, changes in populations, and the use of biological rather than chemical means of control.

He was conservative and thorough in reaching conclusions before making recommendations from his studies. His judgement was respected, not only in science but in policy-making duties and administrative matters. At U.C. Riverside he served as chair of Life Sciences (now Department of Biology) from 1961 to 1963. He was head of the Division of Biological Control, Entomology Department, ten years later. As a member of the Academic Senate, Newell served on the Budget Committee and the Privilege and


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Tenure Committee, as well as on others. He served as an officer of some of the more than dozen professional societies he belonged to, including editorial boards of Acarologia, the Southern California Academy of Sciences, and the Entomological Society of America. His honors included membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. His sixty publications between 1943 and 1979 will culminate in a thousand-page monograph on Antarctic marine mites, prepared for the Smithsonian Institution to be published as part of its Antarctic research series by the American Geophysical Union.

Irv will be missed by his students and the colleagues who worked with him in the field and laboratory and aboard research vessels. However, he will be remembered primarily as a scholar. He is survived by his wife, Fern, daughter, Diana (Mrs. Mark Grinyer), and son Kim.

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Ronald Leroy Olson, Anthropology: Berkeley


1895-1979
Professor Emeritus

Ronald Olson was one of the outstanding teachers of his time. Thousands of undergraduates took an introductory course in anthropology with him between 1931 and 1956. Many of them, to judge from enthusiastic remembrances that still come, have never forgotten the course and the teacher.

Olson served in the Marines during World War I and emerged from war service at age twenty-six determined to acquire a college education. He entered the University of Washington, graduated in 1925, and went on to earn an M.A. in anthropology there in 1926. His master's thesis, on material culture among Indians of the Northwest Coast region, was published in the University of Washington's series in anthropology. He continued his graduate work at Berkeley where his major research was archaeological, with excavations near Santa Barbara and on Santa Cruz Island (1927 and 1928). His doctoral dissertation, completed in 1929, was an ethnological study, Clan and Moiety in Native America, published in 1933.

He was with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City for two years, spending part of that period in Peru on an archaeological study. In 1931, he joined the Department of Anthropology at Berkeley as an Associate Professor. His principal research interests continued to be on the cultures of Northwest Coast Indians; his writings include ethnological studies of the Quinalt, Tlingit, and Kwakiutl tribes.

One of his primary assignments when he was appointed was the introductory course sequence. His achievement was summarized by A. L. Kroeber in an appreciation that prefaced a set of essays issued in honor of Professor Olson on the occasion of his retirement.

Olson's view in teaching was broad, and his perspective and weighting within the basic course were outstanding. He put first things first, and into relation with what lay beyond. Specific facts he presented vividly, and always with conciseness and pertinence. His course was not easy, but it was never needlessly stiff, and throughout it was interesting as well as proportioned. Its organization was skillful and thorough without obtrusiveness. Add a voice that rolled without strain, geniality and touches of humor, and I do not believe that Olson's delivery had its
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equal in the colleges of the country. He laid as solid and vivid a foundation for major and even graduate teaching of anthropology as was humanly possible.

In the years before his retirement in 1956, Olson was afflicted by an illness. He moved to a rural part of southern California after he retired, and there he recovered sufficiently to lead an active life until his death on August 1, 1979.

D. G. Mandelbaum G. M. Foster J. H. Rowe


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Philip Motley Palmer, German: Berkeley


1904-1979
Professor Emeritus

Born into academia, Philip Palmer followed in his father's footsteps, even in the subject that he taught. His father was also a professor of German and then dean at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where Phil was born November 1, 1904. Phil took his B.A. at Bowdoin College, where he was strongly drawn to classical studies, an interest that continued throughout his life. He continued his graduate work at Harvard and received his M.A. in 1927 and his Ph.D. in 1930. He was a teaching assistant at Harvard, then went temporarily to the University of Missouri for a single year before going on to the University of Cincinnati, where he remained for thirteen years. Then followed two years at Wisconsin and two years at Clark University. Finally, in 1948, Berkeley, needing a philologist in the German department, invited him, and there he remained until his sudden death May 10, 1979. One must call him a “philologist” for Phil disdained the term “linguist,” which he associated with descriptive linguistics rather than with the historical approach to which he was dedicated. In effect, he much preferred to be called a lexicographer, for words were his passion and to words he devoted his scholarship. Already by 1939 he had published his first book in Heidelberg, significantly entitled Neuweltwörter im Deutschen. His life project was a series of books intended to document the influence of English upon German, both in vocabulary and style. The first book of the series was published in 1950 and the second in 1960. He came to realize that he would scarcely outlive his self-imposed task, for it was one too great for even a scholar of his rigorous discipline.

In his department he was tireless. No chore was too onerous or time-consuming for him, and he was never known to refuse a departmental assignment. In this respect, he was a chairman's dream. When he himself became chairman of the German department during that difficult time of student discontent, he ran it with an impartial fairness that commanded respect and elicited cooperation. In fact, so great was the respect for him that legend reports that one of the rebel student leaders approached him politely with the question: “Professor Palmer, do we have your permission to strike?” And it is indicative of his fairness and ability to get along with


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people that there was not a single dissenting vote when he was chosen as chairman and, even more significantly, he completed his term of office without a single enemy.

Somehow, in his quiet way, he inspired confidence. He was referred to jocosely as “Father Phil,” a reference to the fact that he was inevitably singled out for the “confessions” of those who were troubled.

He is survived by his son, Charles, and his wife, Dorothy, whom he had married in 1944, before coming to California. Their weekly game of golf, their “at home” on Saturday afternoons, their unassuming but elegant dinners with guests from their circle of friends were departmental institutions that sorely will be missed.

Blake Lee Spahr Marianne Bonwit Andrew O. Jaszi


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Harold Persico Paris, Art: Berkeley


1925-1979
Professor

At the time of his death at age fifty-four, Harold Persico Paris had achieved eminence as a sculptor and printmaker. The list of his exhibitions and honors fills many pages. Yet, at the time he was invited to teach at Berkeley in 1963, he was completely unknown to us. A member of the art department discovered his bronze-cast sculpture “Abstract Expressions” on exhibit at the Esther Stuttman Gallery in New York. Slides and a biography were obtained from Miss Stuttman for presentation to the painters and sculptors of the department. The staff unanimously recommended his appointment and, even though he had done little teaching, he was effective and influential.

Beginning with his very first year, he inspired a surge of activity in printmaking. Staff members in painting as well as in printmaking began making large lithographs with an enthusiasm that was entirely new. In sculpture, he established an operation in bronze casting that had hitherto been considered too specialized and nonacademic for a university art department. His own daring work in casting initiated a significant period of work during these years that influenced both students and staff members.

Harold Paris dramatized his role as artist and teacher. At openings for his numerous local exhibitions, a multitude of his students and young people were present. When he was working on a large exhibition project, he would, at times, have his students working with him in his studio as in the old days of the apprentice system.

The extent of his exhibitions is so vast that we can only mention salient examples. In 1960, he exhibited at the Esther Stuttman Gallery in New York City but there were five other New York gallery exhibitions in these earlier years. Later in New York he showed “Souls and Cartas” (concerned with the holocaust under Hitler) at the Lillian Heidenberg Gallery in 1976, and since 1975, the Jewish Museum has had a special exhibit called “Kaddish for the Little Children.” In San Francisco, he showed at the Hansen Galleries in 1965 and 1967 and more recently, in 1978, he exhibited at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery. Sad to say, his last show also was very recently (1979) at the same gallery. The total list of his one-man shows reaches forty-one


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and perhaps the most spectacular was his exhibition at the University Art Museum in Berkeley called, “The California Years.” This show occupied the vast space of the lower exhibition area. It was a complete installation that transformed the gallery space and exhibited work that spanned his ten-year residence in Berkeley. There were bronze works that illustrated his abstract expressionist phase, two monumental terra cotta wall pieces, plus later casts that represented the smoothly polished forms of the late sixties. There were complete walk-in environments that exemplified other new manifestations of those years. The exhibition was later shown at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Des Moines Art Center, and the Los Angeles County Art Museum.

His group exhibitions reach the staggering number of more than two hundred and fifty. Of course, the great majority of these exhibitions were in etching and prints but among the museums and galleries are the most important in the land: The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; the Boston Museum of Fine Art; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Municipal Museum of The Hague, Holland; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and many other European countries as well as principal museums and galleries in the United States. Such a staggering list of group participation could only be realized in large part within the modest medium of printmaking, but it indicates phenomenal productivity and achievement.

He is represented in many major American museum collections with either sculpture or prints. When private collections are included, the total list is a long one. Notable among the museums are: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Joseph Hirschorn Collection, Washington, D.C.; the San Francisco Museum of Art; the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; the museums of the University of California at Los Angeles and at Berkeley; the U.S. State Department and so on at great length.

Harold Paris, who was born in New York on August 16, 1925, is survived by his wife, Deborah, and two children, Rivka, and Elya.

Erle Loran John Haley Karl Kasten Brian Wall


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Jerome T. Pearlman, M.D., Ophthalmology: Los Angeles


1933-1979
Professor

With sadness, this obituary reports the death of Jerome T. Pearlman. After a prolonged illness, he passed away on February 3, 1979.

Intelligence, integrity, and intrepid spirit were among the qualities that contributed to his lifetime of professional distinction and substantial scientific accomplishment. Reflecting the latter, Jerry was internationally known for his research on retinitis pigmentosa, his clinical studies on retinal physiology, and his laboratory investigations of retinal degenerations.

Jerry was born in Chicago on May 11, 1933. He received the Bachelor of Science degree from Dartmouth College and obtained the M.D. degree from Northwestern University in 1957. Thereafter, four years of postdoctoral training in pathology and ophthalmology from 1961-1964 preceded residency training in ophthalmology at the University of Iowa.

During ophthalmology residency training and for two subsequent years of postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Iowa, Jerry worked under the tutelage of Dr. Hermann M. Burian. While engaged in this postresidency training, Jerry received the degree of Master of Science in Ophthalmology. In 1966-1967, he completed an additional year of postdoctoral fellowship under supervision of Dr. Frederick Crescitelli at the University of California, Los Angeles. From this fellowship, collaboration with Dr. Crescitelli extended throughout the remainder of Jerry's life.

In 1967, Jerry joined the ophthalmology faculty of UCLA and, at the time of his death, held the appointment of Professor of Ophthalmology and Member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute. As a dedicated and extremely effective teacher, he devoted countless hours to the education of medical students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows. As a scholar and investigator, he wrote nearly one hundred articles on retinitis pigmentosa, retinal electrophysiology, laboratory studies of retinal degenerations, psychosomatic ophthalmology, and the history of ophthalmology. With extraordinary courage and scientific acumen, he pursued his research throughout his illness and, during the final week of his life, completed a major treatise on retinitis pigmentosa.

Honors and distinctions were extended to Jerry throughout his academic career. He was president of the Los Angeles Society of Ophthalmology,


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vice president and editor of the International Society for Clinical Electroretinography, recipient of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Honor Award, and an elected member of the prestigious Retina Society. In 1978, he was singularly honored by the Southern California Chapter of the Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation.

These achievements are impressive, but his fine personal attributes loom paramount. He will be remembered with warm affection and deep respect by his many friends and associates.

After a prolonged illness, Dr. Pearlman passed away on February 3, 1979. He is survived by his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Pearlman; by his son, Joshua Bradley Pearlman; and by other family members.

Bradley R. Straatsma, M.D. Frederick Crescitelli,M.D.


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Warren Charles Perry, Architecture: Berkeley


1884-1980
Professor Emeritus
Dean of the College of Architecture, Emeritus

Warren Charles Perry, born in Santa Barbara in 1884, provided distinguished service to the University of California at both academic and administrative levels. He joined the faculty of Architecture in 1911 under John Galen Howard, then head of the School of Architecture, and served the University until his retirement in 1954. His forty-three years of service represent an outstanding contribution to teaching and scholarship. His life was a broad and active one, academically in teaching and administration, along with his continued development professionally.

Professor Perry attended the University of California, Berkeley, and received his B.S. degree in 1907. After graduation, he went to Paris and attended the École Nationale et Speciale des Beaux Arts for three years from 1908-1911. He then returned to Berkeley and accepted an appointment as a member of the architecture faculty in the fall semester of 1911. Some years later when John Galen Howard relinquished his post as director, it was Warren Perry who was appointed to head the School of Architecture; and subsequently he served as dean of the College of Architecture from 1927-1950. He continued as a member of the faculty until his retirement four years later. During this period, he also took on an added responsibility as acting chairman of the Art Department for three years from 1935-1938. Later, in conjunction with his campus commitments, he was appointed vice president of the national Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

Perry maintained professional continuity along with his academic service through an extensive architectural practice, rich in creative accomplishments. He began his architectural career in the office of John Galen Howard on a part-time basis during the summer of 1906 and 1907, but on his return from Paris he was then employed full time from 1911-1913. He established his own office in 1913 after becoming licensed to practice architecture in the State of California. He was a member of the California State Board of Architectural Examiners for many years (1928-42) and was President


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of the Board in 1934. He was honored by being elected a fellow to the American Institute of Architecture (FAIA) in 1947 in recognition of his contributions to architectural education and the profession. He also was elected president of the Northern California chapter of the AIA.

His office was very active in the planning and design of many significant structures, including the Edwards Field and Track Stadium and the School of Law building on the UC-Berkeley campus. In a joint venture with the firm of F. H. Meyer and John Bakewell, Jr., Perry's office designed the Potrero Terrace Housing Project in San Francisco for the San Francisco Housing Authority. Many distinguished residences in the San Francisco Bay Area were designed by Warren Perry and the office carried out projects related to additions and alterations to several fraternity and sorority houses in Berkeley, such as the Kappa Kappa Gamma House (originally designed by Julia Morgan) and the Delta Tau Delta House. Perry was also responsible for the remodelling of The Faculty Club on the Berkeley campus in the eastern extension of the Main Hall Dining Room and the addition of the North Dining Room and the Stringham Room. His office also remodelled the historic Octagon House located in the Cow Hollow area of San Francisco.

Perry was a precise thinker with sensitive insight into the character of persons and events. Apparently always at ease in addressing small or large groups, he spoke fluently on architectural design and its aesthetic values. He assumed his administrative duties with gravity, aware that changes taking place in architectural practice and theory challenged traditions he prized. He sought to have these be honored in the academic program of the School while, at the same time, endeavoring to have instruction keep abreast with new developments.

Living abroad for an extended period of time in Paris served to strengthen an early admiration for French culture, language, literature, and life. All of these were merely preparatory to his immersing himself in the excitement of U.S. technology and architectural practice in this country.

Perry was an elegant man in bearing, conduct, in mind and person. He was by the quality of his education a most stable person and not distracted by the quirks of current fashion. It was not by accident that Perry chose to carry on the spirit of John Galen Howard's lofty vision of professional education and conduct. The route of linear continuity with John Galen Howard's initiatives was supplemented by judicious revisions of curricula to adjust to an ever-changing technology and other constraints of continual transformation.

In his architectural practice and creative role, Perry enjoyed pure design and emphasized his design talents. He had a sense of perfection in everything he did. His architecture consistently carried a sense of refinement. His clients and colleagues had complete confidence in him. Above all, he possessed high standards and thoroughly believed in value judgment. To


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Perry, attainment of perfection was a reasonable standard as a measure of performance.

Perry was the perfect gentleman, always gracious and quick of wit. He never completely divorced himself from his early training and devotion to the Renaissance, but was very much aware of a new movement in design brought about by use of different materials and consequent changes in structural methods. His unerring judgment and good taste have left their indelible mark upon those fortunate to have studied and worked with him.

His wife of sixty years, Joy Wilson Perry, preceded him in death in 1978. He is survived by their two children: a daughter, Carolyn, and a son, Warren, and five grandchildren.

Henry J. Lagorio Ernest Born Raymond W. Jeans Harold A. Stump


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Daniel Walter Peterson, Avian Sciences: Berkeley and Davis


1917-1980
Professor
Nutritionist in the Experiment Station

Daniel W. Peterson, who died June 18, 1980, was born in Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada on April 14, 1917. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Chicago in 1942 with a major in chemistry. Following graduation he worked on the Manhattan District project, then in 1945 began graduate study at Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. in Nutrition under the direction of Professor S. Lepkovsky in 1950. He joined the faculty of the Department of Poultry Husbandry at Berkeley in 1951, and moved in 1953 to Davis, where he remained until his death.

Professor Peterson's research on alfalfa as a foodstuff for chicks led him to find growth-depressing saponins in alfalfa, the effects of which could be overcome by cholesterol or plant sterols. This led to his discovery in 1956 that feeding plant sterols reduced blood cholesterol level in both chicks and humans. In recent years his research was concerned primarily with poultry meat flavor and tenderness, particularly the mechanisms by which they are affected by age, heredity, diet, exercise, and processing. He compared normal tissue composition with that of chickens affected by inherited muscular dystrophy in attempts to understand the nature of this disease as well as the properties of normal muscle tissues. He published on such varied topics as diet-influenced gout in various strains of chickens; the influences of diet on the fatty acid composition of egg lipids; and treatment of meat to improve its tenderness and flavor.

His teaching reflected his varied interests, including courses on poultry industries, muscles as food, birds and their eggs as food, principles of nutrition, food fads, concepts of vegetarianism, and seminars for incoming graduate students in nutrition.

He was a member of Poultry Sciences Association, World Poultry Science Association, American Institute of Nutrition, and the Institute of Food Technologists. He participated in several international scientific meetings.

Although trained in science, Dan was an accomplished artist and lover of the arts and languages. He spoke German, French, and Danish which he used on frequent visits to his ancestral home in Denmark during visits


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with his closely knit family. He was an active artist in charcoal and pencil drawing as well as several other media. Dan also had a keen enjoyment of theatre, ballet, and classical music.

Perhaps nothing more characterized Dan's love of life than the attention he paid to his small garden--always one of the most colorful in Davis, in every season. It became a haven for many a student forum, seminar, or social occasion where both students and faculty alike enjoyed Dan's keen sense of humor and wholistic approach to life.

Dan travelled widely through Europe and Asia, from which came his appreciation of the problems of the individual, especially of foreign students. His classes were characterized by a close personal approach to the individual student. This relationship was never stronger than with graduate students. He was the most patient of listeners and created an atmosphere in his class that was scientifically rigorous yet warmly human and caring. Dan's interest in cuisine was annually reflected in a traditional Danish Christmas Eve party which became an institution among his close friends and students, and was always shared by the one closest to him in life--Deborah, his daughter. Dan is also survived by a sister, Helen Zingraf.

C. R. Grau D. W. Robinson P. N. Vohra


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Clement Acil Phillips, Dairy Industry: Davis


1895-1980
Specialist and Dairy Technologist in the Agricultural Experiment Station

Clement A. Phillips, known affectionately as “Clem” to his colleagues, students and friends, died at the age of eighty-five on June 15, 1980. He had devoted four decades of service to the University of California at Davis before moving to Lodi, California, in 1960 after his retirement. His professional contributions in teaching, research, and writing were concerned with dairy products, and he was recognized as an expert in cheesemaking.

Clem was born April 5, 1895, in Colfax, Washington. He was graduated with a B.S. degree in dairy industry from Washington State College, Pullman, in 1919. He was very interested in sports, especially track and cross-country running. Clem was captain of the WSC track team in 1918 and established several college records. He was listed in Who's Who in American Sports and retained a lifelong interest in college athletics.

Phillips joined the Dairy Industry Division in 1921 where he developed a comprehensive cheese program. He was responsible also for a substantial share of the two-year instruction in dairy technology for several generations of students, in addition to degree instruction. After coming to UCD, Clem earned an M.S. degree dividing his studies between Davis and Berkeley. He also spent a sabbatical leave year in the Dairy Department of the University of Wisconsin. He published over twenty Experiment Station booklets on making various types of cheese and these played an important role in establishing the cheese industry in the western United States. Clem did much to develop and improve Monterey jack cheese which is recognized today as a popular and unique California cheese variety.

Phillips served as acting head of the Division of Dairy Industry from 1944 to 1946. During his service with the University, Clem contributed to the education of hundreds of students who in turn brought the dairy industry of California to its present status as the most technically advanced and efficient in the world. He enjoyed a special relationship with his students and, after building his cabin in the Sierras in 1932, he delighted in taking many each year on fishing expeditions. Besides fishing, his hobbies included mountain climbing, tennis, and skiing.


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Clem married Adelaid Wisiniske and they were active members of the Davis community until his retirement. They had a daughter, Dorothy, and a son, Don. At the time of his death, Clem was survived by his son, Donald B. Phillips, who is a rancher in Lodi, California.

Bruce E. Hubbell Eugene L. Jack Lloyd M. Smith


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James Emerson Phillips, Jr., English: Los Angeles


1912-1979
Professor

The death, on July 24, 1979, of James Emerson Phillips, Jr., brought to a premature close a distinguished career and one more intimately associated than most with UCLA and the community of Los Angeles. At the time of his fatal illness Jimmy Phillips had just retired from his duties as Dean of the Graduate Division and Associate Vice-Chancellor and was looking forward to teaching part time in the Department of English, with which he had been associated, first as an undergraduate major and later as a faculty member, for nearly half a century.

Jimmy Phillips was born November 11, 1912, into a family that would become notable for its record of public service to the Los Angeles community. He was educated in the Los Angeles public schools and on his graduation from Beverly Hills High School matriculated in the spring of 1930 at UCLA. He completed his B.A. with highest honors in 1934, his M.A. in English in 1936, and then moved to Columbia University for his doctoral studies. He was awarded the Ph.D. in English in 1940, but had already begun teaching as a Lecturer at UCLA in the fall of 1939. The following year he was made Instructor and two years later he was inducted into the U.S. Army. During his military tenure he was advanced to Assistant Professor. In 1946, he returned to the campus to resume his teaching and in the following year received a Guggenheim Fellowship that enabled him to study abroad. In 1949, he became Associate Professor and in 1955, Professor. A Fulbright award in 1954-1955 provided him with a year of research, mainly in England and Italy, where he pursued his interest in the controversial literature surrounding Mary Queen of Scots. More important, it was in this sabbatical year that he married Geneva Ficker, who had been one of his graduate students at UCLA. For five years from 1955 to 1960 following his return, he was Chairman of the English Department. From 1965 to 1970, he was Associate Dean for Honors Programs in the College of Letters and Science. In 1974, he became Dean of the Graduate Division and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (in 1975, the second title was changed to Associate Vice-Chancellor), a position that enabled him to draw on his ranging executive talents and his long experience at UCLA to serve the University


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in what would be his final tour of duty with the distinction that marked all his contributions, whether in scholarship, teaching, or administration. He chaired the statewide Council of Graduate Deans in 1977-78, and had chaired or served on a wide variety of senate and administrative committees, including the Budget Committee, Graduate Committee, Committee on Educational Policy, Committee on Courses of Instruction, Library Committee, the Executive Committee of the College of Letters and Science, The Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, and the statewide Committee on Innovation in Teaching. He served on the Chancellor's Advisory Committee for Religious Affairs and was for many years a member of the Board of Directors of the University Religious Conference.

Jimmy Phillips was one of the most respected members of his generation of scholars in the literature of the English Renaissance. His first book, The State in Shakespeare's Greek and Roman Plays (1940), was his Columbia dissertation, published in the year he became an Instructor at UCLA. The research for his second book, Images of a Queen: Mary Stuart in Sixteenth-Century Literature (1964), was begun in the libraries of Holland and France during his service in the army and continued during his fellowship years abroad. A specialist in the interpretation of literature through history, he had the trained historian's knowledge of personalities, events, and political theories together with an unusual ability to ferret out primary documents in print and manuscript that enabled him to correct misinterpretations and to establish significant patterns overlooked by other scholars. In the years prior to his retirement he was working toward the completion of a book on the neo-Latin English poet, Daniel Rogers, who was an emissary of Queen Elizabeth on the Continent. From that research he had uncovered and already published important new evidence regarding the relations between the Sidney-Spenser group in England and the poets of the French Pleiade. He was the author of many articles, mainly on Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, and the relations between Renaissance poetry and music. An accomplished musician in his own right, he was able to bring this extra dimension to both his scholarship and teaching.

As a teacher, he was probably one of the most successful in the history of UCLA. His course in Shakespeare for non-majors was known to several generations of undergraduates, who taxed the resources of Rolfe Hall auditorium to gain admittance and whose enthusiastic response helped Jimmy Phillips win the Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching Award and the Harvy L. Eby Award for the Art of Teaching in 1969. As one student wrote: “If Shakespeare himself took this course, he would learn something.”

His graduate seminar in Spenser, whom he loved with a passion he had inherited from one of his Columbia teachers, was one of the few in American universities to do justice to that major but difficult poet. He was presented


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in 1967 with a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Graduate Students Association. Jimmy Phillips' extraordinary success as a teacher is not difficult to define. His knowledge of his subject was deep and ranging, but it was conveyed through a personality of remarkable warmth and openness and a wit that was lively and pervasive, both in the classroom and among his colleagues. It is difficult to suggest, except to those who knew him, the degree to which his personality drew people to him, commanded their affection, and, as those who worked under his administrative direction will testify, engaged their loyalty. He had an authority peculiar to himself by virtue of having spent so many years at UCLA which was, in a sense and to a degree unfamiliar to most of the faculty, his university. He loved UCLA and gave it the best he had, and his influence in the wide circles in which he moved is still vibrant.

Jimmy Phillips was singularly happy in his marriage. His wife, Geneva, who joined her interest in scholarship to his, has for many years helped guide the publication of the California Dryden edition. Sharing an active concern for students' social and intellectual life beyond the classroom, the Phillipses were regularly hosts in their home to the Neo-Areopagus, a group of students and colleagues who were devoted to the literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. One or two touches may help fill out the portrait. Jimmy Phillips loved music, was indifferent to food, and hated sports. If someone mentioned the Los Angeles Dodgers in his hearing, he would ask with feigned innocence, “What game do they play?” He had a deep affection for the Owens Valley, where he had spent many summers of his boyhood, and consequently for the writings of Mary Austin, which he collected with the kind of bibliomania he ordinarily reserved for the literature of the Renaissance.

Besides his wife, he is survived by two brothers, Robert and William. His passing leaves a deep void in the lives of those who were close to him and a happy memory for those who had the benefit of his learning, enthusiasm, and immense humanity.

Franklin Rolfe John Espey Blake Nevius


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Arturo Serrano Plaja, Spanish: Santa Barbara


1909-1979
Professor Emeritus

Arturo Serrano Plaja was born in Spain in San Lorenzo del Escorial. In 1967, he came to the Santa Barbara campus where for ten years, in his classes on Cervantes, the theme of Don Juan, and on modern Spanish poetry, he kindled in his students an intense enthusiasm that led them to discover and share his vision of Spanish culture as a great teacher, as one of the best Spanish poets of this century, and as a man whose entire life, like his writings, showed wholehearted commitment to his ideals.

By choice or by fate, he took part in the most important historical events, both political and literary, of his time and era. In the “thirties” he was a recognized younger poet who enjoyed the friendship of famous Spanish poets like Jiménez, Machado, Alberti, and Lorca, of such American writers as Vallejo, Neruda, and Hemingway, and of French authors like Gide and Malraux. During the Spanish Civil War he published El hombre y el trabajo (Man and His Work), a collection of poems whose authenticity inspired the great poet Antonio Machado to write: “Our dear friend Arturo Serrano Plaja, a soldier-poet or poet-soldier, has risen to the occasion to such an extent that he has never even thought of placing himself above the battle, but rather within it, in the very heart of the struggle.”

His service in the war provided André Malraux with the model for one of the characters in his novel L'Espoir (Man's Hope). When the Republican forces were finally defeated in 1939, Serrano Plaja, among other Republican veterans, crossed into France on foot.

After a brief stay in the concentration camp of St. Cyprien, he continued his “infinite exile” with a year in Chile and five years in Argentina. From 1945 to 1961, his base was Paris, where he continued writing and began his career as a teacher. In 1961, he moved to the United States, teaching at the universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota and publishing the books Magic Realism in Cervantes and La mano de Dios pasa por este perro, a collection of poems in which the faith that had always inspired his poems and his actions shifts from politics to religion.

When, after many years of wandering he arrived in California, Serrano Plaja began at last to feel at home again. For this reason, perhaps, in his


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last poems the image of Santa Barbara merges with that of El Escorial, as in the haunting poem “Los álamos oscuros” (“The Black Poplars”), and his last novel La cacatúa atmosférica: A California Mystery, in which California place names and reflections of Raymond Chandler are incorporated in a work that combines elements of a medieval Spanish mystery play with a modern American detective story.

In 1977, Serrano Plaja retired with the hope of devoting himself more intensively to research and to his own poetry. His active leisure, in which he continued his fruitful contact with students and above all his search for the poem that would finally satisfy him, was interrupted in 1978 by a heart attack. After a year's illness he died in Santa Barbara on June 16, 1979. He is survived here by his wife, Ingrid, and in Paris by his son, Carlos, a professor of Spanish at the Sorbonne.

Arturo Serrano Plaja was one of those men for whom


Cualquier puerto del mundo era su patria
y llevan, melancólicos, en sus ojos,
un signo de ocio triste por los mares
y de suro trabajo desgarrado.

*Whose home is any port in the world
and whose eyes bear from sea to sea
the emblem of joyless leisure
and hard, heartrending toil.
From ”The Sailors“ in El hombre y el trabajo.

In September, 1980, his ashes will be returned to El Escorial and to Spain, which is preparing to pay him tribute and to bid him welcome.

David Xary Marta Gallo Enrique Martínez-López Giorgio Perissinotto


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Heinz Politzer, German: Berkeley


1910-1978
Professor Emeritus

Heinz Politzer was surrounded by an aura of loneliness. His study, cluttered with books, piles of manuscripts, and mementoes, was a refuge from the world. His body, a source of increasing anguish as he grew older, had become a desolate abode. Toward the end, he inhabited it vaguely and reluctantly. Yet his presence was always one of impeccable elegance and refinement. Clearly, the past he represented was stronger by far than the neglect and the ravages of the present.

His sad eyes were large and beautiful. When you looked into them, you couldn't help loving him intensely. You knew that there was a treasure hidden in his inner desolation, and you wanted to reassure him. With the passage of the years, distinguished foundations, cities and governments joined his friends in an attempt to give him the recognition he needed and deserved. “Among his honors,” as the first official notice of his death stated, “are the Silver Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California, the Commander's Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Austrian Cross of Honor for Arts and Letters--first class, the Golden Goethe Medal, the Grillparzer Ring and City of Vienna Prize for Intellectual History.” On his sixty-fifth birthday he was presented a festschrift, and he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship on three occasions. He carried his many crosses with pride and a disarming sense of humor, but nothing could fill the void. He remained hidden in the bottomless well of his Viennese soul. Perhaps it was necessary for him to do so in order to maintain, to the end, his prodigious productivity. He spoke of “creative neurosis” in the first public lecture he delivered in Berkeley on Franz Kafka. Kafka is the writer with whom his name will remain most intimately associated. Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox, on which he had worked for three decades, was published in 1962. A German version of the book came out a few years later (1965). Franz Kafka's genius, Heinz Politzer's fascinating and brilliant mind, and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis--at the time of his death Politzer was working on a book on Freud--were shaped by the same immense cultural, social, and racial complexities.

He was born in Vienna on December 31, 1910. He studied there and in Prague. Together with Max Brod, he edited the first four volumes of


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the first collected works of Kafka. In the late thirties he escaped to Palestine. There he knew Martin Buber, the eminent Jewish mystic and philosopher. He came to the United States in 1947 and earned his Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College in 1950. After four years of teaching at Bryn Mawr and eight years at Oberlin College, Ohio, he joined the German Department at Berkeley in 1960. “In Berkeley I am Vienna,” he informed his new friends. His book on the great Viennese dramatist, Franz Grillparzer, appeared in 1972. The ease and elegance of his style, his intimate erudition, the sparkling depth of his perceptions make it delightful reading for layman and scholar alike.

He was a frequent visitor to Austria during the last years of his life, and it fell increasingly to his lot to be Vienna even in Vienna. This was the case perhaps because the city he represented had ceased to exist long since. He loved this dream city deeply and was aware of the irony of his love. Ultimately, he preferred to stay away from it and to live in the United States of America, for which he had few kind words. He did not forget that Austria had expelled the Jew, Heinz Politzer, before it became fashionable to bestow honors upon him. And he remained true to his Jewish origins even when he converted to Roman Catholicism late in his life. His conversion was a very serious and meaningful gesture. To be sure, one of its meanings, at least, was to acknowledge his roots not only in the City of God but in the City of Vienna and the Austrian Empire. One of his students once remarked that just to enter Heinz Politzer's office--notwithstanding the blotches of dried coffee on the ugly steel furniture--was enough to give you culture shock. During his tenure at Berkeley, hundreds of students were fortunate enough to be subjected to this shock--in his office, his classrooms and in his house on Florida Avenue. All of these places bring back memories of that strange mixture of uprootedness, creativity and urbanity with which he filled the spaces he occupied.

He was an indefatigable worker. When his right hand became paralyzed, he switched to his left hand. “ “Zitternd schreibt die linke Hand....” ” What his left hand wrote, trembling, just a few days before his death--it occurred on July 30, 1978--was a love poem to his wife Janie--after decades of a very difficult marriage, his most beautiful poem. He is also survived by his daughter Maria Bettina, his sons Martin, David, Stephen and Eric, four grandchildren and a sister. He loved his children deeply and, with a puzzled smile, was proud of having sired such fine Americans.

Andrew O. Jaszi Winfried G. Kudszus Hinrich C. Seeba


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Richard Edward Powell, Chemistry: Berkeley


1917-1979
Professor

Shortly after the death of Professor Powell, his brother wrote a letter to the department, as follows: “Dick said that the two happiest days of his life were the day on which he married Mary Ellen and the day that he found that he had a tenure position at Berkeley.” Richard Powell spent the remainder of his life in service to his family and the University.

Powell was born in Chicago in 1917. He earned his B.S. at Berkeley in 1939, and his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1942. Until his arrival in Berkeley in the fall of 1946, he worked on war-associated research at Princeton. At Princeton he was not completely removed from the Berkeley influence since his thesis director, Professor Henry Eyring, had obtained his Ph.D. at Berkeley.

Powell's interest and abilities were varied. It was an unusual occurrence when he did not have a considered opinion on almost any topic that might arise. The subjects that he was interested in were so numerous that it seemed incredible that he could master any of them. However, he did fully master them whether they were as abstruse as ciphers or a twelve-tone composition or as practical as the comparison of various makes of automobiles.

Frequently it appeared that the accomplishments outside of his own field would be at the expense of his personal professional status. His abilities were so great, however, that he was a world authority in his two fields of professional interest, chemical kinetics and the chemistry of nitrogen. His breadth in chemistry was as wide, if not greater than that of any other man in the field of chemistry. Many of us frequently stated that if Powell never taught a class, never served on a committee, and never did any of his own research, he would still be a most important person in the department. Nearly all of us took advantage of his knowledge of the literature in our fields of interest, which at times was greater than our own. His comments on our ideas in the discussions in which he always willingly partook were of great value to the participants. Several times he declined co-authorship of papers that would have taken considerably longer to complete or even would never have been finished without his aid. He acted as teacher and critic to the faculty members of the department, a position that no one else could have filled either then or now.


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For about twenty years, Powell was in charge of the teaching of freshman chemistry, one of the most demanding teaching responsibilities on campus. While Powell was a young assistant professor, Professor Latimer stated his conviction in a conversation that the real teaching in freshman chemistry was done in the small laboratory sections, and that the lectures for the large group of over 500 students was as much entertainment as teaching. Apparently Powell took this message seriously, for his lecturing in the freshman chemistry course was dramatic and successful for many years. He constantly upgraded the course, brought in fresh ideas, and always stimulated the interest of the students in chemistry.

He was chairman of the Chemistry Department from 1960-1966 and acting dean of the College of Chemistry 1965-1966. His administration of the Department was first rate. None of his colleagues felt that he or his specialty was slighted during Powell's administration. Key faculty members were recruited while he was chairman. Although he complained that the burden represented by the total budget of the College was larger than that of many liberal arts colleges, he not only did all the necessary work of the chairman, but, at the same time, still taught freshman chemistry with a class of over 1,000 students. He did relinquish part of the teaching load when the old Freshman Lecture Hall was demolished to make way for the new Physical Science Lecture Hall. For a period of time it was then necessary to divide the class into five sections; he lectured to three of these twice each week.

Powell was chairman of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, 1968-70. These were trying years on campus. When a speaker's reason became a slave to his emotions, Powell would halt the speaker and admonish him with a phrase such as, “we will not have that here,” to stop an attack on a fellow member of the Senate. He so familiarized himself with Robert's Rules of Order that he acted as his own parliamentarian, thereby expediting proceedings. The strain of remaining as unbiased and temperate as possible under trying circumstances never diminished his exuberant humor and friendly spirit. The Senate and the University are deeply indebted to him for his astute handling of the meetings during that difficult and volatile period.

George Jura R. E. Connick A. E. Hutson G. A. Somorjai


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Sol Frederick Ravitz, Mineral Technology: Berkeley


1907-1980
Professor Metallurgy, Emeritus

Fred, as Professor Ravitz was known to his colleagues, was a man of unfailing good humor and wise counsel; the latter he provided frequently for the benefit of confused students (and sometimes his peers!). Fred Ravitz could always put a technical or an administrative problem into very good perspective. With a twinkle in his eye and a pleasant smile, he could add a touch of lightness to what might have developed into an over-serious problem.

Fred's early years were spent in Salt Lake City and his college years at the nearby University of Utah, where he received both B.A. and M.S. degrees in chemistry. Subsequently, he attended the California Institute of Technology and was awarded the Ph.D. degree in 1931.

Following his doctoral studies, Fred returned to the University of Utah to teach, and within five years became head of the department of metallurgy and director of the engineering experiment station. He left those positions in 1942 to become assistant chief of the Salt Lake Station of the Bureau of Mines. His efforts during this period were directed toward the important task of finding ways to process domestic low-grade manganese ores in an attempt to meet the strategic need for critical metal. Based on the recognition that he had achieved for his outstanding contributions, he was invited to join the University of California as Professor of Metallurgy. He retired in 1973 but remained in close touch with his university friends until his death.

Fred Ravitz's professional field involved extraction of metals from minerals and ores. His teaching and research were strongly influenced by his background in chemistry, particularly in the application of thermodynamics and kinetics to metallurgical reactions. He was author of more than fifty outstanding scientific papers, a number of which have become classics in the field of chemical metallurgy. While in Utah he was a member of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce and was instrumental in the decision of United States Steel to build a major plant in that state. He was an acknowledged expert on sources and uses of manganese, a metal widely used in the steel industry and one that must be imported. Because of his expertise in this area, he was chosen to be the chairman of an ad hoc panel on manganese


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recovery technology by the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Academy of Science's National Research Council. He later served on a similar panel on manganese supply and its industrial implications; the final report of this panel was dedicated to his memory. Today, the problems associated with strategic materials are at the forefront of national policy consideration, and those now concerned with these matters regard these reports as the definitive analysis of the state of our nation's manganese supply. He also served on numerous other panels and committees, both educational and technological, and was an examiner for the California Board of Registration of Professional Engineers. He was a much sought-after consultant for several steel and mining firms throughout this country and his work in this area also took him to West Germany and Japan for extended stays.

Many generations of metallurgy graduate students at Berkeley had the benefit of Professor Ravitz's counsel and guidance. For many years he handled the duties of major field adviser and graduate admissions adviser, tasks that he carried out with real thoroughness, dedication, and consideration. His office was always open to his graduate student advisees for technical discussions as well as personal advice. His home was open to many students from foreign lands, and several of them still keep in touch with his family. Long after he retired, Ravitz willingly served on thesis committees and doctoral examinations, and as a result many students still had the benefit of his keen insight in analyzing their research and editing their writing.

In 1930, he married Janice Fuller, his long-time sweetheart. Their marriage was an enduring and happy union, terminated after fifty years only by his death. Although Fred enjoyed faculty group luncheons--where his wise and helpful counsel was greatly appreciated, he preferred lunch at home with Janice. She traveled with him in various parts of Europe, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Romania where he presented invited lectures. They were blessed with two lovely daughters and five lively grandchildren, all of whom were devoted to Fred and Janice and provided them with much joy and happiness in their later years.

E. R. Parker D. W. Fuerstenau R. R. Hultgren


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Leo G. Reeder, Public Health; Sociology: Los Angeles


1921-1978
Professor

Leo G. Reeder was jointly Professor of Public Health and Sociology, serving both faculties since his appointment at UCLA in 1958. Following infantry service in World War II, he received the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1951; he held academic posts first at Washington State University, and then the University of Minnesota, after which he joined the Rand Corporation.

At UCLA, as in the social-and-medical care communities at large, Professor Reeder was a potent force for the blending of the behavioral and health sciences. At the School of Public Health he was instrumental in starting a Behavioral Sciences instructional unit. In the Department of Sociology, he was similarly a forceful advocate for Sociology's interest in health and medicine, an interest reflected by his courses and by his doctoral students.

Dr. Reeder was associated with the Survey Research Center from its start at UCLA, and was its director from 1969 to 1975. In this post he was productive and influential. Numerous graduate students learned their craft during his tenure there; dozens of faculty and countless research projects profited from his support and understanding, from his methodological sophistication, and from his administrative ability.

Professor Reeder was an active scholar. He wrote prodigiously, was editor of the leading medical sociology textbook, and served on the editorial boards of journals in his field. At the time of his death, he was in the midst of a large-scale study of health behavior.

Recognition of his talents was extensive in the United States and abroad. Professor Reeder served on advisory committees at the National Center for Health Statistics and the National Institute of Mental Health. He was a founding member of the Medical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association and its chairman-elect, at his death. He lectured for the Royal Statistical Society in London. These recognitions were all in that last year before his senseless, tragic, wasteful death aboard the airliner involved in the accident above San Diego on the twenty-fifth of September, 1978.


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That accident deprived us all of a remarkable influential warm supportive fellow professor. On the one hand, Leo Reeder gave loyalty--there was no better friend or advocate--as junior colleagues can testify, and he expected the same from others; on the other hand, he had a short memory for insult and he quickly forgave. He demanded high performance in the best university tradition.

Professor Reeder leaves behind his wife Sharon Ringholz Reeder, also a UCLA Professor, and his young son, Andrew. Two older children, Glenn and Susan are already in professional academic life and in health research work. Leo Reeder's work, aspirations, and achievements were firmly established at the University of California. In 1980, the American Sociological Association established the Leo G. Reeder Distinguished Medical Sociologists Award, a fitting memorial to this distinguished associate.

John M. Chapman Howard E. Freeman Ralph H. Turner Daniel M. Wilner


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Sterling J. Richards, Soils and Plant Nutrition: Riverside


1909-1979
Professor of Soil Physics

Sterling J. Richards, a Soil Physicist at the University of California at Riverside until his retirement in 1971, was a leader in the development and improvement of scientific crop irrigation practices in California. He was born in Fielding, Utah, March 24, 1909, received a B.S. in physics from Utah State University in 1933 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1938.

The early part of Professor Richards' career was spent in New Jersey where he held a joint appointment as Soil Physicist at Rutgers University and as a Research Cooperative Agent, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in New Brunswick, New Jersey. For three years during World War II, he worked as a physicist for the U.S. Army Signal Corps Laboratories in Belmer, New Jersey. After the war he returned to Rutgers. In 1948, Dr. Richards accepted a position in the Department of Irrigation and Soils, Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, California. The department administration at that time was centered at UCLA. Later he was transferred to the Department of Soils and Plant Nutrition at Riverside. When Riverside became a general campus in 1961, he helped develop the curriculum for the College of Agriculture.

Dr. Richards' early research was concerned with the application of soil physics to improvement of crop irrigation practices. He was a pioneer in the development and use of tensiometers and his design improvements are a basic part of soil science textbooks today. The concepts and practices that he promoted will have an impact on irrigation farming for many years.

His work in the use of soil-water measuring instruments had a lasting influence in controlling the irrigation of plants grown for experimental purposes to control irrigation practices. His irrigation experiments produced data of both practical and basic value with results that show that widely held older theories about soil-moisture availability are inaccurate. A major field study showed the relationship between fruit growth and development and soil water potential.

Dr. Richards held a patent on a porous block ground cover for conserving soil moisture and preventing weed growth which is now used extensively in the state around street tree plantings.


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Sterling served as a consultant to the Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology at UCLA and to the Committee on Physics of the Commission on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division of Biology and Agriculture, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. He was president of the Western Soil Science Society and chairman of the Soil Physics Division of the Soil Science Society of America. He was a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an associate editor for the Proceedings of the Soil Science Society of America.

Dr. Richards was a dedicated teacher of soil physics. He enjoyed teaching and his classes were thorough in concept and information. He was respected by his students and staff. He participated in training programs for Cooperative Extension and Farm Advisory Services. His many publications on soil-water management have added greatly to the literature.

Dr. Richards and his wife Edna were married in 1936. He is survived by his son Leland and his daughter Susan as well as his brother, Lorenzo A. Richards, and his sister Ruby Farnsworth.

L. H. Stolzy J. P. Martin P. F. Pratt


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Leo G. Rigler, Radiological Sciences: Los Angeles


1896-1979
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Leo G. Rigler, Professor of Radiological Sciences, Emeritus, quietly passed away in his sleep on the evening of October 25, 1979, at the age of eighty-three, following an active day of teaching at the UCLA School of Medicine. Often called the “Father of Modern Radiology,” Dr. Rigler's career of sixty years parallel the growth of radiology in this country. His interpretations of X-ray findings helped to lay the groundwork for the explosive growth of diagnostic radiology as a specialty and for the correlation of radiologic findings with physiologic changes in the body. Dr. Rigler, widely revered for his creative teaching, trained many of the radiologic leaders in this country and throughout the world and more chairmen of radiology departments than any other teacher in his specialty. Leo Rigler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 16, 1896. He received his B.S. degree in 1917 from the University of Minnesota, a B.M. degree in 1919, and an M.D. degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1920. He married Matyl Sprung on September 8, 1920, and he is survived by Mrs. Rigler, by two children, Nancy and Ruth, and by seven grandchildren.

Following a period in general practice, Dr. Rigler developed an interest in radiology and was appointed radiologist at the Minneapolis General Hospital in 1923, where he served for three years. After a short sojourn in private practice in Minneapolis, he was appointed associate professor of radiology at the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1927, professor of radiology in 1929 and chairman of the department in 1935. He served with unparalleled distinction as chairman for twenty years, and during these two decades his department became one of the great radiology departments of the world.

Dr. Rigler was in the initial group of individuals certified by the new American Board of Radiology in 1934. He left Minneapolis in 1957 to become executive director of the Cedars of Lebanon-Mount Sinai Hospitals in Los Angeles, a post which he held for six years. He returned subsequently to full-time academic radiology, as Professor of Radiology in Residence


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and director of the Radiology Residency Program at the UCLA School of Medicine, a position which he filled with great distinction until his death. In 1971, UCLA dedicated the Leo G. Rigler Center for Radiological Sciences within the Department of Radiological Sciences. The Center consists of an extensive complex of animal laboratories for radiological research.

Dr. Rigler has occupied a host of prestigious positions in medicine. Among these, he was consultant to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the United States Public Health Service and a member of the National Cancer Advisory Council, the Committee on Academic Radiology of the National Academy of Sciences, the Committee on Radiology of the National Research Council, and the Medical Advisory Board of the Tel Aviv University Medical School. He was elected a trustee of the American Board of Radiology and of the American Registry of X-Ray Technologists.

Among his numerous honors and awards were the gold medals of the Radiological Society of North America as well as of the American College of Radiology, the Crookshank Medal from the British Faculty of Radiologists, an honorary fellowship from the Royal College of Radiology, and the Caldwell Medal from the American Roentgen Ray Society.

In addition to being an invited speaker for numerous named lectureships, Dr. Rigler held official posts in many prestigious medical organizations. To cite a few, he was president of the Radiological Society of North America, the Fleischner Society, the Minnesota Radiological Society, and the Minnesota Pathological Society. He was also a chancellor of the American College of Radiology.

Three Rigler Lectureships have been established during his lifetime, two in the United States and one in Israel.

Dr. Rigler contributed prodigiously to medical literature. He was author or co-author of four books and over two hundred articles, many of which are recognized today as classical contributions to the radiological literature. He was associate editor of the journal Radiology, assistant editor of Diseases of the Chest, and a member of the editorial boards of the New Physician and Medical Tribune.

Dr. Rigler has left his impact on radiologists of three generations. His teaching has affected not only young men and women entering the field of radiology but also numerous medical students and physicians in other clinical disciplines who have been exposed to him directly or to his writings and teachings. Throughout his professional lifetime, Dr. Rigler had countless friends throughout the world and had a penchant for befriending those in need. His innate decency, his passion for justice, and his concern for the less fortunate, matched his accomplishments in science and in teaching. His loss is tempered by the knowledge that this man enriched by his presence all who knew him and countless others for whom his name was


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a byword. It is a source of gratitude to all of us that Leo Rigler graced our lives.

J. Jorgens N. Zheutlin R. Steckel


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Thomas Edward Ronan, Jr., Earth and Space Sciences: Los Angeles


1946-1978
Assistant Professor of Paleobiology

On September 7, 1978, Professor Thomas Edward Ronan, Jr., died as a result of a diving accident that occurred while he was carrying out research on the ecologic relations among bottom-dwelling marine organisms off the coast of Santa Catalina Island. With his tragic death the University lost a promising young scholar and an enthusiastic and gifted teacher.

Tom Ronan was born May 4 1946, in Vallejo, California. A product of the California academic system, he received his B.A. (in 1971) in Biology from the California State University at Sonoma and his M.S. (in 1973) and Ph.D. (in 1975) degrees, both in Ecology, both at the University of California, Davis, and both under the tutelage of Professor James W. Valentine. Throughout his career, both as a graduate student and as a professor, he was an active member of the scientific community at the University of California Marine Laboratory at Bodega Harbor.

In July 1975, Tom Ronan joined the faculty of the Department of Geology (now the Department of Earth and Space Sciences) at UCLA. Thus, although he was a member of the University faculty for only a scant three years, he rapidly made his mark. As a scientist, he was known for his dedication and thoroughness; he was widely knowledgeable and both a perceptive observationalist and a successful experimentalist. Above all, he was enormously hard working. His research represented a merging of biology and geology, of oceanography, sedimentology, and ecology. Working in an alien environment and often under the most arduous of circumstances, he already showed a knack for succeeding where others before him had failed. His work has been formally honored by the Western Society of Naturalists. He was well on his way to becoming a truly first class interdisciplinary scientist.

Yet even more than as a scientist, Tom Ronan will be remembered as a teacher--a friendly, kind and warm human being, an enthusiastic lecturer, an inspiration to his students. He communicated not only facts, but feelings. He was rigorous, yet reasonable; demanding, yet understanding. Written comments from his spring 1977 oceanography students are typical: “It's nice to have a prof. who is really interested in the feelings of students,


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and who really loves to teach”; “... one of the best classes at this school... one of the few where I didn't want to leave (I wanted Dr. Ronan to lecture longer!)”; “... Ronan is a terrific teacher... enthusiastic, interesting and an excellent instructor. I think I learned more (and enjoyed it more) in his class than in any other I've taken here at ULCA”; “... the lectures were fantastic, very effective... especially good for people (like me) who are not especially interested in other types of science. It really opened up a whole new field of interest... THANKS for the class, Dr. Ronan.”

Professor Ronan will be deeply missed by his many, good friends. He is survived by his wife, Jana Marie, and by their two children.

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David John Sakrison, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences: Berkeley


1933-1980
Professor

On July 17, 1980, within view of the mountains he loved around his native Tucson, David John Sakrison died. His death concluded a two-and-one-half year fight against multiple myeloma.

For all but a few months, Dave spent his last years leading his normal active life as husband, father, teacher, researcher, and administrator. He was chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

He began his professional career after completing his BSEE and MSEE at the University of Arizona in 1955 and 1956, respectively. He spent two years in the army with the National Security Agency, then continued his education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning his ScD. in Electrical Engineering in 1961. After two years as assistant professor at MIT, Dave joined the faculty at Berkeley, becoming full professor in 1970. He was a NATO fellow in 1969, and was a frequent consultant to government and industry. He was internationally known for his work on information theory and its applications. He was a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

His research had three major stages. In his first work Dave concentrated on the use of stochastic approximation methods in communication theory. After extending these methods to multidimensional, continuous-time parameter space, he applied them to the interactive design of filters, to the recursive estimation of unknown parameters, and to system identification.

Next, in a long sequence of papers, Dave attacked the problem of source encoding. This research centered on the concept of the rate-distortion function and its evaluation for diverse sources and distortion measures. An omnibus catalog of solutions resulted, for a variety of sources.

In Dave's work on image processing, beginning around 1970, and occupying him until his death, his creativity reached its full flower. Not only did he draw upon and apply his past information-theoretic background, but he merged this with elegant experimental psychophysical studies, attaining a unique synthesis of information theory and visual physiology. With his


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students, he perfected and verified a quantitative model for achromatic vision, in which the human visual system is modeled as a collection of independent detectors with well-determined properties. This model lays the basis for image encoding specifically adapted to human vision.

Dave was an inspired teacher, demanding the highest standards of performance both from his students and himself. He was admired for his precise lectures, and attracted a large group of graduate students to whom he devoted an extraordinary amount of time. He contributed two textbooks on communication theory, one undergraduate, and one at the graduate level.

As a member of the University community, Dave took his responsibilities seriously. He served on numerous committees and special councils. Especially noteworthy was his long tenure on the EECS undergraduate study committee, followed by four years on the Berkeley committee on courses, and two years as EECS vice chairman of undergraduate matters. He served as acting chairman of EECS in 1974-75 and became chairman in 1977. The results endure in the structures and organizations he created and the outstanding faculty and staff he recruited.

Dave enjoyed his many non-academic pursuits enormously. He was especially interested in the people around him, and constantly encouraged slightly outrageous behavior from his friends. Having a fine ability to discern quality, good and bad, he was able to appreciate both, for example, in the limericks that he recited and composed while hiking and camping. A booming bass who took few directions, he enlivened the Faculty Club Monks Chorus and the Oakland Maennerchor. He sang any time the mood was right.

He loved the outdoors and things physical. He and his wife Connie, their three children, Kara, Kirsten, and John, and their friends, skied together often. On memorable occasions, first tracks were left on fresh hillsides of dry powder. Dave introduced his friends to abalone diving, coaxed them to climb rocks in the Sierra, and was game for any and all new sports. He touched many lives and lived many roles. One minute he was the model department chairman, but the next, students and colleagues found him in shorts and socks, jogging across campus and up Strawberry Canyon, or skateboarding down University Drive, or perhaps unicycling in the hallway outside his office.

Dave had an abundant, wry humor. He was precise; he could be stubborn; he continually challenged himself and those around him, and he was always open to the needs of any who sought his advice ahead help. If he could, he made each year a hiking trip in some relatively untraveled part of the Sierra Nevada--alone, so he could experience it more vividly. He is missed, now that his ashes are returned to the mountains. But he left suggestions. Several years before he knew of his affliction he reflected on such passings and wrote:


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We should “recognize that what (we) love in other people are qualities and characteristics reflecting something deeper, that individuals are only examples, and that while the individual examples are transient the qualities really loved will always exist and are always around for the observing”.

W. G. Oldham G. L. Turin R. M. White E. Wong


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Theodore Saloutos, History: Los Angeles


1910-1980
Professor Emeritus

The sudden death of Theodore Saloutos from a heart attack on November 15, 1980, marked the passing of an extraordinary person. Ted Saloutos was a man with very definite ideas about priorities. Three things were always uppermost in his life: his family, his scholarship and teaching (which he saw as closely intertwined), and his attachment to his Greek heritage. All were central, all were cared about very deeply. His record is one of remarkable achievement.

Saloutos' scholarship placed him among the most distinguished historians of the American experience. His two books on farmer movements in the Midwest and in the South, a third large volume now in press on American farmers and the New Deal, his scores of articles on related topics--all constitute the definitive treatments of their subjects over a period of nearly a century. “Balanced,” “judicious,” “exhaustive,” “outstanding”--these are the adjective applied to his works by the experts: the judgment of the profession at large. His scholarship is as sensitive to elite and power brokers as it is to dirt farmers and the less fortunate; it is as sensitive to national issues as to regional differences.

But even if Ted Saloutos had never published a word about American agriculture he would still occupy a distinguished place in American historiography because of his books and articles on immigrants. His volume on The Greeks in the United States is the standard account. Through still another book, They Remember America, he became a leader in a major subfield that studies the returning immigrants who left American and went back to their native lands. Of a piece with these publications was his dedication to the Hellenic University Club of Southern California (he was the founding president) and the Save Cyprus Council of Southern California.

Honors and awards came to him in abundance: president of the Agricultural History Society; president of the Immigration History Society; president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association; Guggenheim Fellow; recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (from which he had graduated in 1933 when it was known as Milwaukee State Teachers College); Fullbright


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lecturer at the University of Freiburg; Fulbright research scholar at the University of Athens, in the early 1950s and again in the mid-1960s; and many other honors.

In 1940, Saloutos completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin under John Hicks, one of the luminary scholars of his day. Hicks paid him the supreme compliment of asking him to help with a book. Hicks tells us in his autobiography:

I set myself the task of finding out what had happened to the farmers of the Middle West after the decline of Populism. This undertaking would either fit into my larger study of the Middle West, or would perhaps become a book all by itself. I wangled a research assistant, Theodore Saloutos, to help me with this work, but in the end it was he who wrote the book, while I became little more than a silent partner in the enterprise. John Hicks, My LIfe with History: An Autobiography (Lincoln, 1968), 163.

This book appeared as Agricultural Discontent in the Middle West and later as a paperback entitled Twentieth Century Populism.

After teaching a few years at Wisconsin, Saloutos went first to Oberlin College, and then in 1945, he and his wife Florence Schwefel, whom he had married in 1940, went to UCLA where they remained for more than three decades until his retirement in 1978. Over the years he taught thousands of students in his general survey course on U.S. history and in his courses on U.S. agriculture and farmer movements, American social and economic history, and U.S. immigration history. He also trained twenty-five Ph.D. students (and a twenty-sixth plans to file his dissertation shortly). Most of these have joined college and university faculties in every part of the country. His doctoral students worked on a great variety of topics and utilized many different methods. No drummer beat a single rhythm or demanded a single-line-of-march in his seminar. The list of his students' publications runs many pages. To those who knew Saloutos best, he was a generous, open person who possessed a delightful sense of humor, loving to laugh and being able to laugh at himself.

Administrative tasks rated low on his list of preferences, but when they came his way, he performed them responsibly, doggedly, and successfully. He was a scrupulously conscientious member of those myriad committees to which all faculty members must belong. He was a superb department chairman--straightforward, sensitive, loyal. He was chairman in the spring of 1965 when a group from the history department went to Alabama for the last day of the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery. When he received a telephone call from an irate parent demanding to know why those professors were not on campus, he replied: “Our professors not only teach history, they also make it.”

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meeting by pulling out his watch, laying it on the table in front of him, and then from time to time reminding us of the time being wasted while we repeated one another and tried to speak eloquently about ineloquent subjects.

Ted Saloutos lived a rich, full, and productive life. He, himself, best described the character of that life in remarks he made several years ago about another prominent historian. Ted could have been describing himself.

[He was] a shrewd and independent person.... He was also a realist. Those who knew him best knew him as a man of warmth, understanding, and good company. A dedicated scholar and teacher, he retained a keen interest in the contemporary world and domestic scene.... His love for the profession was surpassed only by his love of family.... [He] will also be missed by his many students, the profession at large, and the many others who had the good fortune to be influenced by his teaching and writings. Pacific Historical Review, XLI (1972), 562-563.

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William Frederick Sample, Radiology: Los Angeles


1939-1979
Associate Professor
Chief of the Diagnostic Ultrasound and Computed Body Tomography Section

Dr. Sample was born on August 10, 1939, in Omaha, Nebraska, and he passed away on September 25, 1979. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, from 1954 to 1957. He attended Stanford University from 1957 to 1961 majoring in economics and minoring in industrial engineering. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honor. From 1961 to 1966, Dr. Sample attended the medical school of Stanford University. During his medical training, he spent one year in the laboratory of Nobel laureate Arthur Kornberg, M.D., Ph.D., and worked part time in the laboratory of Norman Shumway, M.D., Ph.D. He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and served as chapter president in 1966. From 1966 to 1967, Dr. Sample spent his internship at Palo Alto Stanford Hospital. This was followed by a one-year surgery residency. Then from 1968 to 1971, he was a clinical associate in the surgery branch of the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

At this time, Dr. Sample decided on a career change and entered the field of radiology. He served as a resident in radiology at the UCLA Medical Center from 1971 to 1974. He was chief resident of the radiology program in 1973-74. In July of 1974, he began a fellowship in Nuclear Medicine/Ultrasound and was appointed Adjunct Instructor. In 1975, Dr. Sample joined the faculty of the Department of Radiology at UCLA and was named chief of the section of diagnostic ultrasound. Shortly thereafter, UCLA acquired a CT body scanner and Dr. Sample was named chief of a combined section of Ultrasound/CT. From 1975 until the time of his death, Dr. Sample was a prolific writer and lecturer. He was an Assistant Professor of Radiology for only three years receiving a rapid accelerated promotion to Associate Professor in 1978. He contributed to over sixty articles; for many of these he was the primary author. His contributions to the field of diagnostic ultrasound earned him an international reputation. Much of his work delved into the anatomic correlation of ultrasound. This was particularly noted in


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evaluation of the adrenal and parathyroid glands. He has been the invited speaker to more than one hundred conferences, teaching symposia, and specialty society meetings. He has been visiting professor to the Australian Radiologic Society and the European Radiologic Society. Dr. Sample was certified by both the American Board of Radiology and the American Board of Nuclear Medicine. He was an active member of the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, and the Society of Computed Body Tomography.

Dr. Sample's numerous contributions to the field of diagnostic ultrasound are a testimony to his diligent, uncompromising devotion to excellence. His inquisitive thorough mind tremendously advanced the field of diagnostic ultrasound. In a short period of time, he developed a national as well as international reputation. His pioneering contributions to the evolving field of diagnostic ultrasound have been equalled by few and will be remembered by many.

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Charles Richard Scherer, Civil Engineering: Los Angeles and Berkeley


1943-1979
Assistant Professor

Colleagues, students, and friends were stunned by the sudden death of Charles R. Scherer at his parents' home in Tustin, California, on New Year's Day, 1979. Rick had been on the faculty of the Division of Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Berkeley since 1977. Before that, he had been an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Systems Department at UCLA for five years.

Rick was born in Dallas, Texas, on May 13, 1943. He became a Californian when very young and throughout his life enjoyed the California outdoors as an active hiker, sailor, and skier. After elementary and secondary education at Long Beach, he received the B.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 1966 and an M.S. degree in Sanitary Engineering in 1967 from Stanford University. A growing interest in environmental problems led him to Cornell University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Systems Engineering in 1973.

Rick's interests were in problems of natural resources and their use, particularly in the Western United States. He believed in a comprehensive approach that involved engineering, economic, and environmental considerations. He was strongly oriented toward problems that were important to people and public policy, and had a knack for identifying such problems before others had realized their significance. In his work, he emphasized the statement of the problem in concise and analytical terms so that the application of quantitative methods would yield conclusions that were definite and policy-relevant.

His earliest work on the effect of environmental restrictions on electrical power generation systems design and costs had just been published as the monograph, Estimating Electric Power System Marginal Costs. A review appearing shortly after his death described this study as “a definitive contribution to the literature of energy modeling.” He had recently completed major studies on salinity management for the Colorado River Basin and on the engineering-economic aspects of geothermal power development. A number of his papers on these and other topics, ranging from economics of wastewater treatment and desalting plant design to the relationship


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between oil tanker size and the environmental impact of oil spills, had appeared in journals in the diverse fields of engineering, economics, operations research, and environmental problems. Other studies were in progress on pricing, allocation, and development of California's water resources and on salinity management for California's Central Valley.

In addition to his professional accomplishments, Rick will be remembered for his personal warmth and friendliness and his concern for his students. This concern is illustrated by the following note from him to one of his students on a term paper graded shortly before Professor Scherer's untimely death. “I think my criticism is rather severe, so don't be discouraged. Remember, it's easy to criticize, but more difficult to initiate, so mine is the easy job and yours was the hard one. I wouldn't be so critical, if I didn't think you could do better!”

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May Violet Seagoe, Education: Los Angeles


1906-1980
Professor Emerita

The contributions of May Violet Seagoe will live long in the memory of her countless friends and associates. Her reputation as an educator and psychologist transcends the boundaries of the nation, and throughout her distinguished professional career her advice and counsel were sought by many. She was never too busy to help a student or a colleague and participated actively in her duties as a professor and administrator in the Graduate School of Education. She initiated the field of special education in the Graduate School of Education at UCLA.

Dr. Seagoe was a native Californian, valedictorian of her 1929 graduating class from UCLA. She was graduated Summa Cum Laude for both the master's and doctor's degrees at Stanford University and was a student of Dr. Lewis W. Terman. Prior to joining the UCLA faculty, she taught in East Los Angeles and was a counselor and school psychologist in Pasadena and Arcadia.

Her thirty-nine years on the faculty at UCLA were filled with excitement, with enthusiasm for her work, and with dedicated service to her many doctoral students. In recognition of her distinguished career, many awards and citations such as “Outstanding Professor” by the Associated Students at UCLA and the Citation of Merit by the National Association for Gifted Children, were presented to her.

Dr. Seagoe's research and writing, done with a concentration on the gifted, on learning theory, and on exceptional children were well known throughout the nation, and her opinions were sought by universities, research groups, and professional associations. Her books include, The Teacher's Guide to the Learning Process, Yesterday was Tuesday, All Day and All Night, and Terman and the Gifted. The last publication had special meaning for Professor Seagoe, since she was one of Dr. Terman's gifted pupils and had herself been studied from early childhood into adulthood.

She relished her assignment as Assistant Dean and was thoroughly aware and capable of dealing with administrative problems. One day after a particularly difficult administrative task she remarked, “I guess I am a mouse, in training to be a rat.” She simply could not stand for anyone to


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be hurt by negative criticism and found ways to ease the pain of reporting that a job was not well accomplished. One of her students, upon reading May's review of her dissertation, said that her reaction was that this was the most wonderful letter she had ever received, although between the lines of May's letter it said that the research was not satisfactory. The young lady returned to her task with a smile.

Above all, May Seagoe was the devoted mother of her daughter, Amy, and her son, Brent.

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Samuel Selden, Theater Arts: Los Angeles


1899-1979
Professor Emeritus

The passing of Samuel Selden at the age of eighty on April 27, 1979, brought sadness to the hearts of his immediate family, a multitude of former students, professional colleagues, and friends who respected and loved him through the years. They take comfort in knowing that his passing was, as he had lived his life, graceful and gentle. He is survived by his wife, Emily, his daughter, Priscilla, and his son, Samuel, Jr., who recently received his M.D. degree.

In his more than fifty years as a teacher, scholar, director, and writer, Sam Selden became recognized across the nation as “Mr. Educational Theater.” It was only after completing one illustrious career spanning thirty years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that he was willing to assume the enormous responsibility of chairing the rapidly expanding UCLA Department of Theater Arts in 1959. Before returning in 1966, he saw his department move in to the Macgowan Hall complex of theaters, shops, seminar rooms, offices, and rehearsal halls; and he supervised the planning of Melnitz Hall to house the motion picture and television curriculum.

Born in Canton, China, the son of medical missionaries, he went to school in Shanghai, came to the United States in time to enlist in World War I, and then entered Yale University where he completed his A.B. He frequently recalled for his students the moment in China when he was asked to participate in a dramatization of Silas Marner and, in the midst of the production, realized that the theater must always be a part of his life. After graduating from Yale, he spent active years as a professional stage manager, actor, and designer in New York and at the Provincetown Playhouse working on the early plays of Eugene O'Neill and Paul Green.

In 1927, he joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina and became a director for the famed Carolina Playmakers. In 1945, he was appointed there as chair of the department of dramatic arts, a post he held until coming to Los Angeles in 1959.

While at UCLA, in addition to serving as chair for the Department of Theater Arts from 1959 until 1966, he was president of the American Educational Theatre Association in 1960; he received the Award of Merit


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for Distinguished Service to Educational Theatre in 1962; and he was designated a fellow of the American Theater Association, the organization's highest honor, in 1965. He served UCLA in many capacities, including his leadership in the founding of the theater group that later became the Center Theatre Group when it moved to the Mark Taper Forum. He was a trustee of the National Theatre Conference, a member of the board of the American National Theatre and Academy, and a member of the board of the Institute of Outdoor Drama. He received a Guggenheim fellowship for study of European theatres and was honored with the Litt. D. by Illinois College.

As a director, he earned a national reputation for staging outdoor historical dramas. New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson consistently praised his artistry in reviewing his works which attracted wide and continuing audiences. The Lost Colony by Paul Green was first staged in 1937 and has been presented each summer ever since with only the interruption of the World War II years. Included in the other plays that continue with much of his original staging are Wilderness Road and The Stephen Foster Story, also by Paul Green. He has directed and advised outdoor dramas throughout the southeastern states. Of his more than four hundred college theater productions, the UCLA community may well remember his staging of Finian's Rainbow in Royce Hall.

That Selden was a creative artist and scholar in every art and craft of theater is attested to by his published books, most of which are still the standard texts in the field. They include: Stage Scenery and Lighting (with Hunton Sellman), Modern Theatre Practice (with Hubert Heffner and Hunton Sellman), A Player's Handbook, The Stage in Action, First Steps in Acting, An Introduction to Playwriting, Frederick H. Koch: Man in His Theatre, and Theatre: Double Game. He edited many other books including: Organizing a Community Theatre, A Player's Handbook of Short Scenes by William Shakespeare, and International Folk Plays.

The influence of Sam Selden on the course and achievements of the American Theatre must be measured and mirrored in the accomplishments of the legions of his students. He taught them their art and their craft, and he left them with a love and a respect for the theatre and its unique ability to illuminate our lives. In 1980, a bas-relief of Sam was placed in the Paul Green Theatre in Chapel Hill, in the green room--the informal gathering room for performers. It was placed there as a memorial to the close personal guidance and love given to each individual by this artist and educator, who always gave all the time necessary to discover new truths through theatre.

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Mitchel Ming-Chi Shen, Chemical Engineering: Berkeley


1938-1979
Professor

Following a brief illness, Mitchel Shen passed away on August 7, 1979, at the early age of forty and at the peak of his career. The students and faculty at Berkeley will miss an inspirational teacher and dedicated colleague, and the field of polymer science has lost an outstanding young researcher.

Mitchel Shen was born in Tienjin, China, on September 1, 1938, and emigrated with his parents to Taiwan at the close of World War II. Always an excellent student, he attended high school at the Chien Kuo Middle School, completing his studies there in 1955. He then came to the United States for his professional education. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from St. Francis College (Pennsylvania) in 1959, an M.S. in physical chemistry from Princeton University in 1962, and a Ph.D. at Princeton in 1963. Following graduation, he continued to work for a year as a post-doctoral fellow with his research director, Professor A. V. Tobolsky.

After leaving Princeton, Shen joined the technical staff of the Chemical Physics Group at the North American Rockwell Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California. While there, he also found time to serve for a quarter as a visiting lecturer at the California Lutheran College (1967). In 1969, he was invited to join the Department of Chemical Engineering at Berkeley. Arriving as an Associate Professor, he advanced rapidly to the rank of Professor in 1973. During this early period of his academic career he became one of the first recipients of the prestigious Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1970) and was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (1972).

Throughout his career at Berkeley, Shen was recognized as a dedicated teacher who was always sensitive to the needs of his students. His undergraduate courses on thermodynamics and his undergraduate and graduate courses on polymers are remembered for the care he took in preparation of lectures and the efforts he made to elucidate complex subjects. His guidance of graduate research reflected a similar care and attention and embodied his philosophy that successful research involve not only the progress of the work but also the growth and development of the researcher.

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evidenced in many ways. Between 1972 and 1973, he served as the campus assistant dean of students. In this capacity he advised foreign students, drawing upon his own experiences to help young scholars overcome the cultural and academic difficulties they encountered. His special concern for foreign students and his efforts to help them were continued through his service on the Chancellor's Advisory Committee of Foreign Students (1973-76) and the Board of Directors of the International House (1974-76). As Vice-Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1976 until his death, Professor Shen undertook a variety of tasks willingly, conscientiously, and vigorously, and showed great sensitivity for the feelings and needs of colleagues and graduate students. He gave his time and effort selflessly and was admired and warmly regarded by his faculty associates. During the first half of 1978 he served as Acting Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering.

Shen's research focused on rubber elasticity, rheology of entangled liquids, membrane properties, polymer alloys, and plasma-generated polymers. In all of these areas he was able to make major contributions. Of particular significance were the development of a transient network model, which successfully predicts the viscoelastic properties of entangled polymers having different structures and molecular weight distributions, and the discovery of plasma-initiated polymerization as a means for producing ultra-high molecular weight polymers in a simple fashion. His contributions to the polymer field led to over one hundred research articles in various scientific journals with many others in press at the time of his death. Together with J. J. Alkonis and W. J. MacKnight he co-authored a book entitled “Introduction to Polymer Viscoelasticity” (Interscience, 1972), and he edited five other volumes.

His service to professional societies, to scholarly journals, and to both governmental and academic institutions was extensive. He was an assistant editor of Transactions of the Society of Rheology (1970-75), co-editor of Reviews of Macromolecular Chemistry (1969- ), and editor-at-large for the Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A (1971- ). Active in the American Chemical Society, he was a member of the Board of the Division of Polymer Chemistry and of the divisional Program Committee, and was a Councillor (1978- ) of the California Section of the Society. In addition, he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Polymer Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts (1976- ) and of the Advisory Panel of the National Research Council-Solid State Sciences Committee (1973- ).

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long be remembered by his wife, Vivian, his children, Ted and Lara, and his many friends and colleagues.

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Helge Shipstead, Dairy Industry: Davis


1891-1980
Dairy Technologist Emeritus in the Experimental Station

Helge Shipstead died quietly in his sleep on August 27, 1980, at his son's home in Granada Hills. Helge had enjoyed twenty-one years of retirement after a varied professional career.

Shipstead became associated with the Dairy Industry Department, UCD, in 1946, when he began a research program concerned mainly with the use of nonfat dry milk in bread, and particularly with the interactions of casein and wheat gluten that influence the structure and baking quality of bread dough. Shipstead's research conducted during a sabbatical leave at the Norwegian Agriculture College at Vollebekk led to U.S. and Norwegian patents on method and apparatus for determining total solids in milk and other fluid foods. He became Dairy Technologist in the Experiment Station in 1951, and Dairy Technologist Emeritus in 1959.

Helge Shipstead was born in Sweden on September 14, 1891, of Norwegian parents. He studied at the Institute of Technology, Berlin, Germany, and graduated with the Chemical Engineering degree in 1915 and the Doctor of Engineering in 1917. After service in the Norwegian army, he came to the United States in 1920. His professional career before joining the University included employment as Research Chemist with Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York, and with Borden Company in Syracuse, New York, and Director of Research for Freia Chocolate Company, Oslo, Norway. He was awarded a certificate of appreciation by the U.S. Quartermaster Corps for his work during World War II on manufacture of whole milk and egg powder. Results of his research were applied in many countries throughout the world.

While living in Rochester, Helge met Olive Puttick, teacher of piano at the Eastman School of Music, whom he married in England in 1926. Helge's death terminated their 56 years together, then Olive died one month later. The Shipsteads are survived by their son Olaf of Granada Hills, California, their daughter Inga Dubay of Portland, Oregon, and seven grandchildren.

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George Patton Simonds, Architecture: Berkeley


1905-1978
Professor Emeritus

At a memorial gathering of friends, faculty associates, and civic and government officials, George was warmly remembered as a teacher, public servant, distinguished practicing architect, and valuable member of the Bay Area community. The profession recognized his leadership in 1965 in election to the Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects, citing him “as an individual who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in his own fields of endeavor and who thereby contributed significantly to the betterment of society.”

George graduated at Berkeley with an A.B. in architecture in 1927, followed by the M.A. degree in 1928. He received his first teaching appointment in 1948, advancing to the rank of full Professor in 1959. As a teacher, his comprehensive knowledge of his subject conjoined with a special ability of presentation captured the interest of his students. In office as assistant dean of the College of Environmental Design, his decisions on student problems were made with compassion and respect for individual fears and feelings. He served his Department, College, and University on numerous academic and administrative committees. In 1962, he presided as the chairman of the College faculty. When he retired in 1972, he received the Berkeley Citation in recognition of his contribution to the welfare of the University.

George was admitted to the practice of architecture in the State of California in 1931. Beginning in 1940, he was engaged for six years as planner and regional technical adviser to the United States Public Housing Authority in San Francisco. He was appointed to the Board of Architectural Examiners in 1943 and later served as its president through 1955. In 1946, he established a partnership for professional consultation and the practice of architecture in the City of Oakland. In 1961. he was elected president of the East Bay Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Other affiliations included membership in the Guild for Religious Architecture, the American Arbitration Association, and the Construction Specifications Institute. From 1946 through 1948, he served as commissioner on the City of Hayward Housing Authority. As a planning commissioner of the State


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of California, he was the author of the first land use and zoning ordinance for off-street parking and residential density. In 1968, he held a membership on the Board of Consultants to the San Francisco Bay Area Conservation Commission. At this time, he was also a board member of the non-profit Eden Housing Corporation for the development of housing for low income families.

He was among the first in the State of California in recognizing the importance of architectural considerations in the seismic performance of buildings. He completed field work in the aftermath of several damaging earthquakes in this country and in South America. In 1964, he became a member of the Earthquake Engineering Institute and of the Seismological Society of America. He brought pioneering work to completion in study of architectural design-concepts in earthquake resistant buildings.

Buildings designed by his firm stand on the Davis campus: Storer Hall, the National Primate Center, and Hutchison Hall. In the City of Hayward, his firm completed the State College Joint Project, Chabot College, and many other commissions.

From 1952 through 1968, George engaged at various times in extensive travels and studies in Europe, Central America, and the Middle East. His investigations of earthquake damage to structures in Caracas and Bogotá were funded by the National Science Foundation, and resulted in reports before professional groups, including a technical paper on building configuration and earthquakes. He also participated in a symposium on “State of the Art of a Seismic Design” before EERI and the Structural Engineers Association of California. Articles on the same subject were published in California Architect, March, 1968. On direct grants, he made a study and report on building code practices for the National Commission on Urban Problems, and on costs of high rise buildings for Housing and Urban Development.

Pre-Columbian art and, more generally, Latin-American art and architecture, were interests vigorously pursued in numerous trips to Mexico and to Central and South America. He returned with carefully selected acquisitions from these countries. His generous gift of his collection of slides of pre-Columbian work now forms a significant part of the Department's library.

Professor Simonds is survived by three daughters. His wife, Merle, died not long after him.

George was a modest, congenial, and strictly honest man. He advocated, and he himself exemplified, the embrace of responsibilities in the practice of architecture reaching out beyond usual boundaries. Characteristically, the advocacy was voiced in a genial, unassuming way. His strength was an inner one of character, of human warmth and understanding, of compassion and friendship. His quiet, homely philosophy, always to the point, was expressed with an engaging smile and wry humor which endeared him to


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students and colleagues alike. His impact over the years has been a lasting one.

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Walton Bunyon Sinclair, Biochemistry: Riverside


1900-1979
Professor Emeritus

The sudden death on November 1, 1979 of Walton B. Sinclair just before his seventy-ninth birthday brought to a close the long and productive career of a pioneer plant biochemist. His work at the Riverside campus, which began in 1932 and continued after his formal retirement in 1968, spanned the period during which understanding of the nature and functioning of plants expanded from only the most gross details of plant composition to the comprehension of subtle interactions of plant metabolism and of some of the ways in which plant growth and development are controlled and regulated by internal and external factors. Walt Sinclair made many significant contributions to this improved understanding, choosing as his field of study the biochemistry of Citrus species and cultivars.

A native of North Carolina, Dr. Sinclair first studied chemistry at Oglethorpe College in Atlanta. When he received his B.S. degree in 1922 offers of admission to both medical school and graduate school forced him to choose between the family tradition of medical practice and entry into a new and unknown field. He chose the unknown and always viewed that decision as the best of his lifetime. As a student of R. A. Gortner at the University of Minnesota he developed the lifelong enthusiasm for probing the chemical and physical nature of biological materials that was central to his own research and to his understanding of the work of others and that gave him such an important role in compiling and synthesizing knowledge of the biochemistry citrus.

After receiving his Ph.D. in 1929, Walt first worked for the Wilson Co. in Chicago. His research efforts there led to the production of several hormones and pharmaceuticals as byproducts of the meat industry. Some of these are still made. Then followed two years as a research chemist with the National Biscuit Company of New York. Here Walt applied the new knowledge of the physical chemistry of grains, gained from his own research and that of others in Gortner's laboratory, to practical problems of the baking industry, such as the balance between crispness and fragility in crackers. From this experience Walt probably came to the view that colored his future attitude toward all research. “There is nothing more practical than fundamental research.”


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In 1932, Walt joined the University of California as a Research Biochemist and started the studies of the biochemistry and physiology of citrus that were to occupy his professional career. His early work included characterization of the proteins and carbohydrates of citrus fruits and the first studies of enzyme activity in citrus fruits. These studies led to development of the means of evaluating the maturity of fruits by simple measurements of soluble solids and acid in the juice that became the legal standard for marketing California citrus and led to the reputation for high quality which is still enjoyed by California citrus. During the 1940's, in cooperation with Riverside entomologists, he developed methods that were among the earliest for determination of residues of insecticides in edible foods and showed the possibilities of evaluating the amount of poisons such as cyanide and methyl bromide absorbed by treated fruit and eventually consumed by the public. In the same period he completed studies of the buffering system of citrus juice and the pectin, carbohydrate, and volatile oils of citrus which provided fundamental information on which the worldwide citrus juice concentration and by-products industry was built after World War II. This active laboratory work continued until his retirement in 1968.

Perhaps his most important contributions were the monographs on citrus which began with the appearance of The Lemon Fruit (written with E. T. Bartholomew) in 1951. In 1961, The Orange, Its Biochemistry and Physiology was published. This monograph, which Walt edited and for which he wrote one third of the chapters, has become a worldwide standard reference for the most important of the citrus fruits. Upon his retirement from active research Walt devoted his full time to preparation of a third monograph entitled The Grapefruit. Entirely his own work, this book (1972) represented the first compilation of information on the composition, physiology and products of the grapefruit. After its publication, Walt immediately undertook in collaboration with his wife, Louise, revision and expansion of the original monograph on the lemon fruit. Almost complete at the time of his death, it will be finished by his wife and colleagues to represent his almost 50-year dedication to advancement of knowledge concerning citrus.

Together with this long, productive research and scholarly career Walt carried out with great distinction administrative and University service responsibilities. In 1949, he became chairman of what was then the Division of Plant Physiology in the Citrus Experiment Station. Under his guidance the group grew in numbers and distinction and in 1958 its changed emphasis was recognized by its conversion into a Department of Plant Biochemistry. The inception of the Riverside campus in 1954 and expansion to a general campus in 1959 brought further changes and upon his retirement in 1968, Walt was Chairman of a Department of Biochemistry with twelve faculty members, flourishing graduate and undergraduate programs, and a broad research program devoted to all aspects of the discipline of which he was a pioneer in the 1920s.


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Those of us who were associated with Walt found his professional activities less impressive and less important than his character as a warm and beloved colleague and an outstanding human being. Perhaps most important was his absolute integrity. Deceit and shabbiness, whether in science, politics, or daily life offended what he called his “Scotch-Irish” nature. His high standards of performance and of “rightness” were object lessons to his students and colleagues.

Walt was a family man. His devotion to his wife, Louise, daughter, Linda, and grandchildren was complete and unflagging. This dedication did not prevent him from giving the same consideration and affection to an extended family including a host of colleagues and associates in all walks of life. A wise and witty man, one's problems always seemed, if not more soluble, at least more bearable, after discussing them with him. Those who knew Walt best will miss him the most, but his absence leaves a vacancy in the lives of all those who had contact with him. In the words of most who speak of him, Walt was an outstanding example of the hackneyed but meaningful phrase, a fine gentleman.

R. T. Wedding W. P. Bitters I. L. Eaks L. C. Erickson W. Reuther


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Eugene Marshall Stafford, Entomology: Davis


1910-1980
Professor Emeritus

Eugene Marshall Stafford, Professor of Entomology, Emeritus, died September 25, 1980, after a long disabling illness that caused his retirement in 1973 at age 63. He was born September 2, 1910, in Los Angeles, California, but spent his early years in Sacramento where he attended grade school and high school and then Sacramento Junior College. In 1931, he entered the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned the B.S. and M.S. degrees in entomology. He then undertook further graduate work in entomology at Cornell University and received his Ph.D. in 1941; after that he returned to the University of California as Junior Entomologist in the Agricultural Experiment Station. He was promoted to Professor in 1958.

Dr. Stafford's research interests were centered in the use of chemicals for the control of insect pests of agricultural crops, especially scale insects on olives and figs. His work included also research on leafhoppers, mealy bugs, and mites that attack grapes. These researches resulted in the publication of eighty-seven papers. His contributions to the knowledge of fig insects was recognized in 1953 by the Fig Institute's Award of Merit.

Most of Dr. Stafford's research, which covered a span of thirty-three years, was conducted in vineyards and orchards in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys. From 1940 to 1945 he was stationed at Kearney Park, Fresno, and then at the Davis campus where he remained until retirement. He was among the first to embrace the concept of integrated pest control and advocated its use for olive and grape pests.

Dr. Stafford organized the Environmental Toxicology Department on the Davis campus and served as its chairman until it was firmly established. He continued to assist the department by serving on various committees involved in toxicology. He also was acting vice chairman of the Department of Entomology from July 1960 through February 1961.

Dr. Stafford was moderate in his views, but always had a concern for student welfare while at the same time upholding academic integrity. In a quiet, unassuming way he influenced, through his membership in the Representative Assembly, Northern Section, and as a member of various Academic


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Senate, administrative, college, and departmental committees, the academic policies and directions that have brought the Davis campus and Department of Entomology to their present eminence. His competence in his field was recognized by his appointment to the editorial board of Entoma, and by his election to the presidency of the Northern California Entomology Club. He was awarded a Fulbright lectureship in 1964, and taught at Ain Shams University, the University of Cairo, and Alexandria University in Egypt.

Student guidance and welfare, and excellence in instruction were always paramount with Dr. Stafford. His accessibility and his genuine concern with student problems and goals, while graduate student adviser, were inspirational to his colleagues and contributed to the acceptance of student advising as a worthy and desirable academic activity.

When academic instruction was expanded with the growth and changing character of the Davis campus, Dr. Stafford organized a course on chemistry of insecticides. He taught this course until retirement, and also a graduate course on graduate student research that has remained basic in the entomology curriculum.

Dr. Stafford was a thoroughly likable person with a truly delightful sense of humor. He was good company, always considerate and cooperative, and ever ready to assist. He enjoyed people and social activities and sports. As a student at Sacramento Junior College he found congenial friends in the Omega Alpha Kappa social fraternity, and at Berkeley his fraternity relationships were continued as a member of Pi Kappa Alpha. He loved music and played the piano for his own pleasure.

In high school and junior college Gene played football as well as tennis, baseball, and volleyball. He was an excellent tennis player and continued in this sport until his illness. His favorite vacation activity was hiking and camping in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he could enjoy nature about him.

Gene married Frances Louise Lambert on September 7, 1940, and she and one daughter, Shelley, survive him.

Gene was a solid University citizen, consistent in accomplishment, and he enjoyed the respect and esteem of his colleagues. We are grateful for his presence among us.

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Thomas Brevard Steel, Systemwide


1894-1980
Secretary of the Academic Senate, Emeritus

Thomas Brevard Steel was born in Union City, Tennessee, on February 24, 1894, the son of S. A. Steel and Ella (Brevard) Steel. He matriculated at the University of Texas, from which he was graduated with a degree in classics in 1915. After his graduation, he entered the United States army; his first active service was along the Mexican Border at the time of the troubles with Pancho Villa. His army career continued through World War I, after which he was stationed in Coblentz. In the general reduction in force in 1923, he left the service, not having served the ten years then required for retention.

In 1924, Steel came to Berkeley, where he entered the graduate school. He did not take a degree. In 1926, he became assistant recorder of the faculties, and in 1929, succeeded James Sutton as recorder, as the Registrar and Secretary of the Senate were then titled. In 1933, his title was changed to Registrar and Secretary of the Senate; he occupied both offices until 1955, when he separated them, and continued as Secretary until his retirement in 1959.

Steel was a very rare sort of person; a scholar who happened to have the job of registering students and administering Senate business. His son writes in this connection, “...I learned the difference between Town and Gown and even between pure and applied mathematics before learning the difference between professors and administrators.” Tom's field was basically classical literature, but he had also a competent knowledge of Sanskrit. In modern languages, he was a master of French, German, and Italian. Spanish he knew somewhat (most officers in the old army had a little Spanish), but he considered its study unimportant, because he felt that it had no significant literature. Later, he became proficient in Japanese and Russian.

He was encouraged to learn these two languages by Captain Chester W. Nimitz, Professor of Naval Science and Tactics. Military intelligence was at the time at a low ebb: there were only a few cryptanalysts in the army, for Secretary of State Stimson had declared, “Gentlemen do not read other gentlemen's mail”. The navy, however, was more aware of the need for information, and recruited a cadre of reserve officers from linguists and


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mathematicians on various campuses, of which Berkeley was one of the first. The operation was very highly classified, and Tom never spoke of his work. Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he went to Hawaii. His work there was also classified, and he never spoke of it, even after the war was over.

Late in the 1940s, however, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, by then a Regent of the University, spoke in a public address of the University's contribution to the war effort, and paid tribute to Steel as one of the three from Berkeley who had broken the Japanese code just before the battle of Midway Island. It is possible that Tom Steel was instrumental in turning the tide of the war, which until Midway had run strongly against American forces in the Pacific, for these were able to locate each capital ship accurately and to destroy or incapacitate many of the Japanese fleet.

He returned to the campus in 1944, leaving the navy with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, and resumed his work as Registrar. Before the war, he had observed at the San Francisco world's fair a computer which he thought could be adapted to the work of the Registrar's office. As a result, the University became the first major institution to install a system to deal with the mechanics of registration. The value of such a system was demonstrated in accommodating the post-war rush of students. Earlier, he had saved the University a good deal of money by using photography, instead of many typewriters, to reproduce students' records.

As the University expanded in the 1930s and later, and new campuses were established, Steel's help was invaluable. New Registrars and Secretaries sought his advice; he gave it readily and copiously without attempting to interfere in matters peculiar to the new establishments, and without attempting to make them do things as they were done at Berkeley. The result has been a great harmony among the various offices.

Steel knew that the only job of the Registrar was to keep records, and of the Secretary, to carry out the will of the Senate. Yet with his scholarly habit of mind, he preserved these records for history. Students' records for the whole time of the University are preserved on microfilm and safely stored. The complete minutes of the Senate, from its first meeting to the present, together with many supporting documents, are in the University Archives.

Although Tom Steel entered into speech and acquaintance with ease and urbanity, and often took a hand in the after-lunch card games at the Faculty Club, he was essentially a very private person. He was not aloof or withdrawn, he enjoyed discussions of literature, or photography (another of his interests), or science. Yet with all his wide scholarly interest, he had the quality of reserve often found among those privy to information which must not be divulged. The Secretary of the Academic Senate often has access to knowledge of matter which would make excellent gossip, and earn him a reputation


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of being deep in the secrets of the University. And an officer of naval intelligence knows much which must never be mentioned, even by allusion. Yet Tom Steel could not be called close-mouthed; he simply withdrew from the opportunity to comment on what he felt should not be commented upon.

Steel was deeply attached to the University. An academic at heart, he knew that administration existed only to serve the University in its essential functions of teaching and research, and that bureaucratic regulations must not be allowed to interfere with the primary mission. Because of this attachment and awareness, he was greatly troubled by the Loyalty Oath controversies of the early fifties. As Secretary, he was necessarily in the middle of the battle. It is quite possible (though, characteristically, he never said as much) that he retired early, wearied by the pointless strife. He was spared, at least, the mindless turbulence of the sixties.

Tom Steel was sui generis: a real scholar whose only work was with the mechanics of the University. One of his colleagues described him, years ago, as the perfect Secretary.

He was a member of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, the American Philological Association, and the American Association of College Registrars.

He died in Orinda, California, on July 8, 1980, survived by his widow, Maudelle (Vinson), whom he had married in 1926, a son, Thomas B. Steel, Jr., who resides in New York City, a sister Chloe, and two grandchildren.

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Elizabeth Stern, Public Health: Los Angeles


1915-1980
Professor in Residence

Elizabeth Stern was a dynamic, dedicated researcher, teacher, wife, mother, and a warm friend and colleague. Her colleagues in the research community will miss her perceptive insights and carefully considered points of view.

Born in Cobalt, Canada, September 19, 1915, she completed her medical training at the University of Toronto and graduate studies at the Pennsylvania Medical School and the Cedars of Lebanon and Good Samaritan Hospitals in Los Angeles. She was certified by the American Board of Pathology. In 1968, she received the UCLA Women of Science Award in recognition of her work in the relation of hormones to changes in cervical cytology. She began her career in cancer research at the Cancer Detection Clinic of Los Angeles. It was there that she became curious about the process and mechanisms that produce cervical cancer. She pursued this interest during an appointment as a research coordinator at the University of Southern California Medical School in 1961 and as a lecturer in the Department of Pathology at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1961. In 1963, she joined the faculty of the Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UCLA.

Her research focused on the relationship between cervical cancer and hormones, enlarging and clarifying our understanding of the cellular changes in the epithelial lining of the cervix which may progress to cancer. She and her biostatistical associates developed a cytologic scale which ranked the progressive changes in cervical cytology into one hundred fine points on a gradient. This scale became the basis of several outstanding contributions to our understanding of the biology of cervical cancer. In her last years, she and her colleagues at UCLA and at the California Institute of Technology were developing an automated instrument, using digital imaging, to assist in cytologic screening of cervical scrapings.

Dr. Stern's work suggested to her that oral contraceptive pills, which interfere with normal hormonal rhythms, might increase the risk of cervical cancer in users. In order to investigate this possible relationship, Dr. Stern began studies of a cohort of women in Los Angeles who attended the Los


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Angeles County Health Department's family planning clinics. She followed this cohort for more than ten years, carefully documenting changes in environmental exposures, reproductive patterns, viral exposures, contraceptive use, and cervical cytology scores. On the basis of this study Dr. Stern was the first to report in Science in 1977 that continued use of steroid contraceptives increased the risk of cervical dyplasia and, by inference, the risk of cervical cancer in women.

Professor Stern carefully organized her records to facilitate further research by other investigators, knowing that she would not be given the opportunity to pursue this research herself. Before her death, she completed a library of cytologic slides that show two hundred and fifty distinct degrees of cell progressions, from normal through cervical cancer.

Her colleagues knew Elizabeth as a dedicated scientist and teacher, committed to her research and her students. Her tenacity in the face of almost overwhelming obstacles was a source of admiration to her fellow faculty and a suitable template for her students. A final example of this commitment was her decision to continue teaching and research despite the fact that she was undergoing chemotherapy.

Dr. Stern was a private person who managed to separate her professional and personal lives. It was a source of regret to many of us that we only realized after her death the equal commitment that she had given to her children and her husband.

While we shall remember Elizabeth for her professional contributions, we will particularly remember her as a humane scientist, willing to consider other points of view and alternatives without discarding her own lightly. She was slow to judge her fellow man but quick to recognize outstanding qualities in all individuals regardless of their place in society. We, her colleagues, mourn the loss of Elizabeth Stern, but are grateful that we have had the opportunity to know her. Our interaction with her has expanded our horizons and provided for us an example of an outstanding, dedicated researcher and teacher.

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George Rippey Stewart, English: Berkeley


1895-1980
Professor Emeritus

Born in Pennsylvania of what he called “bookish people,” George Stewart received the longest part of his formal education at Princeton (A.B., 1917) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1922), but perhaps even more significant was the year (1919-1920) he spent on the Berkeley campus where his M.A. thesis dealt with literature in California and he was much affected by a course on the “History of the American Frontier” taught by Professor Herbert E. Bolton.

After two years of an instructorship in the Department of English at the University of Michigan, where he met and in 1924 married Theodosia Burton, daughter of the University's president, he made his academic career for forty years on the Berkeley campus. To it, he and his wife Ted drove in a Model T Ford on a camping honeymoon that foreshadowed his future interest in tracing pioneer trails to the Pacific. Despite offers from other universities, George Stewart never left Berkeley, although over the years he was a distinguished visitor at Columbia, Princeton, Duke, UCLA, and a Fulbright professor in Greece.

The extraordinary range of Stewart's mind and the wide diversity of his academic subjects are indicated by the subjects he taught during his long career, for they include Chaucer and Stephen Crane, the metrical techniques of English verse, the writing of fiction, and a pioneering concern with the literature of California. In the ingenious and witty talk he gave on the occasion of his retirement, George Stewart figured that during his academic career he had spoken 42,000,000 words in the classroom, written 5,000,000 words of reports and recommendations and on student papers, listened to 50,000,000 words of colleagues and of students from freshmen through doctors' orals, and read 660,000,000 words of literature, criticism, and student themes and dissertations.

The expanse of George Stewart's interests and knowledge is even more evident in the impressive record of his publications. He issued twenty-four books of nonfiction, including biographies and historical studies; seven novels, whose settings ranged from classic Greece to 19th-century California; and twelve volumes of edited texts with full introductions. Lesser works


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include something like one hundred and fifty contributions to books and periodicals. He tried his hand at almost every genre of writing, including light verse and two plays, one toying with the idea that time could stop; the other about Grant as a general in the Civil War. His most popular works, and there are several of them, were translated into many foreign languages, including Turkish and Burmese.

Writing in a direct, secure style, George Stewart held his material in double perspective. He was capable of seeing a fire or a storm, a desert or the significant activities of men, as they fought their wars or broke exploratory trails into new country, against a broad panorama which may legitimately be called epic. But he was also able to hold in focus a pinecone, poised ready to carry flame down a hillside, or a rivet rusting on the San Francisco Bay Bridge after most of humanity has been wiped off the earth. His “depth of field” was remarkable. He could view great events as though through a microscope and he could present the relation between the smallest matter and vast space and unlimited time.

His very special angle of vision led George Stewart to see his many subjects in new and revelatory ways. So it was that he wrote two novels--Storm and Fire--in which people are but minor figures by comparison with the titular, nonhuman protagonists. Names on the Land, the classic study of place-naming in the United States, had no previous model so Stewart devised his own form that combined a fascinating popular tale with a scholarly study. This book initiated his leadership in the field of onomastics that resulted in such other works as American Place-Names, Names on the Globe, and American Given Names. In Pickett's Charge he wrote what he called a “microhistory,” a close human study of one Civil War engagement, and in The California Trail he presented a broad panoramic view of Americans moving westward over the land from 1841 to 1859, creating what he describes as “an epic with many heroes.” Sheep Rock evokes the lives of generations of persons who passed by one small site on a western desert, whereas Man: An Autobiography in the brief scope of 300 pages presents the story of humanity from beginnings as a foraging animal to present-day civilization, all told as though it were the life of one person.

Even for a professor who during twelve years annually arranged to teach one semester and to take the other off for his writing, the scale and the scope of this output is prodigious. Yet despite this sweep, George Stewart found time for full participation in the life of his university. When its academic freedom was threatened by the imposition of a loyalty oath he lead a team of collaborators, including anonymous younger faculty members, in presenting the entire situation in a book titled The Year of the Oath. At the time of the University's centennial he was asked by his Department to write its informal history, which indicated that his colleagues were willing


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to put themselves in his hands. He also had an impact on the campus at large through his service on many committees of the Academic Senate, through his infrequent but pungent oral statements to that body delivered in a tone of direct, flat speech and dry humor. He was an active and innovative president of The Faculty Club, and, with his wife, a participant of the Drama Section of the Section Clubs of faculty wives which she had founded. That organization comprised of numerous specialized sections, is one of the informal means of holding the campus together as people of all ages, all ranks, and all disciplines participate in pleasant cooperative nonacademic pursuits in which they get to know and to appreciate one another.

George Stewart devised the idea of the Berkeley Citation, the highest honor awarded by the campus, and proposed the founding of the Berkeley Fellows, a select company of 100 people who have made significant contributions to the university. He and his wife were quite naturally made members for all that they had done for the institution that they loved.

George Stewart is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. He is memorialized by the George R. Stewart Trail, a tribute by the Department of Parks and Recreation to his ecological concerns, and he is happily remembered by the many people who had the good fortune to know this remarkable man.

James D. Hart Travis M. Bogard William B. Fretter John H. Raleigh


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Olive Matthews Stone, Social Welfare: Los Angeles


1897-1977
Associate Professor Emerita

Olive M. Stone served in the UCLA School of Social Welfare for fifteen years prior to her retirement in 1964. More redirected than slowed by retirement, her continuing activities were cut short in November 1977--the eightieth year of her always active life--only days after discovery of extensive cancer.

Before coming to UCLA, Professor Stone spent fifteen years in the teaching of sociology and social work. During this time she taught for six years (1936-1942) at the College of William and Mary and for five (1929-1934) at her alma mater, Huntington College, where, following years of student activism, she was appointed Dean of Women. She taught also in two colleges, one in Alabama (1927-1929) and one in Georgia (1942-1944). Even in the years Dr. Stone was not engaged in formal teaching (1944- 1949), she served in the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the training and selection of personnel for the social welfare field. Following this service, she was invited to serve on several HEW Advisory Committees.

Ms. Stone was unusual among social workers of her generation because she anticipated the profession's later interests in the social sciences and basic research. After taking a master's degree in social work (University of Chicago, 1929), she went on and--at the age of forty-two--completed her doctorate in sociology at the University of North Carolina. Her broader interests were maintained throughout her later life. Among her publications were articles in sociological journals as well as in social work publications. She also maintained membership in various scholarly organizations, besides many professional organizations. While at UCLA, Professor Stone served on committees of both the Departments of Sociology and Psychology as well as of the School of Social Welfare.

Ms. Stone's doctoral dissertation, “Agrarian Conflict in Alabama... from 1800 to 1938” , dealt in part with racial conflict. As early as 1939 she wrote: “Until the Negro has the same or an equal chance with the white for education, recreation, medical care, social service, police protection, and


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public convenience he will not catch up or become assimilated into the total culture.” (p. 241)

That a white woman from Alabama--a granddaughter of slave-owners--so early manifested such concern for Blacks might surprise those who did not know her spirit of individualism, egalitarianism, and compassion. Less surprising is Dr. Stone's hope that racial integration could be achieved by nonviolent means and come as quietly as regionalism (which she had studied in the heyday of the Tennessee Valley Authority) had superseded sectionalism. This preference is wholly consonant with predilections revealed by her joining a study tour with the League for Industrial Democracy (in 1931) to study “evolutionary” versus “revolutionary” change in Scandinavia and the USSR and by her joining another group, under the aegis of the pacifistic Fellowship of Reconciliation in 1932, to study the methods of Tagore and Gandhi in India and contrasting methods for “handling discord” in China and Japan.

Dr. Stone's concern for Blacks was matched by her concern for economically disadvantaged people of all races. Even after retirement she protested to high HEW officials the inadequacy of public assistance grants. She found no satisfaction in the fact that they were more liberally given now than in the “scarce periods of the 20s and 30s” when riding horseback in the mountains of Kentucky and driving a Model-T over the hills of Alabama, she was combating poverty in the Appalachians, as she said, “long before the great depression.”

Among Professor Stone's noteworthy contributions to social work is her pioneering and still-unfinished task of welding into a single pattern the profession's fragmented theory and practice of casework, group work, community organization and administration. In the absence of teaching materials, she developed two imaginative case records to illustrate a “generic” approach to theory and practice. Both records attracted attention nationwide. Another notable aspect of Professor Stone's teaching was the individualized and personal interest she took in students and maintained even after they graduated. Both when teaching and after retirement she was similarly helpful to junior faculty members.

After retirement from UCLA, Professor Stone invested her vitality and pertinacity in senior citizen activities: (serving two years as chairperson of the official Commission for Older Americans), the Emeritus College in Santa Monica, and in the UCLA Emeriti Association. In her later years she identified with feminist activism although her own femininity had never seemed to thwart her career. Even in universities and bureaucracies, which were essentially “men's worlds” in her day, she found ways of furthering what she thought was important.


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Her presence among her colleagues and friends will be sorely missed, but she has left us a chart to continue the commitments and values she so consistently exemplified.

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Antonin Svoboda, Computer Science: Los Angeles


1907-1980
Professor Emeritus

Antonin Svoboda was born on October 14, 1907, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where his father was professor of Czech language and literature. After obtaining his electrical engineering degree in 1931 from the Czech Institute of Technology in Prague (Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke), he studied theoretical and experimental physics at Charles University, also in Prague. There he met an astronomy student, Miluna Joanelli, whom he married in 1936. In the same year he submitted a thesis on the application of tensor calculus to electric power distribution and obtained the Doctor of Technical Sciences degree from the Institute of Technology. His early interest were in physics--extensions of relativity theory and X-ray spectroscopy, which he pursued at the institute of Professor Dolejsek in Prague. As a hobby, he published a book, New Theory of Bridge, which presented a scientific approach to a bidding strategy in bridge. He also became a successful musician, which provided additional income during his studies. He was the pianist of the Prague Wind Quintet, founded by the renowned conductor Vaclav Smetacek, his life-long friend. Occasionally, Svoboda played percussion with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

Svoboda intended to follow a career in basic research and teaching. His plans, however, were severely affected by the events of world politics. His native Czechoslovakia had become more and more threatened by its neighbor--Nazi Germany. In the fall of 1936, Svoboda was called to active duty for two years in the Czechoslovak army. After his return from service in the fall of 1938, he resumed the position of assistant professor of mathematics at the Czech Institute of Technology. His tenure there did not last long. Immediately after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the German army in March, 1939, the former officials of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Defense encouraged him to leave Czechoslovakia and go to Paris, officially for a prolonged scientific visit. He took with him the most advanced fire-control equipment, which he made available to the allied war efforts. The family was reunited in New York City in January 1941. In the United States, Svoboda continued the development of anti-aircraft defense gear, and in 1943 he was invited to join the Radiation Laboratory of MIT, where


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secret work on radar was under way. Svoboda concluded his stay at MIT in 1946 by writing a book, Computing Mechanisms and Linkages. In appreciation of his contribution to the war effort, the United States presented the Naval Ordinance Development Award to Svoboda in 1948.

After concluding his activities at MIT, Svoboda returned to Czechoslovakia with the idea of building a “mathematical machines” industry in his native country. His dream was for Czechoslovakia to become in computers what Switzerland once was in watchmaking.

In 1950, Svoboda accepted a position in the newly established Central Institute of Mathematics in Prague. There he started to build up a department of “Mathematical Machines,” which eventually became the Research Institute of Mathematical Machines of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague.

Svoboda remained with the institute, first as executive director, later as director of research, and finally as a member of the scientific advisory board, until his second departure from Czechoslovakia in 1964.

Svoboda's diverse research activities in this period included:

  • 1. Computer architecture: Computers M 1, SAPO, EPOS 1, and EPOS 2.
  • 2. Numerical analysis: Development of methods suitable for digital computers.
  • 3. Arithmetic codes and algorithms: Development of the numerical system of residue classes; fast-division algorithm; high-speed adders.
  • 4. Switching theory: Synthesis of relay networks; graphic means and methods for switching circuit design.
  • 5. Cybernetics: Model of instinct of self-preservation; medical treatment with automata.
  • In 1966, Svoboda jointed the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, becoming Professor in 1968. He taught courses in logic design, computer architecture, and computer arithmetic. Also in 1968, he received the IEEE Fellow Award for “his contributions in logic design, mechanical design, and his fundamental work on residue class number system”.

His main research activities continued in expanding his logic design methods. He exploited the didactic advantages of his graphic-mechanical aids to logic design. He conceived the idea of a Boolean analyzer to facilitate the solution of some fundamental problems in advanced logic design. He developed the methods for finding optimal solutions into an APL Logic Design Laboratory, as published in his last book, Advanced Logic Design Techniques, written with his student, Donnamaie E. White. Svoboda became Professor Emeritus in 1977, the same year in which he suffered his first heart attack. After recovering, he moved to Oregon, where his son Tomas Svoboda, a gifted composer and outstanding chess player, is professor of music at Portland State University. Antonin continued his activities there, consulting, writing, and lecturing.


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(The above material is excerpted from Jan G. Oblonsky, “Eloge: Antonin Svoboda, 1907-1980,” Annuals of the History of Computing, Vol. 2, No. 4, October 1980.)

On Sunday, May 18, 1980, Professor Ray Redheffer phoned to tell me that Tony Svoboda had died one hour before at his home in Oregon. Many memories flashed by--vague impressions of:

  • The first time C. B. Tompkins told me about Tony and then Milunka and Tony's defection from Prague...
  • The good feeling that came with bringing Tony to UCLA...
  • The first time I saw Tony's photographic art in a color print of a flower in bloom...
  • The first time I saw Tony's drawing...
  • The first time I heard Tony lecture about switching theory, with emotion. We were very fortunate to have this man in our midst. He made a difference. (Gerald Estrin, UCLA Computer Science Department Quarterly, Spring 1980).

A. Avizienis M. Ercegovac G. Estrin


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George V. Taplin, Radiological Sciences: Los Angeles


1910-1979
Professor Emeritus

George V. Taplin, distinguished physician, a pioneer in the development of nuclear medicine as a clinical specialty, died at the UCLA Hospital on September 19, 1979. His career in medical research spanned more than four decades and was devoted to developing new diagnostic procedures for better patient care.

Dr. Taplin was the author of over two hundred and fifty scientific papers and presented over fifty scientific teaching exhibits. His first contributions in medical research were directed to treatment of pneumonia in the 1930s and the improvement of penicillin therapy during World War II, but he became best known for the development of new radioisotope diagnostic techniques, work that continued from 1947 to within ten days of his death. His contributions in medicine were recognized by numerous awards and honors. He was president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in 1969-70 and received the Nuclear Pioneer Award from that society in 1975. He was selected as California Scientist of the Year in 1976 by the California Museum of Science and Industry. In June 1979, he was named to give the prestigious Fleischner Honor Lecture for 1980, but did not live to do this.

Dr. Taplin was born in Rochester, New York where his father was a physician. In 1936, he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He married Lucille Brewer who became his constant companion at the many far-flung scientific meetings he attended. Their family grew to two children, George and Barbara, then five grandchildren, and later two great grandchildren.

In 1939, he was honored by the Rochester Academy of Medicine for his research at Strong Memorial Hospital which resulted in a revised and improved treatment of pneumococcal pneumonia, a number one disease of the time. During World War II, he served with the United States Army Medical Corps and, in 1944, was cited for his work in penicillin therapy in the European Theater of Operations. Dr. Taplin joined the faculty at UCLA in 1947 and helped form the new UCLA School of Medicine. He became a member of what was then the Atomic Energy Project at UCLA, and later he headed the Division of Nuclear Medicine and became Associate


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Director of the Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology. Taplin's productivity in this prestigious laboratory was a crucial factor in the development of nuclear medicine as a clinical specialty. He introduced radioisotope studies of liver and kidney function in the late 1950s and, in 1963, made the first radioactive albumin macroaggregates which made possible lung scanning for detection of pulmonary embolism. Since then, millions of Americans have benefited directly from these results of Taplin's research.

Professor William G. Meyers, historian of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, said: “Doctor George V. Taplin truly was a physician's nuclear medicine man. Uppermost always in his work was the patient who might be benefited by the new modalities and opportunities, especially in diagnosis. Although Dr. Taplin fully appreciated the usefulness of the `inside-out' imaging initiated in 1951 by his close friend and colleague, Benedict Cassen, he nevertheless emphasized the significance of the new concepts at the biochemical/physiological level, which stemmed from applications of manmade radioactivity. A keen insight and an aspiring afflatus are the precious attributes that characterize any innovative investigator, and Doctor Taplin's exceptional intuition and imagination made of him the nuclear medicine physician without peer.”

Professor Alexander Gottschalk of Yale added: “It is easy to cite the accomplishments that George V. Taplin leaves. It is more difficult to capture Tappy, the man. He had a unique quality about him comprised of many facets. He was very quick to acknowledge the work of his younger collaborators. He was clearly proud of them and invariably cited their efforts in all of his formal presentations. He was absolutely honest, and on those few occasions when needed, could openly admit that he had made a mistake. He was continually enthusiastic about his work and seemed as delighted at the success of others in nuclear medicine as he was by his own efforts. There was the `Taplin enthusiasm' and the `Taplin spirit.' He loved nuclear medicine, and he loved scientific progress.”

To memorialize George V. Taplin, his many colleagues and former students commissioned his portrait in oils which now hangs in his laboratory hall. They then established in his honor a lectureship in the Society of Nuclear Medicine and an annual scholar award at UCLA.

David E. Kuhl O. R. Lunt Leslie R. Bennett


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Alan Stephen Tetelman, Materials: Los Angeles


1936-1978
Professor of Engineering and Applied Science

Alan Stephen Tetelman lost his life on September 25, 1978, in the tragic air crash over San Diego between a PSA jet liner and a private Cessna airplane that claimed the lives of 144 people. He was forty-two years old. Alan was a world renowned expert in the field of fracture mechanics and its application to the failure of materials in engineering applications. He had recently nurtured an interest in the failure of various types of systems, including assessments of the risks and benefits associated with those systems and the role of human factors in risk-benefit analysis.

Alan Tetelman was born in New York on May 9, 1936. Upon graduation from Riverdale High School, he attended Yale University where he obtained his B.S., M.S., and Sc.D. degrees, the latter in 1961, all in metallurgy. Always a multi-dimensional individual, he played football for the Yale freshman team, fostered a keen interest in politics, and spent several summers working in the Texas oil fields. His Sc.D. dissertation on “The Mechanism of Hydrogen Embrittlement of Iron Alloy Single Crystals,” was an experimental and theoretical tour de force, and immediately established him as one of the young potential superstars in his field. There was little doubt that Alan would live up to these early expectations, and, in fact, he did.

On completion of his graduate work, he spent a year at the University of Paris as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow. Alan was always a Francophile, spoke French with reasonable fluency, and took advantage of this postdoctoral period to hone a variety of skills, scientific and otherwise. He returned to the United States to join the Ford Motor Company Scientific Laboratory where he spent two years as a staff research scientist. He already had an international reputation when he left Ford to assume an academic position as associate professor on the faculty of Stanford University. While at Stanford, he was awarded the Robert L. Hardy Gold Metal of AIME, which is presented annually to the outstanding young metallurgist in the country under thirty years of age. In addition to training his first generation of graduate students, Alan retained his keen interest in


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politics, working closely with California Assemblyman Dixon Arnett during the 1964 presidential election campaign. While at Stanford, he, along with several colleagues, started the consulting firm of Failure Analysis Associates (FAA). Always possessed with a keen sense of where the dollars were, in research as well as in the world outside academe, Alan recognized the need of the legal profession for his expertise, FAA providing experts for lawyers in need of competent analysis of engineering structures that fail. Today FAA does government contract research, as well as legal work; its success is a fitting monument to Alan's enterprise.

Alan left Stanford in 1967 to spend a year on temporary assignment as deputy director of the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). While there, he recognized the importance of nondestructive evaluation for assuring the integrity of stress bearing structures. Among many approaches, he was most attracted to the potential of acoustic emission and was instrumental in the birth of two firms specializing in the manufacture and application of acoustic emission instrumentation. The two firms, Dunegan Research Corporation (now Dunegan/Endevco) and Acoustic Emission Technology Corporation (now a division of Smithkline Corporation), have since grown substantially, each with millions of dollars in annual sales. Alan also incorporated this new research tool for fracture mechanics studies, such as the fracture toughness and hydrogen embrittlement of materials, and failure modes of composites.

After his year at ARPA, he had intended to return to Stanford, but was offered the opportunity, at age 32, to assume the position as chairman of an incipient Materials Department at UCLA. This presented a challenge he could not resist, and in a veritable explosion of hiring activity he directed the growth of the Materials Department from a faculty of seven to one of seventeen within a time span of two years. He served the Materials Department as its chairman until 1974. At the time of his death, Alan was on leave from the University, in order to devote increasing effort to failure analysis activities in Southern California. He was on his way to San Diego to investigate an airplane crash when the mid-air collision that claimed his life occurred.

Alan Tetelman was a mercurial individual. Few men could think more quickly on their feet. He was decisive and unafraid to defend positions unpopular with friends, students, colleagues, and adversaries. He had an uncanny ability to convince himself that his particular course of action was absolutely proper, but was nevertheless quick to recognize and adopt a superior alternative. Not everyone responds to such a man with magnanimity, but the respect which he gained, sometimes given grudgingly, was nearly universal. This unique, complex, brilliant man, who is survived by his


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young son, Michael, his mother, Leah, and his sister, Alice, is already sorely missed, and his memory will endure.

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Franklin M. Turrell, Plant Physiology; Biochemistry: Riverside


1905-1980
Plant Physiologist, Emeritus

Franklin M. Turrell died on May 12, 1980, after a short illness. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on March 21, 1905. He retired on June 30, 1972, from the University of California, Riverside, after thirty-six years of distinguished research in the field of plant biochemistry and physiology, much of it related to various citrus problems. Dr. Turrell graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a B.E. degree in 1929. He then went to the University of Iowa and received an M.S. in 1932, and Ph.D. in 1935. He taught plant physiology at the University of Cincinnati for one year, 1935-36. He came to the University of California Citrus Experiment Station as a Junior Plant Physiologist on October 8, 1936, and was progressively promoted from Junior through Assistant and Associate to full status as Plant Physiologist in the Experiment Station July 1, 1955. He was advanced to the title of Professor of Biochemistry on September 1, 1961. Later this title was dropped as his responsibilities did not involve teaching, and other technicalities arose that had nothing to do with his professional qualifications.

During his early years at Riverside, Turrell worked with Dr. E. T. Bartholomew and Dr. Walton Sinclair on the nature, causes, and possible control of granulation in oranges, and, though no one cause or cure was found, a great deal of morphological information on the leaves, fruit, and other parts of citrus trees emerged. This led Turrell into much of his later research. With special grants from Texas Gulf Sulfur from 1939 to 1946, he investigated the nature of and reasons for the injurious effects of sulfur dusts used for insect control on citrus fruits. This research was triggered by an outbreak of citrus bud mite and the first use of radioactive sulfur and a geiger counter on this campus was made by Turrell. In fact he constructed the geiger counter used in this research. He was also interested in carbon-dating and applied this technique among others to artifacts said to have come from Noah's Ark.

From about 1960, Professor Turrell became heavily involved in research concerned with frost injury to citrus, heat exchanges, and losses of foliage and fruit; effects of varying climatic conditions--humidity, wind movement,


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possible protectants, and other phases. His research on temperature changes in foliage and fruit prior to, during, and following wind machine operations in a citrus orchard led to important technology advances in wind machine operation for frost protection.

Professor Turrell was the author or co-author of more than one hundred and sixty-five technical and semi-technical research papers and, in addition, had written invitational chapters in a number of books dealing with nutrition and metabolism, biological data, heat transfer and thermodynamics. He was also author of an important 122-page chapter entitled “The Science and Technology of Frost Protection” published in Volume III of the series of books entitled The Citrus Industry, edited by Professor Walter Reuther and published by the division of Agricultural Sciences, University of California, Berkeley.

In addition, he was author of a book entitled Tables of Surfaces and Volumes of Spheres of Prolate and Oblate and Spheroidal Coefficients published in 1964 by the University of California Press.

Professor Turrell was called repeatedly to give talks to grower groups in California. Many of these related to frost protection, wind machine operations, micro-climate, and the citrus physiology related thereto.

During his tenure of service at the University, he was granted two special leaves of absence--one at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies and another at the East Malling Research Station in England. At the latter, he studied the biochemistry of sulfur-susceptible and resistant varieties of apple hybrids.

Professor Turrell belonged to and kept up his membership in a considerable number of scientific societies, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, American Society of Plant Physiologists, American Society of Horticultural Science, International Society of Biometerology, and others. He regularly attended, presented papers and participated in national and international meetings of biologically oriented societies.

He was listed in the 1968 edition of Worlds Who's Who in Science in addition to his long-term listing in American Men of Science (now American Men & Women in Science).

Professor Turrell was a friendly, outgoing, genial person, a highly motivated and diligent worker. His passing has left a deep sense of loss among those of us who knew him best.

W. P. Bitters A. M. Boyce H. D. Chapman L. C. Erickson W. Reuther


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Daniel Vandraegen, Speech: Los Angeles


1906-1980
Professor Emeritus

Daniel Vandraegen was born on December 19, 1906, in Toledo, Ohio. He moved to Seattle, Washington, at an early age and attended public schools there. He received his A.B. degree from the University of Washington in 1932 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and his M.A. degree from the same institution in 1937. From 1937 to 1940 he worked on his doctorate in speech at Northwestern University.

In the fall of 1940, Mr. Vandraegen joined the Department of English at UCLA as a Lecturer in public speaking, a position he held until 1947 when he resigned and returned to Northwestern University to complete his dissertation. He received his doctorate in the summer of 1949 and re-joined the English Department at UCLA that fall as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1952 and was a member of the faculty of the Departments of English and then Speech for the next twenty-two years.

Professor Vandraegen has accurately been described as a “teacher with extraordinary gifts, especially in the fields of voice and literary interpretation, where he has few equals.” His courses in the oral tradition of literature, the interpretation of prose, the interpretation of poetry, and in voice and diction drew consistent praise from undergraduate students. While a member of the Department of Speech, Dr. Vandraegen also offered a highly regarded course, speech for the theatre, for the Theatre Arts Department.

As a member of the faculty, Professor Vandraegen was heavily involved in University affairs. He was much sought after as a public lecturer and for his lecture recitals. His recorded albums of readings of contemporary poetry were widely acclaimed. For many years he served as chairman of the Faculty Lecture Series and as a member of the Committee on Drama, Lectures and Music and of the Committee on Public Ceremonies.

During his career Professor Vandraegen co-authored two books, Reading in Rhetoric and Basic Voice Training for Speech. His article on Thomas Sheridan and the Natural School, published in Speech Monographs was viewed as a particularly important scholarly contribution.

Daniel Vandraegen retired in 1974 and passed away November 8, 1980. He is survived by his widow, Katherine Williams Vandraegen. He is remembered


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by his students and colleagues as an exceptionally gifted teacher and as a stimulating, witty, and warm-hearted friend.

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Siegfried Von Ciriacy-Wantrup, Agricultural Economics: Berkeley


1906-1980
Professor Emeritus
Agricultural Economist in the Experiment Station, Emeritus
Research Marine Economist, Institute of Marine Resources
Member of the Giannini Foundation

Born in Langenberg, Germany, Siegfried Wantrup did undergraduate work at the University of Berlin, the University of Vienna, and the University of Bonn prior to receiving the M.S. degree from the University of Illinois in 1930 under an international exchange program. In 1931, he obtained a doctorate from the University of Bonn, remaining there as a lecturer until 1936. Confronted by the Nazi repression of academic freedom, he immigrated to the United States, working first with the Rockefeller Foundation and then joining the Berkeley faculty in 1938.

Wantrup strove throughout his professional life to make economic analysis useful to mankind by addressing his work to the layman and the practicing policy maker as well as to the academician. He was a pioneer in the economics of natural resources treated within the context of environmental problems and values. Fascinated by the role of political institutions in formulating policies, he sought in his writings to bring home to his reader the consequences to be expected from policy options adopted in utilizations of natural resources.

Natural resources policy was indeed his forte. He testified before Congressional committees on the economic outcomes of development projects. He lectured in universities throughout the United States and Europe on pioneering concepts such as multiple use of natural resources and “safe minimum standards of conservation.” He pressed always in examining policies on management of resources for consideration of the quality of life within a total environment. Such consideration is reflected in his California and his regional research interests. These included marine mammals and other wildlife including the California condor and the Tule elk, benefit-cost analysis of flood control and water rights, air pollution, and federal-state relationships in the administration of resources. His classic Resource


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Conservation: Economics and Policies (University of California Press, 1952, with three subsequent editions) is perhaps the best known of his books. He also published over one hundred articles.

Wantrup was an advisor to two California governors on coastal and marine matters. He was appointed to the International Marine Science Affairs Panel of the National Academy of Science. He traveled to numerous agencies of government at home and abroad to consult and advise on a variety of problems. During a leave of absence from Berkeley of six months, he served as Assistant to the Chancellor of the Irvine campus in the development of a research program in natural resources.

Recognition accorded Wantrup for his work included two Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships, residence as a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and election as a fellow in the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Agricultural Economics Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His students brought him honor in the significant positions they achieved in universities and in public service.

Exemplifying integrity of zeal and effort in his own life, he strongly influenced the lives of the many men and women with whom he worked. He was rigorous in demanding clarity of economic thinking and exposition. A student who submitted a paper slackly researched or carelessly written was treated curtly. With a student, however, whose paper evinced hard work Wantrup would spend hours in exploring its potentialities. He aimed in teaching to draw from students, by challenging them, somewhat more in performance than they had thought themselves capable. They knew him to be an iconoclast, a man intolerant of complaisant acceptance of conventional wisdom. They knew him to be an innovator, a man vigorously engaged in furthering solutions of urgent human problems.

Wantrup was an outdoorsman who cherished the countryside of California. A true conservationist, he loved a good hunt. A public figure, he was his own man who made his own decisions. October, the month of his death, was his favorite month for walking in the fields of his ranch in Napa County.

We miss him.

L. Tim Wallace H. Herbert Snyder Harry R. Wellman


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William Arthur Watts, Education: Berkeley


1929-1980
Professor

William Arthur Watts was born in the small town of Orofino, Idaho, and was raised by his grandparents, Arthur Howard and Mary Emily Watts. His grandfather, a retired carpenter, required his grandson to rise early in the morning to perform daily chores. Instructing him in the carpenter's craft, he instilled in the boy an enduring respect for, and admiration of, fine workmanship. Such admiration focused in the latter years of Bill's life on rare automobiles of classic design which he collected, repaired, and maintained. Subject to strict discipline at home, young Bill envied the freedom to travel of the hoboes he frequently met when he went fishing and hunting with his grandfather. His conversations with these itinerant workers could well have made him yearn to visit far away places, a yearning to which he responded throughout his academic career.

The grandson did not share his grandfather's opinion regarding schooling, viz., “Take the eighth grade over again; you'll have all the education you need.” Bill graduated in 1948 from Lakeview High School in Chicago. He held several short-time jobs before enlisting in the Air Force of the United States for service in the Korean war. Honorably discharged in 1952, he completed requirements for the A.B. degree in psychology at Northwestern University in 1955 after having been enrolled in St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa, and in Wright Junior College, Evanston, Illinois. From 1955 to 1957, he was employed by the Los Angeles Examiner as a salesman of classified advertising. He returned to Illinois in the fall of 1957 with his wife, Carol (also employed by the newspaper), whom he had married on September 7. Awarded the M.A. degree in social psychology at the University of Illinois in 1961, he then accompanied Professor William J. McGuire to Columbia University to pursue study under him in the fields of attitude change and decision making. He received the Ph.D. degree from Columbia in 1963.

Dr. Watts joined the faculty of the School of Education, Berkeley, in the fall of 1963 and embarked immediately upon a series of psychological studies. These studies, in the judgment of Professor McGuire, made “key contributions to such topics as inducing resistance to persuasion, the organization


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and functioning of belief systems, and the temporal persistence of induced attitude change.”

When the Free Speech Movement erupted at Berkeley in the Fall Quarter, 1964, it provided a laboratory quickly utilized by Bill and his graduate assistants for study of student alienation and activism, and of social deviance and non-conforming conduct. Twelve articles in all were published on these subjects and six of these were republished in collections of readings.

Dr. Robert Whitely, one of Bill's students, characterizes his teacher as a “master” in helping students to “develop their own answers, style, and competency.” Students initially attracted to him by his exceptional receptivity in ascertaining their research interests soon came to be treated as friends and colleagues in the course of further investigations. Bill was a long-term and highly respected member of both the American Psychological Association and the Western Psychological Association. He was the representative from the University of California, Berkeley, on the California Advisory Council for Educational Research. He was Director of the Graduate Research Training Program, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, United States Office of Education, Washington, D.C. He served as a consulting editor for several professional journals.

Professor Watts died unexpectedly on April 10, 1980. He is survived by his wife, Carol, his mother, Edith, two half-sisters, Wilma and Bette, two half-brothers, Howard and Richard, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. He would have wanted his mother-in-law, Helen, to be here remembered to record his deeply affectionate regard for her and his feeling for Carol's family as his own. A gentle, compassionate, loyal, generous, and modest man, Bill lived by the Golden Rule. Like the man celebrated in his favorite poem, “Abou Ben Adhem” , he too was one that loved his fellowmen.

Leonard A. Marascuilo Nadine M. Lambert Lawrence H. Stewart


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Richard E. Weitzman, Medicine: Los Angeles


1943-1980
Associate Professor

Richard E. Weitzman, M.D., died on May 31, 1980 at his family home in Hudson, New York. In the four short years that Rick was a member of the faculty of the department of medicine of the School of Medicine and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center he had achieved phenomenal success. His contributions in the fields of endocrinology and nephrology had brought him wide recognition. General agreement existed that Rick was one of a small coterie of outstanding biomedical scientists in the field of arginine vasopressin metabolism and that the trajectory of his career would take him to new heights. Thus, the suddenness of the illness which ultimately took his life was a devastating blow, not only to his wonderful family, but also to his many colleagues and friends throughout the biomedical community. It was as if a beautiful flower had been cut prematurely from its bush, before it had an opportunity to fully bloom.

Rick received his baccalaureate degree at Cornell University in New York in 1964. He embarked upon his medical career and received his Doctor of Medicine at the State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, in Syracuse in 1968. His early postgraduate medical training was taken at the University of Virginia School of Medicine from 1968 to 1971. He initiated a research career in endocrinology and in fluid and electrolyte metabolism which was to be his consuming interest until his death. He was an endocrinology fellow in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of Virginia Medical Center under the direction of Drs. Julian Kitay and Ferid Murad until 1972. He then served his military obligation at the United States Air Force Medical Corp. installation at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. After this interlude he resumed his research training in the Division of Endocrinology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, under the direction of Dr. Delbert Fisher. Having completed his fundamental research training, he joined the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine in 1976 as a member of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

In characteristic fashion, Rich assumed this new responsibility with great gusto and enthusiasm and quickly became an extremely valued and respected


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member of the faculty. Students extolled the quality of his teaching, he was widely sought as a lecturer, and he organized a highly effective research laboratory. He was quite successful in obtaining extramural support for his research activities and was a grantee of the American Heart Association, Greater Los Angeles Affiliate. This organization was among the first to recognize the outstanding character of his research enterprise. His research work quickly gained national recognition. He was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Subspecialty of Endocrinology and Metabolism in 1975. He became a member of the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Society of Nephrology, the American Heart Association, the American College of Physicians, the Endocrine Society, and the American Physiological Society. He was an invited visiting lecturer at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Oklahoma State University School of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Washington School of Medicine, the University of Iowa School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Mental Health between 1976 and 1979. He became a reviewer for many of the nation's most prestigious medical journals. At the time of his death he had already published over forty peer-reviewed research papers, fifty-five abstracts, and ten book chapters. Most of these were published in the four short years he was a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine. Shortly before his death he had been notified of his promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine, to have been effective July 1, 1980.

At the time of his death he was in the process of building an outstanding hypertension and fluid and electrolyte program at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He had an established fruitful relationship with the Nichols Institute of Endocrinology and with several international pharmaceutical firms specializing in the development of new antihypertensive agents.

Throughout Rick's academic career one theme dominated his work. First and above all, he was concerned with the quality and accuracy of his contributions. He was a critical scientist, not only of work in his field by others, but also of his own work. He was greatly admired by his close associates for his brilliant mind. He could, with great precision, seek out the important kernels of knowledge present in a given piece of work and could also, with amazing accuracy, point out the flaws in a scientific protocol or a completed series of investigations. His lectures to students and research fellows were masterful and comprehensive. He was always able to utilize recently gained knowledge and put it into the perspective of historical developments. Like any brilliant scientist, he was at times impatient with the status quo and wished things to move even faster than they did.

Beyond the purely scientific aspects of his career, he enjoyed a rich and varied life. His wonderful wife, Rachel, and loving son, Eric, provided him with the emotional support and personal gratification required for a


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dedication to the pursuit of academic excellence. He was an avid oenophile and could always be counted upon to uncork a phenomenal bottle of wine from a little known California vintner on the proper occasion. To compliment his taste for fine wine, both he and Rachel were connoisseurs of excellent food. They loved to entertain, and an invitation to a party at their home was a real treasure and always a memorable experience. Rick generated a great deal of enthusiasm by his own style of living. He loved the arts, the theatre, and the ambience of California. He will be sorely missed.

Richard J. Glassock Kouichi R. Tanaka Leon G. Fine


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Winfield Scott Wellington, Design: Berkeley


1897-1979
Professor Emeritus

Winfield Scott Wellington, architect, collector, and esteemed Professor of Design, spent the major years of his professional career enriching the life of students and the community of the San Francisco Bay Region by lectures on and exhibitions of beautiful objects in which design was the process, the product of its materials, and the expression of the spirit of the artist who made them. He taught at Berkeley from 1937 until his retirement in 1965. His exhibitions were mounted not only at the University of California, but at Stanford University, and in San Francisco museums. His architectural designs, principally residential, were built throughout the Bay Region.

Wellington, known as “Duke” to friends and colleagues was born in Houston, Texas, and completed his elementary and high school education in New Orleans. He attended Tulane University for two years and the Georgia School of Technology for one, prior to entering the University of California in 1918 to undertake the study of architecture. He received the Master of Arts degree in 1922 and remained to complete an advanced professional degree, Graduate in Architecture, the following year. Fifteen years later, he returned to the University to accept a teaching position in the Department of Decorative Art, forerunner of the Department of Design, College of Environmental Design.

In his early professional career he worked for John Galen Howard, E. Geoffry Bangs, Warren C. Perry, and Ashley and Evers, in San Francisco. During the year 1928, he toured Europe and returned to the office of architect Eldridge T. Spencer as the firm's designer. In 1930, he initiated his private practice with the design of residential structures, examples of which were selected for exhibition by the Northern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for an exhibit held at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1938. In 1941, the Architectural League of New York prepared a national touring exhibition on the architecture of northern California, and selected the work of Wellington as that of one of the seventeen architects so honored. Duke's love of objects of the personal environment


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reached a high point when he was commissioned to design and supervise the Kinteel Trading Post at Window Rock, Arizona, using the masonry skills of Navajo artisans. While Wellington's houses were not widely publicized, they all show his belief in comprehensive design and in many of them both furniture and hardware were specially designed. His aid to clients in selecting materials and furnishings made each a unique and richly varied composition.

Wellington's introduction to exhibition design came at the request of Dr. Alfred Kroeber, who asked him in 1939 to aid in the preparation of the display of native artifacts in the Andean Room of the Federal Pavillion of the Golden Gate International Exhibition. His design of exhibitions expanded during the ensuing years and the work of artists, artisans, and indigenous populations was ingeniously displayed in university and public galleries. Among the outstanding exhibits were a series on Chinese, Egyptian, and indigenous populations of the Americas using artifacts from the vast anthropological collections of the University of California, most of which had never before been accessible for public viewing. Others, such as the Art of the Indians of the Southwest at the De Young Museum, included ancient works of art with contemporary craftsmen producing traditional craftwork. Wellington's skill as an architect was also employed in museum installations of the outstanding examples of Elizabethan, Spanish, and French Louis XV and IV period rooms, in which he found it necessary to design missing parts and direct craftsmen in architectural arts of decorative plastering and woodworking no long practiced.

He carried his “hands on” approach into his teaching in the Department of Decorative Art, where his popular classes in materials required the students to examine and handle the beautiful objects from his ever-expanding personal collection. His large lecture classes on the survey of the minor arts drew enthusiastic response from students who came to know him as richly eccentric but perceptively informative on the nature of object design. A distinguishing characteristic of his teaching was relating the design of these objects as a part of a synthesis in the history of art. He served as chairman of the Art Gallery, 1946-1962, where, through the design of exhibitions, he transformed the rough interior of the old power house into an intimate cultural experience. Despite limited budgets he designed modern display and mounting techniques with meticulous labeling, allowing close observation of art work, while at the same time protecting the objects.

Wellington retired in 1965 to the house he had designed for himself at the end of Cordornices Road. There at the request of former students, friends, and alumni of the University he presided, as he had done in former years, over sessions dedicated to the understanding of the nature of beautifully designed objects. The gatherings were as much in reverence of the learned


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and lovable man as they were for savoring the beauty of the objects he had assembled.

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William Lindus Cody Wheaton, City and Regional Planning: Berkeley


1913-1978
Professor

A native of Cleveland, Professor Wheaton was educated at Princeton and held the Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.

He was an international authority on housing and on urban-development policy. He served as Dean of the College of Environmental Design from 1968 until 1976, when he returned to full-time teaching.

A leading figure in urban research in the years following World War II, he was founder and initial director of the Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at Berkeley.

Nationally and internationally Wheaton was one of the most highly respected and admired people in the housing and urban-planning fields. He was intimately involved in setting the foundations of this country's post-war policy with respect to housing and urban renewal. He played a continuing role as a major advisor both to the executive and legislative arms of the United States Government on matters of housing policy. He was involved in the creation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. And the point of it all for Wheaton was social equity, balancing social wrongs, and doing right for people in terms of where and how and in what they lived.

As Dean, Wheaton guided the College of Environment Design through a period of turmoil during the late 1960s. He led with strength, with common sense, and with good humor. He cared for the departments that make up the College at the same time that he pressed them to plan and to do more than they had been doing.

Bill Wheaton, a warm, smiling, basically happy, and extraordinarily bright human being, was a consummate professional, an outstanding teacher, an advisor to many, and a colleague and friend to those who spent time with him.

When the nation's housing shortage was severe in the years immediately following World War II, Wheaton served as Special Assistant to the Administrator of the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency. For the first


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time, the federal government was compelled to develop a national housing policy, and Wheaton was among its key framers. As President and Chairman of the Board for the National Housing Conference, he was a frequent advisor to committees of Congress and a major force in designing the nation's Urban Renewal Program.

Wheaton served, with ambassadorial rank, as United States representative to the United Nations Committee on Housing, Building and Planning. He was State Department advisor on urban development and a founder and Member of the Board for International Planning and Development Co-operative, a professional association with worldwide planning practice. His international consulting activities included work in India, Southeast Asia, and Japan where he provided advice for the United Nations Program in Regional Planning at Nagoya.

Wheaton was a forceful advocate of better housing for low-income families, and he was among the nation's leading authorities on monetary, fiscal, and market techniques for lowering housing costs. Seeking to improve the living quality of American suburbs, he was a long-time proponent of new towns to be built by public corporations in accord with unified environmental designs. An active participant in debates on California's growth policies, he had long advocated programs to direct new urban growth into planned settlements. At the time of his death he was writing a treatise on the comparative costs of urban growth in Europe and America.

Beyond his accomplishments, Bill Wheaton was the professional's academician. They loved him. They listened to him. They knew he listened to them. Practicing professionals knew he was sympathetic with city planning and in him they had an understanding friend.

Bill Wheaton was a wonderful teacher. His way of expecting people to know things made students want to know because it would be good and fun to know, not because of duty or grades. He mentioned authors, books and ideas in ways that made students want to know them too. It is generally agreed that he was one of the premier professors of difficult studio-workshop courses. His loving students are legion.

To student and professional alike, Bill Wheaton was a constant, available advisor. His door was always open. He kept track of available positions and would steer people to them. He was a one-man, unpaid employment service for hundreds of people.

Finally, Bill Wheaton was a positive, inventive colleague of the faculty. He came to meetings, accepted any assignment, worked on issues to completion, debated issues, and accepted decisions, once made. In short, he was a fully participating member of the faculty.

Professor Wheaton leaves his wife, Margaret Fry Wheaton, a member of the city planning faculty at Sonoma State College; his sons, Professor


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William Wheaton, Jr. of M.I.T. and Edward of Berkeley; his daughter, Martha, and his mother, both of Philadelphia.

Allan B. Jacobs R. C. Peters F. Violich


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Paul D. Wienpahl, Philosophy: Los Angeles and Santa Barbara


1916-1980
Professor

On March 1, 1980, Paul Wienpahl, Professor of Philosophy, died suddenly and unexpectedly. He would have been sixty-four on March 6. He was a widely published scholar, an exceptionally successful teacher, and an important contributor to the early academic planning and development of the UCSB campus. His loss, so sudden it is hard to grasp, is great indeed.

In 1948, after a year as an Instructor at U.C.L.A., and then a year at N.Y.U., Paul Wienpahl came as an Assistant Professor to the University of California at Santa Barbara. The campus, then still on the Riviera, was intended to become a unique liberal arts college within the University. He was an influential contributor to the realization of that ideal; professional scholar though he was, he remained to the end of his life dedicated to the idea of liberal education and to philosophy as a discipline that liberates.

In 1960, and again from 1963 to 1966, he was chairman of the philosophy department. In 1961, he served as vice president of the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division. In 1966-67 he was director of the UC Education Abroad Study Center at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. He was a Ford Foundation fellow in 1954, and in 1969 he was a fellow of the East-West Conference in Philosophy. He was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii in 1976.

Professor Wienpahl was born in Rock Springs, Wyoming, on March 6, 1916. He later lived in Los Angeles, attended UCLA and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, receiving his B.A. magna cum laude there. After receiving his M.A., he served four years in the army during World War II, completing his service as a captain in the tank corps in Europe. He then returned to UCLA and earned his Ph.D. In 1942, he married Janet Elizabeth Ward, who survives him; they have two children, Mark, who is a physician, and Jan, who is an anthropologist.

Paul Wienpahl was from the outset an exceptionally successful teacher, widely popular, deeply respected and admired by his students. In 1957, the faculty of UCSB awarded him the annual faculty prize for being the most effective in “opening new intellectual and cultural vistas to undergraduate students.” Though he regularly gave large and very successful lecture


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courses, emphasis on the individual student was a hallmark of all his teaching. He had a particular love for teaching philosophy, and his warm and enduring relationships with students at every level were notable signs of the central role the teaching of philosophy played in his life.

His career as a philosophical writer was productive and varied. He wrote important studies on Frege and Wittgenstein, on existentialism and Zen Buddhism, and on Spinoza. He published about forty articles in scholarly journals, and three books: The Matter of Zen, Zen Diary, and The Radical Spinoza. A mere listing of numbers and titles does not reveal the background of personal commitment behind this record. He lived in France for a year studying existentialism; he went to Japan to live in a Zen temple and study under a Zen master; in recent years, as the foundation of his Spinoza studies, he completed his own translation into English of the entire corpus of Spinoza's works. All Wienphal's work was governed by a radical empiricism that he increasingly came to see as a form of mysticism.

Paul was a person of exceptional qualities. In the face of cant and mere convention he showed impatience. This reflected his hunger for simplicity, his yearning for each one to accept and love others as they are. He himself had a remarkable, unaffected candor, a kindly directness, a deep need to help another where he saw help needed. Earth, sun, sea, wind--these were intrinsic parts of his life. He loved sailing. Much of his daily rhythm of life centered around his home high up in the Santa Barbara hills, built in good part by his own hands almost thirty years ago, with its breathtaking sweeping view of the Santa Barbara coastline and sea.

He was passionately dedicated to the world of ideas, most particularly to philosophy. He was up long before the sun, writing for hours in his hilltop study. For him, philosophy was a scholarly discipline but, much more importantly, it was a spiritual discipline of personal liberation.

Paul Wienpahl was a very private person; yet around the globe, as well as here in the Santa Barbara he so loved, his death is mourned by many.

Herbert Fingarette Elmer Noble Alex Sesonske


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Howel Williams, Geological Sciences: Berkeley


1898-1980
Professor of Geology, Emeritus

Howel Williams, world-famous volcanologist and distinguished member of the University faculty for nearly fifty years, died in Berkeley on January 12, 1980, as the consequence of a stroke.

Williams was born of Welsh parents in Liverpool, England, on October 12, 1898. He studied at the University of Liverpool, receiving a B.A. in geography in 1923 and an M.A. in archeology in 1924. His first publications were in archeology and it was because of his field work in this area that he changed to geology. After a few years of study at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, he came to Berkeley in the summer of 1926 on a three-year appointment as a Commonwealth Fund fellow.

In California, Williams immediately took up field studies in areas of volcanic activity which were to be his dominating interest throughout his career. His report on “A recent volcanic eruption near Lassen Peak, California,” the first of many to appear in the University of California Publications in the Geological Sciences, was issued May 19, 1928. Even before that he had finished his first major work in volcanology which was reported at the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America, held in Berkeley in March, 1928. For this Williams received instant recognition and was awarded a prize, provided by Professor Lawson, for “Geology of the Marysville Buttes, California,” for having contributed “the most satisfactory and the most important paper setting forth the results of his own research in geology.” This appeared as a monograph published by the UC Press the following year. In 1928, he also received the degree of D.Sc., from the University of Liverpool.

In 1929, after three years in California and also studies in Tahiti, Williams returned to England, where he held a post at the Royal School of Mines in London for one year. He so impressed Professor G. D. Louderback, Dean of the College of Letters and Science and Chairman of the Department of Geological Sciences, that he was invited to join the department in 1930 as Associate Professor of Geology.

When Williams returned to the department it had only seven other members, six of whom were California Ph.D.s, and only one full professor.


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His arrival was a blessing, bringing fresh stimulus to a department that had been criticized for inbreeding. He took charge of instruction in microscopic petrography from the start and taught the basic course in this subject, a mainstay of the department, for thirty-six years. The laboratory work was based entirely on thin sections of rocks, and students were required to make sketches and colored drawings to record their observations. At the same time Williams participated in teaching the rigorous full-year field course required for all major students, which had been instituted by Lawson as an innovation a generation earlier. In volcanology he not only started a seminar but gained disciples among his younger colleagues. One of these, Charles Anderson (later to become chief geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey), turned from economic geology to volcanology and carried out a number of independent volcanological studies in northern California.

After definitive studies of the most notable California volcanoes, Mt. Lassen and Mt. Shasta, Williams first extended his work to Oregon. Through his great monograph on “The Geology of Crater Lake National Park,” published by the Carnegie Institution, a translation of this into Spanish, and through a U.C. Press book on Crater Lake intended for the general public, he became known and appreciated in ever wider circles. To most, the recognition of the collapse or engulfment of the mountain peak of Crater Lake, and his subsequent survey of calderas and their formation throughout the world are his greatest works, but Williams' own greatest love was Sutter Buttes, the study of which began his career in California and ironically, ended it when he returned “to correct the mistakes I made there a half century ago.” Most of Williams' publications were based on carefully detailed field work, and here he was a master with few, if any, peers. His ability to go into a new volcanic area and with miraculous swiftness identify the major units, lava flows, ash flows, volcanic domes, and establish their chronology accurately was a talent that awed and amazed those privileged to accompany him. His genius in this respect was recognized early in his career by the great British field geologist, Edward Greenly, who chose Williams to co-author a book on methods in geological surveying (1930). In contrast to Greenly, however, who always worked alone in the field to maintain his concentration, Williams enjoyed having field companions and delighted in both pointing out the salient features of the geology to his associates and keeping up a commentary on his developing geologic hypotheses. His detailed field maps, meticulously and artfully drafted and colored, would grow magically before his companions' eyes. Nothing escaped Williams' keen eyes in the field, including the maidenly blush on the cheeks of the farmer's daughter upon whose land he found himself.

During protracted field work in foreign lands, Howel steeped himself in the lore and culture of the countries, often singing and drinking with the local people and collecting their art. His main mission, however, was


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never far from his mind, and evenings were frequently spent in reconnaissance geology by car: his enthusiams for geologic discovery never flagged.

One observes in awe the tremendous area carefully studied by Williams during his career. His published geologic maps total over 10,000 square miles. Only some of the early giants of western reconnaissance geology, Powell, Gilbert and King, published more, but not nearly in the detail of Williams.

Williams was a master of the art of field sketching, formerly practiced by many naturalists. Many of his papers were illustrated with his meticulously done pen and ink drawings. Such drawings of the microscopic features of rocks of all types, done by Williams, were used exclusively in the very successful textbook, Petrography, by Williams, Turner, and Gilbert. Williams' publications were equally characterized by his lucid and elegant prose; he greatly relished reviewing student manuscripts, and his skill at reducing their length substantially while increasing the information they contained was valued by students until his death.

“Willie,” as he was affectionately known, was an ideal field companion and a much sought-after participant in multidisciplinary programs. He was a founding member of the Associates in Tropical Biogeography. One of us remembers fondly the picture of Howel and paleontologist R. A. Stirton kneeling in the desert sand of Baja California, amiably assisting the beleaguered botanist of the biogeographers' expedition in preparation of plant specimens. Williams' accomplishments include numerous studies with current and former students in geology, as well as those with Robert Heizer (anthropology) on Mexican archaeology, particularly in tracing the sources of megaliths. Willie was especially noted for his relaxed civility and complete imperturbability in all situations and on all occasions.

During the period of his able chairmanship of the department, 1945-1949, the faculty was increased from seven to eleven members. More importantly, by the addition of Turner and Verhoogen to the faculty in 1946 and 1947, the transformation of the department had been initiated. Within a few years the department was represented in the National Academy of Sciences by four members, whereas previously the department had never had more than one member in the Academy.

He was married twice, both marriages ending in divorce. In his later years his stepdaughter, Tony Ray, and her son, Geoffrey, moved in with him and cared for him, becoming his true family and heirs. He is survived by his twin brother, David, in Britain, also a geologist of world renown.

A. Pabst I. S. E. Carmichael L. Constance G. H. Curtis


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Edward Hollister Wisser, Mineral Exploration: Berkeley


1895-1970
Professor Emeritus

One of his Berkeley colleagues once called Ed Wisser a “rough diamond.” The analogy was apt; the brilliance was obvious, with no need for polish, and the quality went all the way through.

Ed Wisser was the traditional mining engineer of the 1920s and 30s; versatile, ruggedly independent, and equally at home in the Waldorf Astoria and in a miner's cabin high in the Sierra Madre or deep in the jungle of northern Luzon. Among his colleagues, and he included his students in this category, appreciation for his talents as a world-renowned geologist rapidly deepened into admiration for his broad wisdom, refined humanism, and thorough integrity. He generously shared the many observations and experiences of his wide-ranging professional life with all who cared to learn. His sixteen years of teaching at Berkeley, toward the close of his career, started many students on illustrious careers of their own. Through his own work and the work of his students, he has contributed substantially to the quality of life on at least three continents.

Ed Wisser was born at Fort Hamilton, New York, on July 25, 1895, and during his high school years had the advantages of international travel with his father, General John D. Wisser, who was military attache in Berlin for the army of the United States. German was thus the first of several foreign languages he was to master in his international career, and probably contributed to his early zest for travel to distant places. His choice of Mining Engineering for his bachelor's degree at Berkeley in 1917 was at least partly because of the cosmopolitan glamour of that field, but he graduated just in time to spend two years as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in France and Germany.

After World War I, Ed returned to mining, and in his early professional years (1919 to 1924), he was in mining operations in western United States and Mexico. He ended this period as a mine manager--a “mine captain” as the Cornishmen say--which gave him a perspective about mining achievable in no other way. But during this period he also became convinced that his real interests were more geological than operational, so he went back to Cal for a year's graduate work under A. C. Lawson, G. D. Louderback,


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and C. D. Hulin. Then he signed on for a year with Phelps Dodge at Bisbee, Arizona, where he had the good fortune to associate with Augustus Locke and with F. L. Ransome, from the University of Arizona.

At that time Carl Hulin was chief geologist for Compania Real del Monte y Pachuca, a subsidiary of the United States Smelting and Refining Company, and when Hulin went back to the United States, Wisser was appointed chief geologist for Mexican operations of U.S. Smelting. Here he came into his own as a mine and exploration geologist. He introduced exacting engineering methods for recording geological observations and directed a very successful search for new ore. He is well remembered in Mexico for his ore discoveries at Pachuca and Real del Monte, but he was also storing up the complicated lore of “epithermal” ore deposits that became the basis for his worldwide scientific reputation. Most of his twenty-two papers, including the widely acclaimed Memoir 77 of the Geological Society of America in 1960, were germinated during his work in the mines in Mexico. Memoir 77, “Relation of ore deposition to doming in the North American Cordillera,” stands unique as a summary of the geological habitats of North American bonanzas, including those Wisser himself described earlier in Economic Geology and elsewhere.

In 1936, Wisser enlarged his area of interest as a consulting geologist in the Philippines until World War II. His work in the Philippines was mainly in the high level gold districts near Bagio. This diversification added to his stature as one of the top experts on epithermal mineral deposits.

After transferring his consulting activity to a base in San Francisco, he became affiliated with the University of California again as a visiting lecturer in 1946, and then in 1947 as Professor of Mineral Exploration in the Department of Mineral Technology. Wisser excelled as a teacher, bringing the real operation of mining geology into his classroom as only a veteran of twenty-five years in the mines around the world can do. His lectures were given with graceful intimacy, wit and enthusiasm, and were sharpened with firsthand anecdotes of high human interest. He and his wife, Frances, carried the miner's traditional hospitality into their home for many wonderful dinner parties and seminars. Along with geology and exploration, the students learned the many nontechnical cultural skills of world travellers. Even after retirement in 1963 Ed Wisser continued to give informal sessions to Berkeley mining students, who journeyed all the way up to his retirement “hideout” north of Placerville for weekly seminars.

Ed's final degree from Berkeley came in 1965 in the form of an honorary L.L.D.--a rare acknowledgement by the University of the spectacular professional career of one of its own.

After a few years at the “hideout”, Ed and Frances moved to the warmer and drier climate at Tucson, Arizona, where Ed became visiting scholar


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at the Department of Mining Engineering. Here he continued all phases of his professional work, with the students and with his many-faceted consulting activities. He also continued active participation in his professional societies, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the Society of Economic Geologists, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the Geochemical Society. But his weakening heart finally required an operation in early 1970, and he died on February 2, following open-heart surgery.

There is no replacing Ed Wisser. “Rough diamonds” are not very numerous. But he left for us a rich heritage of the highest personal, professional, and intellectual standards. This grows more precious as the years go on since he left us.

Charles Meyer Ralph Hultgren


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Karl E. With, Art: Los Angeles


1891-1980
Professor of Art History, Emeritus

Dr. Karl E. With, Professor of Art History Emeritus, joined the art faculty at UCLA in 1948 as Professor and Curator, and taught there until his retirement in 1966. A brilliant and charismatic teacher and lecturer, he continued to be active in the academic community until he was seventy-five. In the finest tradition of his field he was able to relate great teaching to great scholarship, a rare combination that was recognized and appreciated by multitudes of students who delighted in sharing his experiences of a lifetime of unusual involvement in an international art world.

At a time when European universities and art museums were almost totally preoccupied with western art, Karl With opened up new avenues for scholarship in the art of the Far East. In preparation he traveled for several years in the Orient prior to World War I; his dissertation, based on his on-the-site research, and his pioneering photography, earned him a Ph.D. summa cum laude from the University of Vienna. At the University he worked under the direction of the distinguished scholar Strygowski. In the 1920s he published a number of pioneering works on Far Eastern art and culture. Nevertheless, his personal interests embraced all artistic expressions from the prehistoric and the primitive, to the most contemporary developments. Settling near Cologne, he played a guiding role as a teacher and museum director; his official positions included the Directorship of the Kunstgewerbe Museum and the Kunstgewerbeschule in Cologne, as well as a lectureship at Cologne University. In these efforts he was actively supported by the then Lord Mayor of Cologne, Konrad Adenauer. He was also the leading spirit in the development of the modern collections of the Folkwang Museum in Hagen, Westphalia. It was, in fact, his enthusiastic support of contemporary art that ultimately led to his abrupt dismissal from his positions by the Nazis in March of 1933. The notes and archives that served as the basis of his research and scholarly activity the field were summarily confiscated as evidence of his work in a “degenerate” area, and apparently destroyed. Not a man to renounce or recant his firm beliefs, he left the country for good in February, 1939, emigrating to the United States. He was soon after joined by his fiancée, the accomplished artist, Gerda Becker, and they were married in New York in July of that year.


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UCLA provided him with the forum and climate he required to communicate his ideas. In return he brought a tradition of art history scholarship that was still relatively new to the fledgling department. He created his now famous Integrated Arts course which survives still in the minds of the many thousands of people who were privileged to hear him. Those of his colleagues at UCLA who enjoyed his friendship cherish the memory of a warm and generous man who shared with them a mutual regard for professional integrity in scholarship as well as a mutual regard for human dignity.

E. Maurice Bloch Robert L. Pusler Karl E. Birkmeyer


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William Gould Young, Chemistry: Los Angeles


1902-1980
Professor Emeritus

William G. Young was born in Colorado Springs on July 30, 1902, and died July 5, 1980, in Laguna Hills, California. He attended Colorado College and obtained an A.B. degree in 1924 and an M.S. degree in 1925. After spending some time working with H. A. Spoehr on the chemistry of photosynthesis at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Laboratory for Plant Physiology, Carmel, California, he entered the California Institute of Technology where he carried out research with professor Howard J. Lucas and obtained a Ph.D. degree in 1929. After a year as National Research Council fellow at Stanford University he joined the chemistry department at UCLA as an instructor in 1930 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1931, Associate Professor in 1938, and Professor in 1943. Bill served as chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1940 to 1948, as dean of physical sciences from 1948 to 1957, and as vice chancellor for planning from 1957 until his retirement in 1970. The chemistry building was named in his honor in 1970.

Physical organic chemistry was the most active research area in organic chemistry in the United States during Bill Young's career, and he made significant contributions to the field. His research centered on allylic rearrangements and he published over one hundred and thirty research papers before he turned his full energies to administration. A number of his former students hold professorships in major universities. His research helped establish UCLA as an international center for research in physical organic chemistry.

Bill Young was active in the American Chemical Society for many years, first in the Southern California section and then on the national level. His most significant contributions were made as a member of the Committee on Professional Training, 1943-1960 (Chairman 1948-1958) and as a member of the Board of Directors, 1958-1960. The Committee on Professional Training, through its accreditation program, was of great importance for the improvement of education in chemistry in the United States at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and for the upgrading of facilities for teaching and research in chemistry in universities and colleges throughout the country.


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Bill Young was an outstanding administrator. He guided the Department of Chemistry during its most crucial years. Through his research, his astute choice of faculty members, his wise counsel to students and younger faculty and above all through his devotion to and exemplification of excellence he has left an indelible mark on the Department. He also made significant contributions to the development of all sciences at UCLA and to the planning of the building program for the entire campus, especially for the Center for the Health Sciences.

Many honors came to Bill in recognition of his scholarly and administrative contributions. He was the first faculty member at UCLA to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences (in 1951). He was faculty research lecturer at UCLA in 1947, was awarded a distinguished service medal from UCLA in 1964, and in 1972 received an honorary L.L.D. from UCLA. He was also awarded a D.Sc. degree from his alma mater, Colorado College, in 1962 and from the University of Colorado in 1975. The University of the Pacific awarded him an L.L.D. in 1966, and he received an Alumni Distinguished Service Award from the California Institute of Technology in 1968. The American Chemical Society also accorded him many honors: he received the first Tolman Medal of the Southern California section in 1961, the Chemical Education Award of the national society in 1962, and in 1968 he received the Priestly Medal, the highest award of the American Chemical Society.

In 1926, Bill married Helen Graybeal and after his retirement they moved to Leisure World in Laguna Hills. Bill was a fine athlete as an undergraduate and was especially known for his skill at golf. Golf was a principal diversion for him throughout his life and after retirement his score again dropped into the seventies. He also supported the intercollegiate athletic program at UCLA with vigor and could be found without fail at football and basketball games. He and Helen travelled widely. In retirement he had a busy and happy life. His contributions to UCLA and to chemistry will long be remembered.

Donald J. Cram Thomas J. Jacobs Francis Blacet

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Title: 1980, University of California: In Memoriam
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Date: 1980
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