University of California: In Memoriam, 1995David Krogh, EditorA publication of the Academic Senate, University of California, 12th Floor, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, California 94607-5200. Information on this publication may be obtained by contacting the Academic Senate Office on any of the University of California campuses. |
Preface
Colleagues, Friends, and Family Members:
We of the University of California Academic Senate have produced this volume of In Memoriam in memory of our deceased colleagues. It is our hope that these memorials will serve as fitting tributes to these departed friends, who served the University so well.
Boyd Allen, Art Practice: Berkeley
| 1931-1995 | |
| Professor |
Boyd Allen was held in high esteem as an artist, and also for his character his ability to communicate essential concepts of form to his students. George Miyasaki said, “My strongest impression of Boyd was his honest and straightforward attitude. I also admired his strong sense of connection with basic and fundamental understanding of things. He was always keen on historical and technical knowledge in art.” Another colleague, Sidney Gordin stated, “He was active in all aspects of departmental functions and was one of our most reliable and indispensable members. With all this, he was able to maintain his dedication to his own painting.” David Simpson noted, “I remember mostly that Boyd liked loud cowboy shirts and had a large collection of them; that he was a devotee of Kirkegaard; that he taught for years the materials and methods course, an important one; that he was soft spoken but stubborn in his beliefs.” “His dream was to move to Taos after he retired and to paint,” said Katherine Sherwood. Jerrold Ballaine said, “There were always two very intense attitudes, or expressions, I could count on: number one was academic freedom and number two was the deligent pursuit of a unique and personal identity in painting, in gardening, in teaching, in everything he did.” “He was dearly loved by students. He always had time for them and gave and gave,” reflected Mary O'Neal.
Born in 1931, Boyd was a native of Muskegon, Michigan. He earned A.B. (1954) and M.A. (1955) degrees at the University of California, Berkeley. Following completion of his graduate studies, his potential as an artist and teacher was recognized with his appointment as Instructor in the Art Department from 1956 to 1960. He next served on the staff of the Newark Museum in New Jersey. He was invited to return
Boyd became Professor Emeritus in 1991. Soon thereafter he and his wife moved to Taos, New Mexico, where he built a studio. He always enjoyed the Southwest; the subjects of many of his paintings were suggestive of mountains and deserts rich in color and texture. He was struck by cancer and passed away on September 2, 1995. He is survived by his wife, Patricia; two daughters, Lori and Janine; two sons, Matthew and Damon; and a step-son, Jett.
Eugene N. Anderson, History: Los Angeles
| 1899-1984 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Eugene N. Anderson passed away on November 11, 1984 of unknown causes at the age of 85. Eugene began his tenure at UCLA on July 1, 1955 and retired on July 1, 1968. Eugene faithfully served the UCLA community for 13 years as a fine educator and respected scholar in his field. He was admired by his colleagues as a perfect gentleman and for his enthusiasm in teaching students. Eugene's work was in 19th- and 20th-century history, dealing primarily with Germany.
Eugene lived a long productive life and has left a lasting impression on all those he has touched with his wisdom and character. He will be greatly missed by his loved ones, friends, and colleagues.
David Appleman, Botany and Plant Biochemistry: Los Angeles
| 1899-1995 | |
| Professor of Plant Physiology, Emeritus |
David Appleman and UCLA virtually grew up together. When David Appleman died in March, 1995 at the age of 95, he had spent 68 years in association with the University of California--as student, faculty member, and loyal alumnus. When he came to UCLA in 1933 as a Research Assistant in Subtropical Horticulture, the fledgling UCLA campus in Westwood was but four years removed from its Vermont Avenue site in Los Angeles, and the branch of the College of Agriculture at Los Angeles was still in its infancy.
Born in a small village in Russia, David moved with his family to Winnepeg, Canada when he was 11 years old. After but two years in a simple elementary school he graduated from the eighth grade. Thereafter he went to Saskatchewan, where he first supported himself teaching Judaism to the children of a local family. Later he settled a 120-acre homestead with a local blacksmith. While a homesteader, he taught Hebrew to monks of a nearby monastery, who wished to read the Bible in Hebrew. In 1921 he returned to Winnepeg, and, sensing the need of further education moved to New York City where he earned his living as an electrician's apprentice while simultaneously--by home study--preparing himself for the State of New York Regent's Examination and the College Boards. He passed both examinations with no formal high school training, and thereupon, in 1923, departed for California and enrolled in chemistry on the Berkeley campus, graduating with honors in 1927.
David did his dissertation research with Professor J.P. Bennett in the Department of Plant Nutrition in the College of Agriculture at Berkeley, while at the same time serving as a Research Assistant to Professor W.H. Chandler in the Department of Subtropical Horticulture. When a
David Appleman's research at UCLA centered first on the nitrogen nutrition of citrus plants, with ancillary studies on the growth in culture of the unicellular alga, Chlorella. The end in view in the latter case was the development of a potential source of edible protein which might be produced where land availability or economic strictures precluded conventional agriculture. Eventually his subsequent lifelong research devolved surprisingly on mammalian cancer biology. The seemingly unlikely incentive resulted from the observation that a prevalent herbicide, namely amitrole, or 3-amino-1,2,4 triazole, evoked the same effect on liver and kidney as did the onset of cancerous tumors. Specifically, both suppressed the activity of a critical enzyme, catalase, that catalyzed the destruction of hydrogen peroxide. The significance and further pursuit of this trenchant observation held his attention well into retirement--David arriving at the laboratory every day till, towards the end of his life, his physical condition made it impossible to continue this practice.
Throughout his years of active service he taught courses in soils and plant nutrition, and unstintingly advised students and counseled colleagues. His piercing rejoinder to students inquiring about the nature of examination questions each year was that the questions would be the same as heretofore, but the answers would be different, a measure of his high standards and determination to keep his presentations at the cutting edge.
David served the Academic Senate on many committees with skill and devotion through the years. His crowning achievement in behalf of UCLA came in 1945 when, in the role of Santa Monica resident, he took a two-week leave without pay from the University to oppose a Santa Monica ballot measure that would have allowed the University to relinquish ten acres of campus land earlier given to the University by the City of Santa Monica. The land in question was bought from the Janss company by the City of Santa Monica in 1925, and gifted to the Regents for the Westwood campus, to be used for the establishment of a teaching and research orchard as part of the College of Agriculture. When, in 1945, the Janss company wished to reacquire the land for
As it happened, David Appleman, together with the then-president of the League of Women Voters in Santa Monica, and the help of a legion of volunteer high school students, caused some 15,000 postcards opposing the ballot measure to be sent to Santa Monica residents. The measure lost by a vote of three to one. The Regents had strongly favored the land swap; in consequence David Appleman was the only visible faculty presence openly in opposition. Nevertheless, the outcome was heartily welcomed by the majority of the UCLA faculty, as well as by the campus and Statewide administrations alike.
Next to his family and the University, David's greatest love was the High Sierras, where he spent many summers hiking and camping with his children and his wife, Wynona. When circumstances precluded visits to the high country, David roamed the Santa Monica Mountains. His respect and love for the outdoors has been carried on; he is survived by three sons--Daniel, a geophysicist, Jerry, a cellist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and Michael, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Southern California, as well as several grandchildren.
David Appleman enriched the University of California and his beloved Westwood campus. His memory continues to nourish those who knew him.
Gustave O. Arlt, Germanic Languages: Los Angeles
| 1895-1986 | |
| Professor and Dean Emeritus |
On September 17, 1986, Gustave O. Arlt died due to heart failure at the age of 91. Gustave begin his career at UCLA on September 1, 1935 and remained at the University until he retired on September 1, 1962. In his 27 years at UCLA he made numerous contributions in the field of Germanic languages. UCLA was very fortunate to have such an esteemed educator and leader amongst its faculty. Colleagues and students appreciated his guidance and knowledge.
In Gustave's passing, there is great sorrow for a man who has won the respect of so many by his numerous accomplishments; he shall be greatly missed.
Daniel I. Arnon, Plant Biology: Berkeley
| 1910-1994 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Daniel I. Arnon was one of this century's leaders in the field of photosynthesis--the process which sustains life on our planet through the conversion of sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into organic compounds (eventually food) and oxygen. His contributions to photosynthesis changed principal concepts of this fundamental process and left a deep and lasting imprint on biology. He died of cardiac arrest on December 20, 1994. He is survived by five children, Mrs. Anne Arnon Hodge, Dr. Ruth Arnon Hanham, Dr. Stephen Arnon, Mrs. Nancy Arnon Agnew, and Dr. Dennis Arnon, and by eight grandchildren. His wife, the former Lucile Soule, died in 1986.
Dan was born in Warsaw, Poland, the eldest of four children, on November 14, 1910. The family lived in Warsaw but spent their summers on a farm where young Daniel First became intrigued by plants and agriculture. He was something of a child prodigy, being by far the youngest in his class. When he joined a private library, Dan amazed the librarian by often devouring four books a day. He also developed a lifelong love of sports and physical fitness. Soccer he especially enjoyed. He learned to swim so as to be able to scull on the Vistula River and tutored classmates in gymnastics and mathematics to help supplement the family income. As a result of experiencing firsthand the great famines following World War I, Dan vowed to work in agriculture to improve its scientific basis. Convinced that there was no future in Poland, he saved his earnings and by age 18 secured his passage to New York. He worked there until he had enough money to buy a Greyhound bus ticket to California. After studying briefly in a junior college there, he transferred to UC Berkeley, from which he earned a bachelor's degree in
Dan's entire professional career was spent at Berkeley, except for the period 1943-46, when he served as a major in the U. S. Army Air Corps as an expert on water culture of plants. He began as a faculty member in the Department of Plant Nutrition in 1936, founded the Department of Cell Physiology, and finished his career in the Department of Plant Biology. He is known for his graduate teaching in photosynthesis. Following his retirement in 1978, Dan continued to conduct research and write daily up to the time of his death. During his career he trained numerous graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, many of whom rose to positions of national and international leadership.
Dan discovered photosynthetic phosphorylation (photophosphorylation)--a finding that ranks in importance with the discovery of respiration, the process by which organisms use oxygen to obtain energy. He demonstrated that chloroplasts (the chlorophyll-containing organelles of plants) use the energy of sunlight to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the universal energy carrier of all living cells. As a part of this research, Dan was the first to obtain complete photosynthesis outside the living cell--a feat comparable to that of Buchner with the process of fermentation. These discoveries by Dan and his group were described in the New York Times of July 6, 1954.
Another discovery came a few years later when Dan found that a red iron-sulfur protein, now known as ferredoxin, is a universal part of the photosynthetic apparatus and functions in photophosphorylation. This work led the way for researchers to elucidate ferredoxin as a key participant of other basic cellular processes. In research stemming from the ferredoxin work, he and his colleagues discovered a path of photosynthetic carbon dioxide assimilation in bacteria, “the reductive carboxylic acid cycle,” that is independent of the pathway functional in plants. This work uncovered the ferredoxin-linked mechanism of carbon dioxide fixation and gave insight into the evolution of photosynthesis.
In the first part of his career, Dan did pioneering work in the micronutrient (trace) element field. He discovered the essentiality of molybdenum for the growth of all plants and of vanadium for the growth of algae. Both findings led to important subsequent developments in studies of nitrogen metabolism in which these elements were found to play critical roles. The molybdenum work found agronomic application:
Dan spent sabbatical periods in Europe as a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Research Scholar. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Academie d'Agriculture de France, the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, an honorary member of the Spanish Biochemical Society, and a member of the Scandinavian Society of Plant Physiologists. He served his profession and the university widely; he was President of the American Society of Plant Physiologists and a longterm department chair. In 1985, he received the Berkeley Citation, the campus' highest honor, “for distinguished achievement and for notable service to the University.” Dan was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In addition to a number of honorary lectureships, his awards include the Newcomb Cleveland Prize, the highest honor of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Charles F. Kettering research award of the Kettering Foundation/National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, the Finsen Medal of the International Association of Photobiology, the Stephen Hales Prize, the Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award and the Kettering Award in Photosynthesis of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, Docteur honoris causa of the Universite de Bordeaux and the Universidad de Sevilla, and the National Medal of Science (U.S.A.) “for fundamental research into the mechanisms of green plant utilization of light to produce chemical energy and oxygen and for contributions to our understanding of plant nutrition.” A Special Issue of Photosynthesis Research is to commemorate the eighty-fifth anniversary of his birth.
Ralph M. Barnes, Management: Los Angeles
| 1900-1984 | |
| Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus |
It was on November 5, 1984 that Ralph M. Barnes passed away at the age of 84. Ralph began his tenure at UCLA on July 1, 1949 and remained at the University until his retirement, 19 years later, on July 1, 1968. He was a great resource to the Graduate School of Management in the field of Engineering & Applied Science. His contributions and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
Ralph shall be remembered as a excellent educator and a great man of many talents. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Leslie L. Bennett, Physiology: San Francisco
| 1908-1995 | |
| Professor of Emeritus | |
| Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Emeritus |
Leslie Latty Bennett was born in Portland, Oregon on November 15, 1908, but he grew up mainly in Pacific Grove, California. He earned his A.B. in zoology and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California, Berkeley in 1933. He completed his Ph.D. in anatomy at Berkeley in 1937, with Herbert M. Evans as his preceptor, and did important early work on anterior pituitary hormones. Then he completed his M.D. at UCSF in 1940, receiving its highest award, the Gold-Headed Cane, despite having had to commute by public transportation to a night-time job at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley. He also was elected to the medical and scientific honor societies, Alpha Omega Alpha and Sigma Xi. He continued at UCSF for his internship and residency training in internal medicine and remained associated with UC for the rest of his life. In 1942-43 he was appointed an instructor in physiology and medicine and advanced to Assistant Professor in 1943.
In 1945 he made an abrupt change, leaving the Department of Medicine in San Francisco to devote himself to basic science as Assistant Professor of physiology and experimental biology in the medical school's Department of Physiology, then located on the Berkeley campus. He was rapidly promoted to Associate Professor in 1948 and won a Commonwealth Fund fellowship for a year's sabbatical leave (1948-49) with George W. Thorn at Harvard Medical School, where he became acquainted with Peter H. Forsham. After returning to UC, he planned the remodeling of two adjoining houses on Parnassus into laboratory space for the Metabolic Research Unit of the Department of Medicine and in due course Peter Forsham arrived to be its director. In 1950, he received another accelerated promotion, to Professor of Physiology. In
Dr. Bennett was devoted to teaching the first-year medical students and was a master of the art. He not only gave many of the lectures but he also circulated throughout their laboratory sessions giving individual student groups technical assistance while raising thought-provoking questions to stimulate their understanding. After the last laboratory period of each week, he met with the course staff at a “T.A. tea” to discuss any problems that had arisen or could be foreseen, so that the graduate student teaching assistants also could learn to teach better. Mrs. Bennett sometimes provided one of her superb poppy seed or carrot cakes to those teas.
Recognizing that the students in Berkeley were isolated from clinical contacts, he organized an elective series of Saturday morning interdepartmental conferences at San Francisco General Hospital to illustrate clinical applications of the physiological and biochemical principles then being studied in their Berkeley courses. Attendance was practically 100%. He also initiated an interdepartmental laboratory exercise on diabetes that later merited publication, developed and gave some sophisticated laboratory demonstrations, and quietly introduced group conferences into his course before they became a popular goal of the curriculum committee.
He became chairman of the physiology department in 1953 and was charged with helping plan the second wing of the Medical Sciences Building on Parnassus and developing a new physiology department for San Francisco to reunite the medical teaching there. (His first two recruits, also from Harvard, followed him as department chairmen.) When the move took place in 1958, he used limited equipment funds to make his department one of the first in the country to provide each student group with modern electronic equipment of research quality for their laboratory exercises. It was used for student and faculty research at other times.
Somehow, he also found time to continue his own active research program, accumulating nearly 100 publications, mainly concerning metabolic relationships of hormones. Fifteen Ph.D. students completed their dissertation research under his preceptorship.
This period of his life came to an abrupt end in 1966 when he resigned his chairmanship to become UCSF's Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. As Vice Chancellor he played a quiet but important role
Despite his full-time duties as Vice Chancellor, he continued to find time to join some former students for exciting laboratory research on the cellular control of insulin secretion in isolated pancreatic tissue, resulting in nearly 30 more publications before he retired as Vice Chancellor, Emeritus in 1977. After that, he published nearly 10 historical papers. Throughout all of these years, he also continued to participate in the laboratory teaching of beginning students when time permitted, until he was in his 80s.
On the national scene, he joined the American Physiological Society in 1945, but his professional activity centered around the Endocrine Society, whose meetings did not conflict with his teaching schedule. He was an early member of the endocrinology study section of the National Institutes of Health in 1952-55, served on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism in 1955-57, and on the council of the Endocrine Society as vice-president in 1961-62. Regionally, he was a founding member of the Western Society for Clinical Research, served several regional heart associations between 1957 and 1980, and was a very active member of the school board of Albany, California from 1952 to 1960. After retirement, he became one of the principal founders of the UCSF Emeritus Faculty Association and remained its guiding spirit for a decade from his position as secretary of the association and both editor and principal author of its newsletter, Emeritidings.
For these and many other contributions, he was recognized by receiving Silver Medallions of the California Heart Association in 1973 and of the American Heart Association, California Affiliate in 1979; the Alumnus of the Year citation from the Alumni-Faculty Association of the School of Medicine in 1978; and UCSF's highest honor, the UCSF Medal, also in 1978.
Because of his deep knowledge of the University for over 60 years, he was extensively interviewed for the oral history program of the History of Health Sciences Department in 1979 and then again in 1991. Edited transcripts of these interviews with several appendixes were published in 1992 under the title Conversations with Dr. Leslie Latty Bennett: The Research Tradition at UCSF.
He found time to enjoy extensive reading in many non-scientific fields including the history of the Civil War and of the American West. His wide reading led to his mutually rewarding and unusually long (from before 1965 to 1972) tenure on the Editorial Committee of the UC Press. With his elephantine memory he especially enjoyed quoting from the works of Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll. He also liked to write poetry, particularly sonnets. Other pleasures included listening to fine music, gardening, wood turning, gourmet cooking, and fine wines. From 1967 through 1986 he devoted two evenings a month to blind tastings and wine evaluations with a small group of Bay Area experts and was widely respected among wine connoisseurs. He said that these evenings kept him in balance while he was struggling with University problems. Because he freely shared all these enthusiasms with others and encouraged their participation, he enriched the lives of all who knew him.
After a long illness, his death occurred in Berkeley on October 28, 1995, just 18 days before his 87th birthday. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy N. Bennett; his two children, John L. Bennett of Vallejo, California and Mary Elizabeth Rein of Takoma Park, Maryland; and two grandchildren, Abraham and Nathan Rein.
Jean V. Bony, History of Art: Berkeley
| 1908-1995 | |
| Professor of Art History, Emeritus |
One of the foremost historians of medieval architecture and a highly regarded teacher, Jean Bony died in Brisbane, Australia on July 7 at the age of 86. From 1962 to 1980 he was Professor in the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.
Born in Le Mans, France, he was educated at the Lycee Louis le Grand and the Sorbonne, receiving his licence in 1930, his maitrise in 1931, and agregation in geography and history in 1933. Converted to art history, he received a two-year fellowship from the Sorbonne in 1935 to study in London, after which he became Assistant Master in French at Eton College during 1937-39 and 1945-46. Mobilized at once in 1939 as an infantry lieutenant in the French Army, he was captured on the last day of the French resistance and spent three-and-a-half years in prisoner-of-war camps, where he continued to write articles, to compile elaborate notes on and exquisitely precise drawings of medieval architecture, and to lecture in a teaching curriculum designed to benefit fellow prisoners. After the war he returned to England, first at Eton, then as Lecturer in the History of Art at the French Institute, London, in 1946-61, Visiting Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1948-58 and External Examiner in 1950-58, and Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge in 1958-61. He was awarded an honorary M.A. from Cambridge in 1958 and elected a Fellow of St. John's College. He was Focillon Fellow and visiting Lecturer at Yale University in 1949 and Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Lille in 1961-62.
Among his several honors, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981 and was Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University in Canberra in 1978. He gave the
By the time he was appointed to the University of California, he had achieved an international reputation as an impeccable scholar, who boldly defined and explored previously unrecognized problems in the field of medieval architecture, constructing a dynamic expository line and expansive footnotes which constantly opened up new areas of thought, as seen, among others, in the following articles: “La technique normande du mur epais a l'epoque romane” (1939), “French Influences on the Origins of English Gothic Architecture” (1949), “Origines des piles gothiques anglaises a futs en delit” (1956) and perhaps his most famous, “The Resistance to Chartres in Early Thirteenth Century Architecture” (1958). His final publication turned out to be “The Stonework Planning of the First Durham Master” (1990). A projected
During his years at Berkeley he was renowned as an energetic, animated lecturer and enthusiastic mentor, generously available to both undergraduate and graduate students as well as to other scholars. With his charming manner, irrepressible curiosity, playfulness of mind, and clear integrity he was much sought after. He cared profoundly for education and conveying the life of the intellect, receiving a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1975. Over the years he devoted an enormous quantity of time to building up the department's collection of slides and photographs. He served many times as graduate advisor, member and chair of graduate admissions, and member of the Dean's committee for Una's Lectures.
Married in 1936 to Clotilde Roure, widowed in 1942, he was remarried in 1953, to Mary England, an Australian who survives him. Also surviving are a daughter, Claire, by his first wife and her son.
Jean Donald Bowen, Applied Linguistics: Los Angeles
| 1922-1989 | |
| Professor of English as Second Language-Applied Linguistics, Emeritus |
J. Donald Bowen passed away on January 23, 1989 as a result of Parkinson's Disease. Donald began his career at UCLA on July 1, 1963 and contributed greatly to the campus until his retirement on July 1, 1987. Donald was a remarkable scholar and dedicated educator. He strove to excel in his field and consequently made exceptional contributions in Applied Linguistics as seen through his many writings and publications. These significant achievements earned him much respect among his colleagues.
Donald's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He will be remembered as a remarkable intellectual and a valuable asset to the UCLA community.
Joseph Brandt, Journalism: Los Angeles
| 1899-1984 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
It was on November 1, 1984 that Joseph Brandt passed away due to a heart attack at the age of 85. Joseph's tenure at UCLA began on July 1, 1949 when he began to make his many significant contributions to the Journalism Department. He received the respect and support of his colleagues in the UCLA community.
Joseph shall be remembered as an excellent educator and a great man of many talents. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Theodore C. Broyer, Soils and Plant Nutrition: Berkeley
| 1904-1995 | |
| Professor of Plant Physiology, Emeritus |
Theodore Clarence Broyer, Professor Emeritus of Plant Physiology and Plant Physiologist in the Agriculture Experiment Station, died on October 23, 1994 at Manor Care Nursing Center in Walnut Creek at age 90.
He received the B.S. in chemistry at Berkeley in 1927 and began his long and distinguished career with the University that same year in the laboratory of Professor Dennis Hoagland, one of the world's leading centers in the study of the mineral nutrition of plants. The articles Broyer published in collaboration with Hoagland on ion uptake by plants received universal attention and are considered classics in the field. Their work, along with that of others in the Hoagland laboratory, carried out in the mid- and late 30s, clearly demonstrated the requirement of aerobic respiration and the utilization of energy derived from metabolism for ion uptake. This finding essentially determined the general direction of subsequent research in the field of inorganic nutrient uptake. Broyer was one of the pioneers in developing experimental techniques for investigation of the absorption and translocation of ions by plants and was among the first to use effectively radioactive isotopes in these studies. He was not only an innovative experimentalist, but was considered to be a shrewd observer who made original thought-stimulating observations. Broyer developed a generalized theory to explain the movement of both water and solutes into plants and the movement of these substances within the plant.
He was a major participant in the unequivocal demonstration that chlorine is essential in micro amounts for plant growth. This was a remarkable, technically difficult achievement, because this element is ubiquitous. This discovery was cited by the Encyclopedia Britannica as the 1955 discovery of the year.
In addition to his research papers, Broyer published significant reviews on plant nutrition and plant water relations which had an important influence on the thinking and research emphasis of many investigators.
Recognition of his eminence among plant scientists was demonstrated by his election twice to the presidency of the American Society of Plant Physiologists. He was a Muellhaupt Scholar at the Ohio State University, 1947-48, a Gordon Conference leader and speaker in 1955, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Southern Illinois in 1960-61. In 1965 he was an invited speaker at a Conference on Isotopes and Radiation in Soil-Plant Nutrition Studies sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Commission in Vienna, Austria. He was an Associate Editor of Plant Physiology, one of the leading journals in that field.
Typical of his interest and concern for graduate students and their professional development was his service to Gamma Alpha, the graduate scientific fraternity. He ably served as its National President from 1953 to 1957 and aided in establishing a chapter on the Davis campus. He was Graduate Adviser for a number of years for the Group in Plant Physiology where he was well known for his readiness to give friendly and helpful advice.
Ted was a notably unselfish person who willingly took on administrative duties with a collegial rather than an authoritarian style. He served as department Vice-Chairman during the period of the joint Berkeley/Davis department of Soils and Plant Nutrition.
It is a tribute to the significance and quality of his contributions to plant science and to the University that he was advanced to the rank of Professor without the usual graduate degrees. One of his colleagues commented at the time of his advancement that he had done the equivalent of many dissertations.
He was a Scoutmaster for nine years and received the Boy Scouts of America Silver Beaver Award. All four of his sons became Eagle Scouts. He was a Shriner and Master Mason. He was a member of Phi Epsilon, Gamma Alpha and Sigma Xi.
Broyer retired from the University in 1972 after 45 years of service and became a resident of the Rossmoor retirement community, where he was active on the boards of that organization for many years. In Rossmoor he was a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Luther Burbank Club, the Community Club, the Pilgrim Congregational Church and was president of the High-12 Club.
He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Loretta; and by sons Robert, who is executive director of Rossmoor, John A. of the University of Southern Illinois, Gary E. Machunze, and Andrew D. Machunze; a daughter, Diane M. Machunze; and three grandchildren.
John G. Burke, History: Los Angeles
| 1917-1989 | |
| Professor Emeritus | |
| Dean of Letters & Science |
It was on February 21, 1989 that John G. Burke passed away due to cancer at the age of 71. John began his tenure at UCLA on July 1, 1962 and he provided many contributions to the campus until his retirement on June 30, 1981. His contributions and achievements received the respect of his colleagues and were a great asset to the UCLA community.
John shall be remembered as an excellent educator and a great man of many talents. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his experience and insight.
Daniel G. Calder, English: Los Angeles
| 1939-1994 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Daniel Calder died in Los Angeles on August 2, 1994 after a brave and lengthy battle with AIDS. He was born on February 10, 1939 in Lubec, Maine. He earned his B.A. from Maine's Bowdoin College in 1960, followed by an M.A. in Dramatic Art from the University of Iowa in 1962, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Indiana University in 1969. He taught at the University of Washington from 1969 to 1971, when he joined the UCLA faculty as a scholar of Old English.
A man of remarkably wide-ranging abilities, Daniel was passionately committed to the promise of higher education and the goal of creating a just and tolerant society. He turned his questing mind to the challenges of his time and place and gave freely of his boundless energy and committed nature to develop everything he encountered to its highest potential. A little known fact from his first teaching position--a lecturer while in his twenties--stands as an eloquent caption for his later career, “gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche”: on the popular television program College Bowl he coached the team from Bowdoin College to the rare distinction of retiring undefeated after several weeks. An outstanding teacher of penetrating insight, rigor, and humanity, Daniel had a profound effect on numerous students, many of whom communicated their admiration and respect on learning of his passing away. As a scholar, his publications include editions and translations of several works in Old English, among them Old English Poetry: Essays on Style (1979), Cynewulf (1981), and A New Critical History of Old English Literature (1986), with Stanley B. Greenfield.
In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Daniel made many significant contributions to UCLA through his administrative abilities, which were recognized and often sought after as being among the most expert, wise, and capable on the campus. He served as Chair of the Department of English from 1983 to 1990, during which time the department rose to the ranks of the most distinguished in the country. During his tenure as Chair, the department made important additions to its faculty, became more diverse, greatly strengthened its graduate and undergraduate programs (notably increasing its student body in the process), and helped found The Friends of English, one of the outstanding support groups in the university. After seven years of accomplishment as Chair of the English Department, Daniel responded to the opportunity to serve the university in another capacity (and revisit his earlier interest in dramatic art) by becoming the first academic associate dean of the School of Theater, Film and Television during its establishment as a new professional school at UCLA. His last administrative post was as Acting Dean of the Division of Humanities in the College of Letters and Sciences.
In recent years Daniel devoted much of his professional activity to gay and lesbian studies. This included teaching introductory courses, as well as seminars in gay fiction, and writing a book, unfortunately incomplete at his death, on contemporary gay fiction. Until his characteristic energy began to fail, he worked tirelessly for the recognition of gay and lesbian studies as an emerging field of academic investigation, a field of significance to diverse disciplines in the university, including the humanities, social sciences, life and health sciences, law, and public policy. Daniel believed deeply in the academic importance of this study and one of the ways in which his loss will most keenly be felt is in the leadership role he would have played in this area.
Daniel was a wonderful friend and warm host to all who were fortunate to enjoy his company. His non-professional interests included fine food, opera, his much-tended rose garden, his beloved Norwegian Elkhounds (not to mention dogs in general), and football. In all things he met life head-on, with zest and vigor, demanding the best possible outcome. This could sometimes be a bracing experience for his friends and associates, but the result was almost invariably the better for it. He was stoic in his illness and fought the battle with immense fortitude and dignity.
Daniel is survived by his partner of 28 years, Joseph R. Turk of Sherman Oaks; his parents, Gillmore and Margaret Calder of Campobello Island, New Brunswick; and his cousin, Ann B. Eldridge of Santa Barbara. He was memorialized at a service on Campobello Island on August 21, 1994 and by the UCLA community, including former students, at a well-attended service at the Faculty Center on October 12, 1994. We are fortunate to have had him among us; the university will long be the beneficiary of his contributions. He will be deeply missed.
Vernon I. Cheadle, Biological Sciences: Santa Barbara
| 1910-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus | |
| Chancellor Emeritus |
“He was a man for all seasons--and a steward for all time.”
These words were spoken by Dr. William L. Cheadle at the memorial service held at the Santa Barbara campus to honor and remember the many accomplishments of his father, Vernon I. Cheadle.
Vernon Cheadle, appointed by Clark Kerr, became the second Chancellor of the Santa Barbara campus in 1962. His mission, which he clearly stated upon his arrival on the campus, was to transform a small, mostly undergraduate college into a first-class general campus of the University of California. In his inauguration speech, he remarked that he “would rejoice when this number of talented young people grows even more rapidly, for they will make it increasingly apparent that here is being created one of the West's most exciting centers of higher learning.” He succeeded admirably in carrying out his mission: Vernon Cheadle became the architect and builder of this campus.
Among his many gifts to the campus community were his integrity, his directness, his honesty in dealing with people and his warmth and friendliness. He was also a strong man, as events during his tenure as Chancellor were to prove. He endured the campus storms of the late 60s and early 70s with dignity and, often, with humor, never losing his civility and without compromising his principles.
As Chancellor, the recruitment of superior faculty was Cheadle's single most important concern. The campus was encouraged by Cheadle to set its faculty recruitment goals very high, to be ambitious as an institution, and to be unwilling to settle for anything but the very best academic talent. An appeal was also made to departments to make a special effort to recruit distinguished senior
During Cheadle's years as Chancellor, the Santa Barbara campus became the largest of the five developing campuses of the University system. Student enrollment increased three-fold, from less than 5,000 in the early 1960s to over 14,000 by 1975, and the number of faculty positions more than doubled. By the time of his retirement, the campus was offering over 80 baccalaureate degree programs, 40 master's and 30 Ph.D. programs. Nearly all the departments in the College of Letters and Science had grown in size beyond the critical mass which made them actually, or potentially, excellent and within these departments there was a multitude of programmatic options with a substantial degree of depth. This was the programmatic transformation which took place during the Cheadle years: an essentially undergraduate college became a large, developed campus of the University of California, relatively complete in its programs and well-balanced. The foundations of excellence were now in place: these were the quantum leaps in programmatic development and in faculty quality. Teaching programs had achieved breadth and relative completeness, while research and graduate education had become the central parts of the institution's mission. It was the success of this mission which has now made UCSB a world-class institution. Above all, a new value system had been created under the leadership of Cheadle. A new campus culture, reflecting a shared desire for excellence had taken root, and it was left up to others to further nourish this root. During this period, too, 25 new buildings were constructed and in 1979 the UC Regents honored Cheadle by naming UCSB's administration building after him.
The election of UCSB to the Association of American Universities in 1995 was one of Dr. Cheadle's proudest moments. UCSB's current Chancellor, Dr. Henry T. Yang, acknowledged Cheadle for the many contributions he made to the University and for providing the foundation of excellence necessary for achieving the prestigious membership in the AAU.
Cheadle retired in 1977, not from choice but, rather, because of then-prevailing rules governing retirement. Upon his retirement, he returned to the laboratory full time and resumed his life-long studies on the tracheary cells, the water-conducting cells in higher plants. Cheadle had a tremendous scientific curiosity and he was interested in continuing the work he began at his first academic appointments at
Cheadle was born in Salem, South Dakota on February 6, 1910. As a high-school and college student, he competed in track and field events, as well as being a member of the basketball and football teams. He was a very athletic man and he was dedicated to staying physically fit. He had a life-long interest in sports and began competing in Master's Track and Field meets after his retirement; he set many national records in the shot-put and discus throw.
He attended South Dakota State University for one year before transferring to Miami University where he received a B.S. (magna cum laude) in 1932. In 1932 he was accepted to Harvard University and he received an M.S. in 1934 and his Ph.D. in 1936 under the mentorship of Ralph H. Wetmore.
After graduating from Harvard, Vernon Cheadle spent six weeks on a collecting trip in Cuba. Many of the specimens he collected are still preserved in his vast plant specimen collection which is housed in the Biology Department on the Santa Barbara campus. While on his collecting trip, he was offered a position in the Department of Botany at Rhode Island State College where he accepted an appointment in 1936. He was Professor and Chair of the department from 1942 to 1952 and also served as Director of the Graduate Division. From 1944 to 1946 he served as a U.S. Navy Lieutenant in the Pacific theater.
During 1950-51, Cheadle spent a sabbatical year at the University of California at Davis. He was attracted to Davis because of his interest in vascular tissue in plants, an interest which he shared with Katherine Esau, an internationally-known botanist whom he had met at Harvard while she was there on a Guggenheim Research Fellowship. After returning to Rhode Island, Cheadle was invited back to Davis where he served as Department Chair from 1952 to 1962. He also served as the Acting Vice Chancellor from 1961 to 1962, just prior to his appointment as Chancellor of the Santa Barbara campus.
Many of the faculty who were on campus when Cheadle began his chancellorship remember the grace and wisdom that he displayed in embracing the faculty and staff. He recognized their value, he encouraged
Cheadle was a friend, a colleague and a person who will always be remembered for his good sense of humor, wonderful and deep laugh, kindness and integrity and, above all, for his contributions to the development of the Santa Barbara campus.
Vernon Cheadle, we salute you and thank you for your wisdom, guidance and friendship.
Christian E. Choate, Art: Los Angeles
| 1908-1981 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Christian Choate was 72 years old when he passed away on July 8, 1981 as a result of heart disease and cancer. Christian's career at UCLA began on July 1, 1957 and he made a great contribution to the campus until his retirement on July 1, 1975.
Christian shall be missed by all who knew him well. He will be remembered as an excellent educator, respected by his colleagues and a valuable asset to the UCLA community.
Edward H. Clinkscale, Music: Riverside
| 1929-1994 | |
| Professor |
Edward H. Clinkscale was a man of great ability whose wisdom, humor, breadth of interests and expertise have enriched the lives of everyone with whom he came in contact at UCR. Prior to his appointment here in July 1964, he had taught briefly at New York University (where he completed his Ph.D.), Modesto Junior College and Rutgers University.
In making his appointment, the Music Department was seeking a person with an unusual combination of skills--a Renaissance scholar who was also a capable and experienced band director. He was highly recommended as a scholar by his most distinguished professors at NYU (Gustave Reese, Curt Sachs and Martin Bernstein), and recommendations from Modesto gave him high praise as a band director and clarinetist. His appointment seemed almost providential for the way it filled in important areas required by UCR's emerging Department of Music.
As it turned out, Dr. Clinkscale's skills far exceeded the diversity of those outlined in his job description. In seeking to hire a professor who was a performing scholar, the department had also acquired an engineer in the bargain (by virtue of his expertise in mechanics and electronics). Shortly after his arrival here, he proceeded to design the new electronic Listening Center for the Music Library. Subsequently he became the leader in the formation of the Fine Arts Computer Center.
He formed the UCR Band in 1964, as soon as he arrived, and he served with great success as its director for 12 years. At the same time he gained the high regard of his students and colleagues as a most scholarly teacher who demanded much of his students but who gave them much in return. He taught non-majors in such courses as Music Appreciation from time to time but he regularly taught medieval and Renaissance history music history courses and courses in the history
A professional with “hands-on” experience, he raised artistic standards in the community of Riverside by serving as Manager of the Riverside Symphony for nine years and by performing as Director of the Riverside Municipal Band for 12 years. He was also active as a member and officer in the regional chapter of the American Musicological Society.
His service to the University shows his input into the leadership and policy-making functions of this campus. He served terms as Chair of the Department of Music, Chair of the Committee on Educational Policy, Chair of the Faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Chair of the Executive Committee of the College; moreover, he served for two years as Vice-chair of the Riverside Division of the Academic-Senate. Other influential committee service included membership on the Universitywide Committee on Educational Policy, the campus Advisory Committee and the campus Committee on Planning and Budget.
His reputation as a scholarly person was underscored by the clutter of many ongoing projects, the materials of which filled his office. His major achievements are the five-volume publication of the music of Antoine and Robert de Fevin, as well as the 10-volume index to The Musical Times (1844-1914).
This many-sided man was born to parents whose ethnic heritage was also many-sided--Alsatian, German, Scottish, English and Cherokee Indian. His life experience also included serving as gunnery officer on the U.S.S. Vammen. His personal achievement include professional skill as photographer, gourmet cook and automobile mechanic. His colleagues sought his unfailing advice on matters ranging from electronics and computers to educational philosophy and academic politics. His incisive wit and wisdom graced his relationships with his colleagues, his students and all who were fortunate enough to know him. Generations of students will continue to profit from the high scholarly, artistic and ethical standards he set for them.
Dr. Clinkscale is survived by his wife, Martha Novak Clinkscale, and two stepchildren, Lise Loeffler and Thorpe Loeffler.
Israel I. Cornet, Mechanical Engineering: Berkeley
| 1912-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Israel I. Cornet was born in New York City in 1912, joined the Berkeley faculty in 1946, and was laid to rest in April, 1995, about one year after the demise of his wife of many years to whom he was very devoted. He is survived by a son, a daughter, their spouses and offspring, as well as by a brother and his wife. His education was the product of the University of California system; he received a B.S. in chemistry from UCLA in 1933 and a Ph.D. in soil science from Berkeley in 1942, the dissertation being in the domain of electrochemistry. During this period, he earned membership in the honorary societies Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Tau Mu Epsilon; he was also awarded the James Rosenthal Memorial Scholarship. He first worked in the field of his dissertation for the Berkeley Department of Agriculture, for the USDA and the Corps of Engineers in both Berkeley and North Dakota. He joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Berkeley in 1946 and remained there continuously until his retirement in 1978. Although not an engineer by training, he joined a select group of physicists, chemists and mathematicians whose contributions were extremely valuable to the engineering profession.
His special field of expertise was the area of corrosion in which he received international recognition through his more than 80 publications that detailed the results of the fundamental research he conducted, often in collaboration with his graduate students or other faculty members. However, his investigative activities also encompassed topics in heat and mass transfer, testing of concrete, plastic deformation, fatigue and fracture under combined loading. In his final days, he was in the process of writing still another paper with
In addition to his teaching of courses in fluid mechanics and thermal systems, he introduced a very successful graduate course in corrosion that attracted many students from mechanical and civil engineering and naval architecture. He taught his corrosion course in such a manner that students with different backgrounds substantially benefited from it. He loved teaching, both at the lectern and in the laboratory and was a member of the American Society for Engineering Education. One of his early students offered the following comment: “It was an interesting experience to take Dr. Cornet's class on corrosion. The text was a trade publication entitled Corrosion in Action--an appropriate identifier for the class. Dr. Cornet's wry humor and clever choice of words always kept the class on edge to determine when he was joking and when one had better listen more carefully. Having also had the pleasure and opportunity to work with Dr. Cornet over the years since I took his class, I had the chance to learn even more. His insight and outlook on life were beacons for me during my career.”
In a period of declining collegiality, Israel was one of its outstanding practitioners and a very gentle, human one. If anyone of his acquaintance experienced an operation or returned from an extended visit, his would be the first voice to be heard on the telephone inquiring about status, health or experiences. He opened his home and extended hospitality to friends and strangers alike. His formidable sense of humor manifested itself in quiet off-the-cuff remarks that hit their mark without ever giving offense. As an example, many years ago, the small apple orchard he owned in the vicinity of Sebastopol was infested with insects, and small worms inhabited many apples. He said something to the effect that perhaps he should invite his friends to pick and eat some of his “high-protein apples.” For several decades, he flipped a coin with the current
Florence Nightingale David, Statistics: Riverside
| 1909-1993 | |
| Professor Emerita |
Florence Nightingale David passed away on July 19, 1993 at the age of 83 at her home in Kensington, in Contra Costa County, California. She was born on August 23, 1909 in Ivington, near Leominster, England. She received her degree in mathematics in 1931 from Bedford College, London. She received her doctorate in statistics from University College in 1938. During World War II she served as Experimental Officer in the Ordnance Board for the Ministry of Supply, Senior Statistician for the Research and Experiments Department for the Ministry of Home Security, Member of the Land Mines Committee of the Scientific Advisory Council, and as Scientific Advisor on Mines to the Military Experimental Establishment. Her work during this time ranged from the study of bombing patterns and damage to the problem of discovering the placement of enemy land mines and a methodology for randomly placing land mines so as to avoid the semblance of any pattern in their placement.
Following the war, Dr. David returned to the Statistics Department at University College in 1945 where she was appointed Lecturer, Reader, and finally Professor in 1962. During this time she was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Society, and Ordinary Member of the International Statistical Institute, member of the University Senate at University College, Governor of Bedford College for Women, and served as Review Editor for Biometrika.
David joined the University of California at Riverside in 1967, and following the groundwork laid by Professor Morris Garber in establishing the Department of Biostatistics, she was appointed Professor and Chair of Biostatistics in 1968. The faculty at that time consisted of two professors and two lecturers. In 1970, the department was renamed
After retiring from UC Riverside in 1977, Dr. David was named Professor, Emeritus and Research Associate at UC Berkeley where she continued to teach for another decade, and, at the same time, continued her long-term collaboration as a consultant with the United States Forestry Service. She was the author of nine books, two monographs, and over 100 papers in scientific journals. In August of 1992, she received the first Elizabeth L Scott Award at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston. She was cited for “her efforts in opening the door to women in statistics; for contributions to the profession over many years; for contributions to education, science, and public service; for research contributions to combinatorics, statistical methods, applications, and understanding history; and her spirit as a lecturer and a role model.”
(The article “A conversation with F.N. David,” Statistical Science, Vol. 4, No. 3,235-246 by Nan Laird was very helpful in preparing this memorial.)
Bernice Eiduson, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences: Los Angeles
| 1922-1985 | |
| Professor, Emerita |
It seems trite to say that Bernice Eiduson was a wonderful person; a wonderful persona and a wonderful friend.
I cannot speak about her professional accomplishments, not being a colleague of hers. But we, my wife Charlotte as well as my daughters, have known her for nearly 30 years as a friend. We always felt refreshed and stimulated by contact with her. You could come to her in joy or in pain, and she would participate in your concerns. She was always understanding. In social gatherings, her clear voice and charming laughter dominated, and what she had to say was always of interest, whether she told about her research or about general problems, including current events, politics and the like. To be invited to her house was always a special treat. She and Sam had collected a significant number of beautiful art objects and paintings from around the world, all chosen with impeccable taste. This background heightened the pleasure of their cordial hospitality.
Bernice, we love you and we miss you!
Leo M. Falicov, Physics: Berkeley
| 1933-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Leo M. Falicov, a world renowned theoretical physicist and teacher, died in Berkeley on January 24, 1995, after a four-month battle with cancer of the esophagus. He was born on June 24, 1933, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He received the degree Licenciado en Quimica in 1957 and the Licenciado en Fisica in 1958 from the University of Buenos Aires. After earning the Doctor en Fisica from the Instituto J. A. Balseiro of the University of Cuyo in Argentina in 1958, he went to England to attend the University of Cambridge where he obtained a Ph.D. degree in physics in 1960. In 1959, Falicov married the painter Marta Puebla. They had twin sons, Alexis and Ian Falicov.
From 1960-1969, Falicov was with the Department of Physics and the James Frank Institute at the University of Chicago, rising through the academic ranks from research associate to full professor. He joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1969 and chaired the Physics Department from 1981-83. While at Berkeley, Falicov concurrently served as a faculty senior scientist and principal investigator in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He had held visiting positions at more than 20 universities around the world.
Falicov was a distinguished condensed-matter theorist who was known internationally for his great and tireless service to science and education. His lectures, publications, and research reflected his clarity of thought and decisive personality. Using geometrical illustrations and creative models, Falicov made important contributions to the electronic structure of solids, superconductivity, magnetism, surfaces, and phase transitions. His theoretical work was complemented through strong interactions with experimentalists. Because of his talent for spatial visualization, Falicov's theories were often geometrically based and very
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales of Argentina, and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society, Britain's Institute of Physics, and the Third World Academy of Sciences. He received numerous fellowships including the Sloan, Fulbright, and Guggenheim fellowships, and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Cambridge.
Leo was one of the most popular and respected classroom teachers in the Berkeley Physics Department. Students praised his enthusiasm, broad knowledge, and pedagogical skills. His calligraphy and his fondness for script letters added to his effectiveness as a lecturer. He was also in great demand as the closing speaker for conferences. He was capable of assimilating what had been presented and, with good judgment, could deliver a clear, logical, and engaging lecture accurately summarizing days of presentations.
Leo Falicov was devoted to a life of service--to the University, to the Department, to teaching, and to research. Besides the Physics Department Chairmanship and numerous other committees, he served as Executive Director of the Miller Institute and Chairman of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics and of the International Physics Group of the American Physical Society. He was an individual of a tremendously high level of energy. His days typically consisted of a steady stream of students, postdocs, faculty, and others coming by his office for advice while he simultaneously handled phone calls relating to committees he was involved in. He rarely said no when asked for help. He was particularly effective in establishing ties with scientists and administrators
Falicov's life was rich with art, music, literature and hobbies. He courted his wife Marta by reciting from Pablo Neruda and Garcia Lorca while sitting by a river in Cambridge, England. He loved the opera, he could recite poetry and quote literature in three languages, he collected art and played the piano. His sense of humor and wry stories made him a favorite dinner companion. He is fondly remembered as a vibrant individual and brilliant scholar from whom his family, friends, colleagues, and students derived love and support.
Peter Hugh Forsham, Medicine: San Francisco
| 1915-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Peter H. Forsham directed the Metabolic Research Unit of the University of California, San Francisco from 1952 until his retirement from the University in 1984. On 15 November 1995 he celebrated his 80th birthday with his daughters Elizabeth and Ann and his former wife, Constance Forsham. Several weeks later, on 5 December 1995, he died suddenly at his residence. Peter Forsham left a remarkable scientific legacy to his colleagues, former students and physicians worldwide who benefited from his many academic accomplishments in endocrinology and diabetes. It was in the latter field particularly that he had a profound impact on the lives and well-being of numerous diabetic patients who owed much to his dedicated care. Diagnosed at the age of nine with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, he was among the first to benefit from injections of insulin extracts that had recently been discovered by a Canadian team led by Frederick Banting. Later, as a researcher and physician, Forsham became an early advocate of the concept of avoiding persistent hyperglycemia as a means of preventing the ravages of microvascular diabetic complications. This once-controversial goal of therapy has now been well-established by the results of a large multi-center clinical study known as the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial.
Forsham was born in New Orleans on 15 November 1915. However, just after the end of World War I his family moved to Frankfurt, Germany where he spent his early childhood. It was there in 1925 that he developed juvenile-onset diabetes which required insulin injections over the next 71 years of his life. He attended a French school in Lausanne, Switzerland and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Cambridge University in England. In 1939 while doing a research fellowship at Rockefeller University in New York City, World War II
In 1952 Forsham was appointed director of the Metabolic Research Unit of the University of California, San Francisco. It was here that he organized teams of scientists working with clinicians to make important contributions to the understanding of the pathophysiology of many endocrine and metabolic disorders. His groups were the first to provide a simple screening test to detect Cushing's syndrome which remains a standard diagnostic procedure today and it was in his unit that Edward Biglieri began his exciting discoveries elucidating the role of the adrenal cortex in endocrine hypertension. The diagnosis and treatment of pituitary tumors, adrenal disorders, and “bone and stone” diseases were among the areas in which his research unit made pivotal findings that kept his outpatient endocrine clinic on the cutting edge of rational therapy.
However, it was in the investigation of causes and treatment of diabetes that Forsham may have had the most emotional satisfaction. He pursued this goal with an enthusiasm and vigor that inspired his colleagues and brought about many fruitful results. In his Unit, scientists such as Gerold Grodsky and John Gerich developed radioimmunoassays for the peptide hormones insulin and glucagon respectively, and used these assays to unravel mysteries of the secretion of islet hormones and their roles in clinical disorders of carbohydrate metabolism. It was in the Metabolic Research Unit that Gerold Grodsky adapted the perfused pancreas to document for the first time the biphasic nature of glucose-induced insulin secretion, the dependency of insulin secretion on the presence of calcium, and the importance of metabolism of glucose for its induction of insulin release. When his friend Roger Guillemin graciously provided him with some newly discovered somatostatin, Forsham's metabolism group, under the direction of John Gerich, made some original momentous observations about the role of glucagon in a number of the manifestations of hyperglycemia in humans with diabetes and in the metabolic abnormalities of ketoacidosis and hypoglycemia. In 1975 the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation awarded their most prestigious prize, The Rumbough Research Award, to Gerich and Forsham for these outstanding contributions.
Other major awards to Forsham included the 1977 Man of the Year Award by the Editorial Board of Diabetes Forecast, a publication of the American Diabetes Association, and in 1990 he received the Albert Renold Award of the American Diabetes Association for his outstanding record in teaching and in training young investigators. In his office he kept for many years a book overflowing with impressions from some of the one hundred or more scientific research fellows, clinical trainees and medical students who had come to the Metabolic Unit from all over the United States and many parts of the world. Subsequently, many of these contributors have become university professors, leading clinical endocrinologists, and one is currently the president of Kyoto University in Japan. In this book Forsham emerges as an inspiring, imaginative teacher who provided a relaxed, informal congenial atmosphere for free inquiry and encouragement of individual interest. In the book is a poem “The Torch” dedicated to him by a Greek professor who later became Dean of the University of Athens Medical College. In this poem, a procession travels across the earth, holding a torch treasured by its bearers and carrying the “knowledge, humanity, and universal friendship” originating from Forsham's Unit.
The concept of a torch being passed on is particularly symbolic of Forsham's philosophy. When asked why he continued to teach rather than see more patients “who really need him” his reply was simple. “I could see only so many patients a day! However, through all my students combined, I will be able to see hundreds a day all over the world for years to come.” Forsham passed the research torch to his colleague, John Baxter, in whom he instilled the value of always relating basic science to endocrine disorders. Under Baxter's leadership of the Metabolic Research Unit, the torch of Forsham continues to illuminate the darkness, and enlighten endocrinologists about the action of hormones on a molecular level and how this knowledge can be applied to treatment of endocrine disease.
Peter Forsham was a veteran of 71 years of diabetes who inspired diabetic patients of all ages and was living proof of the ability to succeed in spite of the disorder. He thrived on work and maintained a pace which inspired his students and colleagues. Contacts with all varieties of people invigorated him and he was constantly alert to the slightest hint of concern or need in a colleague, student, employee or patient. He was a master at putting their worry in true perspective and his innate optimism and humor were able to dispel the blackest clouds. It was a privilege to have known him and to have worked with him.
Alfred L. Foster, Mathematics: Berkeley
| 1904-1994 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
The novelist E. M. Forster in his essay, “What I Believe,” says “The people I admire the most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something and do not see life in terms of power.” Using this criterion it would be difficult indeed to find a more admirable man than Alfred Foster, professor emeritus of mathematics at Berkeley, who died on December 24, 1994 at the age of 90, of complications following surgery the previous spring. Up to the last year of his life he continued to work intensely, as he had all of his life, on mathematical problems that he found personally fascinating, motivated solely by his deep desire to create and to understand, quite independent of whether or not his interests coincided with what was in contemporary fashion. In fact, however, in following his independent quest, during his career he initiated and vitalized an area of modern algebra that subsequently flourished abundantly.
Foster was born in New York City on July 13, 1904. He earned a B.S. degree at Caltech in 1926 as well as an M.S. the following year. Further graduate work was done at Princeton, where he obtained the Ph.D. in 1931. His dissertation director was Alonzo Church who is still alive as of this writing, and who was then only one year older than Foster, his first Ph.D. student. In 1930 Foster married Else Wagner. Together they spent a postdoctoral year in Gottingen and then traveled across the United States by automobile to Berkeley for more study and part-time teaching. In 1934 he accepted a regular position at Berkeley. At that time Griffith Evans was Head of the Mathematics Department and was charged by President Sproul with building a first-class mathematics center, which he did. Alfred Foster and Charles Morrey (who became the first department chairman after Evans' retirement) were
Foster's Ph.D. dissertation and his first few papers were in the area of mathematical logic. Starting from this point, he soon focused his interest on the related theory of Boolean algebras and Boolean rings, and was thus led from logic to algebra. He extensively studied the role of duality in Boolean theory and subsequently developed a theory of n-ality for certain rings which played for n-valued logics the role of Boolean rings vis-a-vis Boolean algebras. The late Benjamin Bernstein of the Berkeley mathematics faculty was his collaborator in some of this research. This work culminated in his seminal paper ““The theory of Boolean like rings”” appearing in 1946.
In the course of this work Foster realized that the more general setting of the new area of universal algebra was more appropriate for continued development of his ideas, and in this context he developed the theory of primal algebras and in 1953 showed that the variety generated by a primal algebra has the same essential structure as the variety of Boolean algebras. The mathematician Bjarni Jonsson, in a recent paper dedicated to the memory of Alfred Foster, states: “This result is an acorn from which a mighty oak has grown,” and Foster himself devoted the rest of his life to the development of this important work. Through his students and other mathematicians throughout the world, this mission continues.
When Foster first began his study of varieties in universal algebra, the subject was often regarded as somewhat sterile, perhaps because little more than the very basic abstract theory had been developed and also because its relevance to mainstream ideas then current was not yet clearly established. Probably for this reason, the value of his early work on primal algebra theory was not immediately recognized. Before long, however, it became clear to Foster and his students that this theory truly was relevant, and the subsequent four decades of explosive growth of universal algebra is testimony to the validity of Foster's persistent belief in the intrinsic value of his work. If Foster had had more interest in achieving personal recognition it is easy to imagine that he might have abandoned this work in favor of a more popular research area.
Alfred Foster, though somewhat formal and socially shy, will be remembered as warm-hearted, good-humored, and unconditionally generous, by all who knew him. Several of his former students, in recalling
While cordial with all of his faculty colleagues, among Foster's closest personal friends at Berkeley, along with Benjamin Bernstein, were the mathematician Hans Lewy and Ronald Shepherd of Engineering. These men were rather like Foster in temperament and enjoyed each others' conversation in areas outside mathematics. Music and politics were of particular interest to him, and in the latter field he held deep and morally grounded convictions. On the other hand, and consistent with his personality, he did not engage in highly visible political action. Along with mathematics, Foster took the current great issues of science and human culture very seriously indeed. An important key to his character was that he never took himself nearly so seriously.
Together with his work, the great love of his life was his family. Alfred and Else Foster were deeply devoted to each other and to their two sons and two daughters, their eight grandchildren, and three great granddaughters. Always, and particularly in his last years, whenever possible he took a personal interest in their growth and education.
Following his express wish his ashes were scattered over the ocean on January 5, 1995.
Montgomery Furth, Philosophy: Los Angeles
| 1933-1991 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
It was on August 3, 1991 that Montgomery Furth passed away due to cancer of the larynx at the age of 58. He came to UCLA on July 1, 1959 and made a great contribution to the UCLA community until his retirement on July 1, 1991. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
Montgomery's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Marija Gimbutas, Slavic Languages and Literatures: Los Angeles
| 1921-1994 | |
| Professor |
After a long but unfailingly cheerful battle, Marija Gimbutas died of cancer at the UCLA Medical Center on February 2, 1994. She was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, on January 21, 1921 and was educated at Vilnius (M.A. 1942) and Tubingen (Ph.D. 1946). After post-graduate work at Tubingen, Heidelberg and Munich, Professor Gimbutas came to the United States in 1949, where she began raising her three daughters and found a modest research position at Harvard University. Her scholarly achievements soon outgrew this position, a fact which the great linguist Roman Jakobson called to the attention of colleagues at UCLA, where Gimbutas accepted a professorship in 1963, a position she would hold until her retirement in 1990.
Gimbutas' scholarship appeared in some 200 articles and reviews and in 20 monographs dealing with East European prehistory (Prehistory of Eastern Europe, 1956; the magnum opus Bronze Age Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe, 1965; Neolithic Macedonia, 1976; Achilleion, 1989) and with the boldly and originally interpretive religious and cultural prehistory of the same are Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 1982; The Language of the Goddess, 1989; The Civilization of the Goddess, 1991. She also served as Curator of Old World Archeology at the UCLA Museum of Cultural History (now the Fowler Museum), as an editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies, and as the leader of five important archeological excavations in Italy and the Balkans (see for example Excavations at Sitgrior, 1986). Her career was capped, to her own long-postponed but deep satisfaction, when she was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Vilnius in newly-free Lithuania; a second honorary degree
Marija Gimbutas was a devoted teacher, whose time and whose home were always at the disposal of her students, and she was a challenging and charming colleague to her academic friends. Both groups will miss her sorely.
Paul Goodman, History: Davis
| 1934-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Paul Goodman, Professor History, Emeritus, died at his home in El Cerrito on October 6, 1995 after a long battle with lung cancer.
Born in Brooklyn, he attended one of New York's legendary schools, Boys High, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell, and Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in 1961. He spent one year as research associate at the Harvard Business School, taught at Brooklyn College from 1962 to 1965, then came to Davis and rose quickly to Associate Professor in 1967 and Professor in 1970.
A specialist in antebellum American politics, Goodman published two important monographs, The Democratic-Republicans of Massachusetts: Politics in a Young Republic (Harvard, 1965) and Towards a Christian Republic: Antimasonry and the Great Transition in New England, 1826-1836 (Oxford, 1988), and (with F.O. Gatell) a textbook, USA, An American Record (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971). At his death, he had just completed Of One Blood: Origins of Racial Equality and the Rise of Abolitionism, 1820-1840, a major study that promises to be a fitting capstone to a life of dedicated scholarship.
Goodman was one of the History Department's great teachers. The departmental ceremony at the Faculty Club after his death was memorable for the graduate students, past and present, who spoke of different incidents but all to a single point: that Goodman had pushed them intellectually, as one said, “beyond where you thought you could go.” Goodman was for many years a mainstay of the department's under-graduate program, teaching gladly the big introductory survey as well his own advanced courses. Quite late in his career, when even dedicated teachers are known to rest on their oars, the Holocaust became a passionate teaching interest. Characteristically, he prepared intensively
UC administrators, both at Davis and statewide, will remember Goodman as a thorn in the side. He was famous for the indignant letters fired off at this or that misdeed of the powers-that-be. When UC faculty and staff began to unionize in the 1970s, Goodman naturally took a leading part, including a term as president of the statewide University Council of the American Federation of Teachers. His great crusade was to persuade the state legislature to pass an open-files bill, which, remarkably, he succeeded in doing over the University's (and Academic Senate's) opposition, only to see the law declared unconstitutional. It was a source of much satisfaction to him that, thanks to the wisdom of the federal courts, the policy of the University now conforms quite precisely to the principles of openness and due process he had fought for nearly 20 years ago. Even after faculty unionism waned, Goodman remained active, always available to staff unionists and willing to lend a hand in difficult grievances cases. A sign of the esteem in which he was held was a separate memorial gathering sponsored by the AFT (and Hillel) after his death.
Goodman was never one to give only lip service to causes he believed in, at the top of which stood this University and the study of history. Anonymously he annually funded a graduate history fellowship--named, naturally, for Eugene V. Debs. The bulk of his estate goes to UC, Davis to endow the Debs fellowship and to establish a chair in Jewish and Holocaust history. The chair is not in his name, but that of Emanuel Ringelblum. Goodman thought of Ringelblum as the exemplary historian: Ringelblum left safe haven in Switzerland to return to the Warsaw Ghetto to record its history for posterity, at the sacrifice his own life. Goodman also was instrumental in establishing in honor of his mentor Oscar Handlin a fund to be administered by the ACLS for travel grants for history graduate students.
Goodman never married. He left no immediate family but a wide circle of devoted friends, who will remember him as an opera lover and Francophile, as the most amiable of hosts, and for members of the History Department, as a truly exemplary colleague. He will also be remembered for his fortitude in the face of a devastating illness. His devotion to scholarship saw him through. He worked until the end and died satisfied that he was leaving behind a final work of lasting importance.
John A. Guarnier Jr., Music: Los Angeles
| 1937-1988 | |
| Lecturer |
John A. Guarnier Jr. was 51 years old when he passed away on February 10, 1988. John came to UCLA on July 1, 1976 and he faithfully served as a Lecturer in the Music Department until his death in 1988. His many contributions and achievements were respected by his colleagues.
John shall be greatly missed by all who knew him well. He shall be remembered as a great lecturer and as valuable asset to the UCLA community.
Wolfram F. Hanrieder, Political Science: Santa Barbara
| 1931-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Professor Wolfram F. Hanrieder of the Department Political Science at UCSB, died on November 22, after a long struggle with cancer. Wolfram was born in Munich and educated at the Ludwigsgymnasium in Munich and at the University of Chicago where he received a B.A. in political science in 1958 and an M.A. in 1959. He earned a Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. He taught at Princeton University during most of the 1960s before returning to California as a Professor in the Department of Political Science at UCSB in 1967.
An internationally respected scholar of European and American foreign relations, he was a pre-eminent authority on German foreign policy, on which he authored several books, culminating with his magisterial Germany, American, Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy, published in 1989 and again in 1991. As with his previous works, this one manifested Wolfram's unique ability to contribute in two arenas of discourse on international relations, the world of theoretical scholarship and the world of elite policy analysis and policy-making. He lectured widely in this country and abroad, and held numerous teaching appointments, including a guest professorship at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, Italy, and was twice Eric-Voegelin Professor at the University of Munich. In 1990, he was elected to the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Federal Republic of Germany awarded him the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit in 1991.
A thoughtful participant in the intellectual life of the department, Wolfram brought his deep knowledge of history and literature to discussions of contemporary politics. A reviewer of Germany, America, and Europe captured something of the spirit of Wolfram's intellectual
Wolfram Hanrieder's undergraduate lectures were revered by his students, as much for the depth of historical understanding in which his exposition was founded, as for his acquaintance with current issues and leaders in the foreign policy community. He taught graduate and undergraduate courses in international politics, American and comparative foreign policy, theories of international politics, and issues of arms control and security. His signal contribution to the Department's teaching, however, was surely his mentoring of several generations of graduate students. He was consistently active--and successful--in securing financial support for his students' work, his clear eye for important issues helped guide their choices of productive research topics, and his conscientious labors as reviewer and mentor helped strengthen their own scholarship as it improved their dissertations.
Although he sometimes seemed an austere figure to his junior colleagues, his willingness to interrupt his work, his ability to place the question into a larger context, and his gift for framing the search for a resolution did not so much produce answers as they nurtured one's own attempts at understanding and interpretation. Wolfram will be deeply missed by his colleagues here at UCSB, around the country and in Europe. He is survived by his wife, Lani, of Santa Barbara; his mother, Barbara, of Munich; and his children, Elisabeth and Michael, both of Ojai, California.
Louis S. Hansen, Oral Pathology: San Francisco
| 1918-1993 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Louis S. Hansen died in San Francisco on November 6, 1993 following a long illness, which he faced with courage and good spirit. His career in oral pathology included long and distinguished service, both in the military and in the academic world. He received his D.D.S. degree from the University of Southern California in 1941. Immediately after graduation, he became a dental officer in the United States Navy. After World War II, while still in the Navy, he received postdoctoral training, first in oral surgery at Los Angeles County General Hospital (1949-50), then in oral pathology at the University of Michigan (1952-53), Naval and Medical and Dental Schools (1953-54), and Georgetown University (1954-55), from which he received his M.S. degree. Twenty years later he resumed his formal education, receiving his M.B.A. degree in management from Pepperdine University in 1977.
He loved the navy and had many duty assignments during his 26 years of service. Three of those assignments were especially important to him: serving in China between the end of the war and 1948, serving at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology as Chief of the Dental and Oral Pathology Division and Registrar of Oral Pathology for the American Registry of Pathology (1960-63), and serving at the Naval Dental School successively as Lecturer in Oral Pathology, Head of the Officer Education Department, and then Executive Officer.
After his retirement from the Navy, he joined the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco in 1967. He was Professor of Oral Pathology in the Department of Stomatology, School of Dentistry and Professor of Forensic Pathology in the Department of Pathology, School of Medicine. He founded the Division of Oral Pathology in the UCSF School of Dentistry and remained its chair until his retirement from
He was active in many professional organizations, and in turn was recognized by them. He became a Fellow of the American Academy of Oral Pathology in 1955 and served as its president nine years later. He was a Life Member of the International Association for Dental Research. In recognition of his dedication to scholarship and his profession, he was elected to Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Dentists, and the International College of Dentists. He was a member of the Revision Committee for the WHO Monograph on Histological Typing of Odontogenic Tumors, Jaw Cysts, and Allied Lesions. He served on the Examining Committee of the American Board of Oral Pathology between 1970 and 1978 and was its president during his last year on the board.
Dr. Hansen was an important figure in the growth and maturing phases of the discipline of oral pathology, and he became an internationally recognized leader in diagnostic oral pathology. His death leaves a void, and his colleagues will particularly miss his qualities of vision, judgment, and loyalty.
John Douglas Harrop, Dramatic Art and Dance: Santa Barbara
| 1931-1995 | |
| Professor of Dramatic Art, Emeritus |
John Douglas Harrop, Professor of Dramatic Art, Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a leading world authority on acting, died at his home in Ventura, California on Saturday September 9, 1995 following a valiant year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He is survived by his wife, Vicki; his brother and sister-in-law, Richard and Anne Harrop; and his three step-children, Nora Harrop, Victoria Harrop and Analisa Balestrero.
John Harrop's life and career vividly exemplify the truth of Shakespeare's maxim that “one man in his time plays many parts.” In John's case, these roles included schoolboy, soldier, Oxford university student and diplomat--all played in the homeland and diminishing empire of his native Britain from the 1930s to the 1950s. At the age of 35 he changed both his career and country of residence, moving to the United States to become not merely a theater director, scholar, author and university professor, but also a professional actor, in which guise he was to play such Shakespearen roles as Shylock, Cassius, Banquo, Pistol, John of Gaunt and Master Ford, as well as notable characters in the plays of Ibsen, Shaw, Pinter, Beckett and Anouilh. John Harrop was a man of many parts, and he played them all with passionate intensity.
He was born February 13, 1931 in Thornaby-on-Tees in the North of England, the son of Sadie Spiers Sefton and Samuel Chapman Oliver Harrop. The family later moved to the historic town of Shrewsbury, where John was educated at Shrewsbury Priory School. Known as a “bookish” and theatrically-inclined boy, he was also named the best athlete in the school in his final year, an accomplishment he looked back on as one of the proudest achievements of his life.
Following secondary school he entered the British Army to fulfill his national service, and served from 1950-52 as Second Lieutenant in the GreenHowards. His regiment was posted to battle duty in Malaya, then in the grip of a Communist-led insurgency. He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry; the citation praises his “vigilance, leadership and coolness under fire.”
Returning to England, he tried his hand at acting, studying at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, but ultimately decided to continue his formal education. He entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford University and earned his degrees in the harrowingly demanding program of Politics, Philosophy and Economics (B.A. 1960, M.A. 1964). Headed for a career in the British diplomatic service, he won a fellowship for a year's study at Stanford University, where he made the first acquaintance of the country in which he would ultimately live. In this same period he was married briefly to his first wife, Joan Squires.
In the meantime, however, his diplomatic assignments took him to Kenya (where he witnessed and participated in the transition from colonial status to independence), then Burundi, France, and finally on the Atlantic desk in London. His decision to leave the diplomatic service at the age of 35 was made for many reasons, but most strongly because of the pull of his love of acting and the theater. His wife Vicki recalls his later explanation of the fascination that theater had for him: he felt it was most immediate way he could find of making the world a better place for people, even if only for a few hours. It is easy to understand the appeal of this imaginative and artistic course of action, in contrast to passive participation in the post-Suez recessional of British imperial power. Later he would write his doctoral dissertation on the resurgence of British theater in this period, as iconoclastic writers like John Osborne, Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker led the way to a new consciousness and a new theatrical aesthetic.
He arrived in New Orleans in the Fall of 1966, to study theater at Tulane University, which had become the major center of American academic theater under the leadership of Robert Corrigan. John's fellow students in that Tulane era included such figures as Richard Schechner, Earle Gister, Michael Addison, Sabin Epstein and Tom Markus, a new generation which would have a lasting impact on American theater studies. But the revolutionary days at Tulane were coming to an end with Corrigan's departure, and after achieving his M.A. in 1967 John moved to the West Coast and enrolled in the newly-created Ph.D. program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where
John Harrop's first academic job was at the new University of California campus at Irvine, where he taught as an Assistant Professor from 1969 to 1971. At this point a position became open at Santa Barbara, where he returned as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 1971. It is rare in academic life for a doctorate-granting institution to offer a position to one of its newly-minted Ph.D.s; the theory is that such actions are tantamount to academic inbreeding. In the case of a man with the global breadth of experience of John Harrop, such considerations seemed hardly relevant. Santa Barbara was only one of his numerous intellectual and artistic ports of call.
Thus began an academic career at UCSB which would last until 1989. During this time John served for extended periods in crucial departmental administrative positions as Director of Theatre and Head of the Acting Program. He was a driving force in the establishment of a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program in theater, still unique to Santa Barbara in the UC system. He published two highly-acclaimed books: Creative Play Direction (Prentice Hall, 1974; 2nd edition 1984) and Acting With Style (Prentice Hall, 1982; 2nd edition 1990), as well as numerous articles. He served as Advisory Editor for the influential journal Theatre Quarterly and its successor New Theatre Quarterly.
John Harrop was a truly distinguished stage director, and his productions rank as some of the best ever created on the stages at UCSB. His specialty was classic theater; particularly memorable were his productions of Othello, The School for Scandal and Blithe Spirit. John also had a special feeling for Chekhov, as evidenced in his productions of The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya. While teaching at UCSB he met Adrienne Moloney, then a graduate student and later a Professor of Theatre at Santa Monica College, who became his second wife. Shortly after their marriage ended in divorce he was afflicted with cancer for the first time, but recovered thanks to a very debilitating process of chemotherapy. John endured these personal difficulties with courage and characteristic determination.
During his years of teaching John Harrop found time to develop his talents as an actor, undertaking a variety of challenging classical and contemporary roles in various professional contexts. Particularly memorable
Ultimately John became a member of Actor's Equity and the Screen Actors' Guild, the two major theatrical unions for professional actors, and looked forward to pursuing his career further after taking early retirement under the VERIP program. Among the Shakespearean roles he undertook in his last years were John of Gaunt in Richard II for Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, and Pistol in Henry V for Shakespeare Santa Cruz. He also worked with the noted Los Angeles area company A Noise Within, in such parts as Malone in Shaw's Man and Superman. He also acted with considerable success in television. During this same period he published two more books, including the text Basic Acting (co-authored with Sabin Epstein) and Acting, (Routledge, 1992). This latter work, which was selected for the 1993 list of Outstanding Academic Books by Choice Magazine, secured John Harrop's reputation as one of the most cogent contemporary analysts of the art of acting.
Two other events of very different import are highly significant in John Harrop's final years. The first was his very happy marriage to the former Vicki Balestrero, solidified by his adopting three of her children as his own, serving, in her words, as “the only father my three youngest children really had.” The second, and unfortunately tragic occurrence, was his extended illness with pancreatic cancer. All who saw him during his last illness commented on the serene, determined and courageous attitude with which he faced this last eventuality. His wife Vicki's memory of that struggle forms a fitting epitaph for the life of a remarkable man:
“John's courage and determination to live was inspiring, and his year-long battle with one of the ugliest diseases on earth was nothing short of heroic. He fought a good fight, and in so doing found and made peace with himself. No one gives awards for this, but I believe it is all that finally matters.”
Charles Vincent Hartung, English: Los Angeles
| 1913-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Charles Hartung died on May 1, 1995 in Ojai, California, of cancer. He was born in Chicago on November 26, 1913. Shortly after his birth the Hartung family moved to California, where Charles attended public schools. In 1931 he graduated from Indio High School. He next attended Riverside Junior College, receiving his A.A. in 1936, after which he attended the University of California, Berkeley, earning his A.B. with honors in 1938 and was given the Bibliophile Award in 1939. His formal education was interrupted by three years of service (1943-1946) in U.S. Army Intelligence. On receiving his honorable discharge he completed his M.A. before transferring to Stanford, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1953. His dissertation, “Browning and Impressionism,” was preceded by two articles, “Wordsworth on Westminister Bridge: Paradox or Harmony?” (College English, January 1952) and “A Tough-Minded Critic: Cleanth Brooks” (University of Kansas City Review, September 1952).
Professor Hartung was appointed to the faculty at UCLA in 1954 as an instructor in English with a specific assignment in view. The Department was offering an M.A. with particular emphasis on the teaching of English in high schools. During his years as a graduate student, Hartung had taught in a number of secondary schools and was thus distinctly qualified for this position. He filled it with great conscientiousness, not only visiting Los Angeles County high schools on a demanding schedule but also teaching a graduate course specifically designed for the degree. As a result of this concentration his publications appeared in professional rather than literary journals, including The Quarterly Journal of Speech, The CEA Critic, The English Journal, and Literature: A Critique. He was appointed a member of the Commission
Hartung was promoted to an assistant professorship in 1956, and an associate professorship in 1963. A listing of his appointments with teachers of English in high schools from March 29 to May 24, 1967 shows that he visited 25 schools, ranging from Chatsworth to El Segundo, during that period. This devotion to his work was partly responsible for the decline in his health that led to his early retirement in 1969. Later, he was able to return to the classroom for a period at San Bernardino State University.
Professor Hartung was predeceased by his wife, Margaret, a distinguished chemist who contributed basic research in the field of genetics. He is survived by three sisters, a brother, two nieces and four nephews.
Guy Edward “Eddie” Hearn, Theatre, Film and Television: Los Angeles
| 1913-1987 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Edward Hearn passed away on April 22, 1987 as a result of cancer. Eddie began his many years of service to the UCLA community on July 1, 1947 and was a diligent educator until his retirement on June 30, 1978. He was a great asset to the School of Theatre, Film and Television, and was respected and admired by his colleagues.
Eddie touched the hearts of those he came in contact with. He shall be missed immensely by those who knew him well.
Walter F. Heiligenberg, Physiology: San Diego
| 1938-1994 | |
| Professor of Behavioral Physiology |
Walter Heiligenberg was born on January 31, 1938, in Berlin, Germany and died in an air crash on September 8, 1994. He came to the U.S. with an established reputation in ethology--the study of normal behavior characteristic of the species--expanded his competence into physiology, then anatomy and became a world leader in neuroethology, the study of the neural substrates of natural behavior.
He graduated from the humanistic gymnasium in Munster and started studies in zoology, botany and chemistry at the University of Munster in 1958. He transferred to the University of Munich in order to do his doctoral dissertation under (Nobel Prize winner) Konrad Lorenz in the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology at Seewiesen. Completing his Ph.D. in 1964, he stayed in Seewiesen for eight years, publishing on the causation of behavior patterns in tropical fish and crickets. One of the contributions of this period was the invention of a technique for assessing aggressivity of a fish without dissipating it by the test. In 1972 he accepted an invitation for a two-year stay as a postdoctoral investigator in the laboratory of T.H. Bullock at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography to apply his expertise to the assessment of behavioral responses in South American weakly electric fish. These animals--low voltage relatives of the electric eel--use millivolt discharges several to many times per second in two adaptive ways: to locate nearby obstacles or objects by their distortion of the instantaneous electric field of the discharges (electrolocation) and to signal to other fish (electrocommunication). One of the robust social responses of certain species is a graded shift in frequency of discharge to increase the difference in frequency between neighbors (“the jamming avoidance response” or JAR).
Heiligenberg fell in love with these fish and spent the rest of his life unraveling the network of nerve cells and pathways that account for this JAR and other social signals, such as a courtship “chirp.”
Walter was appointed to the faculty in 1973 and to the full professorship in 1976. Moving to his own laboratory, he soon filled it with students and visitors, all focused on some aspect of electroreception, the analysis of sensory input and control of behavioral output, chiefly the electric organ discharge. He and his associates showed it to be an elegant model system for neuroethology and brought the JAR story so far along that it is now considered the most nearly understood example of vertebrate behavior--traced through more than 14 orders of successive cell types from receptor to effector. The explanation of the sensory analysis by brain centers specialized for electrocommunication revealed some nerve cells with a reliable sensitivity to small phase differences between the input from one part of the skin relative to the rest, in the range of tenths of a microsecond! Other cells are insensitive to this but encode small amplitude differences. Still others compare the times of the peak phase difference and the peak amplitude difference to tell whether the neighboring fish is just above or just below its own frequency and hence whether to shift its own discharge down or up. Walter found that some stages in the analysis are parliamentary, with a distributed decision by majority vote; a later stage narrows to a few cells, each requiring an already much-processed input and capable, either alone or with a few like cells, of commanding the response.
Turning to higher level social communication, Walter and his associates studied the electric organ frequency modulations used for agonistic and courtship signals. Finding the relevant cells with hyperfine glass pipette electrodes took many hours of patient hunting. When found and characterized in terms of activity, they had to be injected with dyes that would show their connections or with drugs that would alter their proclivities. He thus moved into molecular pharmacology, electron microscopy and mitochondrial DNA phylogeny--always ready to learn the tools needed to pursue the neuroethological goal of explaining natural behavior and its evolution in neural terms.
His research won a Javits Award from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke and a Merit Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. He was elected to the Bavarian Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. He won the David Sparks Prize for systems neurophysiology and was voted the President-elect
Walter was introduced to the habitat of his electric fish by a trip to the Amazon in 1976 and he fell in love with the tropics. He returned on numerous research trips to South America and Panama, traveling with sophisticated electronic equipment but otherwise so light as to startle his colleagues. He reveled in the sensuous and complex environment and the proximity to raw nature.
Heiligenberg was a consummate teacher with a unique style, both in his larger graduate course in animal behavior and in one-to-one contacts with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Infectious enthusiasm was the hallmark. Particularly with doctoral students he taught by example, not by precept or direction, except with gently humorous nudging into good habits. He spent long hours at the bench, exhibiting patience, intense concentration, efficiency of effort and demanding standards. Walter was the most alive person imaginable. Not frenetic or hyperactive, but the most keenly and widely aware--aware of all the sensations and meanings of the moment and especially the good and the beautiful ones. His mind was racing all the time, thinking about big things and little. He might tease you about some arcane rule of English grammar (he was a master editor in his second--or perhaps it was his third language, since his Hungarian was fluent enough to court and marry Zsuzsa) or tell a Gary Larson joke while drawing a phase diagram. One felt there was inexhaustible, high voltage energy, reined in and channeled. He never had a desk or a secretary, and visitors usually found him sitting, in tennis shorts, bare-footed and barechested, at that wondrously evolved “rig” of optic-electronic-hydraulic gear surrounding a tiny fish--in earlier years built with a genuine Erector set--and searching with the gentlest twist of the knob for the intoxicating pop-pop-pop of a nerve cell firing its coded impulses. Doing science turned him on, not advising or speculating or shuffling papers.
Besides his prowess as a teacher, in class and laboratory, this man was a positive and constructive force on committees and therefore popular as an academician. As just one example, we have good authority for saying that Walter was one of a small number of people who helped create the Department of Cognitive Science. He was especially helpful in insisting on the inclusion of a strong cognitive neuroscience section in the new department.
The way he looked at it, the survival or success of a species, where it lives and how, all depend on behavior--on sensing the environment, integrating coded messages from the sense organs and interpreting them, to recognize stimuli and control responses. Neuroethology and the evolution of brain mechanisms are therefore central to understanding life.
His first wife, Zsuzsa, who died in 1991, was well known in the community. She and Walter had three children, now grown and living in the area. He married Wendy, an Australian musician who lives in Munich, in 1993. She delivered his youngest daughter 18 days after his death.
Melvyn Helstien, Theater: Los Angeles
| 1920-1990 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Melvyn Helstien was 70 years old when he passed on March 6, 1990 as a result of a stroke. Melvyn came to UCLA on February 28, 1963 and he faithfully served as a professor in the Theater Department until his retirement in 1986. His many contributions and achievements were respected by his colleagues.
Melvyn shall be greatly missed by all who knew him. He shall be remembered as a great teacher and as valuable asset to the UCLA community.
Roger W. Heyns, Psychology: Berkeley
| 1918-1995 | |
| Chancellor Emeritus | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Roger W. Heyns, the Chancellor who came to Berkeley in 1965 to head a campus in turmoil from student protest and the responses to it, died of heart failure on September 11, 1995, while traveling in Greece. He was 77. With clear educational priorities, appeals to reason, and a warm, self-deprecating wit, Roger Heyns came (in President Clark Kerr's words “like a gift from heaven”) to lead the campus through what was perhaps the most divisive period in its history. When he resigned in 1971, he left behind a generous legacy of academic integrity, organizational stability, and personal civility.
Religion had a significant influence on Roger Heyns' life and outlook. He grew up in a Dutch Calvinist family in Michigan and attended a church-supported school. Shortly after high school graduation an illness (treated as polio, later diagnosed as Guillain-Barre disease) kept him bed-ridden for 18 months, an episode that he said taught him patience and led him to change his college plans and attend nearby Calvin College. It was there, his oral history reveals, that he learned to integrate religion both with his intellectual concerns and his daily life. He was elected student-body president and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He met Esther Gezon at Calvin College, and they were married in 1941. They had three sons--Michael, John, and Daniel.
In 1942, after completing two years of graduate study in psychology at the University of Michigan, he enlisted in the Air Force. Four years later, he resumed his graduate studies and in 1949 completed his doctoral work in social psychology. After a year of additional study at Harvard, he began his academic career at the University of Michigan where he taught social psychology and did research in three areas:
In 1957, he was appointed Dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, a position, he said which taught him that his comparative strength was in administration. Widely admired on the Michigan campus, he was honored by the University with awards for outstanding teaching and distinguished service. After four years as dean, he was appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs, a position he held unitl 1965 when, by unanimous vote of the Regents of the University of California, he became Berkeley's fifth chancellor.
In the Berkeley of 1965, a new chancellor faced a highly charged atmosphere. The daily life of the campus had been shaken and made increasingly divisive by issues of race and war, student protest, and political maneuvering. The University's ability to govern its own affairs was seriously challenged, on campus by political activists who defied University authority, and around the state by angry alumni, legislators, and regents who wanted to dictate how that authority should be asserted.
In his first year, Chancellor Heyns spoke more than 100 times on campus and around the state, explaining the nature of the challenge and the steps he was taking to meet it. He devoted his energies to four tasks: reestablishing the credibility of campus leadership, strengthening the staff on whose work the campus depended, preventing political activities from interfering with the teaching and research functions of the University, and responding to student concerns about their educational experience.
The campus came under intense national and international scrutiny as the University and the City of Berkeley became a center of anti-war activity, and such protests became a rallying point in Ronald Reagan's campaign for Governor and later the Presidency. Chancellor Heyns approach to holding the campus together was guided by the values and rules that he believed should govern the common life of the University; most importantly, academic freedom and the integrity of academic processes. His courageous stands reflected his personal convictions. As he so often put it, the University is a social institution; its freedom is dependent upon the larger society. To protect that freedom
The political crises on the Berkeley campus lasted for most of Chancellor Heyns six-year tenure. For those who were not in the center of it, it remains difficult to describe the intensity and dangers of those times. Although the political turmoil of the 1960s may be a faded memory now, many of Chancellor Heyns' initiatives are today a vital part of campus life. To respond to the concerns of students, he created the Office of the Ombudsman; he promoted various experiments in undergraduate education, and established in his office the Committee for Educational Development in order to respond to student initiative and to create new programs on its own. In 1966, he established the Educational Opportunity Program, one of the first student affirmative-action programs of its kind in the nation. He also introduced the first campus affirmative-action program for staff employees.
With his strong support, the University created a new Graduate School of Public Policy, today one of the nation's best. Ever mindful of Berkeley's unique campus environment, he set aside Ecological Study Areas. In 1969, he ordered that the site of Moffitt Library and Campus Drive be redesigned to save a grove of redwoods in the center of the campus. He organized and oversaw a year-long celebration of the University's centennial in 1968. Among its lasting effects are the Robert Gordon Sproul Associates, a rapidly growing University support group, and the Berkeley Citation, an award given by the campus in lieu of honorary degrees, “for distinguished achievements, and notable service to the University.”
When in his low key, self-deprecating way Chancellor Heyns announced his decision to resign, the reaction of both gown and town
On his return to California, Chancellor Heyns renewed his ties with the Berkeley campus. With his close friend, Walter A. Haas Jr. he was co-chairman of Cal Sports 80's, a capital campaign for sports facilities, and he maintained a continuing interest in the University Library and the Young Musicians Program.
For more than two decades, visitors to the Faculty Club at Berkeley have been reminded by the Heyns Room of this academic man who led the campus in the 1960s. On December 3, 1995, Chancellor Tien dedicated an additional and highly appropriate memorial--the Roger W. Heyns Grove of redwood trees that Chancellor Heyns had saved almost 30 years earlier. These trees stand in the center of the campus, a living symbol of the central and enduring role Chancellor Heyns played in the life of the University.
The record of the Berkeley campus over the six years that Roger Heyns was Chancellor reflects the guidance of a remarkable administrator. Not only did he hold the campus together, he also changed its environment from one of confrontation and disrespect to one where academic norms were accepted. Those who knew the campus well recognized that the strength, counsel and independent activities of Esther Heyns played a major role in her husband's success. His vigorous support of the highest academic standards and the selection of faculty of highest quality in both teaching and research were reflected in the ratings of the Berkeley campus. In 1966, a study conducted by the American Council on Education rated Berkeley as “The best balanced distinguished University in the country.” Four years later, the Council's follow-up study of graduate education once again gave Berkeley the number-one ranking. Among the many people whose work earned this recognition, the one person most responsible was Roger Heyns.
Chancellor Heyns strengthened the commitment to the University of those he worked with and for by his clarity of thought, his good humor, and his utter lack of a sense of self-importance. In this
Charles Johnston Hitch, Economics: Berkeley
| 1910-1995 | |
| President of the University of California, Emeritus | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Charles Johnston Hitch, President of the University of California from January 1, 1968 through June 30, 1975, died on September 11, 1995. He is survived by his daughter, Caroline Hitch Rubio and two grandchildren.
The Hitch presidency spanned years of many hazards in the life of the University. The fiscal policies of Governor Reagan and his successor, Governor Jerry Brown, were unremittingly austere, and there were attempts to reduce the independence of the University. Many changes were taking place in the social environment that threatened the welfare and quality of the University. On April 3, 1975, as he neared the date of his retirement from the presidency, Charles Hitch delivered the annual All-University Charter Address in UCLA's Royce Hall. It was the occasion of the celebration of the 107th anniversary of the founding of the University. The apt title chosen for the address was “Missions Impossible.” The President declared:
All of us--the whole academic community--have been on some impossible missions together, and while we have not exactly turned lead into gold, we have done the next best thing: the University not only did not self-destruct, it is healthier and stronger than ever before, and I am enormously proud of our accomplishments.
Charles Hitch, usually called Charlie by those who knew him, grew up in Boonville, Missouri, where he attended Kemper Military Academy, with which his father was associated. It was Charlie's own choice to go to the University of Arizona (which later on sponsored his application
After graduating at the University of Arizona, Charlie began graduate work in economics at Harvard, but shifted to Oxford University when he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship. He took the MA degree at Oxford in 1935 and stayed on as a don, achieving a fine record as a scholar in economics. He was elected a Fellow of Queen's College. He retained his status at Oxford until 1948, but during the Second World War he was on leave from Oxford, first to serve on the staff of W. Averell Harriman's lend-lease mission, then as a member of the U.S. War Production Board.
Charlie met Nancy Squire while he was in Washington, D.C. They were married in 1942. Hitch joined the U.S. Army in 1943, at first as a private. He was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services. After the war he returned to Oxford, where he and Nancy lived until they left Oxford in 1948 to join the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, where Hitch became chairman of the Research Council. From that position Charlie was picked in 1961 by Robert McNamara to be Assistant Secretary of Defense and Comptroller in the Department of Defense. Before becoming President of the University of California, Hitch had been a vice president of the University since September 1, 1965. His title was initially Vice President--Business and Finance, but soon his duties were expanded, and he became Vice President of the University for Administration. Under Harry Wellman, the Acting President of the University, Hitch was the second ranking executive in the University. In the issue of the University Bulletin that carried the news that the Regents had named Charles Johnston Hitch as the thirteenth President of the University (Volume 16, Number 9, September 25, 1967) it was reported that the choice of Hitch came upon unanimous recommendation of a special Regents' committee and with endorsement by a statewide faculty committee and the nine Chancellors. Acting President Wellman was quoted as saying that he was “absolutely delighted” with the Regents' decision and that Hitch was “probably the best qualified man in America to head this institution.”
Charlie Hitch was a great President. He was not a conspicuous character. He was soft-spoken. The warmth of his personality was not evident to all, but the warmth and a quiet sense of humor were there. He
At a meeting of the universitywide Assembly of the Academic Senate just a month before the retirement of President Hitch, the Chairman of the Assembly, Professor Alexei A. Maradudin of the Irvine Campus, read into the minutes a statement of thanks, affection, and good wishes to Charlie, characterizing him as an admirable human being and a gifted President. Here are some excerpts from that statement:
The Academic Senate... looks for certain qualities in the person who is President of the University. Its members look for a deep commitment to the fundamental values that maintain and enhance the free life of the mind, as it is found in the distinguished universities of the world and, especially in these days, for the quality of courage. Charles J. Hitch, in his conduct of the University's affairs, has won our admiration and warm regard for his superb fulfillment of these exacting requirements.... he fought year after year to fend off even deeper incursions into the independence, integrity, and resources of the University than those which had been made, and those which were threatening to be made, in the troubled months and years surrounding his accession to leadership. With that keen intelligence which has always marked him; with a bold and controlled determination not to give in but to push forward our joint cause; with persistent displays of firm presidential authority, he brought us through volatile and dangerous years, allowing us to emerge from this time of testing as strong, in our essential nature, as ever we have been.
Professor of Business Administration Emeritus Fred Balderston, who served for some years as a vice president in the Office of the President, was asked to participate in the formal ceremony on September 24, 1995 in commemoration of the life of President Hitch. He was unable to be present on that occasion, but he prepared some written reflections on the period when he was working closely with Charlie. Here is an excerpt from those reflections:
Those were heady times. At almost every meeting of the Regents, President Hitch and the Chancellors had to report on racking controversies and, frequently, violent disturbances on the campuses. The Governor's Office had an agenda for control of the University. Charlie Hitch was determined to resist that agenda, and he mobilized every force at his command to do so.... His monument, as he departed for new responsibilities at Resources for the Future in 1975, was a University still independent, still possessed of the highest academic capabilities, and still unruly enough to leave both the Left and the Right uncomfortable. In other words, a University worthy of the name.
In the remarks delivered by President Emeritus Clark Kerr at the memorial service were these words:
Charlie was superb. He had the determination, the endurance, the integrity. His great victory was in preserving one of the best of all universities during one of the worst of all possible times. And so, today, as the Oxford dons did in 1935, we tip our caps to Charles Hitch with great respect and admiration.
James H. Howard, Journalism: Los Angeles
| 1926-1986 | |
| Lecturer Emeritus |
It was on February 11, 1986 that James H. Howard passed away due to diabetes at the age of 60. He came to UCLA on July 1, 1963 and made a great contribution to the UCLA community until his retirement on August 1, 1979. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
James' death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Carl Barton Huffaker, Entomology and Parasitology: Berkeley
| 1914-1995 | |
| Professor of Entomology, Emeritus |
Carl Huffaker was born September 30, 1914 at Mendaciously, Kentucky and died quietly in his sleep the evening of October 10, 1995 after a prolonged illness. He is survived by Cerulean, his wife of more than 50 years, and sons Hal, Ron, and Tom, and daughter Caroline.
Huffaker earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in 1938 and 1939, respectively, from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1942. He began his career as a medical entomologist in the United States Health and Sanitation Division of Inter-American Affairs, working in Colombia, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Carl's strength in both entomology and botany led to his recruitment in 1946 by the Division of Biological Control of the University of California to be a specialist in population ecology, emphasizing the biological control of weeds. He was stationed at Berkeley with the group serving in the university's Division of Biological Control Quarantine Station. This station later became the Division of Biological Control of the former Department of Entomological Sciences. He remained at Berkeley until his retirement in 1984.
During the years 1970 to 1983 Huffaker was the Director of the International Center of Integrated and Biological Control (UCB and UCR). During the same period he served as co-director of the highly successful national NSF/USDA/EPA-sponsored Integrated Pest Management Projects that coordinated a nationwide, multi-disciplinary research effort among scientists from 18 Universities. Disciplines as diverse as agronomy, entomology, physiology, weed science, economics, mathematics, operations research and engineering were coordinated to investigate problems in crop protection. Carl's scientific prestige, his fairness, and his ability as a leader were amply demonstrated
Huffaker published more than 200 scientific papers, while also editing and contributing to numerous books. Many of his papers became “Citation Classics” in population ecology, biological control, and integrated pest management. Although retired, he continued writing research articles until his death.
His research in biological control has repaid society many times over the investment made in his training and research. One project alone, that on the biological control of Klamath weed, is estimated to have saved annually a hundred million dollars in benefits to California. He had a number of such successes.
His scholarship and innovative research won many accolades in his field. A member of Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi, he was also a Guggenheim Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Fellow of the Franklin Institute, a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London. He received the C. W. Woodworth Award of the Entomological Society of America, the Louis E. Levy Medal of the Franklin Institute as well as its Journal Premium Award. He served as President of the Entomological Society of America, and recently was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Upon retirement he received the Berkeley Citation, and only months before his death he was co-recipient of the prestigious Wolf Prize from Israel. Carl, a humble man, remained unchanged by his obvious success. While giving his undivided attention to his numerous scientific and administrative activities, he somehow found ample time for his family, friends, and his passion for racing pigeons.
His powers of concentration were legendary. His scholarly attention to detail was inspiring, his use of language bardic, his wisdom and common sense profound, and his obvious love of his work disciplined. Carl Huffaker, the consummate gentleman, admired and respected by his colleagues, and loved by his friends, will be sadly missed.
Raghavan Iyer, Political Science: Santa Barbara
| 1930-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Raghavan Iyer was an inspired and inspiring scholar and teacher on the Santa Barbara campus from 1965 to 1986, during which time he chaired the doctoral dissertation committees of 22 graduate students and captured the imaginations of several thousands of undergraduates in his popular and revered classes in political theory and in politics and literature.
Professor Iyer passed away on June 20, 1995, in Santa Barbara. He was born in Madras, India, on March 10, 1930. His father was Narasimhan Iyer and his mother was Lakshmi Iyer. Raghavan Iyer took a bachelor's degree in economics with first-class honors and a master's degree in advanced economics at the University of Bombay, where he was awarded the Chancellor's Medal. With a B.A. at the age of 18, he became the youngest Lecturer in the University of Bombay, at Elphinstone College, where he met his future wife Nandini Nanak Mehta, who is now Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Professor at Santa Barbara City College.
Raghavan was gratified at the accomplishments of his and Nandini's son Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer. Pico is a Contributing Editor at Time Magazine and the author of several books, which--like his popular Video Night in Kathmandu--elaborate on his father's seminal idea of a universal culture that would link East and West.
As India's only Rhodes Scholar in 1950 at Oxford University, Raghavan Iyer proceeded to the B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy, politics and economics (P.P.E.) at Magdalen College, with first-class honors, and was elected to the presidency of the Oxford Union. Iyer completed the D.Phil. degree in moral and political philosophy at Oxford. Appointed as a Fellow at St. Antony's College, Dr. Iyer taught political
Raghavan Iyer came to Santa Barbara in 1964 as a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (Fund for the Republic), headed by Robert Hutchins, and served as a consultant to the Encyclopedia Britannica and later as a member of the Club of Rome. He authored a definitive work on The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi, which put Mohandas Gandhi “in the context of Plato and Kant, Buddha and Christ” (as noted in the London Times obituary of June 24, 1995). This was followed by a three-volume collection of Gandhi's essential writings.
Dr. Iyer's own thought, widely expressed, was encapsulated in his book on Parapolitics: Toward the City of Man, which was also used as a text in some of Professor Iyer's courses. Earlier, Iyer edited a book entitled The Glass Curtain, based upon his discussions with Arnold Toynbee as to the attitudes of East and West toward one another. Raghavan and Nandini co-edited and annotated a book entitled The Descent of the Gods: The Mystical Writings of A.E. (the Irish poet, mystic and social reformer George William Russell).
Adding to his direct contributions to the University of California, Raghavan Iyer lectured in the community of Santa Barbara and else-where on a variety of topics including world peace. He and his wife founded the local branch of the world-wide United Lodge of Theophists. Raghavan Iyer was also founder and President of the Institute of World Culture, and, as a distillation of his lifelong pilgrimage, he composed the Institute's Declaration, as follows:
To explore the classical and renaissance traditions of East and West and their continuing relevance to emerging modes and patterns of living.
To renew the universal vision behind the American Dream through authentic affirmations of freedom, excellence and self-transcendence in an ever-evolving Republic of Conscience.
To honor through appropriate observance the contributions of men and women of all ages to world culture.
To enhance the enjoyment of the creative artistry and craftsmanship of all cultures.
To deepen awareness of the universality of man's spiritual striving and its rich variety of expression in the religions, philosophies and literatures of humanity.
To promote forums for fearless inquiry and constructive dialogue concerning the frontiers of science, the therapeutics of self-transformation, and the societies of the future.
To investigate the imaginative use of the spiritual, mental and material resources of the globe in the service of universal welfare.
To examine changing social structures in terms of the principle that a world culture is greater than the sum of its parts and to envision the conditions, prospects and possibilities of the world civilization of the future.
To assist in the emergence of men and women of universal culture, capable of continuous growth in non-violence of mind, generosity of heart and harmony of soul.
To promote universal brotherhood and to foster human fellowship among all races, nations and cultures.
In the Institute of World Culture, in his writings, and in the minds and hearts of his students, colleagues, friends and family, Raghavan's spirit lives on.
Gregory Jann, Microbiology and Immunology: Los Angeles
| 1916-1985 | |
| Professor, Emeritus, Department of Microbiology |
It was on September 15, 1985 that Gregory Jann passed away due to a heart attack at the age of 69. He came to UCLA on July 1, 1946 and made a great contribution to the UCLA community until his retirement on July 1, 1974. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
Gregory's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Carson Dunning Jeffries, Physics: Berkeley
| 1922-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Carson Jeffries, a distinguished and beloved member of the Physics Department, died of a brain tumor on October 18, 1995. He was born on March 22, 1922 at Lake Charles, Louisiana, where his father was postmaster and his mother was a former Latin teacher. He had three brothers and a sister, all of whom have survived him. He considered attending a local junior college but after interviewing the physics instructor (who told him that a uniform rope draped over a frictionless pulley would move so as to equalize the lengths on the two sides of the pulley!) he decided to go elsewhere, earning a B.S. degree at Louisiana State University in 1943. He immediately thereafter began war research on radar countermeasures at Harvard where his talents were evident to Felix Bloch, who persuaded him to become a graduate student at Stanford when Block resumed his professorship there in 1946. Carson had in the meantime married Elizabeth Dyer, a native of Maine. They had two children, Andrew and Patricia (now Mrs. Jeffries-Miller), who both still reside in Berkeley. Carson's Ph.D. from Stanford was awarded in 1951, his thesis work having been done under Bloch's guidance. After a year in Zurich, Switzerland, as an assistant to Hans Staub with duties both in teaching and research, he joined the Berkeley Physics Department as an instructor in January 1952, where he had a distinguished and lifelong career.
Jeffries was one of those happy scientists who enjoyed working productively in his laboratory with his own hands more than just about anything else on earth. He organized his experimental projects with consummate skill and carried them out with incredible speed.
Within these categories his work had many highlights. He made the first empirical observation of the isotropic spin-spin exchange interaction in metals (known now as the Ruderman-Kittel interaction), a mechanism that was known to account for multiple nuclear magnetic resonance lines in molecules. Independently of Anatole Abragam in Paris, he formulated methods and means for the dynamic polarization of nuclei by saturation of forbidden microwave resonance transitions in solids. This procedure provided sufficient proton polarization to enable him, with Owen Chamberlain, to realize the large polarized targets used in nuclear scattering experiments. Carson was the first to demonstrate the existence of giant electron-hole droplets in semiconductors, a development that so stunned Russian theorists, who first postulated their existence, that he was the only US participant invited to the USSR for a conference in that field of research. The droplets, having been described as “liquid electricity,” induced a flurry of press reports and popular interest in a subject far removed from any real understanding by laymen.
Carson excelled in guiding his many research students. The list of his Ph.D.s totals 35, of whom 13 became professors, mostly in prestigious institutions. Eight are counted as permanent members of outstanding industrial laboratories and five are permanent staff at select government laboratories. In teaching undergraduates, he favored the advanced laboratory course, where he instituted a number of experiments that enabled juniors and seniors to work on topics closely connected to ongoing professional research.
Jeffries enriched the campus by his extraordinary activities as an artist of professional standing. Self taught, he started with abstract painting and then went on to kinetic sculpture--two of his pieces were the main attraction at a special Faculty Club evening and dinner devoted to them in 1969. He was one of the earliest practitioners of laser art. He specialized in displays that were musically controlled, working with eminent composers, including John Cage. He had commissions for displays from Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan and for a 1977 outdoor display in Mexico City. Needing a house for himself after his divorce from Betty, he designed a solar home in Oakland that won a prize from PG&E for its efficiency. To many, it is an interesting piece of architecture which, in the treatment of interior spaces and its relationship to massive electric pylons on the lot, has sculpturesque overtones.
Carson was a warm, gentle, modest friend to his colleagues and students. He had many difficulties to bear in his life, notably a madening disease that led to deterioration of his weight-bearing joints and required numerous surgical operations on his hips and knee, the early ones at a time when they were primitive by today's standards. He endured all this suffering and trauma with remarkable grace and adjusted his lifestyle so that his disabilities interfered little with his teaching, his research, and his many services to the University and his profession. His separation from Betty was another grievous loss he bore, patiently and without rancor. She died unexpectedly in Berkeley in 1988 and it was Carson who conducted the memorial service at their former home. It was a blessing that after his divorce he came to know and marry Olivia Eielson, who shared many of his interests in art and intellectual pursuits in happy and companionable years toward the end of his life.
The final tragedy Carson had to sustain was the horrid tumor in his brain that robbed him of the ability to read and resisted all medical attempts to arrest its growth. He bore this awful fate with gallant courage. Fortunately he was able until the final week or so of his life to have rewarding conversations with his old friends and to display to them still the gentle humanity we had all known so well. His final decline was swift and he died peacefully at home.
Carson received much recognition for his work. He held prestigious senior fellowships which allowed him to make extended visits at Oxford, England, at Saclay, France, and at Harvard. At all those places he is well remembered for his contributions. He was
Claude E. Jones, Journalism: Los Angeles
| 1908-1983 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
It was on February 22, 1983 that Claude E. Jones passed away due to cardiac arrest at the age of 75. He began his tenure at UCLA in 1937 and provided many great contributions to the UCLA community until his retirement on July 1, 1963. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
Claude's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Everett L. Jones, English: Los Angeles
| 1915-1990 | |
| Senior Lecturer |
Everett L. Jones was born March 15, 1915, and died on February 25, 1990, in Los Angeles, ending a life devoted to improving student writing at all levels.
Originally a premedical student at Antioch College, Jones later switched to English when a work-study program offered him a job writing ad copy for Fortune Magazine. After graduating from Antioch in 1938, he attended Lehigh University, receiving his MA in 1941 and serving as Instructor of English until 1944. During World War II, Jones headed the writing section of the UC Division of War Research and Navy Electronics Laboratory in San Diego. Editing reports and manuals whetted his appetite for more advanced writing and reading, so he enrolled in postgraduate work in English at UCLA, continuing there until 1949.
In 1947, he was assigned the role of Instruction Supervisor in Subject A at UCLA, a position he held until 1976. Under his tireless tutelage, he directed a program which offered students an opportunity to polish their writing skills and create clear, well-organized prose. Jones insisted that writers support their assertions rhetorically, and he developed criteria for assessing those goals. Ever practical and never pedantic, he generously discussed problems of style, substance, and structure with students and faculty. During this period he taught English 495, a training course for teaching assistants, who valued his pedagogic experiences as well as his anecdotal presentations. A master teacher himself, Jones was never without a story to underscore a point, believing that effective teaching and writing should utilize examples. Naturally, his duties included classroom visits and follow-up conferences and reports. In all relationships, Jones was the proponent of fairness.
In addition to administrative and teaching responsibilities in the Subject A Department, Jones served on innumerable university, local and state committees working to promote better writing instruction. From the UCLA Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Composition, to the Statewide Subject A Committee, Jones traveled around California to support or argue against suggestions for curricular changes. Begining in 1977, he and his friend, Dick Dodge, co-directed the UCLA/California Writing Project, which brought 25 elementary, secondary, and college teachers together to study ways to improve the teaching of writing. Jones' pioneering work set such a solid basis for this program, based on the theory of “teachers teaching teachers,” that the program, greatly expanded, continues today.
Jones also offered students and faculty his own models of good writing. His textbook, An Approach to College Reading, and the five editions of the Harbrace College Reader (jointly authored with Mark Schorer and Philip Durham) revealed his expertise. In other areas, too, Jones was a dedicated scholar and writer. With his friend and colleague Philip Durham, he co-authored books on western American literature, with emphases on the African-American cowboy and the frontier. For example, The Negro Cowboys, 1965, was a forerunner of similar later books, which detailed African-Americans' contributions to United States history. This co-authorship also produced The West: From Fact to Myth, 1967, a catalog for a UCLA Library exhibit; The Frontier in American Literature, 1969; A Bibliography of Books by Active Members of the Western Writers of America, 1970; and The Western Story: Fact, Fiction, and Myth, 1975. Toward the end of his life Jones continued to work on a study of Western stories and films, to have been titled America's Dangerous Myth.
Certainly, his love of the West was reinforced during escapes to the family cabin in Lone Pine, in the heart of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where he and his wife Boots, his children Sam and Pam, and, later, his grandchildren relaxed, hiked and skied. After retirement in 1982, Jones often chose European travels, preferring to learn more about the cuisine and language of France rather than to trek along familiar, more rigorous trails in the California mountains.
Always a gentle man, always a wise counselor, always a good friend, Jones left an imposing legacy to the teachers, professors, and administrators who care deeply about effective writing.
Robert McKernon Joy, Pharmacology and Toxicology: Davis
| 1941-1995 | |
| Professor |
Robert McKernon Joy, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Molecular Biosciences (formerly Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology), passed away of cancer on November 14, 1995. He was 54 years old.
He is survived by his wife, Kathleen (Seitz) Joy of El Macero; step-daughter and son-in-law, Erica and Tom Cunningham of Laguna Creek; mother, Rita Sedgwick Joy of Green Valley, Arizona; sisters- and brothers-in-law, Judy Joy of Oakridge, Tennessee, Sylvia and Wendell Coon of Rancho Murieta, Allenya Kirby of Laguna Creek and Dan kirby of Elk Grove; and two nieces and a nephew. His brother David passed away in May 1995.
Robert McKernon Joy was born on May 9, 1941, in Troy, New York, to Rita and Edward Joy. He attended Stanford University from 1959 to 1961. He received his bachelor of science degree in pharmacy from Oregon State University in 1964. He returned to Stanford and received his doctor of philosophy degree in pharmacology in 1969. He was also a Merit Scholar. He came to the University of California, Davis later that year to start his post-graduate studies in the School of Medicine.
Dr. Joy joined the faculty in the Department of Physiological Sciences in 1970. He joined Drs. Baggot, Giri, Segall and Conzelman in forming the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in 1982. In 1993, he became a member of the newly reorganized Department of Molecular Biosciences. He also served on the School of Veterinary Medicine's Student Affairs Committee and Admissions Committee for several years.
Joy was an excellent teacher. He made important contributions to several courses in the professional curriculum of the School of Veterinary Medicine and in the core curriculum for the Graduate Group of Pharmacology and Toxicology. Students found him approachable, open to questions and enthusiastic about his subject matter.
Joy published several refereed papers, book chapters, proceedings and abstracts. His research intersts involved mechanisms of pesticide neurotoxicity, the kindled seizure model of epilepsy, mechanisms of action of convulsant and anticonvulsant drugs, in vitro electrophysiological techniques and brain slices. His most recent research in the field of neurotoxicology focused on the elucidation of mechanisms of action for the neurotoxic effects of chemicals, particularly chlorinated hydrocarbon (dieldrin, endrin, lindane, etc.) and pyrethroid insecticides and various injectable anesthetics. His laboratory provided the first direct demonstration that chlorinated hydrocarbons act as GABA antagonists in vivo as well as in vitro. He also demonstrated that lindane enhances transmitter release and that this effect can be attributed to an increase in intracellular calcium. The increase in intracellular calcium was not due to an action on cell membrane calcium channels but rather to the release of calcium from intracellular stores.
Joy's scientific activities were recognized nationally and internationally. He was a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology which is the major board evaluating and licensing toxicologists. At the time of his death he was serving as President of the American Board of Toxicology having completed his term as Vice President in March, 1995. He served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Neurotoxicology (1984-), “guest” Field Editor for the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (1982-1991), and member of the Editorial Review Board of Archives Internationales de Pharmacodynamie et de Therapie (1985-), and Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology (1989-). He was a member of the Society of Toxicology, Society of Neuroscience, American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Western Pharmacology Society.
Joy's friends and colleagues will miss his honesty and integrity. He was forthright in his opinions and served as a moral compass on various issues. He was an avid golfer and a member of the El Macero Country Club. He enjoyed traveling and discovering secluded places off the beaten path. He also relished his research opportunities in England under the auspices of the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund and Fulbright Award. Dr. Joy was an enthusiastic hiker and photographer.
Harrison Karr, English: Los Angeles
| 1887-1983 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
It was on October 25, 1983 that Harrison Karr passed away due to cardiac arrest at the age of 96. He came to UCLA in 1929 and made a great contribution to the UCLA community until his retirement on July 1, 1954. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
Harrison's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Paul J. Kelly, Mathematics: Santa Barbara
| 1915-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Professor Paul Kelly was born on June 26, 1915 in Riverside, California. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from UCLA and then transferred to the University of Wisconsin, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1941. After spending three years as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, he joined the mathematics department at USC as an Instructor in 1946. In 1949, he began his career at UCSB. He progressed through the ranks, retiring in 1982.
Paul's main mathematical interests were in the areas of geometry and graph theory. He published extensively in these areas. Some of his works were with joint authors, ranging from graduate students to some of the most distinguished mathematicians in the world. He also directed the doctoral research of several students.
Paul was departmental chair during the period 1957-1962. This was an important period because it marked the beginning of a graduate program in mathematics. The M.A. program began in 1959 and the preliminary work for the Ph.D. program occurred during Paul's tenure as chair. Those who were in the department at the time remember with admiration Paul's effectiveness during that period. He had to deal with diverse viewpoints and interests among the faculty, and with the continuous changes that occurred as the number of faculty more than doubled during the period he was chair. Paul had a particular knack for getting at the heart of confusing issues, and his good common sense approach often carried the day. He also served, over the years, on many key faculty committees and did so with distinction.
Paul enjoyed an enormous reputation as a teacher. In fact, several faculty members from diverse fields, such as art, English, philosophy, and economics used to attend Paul's inspirational lectures to improve their own teaching effectiveness.
Those of us who knew Paul J. Kelly when he first came to Santa Barbara in the fall of 1949 remember an ebullient creator of spontaneous games with elaborate rules such as Obstacle Croquet, a game often played by G.I. math and physics majors who turned car headlights onto the bumpy stretch of grass that comprised the gaming field. Students of those and later days who found joy in mathematics, have remembered him with gratitude, laughter and often the recollection of a favorite one-liner, story, or joke even as they gave him credit for inspring them to devote their lives to teaching, or doing math or for developing in them an appreciation of the field and its satisfying beauty.
He was a zestful, original conversationalist of wide-ranging interests. Both the sly and the broad social satire in Austen and Trollope gave him great pleasure. However, he complained that there were few humorists among today's writers who entertained him as Thurber, Benchley, and White had done.
From high school days on he wrote light verse in the style of Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash, parodies of all the major poets, lyrics a la Alan Sherman and Tom Lehrer, rhymed letters, small pieces for special occasions, epitaphs, humorous essays, and a few uncharacteristically somber poems dealing with ideas at which he did not wish to poke fun. Paul Kelly had a wonderful sense of language, the comic, the human tragi-comic condition, and the crucial role of timing in any enterprise.
Paul was also a sports enthusiast who wished he'd been big enough to play football. He contented himself with baseball, tennis and golf. When his health no longer permitted any of these, he took up darts and billiards again. Always he was a knowledgeable, opinionated, engaged spectator who joked that he timed major surgeries to coincide with the Olympics or other major sporting events.
Deep rich friendships were important to Paul. At the time of his death he was still corresponding with men and women he had known for 60 or more years.
Any collection of memories about Paul would be incomplete without a mention of his love of particular music, musicians, and works of art. He had a special fondness for Mozart's Horn Concertos, Schubert's Trout Quintet, and almost all Delius and Satie. He wished he had learned to play the clarinet since he enjoyed jazz. Bernini's sculptures brought him enduring delight, and those of us who heard him will never forget his voice as he stood in front of Van Gogh's “Poet's Garden” saying in
Paul is survived by a sister, The Rev. Katy Perry of San Diego; two brothers, Edward and Francis of Beverly Hills; the children of his previous marriage, Timothy of Santa Rosa, and Megan Dargan of Tacoma, Washington; and two granddaughters, also of Tacoma; and his wife, Kay Caldwell Kelly.
Arthur F. Kip, Physics: Berkeley
| 1910-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Arthur Kip, one of the great experimental solid-state physicists, died of a heart attack at the age of 85. Starting in 1951, and with small means, he built up the first research group in the field in the Western United States. He trained many graduate students who have filled distinguished positions in American physics.
Kip was born in Los Angeles, September 27, 1910, the son of a mining engineer. He moved to and went to school in San Diego. His university education was at Berkeley (A.B. 1935; Ph.D. 1939), where he did graduate work under Leonard B. Loeb, a leading figure in the physics of gas discharges. Kip then went to MIT as a research associate. In World War II he started as an active member of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Research Group in the Office of the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet. He went on to study fleet antiaircraft operations, from Okinawa to London, where he met and wed Joan Hill in 1944.
After the war he went to MIT as an Assistant Professor and first worked on their microwave linear accelerator, and later on electron spin resonance. Characteristically, in an interesting community of Gropius disciples, he built his own house.
Kip returned to Berkeley in 1951 to establish his research group on the application of microwave resonance techniques to the investigation of solids, studies that he continued until his retirement in 1976. He has to his credit the first observation of electron-spin resonance in metals, of donor-spin resonance in semiconductors, and, most importantly, of cyclotron resonance in semiconductors and metals. The results of the cyclotron-resonance studies were of value to the growing semiconductor industry of the time (1953), defining
for the first time the dynamic properties of the positive carriers or holes that are central to transistor-type devices. With the current shift of research on semiconductors from bulk structures to nanometric structures, there has been a resurgence of interest in the dynamic parameters (the effective masses) of the electrons and holes as determined by the cyclotron-resonance experiments.
A striking characteristic of Kip's work, often remarked on by foreign visitors, was how he got good results with simple means. In the cyclotron resonance experiments he worked with a magnet borrowed from the early Ernest Lawrence collection; the germanium crystals were not grown here, but were donated by Sylvania and Westinghouse; the liquid helium was supplied largely by the Shell Laboratories, then in Emeryville.
Kip was a fellow of the American Physical Society; a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Cambridge, England 1958-59; and a Miller Institute Fellow at Berkeley 1962-63. He published close to 100 scientific papers, and was the author of a successful introductory physics textbook, Fundamentals of Electricity and Magnetism, McGraw-Hill, 1962.
Kip participated in major committees of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, serving for two years as chair (1966-68) and for one year as chair of the systemwide Academic Council (1973-74). At his retirement he was honored with the Berkeley Citation in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the campus.
The record of his scientific and academic achievements does not, however, convey the full flavor of his character and status as a member of the Berkeley academic community. His years as chairman of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate are fondly remembered for the good-natured ease with which he presided over a body noted for its disputatious nature. He demonstrated the triumph of common sense over the habit of procedural complexity, of humane objectivity over zealous partisanship. He was a man of broad culture, a lover of music, of literature, of the theatre. He had a lively interest in political and social issues, and while he had deep convictions he never added heat to discussions. For several decades he was a member of a Friday faculty club lunch group noted for unrestrained expression of deeply held views. But even in this provocative setting, Arthur seemed immune to the temptations of intellectual aggressiveness. He was always gentle, perceptive, modest, sympathetic, and friendly.
Kip is survived by his wife of 51 years, Joan Kip; daughter Jennifer Kip Bier of Albany, California; and son Jonathan of Los Angeles; grandchildren Adam Bier and Megan Kip; and two sisters, Elizabeth Roche of San Diego and Margaret Nichols of Monterey, Massachusetts.
Oscar A. Kletzky, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Los Angeles
| 1936-1994 | |
| Professor |
Oscar Kletzky died at home on August 7, 1994, after a brief battle with lung cancer.
He was born in Santa Fe, Argentina on December 6, 1936 and was married to Leonor Jachevaseky in June 1963. He is survived by his wife, three children, Claudia, Segal and Arel and four grandchildren. He received his B.A. at Rafaela, Santa Fe, Argentina in 1955 and his M.D. from Cordoba University, Cordoba, Argentina in 1961. His initial post-graduate training in gynecology was at Clinicas Hospital, Cordoba, Argentina, followed by additional obstetrics and gynecology training at Hasharon Hospital and Tel Aviv, Israel. In 1972 he came to this country as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Reproductive Biology at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. He was appointed to the position of Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1978. Dr. Kletzky remained at the University of Southern California until he accepted the position of Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the UCLA School of Medicine and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He was certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and for having special competence by the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. He was a member of most of the major academic clinical and research societies related to his specialty and subspecialty.
Oscar was a productive investigator with over 100 research publications to his credit. His most recent research focused on menopause where he was leading a team investigating the ameliorating effects of estrogen replacement therapy on cerebral blood flow, sleep and psychological
Boris Kremenliev, Music: Los Angeles
| 1912-1988 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
It was on April 25, 1988 that Boris Kremenliev passed away due to cancer at the age of 76. He came to UCLA in January 1947 and made a great contribution to the UCLA community until his retirement on June 30, 1978. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
Boris' death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Catherine Landreth, Psychology: Berkeley
| 1899-1995 | |
| Professor Emerita |
When Catherine Landreth died at her home in Berkeley on January 29, 1995, the University lost a distinguished faculty member. The now well-established field of early childhood education lost one of its pioneers. Her friends lost a stimulating and witty colleague.
Landreth was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, July 20, 1899. She received her early education there, and was graduated in 1920 from the University of Otago. After teaching for several years, she came to the United States, earning an M.S. in nutrition and education from the Iowa State University in 1926. For four years, 1926-1930, she held a coveted Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fellowship that enabled her to study at first hand the newly established nursery schools at Merrill Palmer, Teachers' College at Columbia, and the University of Minnesota. In 1936 she earned a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.
She taught first at the University of Chicago, but was called to Berkeley in 1938. Except for several summer appointments elsewhere and a 1959 award of a Fulbright research grant at the Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, Landreth remained at Berkeley throughout her professional career, in the Department of Home Economics until 1950, thereafter as professor of psychology until her retirement in 1964. During all the years at California she was Director of the Nursery School, where she supervised a large number of graduate theses in nursery-school education, in addition to her own active program of research and writing. She was also in demand as a consultant to boards of education, to curriculum planners, and to Head Start administrators, both in California and elsewhere.
Her research fell mainly into three broad areas, and in all three she was concerned with increasing the scientific rigor of investigations in a field that had typically been descriptive and anecdotal.
First, early childhood education: She and her students conducted careful observational studies of teacher-child and child-child interactions in the nursery school. Her study of incidents of children's crying is still cited.
Second, social perception: Perhaps best known are a series of investigations to trace the origins and development of young children's social attitudes and prejudices. It was found that prejudice is related to parents' education, and that children as young as three years show prejudice based on skin color. These studies were among those that influenced the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision against segregated education. Other studies concerned children's ideas of which behaviors are “good” and which are “bad,” and parents' ability to predict their children's responses. Parents were often far wide of the mark, suggesting the fallibility of unverified parental reports.
Third, the place and value of the preschool in a comprehensive program of public education: A statewide survey on which Landreth collaborated led in 1947 to a legislative decision to finance child-care centers for children of working mothers.
In addition to a substantial number of shorter publications, Landreth authored three classic books that were influential in shaping the scope and nature of early childhood education: Education of the Young Child (with Katherine H. Read), 1942; The Psychology of Early Childhood, 1958; and Preschool Learning and Teaching, 1972.
Teaching was always of central importance to Catherine Landreth, who believed that the value of nursery school education was ultimately dependent upon the quality of this specialized form of teaching. She herself was a superb teacher, and her undergraduate courses were crowded with potential parents who wished to learn what they could about young children. At the graduate level, she inculcated with her values and skills several generations of students who taught in the nursery school while earning their master's degrees. The quality of their theses shows that she also taught them to be good researchers, capable of finding worthwhile problems and pursuing them to useful conclusions.
Landreth's contributions to her field were not only psychological and educational, but also architectural! The UC Harold E. Jones Child Study Center, built in 1964, memorializes the contributions of Harold E. Jones to developmental psychology, but his own research was principally
Catherine will be remembered by those who knew her as a unique and colorful personality. She possessed ineffable qualities of elegance, grace, and beauty. At the same time, she was a tough-minded researcher in an area and at a time when concern for experimental and methodological rigor was rare. She was physically vigorous. She swam every day for many years, and walked everywhere even in advanced age. She never learned to drive a car, nor did she wish to. An outstanding trait was her wish to be independent. Although a kind and thoughtful friend, always ready to help others, she much preferred to care for her own needs and found it hard to accept help from others. She had a wonderful sense of humor, and a delightful way of expressing herself. She had an endless store of anecdotes and could enliven any conversation with one that was at once perfectly apropos and very funny.
We, her friends, have lost a uniquely talented and colorful colleague. Though at ninety-five years of age she had outlived many of her associates those of us who remain make up for our dwindling number by the depth of our admiration and affection for her.
Alfred Longueil, English: Los Angeles
| 1894-1983 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
When Professor Alfred Longueil died on 18 October 1983, he had been fully retired from teaching for 17 years, but for the many students who found their lives shaped by his classes, there could be no real end to his career. As W.H. Auden said the day that William Butler Yeats died, at that moment of time, “He became his admirers.” Professor Longueil's admirers (among them the brilliant dancer, Agnes De Mille) were everywhere in the United States and throughout the world. His lectures were packed with the kind of information that only a serious and learned scholar could impart, but he put together his material in a way that made every lecture intellectually exciting. He loved poetry, and he was able to communicate that love to his students. It might be thought that he did this by a highly emotive style of teaching; to the contrary, he normally read the poems he was teaching in a flat sing-song style, as if trying to add his own emotion to great literature would be a form of sacrilege. When he did actually read with dramatic emphasis, as with his interpretation of Robert Browning's Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister or his remarkable emphasis upon “nothing” in Macbeth's famous soliloquy, the class literally glowed with appreciation.
His class in Chaucer's poetry made writings of that great poet so vivid that students, in asking questions during or after class, would routinely make the mental slip of addressing him as Professor Chaucer. He had all the students learn how to read Chaucer with a proper sense of Middle English pronunciation. How else could one appreciate the subtlety of one of England's greatest poets? And after everyone in the class had demonstrated an understanding of how the verse sounded, he plunged into a dazzling series of interpretations, clarifying Chaucer's treatment of character and teaching us how a comic vision of life might
One of those consulted for this account, describes her impression of entering his class for the first time:
At ten o'clock on a Monday morning, I sat in a crowded room in Royce Hall watching Dr. Longueil as he stood behind the podium. He was of medium height, slender with pale blue eyes behind glasses, a long crew cut of gray hair, a mustache and he was dressed in a preppie style with a tweed jacket, slacks, a white shirt and tie. I was to learn that this was his uniform, perhaps the only outfit he had, for I never saw him in anything else. The bell rang and he started to talk rapidly in a rather high husky voice with a drawl at the end of sentences. He stared out the window, with no references to notes. He was describing a world of long ago in England, a network of hamlets connected only by waterways where life was chancy, death sudden and cruel, a life of isolation and brutality... Later, when I transcribed my notes, I learned that the weave of words broke into a perfect outline. Everything was connected; everything was building to a logical conclusion... He was all-knowing, superbly organized, a spell-binder of words as he packed the hard information into a cohesive pattern.
Through the good offices of Regina K. Fadiman, Professor Longueil's notes were transcribed as well as recorded and placed in the English Reading Room where generations of future students can experience his ability to synthesize criticism and a vast range of information not only in the area of English literature but in history, art and music.
He was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada on 3 April 1894. Attending Boston University where he received his B.A., he then continued his graduate education at Harvard where he was awarded his M.A. and Ph.D. He came to UCLA as an Assistant Professor in 1922. Five years later, he was made Associate Professor, and in 1947, he was
... he seems to be indefatigable in the time and energy that he gives to students in private consultation, to departmental chores, and to major university committee assignments. More important, perhaps, is the fact that this interest in the department and the university is not that of the senior colleague who simply remembers the good old days. Rather, he combines the sagacity of experience with a keen and lively appreciation of the new problems that confront a greatly expanded organization.
In recommending him for the Distinguished Teaching Award that he was to receive, Professor Hugh Dick described his qualities under four categories: 1. Devotion 2. Breadth 3. High Standards 4. Brilliance as a Lecturer. Under the category he titled “Devotion, “Professor Dick wrote, “His generosity of spirit pervades all his teaching but is perhaps no-where more evident than in his long and unwearied services as an adviser to students. He has been a tireless mentor and, as such, a wise and humanizing influence on our students.” Those students whom he advised found in him a concerned and warm counselor. At the same time, he was an intensely private person. He refused any ceremony on leaving teaching, expressing a dislike of what he considered embarrassing sentiment. Those former students, such as Pamela Kaufman, Regina Fadiman, and Ralph Ranald, who continued to visit him, had to overcome his natural reserve.
He preserved what he had to give his students for his role as a Professor of English literature, teaching without pay for five years after his
R. Merton Love, Agronomy and Range Science: Davis
| 1909-1994 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Robert Merton Love died at his Davis, California home on December 7, 1994. He was 85.
Merton was born in Tantalon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, the former with honors. In 1935, he graduated magna cum laude with a Ph.D. in genetics from McGill University. Then he joined the Canada Department of Agriculture where his research helped develop a rust-resistant bread wheat.
Merton joined the UC Davis faculty in 1940. He developed a distinguished career of research, teaching, extension, and public service and served as Chairman of the Department of Agronomy and Range Science from 1959 to 1970. During his tenure he instigated the name change of the department to include “Range Science” after the department enlarged its program in that direction. He was known as a department chair who strongly and fairly supported his faculty and the department's mission to serve California agriculture. Following his retirement in 1976, Merton was Chair of the Graduate Group in Ecology (the largest graduate group on campus) and the Chair of the Graduate Group in Range and Wildlands Science until 1988. His legacy as a graduate group chair is the annual R. Merton Love award honoring the student producing the finest Ph.D. dissertation in ecology.
An internationally honored range scientist, Mertons' early research emphasized cytogenetic studies of forage grasses. In cooperation with Professor Ledyard Stebbins, he discovered that nodding needlegrass (Nassella cernua S. & L.) and purple needlegrass (N. pulchra
Throughout his career, he traveled extensively, contributing his expertise to efforts to increase range productivity in other countries. These travels included a sabbatical in 1947 to establish a cytogenetic research laboratory in Brazil and two Fulbright scholar grants, one to Australia and New Zealand in 1957 and the other to Greece in 1964. In 1967, he traveled to Greece and Israel on a Rockefeller Foundation grant.
He was conferred the LL.D. from the University of Saskatchewan and the D.Sc., from McGill University. Merton received many other honors and awards: from the American Society of Agronomy, he received the Agronomic Service Award and the Stevenson Award. He was elected a Fellow in the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the Rangeman of the Year Award from the California Section of the Society for Range Management, the Range Improvement Award from the California Seed Association, and the Distinguished Grasslander Award and the Medallion Award from the American Forage and Grassland Council. He was presented with honorary memberships in several organizations, among them the California Cattlemen's Association, the California Crop Improvement Association, The American Society of Agronomy, the Biological Society of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and the Centro Argentina de Ingenieros Agronomos.
Among his colleagues he was characterized as: outgoing, outspoken, supportive, socially minded, involved, blunt, direct, kind, protective, community-spirited, musically-inclined, and humorous. Music was his main source of personal joy and satisfaction. He and his wife took pride in hosting annual Agronomy Christmas open house for graduate students and faculty. He was well known in the Davis community through his service to his church and Rotary Club.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Eunice; his sons, John of Lawrenceville, N. J., David of Davis, and Bruce of Riverside, California; a brother and sister in Canada; seven grandchildren and a great-grandson.
Frederick C. Ludwig, Pathology: Irvine
| 1924-1995 | |
| Professor |
Dr. Ludwig's rather reserved nature, quiet style, and hesitant smile belied the numerous friends and acquaintances he had at the University. People were attracted to him because of his unusual combination of interests and talents and the analytical consideration that he gave to issues. Working in an environment of science, medicine and quantitation, he was among the few who were also literary scholars, gifted linguists, conversationalists and humanists. He fostered discussion soirees among his friends, with student groups at his home and at “Ludwig's faculty table” at the University Club.
Ludwig's background provides the clue to his talents. The son of a merchant-captain in Germany, in college he embarked on studies in literature, history and languages. His first two publications were on the classical sonnet, and a prize-winning translation of Voltaire's “Micromegas with remarks on the philosophy of French enlightenment.” He read Latin, and spoke, lectured and published in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian. It follows that his investigations included quantitating aging, “Faith and Science,” “Pathology in Historical Perspective,” “Senescence, Pathology's Ultimate Issue,” etc. He lived for 10 days as a lay monk in a Benedictine Monastery as preparation for his lecture: “The Moral Limits of Scientific Research.”
World War II moved him into medicine and an M.D. from the University of Tuebingen from whence the scientific part of his life evolved. His residency training and first academic position was in pathology at the University of Paris. He did some early isotope research leading to studying under Nobel laureate Mme. M. Curie and a doctor of science (radiation) from the Sorbonne. He was briefly the Section Chief of Experimental Biology of the French Atomic Energy Commission, but then pursued further research training which led him to the United States,
The scientific facet of his matured in the UC system. His early publications concerned leukemia, the impact of ionizing radiation on the bone marrow, methods of biologically quantifying radiation dosage, probing factors, especially the reticuloendothelial system, to protect irradiated animals. He was among the first to observe the abscopic phenomena of whole body irradiation. That led to a new direction of his research, using rodent surgical parabiosis and their marrow responses to irradiation. On the basis of his training and research, he always held joint faculty appointments in the Departments of Pathology (primarily) and Radiology.
Parabiosis studies led Ludwig to explore the effects of age differences on each of the joined animals. That model offered many opportunities for study and reporting on the factors influencing the aging of mammals and of organs. Fred showed that a young animal parabiont to an old one extended the expected life of the older, and probed various parameters to account for that fact. He found that the basement membrane thickness of capillaries, especially in the kidney, was a good indicator of the true “biological,” as opposed to “chronological” age. His research on aging not unexpectedly wakened his earlier humanistic and philosophic interests as shown by the Rockefeller Conference Center at Bellagio, Italy he organized on “Life Extension: Consequences and Open Questions,” and related papers.
Fred was always proud of being a professor and cherished the implications of that calling. He was on the Editorial Board of several journals in his field. He thoroughly enjoyed teaching and prepared his lectures carefully. He always knew his section students by name, he expected a lot from them, and yet he was one of their most liked teachers. He believed in the Academic Senate and generously served on numerous committees as chair or opinion leader. He especially supported academic excellence and deplored what he called the “dumbing down” of requirements of excellence whether for student or faculty.
Dr. Ludwig was born in 1924 in Bad Nauheimn, Germany, was a U.S. citizen and a member of UC's faculty for 37 years. His chapter was closed in November 1995 in his 71st year by a recurrent coronary thrombosis. He will be missed as a very special person by his many friends and admirers. He is survived by his former wife Francine; four sons, Christopher, Alexis, Francis, Oliver; and one grandchild.
George Stewart McManus, Music: Los Angeles
| 1887-1981 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
It was on July 17, 1981 that George Stewart McManus passed away at the age of 94. He came to UCLA first in 1929 and again in 1939 and made a great contribution to the UCLA community as Chairman of the Music Department (1930-32 and 1939-47) and as the University organist until his retirement on July 1, 1947. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
George's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
William Wolf Melnitz, Theater: Los Angeles
| 1900-1989 | |
| Professor and Dean Emeritus |
The remarkable career of William Wolf Melnitz, noted theatrical authority, educator, author, director, and historian, is once again an ironical testament to the cultural harvest the United States reaped from the holocaust of German Nazism in the 1930s and during World War II.
Entering the world with the new century, William Wolf Melnitz was born April 1900 in Cologne, Germany. His father, being in the advertising business, was considered well-to-do. Because of childhood illness, he had a protective home life and did not enter school until eight years of age. During his years in the gymnasium he showed a deep interest in music. After passing his senior gymnasium examinations which were friendishly difficult he studied theater in the universities of Cologne and Berlin.
One of his first jobs as a professional was serving as dramturg in Muenster where he read about 5,000 plays. Between 1921 and 1939 he directed and produced more than 150 plays, many in association with the 20th century theatrical titan, Max Reinhardt. Melnitz rose to be “director-in-chief” of some of the most prominent theaters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
In 1939, Melnitz left Germany and lived for a time in New York City. There he married Ruth Nathonsohn whom he had known previously in Germany and who, with his uncle, who had long worked in the American motion picture industry, helped to obtain a visa for him. For over a year, Melnitz and his wife lived a sparse life doing odd jobs in New York. In the spring of 1941 they moved to Los Angeles at the invitation of Reinhardt who asked Melnitz to help found a repertory theater company. With the entry of the United States into the war in
That same year, Melnitz joined the faculty at UCLA as an Instructor in German and moved to the newly formed Department of Theater Arts in 1948. A noted theater scholar, he devoted two decades of his life to building UCLA's theater arts program. Named Chair of the department in 1953, Melnitz helped pioneer the establishment of The Theater Group, UCLA's nationally acclaimed professional theater company which eventually became the resident company of the Los Angeles Music Center's theater complex, known as The Center Theater Group of Los Angeles. This pioneer development proved to be the forerunner of combined university/professional theater programs which followed at other prominent university programs, such as at Michigan (APA), Minnesota (McKnight), Stanford (Professional Residency), and Carnegie Mellon (ACT).
For 10 years, Professor Melnitz served with great effectiveness as Chair of UCLA's Committee on Fine Arts Productions and was instrumental in UCLA's achievement of unique international leadership and distinction in connection with on-campus presentations of major, world-class cultural programming. He also served as Chair of the Committee on Public Lectures, further enhancing the University's cultural development.
In 1960, Professor Melnitz was named founding Dean of the College of Fine Arts, remaining in that position until his retirement in 1967. The College, comprised of the Departments of Art, Music, and Theater Arts, added the Department of Dance under his leadership. The College provided a professional education for the creative and performing artist as well as for the historian and critic of the arts.
Throughout his eminently fruitful career, Melnitz produced many publications of note: a theater pictorial titled, A History of World Theater as Recorded in Drawings, Paintings, Engravings, and Photographs (1953) with Kenneth Macgowen, founding chair of the UCLA Department of Theater Arts and eminent producer, writer, and critic
in his own right, and with Ralph Freud, and George Altman; The Living Stage (1955), co-authored with Kenneth Macgowen; Golden Ages of the Theater (1959), also with Kenneth Macgowen; and Theatre Arts
After he retired from UCLA he accepted a key post as director of the Division of Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School Center for Communication Arts and Sciences. After several years, he returned to Los Angeles and on special assignment conducted graduate seminars in theater history which became one of the most popular courses in the department.
Following the death of his wife Ruth, in 1984, Melnitz's health gradually declined until his death in January of 1989.
Earl J. Miller, Economics: Los Angeles
| 1893-1988 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
It was on June 16, 1988 that Earl J. Miller passed away due to natural causes at the age of 95. He came to UCLA in 1924 and made a great contribution to the UCLA community until his retirement on July 1, 1960. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
Earl's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Laurence Englemohr Morehouse, Physiological Science: Los Angeles
| 1913-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Laurence Englemohr Morehouse was born July 13, 1913 in Danbury, Connecticut. He received both an undergraduate and a master's degree in physical education from Springfield College in Massachusetts and a doctoral degree in physical education and physiology from State University of Iowa.
Dr. Morehouse began his professorship at UCLA in 1954. He retired as Professor of Kinesiology in 1984. His professional and academic career was focused on the physiology of exercise and fitness.
Morehouse trained with some of the pioneers of exercise physiology--Peter Karpovich at Springfield College, Waid Tuttle and David Armbruster of The University of Iowa, and David Dill at the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory. Morehouse was best recognized for his contributions to human factors in everyday living. For example, he played a role in designing and developing “orthopedically correct” chairs, the soles of shoes and automatically-controlled exercise devices.
Morehouse was recognized professionally, both nationally and internationally, for his textbook, Physiology of Exercise, which was published in seven editions and translated into five languages. But Dr. Morehouse was best recognized by the general public for his book, Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week, which was on the top 10 national bestseller list for 35 weeks. This book was translated into 11 languages, and more than 1.5 million copies were sold. The concepts in this book were quite controversial among his contemporaries, but many of his ideas remain viable today.
Laurence Morehouse passed away on April 2, 1995. He is survived by his two sons, Stephen and David Morehouse.
Paul Lester Morton, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences: Berkeley
| 1906-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Paul Morton, dedicated teacher and computer pioneer, died of pneumonia May 2, 1995 in Walnut Creek at age 89. He was born May 14, 1906 in Silau, Mexico, where his father was working as a civil engineer. When he was two, his family moved to Idaho, where he stayed until time for college. He received the B.S. degree from the University of Washington in 1931, the M.S. from M.I.T. in 1938, and the Ph.D. degree from Berkeley in 1943. In 1935, before moving to M.I.T., he married Gracia Ann Robinson; they had two sons and a daughter, Nye, John, and Margaret. Gracia died in 1976. In 1980 Paul married Katherine McCoullough Grant.
Throughout the Idaho period, Paul moved rapidly through grade school and high school, graduating from Nampa High at age 15. During this time he worked as a farm laborer and on a paper route to help with family expenses and to save for college. Following high-school graduation, he worked full time as bookkeeper for the Gem State Lumber Company, and as bookkeeper, substation operator, and linesman for the Idaho Power Company. He entered the University of Washington in 1928, graduating Magna Cum Laude three years later, during which time he worked nights for the Puget Sound Power and Light Company.
Shortly after receiving the B.S. degree, Paul was diagnosed as having tuberculosis and was consigned to a year of bedrest at the Firland Sanitarium in Seattle. Following discharge, he spent a year as Instructor at the University of Washington and then received an offer of a Research Assistantship at M.I.T. At M.I.T. he operated the network analyzer--an analog computer that was very useful for its time but destined to be
During Paul's first three years at Berkeley, he taught in the evening wartime programs in addition to his College of Engineering courses. He also worked on research in gaseous discharges under the direction of Leonard Loeb, distinguished Professor of Physics, leading to the doctorate in October, 1943. He was then made assistant professor with an associate professorship following in 1947 and a professorship in 1953.
At the end of World War II, the work on the electronic digital computer ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania was declassified and Paul was one of the far-sighted persons who saw the potential of this new artifact. In 1948, with the support of the University and Office of Naval Research, he began his project on the California Digital Computer (CALDIC). Since this was before the invention of the transistor, it used vacuum tubes (more than a thousand of them) and a rotating magnetic drum for the memory unit. The project was important in contributing to the evolution of computer design, but was even more so in its education of a generation of master's and doctoral students who were to become leaders in the rapidly growing computer industry. Paul developed the first computer courses to be given on the campus and also the first computational service center, using IBM punchedcard machines, collected from a variety of places in the university.
In 1953 Paul was appointed Chair of Electrical Engineering (then a Division of the Department of Engineering) and demonstrated his wisdom and breadth as an educational leader. He was concerned with curriculum and developed an integrated, seven-unit, electrical engineering course for the junior year and a novel graduate course on the research literature. He was concerned with facilities and planned several improvements to Cory Hall, then only three years old. Most important of all was his concern for recruiting top-quality faculty. Key appointments were made which became the foundation for the present distinguished Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. After completing his period as Chair, Paul returned to teaching, with the care in preparation of course materials and concern for
Paul's major nontechnical interests were outdoor activities, especially tennis, home remodeling, and music. With Gracia, and later Katherine, he attended the San Francisco symphony regularly, and often subscribed to an extra pair of seats to share with friends. There were many concerts in the home also, with Paul on cello and other talented members of his family rounding out the chamber orchestra.
When Paul became emeritus in 1973, he was awarded the Berkeley Citation “for distinguished achievement and notable service to the University.” Colleagues and friends remember with warmth and admiration all that he has contributed to us, personally and professionally.
James Henry Mulligan Jr., Electrical and Computer Engineering: Irvine
| 1920-1996 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
James H. Mulligan Jr., Professor, Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and former Dean of the School of Engineering from 1974-1977, died on January 12, 1996.
Jim Mulligan was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on October 29, 1920. He received B.E.E. (1943) and E.E. (1947) degrees from Cooper Union School of Engineering, an M.S. degree in 1945 from Stevens Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1948 from Columbia University. Before joining New York University, he was employed in the Transmission Development Department of the Bell Telephone Laboratories and later became a member of the Combined Research Group of the Naval Research Laboratory. At the conclusion of World War II, he joined the Allen B. DuMont Laboratories where he was initially concerned with research and development work on portable and studio television pickup and video equipment and subsequently chief engineer of the television transmitter division. From 1949 through 1968, he was a faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering at New York University and served as Chairman from 1952 through 1968. Then, he moved to Washington, D.C. when he assumed the position of Secretary and later became the Executive Officer of the National Academy of Engineering during the following six years.
In 1974, Jim came to the University of California, Irvine as the second Dean of the School of Engineering. An expert in circuit theory, he designed and implemented courses in VLSI and was responsible for the curriculum in this area. Inside the classroom, he was a tough and thorough taskmaster demanding high performance and exacting perfection
After his retirement in 1991, he continued to be active in research and, most recently, contributed heavily to the year-long preparations of his department and school for the October 1995 ABET review. In the School of Engineering, he will be remembered for demanding from colleagues and students the highest standards of excellence in teaching, research, and service, his contributions for developing a curriculum that is innovative in teaching basic theory by incorporating cutting-edge applications, and most of all for his inspirational teaching and sage counsel of all who interacted with him. He was truly dedicated to education and scholarship at all levels.
During his career, he was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and was elected Fellow of the IEEE, IEE (London), and AAAS. He served on the Executive Board of the National Academy of Engineering and as President of the IEEE. He was the recipient of many prestigious awards: 1974 IEEE Haraden Pratt Award, 1978 Professional Achievement Award of the IEEE United States Activities Board, 1984 UCI Lauds and Laurels Award for Professional Achievement, 1986 Distinguished Service Award of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1986 Meritorious Service Award of the IEEE Education Society, 1987 Linton E. Grinter Distinguished Service Award of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, 1988 ABET Fellow Award of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, 1988 Benjamin Garver Lamme Award of the American Society for Engineering Education as well as receiving prize paper awards from the AIEE and IEEE and teaching awards as an outstanding professor from various local and national organizations.
He married in 1947 and is survived by his wife, Jeanne; sons James (Hank) and Richard; daughter-in-law, Anne; and granddaughter, Jessica.
John Earle Myers, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering: Santa Barbara
| 1923-1995 | |
| Professor of Chemical Engineering, Emeritus |
John E. “Jack” Myers died of a heart attack on April 26, 1995. Jack was the founding chairman of the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department at Santa Barbara and later served as Dean of the College of Engineering. He is survived by his wife, Joan; sons, John and Richard; and granddaughters, Beth, Kathy, Emily and Nicole.
Jack Myers grew up on a farm in Alberta, Canada. With the encouragement of his parents, he left home to attend Lindsay Thurber High School in Red Deer, Alberta. He then went on to study chemical engineering at the University of Alberta, receiving his B.S. degree in 1944. After a brief sojourn in industry, working for the Alberta Oil and Gas Conservation Board, Jack returned to school to earn his M.S. degree from the University of Toronto in 1946 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1952, both in chemical engineering.
Jack Myers began his university career at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana where he conducted research and taught in the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering for 16 years. His research specialty was heat transfer, and his numerous contributions to the technical literature include several especially noteworthy papers in the area of nucleate boiling. While at Purdue, Jack received Fulbright Fellowships to lecture at the University of Leeds in England during academic year 1956-57 and at the University of Toulouse in France for academic year 1963-64. In 1962, he co-authored (with his friend and colleague C.O. Bennett) Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer, a classic textbook that is in its third edition, has been translated into several foreign languages and remains a popular chemical engineering textbook.
In late 1965, Jack was recruited to UCSB to become the first chairman of the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering. Under his leadership, from 1966 to 1971, the department developed the curriculum, established the M.S. and Ph.D. programs, hired faculty and designed and built laboratories. The first senior class of six students graduated in June 1968. During this period, following the 1969 NASA “man on the moon” project, and the subsequent cutback in the space program, engineering enrollments sharply decreased around the country, but particularly did so on the West coast. This caused the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department, which was new and relatively small, to suffer some disappointments and frustrations, but there were also many hard-earned victories.
Jack Myers was asked to serve as the third Dean of the College of Engineering, beginning in 1976. Under his leadership, the College of Engineering's research funding increased by 800 percent, enrollments more than doubled and there was a renewed focus on high academic standards. Jack stepped down as Dean in 1983 due to illhealth and returned to teaching in the department until his retirement in 1988. One of the honors he was most proud of was the election by the graduating seniors in 1984-85 and 1987-88 as the best professor in the Department.
Beginning in 1971 until his death in 1995, Jack served on numerous Academic Senate committees. These included Vice Chair of the Academic Senate, Chairman of the Committee on Committees, Chairman of the Committee on Academic Personnel, Chair of Privilege and Tenure and Chairman of the Regents Fellowship Committee.
Even after his retirement, Jack remained active in the Academic Senate. From 1990 until his death, Jack served as the Academic Senate Charges Officer, an office created to deal with complaints related to the Faculty Code of Conduct. Jack brought an unfailing sense of fairness to this often difficult assignment. His many years as Dean and his considerable experience on Senate committees qualified him well for the task. This position demanded a knowledge and understanding of complex university policies and procedures, together with a keen sense of tact. Jack's wisdom and patience, combined with his inimitable style and quiet sense of humor, enabled him to mediate informally and resolve many of the conflicts he was asked to handle as Charges Officer.
Jack Myers was a man of great integrity who set high standards for himself and those around him. He brought to his work a fierce sense of dedication, which was leavened with a wonderful sense of humor. The College of Engineering and UCSB have lost a caring advocate for education and a wonderful friend. He is greatly missed.
Mau-sang Ng, Chinese and Japanese: Davis
| 1948-1994 | |
| Associate Professor of Chinese |
Friends, family, colleagues, and students mourned the passing of Mau-sang Ng, who died on August 19, 1994 at Stanford University Hospital following a bone marrow transplant for leukemia. Mau-sang died before his time. His productive career was cut short at the age of 45; he left a widow, Michelle Fan Ng and a son, Kevin Kaimen Ng, not quite one year old.
Despite his relative youth, Mau-sang was already a scholar of truly international repute. His training began in Hong Kong, where he received a B.A. in Chinese and English from the University of Hong Kong in 1971. While continuing on to graduate work in Chinese at the same institution, he also began his career as a teacher, first of English, then of Chinese and translation. He completed his M.Phil. in 1976 with a thesis that would set his continuing research agenda, “The Rise and Development of Realism in Modern Chinese Fiction.” By the time he received that degree, he was already at Oxford beginning work on his doctorate, which he completed in 1978. His dissertation was a study of Russian influences on modern Chinese fiction that evolved into his book, The Russian Hero in Modern Chinese Fiction (State University of New York Press, 1988). Once he finished his doctorate, Mau-sang began his career as a teacher and scholar on a full-time basis. From 1979 to 1981, he was lecturer in Chinese and Translation at the National University of Singapore. From there, he returned to Hong Kong, taking a similar position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he offered courses in Chinese fiction--classical and modern--and in problems of translation between Chinese and English.
Eventually, Mau-sang's budding career and Davis' growing commitment to Asian studies intersected. Since the 1960s, Davis had offered
Mau-sang made numerous contributions during his all-too-few years at Davis. Working with longtime faculty and a newly hired cohort, he helped create the new Department of Chinese and Japanese, which was formally established in July 1991 with undergraduate majors and minors in both languages. Mau-sang was a popular teacher in the Chinese half of the department. In addition to his courses in Chinese fiction (his major research area), which he taught in translation as well as in the original language, he also offered advanced Chinese language courses, including an introduction to classical Chinese. Students enjoyed his classes. Although he was demanding, he succeeded in conveying his love for the material he taught.
Despite the demands of a heavy teaching schedule, Mau-sang was also a prolific scholar. His most substantial contribution was his book, mentioned above. It explores in detail the affinities between nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian authors and their twentieth-century Chinese counterparts, showing the distinctive ways in which Russian predicaments and modes of response influenced the world views and personality models in the literary oeuvre of modern Chinese writers. For some years before his death, Mau-sang had been working on a second major research project that focused on popular fiction produced in Shanghai between 1900 and 1949. This work involved bringing the latest methods of critical analysis to bear on a now largely forgotten body of works that had long been dismissed as “Butterfly Literature.” The research was nearing completion and his first major article on the subject, “Popular Fiction and the Culture of Everyday Life: A Cultural Analysis of Qin Shouou's Quihaitang,” appeared in the April 1994 issue of Modern China. Translation was another issue that interested Mau-sang. In addition to numerous translations, some from
Mau-sang's contributions were recognized by scholars throughout the world. He published extensively in Chinese and English, and was an invited participant in European sinological conferences as well. Offered a position at Cambridge University, he took a leave from the University of California to teach there in the fall of 1993. It was in England that he fell ill, with symptoms eventually diagnosed as leukemia, and he returned home for treatment. The transplant was initially successful. As he recuperated from the exhausting procedure, Mausang's spirits revived, and he discussed his articles and research plans enthusiastically with visitors. Sadly, there was no way to control the latent complications that suddenly emerged to overwhelm his weakened immune system. The world of Chinese literary studies lost a scholar at the peak of his career. His achievements were many, but we will never know the full measure of his potential.
William I. Oliver, Dramatic Art: Berkeley
| 1926-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
The distinguished theatrical director, William I. Oliver, died suddenly on March 17 in San Jose, Costa Rica, where he was teaching and directing at the University of Costa Rica's School of Dramatic Arts. He leaves his wife, Barbara, and three children, Michael, Anna, and Soren.
A retired professor of Dramatic Art at the University of California, Berkeley, Oliver was born in Panama City, Nov. 6, 1926, the son of Methodist teaching missionaries, Walter and Anna Skow Oliver. He was educated at Methodist schools in Panama City and the Canal Zone. During the second World War, since he was equally fluent in Spanish and English, he served there as a translator in the U.S. Navy.
In 1946, he left the Canal Zone and entered the theatre department of the Carnegie Institute of Technology's School of Fine Arts in Pittsburgh to study acting. He played two summer seasons at Woodstock, N.Y., opposite such stars as Lillian Gish. In 1950, he married a fellow drama student, Barbara Marsh, and together they moved to North Dakota to head the Fargo/Moorhead Community Players.
In 1953, the Olivers left North Dakota for Cornell University, where he studied for the Ph.D. For his doctoral dissertation he translated and wrote critical assessments of Federico Garcia Lorca and Lope de Vega.
He joined the faculty of the Department of Dramatic Art at Berkeley in 1958 and served as a teacher, director and administrator until his retirement in 1991. He taught stage direction, dramatic
His work as a stage director with departmental students included many memorable productions, among them Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Faire, the Jacobean melodrama The Changeling (with a young Stacy Keach), Hamlet, Peer Gynt, Danton's Death, e. e. cummings' him, Sartre's The Devil and the Good Lord, O'Neill's Ah Wilderness!, and Giraudoux's Electra. The wide range of his play selection was increased as he worked in the popular UC summer theatre, “The Old Chestnut Drama Guild,” where he directed standard classics as Noel Coward's Fallen Angels, Clarence Day's Life with Father, Pinero's The Amazons, and Philip Barry's Holiday and The Animal-Kingdom.
His directorial energies were often employed beyond the university theatre. He staged short plays for San Francisco's “One-Act Theatre Company” and for Berkeley's “Aurora Theatre,” where he also appeared as an actor, playing with Barbara Oliver in The Gin Game.
In both Latin and South American companies, his talents as a critic and as a stage director are well-known. In 1966, he traveled to Santiago, Chile, where he taught at the University of Chile and directed ITUCH, the national theatre in the Chilean premiere of Peter Weiss' Marat-Sade. In Mexico City in 1974, in addition to classes at the School of Fine Arts, he directed Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde. He went three times to Costa Rica, where he both taught and staged productions, including Wilder's The Skin of our Teeth, Euripides' Orestes, and Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. During his fourth visit, he was preparing Albee's Seascape in his own translation.
He was for several years a judge and critic at the prestigious El Paso “Chamizal Festival of Golden Age Theatre,” and in 1991, he was invited to present a paper in Cadiz at the first conference on educational theatre to be held in Spain.
As a translator, he was prolific, moving plays and novels and works of criticism from and to Spanish with ease. As a dramatist, he was the author of a trilogy on Spanish themes, The Antifarce of Sir John and Leporello, The Masks of Barbara Blomberg, and Dumbshows of the King. The first two were premiered at Berkeley, the third was published in Spanish in a special edition, commemorative of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage.
In his teaching, as in his directing, Oliver displayed astonishing energy, insight and imagination. He had a penchant for long walks
Nello Pace, Physiology and Anatomy: Berkeley
| 1916-1995 | |
| Professor of Physiology, Emeritus |
Nello Pace, an outstanding environmental physiologist, died at his home in Berkeley on 17 June 1995. He was born in Richmond, California, 20 June 1916, and grew up in San Francisco. In 1932 he entered the University of California at Berkeley, majoring in chemistry, and graduating with a B.S. degree in 1936. He undertook graduate study in physiology at Berkeley, receiving the Ph.D. degree in 1940. His thesis was on Hypericism, a toxicosis of cattle characterized by a marked photosensitization, caused by eating the weed, St. Johnswort (Hypericum perforatum).
After a postdoctoral year at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, he joined the Navy as Ensign H(V)S USNR, with a specialty in environmental physiology. After a year at the Experimental Diving Unit, Naval Shipyard, Washington D.C., he was transferred to the newly established Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, as head of its Physiology Facility. Here he did research on the relationship between body fat and water contents, and methods for their in vivo determination. This was important, since body fat content is a major factor in decompression sickness. He also worked on ways of controlling carbon monoxide levels on hangar decks of aircraft carriers, on emergency rations, and on ways of desalinating sea water for use in life rafts. At the end of World War II, LCDR Pace was sent to Japan as Officer in Charge of a group of specialists to study the residual radiation at Nagasaki and Hiroshima. They identified the iso-radiation lines around ground zero at both sites, permitting the selection of areas safe for occupation by U.S. Marines.
In July 1948 Pace returned to Berkeley and, after brief residence at the Donner Laboratory, was appointed Assistant Professor of Physiology.
Pace was recalled to active Navy duty in 1950 to organize and command the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Research Unit No. 1, which was sent to Korea to study combat stress. This Research Unit was stationed at a M.A.S.H. unit on the main line of resistance, a suitable place for making measurements on soldiers entering and returning from combat. They measured indicators of physiological stress in urine and blood, and were able to characterize the physiological nature of combat stress. After a truce was established in Korea, he returned to research and teaching at Berkeley. However, he remained active in the Naval Reserve, and commissioned one of the first Naval Reserve Research Units, composed of faculty and students who remained in the Naval Reserve after wartime service. He retired as Captain from the Naval Reserve in 1976, after 35 years of service.
One of Pace's long-term goals was the establishment of a high-altitude research facility useful for studying the effects of chronic hypoxia upon humans and laboratory animals as well as high-altitude ecology. After joining the UC faculty he found such a site in the White Mountains (east of Owens Valley), that had been partially developed by the Navy's Ordnance Test Station at China Lake. In 1950 these facilities were transferred to the ONR and made available to Pace as Director of the White Mountain Research Station. The Forest Service allocated 20 sections of land, comprising the highest part of the range, as a “Science Preserve.” In 1952, President Sproul appointed him director of the White Mountain Research Station, a state-wide facility. In the first year of operation, Pace greatly expanded the facilities of the station by building a large laboratory at 3,810 meters altitude. He compensated for the notable lack of funding by acquiring large amounts of equipment and materials from Navy surplus. The laboratory was housed in a very large surplus quonset hut which was erected by a crew of graduate students under the direction of a professional engineer. He also obtained much laboratory equipment and some vehicles from Navy Surplus.
Pace had a nameless peak near the 3,810 meter station officially named Mount Barcroft after the noted English physiologist who had
In 1954, he joined the California Himalayan Expedition to Makalu, the world's fifth highest peak, led by Will Siri of the Donner Laboratory. As Chief Scientist, he stayed at the various camps, making physiological measurements on climbers on their departures and returns. In slack times, he talked with the Sherpa porters, collecting names of things and, from those who spoke some English, meanings of words. He organized and published this information as a Sherpa-Tibetan English dictionary, which for many years was the only one available. In 1957-58, Pace led an International Physiological Expedition to Antarctica, a part of the Navy's “Operation Deepfreeze,” in which he studied physiological aspects of cold injury.
Pace became interested in gravitational physiology very early. He developed instrumentation and equipment to study the effects of weight-lessness on monkeys. He procured a large high-yield centrifuge in which prepared monkeys could be exposed to the accelerations of launch and re-entry, to make sure that everything would hold together on its way into space and back. He was one of the experimenters on Biosatellite 3, with a study of renal function in an orbiting monkey. In collaboration with Professors Grover Pitts of Virginia and Arkadi Ushakov of Moscow, he also studied changes in the body composition of rats after 14 days in space on a Kosmos Satellite. In 1963 he served as a Special Life Sciences Consultant to the Administrator of NASA, a post that required Senate confirmation.
When NASA announced that no future animal experiments in space would be done with monkeys, he sadly closed his laboratory and left the campus. He bought a two-room cottage in nearby El Cerrito and converted it into an office. Here he worked daily, until his final illness, preparing previously collected data for publication and pursuing societal matters. His organizational skills in science matters were superb. He was personally responsible for establishing COSPAR's Panel for Gravitational Physiology (1971), the Gravitational Physiology Commission of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (1973), the Annual Gravitational Physiology Meeting (1979), The Galileo Foundation, to support the Annual Meeting (1987), the International Society for Gravitational Physiology (1991), and the Journal for Gravitational Physiology (1994). Although many others were involved in these
Pace's scientific legacy is contained in a bibliography of 205 items, mostly research reports. Among his honors are the U.S. Navy Commendation Medal (1946), the title Cavaliere Ufficiale, Order of Merit, from the Republic of Italy (1976), the Yuri Gagarin Medal of the Federation of Cosmonautics USSR (1990), the Founder's Award of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology (1990), and the degree, Docteur Honoris Causa from the University of Bordeaux II (1993).
He was a remarkably warm man, blessed with a genius for friendships. He loved crossword puzzles, palindromes, puns, French food and wine, and English murder mysteries. For several years he worked as a volunteer curtain page at the San Francisco Opera, where he met the world's famous singers and where he delighted in speaking Italian with most of them. As a confirmed Francophile, he enjoyed his membership in the Cercle de l'Union (the “French Club”) of San Francisco. He was especially active in the Bohemian Club of San Francisco, where good fellowship is cherished. In 1992 he co-authored the Bohemian Grove play, Colombo.
Nello Pace is survived by his wife, Mary Jo and his daughters, Susan and Cynthia, and their families.
Stephen Peck, Spanish and Portuguese: Los Angeles
| 1954-1990 | |
| Assistant Professor |
It was on January 2, 1990 that Stephen Peck passed away due to complications from a brain tumor at the young age of 36. He came to UCLA on July 1, 1988 and made a great contribution to the UCLA community until his untimely death. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
Stephen's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Herbert Penzl, German: Berkeley
| 1910-1995 | |
| Professor of Germanic Philology, Emeritus |
Born into an academic family in Neufelden, Austria, September 2, 1910, Herbert Penzl attended the Gymnasium in Ottakring, a part of Vienna. Among his father's books was a grammar of the English language, which planted the seed for his scholarly pursuit of English Philology at the University of Vienna, where in 1936 he completed his dissertation "The Development of Middle English a in New England Speech," under the direction of Karl Luick. Anxious to spend some time in an English-speaking country, with a recommendation of none other than Sigmund Freud himself, Herbert applied for a scholarship through the Austro-American Institute of Education and was awarded an appointment to work with Miles Hanley, Hans Kurath, Bernard Bloch, and others on the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada housed at Brown University. There in 1934, Herbert published his whimsical first article, “New England Terms for Poached Eggs,” which received coverage by the AP, UP, INS, and the New York Times.
After returning briefly to Vienna in 1936, he accepted his first stateside teaching position at Rockford College (Illinois, 1936-38), since as Herbert writes: “I really fell in love with the American way of life.” Herbert's interests in dialectology, piqued by collaboration on the linguistic atlas, prompted him to visit Amish country in central Illinois, which led to contact with the German Department at the University of Illinois and his subsequent appointment there (1938-50). Naturalized in 1944, Herbert served in the United States Army from 1943-45; his expertise was recruited for the New York linguistics center to provide military dictionaries and an English grammar for German POWs. Consulting with Afghan students at
His important Pashto grammar brought Herbert invitations from Georgetown University to teach at its Institute of Languages and Linguistics as well as from the State Department to teach at the University of Kabul. In addition, Herbert was immersed in the vibrant linguistic enterprises of the University of Michigan, where he had assumed a position from 1950 to 1963. He had long since made his self-proclaimed transition from “European-type philologist” to “American-type structuralist”; he basked in the glow of Michigan's unchallenged productive atmosphere for current linguistic research, writing “Michigan seemed like heaven to me.” Nevertheless, when in 1963 he received an offer to join Berkeley's Department of German, Herbert was able to persuade himself that “Berkeley and California had always had a special attraction for me.” In spite of subsequent offers from Northwestern, Irvine, Cologne and frequent visiting appointments (Canberra, Kabul, Vienna, Colorado, Buffalo, Munich, Regensburg, Klagenfurt, Arizona State), he spent the rest of his career at Berkeley. To be sure, his coming to Berkeley was preeminently welcome to his friends in the Linguistics Department, since the founding members of that department had all had language experience similar to his, that is, in combinations, e.g., of American Indian and Italic or of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian. Herbert's Germanic and Iranian combination placed him in the Berkeley linguistic frame most closely and sympathetically. And with his appointment the academic reputation and intellectual standards of the German Department were sustained and the continuation of excellence assured.
Among Herbert Penzl's over 250 research articles, his “Umlaut and Secondary Umlaut in Old High German” (Language 1949) is a premier example of his ground-breaking work feeding the galvanization of American linguistics in the post-World War II era. Of his 11 books, Herbert's Geschichtliche deutsche Lautlehre (1969), Lautsystem und Lautwandel in den althochdeutschen Dialekten (1971), and Vom Urgermanischen zum Neuhochdeutschen (1975) have become cornerstones for students and scholars of Germanic linguistics; they are affectionately referred to by their cover color as “the Green Penzl,”
Herbert Penzl and his devoted wife, Vera, were rich in academic progeny. Herbert was known and beloved for the unwavering support he gave his students, their students, and their students' students. Although he did not teach regularly during his retirement years, Herbert continued sharing his advice with students and serving on their examination and dissertation committees. He was ever visible at regional, national and international meetings and conferences, contributing papers and serving on executive committees of various linguistic organizations. In turn, he was honored by numerous rewards and recognitions attesting to his preeminence in linguistic research, e.g., a Festschrift, Linguistic Method: Essays in Honor of Herbert Penzl (1979); the 1979 invitation from the Afghan Academy of Sciences; the Berkeley Citation (1980); the Osterreichisches Ehrenkreuz fur Wissenschaft und Kunst 1. Klasse (1981); his induction as Ehrenmitglied der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Historisch-Philosophische Klasse, 1991; his selection as an Honorary Member of the American Association of Teachers of German, 1994. Perhaps most precious to Herbert was the renewed bestowal of the Ph.D. by the University of Vienna on the fiftieth anniversary in 1986 of his original investiture.
That Herbert Penzl brought dignity to Dwinelle Hall is undisputed; for the profession he was a unifying force. Whenever more specialized experts tended to lose sight of the entire field, Herbert would remain strongly committed to the unity of the discipline, combining literary history and linguistics. He team-taught seminars on linguistic approaches to poetry. Typically for his universalist focus, he taught as many literary scholars the cultural meaning of Grimm's Law as he introduced linguists to German poems from medieval times to the present. Herbert was a profoundly scholarly person, so keenly interested in matters of the mind that issues of language were personal to him. An engagingly human presence, he related to his own stature and fame in an understated, natural manner. He knew who he was and because of that he did not have to exhibit his achievements. Herbert belonged to the generation of scholars who were not only dedicated to their own work, but who
Melvin N. A. Peterson, Oceanography: San Diego
| 1929-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Melvin N.A. Peterson, Emeritus Professor of Oceanography, was stricken by a fatal heart attack on September 20, 1995, while enjoying a fishing trip on a vessel off Baja California. He had but recently returned to Scripps to continue his writing of the history of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, which he directed at Scripps from 1971 to 1986. He had joined the Project as its first Chief Scientist in 1968.
Professor Peterson grew up in Northbrook, Illinois, and earned a bachelor of science degree in Geology at Northwestern University in 1951 and then joined the U.S. Navy, serving as a Lieutenant, j.g., in Far East waters on hydrographic survey ships. He returned to Northwestern in 1954 and obtained a master of science degree in geology in 1956. He then moved to Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in geology in 1960, based on research on the diagenesis of assemblages of clay minerals and dolomite in Paleozoic strata of the Appalachians. These interests led him to Scripps as a post-doctoral student with E. D. Goldberg, who introduced him to the problems of the origin and distribution of the components of pelagic sediments.
He was appointed Assistant Professor of Oceanography in the Department of Oceanography at Scripps in 1962, and quickly established himself as a gifted sedimentologist and geochemist. He had a knack for designing simple, telling experiments and in 1966 executed one of the most quoted experiments in marine geology and geochemistry, the spheres experiment. To study the kinetics of the dissolution of calcium carbonate at depth in the ocean, a process that greatly modifies the composition of pelagic sediments, he machined polished spheres of the mineral calcite, weighed the spheres, and suspended them at various depths in nets attached to a wire that extended from the surface
With the beginnings of discussions about starting a large-scale scientific ocean drilling project, Professor Peterson threw his energies into planning to make Scripps the lead institution in a consortium (Lamont Geological Observatory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, University of Miami, University of Washington and Scripps) that would plan and direct the work. By 1968, he was completely absorbed in this project and never was able to return in any but a part-time basis to his laboratory.
Under Professor Peterson's leadership, the Deep Sea Drilling Project progressed from a short term (3 years) project to drill a few key transects in the world's ocean basins, and aimed mainly at testing the hypothesis of seafloor spreading, into a long-term multinational program serving the scientific needs of a wide spectrum of earth scientists with requirements for sampling and making measurements from levels deep beneath the ocean floor. The general plan of operations, engineering and science services and the archiving and preservation of the miles and miles of core samples, were instituted by Professor Peterson and were then adopted by the successor project, the Ocean Drilling Program, which, by mid-1995, had drilled at nearly 1000 sites in nearly all sectors of the ice-free parts of the world ocean. In the eyes of many, the Deep Sea Drilling Project has been the most successful large scale Earth Science venture in this century. Peterson's efforts were crucial to this success.
Following his work with the drilling project, Professor Peterson retired from UCSD and was appointed by President Reagan as the first Chief Scientist for the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration. He served there as policy advisor on environmental issues and as the Administration's spokesman on ocean science and technology matters. In 1980, Dr. Peterson was appointed Director of the Ocean
Professor Peterson is survived by his wife Margaret, his daughters Katrina and Valerie, and his sons John and Bruce.
William H. Reynolds, Music: Riverside
| 1925-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Bill Reynolds was a native Californian, born in Hermosa Beach. When he was invited to join the young faculty being assembled by Professor John W. Olmsted for the new “liberal arts college within the framework of a great state university” in Riverside, he did not have to ponder long, for he loved California passionately and was glad to come home. Unlike most people, Bill even liked Los Angeles because, as he once said, “This town has been good to me.” He knew every alleyway between Hollywood and Downtown. As second-string music critic for the Los Angeles Times following his graduation from UCLA in 1949, he often had to improvise in traffic to get to obscure concert venues on time. His proudest achievement as a Times critic was the prescient review he wrote after a concert by a young--and relatively unknown--singer who went on to achieve international acclaim. Her name was Kathleen Ferrier.
As a graduate student at Princeton (1950-52), he honed the skills and developed the specific interest which were to occupy him to the end of his rich life. It was here that he was, for the first time, director of his own choral group in an academic setting, the Princeton Freshman Glee Club. And it was a lecture at Princeton by Eric Tuxen, a conductor at the Danish State Radio, that inspired his interest in contemporary Danish music, a subject which was to remain the primary research focus of his career. In the late 1970s, when the prestigious New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians went into production, Danish scholars deferred to Bill Reynolds to supply the definitive articles on new Danish music. Following graduate school, his first academic appointment was at Vassar, where he remained for two years before coming to UCR.
Arriving on the Riverside campus in the fall of 1954, Bill Reynolds was responsible for the “theory side” of the music curriculum. (Professor Edwin J. Simon, who was the sole faculty member in music during the first semester of operation at the new college covered the “history side.”) Bill soon founded the UCR Choral Society, consisting of a mixed bag of singers from the (small) student body, and volunteers from the faculty and staff. By spring of 1956, the group was sufficiently experienced so that it could program a major work, the Brahms Requiem. As the campus and the choir grew, one or two major works per program became the norm. In addition, a vocal chamber group, the Madrigal Singers, initiated Riverside audiences into the rich fund of music literature of earlier centuries. Before long, the concerts of the Choral Society and Madrigal Singers became major cultural events in the community, and soon two performances of each program had to be scheduled to accommodate the growing audience from the campus and the City of Riverside.
Bill was criticized from time to time for not programming more contemporary music. His response was simply that, if he were not convinced of the value of a work, it would be impossible for him to convince his singers and, ultimately, his audience. His goal as a conductor was not just to “put on a program,” but to make sure his singers would experience the exhilarating quality of great musical art as a reward for their efforts. It is impossible to know how many lives were changed as a result of participation in the choral ensembles, but in one instance, a student performing in the Mozart Requiem had such a moving and powerful experience that he changed his career plans and decided to enter the priesthood. Perhaps Bill's success as a conductor was best measured by the loyalty and enthusiasm of his singers, and the expressions of sheer joy radiating from their faces during a performance.
Bill Reynolds entertained the radical notion that without students there was no university, and always tried to give them--and their parents--their money's worth. He went the extra mile to counsel students, often inviting them to dinner at his home to discuss their concerns. In one such case, a very talented student was under great pressure to quit school and work in his father's lucrative business. After an evening's discussion of pros and cons, the student elected to finish his degree. Ultimately, he went on to receive the doctorate at UCLA and became a tenured faculty member at a major university in California. It was such devotion to concern for students that led to Bill Reynolds receiving the Distinguished Teaching Award of the Riverside campus in 1971, and the E. Harris Harbison Award of the Danforth Foundation in 1969.
As a department Chair and later as an Associate Dean, Bill established a reputation for “saving” students by helping them find their way among the university regulations and often discovering loopholes that enabled student to complete their studies more quickly than they expected. Bill's face, with its wonderful smile, offered a most “user-friendly” welcome to students venturing into the college office.
Bill had a distinguished record of service to the university. He chaired or was a member of may of the important committees of the Academic Senate. His campus service reached a climax of sorts in 1968-70 when he was chair of the Senate during the difficult period of the student protest movement. When one of UCR's great benefactors--and later Regent--Philip Boyd, provided the funds for the construction of bell tower and the purchase of French carillon, Bill Reynolds set about turning himself into a carillon expert in order to function intelligently as the campus liaison during the process of the acquisition and installation of the instrument. On another front, his typical, quiet persistence resulted in the University's purchase of the Oswald Jonas collection containing important material from the estate of the Viennese music theorist, Heinrich Schenker, the significance of which continues to attract scholars to the UCR Library from around the country and the world. Bill Reynolds brought further attention and visibility to UCR during his successful tenure as president of the College Music Society in the years 1974-76.
The Department of Music at UCR was profoundly shaped by Bill's philosophies of music teaching and his firm belief in the necessary connections between academic music study and performance. Students always came first with him, and among his colleagues he promoted a nurturing attitude which continues to the present day. On the day of his fatal heart attack, Bill played tennis with old, loyal friends in the morning, and played violin in a rehearsal with the University Symphony--surrounded by bright, eager and talented students--in the afternoon. It was probably the final cadence he would have wished for himself.
Bill Reynolds is survived by his greatest supporter and principal tennis partner for over 45 years, his wife, Mary Lee, six remarkable children who carry on the Reynolds tradition of idealism and social concern, and six grandchildren.
Raphael Mitchel Robinson, Mathematics: Berkeley
| 1911-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Raphael M. Robinson contributed to astonishingly diverse areas of mathematics. He was born on November 2, 1911, in National City, California, and was the youngest of the four children of Bertram H. Robinson, an atypically peripatetic lawyer who wrote poetry, gave his sons romantic names, and ultimately drifted away. His mother, Bessie Stevenson Robinson, supported the family as an elementary school teacher. Robinson attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he took a B.A. in 1932, an M.A. in 1933, and a Ph.D. in December 1934. His dissertation was in the field of complex analysis.
During the Depression he considered himself lucky to obtain a half-time instructorship at Brown University, but his stay there was plagued by poverty and resultant tuberculosis. In 1937, he returned happily to Berkeley as an instructor, becoming a full professor in 1949 and emeritus in 1973. He was an excellent teacher, having a thorough knowledge of much of classical and modern mathematics so well organized in his mind that he could explain it with exceptional clarity.
In a number theory class in 1939 he had among his students Julia Bowman. Their courtship took place on long walks during which he educated her in modern mathematics. They were married in December 1941. At the end of her life, when she had become the first woman mathematician elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the first woman president of the American Mathematical Society, she said she doubted that she would have become a mathematician if it had not been for him: “He taught me and has continued to teach me, has encouraged me, and has supported me in many ways.”
Even among world-renowned mathematicians, Robinson was exceptional. In an age of specialization he contributed significantly to six fields: logic, set theory, geometry, complex analysis, number theory, and combinatorics; and in a subject often considered a young person's game, he continued to produce significant mathematics into his eighties. He also anticipated most of the mathematical community by a good 20 years in making use of computers to obtain results in pure mathematics. In 1951, never having seen one of the new computing machines and working only from a manual, he coded the first successful program to test very large numbers for primality. “That the code was without error was (and still is) a remarkable feat,” according to the recently published history of the Institute for Numerical Analysis on the UCLA campus. “In an age where most of our journals are filled with papers which (even if good) exploit theories for their own sake... it is refreshing and stimulating to encounter one of Robinson's papers,” one of the foremost number theorists of the century has written. “In each of them he takes a problem, old or new, which can be stated in simple and intelligible terms, and either solves it, or at least adds much that is new. His scholarship is impeccable; it is plain that he never writes until he has thought deeply, and until he has sought out every relevant piece of existing knowledge.”
Approximately a quarter of Robinson's publications are distributed among seven different topics in logic and the foundations of mathematics. The one to which he gave most attention was that of undecidable theories, an interest that he shared with his wife, Julia. By way of illustration, the mathematical structure consisting of the integers with their operation of addition is said to have a decidable theory. This means it is possible to program a computer so that, given any sentence about the structure in a logically defined language, the computer will make a finite computation that determines whether the sentence is true or false. Another mathematical structure with a decidable theory is that of all real numbers with their operations of addition and multiplication. (This was shown by Alfred Tarski, also of Berkeley.) But a major mathematical discovery of this century was the fact that that the structure of integers with both operations of addition and multiplication has an undecidable structure, because there is no computer program that can decide the truth or falsity of every sentence of its language. In several papers Robinson was able to show that a number of other mathematical theories are also undecidable. His most valuable contribution,
In an area that combines logic, geometry, and combinatorics, Robinson did early work on tilings of the plane by tiles of such a shape that they can cover the plane but not in the familiar “periodic” manner of squares and hexagons. The general subject has turned out to have unexpected applications in crystallography, where the tiles correspond to so-called “quasi-crystals.” A famous set-theory result of Robinson's is related to the so-called Banach-Tarski Paradox, a surprising theorem that the set of points making up a solid sphere can be decomposed into a finite number of parts that can be reassembled into two solid spheres, each having the same radius as the original sphere! Robinson was able to show that the number of parts required for such an operation is five and that decomposition with less than five is impossible. He also showed that the surface of a sphere can be decomposed into four parts and reassembled into two spherical surfaces of the same radius and that four is the minimum number.
Robinson was not generally active in university affairs; but during the controversy over the Loyalty Oath, he served as treasurer of a group from the mathematics faculty who gave up 10 percent of their salaries to support the five non-signers in the department. At the age of 61, when “early retirement” was not yet a popular option, Raphael chose to retire--at considerable financial sacrifice--so that he could devote more time to mathematics.
Even in retirement Robinson owned no casual clothes. His pleasures were sedentary. He enjoyed challenging table games, novels as well as nonfiction, old movies, and the verse of Ogden Nash (on occasion turning out efforts of his own in that genre). He was a generous donor to many causes and a thorough reader of the Chronicle, the New Yorker, and the Nation as well as Martin Gardner's columns and selected comic strips. He was also a faithful contributor to the Problems Section of the American Mathematical Monthly. What the section editor described as “a beautiful short paper” of his was accepted for publication just days before his death.
In the 10 years following his wife's death, he continued to live in their modest home, taking care of himself and never speaking of
Robinson suffered a stroke on December 4 and died on January 27, 1995. Although unable to speak, he was able to indicate by “yes” and “no” motions that his fine mind and memory were still operating. Contrary to the expectation of his doctors, he did not become depressed in his new situation but continued as the remarkably self-contained individual he had always been.
Vern Wade Robinson, Germanic Languages: Los Angeles
| 1908-1989 | |
| Professor Emeritus | |
| Director, Office of Relations with Schools |
It was on March 1, 1989 that Vern Wade Robinson passed away due to pneumonia at the age of 81. He came to UCLA on July 1, 1939 and made a great contribution to the UCLA community until his retirement on June 30, 1973. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were embraced by his colleagues.
Vern's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Loy L. Sammet, Agricultural and Resource Economics: Berkeley
| 1908-1995 | |
| Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Emeritus |
Loy Sammet was born in 1908. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and received the B.S. degree from Ohio State University in 1929 and the M.S. degree in 1933, both in civil engineering. Following periods as an engineer with the Bell Telephone Company and the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Connecticut in 1935. In 1942 he was granted military leave to serve in the U.S. Navy Reserve, Civil Engineering Corp. Upon completion of his naval service in 1946 he joined the Agricultural Engineering staff at Purdue University, receiving an appointment as Associate Professor in 1947.
Loy's first appointment at the University of California (1940) was as a Cooperative Agent under a joint arrangement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the California Agriculture Experiment Station. He was brought to California to provide engineering expertise for a new research project in marketing agricultural products, under the direction of Professor R. G. Bressler. This project broke new ground in economic and marketing research. The methodology developed by Sammet and Bressler became known as the Economic-Engineering approach and was later widely adopted by researchers in other states and some foreign countries. Several papers and monographs resulting from this project were recognized by professional awards and citations.
In 1954 Loy's appointment was changed to Specialist in the Experiment Station and in 1958 to Agronomist and Lecturer in Agricultural Economics, while he was still continuing his economic-engineering research. Although becoming an agricultural economist was not his initial goal, his close associations with other agricultural economists
In 1961, Loy was appointed Vice-Chair of Agricultural Economics. This began what was to be essentially a second career--in academic administration--in which his considerable talents came to full fruition. In 1962, he was appointed Chair of the department, and served so effectively in that position that, in 1967, Chancellor Heyns invited him to join his administration as Vice-Chancellor-Research. The ensuing five years encompassed the most strident period of student protest against the Vietnam War, and continuous challenges to the policies of the Chancellor's Office. Under these circumstances Sammet emerged as a most meticulous, judicious and patient administrator, with a rare ability to achieve a consensus and outcome acceptable to all parties. Notwithstanding the contentiousness of the time, the demands of his office were handled with sensitivity to the needs of students, faculty and campus administration, and in ways that fostered the growth of research support throughout the campus.
In 1973, Loy returned to the College of Agricultural Sciences to serve as Acting Dean. This was an extremely critical juncture for the College as it was in the process of reorganizing itself to de-emphasize traditional agriculture subjects in favor of studies in resource development and conservation and in environmental science. Loy spearheaded a planning process that was difficult and controversial, and it was due to his abilities as a consensus builder that a successful outcome was achieved. Following the reorganization he served as Acting Dean of the new College of Natural Resources and Associate Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station until 1975.
In that year, he was invited to accept appointment in the Office of the statewide Vice President for Agriculture as Assistant Vice President for Agricultural Sciences and Associate Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. He held this position for the period 1975-77.
Committee service was a most important contribution to his University. He served on numerous committees of the Academic Senate, notably, the Committee on Policy and Faculty Welfare at the campus and universitywide levels. He also served on many administrative committees during his tenure.
After his retirement in 1976 he remained active in University service and was recalled seven times from his emeritus position to serve in administrative positions both on the Berkeley campus and UC's statewide Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He commenced a project to develop the history of Agriculture in the University during this time period which subsequently led to the publication of a book, Science and Service, for which he was recognized as making a major contribution.
Loy Sammet was deeply devoted in his service to the University, which brought him much pleasure and pride. Such service was duly recognized by the award of the Berkeley Citation in 1978. His wife, Grace, to whom he was deeply devoted, preceded him in death by several years. They had no children.
Wilbur A. Selle, Radiological Sciences: Los Angeles
| 1902-1989 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
It was on April 23, 1989 that Wilbur A. Selle passed away due to natural causes at the age of 87. He came to UCLA on November 1, 1949 and made a great contribution to the UCLA community until his retirement on July 1, 1969. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
Wilbur's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Lorraine Sherer, Education: Los Angeles
| 1888-1985 | |
| Professor Emerita |
It was on March 16, 1985 that Lorraine Sherer passed away due to heart failure at the age of 87. She came to UCLA in 1949 after having served Los Angels County for 15 years and specialized in early childhood development. Dr. Sherer made a great contribution to the UCLA community until her retirement on July 1, 1964.
Sherer was a former director of elementary education for Los Angeles County. For several years she and one colleague shared the distinction of being the only women superintendents of education in California. Her many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by her colleagues.
Prior to her death, Lorraine dedicated her retirement to the completion of the first history ever to be prepared on the Fort Mohave Indians of Arizona. Lorraine's death has been a great loss to those who knew her well and to the field that no longer possesses her talent. She shall be missed immensely by those she has touched with her knowledge and wisdom.
William Bradley Slottman, History: Berkeley
| 1925-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
During his 30 years at Berkeley Bill Slottman enriched the lives of others. He was a brilliant teacher who patiently upheld exacting standards of scholarship and decency while maintaining a humane and humorous perspective on the tangled affairs of central and eastern Europe--a subject which he brought to life for generations of students. Slottman was respected by the scholars in his field. His teachings and conversations showed a mastery of many languages and an understanding of the countless facts of European history at his command. The humanity and erudition which he instilled into his core course, “The History of the Habsburg Monarchy,” made “Slotty” for his students a legend in his time. He is to be numbered among the great teachers of our University.
An authority on ambassadors, Slottman himself was an ambassador for the University. For many years he lectured for the California Alumni Association in various parts of the state, extended welcoming addresses for the Berkeley Summer Orientations programs, and taught Church history at the Dominican School of Religion. A grasp of many cultures and their idioms enriched his splendid sense of humor. His mind could toss off complex witticisms and epigrams. Over the years he honed his form of expression into an art that required the listener's full attention in order to catch the nuances of his utterance. This art was a distillation of an immensely private person's feelings, an art so fine that it approached invisibility.
Slottman was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He attended Brooklyn Preparatory School, a classical high school conducted by Jesuits. On his graduation in 1943 he was awarded a four-year tuition-free scholarship to Georgetown University. After one semester he was drafted, and having received his basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia,
Discharged in the Spring of 1946, he transferred from Georgetown to Fordham University where he was graduated summa cum laude in history in June, 1949. In the fall he began graduate work at Harvard University, studied Hungarian at the Slavonic School of the University of London, immersed himself in the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv in Vienna and completed his researches in London and The Hague. His thesis, “Ferenc II Rakoczi and the Great Powers,” earned him a Ph.D. in 1958. While working on his thesis Slottman was a teaching fellow in general education and history at Harvard and a resident tutor in history at Eliot House. Having taught for a year as an instructor of history at Wesleyan, Slottman served as Allston Burr Senior Tutor at Eliot House and as an assistant professor at Harvard from 1958 to 1963 when he came to Berkeley.
Slottman believed passionately that education was the education of individuals. The size of the student body at Berkeley and its bureaucratic structure challenged him to find ways to reach the individual undergraduate. His kind, helpful nature constantly involved him in programs to develop institutional foci for students in search of direction. For several years he served as Director of the Residential Program in History. In the late 1970s he directed the Summer Threshold Program, until limited funds made its continuation impossible. This course of study was conducted under the auspices of the Division of Special Programs of the College of Letters and Science and sought to introduce freshmen to the campus in ways best suited to giving them a solid basis to subsequent college work. From 1983 to 1986 he was Dean of the Division of Special Programs which provided an alternative of individual majors for upper-division students not drawn to the established fields.
A deeply felt religious commitment, constantly nurtured by reading, thinking, praying, and deeds, fed the roots of Bill Slottman's humanity. Many people from all walks of life benefited from his gracious advice, often given in delightful letters, and generous actions. Friends and strangers, students and colleagues, anyone in need, poor or rich, became the beneficiaries of his care.
Page Smith, History: Santa Cruz
| 1917-1995 | |
| Professor of Historical Studies |
(Charles) Page Smith--he dropped the first of his given names in the 1950s--was born on September 6, 1917, in Baltimore, Maryland. After the Gilman School he went to Dartmouth College. An indifferent student, in conventional academic terms, he would have left college without his B.A. degree except for the intervention of members of the faculty who arranged that he be granted one. However, intellectually and in terms of his ideals and his vision of the world, his Dartmouth years were profoundly important; for it was there, and then, in the creative ferment of New Deal liberalism, and with a European war looming in the background, that he encountered the first of the tutelary figures who presided over his career--Eugene Rosenstock-Huessey, an emigre German historian and philosopher whose books and person aroused in Page Smith's imagination the sense of history as spiritual journey and moral drama.
William James was another such figure. One consequence of his influence, Camp William James, an off-shoot of the New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps, expressed Page Smith's passion for uniting thought and action in collaborative ways. More generally he absorbed Jamesian values and attitudes--respect for human individuality, service to society, disdain for the merely respectable, an abiding sympathy for the eccentric. This blended with a predisposition toward a Calvinist view of human nature, a combination often puzzling to his contemporaries and collaborators. But contrarieties and contradictions, the mysteries of human conduct, did not
| Do I contradict myself? | |
| Very well, I contradict myself. | |
| I contain multitudes. | |
World War II was a tremendous influence. Drafted into the army, he served as a company commander with the 10th Mountain Division in Italy, and was wounded in action. The war revealed to him, as it did to other thoughtful members of his generation, that Enlightenment and liberal ideas about human nature and progress, long dominant in American culture, needed to be reconsidered. This he did at Harvard University, entering graduate school as an English major but switching to history. His mentor was Samuel Eliot Morison, whose fluency as a writer on American subjects converted him to the study of the American 17th and 18th centuries, and whose mastery of narrative history exemplified what he wished to do as a writer. As well, at Harvard, he absorbed Perry Miller's reconsideration of American puritanism which, in turn, owed much to the thought of Reinhold Niebuhr.
Page Smith joined the faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles in 1953. He quickly established himself as a compelling lecturer and as a powerful presence, attracting students with the vividness of his teaching and opening the Smith home (he had married Eloise Pickard, a North Carolinian artist, in 1942) to undergraduate and graduate students. In these years he came into his own as biographer: James Wilson, 1956, a study of that (then) neglected federalist; John Adams, 1962, massive, two-volume, Bancroft Award-winning; The Historian and History, 1964, among the most personal of his books, iconoclastic in its skepticism about conventional notions of objectivity.
In 1963 he moved to Santa Cruz, California, to the new campus of the University of California where he became the founding Provost of Cowell College, the first of the colleges around which the university was organized, colleges where teaching would be emphasized and the impersonality of the large university minimized. The innovations at Santa Cruz were modest enough, but hotly opposed by many. Page Smith led the reformers with eloquence and courage and endeared himself to another generation of students; in many ways he found the counter-cultural atmosphere of the 1960s congenial. But the power of established ways often frustrated him and the inescapable pressure for specialization and departmental allegiance undercut the colleges and in 1973 he resigned from the university.
Books and essays, lectures and newspaper columns flowed from the self-described “fastest typewriter in the west” in the two decades that followed. And there were incessant community engagements, the Socratic `penny university,' open to all, with weekly meetings to discuss the issues of the day; the philanthropic William James Association which sponsored, under the inspiration of Eloise Smith, a prison arts project. Page Smith's books, wide-ranging, provocative, readable, found the literate general audience they were aimed at. Among them: The Chicken Book, 1975; The Constitution, A Documentary and Narrative History, 1978; an aptly titled collection of essays, Dissenting Opinions, 1984; a spirited return to the attack on academic folly, Killing the Spirit, 1990. Twenty-two volumes in all, including two which appeared at the time of his death, in Santa Cruz, of leukemia, on August 28.
Page Smith had an uncanny knack for anticipating subjects which would later gain popularity, As A City Upon A Hill, 1966, a study of the small town in American history; and Daughters of the Promised Land, 1970, the role of women. The climax of his life's work, his most ambitious and representative narrative, was his eight-volume People's History of the United States, 1976-1987, beginning with two volumes on the Revolution and ending with the New Deal and World War II, those defining events of his own life. Personal, impassioned, discursive, he found his subject “endlessly fascinating and absorbing,” and wrote of it in a “perpetual state of wonder and awe,” and this is conveyed powerfully to the reader.
“A book is a poor contrivance to catch a life in,” he had written in John Adams. How much less satisfactory, then, is so reductive a form as an obituary? How to catch the extraordinary presence of the man, who combined innate modesty with effortless command, passionate truth-telling, however unpalatable with personal decorum, power with kindness, seriousness with amused joy? How to convey the spirit of his idea of history, grounded in the past but speaking to the present, affirming life?
Harry Specht, Social Welfare: Berkeley
| 1929-1995 | |
| Professor | |
| Dean, School of Social Welfare |
Harry Specht, Dean of the School of Social Welfare at Berkeley since 1977, died at the age of 65 on Sunday, March 12, 1995. His death followed a struggle of several months with cancer of the throat. His loss has left a deep wound in the School and on the Berkeley campus.
Harry was born in New York City in the year that signaled the beginning of the Great Depression, a time that shaped his character and his vision of the role of government in alleviating human need. His childhood was a lesson in poverty and family distress; he practically raised himself as he and his siblings, fatherless and with a very ill mother, fended off the omnipresent threat of foster care. Social workers were a constant in his developmental years; sometimes as objects to be feared but, more often, as people who could provide some semblance of succor. He was deeply involved in the settlement houses of the City, especially Bronx House, a refuge in winter and a pipeline to summer camp when, in his teenage years, he became a counselor.
Harry somehow found the strength simultaneously to support himself and to earn an A.B. in English at CCNY (1951). His affinity with the profession of social work--and particularly the specialty of “group work”--impelled him toward professional education. He went on to obtain an M.S.W. (1953) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. It was there that he met Reva, a fellow social work student who became his wife and the mother of his two sons, Daniel and Elliot.
His early professional years were immersed in the group work movement and his vita resounds with the names of the great and famous settlement houses of New York City: Bronx House, Lenox Hill, and the
Immediately after Brandeis, Harry went to work for one of the important experiments of that war--Mobilization for Youth on the lower east side of Manhattan. Although Harry had published as early as 1957, it was out of the Mobilization for Youth experience that he wrote his first paper that earned him a national audience: “The House on Sixth Street” [Social Work, v. 10, 1965 (with Francis Purcell)]. This was to be the true beginning of a national and international scholarly reputation that grew in stature over the next 28 years.
In 1964, Harry and his family moved to California where he became Associate Executive Director of the Contra Costa Council of Community Services. A one-year stint as Lecturer at the San Francisco State College Department of Social Work was followed by his appointment, in 1967, to the School of Social Welfare at Berkeley. He rose from Lecturer, through the professorial ranks, and was then appointed Dean in 1977, following the retirement of Milton Chernin.
This dry recitation does not begin to tell the story of Harry Specht--a man of great depth and complexity. He was, first, a devoted husband and father. Dan and Elliot were always puzzled as to how their father could have been so adept at fatherhood given the lack of a paternal role model. Reva's long bout with cancer and her death revealed a facet of Harry that was not immediately apparent to those who did not know him: he was absolutely heroic in his concern and tender caring.
Harry was a teacher who gave of himself. He would spend hours with his doctoral students and was generous beyond any reasonable expectation. Students may have found him demanding; they may have seen him to be opinionated; but they never saw him as boring. He was a provocative teacher in the positive sense of that word. He insisted that his students have ideas of their own, take positions and, above all, think! Towards the end, when he was sorely weakened by cancer, Harry still worked diligently over his students' final-examination papers, meticulously commenting on the merits and shortcomings of the submissions. It was a testament to his responsibility and dedication.
He was a scholar. More than a dozen books and over 50 papers are just one part of a vita that contains scores and scores of reports and conference papers. The book he wrote with George Brager, Community Organizing (1973), was a landmark in the field and remains one of the fundamental texts. Another book, written with his colleague Neil Gilbert, Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy (now in its third edition and with a third colleague, Paul Terrell, 1993), represents a milestone in the literature on Social Policy. His final book--his most controversial and most immediately influential [Unfaithful Angels--How Social Work Has Abandoned Its Mission, with Mark Courtney, 1994]--was the one that delighted him most. In it, Harry takes to task the profession of social work for abandoning its historical mission of service to the poor. The list of scholarly work is long, noted for its cogency and, most importantly, for the pervasive influence his writings have had on the practice of the profession and the nature of social-welfare education.
Harry's ideas were often unsettling but they were always stimulating and influential, and in the end, the persuasiveness of his argument usually prevailed. In testimony to this influence, Harry achieved an international reputation and several awards: a Senior Fulbright Scholar (1973); the Daniel S. Koshland Award--California's most prestigious prize in Social Work (1991); the Presidential Award for Outstanding Leadership in Social Work Education (NASW, 1992); and the Berkeley Citation, the campus' highest honor, bestowed on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the School of Social Welfare (1994).
His tenure as Dean brought the School of Social Welfare recognition as one of the foremost graduate Schools of Social Welfare in the world. Harry Specht's leadership is directly responsible for the achievement.
He was a scholar, an educator, an administrator; he was a father and husband; he was a teacher. Most of all, he was a decent and jovial human being who brought life and scintillation to those around him. He was a familiar figure on campus with his jaunty, even audacious hats. He loved thrift shops; he loved to travel; he loved to talk and chat.
He will be missed.
E. L. Robert Stokstad, Nutritional Sciences: Berkeley
| 1913-1995 | |
| Professor of Nutrition, Emeritus |
E. L. Robert Stokstad, a leader in vitamin research, died from complications of pneumonia on May 30, 1995. Bob was born in China, where his parents were Lutheran missionaries. They returned to Mineapolis when he was four, and in 1921 moved west to begin poultry farming in Santa Rosa. Bob received a B.S. in agriculture from Berkeley in 1934 and conducted his post-graduate work in poultry nutrition, under the direction of the late Professor Herman Almquist, receiving the Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition from Berkeley in 1937. They studied a hemorrhagic chick disease caused by a nutritional deficiency; the missing factor was later shown to be vitamin K.
After obtaining the Ph.D., Bob moved to Petaluma and a position on the staff of the Western Condensing Company, where he worked on the riboflavin needs of chickens. He also experimented with the hemorrhage-producing diet that Almquist and he had used. He showed that the yeast in this diet supplied a growth factor, which he named “Factor U.” The nutritional importance of yeast had been demonstrated by Lucy Wills in 1932, who showed that it prevented anemia of pregnancy. He went to the California Institute of Technology for a year as a post-doctoral fellow and started to use microbiological assays for growth factors, a technique pioneered by Esmond Snell, who later became chair of the Biochemistry Department at Berkeley. Snell described a growth factor, which he called folic acid because of its presence in green leaves. Stokstad continued his studies on this factor, which was the same as `factor U', at Caltech and then at Lederle Laboratories (American Cyanamid) in Pearl River, NY, where he went in 1941.
He finally isolated folic acid in pure crystalline form in 1943, and worked with colleagues to study its chemical character, finding that it
In the post-war period at Lederle, while working with Thomas Jukes, Stokstad was involved in the discovery of the growth-promoting use of the antibiotic aureomycin for chickens, pigs, and calves. This was found during a search for sources of vitamin B12, which is produced by microorganisms of the genus Streptomyces, which also produce antibiotics. The use of aureomycin as a feed supplement has been of great economic importance for farmers in the U.S.A. and elsewhere in the world. He extended microbiological assays to the use of protozoa as test organisms and isolated two additional growth factors. These compounds, which were then synthesized by the Lederle group and named `thioctic acid' (lipoic acid) and `biopterin', play important roles in metabolism.
In 1963 Stokstad returned to Berkeley to join the faculty of the then young Department of Nutritional Sciences. He built up a strong research group that studied the metabolic functions of folic acid, which had been the subject of controversy. When given to patients with pernicious anemia, folic acid was effective in the restoration of the blood picture but the neurological damage associated with the condition continued to worsen as in untreated patients. When vitamin B12 was given by injection, both problems were corrected. The use of folic acid supplements was therefore questioned by the Food and Drug Administration. Stokstad's group investigated the biochemical linkages between the functioning of these two vitamins, and demonstrated that vitamin B12 deficiency induces a secondary folate deficiency. Consequently, folic acid could correct the anemia, but has no effect on other symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency. Stokstad's extensive work on folate enzymology and metabolism forms much of the basis of present day knowledge on folic acid.
Bob was popular with his graduate students; he took a keen interest in the development of students and young investigators and was very generous with his time and advice. He loved scientific inquiry and was a marvelous example for students. He also enjoyed teaching undergraduates. He served as Chair of the Department of Nutritional Sciences before his retirement from active status in 1980. As an emeritus professor he continued his leading-edge research program in the Department until suffering a disabling stroke in his office in 1992. His death, from pneumonia, came three years later.
His work was well recognized in his lifetime. He received many awards for his contributions to poultry science and to folic-acid research, including the Borden Award (1952) from the Poultry Science Association and the Mead Johnson (1947) and Osborne and Mendel (1979) Awards from the American Institute of Nutrition. In 1992 he was to have been a special guest at an international symposium in Korea organized in his honor but the stroke prevented his attendance. He was also unable to attend a FASEB Conference later that year where his work was also honored. Bob served on many national committees including the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council and was President of the American Institute of Nutrition from 1976-77.
Bob was very much a family man. He and his wife Edith had been married for 60 years, and each year his friends enjoyed receiving a Christmas card picturing a Stokstad family group with their sons, daughter-in-law and grandchildren, and detailing events of the year. At home, as well as in the laboratory, he was an enthusiastic and innovative handson constructor--designing and building furniture and many kinds of laboratory apparatus. He was personally gentle and modest, but persistent and never willing to accept that there could not be a better way of doing something.
A large group of his friends and former colleagues came together at a memorial meeting in Alumni House, Berkeley in October 1995, first to recall his own achievements, and then to hear papers about the renewed interest in folic acid. The roles of folic acid in reducing the tragic incidence of spina bifida babies and in reducing the risk of heart attacks through its effect on the metabolism of homocysteine are important new areas that are making use of Stokstad's earlier basic research. Work in progress also suggests that folic acid may reduce risk of stroke and colon cancer. Another symposium in his honor is planned for the 1996 Experimental Biology meeting in Washington, D.C. Because of Bob's interest in students, an endowed memorial fund has been established in his name and will be used for student awards in experimental nutrition on the Berkeley campus.
William Bond Storey, Horticultural Science: Riverside
| 1907-1993 | |
| Professor of Horticulture |
Perhaps the best way to describe Professor William Bond Storey, the man, is to say he was a golden personality. His ready smile, his open, warm, friendly, and courteous manners, made him a host of friends in all walks of life. He was highly regarded not only among his academic peers, but by all with whom he came in contact. This included students, secretaries, clerks, scientific aides, custodians, and many others. He was an unusually gifted teacher and skilled lecturer. Professor Storey was revered by his students, some of whom went on to become world-class biological scientists. He was never too busy to be available to them for consultation on both academic and personal problems.
In the 1970s, Professor Storey participated in a national program that involved taking bright high school students into his laboratory during the summer vacation, and guiding them in small projects of their own. He introduced them to hands-on experience with the methods and philosophy of scientific research. An unusually high proportion of his summer students went on to careers in research and teaching.
After a freshman year at the University of Michigan, Storey completed a bachelor's degree in general science at the University of Hawaii in 1935 and a master's degree in genetics in 1937 at the same institution. He earned a Ph.D. degree in genetics at Cornell in 1940.
Storey began his scientific career as a biological aide at the University of Hawaii in 1937, and later was appointed Assistant Professor of Horticulture after his return from Cornell. He rose to the rank of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Agriculture at the University of Hawaii. In 1954, Storey accepted the position of Associate Horticulturist at the then-University of California Citrus Experiment
Storey's research included basic studies on the genetics of tropical fruits such as papaya, mango, macadamia, fig, and avocado, among others. He became a well-recognized authority on the biology of these fruits, especially the genetics of papaya, fig and macadamia. In the realm of applied sciences, he made far-reaching contributions to the culture of papaya, fig and macadamia through breeding and selection of improved varieties, The cultures of these fruits and nuts have been fundamentally influenced by his efforts, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
In addition to teaching and research at UCR, Story traveled extensively around the world doing research, collecting germplasm, and conducting special lectureships. As a Fulbright Scholar, Storey spent the 1965-66 academic year at the University of the West Indies. He also lectured at the Agricultural University of Wageningen, the Netherlands, and the University of Gottingen and the University of Kassell, in Germany. In 1960, Storey spent several months in Eastern Australia studying macadamia trees in their native habitat and collecting promising clones for evaluation and hybridization studies in California. Among many prestigious honors, Storey was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Storey was born on March 31, 1907 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and died December 22, 1993 of heart failure. At the time of his death, he was living in Walnut Creek, California. He was the great-great grandson of the Rev. Elias Bond, who was one of the original pioneering missionaries sent to the Hawaiian Islands by the Congregational Church of Boston, Massachusetts. He is survived by his wife, Marion Storey of Walnut Creek, California; his stepson William Bray of Orinda, California; three grandchildren; six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Charlotte Stough, Philosophy: Santa Barbara
| 1929-1995 | |
| Professor Emerita |
Charlotte Stough, Professor of Philosophy, Emerita died on September 7, 1995, after her car left the road in the mountains near Santa Barbara. She is survived by two sisters, Helen Kilgore of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and Carol Lewis of Beverly Hills, California.
Charlotte was born in Detroit, Michigan on May 2, 1929. She received her B.A. in French at the University of Michigan and, after a three-year stint as an Intelligence Officer with the CIA in Washington, D.C., she enrolled at UC, Berkeley as a graduate student in philosophy. Her Ph.D. dissertation, in Greek Scepticism, was subsequently turned into a book which was widely recognized as the best account of its subject published in English.
Charlotte came to UCSB in 1963 and, with the exception of a year's appointment at the Center for Hellenic Studies, she remained here until her early retirement in 1991. Her research gradually broadened over the years to include much of Greek metaphysics, and she published well-known papers on Plato and on Aristotle, as well as further work on the Sceptics and on the Stoics. Towards the end of her academic career her interest turned more to moral philosophy, both in the Greeks and in contemporary feminist writing.
In 1982, after serving three years on the Senate Committee for Academic Personnel, Charlotte Stough was appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, becoming one of the first women to hold a high administrative post in the UC system. She held this position for three years. In the years immediately following, she played an important role in the founding of UCSB's Women's Studies Program.
Charlotte began a new life after she retired, and enrolled as a student at Antioch University, where she obtained a master's degree in clinical psychology.
Charlotte Stough is remembered fondly by many, many students who, like her colleagues, will be shocked and saddened by her premature and sudden death.
Raynard Coe Swank, Library & Information Studies: Berkeley
| 1912-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Ray Swank, Professor in and Dean of the School of Library & Information Studies (then the School of Librarianship) from 1962 to 1970, died of cancer in Richmond, California, on March 17, 1995. He was born December 20, 1912, in Butler, Ohio, and attended Wooster College in Ohio, where he was awarded an A.B. degree in 1934. He received a B.S. degree in Library Science from Western Reserve University in 1937 and in 1944 a Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago. He married Ethel Mershon in 1938. They had three sons, Damon, Barry, and Martin, and a daughter, Diana, all of whom survive him.
Ray's first professional position was as a cataloger at the University of Colorado Library, where he served in various positions until 1941. After obtaining the doctorate, he was employed in the library at the University of Minnesota until 1946, when he became head librarian at the University of Oregon. In 1948 he was appointed Director of Libraries at Stanford University, where he remained until being called to Berkeley.
An internationally respected librarian and educator, Swank spent a year (1954) as library consultant to the University of the Philippines. Between 1959 and 1961 he took a leave from Stanford to direct the International Relations Office of the American Library Association. He became a consultant to libraries, governmental organizations, and library-education programs throughout the United States and in other countries, especially in Japan and Southeast Asia. He advised such organizations as UNESCO and the Ford Foundation about library maters. International librarianship became one of his subject specialties
Ray was a frequent contributor, especially in the areas of subject cataloging, library cooperation, library planning, library education, and international librarianship, to the journals of his profession and wrote many reports of library surveys he was commissioned to undertake. An anthology of his writings was assembled in recognition of his retirement by David Heron in 1981 under the title A Unifying Influence: Essays of Raynard Coe Swank.
Swank spent much of his time as dean trying to bring about a melding of the new information science, being advanced by the computer, with traditional librarianship, which was undergoing a change of vast proportions. It was as a result of his teaching of courses at the School in 1953-1954 and in 1957 that the School's faculty had sought him as its dean, but, as dean, Swank became especially interested in furthering the research function of the School and enlarging and encouraging its doctoral programs. He was the adviser for a number of dissertations in library administration. A major achievement during his years as dean was the establishment of a universitywide Institute of Library Research, originally proposed by the head campus librarians of the University of California, but brought into being at both the UCB and UCLA library schools largely through Swank's persistent efforts. For various reasons the Institute did not fulfill its expectations and eventually was deactivated by the University. Within the Institute a program named Universitywide Library Automation Program (ULAP) had been created to study and prepare for library automation. This program, which became the Division of Library Automation within the Systemwide Administration of the University, was eventually responsible for the development of the MELVYL system of computerized cataloging for the libraries of the University. The Institute also helped make the School aware of the profound changes the computer was making in librarianship and began to bring information scientists onto the faculty.
It was during Swank's tenure as dean, and mainly through his efforts and persistence, that the School of Librarianship moved to its own building, South Hall, the oldest structure on the Berkeley campus.
Ray was always very much interested in music and was an amateur pianist of merit. He had a large collection of recordings. He was also an enthusiastic camper and outdoors person, who enjoyed gardening and such related activities as bee-keeping and bird-watching. One of his most cherished experiences was a raft trip through the Grand Canyon.
In 1968 Ethel and he divorced. In 1970, shortly before his retirement as dean, Ray was married again, this time to a lecturer in the School of Librarianship, Portia Hawley Griswold, who had been graduated from the School in 1953 and had been head librarian of the Reno Public Library (Washoe County, Nevada). This marriage also ended in divorce (1977).
One of Ray's many devoted students wrote in an obituary note that Swank was a man with a mission, one who “inspired people to seek the profession of librarian. He was ever the recruiter in the broadest and most honorable sense, a calm evangelist who by his every word and act assured quality intake of new blood into the profession.” Perhaps his most important legacy lies in his influence on the students he recruited and educated.
Guy E. Swanson, Sociology; Psychology: Berkeley
| 1922-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Guy Swanson died of bone marrow cancer on February 28, 1995, following a valiant four-year battle against the disease. Ed, as he was more popularly known, was born in 1922 in Pennsylvania and grew up in the town of Erie. He received the B.A. and M.A. in sociology, both in 1943, at the University of Pittsburgh, and his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago in 1948. His academic career began as an Instructor at Boston and Indiana universities, followed by a distinguished early term of service at the University of Michigan, where he began as an Instructor of Sociology and moved up the ranks to Professor; he served two terms as Department Chair.
In 1969, Ed joined the UCB faculty as a professor of sociology, a position he retained until 1984, when he changed departments to become a professor of psychology. From 1980-1987, he was also the director of the Institute of Human Development, one of the university's oldest and most renowned research units. Although Ed officially retired in 1991 and became emeritus, he continued to teach and be active in faculty affairs until his death. He is survived by his wife, Eliane Aerts Swanson, four daughters, and six grandchildren.
The intellectual framework for Ed's theorizing, research and teaching was provided by the fields of sociology and social psychology. Although social psychology has a strong interdisciplinary focus in the two disciplines, most social psychologists tend to be expert in one and relatively ignorant of the other. He, however, was the unique exception to the rule, in that he was not only the intellectual master of both fields but someone who constantly bridged and integrated them in his scholarly work. The fact that he served as a professor in two different
Ed was known for two major bodies of work. In his early years, he was a leading analyst and critic of sociological theory, evaluating the emerging concepts of structural-functionalism and symbolic interactionism; his ideas had a great deal of impact on subsequent developments in the field. Later, at Berkeley, he became known for his investigations of family structure and socialization processes. Integrating theoretical ideas from his earlier writings, he demonstrated how the interplay between structural properties of families and the dynamic interactions among individual family members help us to understand childrens' personality and social development. He was an early contributor to the field of family typology, doing research on child development and the role of fathers and mothers in decision-making. In other research, he related family structure to religious orientation, showing that the way people conceptualize and communicate with God has much to do with the kinds of families in which they were reared. He was also one of the first sociologists to focus on the relationship between family style and occupational role.
During his career, Ed published a stream of articles, chapters, and review essays in leading journals, and eight books, including The Changing American Parent (with Daniel R. Miller) in 1958; The Birth of the Gods, 1960; Social Change, 1971; and Ego Defenses and the Legitimization of Behavior, 1988. He also served as a co-editor in 1993, with four Berkeley colleagues, of Family, Self, and Society: Toward a New Agenda for Family Research; this was a book of original papers emerging from an ongoing Berkeley faculty seminar on the family that he helped to originate in 1988.
Both the breadth and depth of Ed's scholarship were fully appreciated by his students. As they often commented, “Professor Swanson knows everything!” His courses reflected the care and attention he always brought to his teaching; he was meticulous in his coverage of traditional course material while challenging students to discover new ways of thinking about it. He was as committed to teaching undergraduates as he was to training graduate students. He regularly taught the basic undergraduate course in social psychology (which attracted hundreds of students) and developed a new lecture course on personality development and family structure. He also co-taught the core graduate proseminar in social psychology every year. Moreover, he was an important research mentor to graduate students, even after his formal retirement, always willing to provide
Beyond his research, teaching, and administrative duties, Ed always found time to be of service to his academic profession and to the campus. He was a member of the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council from 1962 to 1965. He was especially generous in his service to the Berkeley Academic Senate, as he was a member of 10 different Senate committees, often for multiple years of service. In particular, he was a long-time member of the Graduate Council, as well as its Chair, and he served for many years as a faculty representative to the statewide Assembly.
Ed Swanson was known as a man of strong principles, who was dedicated to seeking the truth. These principles informed all areas of his academic work, and were the hallmark of his relationships with both colleagues and students. He was a unique character in terms of both his personality and his career achievements. His presence will be missed by all of us.
William B. Thompson, Physics: San Diego
| 1922-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Bill Thompson was born February 27, 1922 in Belfast, Ireland, but he spent his student years in Canada. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1944 with a B.A. degree in physics and mathematics, and in 1947 with a master's degree in physics. He received a Ph.D. in 1950 from the University of Toronto, having completed a thesis on solar physics under the supervision of Sir Edward Bullard.
Bill was a pioneer in the development of plasma physics and its application to controlled thermonuclear research, serving as the theorist for the small group that began this research in Britain in 1950. This group grew to become the Culham Laboratory for Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion, where he was head of the Theoretical Physics Division. When research on controlled fusion was declassified internationally in 1958, Bill made it a personal goal to bring this new field of research to universities. He became Britain's first Professor of Plasma Physics and Fusion in 1963 when a chair was established at Oxford. He wrote one of the first monographs on plasma physics and its applications to controlled fusion, and he served as co-chairman for the first international workshop on the subject. This workshop was the first activity of the International Atomic Energy Authority's new Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and the proceedings of the workshop were a very important educational resource for a new generation of plasma physicists. He was a founding associate editor of the Journal of Plasma Physics and served from 1965 until his retirement.
In 1965 Bill Thompson joined the UCSD faculty as Professor of Physics, and he was chairman of the department from 1969-1972. Bill was a man of wide-ranging interests, broad erudition, and great sociability
Most of Bill's research was in basic plasma physics and magnetic fusion. He worked on the basis of MHD, the calculation of transport coefficients, plasma heating, instabilities, diffusion, relativistic kinetic theory, counterstreaming plasmas, resonances, toroidal systems and guiding-center plasmas. He also contributed to a number of other fields, including cosmic rays, the origin of terrestrial magnetism, planetary dynamics, anti-matter, space science diagnostics and oceanography. He inspired colleagues and students with his ebullient enthusiasm, and was invariably a source of good advice and encouragement.
Bill retired in 1990, but continued with many of his previous activities. For recreation, he loved to walk and swim at Scripps Beach, a place close both to UCSD and his home, and familiar to anyone who knows UCSD. On October 17, 1995, he died while swimming. He was 73. He is survived by his wife, Johanna; a daughter, Suky Thompson of Christchurch, New Zealand; a son Graham, of Perth, Australia; five stepchildren; and five grandchildren. He is also survived by his friends around the world who fondly remember a brilliant scholar and Renaissance man who enlivened any conversation with wit, wisdom, and good humor.
Albert Ulrich, Soils and Plant Nutrition: Berkeley
| 1907-1994 | |
| Lecturer in Plant Physiology, Emeritus | |
| Plant Physiologist Emeritus in the Agricultural Experiment Station |
Albert Ulrich's life ended on August 14, 1994 at his home in El Cerrito, California, at age 87, after several years of declining health. He was a highly productive and stimulating member of the former Department of Soils and Plant Nutrition and was internationally recognized for his development of plant analysis, using a combination of water culture and field plots, and for efficient mineral nutrition of a wide range of agricultural crops. Soil scientists and agronomists were greatly influenced by his insistence that the plant, not the soil, is the final authority on nutrient needs.
Albert was born on September 7, 1907 in New York to parents who had recently emigrated from Alsace Lorraine. His father, a baker, moved west to Chicago, then to Amery, Wisconsin, and finally to Southern California, where he had bakeries in El Segundo and Azusa. Albert at an early age was given responsibility for making daily bread and pastry deliveries and expanding the list of customers on these routes. While attending Citrus Junior College, he worked for a citrus advisory laboratory that gave advice to growers on citrus cultivation, which perked his interest in plant nutrition, and stimulated his enrollment as an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley in 1928. He was graduated with a B.S. degree in plant nutrition in 1930 and received a Ph.D. in plant physiology in 1939. Upon graduation he was appointed Plant Physiologist in the Department of Soils at UC Berkeley. Although he formally retired in 1975, he maintained a vigorous research program until a short time before his death in 1994.
His lifelong research remained focused on how macro and micro mineral nutrients, under different light and temperature regimes, influence
He was one of the pioneers who laid the foundations for plant analysis as a diagnostic procedure for efficient mineral nutrition of plants. He helped develop the concept of critical nutrient deficiency values in plants, and, using a combination of growth chambers, water culture and field plots, experimentally determined these critical values for many of California's important crops.
Early in his career he demonstrated that although nitrogen was essential for sugarbeet growth, excess nitrogen seriously reduced the sugar content of the beet roots. This provided a financial incentive for growers to use leaf analysis to monitor the mineral nutrition of their crops to insure sufficient nitrogen for growth but avoid excesses that would seriously reduce sugar content. Throughout his career he continued research on how night and day temperatures and day length influenced the nutrient needs and growth of sugarbeet. Much of this research was in close collaboration with his long-time friend, F. Jack Hills, in the Agronomy and Range Science Department at Davis. Together they published Sugar Beet Nutrition Deficiency Symptoms: A Color Atlas and Chemical Guide for Sugar Beets, which remains the bible for sugarbeet nutrition in the state and around the world. The importance of his research was given early recognition by his election as a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy in 1964, and later Honorary Membership in the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists in 1985.
Although he always maintained his focus on sugarbeet, through the years he experimentally determined the critical deficiency values for the major mineral nutrients for many California crops. Commodities that benefited from his research included: barley, drybeans, cotton, sugarbeet and rice; cucurbits, lettuce, potato, and tomato; grapes and strawberry; and alfalfa, ladino clover, and rye grass. As a diversion he spent several years working on the mineral nutrition requirements of plants in Arctic Tundra.
He was particularly proud of his last published guide, Strawberry Deficiency Symptoms: A Visual and Plant Analysis Guide to Fertilization, because the color fidelity truly depicted his photographic expertise.
After his retirement, he undertook a major project on the development of a Visual and Plant Analysis Guide to the Fertilization of Coast Redwoods and Douglas Fir. Although much progress was made on this very large project, time ran out before the Guide was completed.
He was a truly unselfish humanitarian who sincerely wanted to help people to better their lives. This was clearly reflected in his love for teaching whether in the classroom, in the guidance of graduate students, in professional help with colleagues, or in advice for farmers. His courses in plant physiology and statistics were highly regarded, and his graduate and postdoctoral students became highly distinguished professionals. He was always very willing to explain, with great patience and persistence, to colleagues, growers, administrators, and others, how plants worked, how to manage plant nutrition, how to design experiments, how to farm, and how to succeed in the University and in life. There are many indebted to his important tutelage, and who will long remember him for his patient persistence in pursuit of important goals.
Albert, although very dedicated to his profession, was a well read individual with broad interests which included the functioning of financial markets, the demands of human population growth on food-production systems, travel and photography. He was an informed and conservative investor who was widely regarded for his financial sagacity, and his advice was valued by financial professionals, particularly where scientific issues were involved. He will be missed by his colleagues in the College of Natural Resources, and all others who knew him for his tenacious dedication to his profession, sage advice, and always positive philosophy about life. His generosity and desire to help others was further evident from his strong support and help with the research career of Jane, his wife and confidante for 55 years. He also was justifiably proud of the highly successful professional and scientific careers of his three sons, Bruce, Paul and Roger.
Erik Wahlgren, Germanic Languages: Los Angeles
| 1909-1990 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
It was on January 19, 1990 that Erik Wahlgren passed away due to cardiac failure at the age of 81. He joined the UCLA community on July 1, 1939 and provided significant contributions until his retirement on July 1, 1979. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
Erik's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Clyde Wahrhaftig, Geology and Geophysics: Berkeley
| 1919-1994 | |
| Professor of Geology, Emeritus |
Clyde Wahrhaftig died April 6, 1994, in San Francisco, of heart failure, at age 74. Wahrhaftig was born in Fresno on December 1, 1919, and raised there, a member of a pioneer California family whose early members planted orchards in the Sacramento Valley. He earned a bachelor's degree in geology at Caltech in 1941, and a Ph.D. in geology at Harvard in 1953. He worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, full-time or part-time, from 1941 until his death. He taught at Berkeley for 22 years, from 1960 to 1982. His ties to Berkeley were much longer than the time of formal employment. They began in childhood, when he played along Strawberry Creek and hiked in the Berkeley Hills while his mother attended summer school, and they continued to his death.
Wahrhaftig was a Renaissance man, with a rich store of knowledge and love of literature, music and art, of history and philosophy. He had a profound human caring about the condition of his fellow man and society, and he gave active expression to that care in his professional, personal and political life. He was one of the more colorful characters of his profession; his personal idiosyncrasies gave rise to stories and anecdotes that friends cherish over a glass of wine or scotch.
Geologist and hiker, he spent his summers in the mountains--mainly in Alaska with the Geological Survey or in the Sierra Nevada. At Caltech he was a cross country runner. Of small, wiry physique, he had a reputation for walking colleagues, field assistants, and students into the ground, even as late as the 1970s. In the mid-1980s heart problems slowed him down. When he was no longer able to work in the higher mountains that he loved, he switched his attention to the lower Coast Ranges of California. He then became intimately familiar with the hills and cliffs and rock outcrops from the Peninsula to the Marin Headlands.
Wahrhaftig distrusted and disliked the speed of automobiles and airplanes and lamented the environmental consequences of combustion of fossil fuels. He refused to drive and arranged his life as much as possible around public transportation. Traveling to and from Alaska for field work he continued to use sea transport long after his colleagues took to the air; on sabbatical in the late 60s he took a ship (and a stack of good reading) to Australia. He used horse-pack trains to support field work in Alaska as long as the Survey would permit, and continued to use pack trains as long as he was able to work in the Sierra.
The Geological Survey (USGS), even more than the University, was the central institution of his professional life. At the Survey he was recognized as a scientific leader who vigorously abjured administrative responsibility. Nevertheless he was extensively consulted for his insight and advice on policy matters. In 1958-59 he served on a major advisory committee that resulted in restructuring of the Geological Division of the Survey.
As a member of the Berkeley faculty and Department of Geology and Geophysics Wahrhaftig was conscientious beyond the call of duty. In all tasks he did more than was necessary or expected, anticipating every criticism that might be brought against his view, and having at hand all the data and a keen sense of assumptions that influenced alternative views.
In all matters, until the end, he was characterized by probing intellect, personal energy, and drive for excellence. In his early professional years in Alaska he earned a reputation as a hard-driving task master, demanding much of colleagues and field assistants alike. He brought those same expectations to his students at Berkeley; in the 1960s some--not all--of his students felt that he expected too much. Later he became reconciled to human frailty, including his own. The measure of serenity he then achieved served to soften the harder edges of his drive for excellence. In the later decades his vast scope of knowledge and experience yielded a rich wisdom.
For most of his life Wahrhaftig was a closet homosexual in the macho world of field geologists. As such he suffered a full measure of repression, self-doubt, and dissimulation. From that pain he gained in humanity. In 1989, he chose the occasion of accepting the “Distinguished Career Award” from the Geological Society of America (GSA),
Wahrhaftig's long-time friend--the most important person in his life--was Allan Cox, one of the true giants of earth science in the second half of the twentieth century. In 1950 and 1951 Cox, as an under-graduate student in chemistry, worked for him as a field assistant. Wahrhaftig convinced him to pursue a career in the earth sciences, and steered him toward a Ph.D. at Berkeley.
Wahrhaftig loved to teach, but was a lousy lecturer. Even so, he was a tremendous inspiration to many students. Hidden in every lecture were profound observations on critical geological, geophysical, or geomorphic problems. He prepared meticulous lecture notes and gave copies to his classes; many of his students have saved those notes as mini-masterpieces of geological instruction.
Most of all he loved to teach in the field; in that realm he was a master. He was always teaching those around him, whether at the University, the USGS, or in the community--not only students but also colleagues, youngsters in community programs, and adults in Extension courses. (in the field he inspired two of the writers of this memorial to pursue graduate work in geology, and to come to Berkeley for graduate studies).
He was exceptionally good on Ph.D. oral committees, demanding of candidates that they reason logically from their data, taking them, if necessary, step by step to a correct answer, whether it involved a phase diagram or some more subjective material. He had compassion as well as rigor; more than one candidate was rescued from panic or “freeze-up” by a patient, empathetic line of questioning from Wahrhaftig.
In his life Wahrhaftig acted out and experienced the history of this country in microcosm. In the 1940s he began his work exploring frontier areas of Alaska, with the USGS and applying geology to extraction of mineral resources. For a decade he spent summers mapping the geology of the north slope of the Alaska Range, at first on foot and with pack train, later, and very reluctantly, with helicopter and airplane.
In the 1960s, he took a leading role in orienting the application of geological science to environmental problems. His work touched many aspects of the influence of human activities on natural processes; his major effort was directed toward forest management practices. In 1970 his studies comparing erosional phenomena in cut-over and untouched forests had an impact on subsequent revision of the State Forest Practices
In 1975 Wahrhaftig's keen interest in environmental problems led him to make one exception to his career-long refusal to assume administrative responsibilities: he became Chair and Director of the Environmental Sciences major, an interdepartmental, undergraduate major in the College of Letters and Science. He held that position until he retired in 1982. In the mid-1990s that major, which owes much to his leadership, has come to be recognized as a paradigm for high quality in interdisciplinary education.
Also in the 1970s he became involved with social aspects of the earth sciences. In 1971 he was appointed the first Chair of the Geological Society of America's new committee on Minority Participation in the Earth Sciences. At the USGS he instigated a program for recruiting minorities. At Berkeley, also in the 1970s, he reversed his own earlier attitudes and worked diligently to encourage women to enter the earth sciences and to urge his colleagues to make women welcome in that predominantly male field.
In the 70s he also began a deep involvement in community programs. He worked with an extra-curricular education program in Hunter's Point area of San Francisco, and led groups of minority youth on geological field trips around the City and its environs--always, as a matter of principle, using public transportation for access. He took minority youngsters on field trips to the Sierra, and along on summer field camps for the Geology Department.
He became active in the community, bringing geology to bear on local planning and land use issues. For many years he was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee on Bolinas Lagoon, for the Marin County Recreation Department. He served on the Mayor's Twin Peaks [Park] Committee. He worked on study committees for the Golden Gate National Recreation area and the Bay Area Trail.
In all of these activities he characteristically did much more than was expected. He prepared written testimony on the geology of San Francisco for local commissions and ballot measures. At the same time he used land use issues to educate the public, and governmental agencies
He was one of a small cadre of Bay Area geologists who brought the plate-tectonic concept, as it is expressed in the rocks of the area, to the layman. Most geologists wrote for other scientists. Wahrhaftig was concerned that the interested public have access to detailed, accurate (and extraordinarily interesting) information.
He wrote a host of field trip guides in language that is both accessible to intelligent laymen and respectable for scientists. Some of these field guides were published; the most popular one, published (and reprinted) by the American Geophysical Union, titled “A Streetcar to Subduction,” is a guide to outcrops in the San Francisco Area, using, of course, public transportation. Other popular published field guides include “A Walker's Guide to the Geology of San Francisco” and “The Hayward Fault in Hayward and Fremont, via BART.”
Wahrhaftig's contributions to the applications of geological science and to public education were rooted in very substantial contributions to science itself. His research was characterized by meticulous field observations, supported by scholarly understanding of basic chemistry, physics, and ecology, applied to critical testing of widely applicable hypotheses and models. A 1959 article on “Rock Glaciers in the Alaska Range,” co-authored with Allan Cox, inspired a world-wide surge in research on rock glaciers. The Geological Society of America awarded him its Kirk Bryan Award for his 1965 paper on “Stepped topography of the southern Sierra Nevada.” That paper effectively challenged the universal applicability of dynamic equilibrium and raised the issue of thresholds several year before that topic was popularized by others. His papers on physiographic subdivisions of Alaska and topographic development of the California Coast Ranges also triggered much additional research. A host of colleagues and students credit Wahrhaftig with critical comments and suggestions that advanced their own research.
In 1989 the Geological Society of America awarded him its Distinguished Career Award. The citationist who presented that award observed that, if science awarded points for teamwork, as basketball and hockey do, “Clyde would be among the all-time `assist' leaders and a sure shot for the Hall of Fame.”
He made significant contributions not only to basic earth science but also to its applications. In addition to his previously mentioned works on environmental problems, his published works on the coal resources, Quaternary history, and landslides of the Alaska Range have stood the test of time and are still valuable tools for resource development and mitigating landslide problems along the Alaska Railroad.
Wahrhaftig's love for science and its uses was matched by his love for the arts. He loved the music of classical composers up through Brahms. Mozart was far and away his favorite. In the field he played Mozart on a recorder. At home he played Mozart pieces on the piano for friends, hours at a time, as long as they would listen. At geology summer field camp, in the White Mountains, in the evenings he would get someone to drive him down to Deep Springs School, where he played the piano for hours on end.
He also had a talent for sketching. His sketches illustrate many of his informally published works. In 1993 the USGS in Menlo Park exhibited selected pen and ink sketches from his numerous sketchbooks.
While science was his own special talent, he especially respected artistic genius. He remarked again and again that the great discoveries (or inventions) of science do not depend on the special genius of any one person, whereas, without Mozart, none of that marvelous music would exist.
For all of his formidable accomplishments, Wahrhaftig eschewed pretense of any kind. He avoided formal dress as much as possible. If forced to don coat and tie, he would continue to wear his “tennies”, much to everyone's amusement. He was modest to a fault.
He worked diligently until the end. Two special labors of love, however, remained unfinished at his death. In 1955 he began mapping the Tower Peak Quadrangle in the northeast corner of Yosemite Park. For two weeks each summer thereafter, until his heart denied him, he continued that mapping as a “busman's holiday.” Manuscripts of that map are widely regarded as a masterpiece of the field geologist's craft, as the best mapped quadrangle of the Sierra, perhaps of any place in the country. Similarly he began in the mid-'50s to write a paper on the “Nenana Gravels” as a record of late Cenozoic orogeny in the Alaska Range. He worked, reworked, and refined that manuscript episodically until his death. The manuscript is widely regarded as a masterpiece. Colleagues who have seen pieces of those works have eagerly awaited their publication. He promised to do so, but never brought (probably did not want to) either task to a conclusion--to the final pinnacle of perfection that he demanded of himself for publication. Understanding the
Like his labors on Tower Peak Quadrangle and on the Nenana Gravels paper, Wahrhaftig's love for his friends and students, for the mountains and science, for the Survey and the University, his care for social justice and the environment, for music, art and literature--all of these loves were deep, humble, and enduring. His caring touched the lives of many colleagues, students, friends and relatives, by whom he is sorely missed as a wise, compassionate, and cherished friend.
Randolph T. Wedding, Biochemistry: Riverside
| 1921-1995 | |
| Professor and Biochemist Emeritus |
Randy Wedding came to UCR in 1950 as a Junior Plant Physiologist, in the division of Plant Physiology of the California Citrus Experiment Station, reaching the rank of Professor of Biochemistry and Biochemist in 1963. He retired in 1993, and died on January 2, 1995 in his 74th year. He is survived by his wife, Mary; a daughter, Sheila O'Brien of Riverside; a son, Randolph Wedding of Greenwich, Connecticut, and four grandchildren.
Randy grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida, where his family was in the plant nursery business. He studied plant physiology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, obtaining a B.A. in 1943. Service in the U.S. Navy during World War II interrupted Randy's scholastic pursuits. After attending Midshipman's School (at Notre Dame University) and the Navy Diesel Engineering School (at Berkeley) he saw active duty as Deck Officer on a Minesweeper in the Pacific theater, reaching the rank of Lieutenant JG. He then returned to Gainesville, completing an M.S. in plant physiology in 1947, and went on to further graduate studies in this same field at Cornell, obtaining a Ph.D. in 1950.
Randy's earliest scientific contributions at UCR arose from interactions with entomologists and plant pathologists, in which he answered physiological questions regarding pest and pathogen control in citrus and other crops, and became intimate with the roads from Riverside to anywhere citrus was grown in Southern California. Within a few years, his research studies moved more completely into the laboratory, where he worked on the plant growth regulators known as auxins. Randy's early success with auxins led to his obtaining in 1959 the first of what would become many British government fellowships to study at the University of Oxford. Within a few years, his research efforts were further focused upon energy metabolism, and he made many distinguished
Remarkably, Randy's publication rate was highest in his last decade. In his long and productive academic career, Randy had more than 20 graduate students and postdoctoral colleagues working with him at UCR. His philosophy was to have overlap of successive graduate students only at the beginning or end of their dissertation work, so he could properly give them the attention they deserved. In addition, he had a number of undergraduate majors in biochemistry conduct their senior research project in his laboratory. Although Randy was an individual who did not suffer fools very kindly, he was extremely considerate of and patient with students.
Randy's service to the University was extraordinary and of lasting impact. His first important contribution came in the early 1960s, when the small UCR campus was given permission to expand academic offerings to include graduate programs. Randy played a critical role in fashioning and fighting for a Ph.D. program in biochemistry, in part based on the vision of a department (primarily consisting of plant biochemists) transformed into one including faculty covering all aspects of biochemistry. Randy oversaw completion of this transformation as Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry from 1966 to 1975.
Randy took the obligation that faculty have to shape administrative policy and action in the University seriously and vigorously. The words “consult” and “advise” were more than words to Randy. He believed that the faculty must state what they believed in, and that the Academic Senate had an important role as a counter-force to the administration. Starting in 1961 the list of Senate committees he served on is impressive: Committee on Committees, Graduate Council, Educational Policy, Advisory Committee, Academic Council, Representative to the Assembly, Budget-Resources section of the Budget Committee, Academic Freedom, and University Welfare. He also worked with the administration on its committees: Building and Campus Development, Campus Planning Committee, Air Pollution Advisory Committee, Program Review Board, Growth Plan Task Force, and Part-time Reduced Fee Program. As leader he was Chairman of Educational Policy (UCR and systemwide), the systemwide Academic Council, Special Committee on Long Range Educational Objectives and Academic Planning (systemwide), University Welfare, and Chair of the Riverside Division.
Of special note was his work as the Chair of the Special Committee on Long Range Educational Objectives and Academic Planning (systemwide). Its major report laid out the direction of the University from 1975 to 1985. If only that committee's conclusions and recommendations had been fully taken. They identified four significant aspects of the new conditions that the University had to face in the next decades, including: changing patterns of enrollment growth; stringency of financial resources for higher education; reduced numbers of academic career positions for recipients of doctoral degrees; and continuing changes in student interests and social trends. While not fully accepted, many of the committee's conclusions were incorporated into future planning, which aided in the great changes of the 80s and 90s.
Randy was involved heavily at the statewide level, and was Chair of the systemwide Academic Council and Assembly of the Academic Senate (1968-69). That was not an easy year. For example, while traveling in the summer he received a long-distance telephone call and, in his words, “...It turned out to be my Academic Senate secretary calling to let me know that all hell had broken loose with the Regents and politicians convinced that the problems with Eldridge Cleaver and Angela Davis were the fault of the Academic Senate. I spent the rest of the year trying to figure some way to cast the blame on others...”. He lived through it and both Randy and the Senate survived.
Through his contacts with decision-makers in Berkeley and Sacramento during the late 1960s, Randy was able to make important contributions to the successful effort to secure funding for a new building, a building simply not justified by UCR enrollments at that time. Webber Hall East (now Boyce Hall), completed in 1974, greatly enhanced the teaching and research programs in biochemistry, plant pathology and several other departments in the College.
In his last major Senate office, as Chair of the Riverside Division (1978-1982), Randy's understanding of the Senate and University was applied to ensure that the flow of information was unimpeded and complete. Of particular note, Randy was the very supportive key to the orderly transition from Chancellor Hinderaker to Rivera, which occurred in the middle of his chairmanship. The Senate was under a thoughtful and vigilant leader. As Chair of the Senate he had a vision of the future and wanted to move us there, but he knew that discussion was the only method to move the faculty. An orderly discussion followed by a decision was his method of leadership.
Randy's “retirement” consisted of continuation of his very active research program, including supervision of a postdoctoral scientist and
Randy had little interest in spectator sports and held professional athletes in general disdain. But one of the consuming passions of his life was tennis. Usually playing doubles, Randy could be found on the University courts every noon for decades. Although he played a hard-hitting and aggressive (but sometimes erratic) game, his court behavior was always gentlemanly and generous. But the hour was sacrosanct. Rarely during his tenure as chair of Biochemistry did the department have a meeting between twelve and one. Randy's other avocation was painting, of sights in various travels in Europe, and of scientific pursuits. His colorful paintings were given to his students and friends at UCR and elsewhere, including the Academic Senate offices.
His reputation preceded him; some of it deserved, some in error. When he first became involved in the affairs of the Academic Senate, the staff were worried about this large, apparently forbidding man. He demanded information and progress, but he was fair and ultimately allowed all to form their own direction in their jobs. They believed in him and worked willingly with and for him. The appearance of a gruff, unbending man was only that, an appearance. More than one person described him as “a pussy cat.” Perhaps, but not when confronted with an error or challenge; then he could be a lion. Randy expressed kindness and generosity, possessed a sense of fairness combined with integrity and honesty, and was a good judge of character which allowed him to trust some persons and make them his friends. Like many he disliked being wrong, but would admit it if he was; but you had to prove he was wrong. In all senses, Randy was a politician of the University. The man and his accomplishments will be long felt by many.
Lynn White, History: Los Angeles
| 1907-1987 | |
| Professor Emeritus | |
| Director and Founder of the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies |
It was on March 30, 1987 that Lynn White passed away due to unknown causes at the age of 80. He came to UCLA on July 1, 1958 and provided many valuable contributions to the UCLA community until his retirement on June 30, 1974. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were respected by his colleagues.
Lynn's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Walter Wilcox, Journalism; Speech: Los Angeles
| 1920-1983 | |
| Professor and Chair |
It was on July 17, 1983 that Walter Wilcox passed away due to heart failure at the age of 63. His service at UCLA began on July 1, 1960 and he provided significant contributions to the UCLA community until his death. His many talents and achievements at UCLA were valued and respected by colleagues.
Walter's death has been a great loss to those who knew him well and to the field that no longer possesses his talent. He shall be missed immensely by those he has touched with his knowledge and wisdom.
Robley Cook Williams, Molecular and Cell Biology: Berkeley
| 1908-1995 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
After a highly successful career as Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan where he had already attained a national reputation in stellar spectrophotometry and astronomy, Robley Williams became interested in the newly developed electron microscope and in applying his expertise with evaporated films to enhance the imaging of particles being examined by electron microscopy. In a very short time his technique of shadow casting led to elegant, detailed images of crystalline plant viruses, and Robley Williams rapidly earned the reputation as one of the world's leading electron microscopists. In the late 40s Williams' seminal papers on tobacco mosaic virus attracted the attention of Wendell M. Stanley, Director of the Virus Laboratory and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry here at Berkeley. He succeeded in recruiting Williams to the Berkeley campus, where his second career in science and education flourished. It was also at Berkeley where Williams became a major spokesman and leader in establishing biophysics as a separate discipline in universities and research institutions throughout the world. Robley Williams continued as an active scientist working at the bench long after he became an Emeritus Professor in 1976. It was only after an increasingly disabling illness prevented him from personally handling the minute grids containing specimens for electron microscopy that he abandoned the laboratory. Following a long illness at their home in Kensington, Robley and his wife, Margery, moved to Oneonta, New York, where he died on the 3rd of January, 1995.
Robley was born in Santa Rosa, California, and he enjoyed recalling his fleeting attendance at schools in Yreka, Alturas, Cedarville, Turlock, Santa Cruz and San Bernardino as his family moved from place to place. When he was in high school the family moved from Alhambra to Pasadena
Robley Williams joined the Berkeley faculty as Professor of Biophysics in 1950, only two years after the establishment of the Department of Biochemistry in the College of Letters and Science and the founding of the Virus Laboratory. His impact was immediate. New courses in biophysical chemistry and optical methods applied to biological systems were instituted; collaborative studies on the structure and assembly of viruses were initiated; and the development of a graduate curriculum became the focus of departmental activities. Williams was unusually generous with his time, thoughtful, wise, efficient and effective. As a consequence he was called upon for service not only in the department but also on the campus level and throughout the university. He served as Associate Director of the Virus Laboratory from 1964 to 1969. When the Department of Molecular Biology was established on the campus, it was Williams who served as its first chair and initiated an entirely new curriculum along with a concerted drive to recruit new faculty. At different times he was chair of the Assembly and Academic Council of the Academic Senate as well as chair of the Budget Committee. In times of crisis on campus, Robley was called upon for special duties and his response invariably was to take on additional duties without shirking prior obligations. His contributions were countless. In 1969-70, for example, he was chair of the Biology Council, a member of the Program Review Board, the Task Force on the University Growth Plan, and the Task Force on Student Government in the Office of the President. At the same time he was on the Chancellor's Advisory Committee for Research Policy and Administration. In addition
Williams' service at the national level rivaled that at the University. He was president of the Electron Microscopy Society of America in 1951. Following that he was a major contributor in the founding of the Biophysics Society and became its first president, serving for two years from 1957 to 1959. He was also president of the Commission for Molecular Biophysics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics from 1961 to 1967. Robley was a trustee of Deep Springs College as well as president of the Telluride Association. Because of the respect he earned as a biophysicist he was called to serve on the editorial boards of scientific journals such as Comprehensive Virology, Quarterly Review of Biophysics, Biophysical Journal and Journal of Molecular Biology. All of this service was given with grace and many authors became the beneficiaries of his keen analytical mind and his uncanny facility for expression of concepts and interpretation of data. He was a superb reviewer of scientific papers.
Just as he had a romance with astronomy when he was a young man, so he had a love affair with the electron microscope. He was very protective about it and, because of his high standards and rigorous view of the way to conduct scientific investigations, he was critical of those “who see what they want to see.” Unlike many of his contemporaries, Robley was always at the bench himself. His students and postdoctoral associates were relatively few in number mainly because of his style. He wanted to do electron microscopy and did not turn the experimental work over to others. In addition to being the co-inventor of the metal shadowing technique which was used throughout the world, he recognized that the traditional procedures of electron microscopy were frequently severely destructive of the biological specimens thereby precluding a clear interpretation of their fine structures. In dramatic fashion he and his colleague demonstrated that the deterioration of specimens in conventional electron microscopy could be avoided by minimal beam exposure. The resulting electron microscopic images were remarkable. Structural features which previously could only be inferred indirectly, thereafter could be detected by direct observation.
Robley Williams liked to collaborate with others who had biological problems for which answers to basic questions could be obtained by
His impressive scientific achievements were recognized by many honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, electron to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Also, he was the recipient of the Longstreth Medal of the Franklin Institute as well as the John Scott Award of the City of Philadelphia.
We have lost a creative, productive colleague and friend who made important contributions to our department, campus and university. He is survived by his wife, Margery; his daughter, Grace Smith; his son, Robley C. Jr.; and four grandchildren.
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Title: 1995, University of California: In Memoriam
By: University of California (System) Academic Senate, Author
Date: 1995
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