University of California: In Memoriam, May 1977A publication of the University of California |
Charles Aikin, Political Science: Berkeley
| 1901-1974 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Charles Aikin, known to most of us as Chuck, devoted some forty-five years of his life to the University of California and to the Department of Political Science. Obtaining his Ph.D. degree from Brookings Institution, he came to Berkeley as an instructor of political science in 1929, and ultimately became a full professor and twice chairman of the department in the course of his career.
His years at Berkeley were marked by two consistent qualities, permeating every aspect of his thought and work: loyalty to the University and an insistence upon high standards. For Chuck, the University of California embodied one of the most important principles of American life: the dedication to quality education, both undergraduate and graduate, for young men and women, at a cost within reason. The fact that ours is a public institution, and one committed to the training of large numbers of students, never inhibited Chuck from seeking to make it the best institution, public or private, in the nation.
His insistence upon standards was a part of his love for Berkeley, and for the political science department. This insistence, moreover, extended to himself as well as to colleagues and students. He constantly strove to improve his own teaching and research even as he encouraged others in that direction, and he was never fully satisfied--a quality essential to progress. If a department and university are to be great, people like Charles Aikin are essential, and his contributions to each of us in these respects can scarcely be overestimated.
Chuck's research interests were remarkably varied, as three papers published toward the end of his career indicate so clearly: “The Initiative, the Referendum and Representative Government,” “The U.S. Supreme Court: New Directions in the 20th Century,” and “The Question of Executive Primacy: Thoughts on American Experience.” Could any topics be of more immediate importance to an understanding of American politics and to an appreciation of the issues to be considered by the American people?
He was vice president of the American Political Science Association in 1952. But his recognition as a political scientist extended beyond
Chuck's services to our University, ranging from his departmental chairmanship to his role as dean and member of numerous committees and advisory groups, are well known. He was assistant dean in the College of Letters and Science for several years and served as associate dean in 1955-56. Our younger colleagues, however, may not be fully aware of his services to the nation. During World War II, he was director of the San Francisco Office of Price Administration, and shortly after that war, he became assistant to Dean Acheson as a member of the first Hoover Commission.
Above all, however, Charles Aikin was a devoted teacher to many generations of Berkeley students. A lifelong friend and associate, Jacobus tenBroek, captured this fact when he remarked, “His commitment to teaching and students has always been primary and intimate.” Chuck managed the difficult task of being a stimulating, highly effective teacher to both undergraduates and graduates. His undergraduate courses in constitutional law were an exciting experience, and always packed with students. At the same time, in the course of his long career here, he guided substantial numbers of graduate students, helping to launch them on their own careers as teachers or civil servants.
What makes a great teacher? No single set of criteria exists. To many of us, Chuck was a great teacher because he insisted that every student think for him or herself, that each individual challenge old stereotypes and reexamine issues supposedly settled. He refused to accept the commonplace, and he involved his students in the search for truth.
He never confined his teaching to the classroom. The best example was his “Sunday morning group,” whose constantly changing membership of graduate and undergraduate students, with occasionally a young member of the faculty, met sharply every Sunday at 10 a.m. and adjourned sharply at noon. Scores of people now in academic and professional life remember more distinctly than any other university experience this informal seminar on the freshly delivered decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Throughout his teaching he emphasized the importance of analyzing the whole decision of the court. As long as the number of students would allow, he sent them to the court reports themselves. When this was no longer possible, he edited the facsimile reproduction of entire decisions for the Chandler Series on Significant Supreme Court Decisions. He also edited a book of whole cases, entitled The Negro Votes.
Tacked up on the wall of his study, on a yellowed sheet of paper,
At his side, through all of these years, has stood Audrey Aikin, his wife, who survives him. Chuck's devotion to the University and the ideals for which it stands have never been more in need of emulation than today. Thus, they constitute an example from which all of us can learn, and in these terms, Chuck remains our teacher.
Merlin Walters Allen, Nematology: Davis and Berkeley
| 1912-1974 | |
| Professor | |
| Nematologist in the Agricultural Experiment Station |
Merlin Allen was born in Wellsville, Utah, December 1, 1912. After early education in Logan, Utah, he attended Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University), where he received a B.S. and, in 1937, an M.S. in entomology. Captain of the Utah State tennis and swimming teams, he remained a sports fan throughout life. This became one of many bases for a high degree of rapport with students.
In 1937 he was employed as field aide by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Stationed in Logan, Utah, he worked with entomologist George F. Knowlton on the taxonomy, life history, and control of several insects important in that area. His earliest publications dealt with this work.
His career in nematology began in 1939, when he transferred to the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Salt Lake City. Here he was scientific aide to the pioneer American nematologist, Gerald Thorne, an enthusiastic and dedicated nematode taxonomist. Thorne passed on a high degree of this enthusiasm to Merlin Allen, whose first description of a new nematode species appeared in 1940, including excellent drawings that were to characterize all his later taxonomic contributions. Active in taxonomy until the last weeks of his life, Allen earned an outstanding reputation for his generic revisions and sound concepts of higher categories. One of the most valuable legacies he left the department is the completely identified and catalogued collection of preserved nematode specimens assembled under his care and guidance.
In 1943 he was promoted to assistant nematologist and transferred to Bakersfield, California. Here he began research on control of the nematodes affecting California agriculture. Cooperating with farm advisors, chemical industry representatives, and plant breeders, Merlin Allen was a leader in experimentation that showed how nematodes might be controlled in many situations where they were the principal
Recognizing the need for a plant nematologist, Dean C. B. Hutchison used emergency funds in 1944 to hire Merlin Allen as an associate in the Experiment Station. He was placed in the Department of Entomology and Parasitology on the Berkeley campus. After completing requirements for the Ph.D. in that department in 1947 he was appointed assistant professor of entomology and assistant nematologist in the Experiment Station.
Entomology 118 (Nematology), initiated and taught by Dr. Allen at Berkeley in 1947, was the first organized course in nematology to be offered at any university. By this time plant growth responses to the newly introduced nematicidal soil fumigants had shown the economic advantages of nematode control, but very few people knew how to work with nematodes. Dr. Allen was teaching a subject in which competence was in demand and authorities were rare. Graduate students and scientists from California and from other states and other countries came to his laboratory. He was a provocative instructor, effective at transferring his expertise. Students and visitors found time with him very rewarding and became leaders in the ensuing expansion of nematology.
In 1958 he became professor of nematology and nematologist in the Experiment Station and transferred to the Davis campus. A special California legislative appropriation had allowed expansion of nematological research and teaching at the Davis and Riverside campuses. From 1962 to 1966 Dr. Allen served as chairman of the statewide Department of Nematology, and from 1966 to 1968 he was chairman of the Department of Nematology at Davis.
When nematologists in the western hemisphere organized the Society of Nematologists in 1961, Dr. Allen was elected its first president. In 1970 he was made an honorary member of that organization, and was appointed its representative to the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
He served on editorial boards for Phytopathology and Nematologica, and was a member of an advisory committee dealing with helminths for the Smithsonian Institution.
Dr. Allen's service to nematology and agriculture was worldwide. He participated in regional research and training programs in the western and the southeastern United States, was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands, participated in the joint University of Chile-University of California program in Santiago, Chile, and most recently, was a member of a U.S. Agency for International Development Survey in Central America.
Sometimes abrupt and dogmatic, Dr. Allen was nevertheless a very social person, continually communicating with everyone around him.
Dr. Allen was married in 1938 to Lois Davis, who shared his life and friends until her protracted illness and death. Dr. Allen is survived by LaVonne (Bonnie) Byers Allen, who brightened his life from the time of their marriage in 1967.
Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong, Law: Berkeley
| 1890-1976 | |
| May T. Morrison Professor of Municipal Law, Emeritus |
After a long and extremely productive life Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong died on January 18, 1976. She had been an inspired teacher to thousands of law students during a period of over forty years when illness forced her to discontinue teaching at Boalt years after her formal retirement.
Barbara Nachtrieb graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1913 and from Boalt Hall in 1915, at a time when the presence of women in the legal profession was an extreme rarity. Subsequently, in 1921, she received a Ph.D. in economics. Barbara entered into practice in San Francisco with a classmate, Louise Cleveland. In 1919 she returned to the University as a lecturer in law and economics, giving one course in each department. At this period the presence of a woman as a member of a law faculty was unique. In fact, Barbara was the first woman appointed to the faculty of the law school of a major university. For a number of years she continued giving courses in both departments, first as a lecturer and then as an assistant professor. She became interested in the subject of social insurance at a time when the interest and activity in this area by members of the legal profession, academicians, and politicians was very limited. In 1928 she was appointed as a full-time member of the law faculty and, in 1935, a full professor. For the rest of her teaching life, Barbara devoted herself to Boalt Hall and its students. Fortunately for the University, Barbara had an abiding love for and loyalty to her alma mater which she showed in every facet of her very full and active life.
Her interest in social insurance, health insurance, and minimum wages led to extensive writings in the area of social economics, and she quickly became recognized as one of the outstanding experts in the field. Her ideas, expressed in her book Insuring the Essentials (1932), exerted a strong impact on the structure of the Social Security Act. Beyond that, Barbara materially assisted in drafting the act when she served as chief of staff for social security planning of the celebrated Committee on Economic Security. Her contributions to the birth of
Barbara was as devoted to her country as she was to her University and rendered many services to the nation, including service with distinction during World War II in the Office of Price Administration.
In 1955 she was appointed to the A. F. and May T. Morrison Chair of Law, which she held until retirement. Barbara served on many committees and engaged in a multitude of civic activities, including acting as the Social Security representative for the United States at the second International Conference on Social Security and Labor Law at Brussels, Belgium in 1959, and as resource consultant at the White House Conference on the Aged and Aging in 1961.
For the last few years of her life Barbara suffered substantially by reason of an injury inflicted on her by hoodlums. Despite this, as Chief Justice Traynor, now retired, has said, “Her radiant spirit continued not only to sustain her but to give courage to others.”
While this abbreviated statement of the accomplishments of Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong reveals her brilliance, her success in the areas of her interest, and the breadth of her accomplishments, it does not indicate what she meant as a person to the law students who studied under her, to her faculty colleagues at Boalt, and to other colleagues and friends throughout the nation and world whose association with her brought an important perspective into their lives.
Barbara was an extremely gifted teacher. She put all of her enthusiasm, knowledge, and feeling for people into her class sessions. Her teaching manner was animated and she expressed, usually with controlled passion but at times with vehemence, her views on judicial decisions, statutes, and other manifestations of the state of the law. Her inevitably lively classes inspired students to unaccustomed activity and participation. In fact, she frequently had to appoint a student sergeant-at-arms to see that the student interest did not exceed appropriate bounds. She was so knowledgeable about the material in the areas of labor law and family law that many students who had minimal interest in these areas when they began her courses subsequently decided to devote their professional lives to practice in some phase of these subjects. She demanded hard work of her students and her own enthusiasm and industry caused them to comply with little of the usual grumbling traditional with students.
Her interest in students was not confined to their class work. She was concerned with their personal problems and was always willing to spend her time listening to them and offering both advice and practical
Barbara was a most enjoyable colleague. She was in such a constant ferment of ideas and expressed so vividly her passions and prejudices that she was a delight to hear and see. She had the same interest in her colleagues as in her students. Their progress was a joy to her which she candidly expressed, and she shared personally their problems.
Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong has left to the University, the law school, the state, and the nation a perpetual memorial in what she conveyed to her students and in the work she did, which was both scholarly and has resulted in a better life for millions in this country. Recently, she has become a symbol to women lawyers, who recognize in her a pioneer for the ideal that women are free to pursue their talents and intellectual capacities to the utmost. She is missed, but she is still with us.
Vigfus Samundur Asmundson, Avian Sciences: Davis
| 1895-1974 | |
| Professor Emeritus | |
| Poultry Husbandryman |
A first-rate scholar and scientist was lost to the campus of the University of California, Davis with the death of Vigfus Samundur Asmundson. He was born September 24, 1895 at Reykjavik, Iceland. His father, a fisherman, drowned at sea when Vigfus was two years old, leaving him and his older sister to be supported by his mother. After her death six years later, a relative sent funds to bring the orphaned child in 1904 to live with her at Tantallon, Saskatchewan. He was registered in the first class in agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan in 1912 and worked at the University poultry plant. He received an associate certificate in 1915, and then entered a degree program from which he received a B.S.A. degree in 1918. Graduate study followed at Cornell University leading to an M.S.A. degree in 1920.
Asmundson was appointed to the staff of the Poultry Husbandry Department at the University of British Columbia in 1920, where he progressed through the stages of instructor to associate professor during the next twelve years. Responsible for a genetic program with chickens, he gained international attention in 1926 for producing what was then a world record pen and individual hen for annual egg production. He took graduate work at the University of Wisconsin during a period of leave from the University of British Columbia and was granted a Ph.D. degree in genetics and poultry husbandry in 1930 under Professor L. J. Cole.
In the depths of the depression of the 1930s, appropriations for the departments of agriculture at the University of British Columbia were severely curtailed, and the junior staff position held by Asmundson was eliminated in 1932. He then came to the University of California at Berkeley as an associate in poultry husbandry where he completed publications of his previous research on the formation of the chicken egg. He was appointed assistant professor at Davis in 1933 and was given the special charge of developing a research program using turkeys as the experimental animal. He was in charge of poultry research and
Many honors have come to Professor Asmundson: the Poultry Science Research Prize, 1931; Borden Award in Poultry Science, 1942; National Turkey Federation Award, 1947; Davis Faculty Research Lecturer in 1947; an honorary LL.D. from the University of California, Davis, 1964; and the signal honor of the dedication of the Department of Avian Sciences building at Davis as the Vigfus S. Asmundson Hall, 1970. He served on many important and prestigious faculty committees of the Davis campus. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Poultry Science Association. Other memberships were held in the World's Poultry Science Association, American Genetics Association, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Genetics Society of America.
Dr. Asmundson died September 10, 1974, survived by his wife Aline, three sons, two daughters, and four grandchildren. A modest and dedicated person, he overcame misfortunes early in life and the handicap of poor eyesight by an intense devotion to research and teaching. His scholarly endeavors brought him the merited esteem of his students, his colleagues, and an industry that benefited immeasurably from his work.
John Louis Beatty, History: Riverside
| 1922-1975 | |
| Professor |
John Louis Beatty was born in Portland, Oregon, January 24, 1922 and died in Riverside, California, March 23, 1975. He attended high school in Portland and then went on to Reed College, where he graduated with a major in economics in 1943. As a young man, before going to college, he had been very interested in becoming a professional baseball player; he had gone to baseball school and was scouted by the Portland Beavers as a pitcher. Throughout his life he maintained an active interest in sports, especially baseball, football, and basketball. When he entered the army in 1943, he spent time in Chicago with the Army Specialized Training Program studying Japanese. He was sent--with military logic--to Europe to serve with the First Army in England, France, and finally Germany. As a staff sergeant he was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action and the Purple Heart for serious wounds suffered in battle. He was discharged in December 1945 and took up graduate study in history at Stanford, where he received an M.A. in 1947. He went back to the Northwest to take a Ph.D. in history at the University of Washington with a dissertation on “The Imperium of Napoleon I.” He was a teaching assistant and then acted as an instructor in history at the University of Delaware from 1952 to 1953.
As of July 1, 1953, he was appointed assistant professor of history and humanities at UC, Riverside, and he began his appointment as one of the few, truly original faculty members of the newly established College of Letters and Science, in which actual instruction did not start until February 1954. He laid plans for the original two-year sequence in the humanities, which was designed to be required of all students and which was clearly influenced by his experiences at Stanford and Reed. With a colleague in philosophy, Oliver A. Johnson, he prepared a book of readings, which was published by Prentice-Hall in 1958 as Heritage of Western Civilization. This work has gone through three editions and many printings and is still widely used throughout the country.
John Beatty's teaching career was largely spent in courses on Western civilization and on England. He was especially interested in the seventeenth
John Beatty was a man of wide interests and strongly held opinions. He traveled extensively during sabbaticals in the British Isles, the Caribbean, and the United States. He was a bibliophile and a careful purchaser for the UCR Library, which now boasts an impressive collection on seventeenth-century English history. He was an engaging, original, and unforgettable teacher, whom one student described as “a shining light--always fascinating--always stimulating.”
John Beatty was a frank and outspoken person who will be remembered with respect and affection by thousands of former students and hundreds of colleagues. He leaves his wife, Patricia, and a daughter, Alexandra.
James Percy Bennett, Botany; Plant Nutrition: Berkeley
| 1886-1975 | |
| Professor of Plant Physiology, Emeritus |
James Percy Bennett was born near Pender, Nebraska on October 6, 1886, the youngest of ten children, all boys. He grew up, however, in Missouri, where the family owned a large farm which he acquired later and maintained for most of his life, although he did not actually return to the land. He entered the University of Missouri, where he received an A.B. in economics in 1911, followed by an A.M. in botany in 1913. Later he attended the University of Wisconsin, where he received the Ph.D. in botany in 1918. He stayed at the University of Wisconsin for several years as an instructor in botany. There he became acquainted with Max W. Gardner, the plant pathologist, and began a friendship and professional association which was to last throughout his life. He also developed a keen interest in nonpathological plant diseases. Much of his teaching at this time was by personal involvement in the laboratory with each graduate student, a method that was to characterize his work with graduate students in the years to come. In 1918-19, on leave from the University of Wisconsin, he was an assistant pathologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and worked on the nonparasitic Blackheart disease of potatoes. The country, then at war, could ill afford the considerable loss of this product during a period of food shortages. Bennett was able to show that the disease could be eliminated by better ventilation and heat distribution in the boxcars during shipment from the West Coast. Several years later, he successfully identified the mechanism of spoilage as excessive respiration follow by enzymatic blackening of the killed tissues.
In November 1919 he came to the Berkeley campus at the invitation of Professor Whitten, whom he had known at the University of Missouri. He married Professor Whitten's daughter Martha in 1939. J.P., as he was fondly referred to by those who knew him well, first came to this University as an instructor in pomology. Later he was to be professor of plant physiology and plant physiologist in the Agriculture Experiment Station. For many years J.P. was graduate advisor for the Group in Plant Physiology. To most students he was more than just an advisor and admired teacher but a good friend as well. He was
His research career from 1919 until he retired in 1954 spanned many interests. Among these was the problem of iron chlorosis, the yellowing of leaves on young shoots, a disease caused by the inability of the plant to take up or utilize iron properly. He developed a practical method for control of the disease, namely, the direct injection of suitable iron compounds into the sapwood of the affected tree, a technique still in use today. He was active in the fields of plant-water relations and the uptake and distribution of carbohydrates and nitrogenous compounds. Later he added to these an interest in plant hormones, particularly the auxins. He was especially intrigued by the phenomenon of dormancy in fruit trees and spent considerable time studying the problems associated with dormancy in both their practical and fundamental aspects. He was one of the first to use man-made radioisotopes to study mineral uptake and distribution in plants. He would obtain shortlived radioactive potassium from the old Radiation Laboratory and, together with laboratory assistants and graduate students, work around the clock to gather data before the material was lost by decay.
J.P. had many interests aside from his professional work. He loved classical music and had an unusually large collection of recordings. He also had a great fondness for the outdoors. For many years he and his friends explored much of the High Sierra back country. He liked to hunt and would enjoy sharing his take with friends. After his retirement, the Bennetts moved to Lafayette, where they had several acres of partially wooded land. Here they could grow whatever took their fancy. He would delight in showing visitors about the place and in pointing out interesting plants and characteristics of the land. Often, too, he would reminisce about his boyhood on the Missouri farm, thus giving an insight into some of the factors that formed the character of a much esteemed friend, teacher, and colleague.
Jack Bjerknes, Meteorology: Los Angeles
| 1897-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
His full name was Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes, but all his friends called him Jack. He was born in Stockholm, November 2, 1897, the son of Professor Vilhelm Bjerknes. He died on July 7, 1975. He leaves his wife, Hedvig, whom he married in 1928, a son, Vil, born in 1931, a daughter, Kirsten, born in 1934, and their families.
Bjerknes became world-famous by the age of twenty when he discovered that the low pressure systems in the atmosphere are types of motion which form, and develop, on a sloping surface (the polar front), separating cold and warm air masses. This and related discoveries enabled Bjerknes and his collaborators, especially Solberg and Bergeron, to replace the earlier diffuse collection of observations with an empirical model of the low pressure systems which was valid enough to describe the typical low pressure developments and also simple enough to serve as a fruitful foundation for further theoretical studies.
Following the middle 1920s, the early findings in Bergen were gradually extended into a complete system of fronts and air masses and into a good knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of the lower atmosphere. The inspiration and organization of the Bergen school came from Jack Bjerknes' father, but the unchallenged leadership of the younger men in their studies on the weather maps fell on Jack's shoulders. Father and son worked together almost as a single personality, possessing the faculties of both the theoretical and the empirical scientist. This combination may be a clue to the great break-through in Bergen.
When observations from higher levels became more numerous, Jack Bjerknes was one of the first to study the three-dimensional structure in the large-scale waves found in the belt of west winds in middle latitudes. With intuition and rare insight, he was able to reveal the essential physical mechanism that governs the evolution of these waves and their coupling with the surface lows. He developed a simple empirical model for the waves, which has inspired important theoretical studies and has led to new advances in practical weather forecasting.
On an extended visit to America in 1940, he found himself stranded
In the last two decades of his life, Bjerknes pioneered with research on large-scale and long-term air-sea interaction. He realized that one of the principal generators of North Pacific and North American weather lay in the position and strength of the mid latitude westerlies. His extensive work and knowledge of the general atmospheric circulation lead him intuitively to propose that variations in the intensity of the tropical circulation would, through momentum transports at high elevations, affect the westerlies. These variations near the equator would depend on convective activity and in turn, on air-sea temperature differences. His extensive research has confirmed these ideas and has inspired further studies by scientists round the world.
Recognition of Bjerknes' achievements came in many forms. He was a member of numerous national academies of science, including the American academy. He received many honors, among them the prize medal from the World Meteorological Organization and the highest United States honor for a scientist, the Presidential Medal.
Throughout his life he never ceased to explore the multitude of phenomena in the atmosphere. His golden years were no less active and creative than his early years. Not only did he have new ideas but he was progressive in the use of new tools and methods. In the words of Fjörtoft, director of the Norwegian Meteorological Service: “He contributed perhaps more than any other meteorologist who has ever lived to create order in our knowledge of the atmosphere.”
Olga Louise Bridgman, Psychology: San Francisco and Berkeley
| 1886-1974 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Olga Bridgman died on February 6, 1974, a few weeks short of her eighty-eighth birthday, after a distinguished career in which she served the University on both its San Francisco and Berkeley campuses for more than forty years.
She was born March 30, 1886 in Jackson, Michigan, the daughter of a prominent newspaper editor whose family had migrated from England to Connecticut in 1690. She obtained her early education in the public schools of Jackson, and received her A.B. (1908) and her M.D. (1910) from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
After receiving her M.D. she served as resident physician at two public institutions in Illinois and worked with Goddard in New Jersey on developing the first American version of Binet's mental tests. In 1913 she enrolled in the University of California at Berkeley, where she earned her M.A. in psychology in 1914 and her Ph.D. in 1915. She was immediately appointed instructor in abnormal psychology and pediatrics, joining Professors G. M. Stratton and Warner Brown in the Psychology Laboratory, the nucleus of what was to become in 1922 the Department of Psychology. Thereafter, her professional activities were divided between the Medical School in San Francisco and the Berkeley campus, to both of which she made important contributions as she advanced through the ranks of the professorship. She became professor emerita in 1956, but remained active for many years on University committees and in children's centers near her home in Hillsborough.
Although she published on various topics in mental deficiency and child psychiatry during her long professional career, it was for her teaching and her contributions to school clinics, well-baby centers, and juvenile courts that she is most vividly remembered. She was a gifted speaker, whose lectures were models of clarity and organization, constantly updated to keep abreast of new developments and enriched by anecdotes drawn from her own extensive case experience. Generations of premedical students at Berkeley crowded to take her courses on mental deficiency and on abnormal psychology, and to accompany
She was much in demand for consultation to public and private social agencies, and gave generously of her time. As early as 1915 she was consulting psychiatrist to the San Francisco Juvenile Court. In the years that followed she served as medical psychologist for the San Francisco Board of Health, consultant to the California State School for the Deaf, director of the Division of Mental Hygiene of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, consultant to the Langley Porter Clinic, member of numerous state and county civil service examination boards, and in other capacities too numerous to mention.
Unpretentious in manner, she nevertheless received a long list of honors from professional colleagues who knew and appreciated her work. Only a few can be mentioned. She held national office in the Orthopsychiatric Association and the American Association on Mental Deficiency, and served as president of several local societies in her areas of professional interest. Early in her career she became a Diplomate in Psychiatry of the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry. When psychologists, following the pattern of medical specialty boards, organized the American Board of Professional Psychology in 1947, she was awarded its Diploma in Clinical Psychology. Among her numerous recognitions was the award by Mills College in 1937 of the honorary degree of Doctor of Science, to add to her M.D. and Ph.D. The accolade that accompanied that degree stated well her unique contribution--“Student of inter-relationships of the mind and the body; healer of the ills of childhood that maturity may be free of deep rooted sickness; teacher by word of mouth and by pen of the laws of human development, the obedience to which will ease human experience of preventable tragedy.”
Not the least of her contributions, decades before the strident urgencies of the current women's liberation movement, was the encouragement that this modest and dignified woman gave to younger professional women, not only by her sympathy and understanding, but also by her own quiet example; for it is a relevant historical fact that the first three doctorates conferred by Berkeley's psychology department were earned by women.
Lloyd Neff Browning, Music: Santa Barbara
| 1902-1976 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Professor Lloyd Neff Browning dedicated his life to the teaching and performance of music at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Born in Humboldt, Kansas on August 19, 1902, trained at the Chicago Musical College, the University of Chicago, the University of Colorado, the University of Southern California, and the Claremont Graduate School, Mr. Browning conducted the first piano classes at Santa Barbara State College's Riviera campus. He was one of the first piano instructors in the young music department. After the State College became a part of the University of California, Professor Browning served the growing institution with versatility and distinction. His influence consistently remained one of high professional quality and unquestioned musical integrity, and continues to be felt in the Department of Music at UCSB.
Lloyd Browning impressed all who knew him with his gentleness and his humility. From the time he joined the Santa Barbara faculty in 1939 until his retirement, he devoted himself unsparingly to his students. Through his inspired encouragement, his conscientious teaching, and his own example, he imbued his students with the high standards and the meticulous attention to refinement and detail which characterized his own personal and professional life. Mr. Browning's concern for each student's individual development as a pianist and musician contributed in large part to his success as a teacher.
A large number of Professor Browning's students excelled in the performance field, and many continued further to make reputations at the professional level. His students were selected to perform in recital and with symphony orchestras throughout the state, and several became well known as concert artists in this country and in Europe.
The basis for Lloyd Browning's career was established by a solid record of impressive piano performances. His life was music, and he participated in his chosen specialty with authority and sensitivity. His concerts are too many to enumerate here, but they included appearances in New York's Town Hall, the Jordan Hall in Boston, with the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, many smaller orchestras
Professor Browning contributed his judgment and experience generously in service to cultural and academic organizations. As a member of the board of directors of the Lobero Theatre Foundation, the Santa Barbara Civic Opera Association, the Santa Barbara Civic Music Association, the Santa Barbara Symphony, and the Santa Barbara Music Society, he served his community unstintingly. He belonged to Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha, the American Musicological Society, the Renaissance Society of America, the International Institute of Arts and Letters, and the California State Education Association. He was faculty advisor of Phi Beta and held the chairmanship of the Public Ceremonies Committee for many years in addition to membership on numerous other university committees.
Plagued with illness toward the end of his professional career, Professor Browning retired in 1969 and continued to reside in Santa Barbara until his death on July 17, 1976. He is survived by two daughters: Mrs. Mancel (Natalie) Clark and Mrs. Ronald (Nanci) Robertson. His wife, an accomplished violinist and teacher, Geraldine Massey Browning, preceded him in death.
Elroy Lorraine Bundy, Classics; Comparative Literature: Berkeley
| 1920-1975 | |
| Associate Professor |
The news of Roy Bundy's sudden death, the result of a massive heart attack two days after Christmas, reached many of his colleagues and friends at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association and stunned them. If Roy Bundy symbolized any one thing for those who knew him, it was supreme vitality--physical, mental, and spiritual. The scholarly world knew and admired him as the most creative student who had appeared in this century of the difficult Greek poet Pindar. His friends, students, and colleagues knew him better as a man of great personal magnetism, handsome, eloquent, and passionate; and accomplished athlete; an expert on California butterflies; a dedicated Hellenist, who possessed the most accurate sense of the nuances of ancient Greek; a teacher who could make dead Greek live for the most diverse set of students; a scholar who could build creatively on half-realized ideals of others and devise a new methodology for understanding literature; a poet and translator who commanded a unique skill in perceiving and explaining the apparent mysteries of the poet, above all the lyric poet... art. His loss is immense.
Roy first came to California and the Bay Area during army service. Four years later in 1946, when he was discharged, he decided to enroll at Berkeley, with the plan of earning a B.A. in English and then pursuing a career as a poet. Disappointed with what he found in his courses, he decided to begin Greek, then indeed to major in Greek as potentially more satisfying to his own poetic interests. Under the inspired teaching of Professors Linforth, Edelstein, and Cherniss, driven by his own aroused enthusiasm, he made rapid progress. At the age of twenty-eight, half his short life was over, but he had acquired a Berkeley B.A. in Greek.
Hereafter Roy was committed to Greek and the academic life, and, except for a year at Princeton on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a year of teaching at the University of Washington, his career was bound up with Berkeley. Long an admirer of the art of Pindar, even before studying Greek, he produced a brilliant dissertation in 1954
However, the first reactions of the older established Hellenists were not only cold and uncomprehending but also often caustic in disapproval. Other events were occurring at this same time in Roy's personal and scholarly life which, combined with the lack of recognition, made him, apparently at the peak of success, a disillusioned and unhappy man. He rapidly became an alcoholic, in more and more desperate straits, and many in his department, many of his closest friends, reluctantly gave him up for lost. But somehow he heroically asserted his will and halted his suicidal plunge. In 1968, as he succeeded in rebuilding his personal existence, the second phase of his scholarly career began. Ironically, the delayed recognition for his contributions to Pindaric interpretation now began to come, at first here and there in the United States and Germany, then in every study. But Roy had progressed beyond this and was working out for himself new goals. For a while, he returned to writing poetry as the most important thing. He began translating Pindar in the light of his new discoveries, yet trying to preserve poetic form. Finally, he glimpsed his mission in what might be called a creative exegesis of his own experience: how did Pindaric interpretation go astray?
To understand what had happened to Pindar over the centuries, Bundy at age fifty commenced a crash program of self-education to master the ethical and aesthetic developments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that link classical literature and modern criticism. He devoured difficult books, at the rate of fifteen per week. His energy
Nobody who knew Roy Bundy will forget his dynamic presence; nobody who studies Pindar can ignore Roy's fundamental discoveries. In many ways, his life resembled that of the tragic heroes of whom Homer, Sophocles, and his beloved Pindar wrote: few understood him fully at the right time, many were troubled by him, but almost all at least vaguely sensed his greatness.
Frank E. Burgher, Military Science: Los Angeles
| 1920-1976 | |
| Professor |
Colonel Frank E. Burgher, U.S. Army (retired), passed away on October 30, 1976 at his home in Northridge, California, while recovering from heart surgery.
As professor of military science, Colonel Burgher combined his deep, sincere patriotism with a strong respect for the youth of our nation, whom he felt were intelligent and deserving of his time and efforts. He devoted himself to the direction of their energies and enthusiasm. His philosophy of leadership led him to maintain a sincere interest in his students and to offer them the guidance, supervision, and discipline with which they could mature into the leading citizens this nation requires. In putting his philosophy into practice, he displayed such an obviously genuine interest in the concerns of his students that the following comment from a cadet at UCLA is only one of many similar statements: “Sir, I have been in your office only twice before. On each occasion I was looking for help and on each occasion I left having received that help and feeling that someone cared about me, not just as a cadet or a student, but as a person.”
This concern embraced all those with whom he served, so that one of his former junior officers has said of him: “He was one of four or five men who made a great impression on my life. He taught me the real meaning of dedication to duty, whether on the training field or in a game of football.” By his superiors, he was highly respected for his integrity, conscientious ability, and leadership.
Born in Hamburg, New Jersey, Colonel Burgher received his Bachelor of Science degree from Rutgers University in 1942. Commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduation, he reported for active duty with the 36th Infantry Division. During his service in Africa and Italy, he was awarded the Silver Star Medal, the United States' third highest decoration for gallantry in action. Subsequently, he served in a variety of stateside and overseas assignments, including the Research and Development Office of the Chief of Army Field Forces; as aide-de-camp to the commanding general, United States Army, Pacific; and aide-de-camp to the commanding general, Eighth U.S. Army, Korea. He also
Colonel Burgher arrived at UCLA in 1969 where he served as the professor of military science until his retirement in September, 1972, but his dedication to the students and loyalty to the University continued to be one of his vital interests until his untimely death.
Jonathan Lowell Butler, French and Italian: Davis
| 1939-1974 | |
| Associate Professor |
On January 1, 1974, Jonathan L. Butler, still in his mid thirties and just promoted to an associate professorship on the Davis campus of the University of California, was driving peacefully and conservatively with his wife Frances to visit his parents-in-law. His car was hit from the rear by a driver whom police described as apparently intoxicated, and Jonathan was killed on impact; Frances escaped the same fate by a hair's breadth and for several weeks hovered between life and death. Thus ended, prematurely, toward the close of the third quarter of the twentieth century, and on an absurd note, one of the few, truly promising careers in Romance linguistics.
Jonathan Butler entered the University of California after a restless childhood and adolescence; he missed the experience of a sheltered childhood in a stable parental home marked by humanistic culture and had to learn early how to claw his way through the jungle of high school and college life. As a lower-division student, he supported himself by doing miscellaneous jobs, some of them menial, such as cleaning the tools in the laboratory of a professor of immunology and microbiology; this professor, years later, when dean of Berkeley's Graduate Division, was pleasantly surprised to learn that Jonathan was on his way to becoming a major figure in the academic establishment. More rewarding, in retrospect, was his position as a part-time employee in the Associated Students Book Store: while ordering books and selling them to his customers, Jonathan developed a photographic memory for bibliographic detail and, in the process, became an avid and manysided reader. He learned to work with amazing speed, profiting from every half hour of relative leisure, and acquired a solid knowledge of several languages, including the classics. His undergraduate major was in Italian, a field that at Berkeley ordinarily attracts, when viewed in esthetic projection, either persons of Mediterranean background or budding connoisseurs of literature. Jonathan Butler was neither. When he finished his bachelor's degree, which he earned as a good rather than as an excellent senior, Jonathan decided to work in the same department toward his master's degree, with the understanding that
After the mid sixties, life began to look distinctly brighter for Jonathan. He married a cultured, artistically inclined, and talented young woman with Stanford credentials, who before long became a faculty member at UC, Davis in her own right as an assistant professor of design and moved in interesting and influential circles. The marriage, which at first looked like a venture, turned out to be a major success. Also, Jonathan earned a University Traveling Fellowship and spent one full year in Europe, dividing his time between Italy (including Rome, Florence, and Sardinia) and Heidelberg, where Romance studies flourished under Kurt Baldinger. His publications, at first modest, began to appear with crescendo, principally in Romance Philology. By 1968-69, as his work on his dissertation was in high gear and as he entrenched himself in the Department of French and Italian at nearby Davis, and while he continued to live and do research at Berkeley, it became clear to teachers and fellow students that Jonathan was rapidly becoming a young man of unusual promise, drive, and accomplishments. He submitted a brilliant dissertation (directed by R. Stefanini, among others) and defended it publicly with élan and éclat. The monograph, later revised and published at University expense, was pan-Romanic, which is in itself no mean achievement; it also showed a discernible emphasis on Sardinian, a novelty indeed in the history of American scholarship. Finally, Jonathan added to it a bona fide Indo-European dimension, thus displaying an unsuspected virtuosity and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and sophistication (he called himself “ambitious”). He thus produced a little masterpiece, which invites and stands comparison with the finest doctoral theses in Romance linguistics, such as those of Lausberg, Elcock, and Jungemann.
Jonathan Butler was a self-made man and, as a result of this self-reliance and resilience, he was free from any unbreakable fetters of ideological loyalty. Throughout the ten best years of his life, whether in residence or traveling, he undoubtedly met most of the congenial members of the Berkeley set who had primary or secondary ties to Romance philology and the publication of that same name; and they unquestionably remembered the lanky, fast-moving, verbally agile young man, who rarely missed a potentially rewarding event, such as a lecture or a seminar.
Jonathan Butler toyed for a while with the idea of switching to Indo-European studies--a risky plan, as he was soon to discover; at the same time, he was fascinated at least by the liveliness, and possibly also by the substance, of discussions conducted from coast to coast by “generativists.” His last major intellectual experience was the attendance at the Linguistic Institute at Chapel Hill, where he established a friendly rapport with James W. Harris and Robert D. King.
No one can affirm with assurance that, had Jonathan L. Butler stayed alive, he would have become a linguist of commanding stature; but at least the potentialities were there, and the promise in the last five years was extraordinary and gathering momentum. He was under serious consideration by three famous eastern universities and had just been recommended to the S. J. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for a fellowship; he had been given a spot at national meetings of learned societies. Essentially, however, despite all these exciting forays, Jonathan Butler remained a devoted Californian and a zestful, enthusiastic Berkeleyan, deeply in love with everything here, from the agonizing University Library to Telegraph Avenue's crazy, strident counter-culture. Where others, through some jinx, have been vaguely deprecatory or downright apologetic about their devotion to Romance linguistics, Johnathan Butler surprised everyone by his cheerful, vigorous, indeed exultant acceptance of a field gradually awakening from a slumber far too long.
He was honored posthumously by a memorial issue of Romance Philology dated May 1975. The Davis and Berkeley campuses--and Romance scholarship--have suffered a serious loss in the death of Butler, cut down just as he was reaching his prime.
Hugh Stuart Cameron, Veterinary Medicine: Davis
| 1896-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
The death of Hugh Cameron on July 6, 1975 brought to a close a long and distinguished career of service: to the University of California, to its students, and to the worldwide food-animal industry.
Hugh Cameron was born October 14, 1896 in County Kirkud-bright, Scotland, an area that was strongly agricultural, with particular emphasis on dairying; his early background in animal agriculture undoubtedly exercised a strong influence over his selection of a career.
Before his career in science was launched, World War I intervened, and Hugh Cameron joined the Cameron Highlanders and served four years of military service.
After the war, Hugh Cameron was offered the opportunity to serve as caretaker to a group of pedigreed cattle being shipped to the United States; following his arrival in the United States in 1923, he never returned to Scotland except as a visitor.
Hugh entered Cornell University in 1927 and was granted the degree D.V.M. in 1931. He continued at Cornell and earned the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1932 and 1935 respectively. He remained at Cornell one year and in 1936 accepted an appointment as assistant professor of veterinary science and assistant veterinarian in the Experiment Station at the University of California, Davis. His entire professional career was spent at this University. During the next twenty-eight years, until his retirement in 1964, he served the University and his chosen profession with a high order of dedication and loyalty; talent and imagination; and above all, scientific honesty and integrity. He served in every capacity the University and his profession asked of him and he served well and honestly. He was a member of the original committee that planned the existing School of Veterinary Medicine; and as a member of the initial committee on admissions, he helped in the selection of the first several classes. He was indeed one of the founding fathers of the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Woven through the fabric of his University service and in fact the backbone of this service was his research on the infectious and contagious diseases affecting the food producing animals.
He was an author on over seventy scientific publications. The writings dealt with a variety of infections in domestic animals, including trichomoniasis, trichostrongylosis, Corynebacterium infections, enterotoxemia, epididymitis in sheep, hemolytic streptocococcal infections in the bovine mammary gland, Erysipelothrix infections in swine, and hog cholera. By his efforts knowledge was advanced toward the understanding and control of these numerous disease problems; however, the greatest part of Hugh Cameron's thought and research effort was directed to investigations on the genus Brucella, one of the world's important diseases in both man and animals. His first published paper on the subject appeared in the Cornell Veterinarian in 1932 wherein he stated, “It is the intention of the author to continue this work.” Indeed, the studies were pursued and over forty manuscripts on brucellosis followed from that beginning. Early studies on the viability of Brucella abortus helped provide needed guidelines for the National Program to Eradicate Bovine Brucellosis in the United States. He also provided a technique and plan for the eradication of brucellosis from swine, which has formed the basis for control of this disease in many parts of the world. Dr. Cameron investigated antibodies accumulating in the mammary gland of chronically infected cattle and fostered the use of the whey test as an alternative diagnostic procedure to the testing of blood serum. His studies showing differences in the metabolic patterns of Brucella organisms have provided a much needed method for differentiating species and types within the genus.
As a result of the reputation gained from his research, Dr. Cameron was invited to serve on important committees, such as the Brucellosis Committee of the National Research Council and the statewide Brucellosis Committee in California. He served as president of the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases and was an associate editor of the Cornell Veterinarian.
As a result of his distinguished research accomplishments, Dr. Cameron was selected by his faculty colleagues as Faculty Research Lecturer in 1959. He was honored again in 1961 when the American Veterinary Medical Association bestowed on him the Borden Award in recognition for research. In 1968 the University bestowed on him its highest honor for his distinguished accomplishments, the honorary degree Doctor of Science.
Dr. Cameron was faithful to his University and ever proud to be a member of its faculty. He served as an effective member of the Budget Committee of the Davis campus and as a member of the Academic Council, both at Davis and statewide. In addition to service on many other committees of the Academic Senate, Dr. Cameron worked diligently toward the establishment of the School of Veterinary Medicine during its formative years. He was a hardworking and active member
Among Dr. Cameron's professional affiliations were the American Veterinary Medical Association, the California Veterinary Medical Association, the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, and the American Society for Microbiology.
In 1930 Hugh married Margaret McKenzie, a fellow Scot, who bore him two sons, Lindsay and Hugh, Jr. Margaret passed away in 1970 and Hugh subsequently married Marian McKenzie.
Charles Lewis Camp, Paleontology: Berkeley
| 1893-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Charles Camp began his association with the University two years before he came to Berkeley as a student, when he assisted in the biological survey of Mt. San Jacinto by the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in 1908. His active participation in the museum's programs while he was an undergraduate resulted in several publications. Following graduate studies at Columbia University, and publication of an outstanding dissertation on the classification of lizards, which established his lasting reputation as an herpetologist, he joined the zoology faculty at Berkeley in 1922, where he taught comparative anatomy of vertebrates. At the same time he commenced studies of Triassic fossils of the Painted Desert of Arizona as a research associate of the Museum of Paleontology. These researches continued over the next forty years and led to his major paleontological publications. In 1930 he transferred to the paleontology department; he served as director of the Museum of Paleontology from 1930 until 1949; in 1960 he retired from teaching.
A Guggenheim Fellowship enabled him to make an important collection of fossil mammal-like reptiles from the Karroo region of South Africa in 1935-36. A second African expedition in 1947-48 made further collections from Karroo rocks and also secured a large series of fossil mammals from Pleistocene sites associated with early man. In 1960 he successfully searched for Triassic vertebrates in western Australia. He was also instrumental in establishing the Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada. Here, in the midst of a deserted mining camp, he excavated several skeletons of these giant marine reptiles, which had been stranded on the shores of the Triassic sea, to provide an open air museum display.
Camp saw the need for continuation of the indexed bibliographies of fossil vertebrates that O. P. Hay had published for North America and for expanding them to worldwide coverage. In the 1930s he began systematically to abstract publications in this field in the University libraries. Over the next forty years he published eight volumes, which are of inestimable value to students of vertebrate fossils.
In his teaching Camp emphasized both careful observation of specimens and study of original publications. His lectures were spontaneous and frequently responded to student questions rather than following a predetermined outline. He encouraged students to pursue their own ideas yet was always ready to open his vast and varied store of knowledge to them. In the field he maintained the interest of assistants with lively conversation and stories on the most diverse topics. Some of this wisdom was set down in his “Earth Song,” a poetic interpretation of the geologic history and prehistory of western America, in “Stories of Fossils,” prepared for elementary school children, and in “Desert Rats Remembered by Charles L. Camp.”
Along with his scientific work Camp actively studied western American history. He edited and published the journals of frontiersmen James Clyman and George C. Yount, and thrice revised Henry R. Wagner's bibliography of “The Plains and the Rockies.” As with his paleontological work, he endeavored to check every detail by retracing the tracks of these pioneers across the plains and mountains. He contributed numerous articles to the quarterly of the California Historical Society, was a member of the society's board of directors from 1922-33 and of its publications committee, 1922-35. In 1970 he received its Henry R. Wagner Memorial medal.
He was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, March 12, 1893, son of a pioneer lawyer who soon moved his family to Sierra Madre, California. During World War I, Camp saw action as an artillery officer with the First Division. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre for his service as a forward observer, a duty which has been described, grimly, as giving you a good view of the war but not letting you live long enough to enjoy it. Now and then Charlie would talk of the war, and you had a feeling that he sometimes still heard the sound of far-off guns. In World War II he served locally as an officer of the coast guard.
He married Jessie Pratt in 1924. She was his constant companion, counsellor, and field assistant as well as mother of his four children. Jesse died in 1971, and in 1973 he married Joanna Bilbrey. Charles died on August 14, 1975.
Pearl Ida Castile, Nursing: San Francisco
| 1891-1974 | |
| Associate Professor Emeritus | |
| Assistant Dean, School of Nursing |
Pearl Ida Castile, associate professor and assistant dean, emeritus of the School of Nursing, San Francisco campus, died in Merced, California on October 3, 1974 at the age of eighty-three.
As a child and young adult she lived in the Middle West. Following completion of a baccalaureate program in the liberal arts at the University of Nebraska and two years as a high school teacher in a rural district, she enrolled in the Massachusetts General Hospital, School of Nursing.
In the first ten years of her nursing career she served in a number of teaching and administrative positions in schools of nursing in the Midwest and California. During this time she earned an M.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Qualities of scholarship and leadership shown as a student led her to be invited to join Pi Lambda Theta (National Honor Society for Graduate Women). As early as 1929, she was recognized as a distinguished teacher. Her biography appears in “Eminent Teachers,” American Journal of Nurses, 29 (August, 1929).
In 1933, Miss Castile was appointed as supervisor of surgical nursing at the University of California Hospital, School of Nursing, San Francisco. For the next four years she spent most of her time on the wards teaching students basic nursing care and assisting young head nurses to become better administrators and teachers. She collaborated in the preparation and publication of two texts, Textbook of Surgical Nursing, and Nursing, An Art and A Science, which influenced the development of nursing practice.
From her appointment as assistant director, School of Nursing, and assistant superintendent of nurses (1937), Miss Castile influenced the development of the school as an autonomous unit of the University and consequently was named its assistant dean. From then until her retirement she was seen by faculty and students as a source of sound counseling and support. Her warmth, understanding, listening ability, sense of humor, and practical suggestions tided both over many difficult
Miss Castile was active in the nursing organization at the local, state, and national levels. She served as a board member of the California State Nurses Association, president of the California State Board of Nurse Examiners, vice president of the National Association of Collegiate Schools, and a member of the board of directors of the National League for Nursing Education. In 1952, when the National League for Nursing was established, Miss Castile was selected as the first president of the reorganized California League for Nurses.
Those of us who have had the privilege of knowing Pearl Castile as colleague, teacher, or friend, have experienced a warm, personal relationship. Each of us has lost something special and will miss her in our own way.
David Andrew Clarke, Jr., Agricultural Economics: Berkeley
| 1919-1974 | |
| Professor |
Dr. Clarke was born in Milford, Connecticut, February 26, 1919. He was awarded the B.S. and master's degrees in agricultural economics at the University of Connecticut in 1940 and 1942, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in this field at the University of California, Berkeley in 1951. As a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, Quartermaster Corps, he served at several stations in this country and the Philippines during World War II. His various appointments at the University of California, Berkeley ranged from research assistant to professor, chairman of the Department of Agricultural Economics, and director of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. During leave from the University, Clarke held a postdoctoral appointment with the Cowles Commission and served as officer-in-charge of the New Haven Field Office of the Agricultural Marketing Service. His services were widely sought as a consultant to federal and state agencies, the courts, and producer and marketing firms.
Dr. Clarke's primary professional interest was agricultural marketing, and most of his effort there was concerned with the marketing and pricing of milk and with government regulation in this industry. he was the author of many research papers and public documents and the recipient of numerous awards and commendations. His published work, while concerned mainly with a single commodity, was broadly oriented, with emphasis on costs and efficiency in the production of marketing services, product pricing, market structure and performance, and legal and public policy aspects in a major and closely regulated industry. It won awards from professional societies and was commended by many individuals and organizations. These tributes from a wide range of, and sometimes strongly opposed, groups attest to the fairness, integrity, and quality of Clarke's research and service.
Respect for analysis and objectivity and a concern for social justice within an enterprise system motivated Clarke's work and broadened its significance. Thus, despite a frequent focus on the efficiency of large firms and systems, his research and service produced results of social value and broadly distributed benefit.
A major consequence of the changing scene at Berkeley is the program redirection and academic reorganization realized in the formation of Berkeley's new College of Natural Resources. It was a source of great satisfaction to his colleagues and a credit to Clarke that major adjustments in the philosophy and academic plans of his department anticipated this event by several years.
Persistence, industry, concern for associates and institutions, and an absence of rancor or recrimination were prominent in the character of David Clarke. These, respect for scholarship, and his acceptance of freedom of inquiry as a prime tenet of the University were the principal determinants of his contributions to it.
Curtis Paul Clausen, Biological Control: Riverside
| 1893-1976 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Curtis P. Clausen was born in Randall, Iowa, March 28, 1893. He died February 28, 1976 in Oklahoma City, where he had resided since 1971 with his sister. This long and highly productive life encompassed that of a scientist, explorer, author, sports enthusiast, and bon vivant. Small wonder that he joined the famed Cosmos Club of Washington, D.C. in 1931 and became its president in 1950.
Curtis grew to manhood in a typically American environment. In 1901 his parents--Danish immigrants--established themselves and their five children on a farm in Oklahoma. In 1910 the family moved to Ontario, California.
In 1914 Curtis graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.S. degree and honors in entomology. In 1920 he received the M.S. degree in the same subject from the same institution. After a brief (1914-1915) assistantship in entomology under H. J. Quayle at the University's Citrus Experiment Station, he accepted a position at the State Insectary in Sacramento as assistant to the superintendent, H. S. Smith, a notable pioneer in the new field of reducing and regulating insect pest populations by means of their natural enemies. During 1916 to 1918 Clausen explored Japan, China, and the Philippines for natural enemies of citrus scale insect pests and sent live samples to the State Insectary for propagation and ultimate field evaluation.
After fourteen months service in the U.S. Army Coast Artillery and an honorable discharge as a second lieutenant in August 1919, he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1920 as specialist in the Bureau of Entomology. He spent thirteen years studying pest insects and their predators and parasites in the Far East. Later, he explored extensively in Mexico, Central and South America, and Europe. The excitement of tiger-hunting and earthquakes that he experienced in India and Japan seemed insignificant compared to the strange behavior of newly discovered insect species, such as the natural enemies of the Japanese beetle and the citrus blackfly.
To the pursuit of knowledge in this fascinating field he gave full devotion, only incidentally interrupted by such pastimes as angling,
By the time he became stationed in Washington, D.C. (1931), Clausen had worked up a card catalog of about 6,000 references to the life histories and behavior patterns of insect predators and parasites that he wanted to read and digest. This was the beginning of his monumental book Entomophagous Insects, published initially by McGraw-Hill in 1940 and reprinted by Hafner in 1972; subsequent explorers of insects used to control agricultural pests found this book invaluable.
He authored the following, widely acclaimed publications: “Biological Control of Insect Pests,” in New Crops for the World (New York: Macmillan, 1954); “Parasites and Predators,” in the 1952 USDA Yearbook; and the large, comprehensive USDA Technical Bulletin No. 1139: Biological Control of Insect Pests in the Continental United States (1956). After retirement from the University of California, he edited Agricultural Handbook No. 480 (in press) (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service), entitled Introduced Parasites and Predators of Arthropod Pests and Weeds; a World Review. In addition to the above-mentioned publications, Clausen reported his research findings in over sixty papers. Because of his phenomenal ability to concentrate and to organize information, he could prepare scientific articles as final at first writing. His last paper, Phoresy Among Entomophagous Insects, appeared in the Annual Review of Entomology on the day of his death.
From 1934 to 1951, Clausen was in charge of the Division of Foreign Parasite Introductions and from 1942 to 1951, he also headed the Division of Control Investigations. In the U.S. Department of Agriculture and later in the University of California, he was administratively responsible for research in the developing field of insect pathology--that is, the use of bacteria, fungi, and viruses in insect and mite control, and in the use of insects for control of weeds. He retired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1951. After a few months of fishing and golfing in Florida, he was persuaded to accept an appointment as professor of biological control and chairman of the statewide Department of Biological Control of the University of California. In 1959 he was given emeritus status, and in 1966 the University awarded him the honorary LL.D. degree in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments in entomology, especially in the field of biological control.
Clausen was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
Professor Clausen was selected in 1958 as the Seventh Annual Faculty Research Lecturer on the Riverside campus. The title of his lecture was “Some Aspects of Parasitism Among Insects.”
Upon retirement, he donated his personal library to the University. It consisted of over 125 volumes, thousands of reprints, and his card index on biological control, which is regarded to be almost as complete as the one in the Library of Congress.
The many friends and acquaintances of Curtis Clausen in this country and abroad regarded him as a truly fine gentleman. Declining health during his last few years greatly interfered with his writing and permitted contact with only a few of his friends. His very distinguished career in biological control added immeasurably to the stature of entomology throughout the world and continues to stimulate students to specialize in that increasingly important area.
Jessie V. Coles, Home Economics: Berkeley
| 1894-1976 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
The death of Dr. Jessie V. Coles on February 17, 1976 brought to an end a unique career of a woman faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Coles, the only child of Joseph and Eda Coles, was born at Williams, Iowa on June 28, 1894, and was disabled by a stroke in 1964. She attended elementary schools in rural Iowa, received her B.S. in home economics at Iowa State College, Ames in 1915; a second B.S. at Coe College, Cedar Rapids (major in chemistry) in 1917; an M.A. from Columbia University in home economics in 1922; and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1930 in the area of economics in the home economics department.
Dr. Coles taught home economics in several high schools in Iowa and Nebraska, then at Park College, Missouri, College of William and Mary, Virginia, and at the University of Missouri (1930-1937). She worked in the Department of the Interior during the period 1937-1939 and taught at New York University for one year previous to coming to Berkeley in 1941. She became associate professor of economics in home economics, 1941-1951, full professor, 1951-1961, and department chairman, 1954-1955. She retired in 1961. Dr. Coles held numerous summer session lectureships and gave lectures in home management, marketing, and budgeting at a considerable number of other schools and colleges. She remained unmarried.
Dr. Coles was active in the American Home Economics Association, Consumer Education Association, Consumer Information Council, American Marketing Association, Association of California Consumers, American and California Farm Economics Associations, and belonged to a number of related societies. She helped for several years in the preparation of the family budgets published by the Heller Committee in Social Economics at UC, Berkeley. She belonged to Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Nu, Prytanean, and a number of other honor societies, and was for a time faculty advisor to the Home Economics Club at Berkeley.
Dr. Cole's publications included the textbooks Standardization of Consumer Goods (Ronald Press, 1932); The Consumer Buyer and the Market
Dr. Coles had numerous journal publications in the Journal of Home Economics, Practical Home Economics, Journal of Consumer Education, California Agriculture, Journal of Progressive Education, Journal of Marketing, and many others. Forty-six publications, largely bulletins, are listed in the Agriculture Library.
Dr. Coles received the Ellen A. Richards Fellowship of the American Home Economics Association, and was chairman of its Consumer Interests Committee, its Committee for Evaluating College Programs in Home Economics, and the Executive Committee, College Home Economics Clubs. At Berkeley, she was president of the Women's Faculty Club, 1957-1959.
She was active in many committees at UC, Berkeley, the more important of which included that on plans for the Home Economics Building (now Morgan Hall), completed in 1954. She was also faculty advisor for the Home Economics Club and Omicron Nu.
Dr. Coles helped to organize consumer cooperatives in Berkeley as well as student cooperatives, and participated in the regional marketing study, Agricultural Experiment Station WM-26. After retirement from UC she worked with the California Credit Union League and wrote numerous articles on budgeting and buying, taught family finances through UC Extension at Riverside, continued her work on the board of directors of the Berkeley Cooperative Association, and wrote the pamphlet “Consumers Look at Labels.”
Dr. Coles was a very energetic person, full of enthusiasm for what she did. She had definite opinions concerning most of the fields in which she worked and had no hesitation in expressing them. She was a conscientious and hardworking teacher, organized her classwork well, and was generous with her time in helping students and junior faculty
Dr. Coles enjoyed working on practical problems of house planning, marketing, and evaluation of consumer goods. She planned in great detail the house she had built at 1120 Grizzly Peak Boulevard and enjoyed the opportunities it gave her for entertainment. Her hobby of gardening was fulfilled in the landscaping of a beautifully terraced and planted garden. She had one of the most extensive private collection of succulents in Berkeley. She was able to take a number of her most precious potted plants to the patio of her apartment in the retirement home at Greenbrae. She enjoyed the activities of that home. Dr. Coles's last years were, in a sense, some of her most relaxed because of her adjustment to her physical disabilities and the friendships she made with her neighbors in the home.
Rex Abram Collings, Jr., Law: Berkeley
| 1914-1976 | |
| Professor |
Early in the spring semester, 1976, the life of Rex A. Collings, Jr., a member of the Boalt Hall faculty for seventeen years and of the class of 1951, came to an early end. His final illness came suddenly, but he faced death with calm composure and acceptance, struggling on to complete his academic duties as long as his waning strength would permit. It was a courageous effort and one that reflected a dominant aspect of his character and his strong commitment to the full performance of every duty and every obligation.
Professor Collings' birthplace was in Alma, Michigan, a small agricultural community, in 1914. After receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1935, he entered the world of business, where he worked for a major stock and bond house in San Francisco, and, thereafter, for an urban street railway company in Oakland. His next occupation, following the disaster at Pearl Harbor, was that of private, United States Marine Corps, a career that took six years of his life until his release from active duty with the rank of captain in 1948. Thus, it was not until 1947 that Rex returned to the Berkeley campus to earn an M.A. degree in public administration in his thirty-fourth year and to enter Boalt Hall to commence the study of law.
Rex was a naturally reticent person and never was this characteristic more apparent than it was with respect to his World War II experience. Only once did he allude to his participation in the desperate and bloody combat in the South Pacific. It was merely a brief remark about the dimensions of fear that had gripped him in the course of an amphibious landing on a hostile shore. His qualifications for comment on the subject were beyond question; Rex fought on the beaches of Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima, and earned the Bronze Star Medal with combat “V.”
In his three student years at Boalt Hall, Collings demonstrated his scholarly gifts and talents and his great competence in the study of law. He was awarded the John Woodman Ayer Fellowship in Jurisprudence and the William Carey Jones Scholarship in Law. In his moot
This career included private practice in Southern California, further service in the Department of Justice as chief of the General Crimes Section, and special assistant to the attorney general. In 1956 he left the department to accept an appointment as associate professor of law at New York University. Two years later, he transferred his allegiance to the University of California, where he took up his duties as a member of the Boalt Hall faculty. There he worked and taught with fidelity until the untimely end of his life.
As a member of the Boalt community, Collings served on a broad spectrum of faculty committees. In addition, he was a member of several chancellor's advisory committees and acted as the chancellor's representative on the Student Judiciary Committee during the difficult years of student unrest on the Berkeley campus. Coupled with this service to the University, Collings was active in his home community, where he was a member of the board of trustees of the Moraga School District and of the Contra Costa County Planning Commission.
In pursuit of his scholarly interests, which were principally in the field of criminal law and procedure, he was editor of the 1957 Annual Survey of American Law and the Survey of New York Law for the same period. He was both a draftsman and consultant for the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code Model Penal Code, Tent. Draft No. 9 (1959); Tent. Draft No. 11 (1960); Proposed Official Draft (1962). and thereafter served for three years as a reporter for the California Joint Legislative Commission for Revision of the Penal Code. There were many other similar activities in which he had an important impact on the revision of federal and state criminal law and procedure and which reflects his deep interest in the difficult problems of law revision.
His writings reflect the same interest. They range from the legal problems of convicted offenders “Habeas Corpus for Convicts--Constitutional Right or Legislative Grace?” 40 Cal. L. Rev. 335 (1959). to the rapidly changing rules of search and seizure, which have been and continue to be a source of conflict between courts and law enforcement “Developing Workable Rules of Search and Seizure,” 50 Cal. L. Rev. 421 (1962). His interest in the substantive criminal law was just as keen: a striking example of this is his article on “Negligent Murder” 49 Cal. L. Rev. 294 (1961). . In summary, Collings' scholarship expressed itself through a combination of writing and research with active participation
Now that he is gone, he will be missed not only by his family and friends, but also by his many professional associates and members of the bench and bar with whom he worked long and faithfully at the task to which he was dedicated, the advancement and improvement of the law.
Sherburne Friend Cook, Physiology: Berkeley
| 1896-1974 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Sherburne Friend Cook, professor of physiology, emeritus, biologist, demographer, anthropologist, and historian, died November 7, 1974. He came to our faculty in 1928 as an expert in cell biology. He had begun studies in history and was then attracted to biology by the rapid pace of cellular discoveries. As his scientific talents matured, he applied them in a return to historical research.
Cook was friendly, kindly, and helpful. He was an astute observer and gave fascinating accounts of his field observations, such as working with California Indians. His “side-interest” studies of Native Americans began soon after his coming to California, with an article, “Diseases of the Indians of Lower California in the Eighteenth Century.” He kept meticulous records, which will provide a continuing important resource for students of American Indian history. He finished his manuscripts in a single writing; his neat handwritten papers show little revision--just a flow of well-chosen statements. This talent may have come from his father, who was editor of a newspaper in Springfield, Massachusetts, where Sherburne Cook was born on December 31, 1896.
Cook was a linguist; he studied in Germany prior to and following his undergraduate and graduate career at Harvard University. He volunteered for the American Expeditionary Force to France in World War I. He returned to Harvard in 1919 and after an A.B. and A.M., earned a Ph.D. there (1925). Then, awarded a National Research Council fellowship, he left for studies abroad, under Professor Otto Warburg at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin-Dahlem and at Cambridge University.
His doctoral and postdoctoral studies were important first steps in recognition of oxidative catalysis by heavy metal ions. In the 1940s he volunteered his services by joining Donner Laboratory's war research study of high-altitude decompression sickness. One of Cook's findings was that the inert gases, nitrogen and argon, reduce the oxygen consumption of cells. An outgrowth of his work on high-altitude
An early astute finding at Berkeley was sickness in chicks fed a commercial feed (1935). His report caused a furor and led others to discover the cause and deficiency of a previously unknown essential nutrient, vitamin K. Cook was the first in the Americas to use radioactive phosphorus, P32, in biological studies. Phosphorus-32 had just then become available through Ernest Lawrence's cyclotron. Cook's interest was in phosphate metabolism of bones. Bone specimens also provided him some of the evidence of health and disease of deceased populations; Cook was able to decipher much from such crude evidence.
As his papers reveal, Cook was versed in the use of mathematical methods in biology; appropriately, therefore, he was the primary motivator in the founding of the Graduate Group in Biophysics, Medical Physics, and Bioradiology, and was chairman from its inception in 1944 to 1955. He was chairman of the Department of Physiology from 1958 until he retired in 1964.
Sherburne Cook made unique and important contributions to the field of American and California anthropology and history. In the field of archaeology he developed objective methods for screening, separating, identifying, and interpreting the constituents of prehistoric occupation refuse deposits; he developed methods for soil chemistry of archaeological sites; he inferred dietary intake from residues, and he did the important initial work on rates and processes of bone fossilization. He gathered historical evidence purposefully while it was still available and was resourceful in reconstructing the broad demographic characteristics of the native American populations. His estimations of population numbers, density, and patterns of health have greatly extended our knowledge of Americans during the second millennium and the demographic changes unfolding after the arrival of the Spanish. Few persons make truly important contributions over such a breadth of the sciences. Cook was a generalist. He undertook his monumental work with little funding. He collaborated with Woodrow Borah, Robert Heizer, and Lester Byrd Simpson.
The eminence of Cook's contributions to historical demography and anthropology were recognized posthumously on March 9, 1975, when the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History awarded him (with Borah) the gold medal of the Bernardino de Sahagún prize for 1971.
Sherburne Cook married Esther Violet Cox (Vi) in 1925. They raised three sons: Sherburne, Jr., Waldo, and Stanton, who follow professional careers and who, with their wives, brought him ten grandchildren.
Cook was stricken upon his return from presenting a scientific paper in Mexico City, October 1974. Except for this brief illness, he worked as effectively in his seventy-seventh year as in his youth.
James Henry Corley: Systemwide
| 1904-1974 | |
| Vice President--Governmental Affairs and Special Projects, Emeritus |
James H. Corley entered the University of California in 1922; from that day forward, the University was his life. As an undergraduate, he received the baccalaureate degree in 1926, he was for three years a varsity member of the track team, and a member of the “Big C” society. His interest in the events of track and field did not wane. He could regularly be found at Edwards Field at meet after meet over the years.
His long service to the University, of which more is said below, was coupled with an active role in civic affairs and in the affairs of the California Alumni Association. He served as treasurer of the alumni association for nearly a quarter of a century. In that circumstance his voice was heard and his counsel fruitful in the ever expanding program of the alumni association, which chose to award him the first Alumni Service Award. He was repeatedly elected to the Berkeley City Council and was a director of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce.
Jim Corley's University career began in 1927 when he became a student-loan fund clerk. His talents could not be unobserved, and in a brief period of little more than a decade, he was appointed comptroller and general business manager of the University in 1940. He was thirty-seven years old. In 1959 President Clark Kerr recommended his appointment as Vice President--Governmental Relations and Special Projects. He retired from that post in 1965.
In 1967, two years after his retirement, Jim Corley was summoned back to service on a part-time basis to assist the president of the University with advice and counsel in the matters he knew so well. That part-time, postretirement service led President Hitch to say, “Jim Corley loved the University and devoted himself to its welfare, and like a very few others he became a part of the institution. For me he was both a friend and valued advisor, and I will miss him greatly. The University community is diminished by his loss and will remember him with special affection.”
Jim Corley represented the University of California during sessions of the California State Legislature for over twenty-five years. Although
His success as the University's ambassador to Sacramento flowed from several important attributes of the man himself. They cannot separately be described in any order of their importance. On the contrary, they constituted a blend of character and capacity in which each complemented and supported the others. That blend might be described as consisting of an enormous capacity for hard work, a personal integrity which was so evident and so constant as to be unquestioned by any member of the legislature or executive department of government, and a capacity to explain the mission of the University in its relationship to the University's need for resources in terms that commanded both the respect and the confidence of all. Jim was not an academic man and had no pretentions on this score. But he believed deeply in the importance of the University for the welfare of its students, for the advancement of knowledge, and for the people of the state, the nation, and the world. He constantly sought the advice of experts in every field of knowledge in the University, sought out the most knowledgeable and articulate witnesses from the academic community, and endeavored to bring all to bear on the decisions of government that might affect the resource base or the independence of the University.
Jim Corley's efforts were generally marked by results beneficial to the University. But it should not be supposed that his contributions were limited to his representational roles so well played in the external world. In his years as an officer of the University, many people now or recently on the staff of the University came under his influence and his tutelage. In these relationships the same qualities of personal integrity and of devotion to the University created a loyalty and a friendship among his associates of such an order as to be looked upon as in and of itself a remarkable achievement.
Jim Corley was survived by his widow, Marcellene Merril, and by two children, James M. Corley, currently Assistant Vice Chancellor--Employee Affairs at Berkeley, and Mrs. David Cruikshank.
Raymond Bridgeman Cowles, Zoology: Los Angeles
| 1896-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
“Precursor of ecologists, progenitor of population controllers, practitioner of outdoorsmanship, prophet of economy of energy and life, you restlessly range the system of life from lizards to lectors.” So runs the citation of an honorary Doctor of Science degree conferred on Ray Cowles in 1973 by his undergraduate institution, Pomona College. Ray was all those things and more to his legion of students, friends, and colleagues in science. He was also one of the most insightful field naturalists of his time. His work on reptile thermoregulation was a major foundation upon which our present understanding of the use of heat by vertebrate animals is based. He was also the nagging conscience of many and returned with insistent force time and time again to the evolutionary and ecological dilemma faced by the human race as its numbers increase and its nonrenewable resources decrease. What he saw has unfolded before all of us and is now recognized over the world as a major problem of our times. In his later years, this playing-out of his vision left Ray deeply pessimistic about the possibility that our institutions would be able to change quickly enough to avert severe social disruption. But he never stopped thinking about or speaking out on social and biological issues. Nor, for that matter, did he ever stop pondering the intricate ways of nature while on trips with trusted old friends or while alone in the chaparral or deserts that he knew so intimately and loved with such bittersweet intensity as he saw them change and disappear under the hand of man.
Ray Cowles was born of missionary parents at a medical station in Zululand, Amanzimtoti, Natal. His early childhood was spent under the tutelage of governesses at the station. But mostly, he learned from wanderings in the “bush” with his young Zulu friends, whose difficult language he learned. He also marveled at the termite castles, within which he found eggs laid by monitor lizards (later the subject of his doctoral dissertation at Cornell University); he watched the large game animals and learned to know the habits of the myriads of birds, lizards, and insects. These stories are charmingly told in his book Zulu Journal (University of California Press, 1959). He learned from watching his young associates, too, and noted with wonder as their dark skins let
This naturalist approach helped to found the field of reptile thermo-regulation and led to concepts that were to underlie the major conclusions of those who followed him. One of these contributions, the classic “A Preliminary Study of the Thermal Requirements of Desert Reptiles,” coauthored with his student C. M. Bogert, later chairman and curator, Department of Herpetology, the American Museum of Natural History, was published in 1944. This paper was recently republished by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles as “the most significant contribution to desert ecology of the past three decades.” Another landmark contribution was his paper with T. H. Bullock on the pit-organ of rattlesnakes, which demonstrated the exquisite thermal sensitivity of this receptor (Science, 1952, 115, 541-543).
A preoccupation with human problems, which spurred his parents to take up life in a remote corner of Africa, was to become a driving influence throughout Ray's professional career. As a boy, he saw that his Zulu friends lived a balanced agrarian life, without serious want. But as their numbers grew, inheritance fragmented their land; trees were cut to provide both new land and fuel, and the bush was burned for the ephemeral productivity its ashes provided. With these changes came poverty and undernutrition and the attendant ills of social dislocation, soil erosion, overgrazing, and decimation of wildlife. Ray perceived that the pattern was not restricted to the small valley of his boyhood, but that it was worldwide. He spread the somber results of his thinking through lectures, articles, conversations, and long letters to friends. His major work on the subject--a comprehensive book on the population problem, to which he was one of the first to draw attention--was just completed at the time of his death.
A considerable portion of Cowles' writings and lectures was directed at the interested layman, high school teachers, and young, would-be naturalists. As a result, many people who never entered his classes were influenced by his thoughts, concerns, and human warmth. Those of us who knew him as a close colleague on our common daily paths for many years felt his impact the more. To have known and worked alongside Ray Cowles has enriched this passage for us all.
George H. Daigneault: Santa Barbara
| 1923-1976 | |
| Dean of University Extension |
We believe that George Daigneault was a very special human being. His life touched ours, and still touches ours, very deeply. In this we are three among a great many. He unites his friends in the sense that he was and remains a source of their own strength, a source of their own joy. He truly was one of those rare persons who make life not only more bearable but also more beautiful for the rest of us.
In his professional life, one career was not enough. Toward the end of his life two simultaneous full careers were needed to satisfy his creative drive and his desire to strengthen and to enrich the lives of others. The first was in the field of continuing education. Before coming to the University of California, Santa Barbara as dean of the Extension division, he had directed the home study department of the University of Chicago, administered (as assistant dean of University College) the university's downtown center, and directed (as staff associate) research and educational programs for the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults. For several of these years he had also held the position of lecturer in Chicago's University College, thereby grounding his research and his administrative duties in the day-to-day demands of teaching.
Those with whom he worked most closely in Santa Barbara believe that his insistence upon the importance of continuing education and his innovative leadership in the field were crucial in helping to extend and deepen the kind of education available to the citizens of California. In 1961 UCSB Extension offered 160 courses to about 2,000 students. In 1975, Extension, under Dean Daigneault's leadership, offered over 700 courses, lecture series, conferences, and workshops in fifteen geographical locations to about 20,000 students. These are the figures, but the quality of his success is to be seen even more clearly in the words of his associates in Extension:
As an administrator he has always challenged the staff to meet his high expectations. As a result, continuing education has attained new heights; and as professionals so have we. His unusual qualities have touched us personally. A gentle man, he has remained
Such a comment from his immediate colleagues begins to reveal the man who, not satisfied with success in one career, made time for a second, using his evening and weekend hours to become a licensed marriage, family, and child counselor, providing his counseling service through the Counseling Center of Santa Barbara. His interest in counseling, and talent for it, appeared naturally enough in a man who was a creative programmer alive with ideas and a compassionate, enthusiastic administrator filled with a love for people. Nevertheless, to plunge into such a demanding second career took a degree of energy and courage that we more usually expect to find in the young.
He remained energetic and courageous and, in the best sense, young until the very end, holding firm to the special quality of his life through a long fight with pain. Even when he knew he did not have long to live, he moved constantly ahead, growing and changing and exploring as if he thought he would live forever. His ability--with his friends or with those who worked with him or were counseled by him--to motivate and excite others to accomplishments and lives they might otherwise have thought out of their reach depended in important ways upon his sense of humor and his unfailingly compassionate wit. Part of his creativity, especially as a counselor, derived from insights infused with a profoundly witty and appreciative comprehension of his fellow humans. His wit was redemptive: it warmed us with laughter and understanding, reducing our pain or increasing our ability to face it.
Those of his friends and colleagues present at the memorial service experienced again, and not for the last time, the gifts of George Daigneault's spirit. Through the beauty of the home he had created, even when he knew he did not have long to live in it, and through the intimate testimony of those who were moved to speak, we felt again his love for us, our love for him, and our love for one another.
Kent Dallett, Psychology: Los Angeles
| 1931-1975 | |
| Associate Professor |
Kent Dallett died at forty-four years and a day. He quietly enriched others' lives in stunning ways, but was not happy in a fundamental sense. He meticulously searched for fundamentals, but never found them. He ended his life long before those who cared for him were ready to let go.
Professor Dallett lived a monkishly simple life, except for his books, records, and guitars. He always wanted to be a musician and admired the exquisite: pre-Raphaelite art, stones and shells, Paradise Valley in the Sierras, italic script.
People either knew him deeply or not at all. He would regard as unnecessary small talk our remarks that he was born in New Jersey on February 20, 1931, grew up in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and in Connecticut and New York--son of an actress and a portrait photographer, descended from an “old Philadelphia” line (of which he was secretly proud). Even university days at UCLA and Berkeley, the marriages to Louise and to Janet, and the years of companionship with Jean pale next to his commitment to understand the mind.
A scholar and a compulsive reader, he could start reading at 6 a.m. and spend the rest of the day, seven days a week, with books in hand. He revered books and enjoyed being used as an information guide by other psychologists.
He loved to have students or colleagues drop by to philosophize, to puzzle about psychology. He enjoyed teaching Introductory Psychology because it challenged him to make the complex and abstract or abstruse more meaningful. He was an intellectual who abhorred intellectualism. That is, he hated academic stuffiness; disliked university politics and cocktail parties.
His reading and thinking spanned the universe but referred always back to the mind. He was a psychological generalist, perhaps a “mentalist,” and more than most, a psychologist's psychologist. There was little separation between his life and his study: the most chance encounters with others (a child, a disturbed seeker) or with himself became the data for his theorizing. Psychotherapy became important for
His early career was devoted to research on mental operations (learning and memory). A strong conviction that results should be exciting in order to be published kept a sizeable portion of his work away from journals. In later years a primary goal in his writing was to abstract general truths which might endure in psychology. His two books, Understanding Psychology and It's All in Your Mind, were written to introduce laymen to general problems of psychology, but were actually most meaningful to professionals. Death prevented completion of The Little Memory Book.
His latest motto was “Education is the institutionalization of ignorance,” a tribute to the conservative aspect of mental operations as much as social systems. He wanted (with some desperation) a revitalization of psychology, and believed his generation was mostly reinventing psychology's wheel.
Professor Dallett's unswerving intellectual honesty was obvious. He was a relentless “truth-teller” at many levels of experience, regardless of custom. Many colleagues sought his editorial evaluation because he prepared brilliant critique without alienating.
Kent Dallett was a nonstandard psychologist and an avoider of compromise whose authenticity in personal exchange gave irreplaceable experiences to many. That is why a part of the world has shut down forever to his friends and loved ones. And it is why his colleagues and students are left with a bewildering loss.
Gerald Wallace Dean, Agricultural Economics: Davis
| 1930-1974 | |
| Professor |
Gerry Dean came to the Davis campus in late 1957 as assistant professor of agricultural economics and compressed into sixteen years a record of quality, achievement, and professional contribution that any of us would be proud to claim for a full career. But to simply say that Gerry was a highly respected professional economist completely understates what he meant to his colleagues and students, because he was in a class by himself--a true scholar, teacher, and warm friend with a keen sense of perspective as to what is important in work and life.
Gerry was born in Mason City, Iowa on September 9, 1930. The family, which included three sons, was endowed with an unusual talent in music, which was to provide a second avenue of excellence in creative accomplishments in his life. He received his B.S. degree from Iowa State University in 1952. The next two years were spent in the U.S. Army, where his talents were fortunately utilized as a musician and band leader. Gerry returned to Ames, and received the M.S. degree in 1955 and the Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics in 1957. Meanwhile, he married Meredith Martin of Winterset, Iowa, who graduated in applied arts from Iowa State University.
His professional interests were generally in the areas of agricultural production, economic theory, and economic development, as reflected in some seventy-five published papers and reports. His selection of problems reflected his concern for matters of importance and significance. His orderly approach and insight brought seemingly diverse and disparate facts into perspective. He collaborated and shared ideas unselfishly with students and colleagues alike. Professional recognition of his work came early and became almost commonplace. He received or shared in eight research awards and four honorable mention awards since 1959 from the American Agricultural Economics Association and the Western Agricultural Economics Association. More important to Gerry was the knowledge that many of his studies have had a profound effect on policy decisions for state and national agencies.
In 1962 and again in 1967, he received Fulbright fellowships to study and assist in graduate training at the University of Naples in Italy.
As a teacher, he was clearly the best in a department that prides itself on its concern for students. His lecture notes are “classics.” They reflect his orderly and scholarly thinking, his unique perspective, and his concern that students truly understand. One student comment on a course evaluation sums it up: “He showed general concern and displayed uncommon sensitivity for teaching.” He was equally successful in teaching economic theory to undergraduates or Ph.D. students; or in teaching applied farm management to undergraduates and advanced production economics to graduates. His ability to formulate and conduct research made him a sought-after member of graduate theses committees, but equally important was his openness and kindness in directing students of varying abilities.
Gerry Dean also was active in professional, University, and civic matters. He served as associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics from 1969 through 1971. He was elected vice-president of the Western Agricultural Economics Association in 1971. These activities were balanced by his interest in music. He played and wrote arrangements for several local bands and orchestras and was a former president of the Davis Art Center.
Immediate survivors include his wife, Meredith, and three children, Martin, Andrea, and Anthony.
Michele De Filippis, Italian: Berkeley
| 1891-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Born in Italy on March 4, 1891, Michele De Filippis earned his university degrees in the United States: the Ph.B. at Brown University in 1920, the M.A. at the University of Michigan in 1923, and the Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1933. In the meantime he had complemented his academic training with a semester of study at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a year's research in Italy as a University of California Italian-American Fellow, and had become a United States citizen.
Before coming to the Berkeley campus of the University, he had taught as instructor in romance languages at the University of Michigan and as instructor in Spanish at San Bernardino Junior College. His first professional association with Berkeley dates from the summer of 1929; after serving as assistant and associate in the Department of Italian, he was appointed instructor in 1933, then was promoted to assistant professor in 1936, to associate professor in 1940, and to professor in 1947. In that same year he assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Italian, a post he held until his retirement in 1957. Enrollment in Italian had slumped during World War II; under Professor De Filippis' guidance the number of students in the department rose dramatically, and the roll of faculty members increased. The trend continued after his retirement, and the present size of the department is due in good part to his initiative. After he left active service, he continued to live in Berkeley for some years, then moved across the Bay to Kentfield, in Marin County. At the time of his death, April 3, 1975, he was at the home of a sister in Milford, Massachusetts.
For his scholarly activities, Professor De Filippis chose relatively unexplored byways. His doctoral dissertation deals in
a soberly factual and analytical manner with Giovanni Battista Manso, a Neapolitan writer best known for his biography of
the poet Tasso. The approach used in the dissertation was to characterize all of his subsequent major research, printed in
the University of California Publications in Modern Philology. After two studies (1936, 1937) based on the dissertation, he
prepared an edition (1940) of Francesco Maria Trevisani's La
Professor De Filippis' scholarly and cultural commitment to the development of Italian studies at Berkeley as well as across the nation is reflected also in an edition, with J.R. Reinhard, of an Italian reader that went through three editions; in articles publicizing the rich holdings of the Berkeley library in Italian literature; in lectures, papers, and book reviews on various figures of Italian culture; in his appointment as director of the Language Program in Italian for the Armed Services in 1943-1944; in his performance as chairman of the Committee to Re-Introduce Italian in High Schools; in his active membership in such societies as the Modern Language Association of America, the Philogical Association of the Pacific Coast, the American Association of Teachers of Italian (of which he was president in 1944), the Dante Society of America, the American Foundation for Italian Culture, and the Leonardo da Vinci Society. Two organizations devoted to the promotion of Italian culture, the Italian Federation of California and Il Cenacolo, adopted resolutions commending Professor De Filippis for his achievements. An appreciation and a list of his chief publications prepared by Professor J.G. Fucilla appeared in the official journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, Italica, 52 (1975), 425-427.
As a man, Michele De Filippis seemed gruff, distant, disenchanted. Those attitudes, however, were no more than a mask for genuine warmth. Among his colleagues he enjoyed prized friendships. A bachelor, he took a fatherly interest in his students; he expected them to work hard, but he was quietly and unobtrusively generous toward the impecunious.
As man and as scholar, Michele De Filippis will be remembered as a dedicated laborer in the vineyard of Italian studies.
P. P. Delougaz, Near Eastern and African Languages: Los Angeles
| 1901-1975 | |
| Professor, Near Eastern Languages | |
| Director, Museum of Cultural History |
1901-1975
“The season is practically over. The usual pressure for closing camp and the myriad of other imperative tasks that always face us at the close of every season are yet to come. Somehow, as usual, we hope to finish and round off things in time to be with you, as scheduled, inshallah. In the meantime we send all of you our best wishes in the mood of the New Year happiness and hopefulness that prevails here at this holiday season.” These were the closing words of Pierre's letter written on March 26, during the Iranian New Year, three days before he passed away, leaving his promise to shortly be back with us sadly unfulfilled. The optimism and the bright expectation reflected in his letter are a cherished memory, which will remain associated in our minds with his figure and personality--particularly since these attitudes were with him until the last moment.
On the morning of March 29 the workers had found an Elamite vessel made of a soft black stone, with a carved handle in the shape of a rampant wild goat--one of the most beautiful objects, perhaps, to come from Chogha Mish. Since the find had taken place where he was supervising, he asked Professor Kantor and Miss Vindenas to come over to see it in situ. They came after lunch, and he made a remark as to how hard the mound was working for them and yielding generously until the end. As they left, he took the car to visit a group of workers in a trench at the end of the mound and then to rejoin Professor Kantor in her area. He drove away in one direction, by himself. After a while, as he did not come, Helene Kantor walked over toward the car, which was standing in its tracks. He was reclining on the seat, as if sleeping--which he might do occasionally after lunch. He had instead passed away, as a result of a heart attack, which had obviously caught him suddenly as he was making the round of excavations with the mound in front of him.
We all know what field work meant to him, how passionately he went back to it year after year. And that was because he was at his best in the midst of a field project, no matter how vast and complex.
The publications that derive from his field work are a true mirror of his personality. Mrs. Frankfort once remarked that it seemed characteristic of Pierre's style to bring forth monumental scholarly achievements when people hardly knew he was working on them. He would quietly analyze his data, go without fanfare through a prodigious amount of information, produce a marvelously cogent and clear argumentation--and not even his friends might know just what he was working on until it was all done. His works would emerge as did Athena, jumping from her father's head fully grown--a miracle, except that the miracle was only in the amount of labor that went unassumingly in making the result possible. His site reports are a model of their kind: exhaustive, precise, clear, well documented. His interpretive work has left a clear mark in the discipline, from cultural reconstruction--as evidenced, for instance, by his having introduced the notion and term of protoliterate--to the impressive system of pottery typology which he developed in connection with the Diyala finds. He was not given to overgeneralizations--quite the opposite--so he had a certain mistrust for theoretical elaboration. But even to theory, he contributed greatly with the substance of his thinking, which had a definite bent for a well-structured and systematized articulation.
The pragmatic trait in him was equally in evidence. When called upon to organize activities and institutions, he would once again go at it in his own quiet and determined way, with a strong sense of purpose and a deeply rooted commitment to his task. The master plan for the
That he has left a great deal unfinished while working unabatedly until the end is a clear sign of the momentum that lay behind his professional and personal life. The impetus we all derived from him, personally and professionally, is still with us and will continue to inspire us for a long time to come.
Karl de Schweinitz, Social Welfare: Los Angeles
| 1887-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Karl de Schweinitz, who served as professor of social welfare at UCLA from 1951 to 1958, died in a retirement community at Hightstown, New Jersey, on April 20, 1975 after a prolonged illness. Professor de Schweinitz, the son of a clergyman, was born in Northfield, Minnesota.
Even before joining its faculty, Professor de Schweinitz had come to the School of Social Welfare as visiting professor and, with his wife Elizabeth, for work through University Extension with personnel employed in public social services.
The range of his interests and the variety of his competences never failed to amaze those who knew him. Associates were repeatedly impressed by the warmth, geniality, and ready laugh Professor de Schweinitz constantly evidenced--whether serving as an expert in international circles or “rapping” with students in the American Friends Service Center at UCLA. He was equally at home advising the government of Egypt (under the United States Point Four Program in 1951) on its social security program or representing the United States in the United Nations Seminar on Social Welfare in Arab Countries (in Damascus in 1952), as with a local welfare agency or a neighborhood group of parents discussing sex education for children.
The meticulously thorough scholar produced the internationally acclaimed England's Road to Social Security: From the Statute of Laborers in 1349 to the Beveridge Report of 1942 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1943) and was called upon to discuss sophisticated problems of policy and administration with the top staff of the Federal Security Agency and, later, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Yet he was able also to help beginning students to grasp the essentials of income-maintenance programs and to assist practicing public welfare and employment service personnel in seeing new dimensions in their jobs. That an internationally eminent authority on social security and a former director of the prestigious School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania would enthusiastically and creatively serve as chairman, or even as member, of departmental committees
Like many other social workers of his generation, Professor de Schweinitz literally backed into what was to be his profession. After graduating from Moravian College in 1906 (and winning another A.B. degree from the University of Pennslyvania in 1907), he began his career in journalism as a newspaper reporter, first on the Philadelphia Public Ledger at the munificent salary of $936 a year, and then in different capacities on other publications until 1911. This led to his being appointed, until 1913, as executive secretary of the Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Society. Despite his later eminence as a distinguished author, Professor de Schweinitz never quite forgot his newspaper days and would sometimes require that students prepare term papers in the form of newspaper articles (or perhaps as reports suitable to the League of Women Voters or other civic organizations) to encourage interest and skill in interpretative writing.
From 1913 to 1933 Professor de Schweinitz served in a variety of social work positions in New York and Philadelphia. It was while serving as general secretary of the Family Society of Philadelphia (1918-1930) that he wrote two classics, each in a different field: The Art of Helping People Out of Trouble (Houghton Mifflin, 1924) and Growing Up: How We Become Alive, Are Born, and Grow Up (Macmillan, 1928), a pioneer work on sex education which was revised several times (most recently in 1965) and even in the 1970s was still being widely distributed in paperback.
Professor de Schweinitz served two stints as director of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work, from 1933 to 1936 and from 1938 to 1942. During the earlier period he served also as William T. Carter Professor of Child Development, and during the latter period as professor of social administration. Between these periods he served as director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Relief Board, a highly demanding position in hectic times, and later as director of the state's Department of Public Assistance.
When it became apparent that the nation's social security program would require vast numbers of employees for whom there was no agreed-upon program of training, Professor de Schweinitz first served as training consultant to the Social Security Board. Then, for seven years (1944 to 1951), just before coming to UCLA, he headed a training program under the aegis of the American Council on Education. It was during this period that he wrote People and Process in Social Security (1948). It was also in this position that, to serve as his assistant, he borrowed from the Social Security Board a young
Even before his retirement, Professor de Schweinitz had embarked upon an extensive revision and expansion of England's Road, which he expected to publish in two volumes under the title Dilemma of Need. Fulbright grants permitted extended study in England (1956), but failing health prevented completion of what would undoubtedly have been a truly definitive history of social security in both England and the United States. A significant tribute to England's Road is the extent to which it, rather than British works, is cited in books published in Britain.
His wife, the former Elizabeth McCord, who survives him (as do two children, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild), was a close collaborator on even books and articles that did not show her as co-author. Noteworthy among publications that they both signed is Interviewing in Social Security as Practiced in the Administration of Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (1961), which has been used widely by the social security personnel in both this country and Britain. They collaborated also on The Nature of the Public Assistance Job (1950).
For all his charm and winsomeness, students have reason to recall a sterner side of Professor de Schweinitz, the uncompromisingly correct scholar, because his vast knowledge and eagle eye would frequently spot in student papers even brief quotations that were not properly attributed to their original sources. Similarly, aspirants for academic appointment or promotion who, however, had not done much writing, received scant sympathy from Professor de Schweinitz, who characteristically found time for publishing even when holding demanding nonacademic positions.
For all his sociability, faculty colleagues recall Professor de Schweinitz' penchant for burying himself in the library (as he did later in the Library of Congress). In fact, one time he was thought to have overindulged this penchant a bit since he found himself locked inside the library and placed unwonted strain on the University communication and janitorial systems. University colleagues with musical interests have reason to recall the avidity with which Professor de Schweinitz, late in life, took up the recorder. Purists might not, perhaps, agree that Karl de Schweinitz was “a man for all seasons,” but none could deny that he was indeed a man for many, many seasons.
José Nestor Distefano, Architecture; Civil Engineering: Berkeley
| 1931-1975 | |
| Professor |
José Nestor Distefano died suddenly and unexpectedly in Berkeley on August 31, 1975. His untimely passing both shocked and saddened his many friends and colleagues in the University community and in the architecture and engineering professions throughout the world.
Professor Distefano was born on January 5, 1931 in Mar del Plata, a beach resort in Argentina. He was the son of the late José Nicolas Distefano and Segunda Rateriy. He attended the Colegio Nacional de Mar del Plata and graduated there in 1946. He entered the Universidad Nacional del Litoral Rosario, Argentina in the Facultad de Ciencias Máthematicas at the age of sixteen and received the degree of Ingeniero Civil in 1953. For a period of three years he was employed as a structural engineer in the architectural firm of Hernandez Larguia in Rosario and as a lecturer in the School of Architecture in the University of Rosario. In 1956 he held the position of acting chairman, Department of Mathematics in the Universidad Nacional del Sur at Bahía Blanca, Argentina, and then for three years was chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering.
In 1959 a scholarship from the Argentinian Council for Scientific Research enabled him and his wife and family to spend a two-year period at the Instituto Dina Mometrico in Turin followed by a six-month stay in Wexham Spring, England. He returned to Argentina in 1962 as professor of structures and director of the Institute of Applied Mechanics and Structures at the University of Rosario. In 1965 he accepted an additional appointment as principal investigator in the field of applied mechanics, University of Buenos Aires. During the spring of the same year he was invited to Berkeley as visiting associate professor of civil engineering. The political climate in Argentina, especially its effect on the university, made his return to Argentina relatively brief. In 1967 the family moved to Los Angeles, where he held the position of research associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He was appointed acting professor of civil engineering and architecture in Berkeley in 1968 and
Nestor Distefano started his research career in Argentina with studies on structures. This work was quickly advanced to the exposition of a theory for the behavior of visco-elastic structures carried out in Turin, Italy. At the same time he was working with architects in the design of hanging roofs and various forms of shells. This led into a series of studies on reinforced concrete structures at a time when such information was becoming very important to Latin American architects designing prestigious prize-winning buildings.
His interests extended to the techniques of dynamic programming and invariant imbedding, with wide-ranging implications, especially for biophysics and biomechanics, where simple approximations do not work well. During the 1970s virtually all of his work (about a score of papers altogether) elegantly presented solutions of mathematical approaches to fundamental problems encountered in the use of viscoelastic materials in structural elements. In architecture, he worked on the development of the use of computer graphics for interactive design and the analysis of structures.
He published more than seventy papers. The following titles suggest the range and breadth of his interests.
“Rectangular Hyperbolic Paraboloids of 4 cm Thickness”
“Creep Behavior of Homogeneous Anisotropic Prismatic Shells”
“A Pretensioned Prismatic Structure: Design, Construction and Experimental Verification”
“On Asymptotic Stability of Nonlinear Hereditary Phenomena”
“On Modeling and Identification in Biophysics with Application to the Rheology of the Red Cell Membrane”
“Dynamic Programming and Invariant Imbedding in Structural Mechanics”
“Quasilinearization and the Solution of Nonlinear Design Problems in Structures Undergoing Creep Deformations”
“An Identification Problem in Hydrology”
“A Cauchy System in the Linear Theory of Thin Shells of Revolution”
His book, Non Linear Processes in Engineering, published by Academic Press in 1974, made substantial contributions to the solution of inverse problems in mathematical physics.
More important than any one piece of work was his knack and intellectual capacity to find the common denominator that links together the seemingly most disparate objects in processes: the shell roof, red blood cells, subsurface ground water systems and viscoelastic column, as seen through his eyes, all had a common structure that permitted their examination from a common perspective.
Nestor Distefano was one of the most distinguished members of the Argentine academic diaspora. Until his death he maintained close
Jose Nestor Distefano combined brilliance with personal warmth and a sense of humor with empathy. He believed as he lived and lived as he believed--a humanist in a technological world, always searching for truth, order, and understanding.
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Genetics: Davis
| 1900-1975 | |
| Adjunct Professor |
Theodosius Dobzhansky was one of the most influential scientists of the twentieth century; he also was one of the most prolific. Dobzhansky's first paper appeared when he was eighteen years old; at the time of his death he had published almost 600 works, including more than a dozen books.
Dobzhansky's most significant contribution to science was the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory that he advanced in Genetics and the Origin of Species, first published in 1937--a book that may be considered as the twentieth-century counterpart of Darwin's The Origin of Species. Dobzhansky's book had an enormous impact on the biology of our century. The modern theory of evolution has remained grounded on Dobzhansky's synthesis of genetic knowledge and Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. In 1962, Dobzhansky extended the synthesis of Mendelism and Darwinism to the human species in Mankind Evolving. This book remains an unsurpassed synthesis of genetics, evolutionary theory, anthropology, and sociology. Many believe Mankind Evolving to be a book as important as Genetics and the Origin of Species.
Dobzhansky was not only a great theorist of evolution in the twentieth century. He also was the founder of experimental population genetics (the study of the genetic processes underlying evolutionary change), and its most eminent and prolific practitioner. Indeed, there may be no major problem of population genetics to which Dobzhansky did not make important experimental contributions. He also made classical contributions to other areas of genetics, and to other fields of biology, such as systematics.
Evolutionary biology is a field with implications reaching far into other realms of knowledge. Dobzhansky systematically investigated
many philosophical problems relevant to, or emerging from, evolutionary biology. Moreover he had a lasting interest in the
relevance of biology, particularly evolutionary theory, to human affairs. Distinguished contributions to challenging human
issues can be found in scores of articles and in some of his books, such as Heredity, Race and
Dobzhansky's enormous success as the creator of new ideas and as a synthesizer was, at least in part, based on his broad knowledge, his phenomenal memory, and an incisive mind able to see “unity in diversity”--that is, the relevance that a new discovery or a new theory might have with respect to other theories or problems. His success as an experimentalist depended on a wise combination of field and laboratory research, his keenness in working always at the utmost level of resolution experimentally possible at any one time, his ability to see and exploit the possibilities of any new apparatus or experimental design, and his clever choice of experimental organisms appropriate for the investigation of a given problem. His numerous accomplishments were made possible by incredible energy and highly disciplined work habits.
Dobzhansky was excellent in the classroom, and a truly brilliant educator of scientists. Throughout his academic career Dobzhansky had more than thirty graduate students and an even greater number of postdoctoral and visiting associates. Some of the most distinguished geneticists and evolutionists in the United States and abroad are his former students. He was also a remarkably stimulating colleague. Dobzhansky avoided administrative posts, and participated minimally in committee activities. He alleged, perhaps correctly, that he had neither the ability nor the temperament for management. Most certainly, he preferred to dedicate his working time to research and writing rather than to administration.
Dobzhansky was a world traveler and an accomplished linguist, able to speak six languages fluently and to read several more. His interests extended widely beyond his professional work, into the plastic arts, music, Russian literature, cultural anthropology, history, philosophy, and religion. He was a good naturalist and never lacked time for a hike, whether in the California mountains, in the New England forests, or in the Amazonian jungles. He loved horseback riding, but practiced no other sports.
Theodosius Dobzhansky was born January 25, 1900, in Nemirov in the Ukraine. He received his education in Kiev and lived there through the tumultuous years of the Bolshevik Revolution and World War I. In 1921, just after graduation from the University of Kiev, he became an instructor of zoology at the Polytechnic Institute. From 1924 to 1927 he taught genetics at the University of Leningrad. As a Fellow from the International Education Board (Rockefeller Foundation), he came late in 1927 to the United States in order to work
Although officially “emeritus” since 1970, Dobzhansky continued his experimental research, writing, and lecturing until his death from heart failure on December 18, 1975. During his four years and a few months at Davis, Dobzhansky published more than fifty scientific papers and articles and wrote two books. One of his students had completed a Ph.D. at Davis, while another was nearly completed at the time of Dobzhansky's death. In spite of his advanced years, Dobzhansky taught several graduate courses at Davis, and often was guest lecturer in undergraduate courses. He liked to proclaim everywhere the wisdom of his decision to come to Davis, which he saw as an evolutionist's paradise because of the presence of many distinguished population biologists and evolutionists.
Honorary degrees were bestowed upon Dobzhansky by more than twenty universities (Berkeley, 1968). He was president of several professional societies, and received multiple awards and prizes, including the National Medal of Science from President Johnson in 1964.
Lawrence Ellsworth Dodd, Physics: Los Angeles
| 1886-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Lawrence Ellsworth Dodd was born July 16, 1886 in Cascade, Iowa. He died on September 14, 1975 in Port Angeles, Washington. Following attendance of public schools in Iowa, Dodd entered Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and in due course was awarded the B.S. degree in 1910. After teaching high school for two years, he began graduate study at the University of Iowa, where he attained the M.S. degree in 1914 and the Ph.D. in 1918. Following a three-year appointment at the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C., he joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at UCLA in 1921, when it was still known as the Southern Branch of the University of California. He remained a dedicated member of the department and of the campus until his retirement in 1954 with the rank of professor.
Ellsworth Dodd had a deep interest in teaching. He was formally assigned the basic elementary course for physical science and preengineering students--particularly the part on properties of matter and heat. He wrote a laboratory manual for this part of the course, which remained in use long after his retirement. Assignments also included the departmental upper-division course in geometrical optics, for which he developed lectures, demonstrations, and laboratory experiments, and the special upper-division course in modern optical instruments, which culminated in electron microscopy.
This great interest in teaching was reflected in several other ways. His bibliography lists a dozen contributions to journals devoted to the teaching of physics. He was active in the American Association of Physics Teachers. He served as president of the Southern California Section and as a member of the National Executive Council. He was a member of the Editorial Board and contributor to a comprehensive manual containing 1,200 lecture demonstrations which was published by the American Association of Physics Teachers. He trained several advanced students in geometrical optics who went out into industry and by their excellent work elicited requests for further Dodd-trained specialists.
Dodd's research interests were broad--generally covering measurements
His membership in national scientific societies was extensive. His membership and activities in the American Association of Physics Teachers has already been mentioned. He was also a member of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Optical Society, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Illuminating Engineering Society. After his death, the director of the American Optical Society wrote his widow that “Lawrence Ellsworth Dodd was a member of our society for fifty years and was one of our most respected members.”
Compuswide, Dodd served on numerous Senate committees and was a member of the Research Committee in the early years of research development on the campus. In the department he was the chairman of the Library Committee for many years. He also served as chairman of the departmental Prizes and Honors Committee. He was a member of the Ph.D. oral qualifying examination committee for the areas of heat and optics. He was responsible more than anyone else for the purchase by the University of a high-powered electron microscope rather than a smaller, less useful model.
Dodd is survived by his wife, Marguerite (Templeton) Dodd, who was a member of the French department at the University of Southern California at the time they first met in 1928. Over the years the Dodds opened their home many times, for dinners and receptions, to members of the department and their wives and to other campus friends.
Ellsworth Dodd was a person who carried out his responsibilities in a spirit of cooperation and good will that was unusual. Always pleasant and always willing to sacrifice his own interests to the general welfare, he was liked and regarded warmly by students and staff alike. He was a gentleman of absolute integrity.
Michael Doudoroff, Bacteriology and Immunology; Molecular Biology: Berkeley
| 1911-1975 | |
| Professor of Bacteriology and Molecular Biology |
Michael Doudoroff was born in Petrograd, Russia on November 14, 1911, the son of a naval officer. In 1917 his father became a member of the short-lived Kerensky government, and subsequently was appointed naval attaché in the Russian embassy in Japan. Shortly before the October revolution the family moved to Tokyo, where they remained for six years before coming to San Francisco.
Young Mike's biological interests first became apparent when he began collecting beetles and butterflies in Japan and later greatly expanded his collection in California. When he entered Stanford some years later he intended to become a professional entomologist. However, he gradually developed interests in other areas of biology, especially protozoology and bacteriology. He obtained his B.A. and M.A. degrees in 1933 and 1934 at Stanford in zoology, and then moved to Pacific Grove to do his Ph.D. thesis research at the Hopkins Marine Station under the supervision of the great microbiologist and teacher, C.B. van Niel, from whom he obtained much inspiration. After completing his thesis in 1939 Doudoroff stayed on for another year as van Niel's research assistant. In 1940 he joined the faculty of the University of California as an instructor in bacteriology and subsequently progressed through the academic ranks to the full professorship in 1952. From 1960 to 1962 he held an appointment as research professor in the Miller Institute of Basic Research, and from 1960 to 1974 he held the title of professor in both the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology and the Department of Molecular Biology.
Doudoroff exerted a profound influence on the teaching of bacteriology at Berkeley. Before he joined the department of bacteriology, the courses of instruction emphasized mainly the medical and paramedical aspects of bacteriology. Doudoroff was given responsibility for teaching the introductory lecture and laboratory courses in general bacteriology, and he proceeded to reorganize them along the lines used by van Niel and the Delft School of Microbiology. This involved the presentation of bacteria and other microorganisms as biological systems
Doudoroff was a brilliant and imaginative investigator who made numerous fundamental contributions, particularly to knowledge of carbohydrate metabolism in bacteria. Much of his research and that of his students was done with Pseudomonas saccharophila, an aerobic bacterium that he isolated in 1939 while at the Hopkins Marine Station. This organism had the unusual property that when grown on sucrose it degraded sucrose much faster than the constituent monosaccharides, glucose and fructose. Further studies of this anomaly, done in collaboration with W. Z. Hassid, H. A. Barker, and N. O. Kaplan, led to the discovery and characterization of the enzyme sucrose phosphorylase that catalyzes the conversion of sucrose and orthophosphate to fructose and glucose 1-phosphate. The reversibility of this reaction made possible the first enzymatic synthesis of the common sugar, sucrose. An elegant series of experiments on the mode of action of sucrose phosphorylase revealed that it is a glucosyl-transferring enzyme, and provided some of the first evidence for the existence of a covalent substrate-enzyme compound. A later contribution of major significance came from the studies of Doudoroff and his student Nathan Entner on the metabolism of glucose by P. saccharophila: the discovery of a novel and widely used pathway for the degradation of carbohydrates which now bear their names. Subsequently Doudoroff and his associates discovered the numerous variations of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway that are used by P. saccharophila and other bacteria in the degradation of other common hexose and pentose sugars. They also purified and characterized most of the enzymes involved in these reactions. These contributions established Doudoroff as an outstanding authority on the bacterial metabolism of carbohydrates.
Doudoroff's second major research interest was the role of poly-hydroxybutyric acid as an intercellular reserve energy and carbon source for bacteria. In collaboration with Stanier and others he showed that poly-hydroxybutyric acid is a major storage product of both photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic bacteria grown on acetate or compounds metabolized via acetyl units, and is reutilized when exogenous substrates are lacking. In subsequent studies, Doudoroff and
All of Doudoroff's early research was concerned with physiological and biochemical phenomena, but about 1960, in collaboration with Stanier, he turned his attention to taxonomic studies, particularly of the genus Pseudomonas, and he continued research in this area until his death. He and his associates, especially Norberto J. Palleroni, collected and correlated a vast amount of information on the characteristics of species of Pseudomonas. Besides studying hundreds of nutritional and physiological characters, they used several macro-molecular methods to find out how similar the genes of various strains were to those of other strains. Their conclusions, summarized in the eighth edition of Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, greatly clarified the taxonomic relations within this genus and provide a model for other studies of this type. This monumental study will have lasting value not only for those concerned with identification and classification of bacteria but also for those who seek to understand the biochemical and genetic basis of bacterial evolution.
Doudoroff's scientific achievements were recognized by presentation of the first Sugar Research Award of the National Academy of Sciences in 1945 (jointly with H. A. Barker and W. Z. Hassid) and by election to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1962. He held a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1949-1950.
Doudoroff was an enthusiastic, warm-hearted, and generous person, who loved good conversation and conviviality. He had an exceptionally alert and critical mind, and could always be counted on to make penetrating and helpful comments on any scientific problem under discussion. Unfortunately, his personal life was complicated by more than the usual number of problems and tragedies, and in his later years he was plagued by recurring ill health. He died on April 4, 1975 as a result of cancer. He is survived by a son, Michael John Doudoroff.
Max Shaw Dunn, Chemistry and Biochemistry: Los Angeles
| 1895-1976 | |
| Professor of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Emeritus |
With the death of Max S. Dunn on August 24, 1976, the books were closed on the original chemistry faculty at UCLA. The six members of that group established the sound foundation of teaching and research, for which the present chemistry department is well known.
After early training at Simpson College, Max completed his formal education at the University of Illinois, where in 1921 he was awarded the Ph.D. in biochemistry. He taught one year on the Berkeley campus, then in 1922 he joined the budding Southern Branch of the University of California. From that day to well after his retirement in 1962, he was a strong and positive force in the development UCLA.
Incredibly, during his first thirty years he was the only teacher of biochemistry on campus. His teaching load was heavy, but he did not let that deter him from his desire to train students in the field, and from pursuing his research in the complex realm of amino acids.
Very early, he appreciated the fact that in order to discover the role that the various amino acids play in living organisms, biochemists would first need to know with accuracy their chemical and physical characteristics. Thus, single-handedly, and without the aid of modern sophisticated equipment, he set out to isolate, purify, and study the property of these compounds. His enthusiasm soon attracted the helping hands of students, all of whom were undergraduates until the development of graduate programs on campus in 1935.
Since comparable pure compounds were not available commercially, Dr. Dunn was soon overwhelmed with requests from research laboratories, worldwide, for samples of his amino acids. He took this problem to President Sproul, who upon recognizing its importance, established within the University of California a unique budget item called Amino Acids Manufacturers, with a $1,000 revolving account. This nonprofit organization enabled Dr. Dunn to charge a fee for samples. As a consequence, he was able during the depression years to give modest, but much needed, financial assistance to his student helpers. After World
Another biochemical contribution of Dr. Dunn and his collaborators was the development of the microbiological method for the analysis of amino acid mixtures. This important breakthrough was widely used until after the development of the more convenient, although somewhat less specific, chromatographic method of analysis.
Teaching students the basic concepts of research was one of Max's most satisfying academic activities. After 1935, many graduate and postdoctoral students received training from him. He was always generous in sharing credit for work accomplished, and, with his students and other associates, he published nearly 200 scholarly research papers.
Throughout his career at UCLA, Dr. Dunn was active on academic and administrative committees, and often as an outspoken critic, he did much to shape campus development. This was especially true in the general areas of life science and the medical school.
Of his many assignments, perhaps the one that interested him most pertained to the libraries. He believed that the Southern Branch was destined to become a great university, and that for this to become a reality, it had to have an excellent research library to serve all the academic disciplines. To this end, he served untiringly for many years on the Senate Library Committee. The faculty of the chemistry department is most grateful to Max for laying the foundation of its own library.
In this brief testimonial it is impossible to list all of Max's contributions; but finally, to illustrate his broad interest in University affairs, it should be mentioned that he was dedicated to the UCLA sports programs and served with enthusiasm on the Senate Athletic Committee. In recognition of his extensive, varied, and superior service for over four decades, UCLA awarded Dr. Dunn the LL.D. degree in 1965.
For thirty years Max was a loyal member of the Rotary Club International and took an active part in its programs of community service. Doubtless, his most satisfying contribution in this respect was the establishment of a training and employment workship for handicapped people. During the eleven years he was president of the workshop board of directors, about 1600 handicapped people were trained and placed in a variety of industrial jobs. Max believed in the blending of pure and applied research, and especially during his years of academic retirement, he enjoyed sharing his scientific talents with the pharmaceutical industry.
He is survived by Lois, his devoted wife and chief counselor for fifty-five years, and their two children, Max Jr. and Deneige (Mrs. Manley Feducia), and seven grandchildren.
William Ebenstein, Political Science: Santa Barbara
| 1910-1976 | |
| Professor |
The death of William Ebenstein on April 28, 1976, a few weeks before his sixty-sixth birthday, brought to a close the career of one of America's most prolific political scientists, and a scholar who had gained a worldwide reputation. His publications--which numbered more than one hundred twenty books, chapters in books, and articles--have been reprinted and translated into numerous languages including German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, and Norwegian.
Professor Ebenstein was born in Austria on May 11, 1910 and received his LL.D. degree from the University of Vienna in 1934. He studied for two years at the University of London before enrolling for graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, where he was appointed a fellow in economics in 1936 and a research associate in law in 1937. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in political science in 1938, he was appointed to an instructorship and was advanced to the rank of associate professor in 1943. In 1946 he left Wisconsin to accept an appointment at Princeton University, where he served for sixteen years. In 1962 he joined the political science faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, and four sons--Phillip, Robert, Andrew, and Alan.
As a scholar, Bill Ebenstein's interests and talents manifested a near cosmic scope. His formidable list of books, monographs, articles, and essays reflected an amazing diversity, ranging from such concerns as the law of public housing (the subject of one of his books) through numerous facets of comparative politics, to political and legal philosophy. In Austria he had been a student of Hans Kelsen and became one of Kelsen's foremost expositors in articles and particularly in the classic study The Pure Theory of Law (1945).
Although he had a wide range of professional interests, his major fields of specialization were political philosophy and comparative government. Combining these two concerns, he became a leading authority of totalitarianism. His first book, Fascism at Work, was published in 1934 when he was only twenty-four years of age. This was followed by Fascist Italy in 1939, The Nazi State in 1943, and The German Record
At each of the universities where he held appointments, he won a reputation as one of the most articulate and popular undergraduate lecturers. At the graduate level, his seminars were demanding and stimulating. He set a sobering example with a prodigious work schedule of his own. While his intellectual prowess initially held students in awe, they soon learned that outside the seminar meetings, which tended to be formal, Bill Ebenstein was approachable, warmly human, willing to spend much time with them and their problems, and to give them moral support and encouragement not only as students but later at crucial points in their careers.
The fourteen years William Ebenstein was a member of the Santa Barbara political science department was a period of rapid growth and development in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. He willingly assumed his share of collegial responsibilities, serving as graduate advisor during the critical formative stage of the department's doctoral program and on several important committees of the Academic Senate, including the Graduate Council and the committees on budget and on research. His colleagues valued not only his vast experience and wise counsel but also his lively sense of humor.
Professor Ebenstein received many honors and appointments. He was awarded a Social Science Council Fellowship in both 1942 and 1947, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in 1953, a Haynes Foundation Lecturership in 1961, and he was a faculty associate at the Institute for International Studies at Princeton from 1957 to 1960. He spent 1948-1949 in Paris as director of the UNESCO Survey of Methods
Bill Ebenstein's impact on the study and teaching of political science was far reaching. The memory of his warmth, wit, and wisdom will remain strong among his many associates, colleagues, and students. His fertile mind and engaging personality won him a host of friends throughout the world, and it was our good fortune to be counted among those friends.
Carl Eckart, Geosciences: San Diego
| 1902-1973 | |
| Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus |
Carl Eckart's career encompassed a succession of fields of interest. Though his choices of field were influenced by external circumstances, their flow was quite rational. Each aspect built upon the preceding ones, and in each, his careful appraisal of the new situation was followed by rigorous organization and illuminating synthesis.
At school in St. Louis, Missouri, and at Washington University there, his initial involvement was with mathematics--a most proper, formative discipline for a brilliant and orderly mind, and so, perhaps, providing a reinforcing sense of confidence derived from being able to establish one's results with certainty. He nevertheless had the courage and drive to move out of this arena, going into fields successively farther removed from the security of mathematical or even laboratory control. His early important papers were in quantum mechanics and the thermodynamics of irreversible processes, while later, moving during World War II from Chicago to San Diego, he worked in under-water acoustics, statistical signal processing, physical oceanography, and geophysics. In all these areas he made his own original contributions, but his impact was far greater through his ability and willingness to bring clarifying order into complex or unorganized situations.
This talent became evident very early in his career. He had moved to the California Institute of Technology shortly after finishing his Ph.D. at Princeton University. The new quantum mechanics was emerging, and he accepted the challenge of its confusion and produced the first of several fundamental clarifying papers. In this he recognized that the principles involved could be formulated in many different ways and, in particular, he showed that the two perplexingly different formulations initially made by Schrodinger and Heisenberg were indeed equivalent.
As he moved from Cal Tech to Munich and finally to the University of Chicago, he continued to blend mathematics and physics, producing over twenty important papers in quantum mechanics in the following decade. These included the formulation of the powerful Wigner-Eckart
In 1938 he began to turn away from atomic and nuclear physics, first with a paper, “The Electrodynamics of Material Media,” and then in 1940 he completed the transition with his set of three papers on the thermodynamics of irreversible processes. Here he showed how one could move rigorously from basic physical principles to deduce a variety of statements normally thought of simply as hypotheses or empirical laws (for example, Ohm's law, Fick's law of diffusion, and various aspects of fluid dynamics).
His move into underwater acoustics (and from the University of Chicago to the University of California) in 1942 was triggered by the onset of World War II. It was characterized by a quick appreciation of the fact that the problems and complexities were those of the ocean rather than those of fundamental physics, but that some of them could be resolved through careful application of known concepts. He set about immediately organizing what was known, pushing experimentalists in the directions required for gathering new information most effectively, and developing mathematical methods for coping with aspects of the sea that should best be described in statistical terms.
Out of this work, primarily that done by the University of California Division of War Research at San Diego, in which he was a leading member, but also from work done by other, similar groups, came his third major contribution to synthesis and organization of material for the benefit of others. This was the book Principles of Underwater Sound, of which he was both editor and principal author. First published in 1946 as a National Defense Research Council report, it is still, after almost thirty years, a major reference work and was most recently reprinted in 1970.
His work in underwater acoustics led him, in turn, into contact with the oceanographic community, within which he worked at formulating statistical descriptions of oceanic phenomena and clarifying the theories of such problems as the internal oscillations of the sea. Many of these matters he brought together in his fourth, and probably best-known work or organization: Hydrodynamics of Oceans and Atmospheres, published in 1960. This book elegantly displays phenomena from tidal oscillations through acoustic waves as a coherent structure. In addition to the unity that this book brings to a broad subject, it also exposes an aspect of Eckart's pedagogical skill--his interest and ability in making visual representations of the relationships involved in complex mathematical statements. He often invoked this simultaneous appeal to intellect and intuition to help those of us having less mathematical skill to benefit from his understanding.
He provided intellectual leadership to many of us at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the San Diego campus. From his initial
Eckart's election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1950 was largely based on his work in physics, whereas the Acoustical Society of America presented him the Pioneers of Underwater Acoustics medal for his contributions in that field. He received the Agassiz medal of the National Academy of Sciences for his work on the hydrodynamics of the ocean and the Bowie medal of the American Geophysical Union for broader contributions in geophysics. As one of the speakers (Willis) stated at Eckart's memorial service, however, “He received many honors, but his dignity was in deserving them.”
It is significant that he became involved in most of his fields of interest at times of their major development, and that, in each case, he played the roles of leader, synthesizer, and teacher.
John Edward Eckert, Entomology: Davis
| 1895-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
One of the first champions of honeybees in California, and certainly the most articulate, was John Edward Eckert. Dr. Eckert recognized soon after his arrival at the University of California in 1931 as assistant professor of entomology and assistant apiculturist that honeybees are an indispensable element of California agriculture. It was this realization that shaped the direction of his research toward alleviating the serious loss of honeybees from pesticides and led him to become closely associated with the beekeeping industry throughout the state.
John Eckert took the Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture at Ohio State University in 1916. A year later he received the Master of Science degree in entomology, and then became an apiary inspector in Ohio for the summer. In the fall he started his career as entomologist, first in North Carolina as nursery inspector, and then at North Carolina State College as assistant professor of entomology, 1919 to 1922, and as associate professor of entomology, 1922 to 1924. During his tenure at North Carolina State College he was active in North Carolina beekeeping, serving as secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina State Beekeepers' Association and editing the second manual of the association. At the same time he worked toward the doctorate at North Carolina State College which he completed at Ohio State University, after a year in residence there, in 1931.
Professor Eckert's intense interest in bees influenced him to accept a position as associate apiculturist with the United States Department of Agriculture in 1924. He was stationed first in Washington, D.C. and shortly thereafter in Laramie, Wyoming, where he undertook the research that was the basis for his classical paper, “The Flight Range of the Honeybee.” This was the first fully documented publication on the subject and remains today an outstanding model of apicultural research.
California's varied agriculture and growing beekeeping industry were impressive, and when the opportunity came for him to become a member of the faculty of the University of California on the University Farm at Davis, he accepted enthusiastically. His extensive knowledge
Professor Eckert retained his concern for pesticide-caused bee losses throughout his career. In 1945 he became excited about the potential for controlling bee diseases by treating infected colonies with antibiotics. He pioneered chemotherapy in California, despite strenuous opposition from some beekeepers and regulatory personnel. His experiments ultimately led to the control of bee pathogens with antibiotics, a practice accepted as fundamental to successful contemporary beekeeping.
The destruction by Australian regulatory officers of breeding stock sent to Australia from the University of California, Davis, for alleged infestation by the internal parasitic mite Acarapis woodi aroused Professor Eckert's interest in honeybee mites and their distribution. He was awarded a Fulbright grant and in 1957 took a sabbatical leave to study mites in Australia and Europe. He found that external mites are common on bees from every country sampled and that the Australians had misidentified the mites on the bees from Davis. This work allayed the fear that Acarapis woodi had invaded North America.
Professor Eckert had joint authorship of two textbooks on bees and published numerous research papers and bulletins. Two of these bulletins, Physical and Chemical Properties of California Honeys (with H. W. Allinger) and Nectar and Pollen Plants of California (with G. H. Vansell), are still authoritative, although they have long been out of print.
Professor Eckert served as chairman of the Davis entomologists from 1934 to 1946. He guided the growth of this fledgling department early in this period and assisted in recruiting the outstanding entomologists who contributed so much to the department's current recognition and stature. During this period he undertook a study of ants and published a circular, Ants and Their Control. This was the most complete publication on California ants.
His main civic activity was concerned with the Davis public schools. He was elected to the Davis Joint Union High School Board in 1948 and served two terms.
The love of sports, developed early in life, remained with him until his death. He was an avid tennis player and coached tennis at Davis for several years. After retiring in 1962 he turned to golf with the same energy and enthusiasm, becoming one of the few Davis golfers to make a hole-in-one three times.
Professor Eckert was a member of the Entomological Society of America, Bee Research Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, California Bee Breeders Association, Sigma Xi, and Alpha Gamma Rho social fraternity. In appreciation of his many and continuing contributions to beekeeping, he was made a life member of the California State Beekeepers Association. In 1929 he married Virginia Whittier, a biologist in her own right, who died in 1974. Professor Eckert is survived by three daughters, Margaret Wills, Sarah Green, and Jean Bryant, and seven grandchildren.
Albert Armin Ehrenzweig, Law: Berkeley
| 1906-1974 | |
| Walter Perry Johnson Professor Emeritus |
On June 4, 1974, death came to Albert A. Ehrenzweig and ended the productive and illustrious career of an eminent member of the Berkeley campus community and internationally famous scholar. Albert, as he was known to his colleagues and associates, joined the Boalt Hall faculty in 1948 and remained one of its most respected and beloved teachers.
He won worldwide recognition in his two principal fields of endeavor, conflict of laws and jurisprudence, to which he contributed several pioneering books and a vast array of articles. Born in Vienna, he received his civil law education in Heidelberg, Grenoble, and Vienna. He earned his J.U.D. degree from the latter university in 1928. On the basis of his first major monograph on “Culpability as Basis of Liability for Damages,” which was published in 1936, Ehrenzweig joined the Vienna law faculty in 1937, but his promising career in Austria terminated soon with the rise to power of a hostile government. After a brief period at the University of Bristol, England, Albert and his family migrated to the United States and there he embarked on a second legal education at the University of Chicago (1939-1941) and Columbia University (1941-42). From 1942-44 Ehrenzweig was a member of the staff of the Law Revision Commission of New York and subsequently joined the prestigious Cravath law firm in New York. In 1947 he was invited to teach during the summer session at Boalt Hall, an association that was made permanent in 1948.
His appointment added richly to the intellectual resources of the law school as well as of the campus at large. Albert's boundless energy and devotion left a mark on everyone and everything around him, on colleagues and students as well as on the campus landscape and even on the sounds of the trains traversing Berkeley. As a writer he was immensely prolific and superbly original. His best-known works are his celebrated essay on “Negligence Without Fault” (1951), his innovative treatise on the Conflict of Laws (1962), and his provocative Psychoanalytic Jurisprudence (1971). His great scholarly achievements
Henry W. Elliott, Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics; Anesthesiology: Irvine
| 1920-1976 | |
| Professor, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics | |
| Lecturer in Anesthesia | |
| Chairman, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics |
Dr. Elliott was born in Seattle, Washington in 1920 and died August 1, 1976 in Santa Ana, California. He devoted thirty-five years of his life to scientific and academic achievement and contributions in the field of pharmacology and clinical therapeutics. He received his B.S. in chemistry (cum laude) in 1941 and his M.S. in biochemistry in 1943, both from the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1946 and he earned the M.D. degree from the University of California at San Francisco in 1953. He remained on the School of Medicine staff at UCSF, achieving status as professor of pharmacology in 1964. He became professor and chairman of the Department of Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine in 1968, a post which he held at the time of his death on August 1, 1976.
Dr. Elliott combined pharmacology and anesthesiology in his career, being a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology and a Fellow in the American College of Anesthesiology (1967) as well as maintaining scholarly activities in the pharmacology field as chairman of the Subcommittee on Pharmacology Evaluation (SCOPE) (U.S. Pharmacopeia), associate editor of the Annual Review of Pharmacology and editor of the Annual Review of Pharmacology (1965-1976). He was a member of the editorial board of six broad-ranging professional journals and was active in the A.M.A. and California Medical Association sections on clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, acting as chairman and member of several advisory panels. In the University of California sphere he was past chairman of the Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee of the Medical School and member of the Committee on Graduate Academic Programs of the College of Medicine. He had been honored as a member of Alpha Omega Alpha as well as sixteen other honorary professional societies.
Professor Elliott was a man of many talents. Not only had he published over 140 scientific publications in high quality medical journals, but he had served and was continuing to serve as chairman of the sub-committee on the U.S. Pharmacopeia SCOPE since 1970. He was largely responsible for the renewed vigor in which an improved drug selection program was possible, and he was the person mainly responsible for a complete review of all drugs used in the United States and identified by the U.S. Pharmacopeia. This resulted in putting the decisions of the U.S. Pharmacopeia with respect to drug selections on a more substantial foundation than previously. The review of drugs was a unique and fundamental improvement in drug listing, since the listing was done by clinical indication rather than by broad chemical categories. This effort has resulted in the 1976 US Pharmacopeia Guide to Select Drugs, which was published later in 1976. It is a tribute to Professor Elliott's long desire to provide recognition on a national level to the “also useful” and effective drugs while at the same time preserving the “cherished blue ribbon” list.
Professor Elliott had been prodigiously involved not only in academic pharmacology during his entire career but had also served as anesthesiologist at the San Francisco and Irvine campuses of the University of California.
Dr. Elliott's memory of the disciplines of both pharmacology and anesthesiology gave him a breadth of clinical knowledge and basic science background that is found only rarely in medicine. He was active in teaching not only undergraduate and graduate pharmacology but was constantly teaching the fundamentals of anesthesiology in the operating room at UCI every week. His ability and obvious delight in teaching produced a very effective experience for the students at all levels under his influence, including medical students, interns, residents in the surgical specialities, and faculty. He was always alert to fundamental developments and was a responsible, concerned physician at all times. Professor Elliott fulfilled an urgent need for anesthesiology at the UCI College of Medicine, from the time of his arrival in 1968 until his death, during which time there was no formal department or division of anesthesiology. Dr. Elliott was able to give not only considerable service to sick patients but was an active supporter for the development of anesthesiology at UCI.
Dr. Elliott was a kind and considerate man. His relationship with many patients was always one of gentle understanding. He had a sympathetic view of patient problems and was an effective member of the full-time clinical faculty. His dedication to high quality academic and clinical performance in spite of the adversities associated with the development of a new medical school remains a glowing tribute to
Norman N. Epstein, Dermatology: San Francisco
| 1896-1975 | |
| Clinical Professor Emeritus |
Norman N. Epstein was known affectionately as “Eppy” by his colleagues in San Francisco, where he was a dermatologist and educator for more than fifty years. He died on October 6, 1975 in Finland while on a holiday. He was known to his close friends as “Sweetheart,” as he was always called by his dear wife, Gertrude.
He was professor emeritus of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco, and had served as chief of dermatology at Mount Zion, Franklin, and San Francisco General hospitals. He was the patriarch of an almost unique dermatological dynasty, including his brother Ervin, his sons Bill, chairman of the Department of Dermatology at UCSF, and John, editor of the Archives of Dermatology, an examining member of the American Board of Dermatology, and clinical professor at UCSF. A nephew, Ervin, Jr., has already made his mark in dermatology.
He had a great influence on generations of medical students. Trainees in dermatology taught by him have served as departmental chairmen, presidents of the American Dermatological Association, the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Board of Dermatology, as section chairmen of the American Medical Association, as editorial board members of the leading national dermatological journals, as recipients of distinguished foreign lectureships, and one as a full-time research professor.
Dr. Epstein was born in San Francisco in 1896. His family moved to the California wine country, where he graduated from Napa High School in 1914. He went to UC, Berkeley, and graduated from UC Medical School in San Francisco in 1923. He served his internship and residency there, with additional training at Western Reserve, and joined the UCSF faculty in 1928.
Modest and self-effacing, his intelligence, reliability, and qualities of character were nevertheless soon recognized and he became a leader in his specialty, here and abroad. His blanket method of inducing fever for the treatment of neurosyphilis, bypassing the hazardous treatment with malaria and typhoid vaccine, was standard at UCSF and the
Dr. Epstein loved life and lived it to the full. He and his wife journeyed abroad each year and had many friends in various parts of the world. They vacationed in Hawaii or Mexico or where their fancy led them.
Dr. Howard Morrow was chairman of the Department of Dermatology at the time Norman Epstein and Frances Torrey took their dermatological training. Epstein idolized Morrow, whom he called “the Chief.” Dr. Morrow had an especial fondness for him, and through Morrow, Dr. Epstein, early in his career, became close friends with many of the leaders in dermatology.
We, the undersigned, all knew and loved Norman as a colleague and fellow faculty member, one of us as a brother whom he guided, another as a student who looked on him as his mentor, another as a fellow trainee in dermatology, and still another as a contemporary who knew him for many years and respected him as an outstanding clinician, teacher, and contributor to medicine. He was a close friend and an example to all of us.
He is survived by his wife Gertrude of Palo Alto; by his sons William L., John H., and Eugene Epstein; by his brother Ervin H. Epstein, one of the signers of this tribute; by his nephews Ervin Jr. and Kenny Epstein; and by seven grandchildren. We extend heartfelt sympathy to all who are diminished by this irreparable loss.
Griffith Conrad Evans, Mathematics: Berkeley
| 1887-1973 | |
| Professor |
Griffith Conrad Evans was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 11, 1887 and died on December 10, 1973. He received his A.B. in 1907, his M.A. in 1908, and his Ph.D. in 1910, all from Harvard University. After receiving the Ph.D. he studied from 1910-12 at the University of Rome on a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard. He began his teaching career in 1912 as assistant professor at the newly established Rice Institute in Houston, Texas and remained there until 1934. In 1934 he accepted the position of chairman of the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he held until 1949. He retired in 1954 but taught there one more year.
Professor Evans' scientific interests and publications concerned three fields: functional analysis, potential theory, and mathematical economics. His first paper was on the first of these subjects and was published in 1909. During the ensuing ten years he contributed a great deal to this field. His principal results concerned certain integro-differential equations and integral equations with singular kernels. Evans received early recognition of his work in that field when he was invited to deliver the Colloquium Lectures before the American Mathematical Society on the subject “Functionals and Their Applications.” These lectures were published in the American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications.
In 1920 he published the first of his famous research papers on potential theory, a field in which he was certainly the foremost authority in this country for many years. By using the then new general notions of integration and certain classes of functions (now known as Sobolev spaces), he was able to obtain basic results on all the important problems in the field, such as the Dirichlet and Neumann problems, and to discuss the differentiability properties and boundary behavior of the solution functions. One of his most beautiful results is his proof of the existence of a surface of minimum (electric) capacity among all surfaces spanning a given curve; this was shown to be the equipotential surface of a certain harmonic function defined on a two-leaved three-dimensional space having the curve as branch-curve. Such a space is a
Evans' work in mathematical economics was that of a pioneer. At a time when economists disdained to give mathematical treatments of economic questions, he boldly formulated a model of the total economy in terms of a few macro-economic variables and proposed the related index number problem of how to define the aggregate variable in terms of these micro-economic components. Today such models are commonly used and the index number problem is still important. Evans' study of the treatment of production in terms of cost functions, after Cournot, has led to the discovery of a duality between these functions. In Berkeley, Evans held a seminar in mathematical economics which soon became internationally known, providing an inspiring educational activity and establishing a tradition of mathematical economics on the Berkeley campus.
Professor Evans was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Science, the American Philosophical Society, and many other such societies. He received many honors; for example, he was Faculty Research Lecturer in Berkeley in 1950 and gave invited addresses in connection with the Harvard Tercentenary and the Princeton Bicentennial celebrations.
Evans was brought to Berkeley as a result of a nationwide search with a mandate to build up the Department of Mathematics in the same way that Gilbert Lewis had already built the chemistry faculty. Evans struggled with himself to effect the necessary changes with justice. His innate sense of fairness, modesty, and tact brought eminent success.
The weekly seminar which met at his home was attended by students and faculty and promoted a friendly and informal atmosphere in the department. Evans' retirement did not diminish his interest in science nor subtract from his pleasure at seeing others achieve goals he cherished.
The charming hospitality of the Evanses is remembered with pleasure by those fortunate enough to have been guests at their home. And Evans' own keen dry sense of humor was much appreciated by his many friends and associates.
Adriance Sherwood Foster, Botany: Berkeley
| 1901-1973 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Adriance S. Foster, through the influence of his numerous successful graduate students, his scrupulously conscientious teaching, his widely adopted and influential textbooks, and his pioneering and productive original research, was one of the most important students of plant structure of his generation.
Born in Poughkeepsie, New York on August 6, 1901, he pursued his undergraduate education at Cornell, receiving the B.S. in 1923, and went on to take the M.S. degree at Harvard two years later. His doctoral studies were conducted at the Bussey Institution of Harvard under the aegis of Irving W. Bailey, who remained his lifelong friend and, in many respects, his revered professional model. After obtaining the D.Sc. in plant anatomy in 1926, Foster spent two years on a National Research Council Fellowship working with J. H. Priestly at the University of Leeds, England. His first comprehensive teaching experience was gained at the University of Oklahoma, from 1928 to 1934.
Upon joining the Berkeley Department of Botany in 1934 as its first plant anatomist ever, he proceeded single-handedly to establish a distinguished and enduring tradition of excellence in this field. Although he sometimes deplored the mass-educational aspect of large state universities in contrast with the less hurried and more thoughtful pace of “the Bussey,” he actually adapted very well. He proved to be a most effective teacher at both undergraduate and graduate levels. His meticulously organized and articulately delivered lectures in his courses in comparative morphology and plant anatomy were models of their kind. For a number of years he galvanized a graduate seminar on morphology and plant taxonomy taught in conjunction with Mason and Constance. He involved himself fully in every laboratory section, and the dialogue between instructor and student never flagged. His introduction of the use of living material in laboratory and his insistence that students prepare their own sections from live plant organs were a hallmark of his teaching. Although he complained of its toll on his nervous energy, particularly during the round-the-clock teaching characteristic of World War II, he accepted summer teaching engagements at the University
Foster was a staunchly independent, original investigator who shunned current fads (“propaganda”) and popular “bandwagons” in research, preferring to follow the urgings of his own insatiable curiosity. His principal areas of investigation were leaf differentiation, shoot growth and development, idioblastic cell structure and differentiation, and leaf venation. In each instance, his was the pioneering work that stimulated much subsequent activity. His research on shoot apices led to a more biological and less purely geometrical understanding of shoot development. The study of sclereids, first in Camellia and then in a host of other plant genera, caused him to develop an enthusiasm for systemic anatomy and an interest in phytogeography, particularly in the tropics. His concluding researches on the dichotomously veined and anomalous herbaceous genera Circaeaster and Kingdonia were partly a search for a truly “primitive” herb, to match Bailey's choice of the Fijian Degereria as a “primitive” woody plant. Although Foster eschewed the adoption of such newer instrumentation for his researches as tissue culture and electron microscopy, preferring to continue to employ those techniques he best knew how to apply, he encouraged his students to diversify their capabilities and interests in all possible directions. They were also imbued with his impeccable standards for the highest levels of workmanship and expression.
Foster was enabled, partly through the receipt of two Guggenheim Fellowships, to travel extensively. He went to Cuba in 1941-42 to study the endemic cycad, Microcycas, in keeping with his current interest in the morphogenetic potentiality of meristems. Although he was not rugged physically, he took full advantage of the opportunity to work in the Brazilian Amazon. There is no doubt that this experience was a highlight of his career. He wrote from Belem in 1948: “I can say without sentimentality that to stand in the midst of the virgin rain forest and to think of the incredibly intricate forces which have produced such luxuriance of plant life, is to become a humble skeptic. All morphologists, physiologists and systematists need the tonic and the mystery of the tropics to temper and to test their most certain `convictions'.” He and Mrs. Foster visited New Zealand, Australia, and New Caledonia in 1956, lecturing in Auckland, Sydney, Canberra, and Adelaide, and collecting endemic New Caledonian plants for future research and for the University of California Herbarium and Botanical Garden. On his last sabbatical, 1963-64, they traveled around the world from west to east, giving lectures in Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, Delhi (a series), Jaipur, and Vienna. This trip culminated in work at the Jodrell Laboratory, England. They revisited Europe in 1969. Foster also participated in the Ithaca, Cambridge, Stockholm, and Montreal international botanical congresses and numerous national meetings.
Foster carried his habit of conscientious, meticulous performance into the conduct of all his University activities, although he always professed to abhor committee work. He was departmental chairman from 1955-60, during a period of active expansion. Perhaps he will be best remembered in the role of graduate adviser, a function he discharged with great success until his retirement in 1968. His prowess as scholar-teacher was widely recognized, and he reaped many honors. He was president of the California Botanical Society in 1954, of the Botanical Society of America in 1955, and, at the time of his death, of the International Society of Plant Morphologists. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Sigma Xi, an honorary member of the Zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft (Vienna), and recipient of the Botanical Society of America's Meritorious Award in 1959. He held a Miller Research Professorship in 1962-63.
At the time of his unexpected death in Berkeley on May 1, 1973, he was vigorously pursuing an investigation of leaf venation in Ephedra while successfully completing with Ernest Gifford a revision of his excellent textbook, Comparative Morphology of Vascular Plants. The two editions of this text, together with his earlier Practical Plant Anatomy, have been extraordinarily successful in spreading his philosophy and methodology all over the world. The presentation of histology as a dynamic developmental subject and the application of comparative morphological evidence in its broadest scope to the solution of structural and evolutionary problems are the embodiment of his teaching and scholarship.
He is survived by Helen Vincent Foster, his wife of forty-three years, their son Richard, and two grandsons.
Ad will be remembered by his colleagues, students, and friends as a shining example of self-reliance, self-discipline, and thorough professionalism, tempered by a fine sense of humor and great personal warmth.
Waldo Furgason, Zoology: Los Angeles
| 1902-1975 | |
| Professor of Biology, Emeritus |
Waldo Hamlet Furgason was born in Canby, Minnesota and grew up in a Norwegian-American environment. He attended St. Olaf's College and graduated from there in 1924. In 1928 he became a graduate student at Stanford and worked under Dr. C. V. Taylor. In 1934 he assumed the leadership of a biological survey party studying fishes of the Sierra Nevada. In 1934 he was appointed American-German Exchange Fellow at the University of Munich. Returning to Stanford in 1935, he received his Ph.D. degree.
He was appointed assistant professor of biology at Whitman College. Next, he moved to Wabash as assistant professor and then in 1940 to the University of Missouri. In all these positions he combined protozoological research with noteworthy teaching and community service.
In 1942 he was drafted into the U. S. Army and was soon made captain in the Sanitary Corps. His unit served in the Pacific area, the longest stay being in New Guinea. At the end of the war he was transferred to Japan--and discharged.
Returning to the University of Illinois and later to Wabash, he had the good fortune of meeting Dr. Theodore Jahn of UCLA, who was then visiting Wabash. Dr. Jahn was deeply impressed by his teaching abilities. This led to appointment of Furgason as acting assistant professor of zoology at UCLA for the first summer session of 1948.
After the UCLA College of Letters and Science decided to make biology a course requirement for the A.B. degree, a committee recommended the appointment of Dr. Furgason to take over this new lecture-demonstration course designed primarily for nonbiology majors. He became associate professor in 1949, and to this task he brought a sound and wide knowledge of biology, a warm personality, an enthusiasm for teaching, and skill in the use of illustrative material. Conducting this course completely absorbed Dr. Furgason's interest and time. It met with enthusiastic approval by students, many of them writing him of their profit and pleasure.
During his early years at UCLA, Dr. Furgason had little time for research, but later he resumed his studies. His most significant scientific
His recognition by protozoological colleagues was demonstrated by the good acceptance of his presentation to the “Xe Congrès Internationale de Biologie Cellulaire” in Paris (September 1960). Further, in 1967 he was invited to participate in an NSF-sponsored workshop conference on “The Role of Morphogenesis in Ciliate Systematics” at Chicago. He was a member of the Society of Protozoologists, of which he was chairman of the Educational Committee.
Dr. Furgason had a deep interest in historical aspects of biology, including medicine, which led to his presenting, in the first term, a systematic lecture course in this field, which was richly illustrated, and later in the year to a seminar at his home. His research interest in the history of biology was directed toward Otto Friederich Muller, whose contributions to zoology have not been properly recognized. Looking forward to preparing a definitive biography on Muller, Dr. Furgason devoted much of his 1960-1961 sabbatical to locating and copying much of Muller's work.
Dr. Furgason actively participated in the affairs of the University and community. He was a member of the Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, the Committee on Undergraduate Courses, a faculty associate in Rieber Hall, a frequent advisor to the California Museum of Science and Industry, and a judge of science fairs throughout California.
No account of Dr. Furgason's life would be complete without mention of his love of music. After receiving his B.A. degree, he continued for an additional year, specializing in choral music in the school of music. He had a fine baritone voice and for years sang as soloist in many major musical events. In his later years, his love of music became that of the listener.
He died February 23, 1975 and was in full possession of his wonderful zest for life until the very end.
Waldo H. Furgason had great depth of understanding. His perception provided simple solutions to the complex problems of many who sought his counsel. He was a kind and gentle man who fully believed in the meaning of charity. He was loved by many and will be missed by all.
George Willson Gillett, Botany: Riverside
| 1917-1976 | |
| Professor |
Few among us, whether newcomer or old, did not know George Gillett, or know of his exceptional scholarship in botany and biogeography and of his venturesome exploration of the islands of the South Pacific and New Guinea. There he searched for the plants he came to know so well and about which he talked with such personal pleasure and depth of firsthand knowledge. Gregarious and generous by nature, he was a loyal and indulgent friend, a kindly companion, sensitive and attentive to the needs of others. His unusually large circle of friends and acquaintances included faculty from all fields of scholarship, in universities here and abroad. He and his wife Jean entertained frequently, for in his view, good food and good companionship are best when shared. For many, our first widening of acquaintances within the University was made during those delightful evenings at their home.
On January 14, 1976 at the age of fifty-eight, George Gillett's death following heart surgery was sudden, unanticipated, and a sorrowful end to a wonderful man. Had he been restored to health, he had planned to return to his beloved research in New Guinea during the coming summer. Now we are left with grief softened only by pleasant memories, by what he accomplished for science and the University, and by the good fortune that brought him among us.
George Willson Gillett was born to James and Arlene Gillett at Hopewell, New York, May 30, 1917. Shortly thereafter the family moved to Carroll, Iowa, where they established a nursery which is still prospering. Two months following graduation from Iowa State University at Ames (B.S. in forestry) in 1940, he entered the U.S. Air Force as a flying cadet, departing as a captain five years and two months later. For two years he was with the 11th Air Force based in Alaska, flying missions over the Aleutian Chain. During furlough, on June 20, 1943, he married Jean Holmes at Menlo Park. The honeymoon was a brief one, for shortly thereafter he was reassigned to the South Pacific theater for a second two years of active duty in the 360th group, where he served as navigator on individual reconnaissance and bomber squadron missions, which ranged the Solomons, New Guinea, Ryukyus,
Following the war, George completed his graduate education at Berkeley: in 1949 an M.S. in forestry, and then in 1951 he returned to Berkeley for studies in botany under the sponsorship of Lincoln Constance. He attained his doctorate in 1954. Those years at Berkeley were an oft-spoken delight to George, and Jean has said that it is unimaginable that a professor and student could have been closer than those two. Those happy years were further enriched by adoption in 1951 of their son, David Stewart Gillett, then but ten months old.
The years at Berkeley came as interruptions to his early professional life as a botanist, in each step of which he attempted to improve his opportunities for field work and research in botany: U.S. forest ranger at the Stanislaus National Forest (1945-47), instructor in botany at Lassen College (1947-48), instructor in botany, Bakersfield College (1948-51 and 1954-56), assistant professor of botany, Michigan State University at East Lansing (1956-62), associate professor of botany at the University of Hawaii (1963-67), and director of the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum at Honolulu (1964-67). It was at Hawaii that George at last had the opportunity to come to grips with the Pacific flora that had so captivated him, but it was at the University of California at Riverside, to which he came in 1967 as professor of botany and director of the Botanic Gardens, that his drive to research and to field work in the South Pacific was most fully realized; and it was from here that he made his trips to the Marquesas, North Queensland, New Britain, New Guinea, Indonesia, Borneo, Bougainville, Vietnam, Thailand and India.
George's research of course was of a time-consuming nature, and much of what he had planned and done on the flora of the South Pacific remains incomplete; nevertheless, he has left in print much that is note-worthy. His chief published contributions to botany may briefly be summarized. George chose a group of California annuals of the genus Phacelia for a thesis problem because he was interested in applying evidence gained from crossing programs to the solution of taxonomic and evolutionary problems. He also was eager to see whether the flower-constancy of pollinating insects could be assigned a major role in the genetic isolation of those species; he concluded that it could not. He extended this initial interest to other phacelias when he went to
George's prowess as a rugged and enthusiastic field biologist was early realized by his collaboration with Howell and Leschke on the flora of Lassen Volcanic National Park, where he spent several summers. That experience was also an introduction to the volcanic topography with which he became so familiar after his move to Hawaii in 1963. Here he found the ideal place to express his proclivity for utilizing genetical techniques in systematics, applying them to one of the most variable and highly endemic floras in the world and one which, moreover, had received scarcely any serious analysis of this type. By himself, and with the assistance of able students, he studied such genera as Scaevola, Wikstroemia (employing biochemical evidence for the first time in his investigations), Pipturus, and others, attempting to discover the evolutionary dynamics and modes of speciation in the archipelago. The crowning achievement of this program was undoubtedy the reinvestigation by biosystematic techniques of the genus Bidens, both in Hawaii and the Marquesas, which led to a reduction of the supposed forty-two Hawaiian species to a single polymorphic one. A number of instructive papers covering this work are summed up in his Lyon lecture given in May of 1975.
Toward the close of his fruitful and distinguished career, George had committed himself to a study of species-rich Cyrtandra, largest genus of Gesneriaceae. Beginning with an investigation of the genus in Fiji, he pursued it and its relatives to the Solomons, the Carolines, the Ryukyus, and throughout the South Pacific. His next major effort would have dealt with New Guinea, where he had worked in 1973 and was already planning for the summer of 1976 a vigorous field trip in the highlands which would have taxed the resources of a man half his age.
His botanical investigations were always characterized by meticulous thoroughness, whether they involved searching patiently for rare material in the field or for crucial specimens in the largely forgotten herbaria of eastern Europe. His pioneering application of modern techniques to the floras of the Pacific has opened new horizons, with which his name will always be closely and honorably associated.
Such meritorious work gained widespread admiration by botanical colleagues and of course brought its measure of recognition. He was Fulbright lecturer at the University of Turku, Finland (1962-63), guest of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1963), guest research worker at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (1963, 1973, 1975), member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Pacific
The wide range of courses he taught at UCR, and his research achievements were carried out against a background of heart trouble, of which he complained not at all. What is more, he went alone to the rain forests in search of the plants required for his research, often living with natives and sharing their fare. And from those arduous field trips he amassed specimens and information that will serve botanists with similar interests for years to come.
How may George Gillett be viewed in retrospect? He was a gentleman and fine scientist, a pathfinder and not a follower, a devoted teacher, and one who gave warmth and pleasure to many others. A gentle and humble person, he nevertheless courageously opposed what he saw as injustice. He is survived by his wife Jean, his son David, two grandsons, and his mother.
Leon Goldman, Surgery: San Francisco
| 1904-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Academic surgery lost one of its most able and revered practitioners on the occasion of the death of Leon Goldman on March 4, 1975, at the age of seventy-one. Dr. Goldman was born in San Francisco, February 14, 1904. His undergraduate education was completed at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, where he received the A.B. degree in 1926, after which he enrolled in the School of Medicine and completed studies for the Doctorate in Medicine, including an internship at San Francisco in 1930. All of Leon Goldman's post-doctoral professional training was done at the University of California in San Francisco, where he served as a house officer on the University of California service at the San Francisco General Hospital as well as a resident at the University of California Hospital completing surgical training as chief resident in surgery in 1935. There followed a period of service on the faculty of the medical school as an instructor in surgery.
In preparation for a career in academic surgery, Leon Goldman enrolled in 1938 as a graduate student in gastrointestinal physiology under A. C. Ivy at Northwestern University, where he was awarded a Master of Science degree in 1939. He returned to the surgical staff at San Francisco General Hospital as well as to the faculty of the School of Medicine as an assistant professor and advanced successively through the professorial ranks to professor of surgery in 1950. He served also as associate dean of the School of Medicine from 1956 to 1963, as vice chairman of the Department of Surgery from 1953 to 1956, and as chairman from 1956 to 1963. He became professor emeritus in 1971 but continued to serve actively on the clinical teaching service at the Moffitt Hospital up to the time of his terminal illness.
As a leading member of the faculty of the medical school, Dr. Goldman was frequently called to serve on many committees of the Senate and the administration, where he played a notable role, particularly in the reorganization of the services at the San Francisco General Hospital, with special reference to the institution of a cooperative arrangement with the City and County of San Francisco to enable the General
Leon Goldman was much in demand as a speaker at professional meetings and postgraduate courses. In addition he maintained a consistently high level of contributions to the literature of surgery through both research papers and clinical reports to improve the practice and teaching of surgery. Dr. Goldman's clinical and laboratory investigations made him an international figure of gastrointestinal and endocrine surgery. For many years he ranked among the two or three leading surgical pioneers in these fields.
Although his distinguished career as a surgeon and his recognition among the leaders in academic surgery were widely appeciated, he took great pleasure in the realization that he was able also to serve his students, as was evident by their unrestrained admiration of his efforts in their behalf. Among the many surgical residents he guided and inspired, he was complimented by their particular term of endearment for him--to them he was “the Coach.” Although the Coach has left the bench, the teams he trained will continue to manifest his “coaching” ability for many years to come.
Leon Goldman is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Dianne Feinstein, Mrs. Lynne Kennedy, and Mrs. Yvonne Banks, and by four grandchildren as well as four brothers and a sister. His former wife, Betty Goldman, also survives.
Roy D. Goldman, Psychology: Riverside
| 1944-1976 | |
| Associate Professor |
It is always a tragic event when a young, well, and active person suddenly dies. With the death of Dr. Roy D. Goldman, the tragedy is intensified by the fact that he had begun publishing a series of major contributions in the field of psychological measurement that have every promise of being a major breakthrough in the application of test results to indicate academic potential. Dr. Goldman's scientific accomplishments were equaled by his distinguished teaching and by the valuable services he performed in his department and on the campus. His death, at thirty-two, was a profound shock to his students, the staff, and the faculty of the psychology department, the campus community, and the members of the University at large. Our deep sympathy is extended to his father, his wife Alice, and to his young son Sam.
Dr. Goldman was born in New York City on January 30, 1944. He received his B.A. in psychology at Brooklyn College in 1964, and his M.A. in experimental psychology at Bowling Green State University in 1966. He was a United States Public Health Service Predoctoral Fellow from 1967 to 1970 and received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970. Dr. Goldman joined the psychology department at UCR in 1970, and received an accelerated promotion to associate professor in 1975.
Dr. Goldman's major interests were in educational and psychological measurement and in the application of multivariate statistical methods to resolve some of the problems that have beset psychologists and educators for many years. His success at this endeavor is attested to by the fact that he had published over twenty-seven papers in major journals in a professional career spanning less than six years. he was principal investigator on research grants from the National Institutes of Mental Health to study “College Success: Task Structure and Strategy” and at the time of his death was involved in a large project concerned with test construction and project evaluation at Patton State Hospital. He had recently turned his attention to research evaluating the effects of psychological intervention programs and on racial and ethnic test bias.
Dr. Goldman made the members of the psychology department aware of multivariate statistical approaches to research problems. So successful was he that the faculty prevailed on him to offer instruction in multivariate statistics at the undergraduate level and revised the doctoral requirements to require a graduate course in multiple regression taught by him. Further evidence of his contributions is provided by the fact that he served a large number of Ph.D. dissertation committees covering a broad variety of fields of psychology, and many of us revised (and improved) our own research programs on the basis of his criticisms and suggestions.
His energy was boundless. He sponsored a student-originated research proposal, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, to study the effects of crowding in the Riverside-San Bernardino area, and he started a large archival research project to study grading standards in different major fields.
For Dr. Goldman the categories of service, teaching, and research were not mutually exclusive endeavors. In his work they continually overlapped and stimulated each other. His membership on the University Admissions and Enrollment Committee stimulated his interest in the process of selection of college students and the grading process used to evaluate these students. This interest led him to do archival research and to an awareness of the need to teach undergraduates and graduates the methods appropriate to such research. His interest, thus, resulted in several professional publications, a valuable service to the administration, and a rewarding educational experience for many students.
Dr. Goldman was an accomplished athlete--having been head life-guard at Coney Island during his college days. He lived at Laguna Beach and was still an avid swimmer as well as a strong basketball player. Suddenly, he was stricken by a large and diffuse malignant brain tumor and died a few days after surgical intervention was attempted.
Those of us who knew Dr. Roy Goldman as a friend and as a colleague still experience periods of disbelief at this sudden loss. Our consolation is that we all profited from our contacts with him, we all learned something from our discussion with him, and we all remember with great warmth our social contacts with him.
A fitting memorial to Dr. Goldman would be to strive, in our own work, to feel as he did when he wrote, “I am proud of much of this work as it looks at some familiar topics in a novel way.”
David Tressel Griggs, Geophysics and Planetary Physics: Los Angeles
| 1911-1974 | |
| Professor of Geophysics |
David Tressel Griggs died suddenly of a heart attack while skiing with friends at Snowmass, Colorado on December 31, 1974. With his unexpected death, the University lost one of its most effective teachers and research scientists and earth science one of its most able and distinguished scholars.
David Griggs was born in Columbus, Ohio on October 6, 1911, son of Robert Fiske and Laura Tressel Griggs. While a student of physics at Ohio State University, he participated in a scientific expedition led by his father, a distinguished professor of botany and conservationist, to Mount Katmai and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Alaska; this exposure to the spectacular relics of a large explosive volcanic eruption left a profound impression and stimulated his life-long interest in applying physics to the study of dynamic processes in the earth.
After completing his A.B. (1932) and A.M. (1933) degrees at Ohio State, he was appointed to the Society of Junior Fellows at Harvard. Under the guidance of Nobel laureate Percy Bridgman, he began his pioneering studies of the mechanical properties of rocks at high temperatures and pressures and of the physics of deformation in the earth. About a dozen important papers published by Griggs between 1934 and 1941 established the relevance of experimental rock deformation and scale model studies in geology and geophysics. It was at this time that Griggs proposed that thermal convection in the deformable rocks in the earth's mantle is fundamentally responsible for the major physiographic features of the earth's surface; although this was an unpopular idea at the time, the development of the plate tectonics theory in the late 1960s showed Griggs' visionary model to be well conceived in principle, if not in detail.
These academic pursuits were interrupted in 1941 by extended periods of service to the nation, first as a research associate at the Radiation Laboratory (M.I.T.), where he assisted in the development and applications of radar, and subsequently as a special assistant for scientific matters to the secretary of war. He was one of the founders of RAND
Professor Griggs established at UCLA a new laboratory for experimental deformation of rocks which has provided a steady flow of scientific papers on mechanical properties of important rock-forming minerals and rocks and the extrapolation of the laboratory results to the conditions and time-spans of deformation in the earth's crust and mantle. His research had great scope and originality, encompassing fracture and seismicity, flow of rocks in mountain-building, the global motions of continents and modeling of geophysical processes by experiment and with the computer. In recent years he worked extensively on the problems of earthquake mechanisms and was a prime mover in establishing programs to investigate prediction and possible human control of earthquakes.
As a teacher Griggs was uniquely effective; he was intellectual father of a long line of students, in whom he implanted his high intellectual standards, scientific insight, and curiosity. Many of them have made important contributions to geology and geophysics and are now in positions of professional eminence. Colleagues and students alike turned to Griggs for advice, which was always freely given; he had uncanny insight and a critical ability that enabled him to get quickly to the heart of a physical problem and suggest its solution. This intellectual brilliance was tempered by generosity, good humor, and wit that won the deepest admiration and respect of all who knew him.
David Griggs' scientific work has received well-deserved recognition and acclaim. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was recipient of the highest awards of the national professional societies: the Walter H. Bucher Medal of the American Geophysical Union (1970) and the Arthur L. Day Medal of the Geological Society of America (1973).
Professor Griggs is survived by his wife Helen, their son Stephen, and a grandson, Scott Andron.
Earl Leslie Griggs, English: Santa Barbara and Los Angeles
| 1899-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus | |
| Dean of the Graduate Division |
Earl Leslie Griggs was, above all else, a research scholar. Early in his career, he decided to focus his attention on the achievement of the English romantic poets, in particular the life and works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This determination led to rich results: the publication of some sixteen books and over forty scholarly papers--most notably, his superb six-volume edition of The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, begun in the 1930s and completed in 1972, one of the great epistolary compilations in English--and his secure reputation as a leading scholar in his field. His distinguished accomplishments were recognized in England, where he was elected vicepresident of the Charles Lamb Society of London, Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, conferred upon him by the University of London. He joined the Department of English at UCLA in 1947 as senior professor in the romantic period.
At UCLA Professor Griggs' administrative abilities led to numerous appointments on Senate and administrative committees; his scholarly achievements were recognized by his being named Faculty Research Lecturer for 1960-61. He was perhaps best known to colleagues outside his own department, however, as founder of the UC Research Club, formed in 1954 with the active assistance of Chancellor Raymond B. Allen. The club continued in existence until 1974. The twenty-five or so members of the Research Club were professors from a variety of disciplines whose primary interests and achievements lay, as the name of the club implies, in research. They would meet, usually monthly, at the home of one of the members, listen to a paper, and afterwards discuss it and take refreshments. There would be perhaps a paper on Coleridge, or on the diaries of Samuel Pepys, followed the next month by a paper on the drift of mountain ranges, or on the method of tracing the flow of blood in an artery by the use of a dye not readily penetrable by x-rays. Once a year meetings were held in San Diego and later in Santa Barbara, after Earl was appointed graduate dean at the latter campus, with local scholars participating. The meetings
In the community outside the University, Professor Griggs maintained a long association with the nearby St. Alban's Episcopal Church. A sincerely religious man, he served the church in a number of capacities, eventually becoming a deacon there.
In 1962 Professor Griggs transferred to the Santa Barbara campus, where he served as dean of the Graduate Division through 1966. As an officer in the Education Abroad Program, he served for two years as director of the UC Study Center, United Kingdom, where he supervised the work of some forty UC students from all nine campuses, who were enrolled at five United Kingdom universities.
A native of New York City, Professor Griggs attended Princeton University, was awarded a B.A. degree by the University of Colorado, an M.A. degree by Columbia University, and the Ph.D. by the University of London. He served on the faculties of the universities of Minnesota, Oregon, Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Pennsylvania before coming to UCLA in 1947. In 1923 he married Grace Evelyn Riley, who survives him, and who is coauthor of certain of his works.
Richard Hagopian, Rhetoric: Berkeley
| 1914-1976 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Richard Hagopian is remembered by his colleagues and students as a gifted creative writer, as a stimulating teacher, and as a warm, sympathetic friend.
Born of Armenian parentage on April 22, 1914, in Revere, Massachusetts, he grew up there and was graduated from the local high school in 1932. Endowed with a rich tenor singing voice, his first interest was in music and, with a view to a career in singing, he attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston for two years. His interest in music remained throughout his lifetime, and his friends recall with pleasure the occasions when he would entertain at social gatherings with his songs and ballads. Music as a career, however, gave way to his interest in creative writing and teaching. He withdrew from the conservatory and attended the University of Oregon, later transferring to Pomona College, where he received an A.B. in English in 1941. Then followed service in the armed forces, after which he began a career as a professional writer specializing in short stories born of his deep love of the Armenian people and their life in the United States. His gifts as a writer were quickly recognized and his short stories appeared in such prestigious periodicals as the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, and Mademoiselle. In 1944, Farrar & Reinhart published a volume of these stories under the title The Dove Brings Peace.
Hagopian's teaching career began in 1943 at Menlo Junior College in California. Finding the profession congenial to his talents and temperament, he decided to make a career of it. He returned for graduate study to the University of Iowa, where he received the degree M.F.A. in 1948. In the fall of that year, he was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Speech at Berkeley and progressed through the academic ranks to the full professorship in 1962. He remained in the department until his retirement for disability in 1969.
The decade of the 1950s was the most productive of Hagopian's career. During this period his health was good, his personal life was happy, and his talents as a writer and a teacher developed admirably. Encouragement of his creative ability came in the form of several
Those adjectives describe Hagopian's teaching and public performances during this period. In his classroom, he demanded work of top quality from his students, and, at the same time, he was gentle and sympathetic. His humor, both rich and infectious, combined with his artistry as a raconteur to attract both students and colleagues. These qualities also made him a popular performer for clubs and forums. He discussed and read his own works on many public occasions and was always warmly received.
In the 1960s, Hagopian's health began to fail. He was beset with personal and emotional problems. His brief marriage proved unhappy and unsuccessful. Soon he was stricken with heart ailments and skin ailments. Beginning in 1966 he was forced to take numerous sick leaves from his university work. Finally, at the end of 1969 it was necessary for him to retire for reasons of disability. The remaining years of his life were spent mostly in hospitals. He died at the Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame, California, on November 25, 1976, at the early age of sixty-two. He will be remembered with affection by those whose lives he touched, and with admiration by those who shared the richly productive years of his career.
John Cline Harper, Agricultural Engineering: Davis and Los Angeles
| 1918-1974 | |
| Professor |
John Harper's life suddenly ended on an icy hill on U.S. Highway 50 east of Placerville, California, after he had enjoyed only two months of his early retirement. He was struck down by autos while placing flares on the road to warn oncoming traffic of a car that had skidded on the ice and had come to a precipitous rest on the fill shoulder of the highway.
Professor Harper received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1940 and his Doctor of Science degree in the same field from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1944. He was a research engineer with the California Research Corporation from 1944 to 1950. He was appointed to the faculty of the College of Engineering on the Los Angeles campus of the University as an associate professor on July 1, 1950. He transferred to the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the Davis campus on October 1, 1953, where he remained until August 1955. He returned to UCLA for eleven months, after which he permanently transferred to the department at Davis. Dr. Harper retired on November 1, 1973.
He became noted for his analytical and design work in petroleum processing while with the California Research Corporation. His predictive equations were the first for constituent plate efficiencies of bubble-plate absorption columns. An extension of this work was the development of a new analytical method for predicting the performance of natural gasoline absorbers--giving accurate results without tedious plate-by-plate computations. Dr. Harper was project engineer for the design of a standard plant for extraction of natural gasoline from small volumes of gas; a sulfur dioxide treating system for kerosene, one of the largest vacuum distillation units when it was constructed; and process systems to recover light hydrocarbons from natural gas with feed rate in excess of one half billion cubic feet per day.
While at UCLA he developed and taught courses and laboratories in thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, and chemical engineering for the Unified Undergraduate Program. He was also active in the
Dr. Harper made important analytical and design contributions to the development of freeze-drying of foods during his tenure at Davis. His collaborative research and publications established him as a recognized food engineer with special competence in freeze-drying. The successful commercial implementation of this process drew heavily on his competence. He invented the process of using helium rather than air as the heat transfer medium to increase freeze-drying rates. His collaborative work on fluid-flow and heating processes for foods provided fundamental information to rationally design and operate food-processing equipment. Independent study and development work on viscosity and its measurement for fluid-type foods were valuable to the food industry and to investigations on controlling drift from air application of pesticides.
An essential part of Dr. Harper's research was his training of graduate students. He carefully guided their research, which involved difficult and complex problems. His intellectual ability and full comprehension of the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer were keys to this success. His engineering competence was reinforced by his own library of reference books and technical journals. They were used extensively by his students and colleagues and were one of his joys because of his love for books and his natural desire to be well read. Shortly before his retirement he gave a large part of this collection to the food science and technology and agricultural engineering departments on the Davis campus.
John Harper is survived by his wife, Jeanette Ruth Door Harper, whom he married in 1946; two daughters, Mrs. Alison J. Goss and Mrs. Carol H. Addicott; a son, Donald J. Harper; two brothers, Robert D. and Thomas S. Harper; and two grandsons.
John Harper was held in high esteem by his colleagues for his thoroughness of knowledge. He was sought out by graduate students, colleagues, and workers in industry because of this attribute and because of his ability to explain difficult engineering concepts and his complete dedication of himself to help others with little concern for his own recognition.
William Zev Hassid, Biochemistry: Berkeley
| 1899-1974 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Professor Hassid, known to his friends as Zev, was born in Jaffa, Palestine about 1899. He spent most of his childhood in a rural community near Kremenetz in the Russian Ukraine, but at the age of fifteen years he was sent back to Palestine to attend the Agricultural High School in the Jewish settlement of Petah-Tikva. After graduation he joined the British army and served for two years (1918-1920) in the Royal Fusiliers (1st Judeans) before coming to California to extend his education. He spent two years at Fresno State Teachers College, one year at the Southern Branch of the University of California, and one year at the Berkeley campus, where he first majored in chemistry but later obtained the A.B. degree in general literature. In 1926 he obtained a Certificate of Completion in Education and a General Secondary School Teaching Credential, but instead of teaching, he took a position as a chemical analyst for a year. On returning to the University of California he obtained a M.S. degree in plant nutrition (1930) and a Ph.D. in plant physiology (1934).
Hassid joined the staff of the Division of Plant Nutrition in 1935 as a junior chemist and rose to the rank of professor of plant biochemistry in 1947. In 1959 he transferred to the biochemistry department and in 1965 he became emeritus, although he continued to supervise research as a member of the Agricultural Experiment Station until his death. His wife Lila predeceased him. They had no children.
Hassid was a carbohydrate chemist whose major scientific contribution was the elucidation of the chemical pathways of the synthesis of sugars and polysaccharides in plants. His interest in carbohydrate chemistry was first aroused by contacts with Professor Walter H. Dore. His first research was on the structure of a galactan that he showed to be a major component of the fleshy marine alga Iridea laminarioides. In elucidating the structure he applied the methylation methods that had recently been developed by the English chemist, W. N. Haworth, and later he used the same methods to establish the primary structures of several types of starch and glycogen.
In 1939, Hassid collaborated with S. Ruben and M. D. Kamen in
Starting in 1943, Hassid collaborated with M. Doudoroff, N. O. Kaplan, and H.A. Barker in a series of investigations on the phosphorolysis and synthesis of sucrose by an enzyme from Pseudomonas saccharophila. These studies not only demonstrated the enzymatic synthesis of sucrose and related disaccharides for the first time, but also provided strong evidence for the existence of a substrate enzyme intermediate. Subsequent efforts to show the presence of a similar enzyme in plants were unsuccessful until L. Leloir and his associates discovered the uridine diphosphate sugar and demonstrated the synthesis of sucrose from uridine diphosphate glucose (UDPG) and fructose. Hassid and his associates then undertook a systematic investigation of the occurrence of nucleoside diphosphate sugars in plants. They isolated nucleoside diphosphate derivatives of D-xylose, L-arabinose, D-galactose, D-galacturonic acid, D-mannuronic acid, and 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose and established the roles of several of these compounds in sugar interconversions and polysaccharide formation. With various collaborators (indicated in parentheses), Hassid established the basic enzymatic reactions involved in the synthesis of callose (D.S. Feingold and E. F. Neufeld), 1>2-D-glucan (R. A. Dedonder), cellulose (A. D. Elbein and G. A. Barber), and lactose, the latter occurring both in mammary gland tissue (W. H. Watkins) and in milk (H. Babad).
Hassid received substantial recognition for his scientific achievements. He was given the first Sugar Research Award (1945) of the National Academy of Sciences (jointly with M. Doudoroff and H. A. Barker), the Charles Reid Barnes Honorary Life Membership Award of the American Society of Plant Physiologists (1964), and the prestigious C. S. Hudson Award of the American Chemical Society (1967). In 1972 he was honored at the Sixth International Symposium on Carbohydrate Chemistry as one of three outstanding senior American carbohydrate chemists. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences; chairman of the Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (1949-1950); and a number of numerous editorial boards.
Hassid had a warm and friendly personality and an ability to establish close relationships with people in all walks of life. Although he was rather shy in public, in private he was a good companion with a fine
Louis George Henyey, Astronomy: Berkeley
| 1910-1970 | |
| Professor | |
| Director of Leuschner Observatory |
When Louis Henyey suffered a stroke and died on February 18, 1970, the astronomy department lost its most respected senior member. He left a gap in our research and teaching program which we have not yet completely filled. When he arrived here from the Yerkes Observatory in 1947, the department was quite small, with five faculty members and a dozen or so graduate students. It was coasting on prestige earned for it by the monumental pioneering researches of Armin O. Leuschner, Tracy Crawford, and their colleagues in the fundamental field of stellar positions. The tradition was being carried on ably by Sturla Einarsson, but the department was badly in need of revitalization and modernization. The appointment of Louis Henyey was the important first step. His research and instruction in stellar structure and evolution influenced graduate students for twenty years and set the stage for an increasing emphasis on astrophysics and stellar astronomy. It was largely his presence and influence that persuaded Otto Struve to move to Berkeley in 1950. Through the efforts of Henyey and Struve, by the end of the 50s the faculty had doubled in size and the graduate student body had quadrupled.
Louis Henyey was born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania on February 3, 1910, the son of Bela and Mary Henyey, both native Hungarians. Little is known of his parents; his biography gives his father's occupation as a moulder. A graduate from West High School in Cleveland in 1927, he went to Case School of Applied Science, where he earned a B.S. in 1932 and a M.S. a year later. After further graduate studies at the Yerkes Observatory, he received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1937. He stayed on at the Yerkes Observatory, first as an instructor, then as assistant professor, working during the World War II years under an Office of Scientific Research and Development contract designing and constructing optical instruments. As part of this work, in collaboration with Jesse Greenstein, he designed and constructed a novel wide-angle camera that was later applied to the study of interstellar matter along the Milky Way. He stayed
In his early days Louis Henyey was principally interested in the study of physical processes taking place in the diffuse nebulosities strewn between stars in the Galaxy. Several research papers appeared in the Astrophysical Journal covering various aspects of this very difficult problem. They included discussion of the mechanism of reflection of starlight from neighboring stars, the resulting color of reflection nebulae, and the way in which these nebulous clouds dimmed and reddened the light of background stars. His interest in the physics of very diffuse gases even led him into investigations of the spectra of comets. Soon after he moved to Berkeley, however, he became interested in the rapidly developing field of stellar structure and evolution. He quickly established himself as an internationally recognized pioneer in the theoretical study of the internal structure of stars and their probable evolution, particularly in their early stages of development as they approach that condition permitting energy production via thermonuclear processes involving hydrogen conversion to helium. He developed elegant computational procedures for calculating the internal structure of stars that soon became generally known as “the Henyey method.” These interests obviously paralleled closely those of theorists at the Livermore Radiation Laboratory, and as a result he became a consultant at Livermore and collaborated with the laboratory staff on a number of papers on stellar structure which appeared in the Astrophysical Journal in the 1950s. This collaboration was augmented by a steady stream of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars attracted to Berkeley by his presence. Many of these graduate students are now at universities and other institutions in this country and abroad, further extending the application of methods learned under his guidance.
The application of Henyey's methods to stellar structure required the accessibility of large electronic computers. His earliest studies made extensive use of the computational facilities available at Livermore. It soon became evident to Henyey and Struve that future progress in this and other areas of astronomical research would be immeasurably aided by the existence of an appropriately powerful facility on the Berkeley campus. They became active supporters of a plan to enlarge a small computational facility already in existence in engineering. These efforts soon resulted in the establishment of the Computer Center, located first in Cory Hall, then in the basement of Campbell Hall, and finally in Evans. Henyey became in 1958 the first director of the Computer Center and was able during his tenure to initiate an expansion into the facility that we all enjoy today. When Struve took a leave of absence in 1959 to serve as director of the National Radio Astronomy Laboratory, Henyey replaced him as chairman of the Astronomy
Henyey's activities on behalf of the growing astronomy department far transcended his support of computational facilities. Radio astronomy was developing rapidly into a major field of research in this country and abroad, and it became evident early in the 1950s that our graduate student instructional capabilities would be greatly enhanced by the creation of a radio astronomy laboratory. Henyey enthusiastically and effectively supported this endeavor, which eventually culminated in the establishment of a radio astronomy observing site at Hat Creek in northern California. For several years, from 1961 to 1965, he helped to guide the development of instrumentation and research programs of the Radio Astronomy Laboratory through service on the laboratory's advisory committee.
As the Department of Astronomy increased in size, it rapidly outgrew its traditional site near the campus North Gate. A new building was authorized to occupy a site south of the Mining Circle to be occupied by astronomy, mathematics, and statistics. As our representative in the committee planning this new building, Henyey was largely responsible for its final form. As a further outgrowth of the move to larger quarters, it was obvious that any optical observational facilities would have to be located largely off campus, as far as possible from bay fog and lights, yet close enough so that graduate-student observing would not interfere with campus instruction. Henyey undertook the burdensome task of searching for a suitable site in the East Bay hills. Largely at his recommendation, Leuschner Observatory was located on the Russell property some ten miles east of the campus. He was instrumental in securing National Science Foundation support, supervised the planning of the new building and facilities, and drew up the specifications of a new 30-inch reflecting telescope to occupy one of two domes (the other houses our older 20-inch telescope that was moved from North Gate).
Henyey's influence was felt in the growing astronomy department in many, more subtle ways. His courses in astrophysics, stellar structure and evolution were generally regarded by the graduate students as the most difficult and comprehensive that we offered. His insistence on a thorough grounding in fundamental physical processes affected, and significantly upgraded, all instruction in the department.
Henyey's research accomplishments earned him a solid and growing reputation in this country and abroad. In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He served as president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific from 1965 to 1967, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1970.
The bare recital of accomplishments does not do justice to Louis
Louis Henyey was equally devoted to his family and to his home, located high in the El Cerrito hills overlooking San Francisco Bay. He is survived by two sons, Thomas Louis and Francis Stephen, and a daughter, Elizabeth Maryrose. A fond mental picture survives from the days when his two sons were preschoolers, during a summer at the McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains in west Texas; during a community picnic he spent hours wading with them in a mountain stream, patiently searching for small fish and crayfish, and carefully answering all their eager questions. The large garden surrounding his home was a constant delight. He gathered and planted desert plants and flowers, and late in his life was experimenting with growing tuberous begonias. An avid music lover, he displayed a surprisingly intimate knowledge of musical structure and harmony.
The memory of Louis Henyey is still vivid among his colleagues, the astronomical community at large, his former students, and legions of friends. He is sorely missed.
Thomas Edward Hicks, Engineering: Los Angeles
| 1921-1975 | |
| Professor of Energy and Kinetics |
After an association of some thirty years with the University of California, Thomas E. Hicks died suddenly at his home September 27, 1975. For the last twenty-one of those years, he had been a member of the faculty of UCLA's College (and subsequently School) of Engineering. His untimely passing profoundly shocked and saddened his many colleagues and friends throughout the academic and professional engineering communities.
Professor Hicks had served the faculty in many roles--as assistant dean for graduate studies, as presiding officer, as head of the Chemical-Nuclear-Thermal Division, and on far more than the usual number of committees. Most notably, perhaps, the school's nuclear reactor program and laboratory are primarily the result of his efforts. He had prepared the initial proposal that led to the building of the “annex” housing the laboratory, and had obtained funding for equipment, materials, and extensive student support. He became internationally known in the field of nuclear engineering, serving on several national committees of the American Nuclear Society and on the Atomic Energy Commission, and as a consultant to industry and the U.S. government. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Chemists.
A native of Pocahontas, Arkansas, Professor Hicks' early, preschool years were spent on his maternal grandfather's farm in a warm and loving atmosphere. His father was an attorney with the U.S. government in Washington but preferred the rural life for his children's formative years. It was a demanding experience, and furnished many memories to enrich a full and satisfying life, for grandfather was a Christian fundamentalist--and a serious, practicing one at that. “Tom Ed” used to tell of memories of his grandfather literally separating two fighting bulls with an axe handle and shouting, “Thou shalt not kill,” as he did so. A more profound memory, however, was that of being surprised by grandfather while trying to read a newspaper left behind by a visitor. Grandfather destroyed the newspaper, proclaiming that if Tom Ed wanted to learn to read he would do it properly on more appropriate
Tom left the farm to attend high school in Washington, D.C. and, subsequently, M.I.T. and the University of Arkansas. After a brief period in industry, he served during the war years in the U.S. Navy, seeing combat duty at sea. After the navy, he joined the radiation laboratory at Berkeley--and except for a few years in industry in the early 50s--remained with the University. While at the “RadLab” he earned the Ph.D. in chemical engineering on the Berkeley campus.
During his twenty-one years on the faculty at UCLA, Professor Hicks not only carried major responsibility for the development of the nuclear engineering program but contributed vitally to several international programs of the University. He and his wife Ann spent a truly pioneering year with the University of Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Indonesia, setting the stage for the ten-year UCLA-UGM program leading to the development of schools of engineering and physical sciences at UGM. Other such service took them to Brazil and Mexico. Tom also served as an educational consultant to the State Department in Vietnam. Each stay initiated lasting professor-student relations as well as devoted friendships, and students from each location were to find their way to UCLA for further study with Professor Hicks. News of his passing, as it was relayed to Indonesia, Australia, Brazil, and on around the world, must have triggered that same sense of shock and anger and sadness that it did here.
During his fifty-four years, Tom Hicks acquired a more-than-adequate reading knowledge of French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese--to say nothing of a number of computer languages. He continued to study philosophy, history, and science. Indeed, he never stopped learning. It mattered not what he studied; he learned it thoroughly well. His knowledge was firm and solid, but his use of it was soft. More than knowing a great deal, he realized a great deal. He was a religious person in the truest sense--he believed, he understood, and he made no fuss about it.
True gentleman and scholar, he was warm and patient and loving. He leaves a devoted family--Ann, John Thomas, and Wendy... and a great many others of us who love him.
Michael John Hogan, Opthalmology: San Francisco
| 1907-1976 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Scientist, scholar, author, educator, physician--Michael J. Hogan was all of these. He was a man of prodigious energy and productivity who was at the same time infused with humanity and compassion.
Professor Hogan was a member of the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco for over thirty years. From 1951 to 1959 he served as the first director of the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, and from 1959 to 1975 as chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology in the School of Medicine. Dr. Hogan gathered around him and led one of the most productive faculties in ophthalmic research and teaching in this country.
Professor Hogan himself was one of the earliest investigators in ophthalmology to utilize the electron microscope in studying the ultrastructural anatomy of the eye. He was an ocular pathologist and his work in ocular pathology and his study of the pathogenesis of serious ophthalmic disease are exemplary of much of his investigative work which bridged basic and clinical research.
From the time of his founding of the Uveitis Survey Clinic at the University of California along with Samuel J. Kimura and Phillips Thygeson, a more productive effort in true clinical research was Dr. Hogan's dream. Indeed, the latter years of his life were devoted in significant measure to the development of well-founded and scientifically based clinical research efforts through a Clinical Research Center for Eye Disease at the University of California.
Professor Hogan was author or coauthor of more than 175 publications in the scientific literature, and his papers were well written, original, and informative. Despite the production of this large list of scientific articles, Profesor Hogan found time to edit with Lorenz Zimmerman an Atlas and Textbook of Ophthalmic Pathology, which is as classical a text as there exists in medicine. Every resident trained in ophthalmology since the publication of this work found it to be a mainstay of the study of that most basic of ophthalmic clinical sciences--ophthalmic pathology. If entire generations of ophthalmologists have grown up under the tutelage of this classic volume, future generations
Professor Hogan was also a physician beloved by his patients; Dr. Hogan had as large and as loyal a following in his practice as any ophthalmologist, whether in academic or in community practice. His patients will miss him sorely, and they have wept at his loss. Resident physicians who trained with Dr. Hogan learned compassion and empathy. As a citizen of the local and national scientific community, Dr. Hogan participated in numerous professional and scientific societies and was repeatedly honored by many of these.
Born in Wyoming, Dr. Hogan never lost his love for nature, for birds, and trees, and flowers. He studied his environment with as much enthusiasm and vigor as he did medicine. His pleasure was as much in learning as it was in teaching, and he learned about the earth around him as effectively as he did about the eyes within him.
Dr. Hogan studied vision, and he was a man of vision. He dreamed of an expanded effort in clinical eye research, and he literally opened new vistas in the study of ophthalmology. He lost a valiant battle against cancer at a time when he had much more to contribute, for he had plans to continue his investigation, to take care of patients, and to write. His family, his friends, his students, and his patients will miss him.
Harry Hoijer, Anthropology and Sociology: Los Angeles
| 1904-1976 | |
| Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus |
The death of Harry Hoijer in Santa Monica on March 4, 1976, ended a long and distinguished career in scholarship and in University and professional affairs. His profound humanism, high personal and scholarly standards, and pervasive good humor made him a host of friends and admirers among colleagues and students throughout North America and western Europe.
Hoijer was born September 6, 1904, in Chicago where he grew up and was educated. He received his B.A. in engineering and mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1927. The same year he married Dorothy Jared, a union continuing until his death. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Chicago in 1931 and the same year became an instructor in anthropology at Chicago, a post he held until he joined the newly formed Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1940. At Chicago he was most influenced by the late Edward Sapir, who awoke his interest in linguistics. There, also, he developed his views of anthropology as a unified discipline dealing with the human species and his continuing concern with and respect for human beings as diverse and ever fascinating individuals.
At Los Angeles Harry dedicated himself to the problems of the developing department and the University. A firm supporter of academic freedom and faculty self-government, he served on many ad hoc committees and on most of the important standing and special committees of the Academic Senate. His good judgment and consistent fairness won him many admirers throughout the University.
In his department Hoijer consistently carried more than his share of the course and committee loads. He was chairman of the combined department in 1942-43 and 1948-1952, and acting chairman on numerous occasions. He chaired the interdepartmental linguistics program from 1959 until the establishment of the Department of Linguistics in 1963.
Hoijer was an exacting but stimulating teacher. Both at Chicago and at UCLA many of his former students remember his courses as
For over ten years Hoijer was notes and review editor of the International Journal of American Linguistics. For lesser periods he was associate or assistant editor of that journal, and for a time memoirs editor for the American Anthropological Association. He held several elective offices in the American Anthropological Association, serving as president in 1958. In 1959 he was president of the Linguistic Society of America. From 1950 until his retirement he was chairman of the Committee on American Indian Languages, where he represented the American Council of Learned Societies.
Along with all these activities, Hoijer carried on a systematic research program. From 1933 to 1976 he published some seventy research papers and monographs, many based on field recordings of native speech. A substantial number are technical linguistic papers, dealing primarily with the Athebascan family of languages, which established him as a leading authority on American Indian languages. A second group of publications established him as a pioneer in the relations of language, culture, and cognition. He was an invited participant in numerous congresses and symposia in this country and abroad. He chaired the first national conference on ethnolinguistics and edited its proceedings. He was consultant to the UNESCO Commission on Language and Mentality. He was thirty-fourth Annual Faculty Research Lecturer at Los Angeles in 1958 and Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto in 1959-1960.
For all his active service to scholarship and to the University, Harry's greatest pleasures were with human contacts. His wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, his interest in people and tolerance for their foibles, his lively wit and humor, and the warmth of his personality enriched the lives of all who knew him well. He was devoted to his family and is survived by his widow, Dorothy, and three children, Charlotte, Peter, and Susan.
Robert Horonjeff, Transportation Engineering: Berkeley
| 1913-1976 | |
| Professor |
Air travellers throughout the world are legatees of Robert Horonjeff's twenty-seven years of research and teaching in air transportation. Results of his research on configurations of airport runways and taxiways are incorporated into the designs of major airports here and abroad. His work on runway lighting led to adoption of a national standard for runway center-line lights in the United States. Students came to Berkeley from many states and nations specifically for study and research under his guiding hand. His book on airport engineering is the universal text for courses in other universities as well as the manual for airport engineering practice. His talent for combining research, teaching, and engineering practice was indeed truly of the highest order.
He was born on June 16, 1913, in Nagasaki, Japan, where his father was an employee of the Dollar Steamship Lines. His maternal grandfather was the last consul general in San Francisco of Czarist Russia. He was educated in Bay Area schools and was graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1934 with a B.S. degree in engineering. He immediately began a professional career in civil engineering with employment in local engineering firms but soon accepted a position with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. While working in Arizona in 1935, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1937, he transferred as a civil engineer to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where he was in charge of design and construction of a variety of public works, including a number of airfields in central and northern California. In 1947, he was invited to give lectures on pavement design at Berkeley and in December 1949 was appointed to a full-time position of lecturer and research engineer to develop a graduate program in air transport engineering. In 1955, he became professor of transportation engineering.
Professor Horonjeff was a tireless researcher and prodigious author. His many research reports and papers, some coauthored with students and colleagues, were illuminated by exceptional analytical capabilities and practical solutions to difficult problems. The high quality of his
While Professor Horonjeff's primary teaching responsibility was at the graduate level, he was an eager participant in undergraduate teaching as well. For many years he regularly taught undergraduate courses in civil engineering. He was meticulous in preparing fresh material for his lectures for both undergraduate and graduate students and was an inspiring teacher.
His graduate students over the years came from many places. Most from foreign lands returned to their homes, some with Ph.D. degrees to take university teaching positions; others went into engineering practice and became the designers and constructors of airports and other transportation facilities. A number of students whose research for the doctoral degree was conducted under his guidance now hold teaching positions in American and Canadian universities. The esteem in which he was held by his students was apparent in the number who maintained liaison with him after leaving Berkeley.
Professor Horonjeff was regularly a guest lecturer on airport engineering at several major American universities and was a frequent guest lecturer abroad.
Some years ago, he organized and conducted for University Extension a short course in airport planning and design which proved to be so popular and useful that it became an annual event for early summer at Berkeley.
Professor Horonjeff was for many years an advisor to aviation agencies at all levels of government in the United States as well as to foreign governments and international aviation groups. His advice and counsel were frequently sought by the International Air Transport Association and the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Aircraft manufacturers and airlines consulated him regarding airport design matters of particular interest to builders and operators of airplanes. He was a “consultant's consultant” to designers and builders of airports around the world and at the time of his death was advisor to the government of Iran on development of a new airport at Teheran.
Professor Horonjeff did not let his avid devotion to teaching and research distract him from making his contribution to the management of academic affairs. He served on numerous faculty committees of the Department of Civil Engineering and was chairman of the Division of Transportation Engineering for a normal period. He was always ready to work with his colleagues on matters of common interest and
Robert Horonjeff suffered a heart attack on Thursday, November 25, 1976, and died the following Monday. He is survived by his wife Marian, son Richard, and daughter Mrs. Barbara Muller. He will be sorely missed and affectionately remembered by his family and many friends throughout the world.
Charles L. Jacobs, Education: Santa Barbara
| 1879-1976 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Charles L. Jacobs, professor emeritus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, died at his home in Santa Barbara at the age of ninety-six, after serving this institution and its predecessor institutions of learning for thirty years.
Hundreds and perhaps thousands of teachers in the State of California were beholden to him for the psychological insights into teaching and learning as well as inspiration for teaching which he gave unselfishly as a teacher, counselor, and administrator.
He was born in New York City of immigrant German parents in 1879 and became a woodworker's apprentice at the age of fourteen, following the death of his father. He attended night school to earn secondary school credits which would enable him to enter Columbia University, where he received his bachelor's degree.
Soon thereafter, he came to California where his background in woodworking enabled him to obtain a position as director of manual training in the San Jose City schools. While there, he earned a master's degree at Stanford University. A short time later, he obtained a teaching position at the University of California in Berkeley. His excellent academic record, both at Columbia and Stanford, his successful teaching experience, was well as his background in industrial arts, and the prestige of having taught at the University of California were sufficiently impressive to cause Clarence Phelps, then president of the Santa Barbara Normal School, to invite Charles to the post of head of the industrial arts department in the Normal School in 1921.
This position he held until he had earned his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 1927, after several semester and summer leaves from the Santa Barbara Normal School. As this institution became Santa Barbara State College, Charles Jacobs became dean of the upper division and dean of education. These positions he held until the state college became the University of California, Santa Barbara.
In these positions he was a staunch advocate of excellence in teaching, in research, and in service to the state college and the community. These characteristics contributed to the high respect with which his students,
His research centered in two areas--his studies of the emerging and changing junior high school and the industrial arts field in education. He was considered a leading authority in the United States in the junior high school field. Through his influence, a chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, honor society in education, was established on the campus, and a field chapter of Phi Delta Kappa was located in the Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
In the City of Santa Barbara, Charles Jacobs was for many years chairman of the Civil Service Commission. He also served his community as chairman of the board of the Unitarian Church, a member of the Channel Cities Club, board member of the Y.M.C.A., and a member of the Sierra Club since 1917. He was a faithful member of the Choral Society and sang tenor in it until very recent years. In addition to being a supporter of the fine arts, he was an enthusiastic fan of the institution's athletic teams. He attended the games regularly until recent years.
He was married in 1918 to Sigrid Elizabeth Arvidsson of Sweden. After her death in 1948, he married Agnes Law Jones of Santa Barbara, who survives him. He is also survived by four children: Dr. C. Norman Jacobs of Santa Barbara; Anna Lou Klein of San Francisco; Elizabeth Winder of East Lansing, Michigan; and Dr. Alan Jacobs of Simi, California.
Clarence F. Kelly, Agricultural Engineering: Berkeley, Davis and Systemwide
| 1906-1976 | |
| Professor | |
| Agricultural Engineer in the Agricultural Experiment Station |
The death of Clarence F. Kelly, on May 5, 1976, following a prolonged illness, terminated a productive career of three decades in the agricultural engineering department on the Davis campus, and as director of the University-wide Agricultural Experiment Station.
“Kelly,” as he was known to everyone (he disliked his given name), was a native of North Dakota and graduate from North Dakota State College in 1931. Two years later he obtained his M.S. in agricultural engineering at the same institution.
Until 1936 he was agricultural engineer with North Dakota State College and project manager with the North Dakota Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, Bismarck, North Dakota. Then he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture to work on grain storage problems. The next year he was transferred to Washington, D.C., to work on wheat drying. A noteworthy product of that work was his USDA Circular 637, “Wheat Storage in Experimental Farm Type Bins,” which has been used worldwide in many translations. In 1941 he was transferred to Ames, Iowa, in a new challenge to his grain-conditioning expertise. That work was suspended for service in the U.S. Navy in antisubmarine warfare in World War II.
After the war he returned to Ames to continue his grain-conditioning work. In 1946 he was transferred by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the Davis campus to initiate research on the effects of environment on the production of swine and beef cattle. Kelly soon established a productive research program that was widely recognized as a benchmark for those working on environmental aspects of livestock production. He worked with a team that included Nicholas Ittner and Hubert Heitman, animal scientists, F. A. Brooks, agricultural engineer, and Theodore E. Bond, USDA agricultural engineer.
Pioneering work was done on the heat and moisture production of swine in the psychometric chamber at Davis. They studied the lactating sow through market-weight hogs. These data gathered over a period of more than a decade were crucial to the development of controlled
Kelly joined the agricultural engineering department at the University of California at Davis in 1950. He taught courses in agricultural structures for seniors and freshmen orientation in agricultural engineering and directed graduate student thesis research. His interests continued in animal environment and microclimatology, subjects in which he earned a reputation as an international authority. Of the many publications by Kelly and his colleagues on their work, four won national awards for excellence.
In 1958 Kelly was elected Fellow in the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. In 1959 he was chosen the first correspondent representative of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in the International Society of Agricultural Engineers.
He was vice-president and on the board of directors of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1960-63, and president of the Society in 1972-73. During the annual meeting of the Society in Lexington, Kelly was made a Kentucky Colonel by the governor.
In 1961 he became chairman of the Department of Agricultural Engineering and then in 1963 moved to Berkeley to serve as associate director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. He became director in 1965. In that position Kelly was responsible for coordinating agricultural research on four campuses of the University and at ten agricultural field stations.
In recognition of his exceptional and meritorious engineering achievement in agricultural engineering, he was awarded the Cyrus Hall Gold Medal Award by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in 1963. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1964 by North Dakota State University. In 1968 he was the second agricultural engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
He retired from University service in 1973 and devoted a year to administrative service with the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.
He is survived by his wife, Betty, a son, Robert, and a brother, Laddie, in all of whom he took a great pride.
Max Kleiber, Animal Science: Davis
| 1893-1976 | |
| Professor |
Max Kleiber was born in Zurich, Switzerland on 4 January 1893 and grew up in close contact with agriculture. He developed a desire for independence and a strong idealism--traits that characterized him throughout his life. After a year's study of agriculture at the Federal Institute of Technology, he emigrated to Canada with two friends--exhibiting a spirit of adventure, perhaps inherited from his grandfather, who had joined the California gold rush. After a year in Canada, Max was ordered home for military service during World War I. Because of developments in the Swiss Army Command, he became a formal pacifist. This led to his dismissal and a four-month prison term during which he read Rubner's book Die Gesetze des Energieverbrauch bei der Ernahrung. After a brief period at farming, he reentered the Federal Institute, and graduated in agricultural chemistry in 1920. He completed graduate study under Professor Georg Wiegner, a colloid chemist, and continued postdoctoral study, becoming a privat dozent with a thesis, “The Energy Concept in the Science of Nutrition.”
In 1929 Max was invited by Dr. George H. Hart to come to Davis and construct a respiration station for conducting energy metabolism studies with cows. The first study dealt with the influence of phosphorus deficiency on the metabolic rate of heifers. Max also constructed several respirometers for use with smaller animals, and became engaged in a broad program of energy metabolism. He was outlining a major program based on the Scandinavian group trial method for the evaluation of animal feeds--using a casein-glucose standard--when World War II broke out, curtailing “unessential” activities.
Dr. Kleiber, in giving the first Brody Memorial Lecture at the University of Missouri in 1960, described his specialty as “testing generalizations by deduction.” Two “deductions” that had great impact on the scientific and practical aspects of bioenergetics are his precise and simply stated postulates, now axioms, dealing with basal metabolic rate and food utilization as a function of body size. In 1932 Professor Kleiber came to the conclusion that the 3/4 power of body weight showed a closer relationship to basal metabolism than did the geometric
Max Kleiber embarked upon a second research career when radioactive isotypes of the biologically important elements became available. He learned the techniques for using isotopes as metabolic tracers during a sabbatical leave at the University of Chicago. In 1947 he pioneered the use of isotopes to study metabolic processes associated with lactation in cows and other species. With support from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, he organized the “Davis Tracer Team,” which attracted students and colleagues from around the world. This group was enormously productive and contributed significantly to the understanding of metabolic processes.
Among the major developments was Kleiber's technique for assessing endogenous loss of nutrients from the animal. Using dynamic isotope dilution he was able to measure accurately the level of endogenous phosphorus (and later, calcium) and thereby establish the true digestibility of these important elements under various nutritional conditions. He developed the concept of the transfer quotient, which served to evaluate product-precursor relationships and provided the basis for quantitatively assessing the role of major nutrients in lactation. He established that 10 percent of the carbon in milk sugar comes from carbon dioxide and that acetate is the major precursor of milk fat. He measured the specific rates of oxidation of the major nutrients and determined how various factors, nutritional and disease, affected these catabolic processes.
Kleiber's research studies were widely recognized: in 1952 the American Institute of Nutrition conferred the Borden Award, and the following year the American Society for Animal Production, the Morrison Award; he received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1954; he was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Nutrition (1966), a Fellow of the American Association of Veterinary Medicine (1966), and was elected to membership in several honor societies. In 1961 he received the LL.D. degree (honorary) from the University of California.
Max Kleiber was also an outstanding teacher and a dedicated humanist. Among his most cherished activities were his associations with his many students. He was sought after for his wisdom and counsel. He was among the first professors to be invited to give his “last lecture” on this campus almost eighteen years ago at the age of sixty-five. His
He developed a rich philosophic understanding, which he contributed to biology. Some of this philosophy was expressed in papers entitled “Physiological Meaning of Regression Equations” and “Meaning of Turnover.” At the age of eighty-one he was able to give logical expression in objecting to the replacement of the calorie with the joule.
Max Kleiber's humane concern for his fellow man was exemplified throughout his life. He had an abiding faith in his fellow man, and a concern for all, and the courage to act and to speak out when he perceived what was right and what ought to be. His circle of influence, which derived from his role as a respected thinker, was enlarged beyond the scientific community to his colleagues in the humanities and to the community. This eminent scientist, outstanding teacher, and humanist will be sorely missed by all who were fortunate to have known him.
Max is survived by his wife, Margaret (the former Dr. Margaret Maxwell, who came to Davis as assistant professor of home economics to teach an introductory course in physiology), his daughters, Marianna and Joy, his son, Pierre, and two grandchildren.
Oliver Andrew Leonard: Davis
| 1911-1975 | |
| Botanist in the Experiment Station, Emeritus |
Oliver A. Leonard was noted for the characteristic trait of never having a derogatory comment to make about his fellow man. He was born in Pullman, Washington on January 5, 1911. His childhood was enriched by time spent on the family homestead in Idaho among the fir, pine, and cedar trees. His love for plants, exceeded only by his love for family and mankind, shaped the course of his personal and professional careers. Oliver was never to be far removed from the plant community, which provided both the arena for his research and that unique peace of mind that comes from close association with the wonders of nature.
Dr. Leonard received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Washington State College in 1933 and 1935, respectively. His interest in additional education in plant physiology took him to Iowa State College, where he obtained the Ph.D. degree in 1937. During this period he became a student of translocation in plants, a topic he continued to research throughout his career. Upon leaving Iowa State, he was appointed an instructor at Texas A and M College from 1937 to 1939, and a plant physiologist at the Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station from 1939 to 1950. While in Mississippi he not only continued his research on translocation but expanded his interest to weed control. These two areas of research were complementary, since most effective herbicides are translocated in higher plants and their phytotoxic symptomology indicate the pattern of translocation. In 1950 Oliver Leonard joined the botany department at the University of California at Davis to conduct research on the control of woody plants on rangeland and continue his translocation research. Dr. Leonard was a pioneer in the discipline of weed science. He was one of the first scientists to investigate the use of herbicides for weed control in cotton and to use radioactive herbicides to study translocation in plants. His contributions toward the development of methods for the conversion of chaparral to productive rangeland are particularly noteworthy. In addition, he worked on weed control in vineyards and control of roots in sewers. In all these investigations, he had that rare down-to-earth ability of
Dr. Leonard wrote more than seventy papers on his research findings which were published in scientific journals. He also prepared numerous popular articles for use by the general public. He was a member of several professional societies, including the American Botanical Society, the American Society of Plant Physiologists, the American Society for Horticultural Science, the California Weed Conference, Sigma Xi, the Society for Range Management, the Western Society of Weed Science, and the Weed Science Society of America. He served on numerous committees in several of these societies and was secretary, vice president, and president of the California Weed Conference. He was a charter member of the Save the Redwoods League.
In addition to the receipt of three National Science Foundation grants for research on translocation in plants and numerous other grants to support his weed science research, his scientific accomplishments are attested to by the many honors that were bestowed upon him, including: Fulbright Fellowship; National Institute of Health Fellowship; United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization consultant visiting Zambia on forestry and Kenya on range physiology; German-Senior Scientist Fellowship; honorary member of the California Weed Conference; and Fellow of the Western Society of Weed Science.
Dr. Leonard retired from the University in June 1974 to enjoy life on his acreage among the redwood, fir, and bay trees of Sonoma County.
Oliver is survived by his wife, Christine, their three children--Bill, Helen Jo, and Jimmy--and four grandchildren.
Henry Ludwig Frederick Lutz, Near Eastern Studies: Berkeley
| 1886-1973 | |
| Professor of Egyptology and Assyriology, Emeritus |
Professor Lutz, although he had retired from the Department of Near Eastern Studies in 1954, was a familiar figure to that department until the time of his death nineteen years later. The drafters of this memorial resolution knew him best as a near-daily visitor to Dwinelle Hall, and they participated in several well-remembered birthday celebrations, in particular the special occasions of his eightieth and eighty-fifth birtheadays, which afforded many colleagues, emeriti, and young assistant professors the opportunity for thoughtful reminiscence or a glimpse into the past of Berkeley academic life.
It is difficult for us now to realize that Professor Lutz was, from 1921 until his retirement, the lone representative on this campus of the fields of Egyptology, Assyriology, and Semitics, today filled by four regular faculty members assisted by five or more nonladder academic staff. Professor Lutz and Professor William Popper were the only regular faculty and thus the guiding lights and prime builders of the department (known until 1944 as Semitic Languages and Literatures). They divided between them the entire range of languages, literatures, and cultures of the ancient, medieval and modern Near East, and inaugurated all the programs that formed the core of the department's concerns until today. Through their enormous energy and dedicated teaching and scholarship, the department was prepared for the growth at Berkeley in all Near Eastern fields that took place in the 1960s.
The following anecdote may be related for it seems somehow characteristic of the pioneer days of Berkeley campus life. Professors Lutz and Popper, who had no telephones in their offices, devised a hand signal system which allowed for communication between the two from the balcony of Popper's office on the fourth floor of Doe Library and Lutz's window facing it from the fourth floor of Wheeler Hall. It is hard for us to imagine those days, when there was not yet a departmental office or secretary.
Henry Ludwig Frederick Lutz was born on February 16, 1886 in New York, the son of German parents, Heinrich Lutz of Klein-Heubach
His teaching career began in 1919 at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an instructor in Semitics, Egyptology, and Assyriology until 1921. A further degree, the D.D., was granted him in 1922 at the Chicago Lutheran Seminary.
Professor Lutz accepted the position of assistant professor in Berkeley in 1921. During his thirty-three years as professor, he taught a great variety of courses in his three fields; he was an associate curator with the Museum of Anthropology (now Lowie Museum) from 1929 on; was named a Faculty Research Lecturer in 1939; and chaired his department between 1945 and 1948. He was for many years an active member of the American Oriental Society, Deutsche Orient Gesellschaft of Berlin (and a corresponding member of its Anthropology Society), the Oriental Society of Philadelphia, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the American Association of University Professors.
In addition to being responsible for the publication of many objects in the Lowie Museum's fine Egyptian collection (primarily the Hearst-Reisner Collection), Professor Lutz was also in charge of the Babylonian collection of cuneiform tablets and other artifacts. He was visiting professor at the American School for Oriental Research in Baghdad (1929-30) and while there assisted a Harvard University expedition in classifying material excavated at ancient Nuzi. His many publications reveal his broad knowledge and expertise in philology, lexicography, and archaeology.
A significant trauma was endured by Professor Lutz at the time of the great Berkeley fire of 1923, for in it he lost nearly all his research materials. In later years, he would speak of this event with no little emotion, and one always felt that he considered the impact of those losses on his professional career almost completely unrecoverable. Nevertheless, as his publications show, he was a productive scholar in spite of that great blow. Some years later, the tragic loss of his wife had a profound effect on him.
In his postretirement years, Professor Lutz maintained an active interest in such diverse subjects as oil painting and medieval Latin literature. On his desk at the time of his death at the age of eighty-seven were photos of the ancient Egyptian documents known as the Hearst Medical Papyri.
We remember Henry Lutz fondly, and with great admiration.
Richard Lee Lyman, Nutritonal Sciences: Berkeley
| 1927-1975 | |
| Professor of Nutrtion |
Richard Lee Lyman was born in Gilroy, California, April 7, 1927 and died December 2, 1975. His family moved to a lemon and orange ranch near Carpinteria, where he graduated from high school in 1945. After a year at UC, Santa Barbara, Richard finished his undergraduate work at UC, Berkeley, majoring in biochemistry. He then spent two years as a research assistant to Dr. Conrad Elvehjem at the University of Wisconsin to earn an M.S. degree in biochemistry in 1951. He returned to Berkeley and worked for several years as senior technician and research assistant to Dr. Samuel Lepkovsky in the Department of Poultry Husbandry. Richard was awarded the Ph.D. degree in nutrition in 1957. After a year as chemist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Western Regional Laboratory in Albany, he joined this University, where he worked until his death.
He married Marian L. Meyer, whom he had met when they were both undergraduates at Berkeley. Marian also obtained an M.S. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1951 and worked for several years in nutrition research at the University of California, Berkeley. They had three children, Ronald, Eric, and Laura Louise, who were born in 1957, 1958, and 1960, respectively.
Dr. Lyman crowded much into one comparatively short lifetime. He was a productive scholar, a dedicated teacher, and a conscientious administrator. Early in his graduate studies, he developed two major research interests that occupied him all of his career. His studies of hormonal and dietary regulation of the lipid metabolism in rats earned him and his research group international recognition in that field. These widely quoted papers have contributed significantly to understanding the perplexing problems of sex differences in lipid metabolism, as well as the metabolism of unsaturated fatty acids and their relationship to phospholipid function and cholesterol metabolism. His second research area was that of pancreatic enzyme secretion as affected by dietary factors. These studies demonstrated a humoral factor mediating the pancreatic response to dietary trypsin inhibitors, as well as negative feedback regulation of pancreatic enzyme secretion by intestinal trypsin.
As a teacher, Dr. Lyman was considered to be demanding and scrupulously fair. He provided important learning experiences for both undergraduate and graduate students through his high standards for scientific work, his perseverance, and his experience with both biological systems and technical instrumentation. His effectiveness as a teacher is reflected in the performance of his graduate students. All of his nine Ph.D. students are now in highly responsible professional positions.
His contributions to the profession of nutrition and to the University were equally distinguished. As a member of two technical committees for Western Regional Research Projects, he stimulated and guided the work of others in Agricultural Experiment Station research in nutrition in the western states. He worked hard as a member of the editorial board of the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine and as contributing editor for Nutrition Reviews. Embued with strong concern for students, his main administrative efforts were for his department and college. He was vice-chairman of nutritional sciences for two years and served on many departmental and college committees. He was responsible for much of the administration of the department graduate programs during his service as graduate advisor, member of the graduate admissions committee, and chairman of the Graduate Group in Nutrition.
Richard Lyman was a conservative and a realist in the truest and best sense of the words. During his last months he was a moving example of how a man can accept and deal realistically with the tragedy of a terminal illness. All of us who knew him are deeply indebted to him for what he taught us about living, working, and dying.
Amy A. MacOwan, Nursing: San Francisco
| 1890-1975 | |
| Associate Professor Emeritus | |
| Assistant Dean, School of Nursing |
Amy A. MacOwan, associate professor and assistant dean of the School of Nursing, San Francisco died on August 10, 1975 at the age of eighty-five. She had been a member of the faculty from 1942 to 1958, when she retired. Like many other nursing leaders of her generation she began her career as a teacher in the public schools teaching in rural districts of Illinois. During World War I she taught in high schools in Wisconsin, having completed the B.A. degree from Beloit College. In the winter of 1918-19, when the influenza epidemic struck her own family and neighbors, she became interested in nursing and entered the nursing school of Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, Illinois in March 1919, graduating in March 1922. Because of her interest in the newly developing public health programs, she continued her education at the University of Michigan in the public health nursing certificate program (1922). During her first nursing experiences as a rural nurse employed by the American Red Cross Chapter, Fillmore Co., Nebraska, she realized that advanced preparation was needed to fulfill the requirements for leadership in public health nursing. Consequently, she completed a master's program at Columbia University in 1926. From this time on, her life was devoted to the advancement and interpretation of public health nursing. She served in several positions as a teacher in university schools of nursing, such as Emory and the University of Michigan, and as director of public health nursing services in Philadelphia and Hawaii. Her broad knowledge of the field of public health as well as of public health nursing, gained from wide experience and indefatigable study, resulted in public commendation for her work at the Paloma Settlement, Honolulu.
She was appointed to the faculty of the University of California to direct the program in public health nursing for graduate nurses on the Berkeley campus in 1942. Her strength was in her ability to enter a new situation, reorganize its programs, establish standards, strengthen staff, and develop educational programs. Programs developed under her leadership frequently served as models for city and state public
In 1954, Miss MacOwan was named assistant dean of the School of Nursing and later served as chairman of the committee that administered the School of Nursing for the year prior to the arrival of Dean Nahm in early 1958.
Her chief contribution to the School of Nursing was in the development of a strong public health curriculum for graduate students and its interpretation to University officials and community public health leaders. She worked closely with the faculty of the School of Public Health and taught several courses in their curriculum. By insisting on sound preparation for public health nurses, she contributed to the improvement of nursing services to the people of California. Miss MacOwan was highly regarded by national leaders, such as Miss M. Sheehan, Miss R. Freeman, and Dr. D. Wilson. She earned recognition in the area of public health and was elected as a Fellow in the American Public Health Association.
Miss MacOwan retired from the faculty July 1958. Following her retirement she enjoyed a long anticipated trip to South America; later she served as consultant to various committees and other groups of the School of Nursing. She is remembered with respect and pleasure by former students and coworkers.
Ben Adolph Madson, Agronomy: Davis
| 1887-1974 | |
| Professor | |
| Agronomist in the Experiment Station | |
| Director, Agricultural Field Stations, Emeritus |
“Prof,” “Chief,” “Mr. Mayor,” “Ben.” Many were the forms of address used for this man of long service and many interests--professor, mayor of Davis, Citizen of the Year, elder statesman in city, county, state, and University affairs.
Ben Madson was born on March 19, 1887, in Jewel Junction, Iowa. When illness forced his father to give up farming, the family moved to Ames, Iowa, and it was there that Madson completed his formal schooling up to his bachelor's degree in chemistry, graduating in 1907 from Iowa State College.
After working for a time as an assistant chemist at the college and as chief chemist for the Iowa Sugar Company, in 1910 he came to the Berkeley campus as an assistant in agronomy. The Division of Agronomy was just six years old at that time.
Madson remained with the Division of Agronomy for thirty-eight years, becoming chairman in 1927. In 1948 he was made director of Agricultural Field Stations. That new position was charged with administering the outlying research areas established by the University of California for more effective local area service to the state. He held that position until his retirement, in 1954, when he became emeritus director of Agricultural Field Stations, emeritus professor of agronomy, and emeritus agronomist in the Agricultural Experiment Station.
The quiet integrity of this tall white-haired man of dignity was manifested in the duties that came his way and in his manner of carrying them out. Not only was he known as an outstanding teacher, administrator, and researcher during his forty-four years of active University service, he was notable also as a friend, counselor, and advisor to students, employees, fellow staff, and University administrators. He taught every course offered by the department as the need arose. His former students number in the thousands.
Paralleling his outstanding years of service to the University were
His professional affiliations included membership in the American Society of Range Management and the Society of Plant Pathologists, and he was a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy. The California Wool Growers Association awarded him the Order of the Golden Fleece, but his greatest honor came in 1965, when he was presented with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of California.
Professor Madson has been described as perhaps one of the last great generalists in the University of California. This modern age of specialists stands in awe of the vast and varied knowledge possessed and beneficially used by this servant of the University and the state. He had personal knowledge of the multifarious agriculture in every nook and cranny of the state, from Tulelake to El Centro.
At the same time, his constant travels throughout the state kept him in touch not just with the crops and the climates and the pests and the problems, but with the people--leaders of industry, farmers, colleagues, former students--the army in the battle to wrest more and more food and fiber from this immense agricultural community. Those were the same people who made up the hundreds that congregated to honor Ben Madson at his retirement party in 1955.
Not only did the former mayor continue to show an interest in local affairs in his later years, he continued to branch out. Thus, at the age of eighty he took up golf at the El Macero Country Club, where he had been an active member. He not only took up this radical departure from his long-time interests, but continued to develop as a player, becoming what has been described as “creditable” before he had to give it up, only a few months before his death.
His passing was widely remarked in the community and the state. A landmark was gone. And much more: a friend and servant to thousands of individuals and to society at large.
Ng Wing Mah, Political Science: Berkeley
| 1893-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
N. Wing Mah died February 27, 1975 at the Elmwood Convalescent Home after a long illness. He was the senior member of the Mah family, in the United States and China. Born in Canton, June 10, 1893, he came to the University of Illinois on a scholarship and received his A.B. degree in 1916, after work with John A. Fairlie and James W. Garner. The family settled in Oakland and he enrolled at Berkeley, obtaining his A.M. degree in 1917 and the doctorate in 1921. He was a teaching assistant at Berkeley from 1919 to 1921. A fellow graduate student was William Yandell Elliott, who had come from Tennessee to be with his uncle, Edward Elliott, a professor of political science. David P. Barrows, Edward Elliott, Thomas H. Reed, and Edward M. Sait were his teachers, and he saw Raymond G. Gettell, Frank M. Russell, and Samuel C. May arrive. Senator William F. Knowland considered Mah as his chief teacher and spoke for former students at the retirement dinner.
Mah was appointed lecturer in political science in 1921, was an instructor, 1922-27, an assistant professor for the next decade, and became as associate professor in 1937, retiring in 1960.
During his thrity-eight years of service, he was one of the department's most useful members. He long served as its secretary, major adviser, and was responsible for its library acquisitions. He was the social science adviser for the School of Education and gave invaluable help to the registrar in the evaluation of transcripts of incoming Chinese students. He was faculty adviser to the Chinese Students' Club and to the Young Republicans. During World War II he lectured in the U.S. Army Orientation Course, the Army Specialized Training Program, the Special Officers Service School, and the Far Eastern Training School of the Office of War Information. He was a frequent participant at annual conferences of the Institute of International Relations at the Mission Inn, Riverside.
For hundreds of American students, N. Wing Mah was the teacher who introduced them to what, for them, was the mysterious Orient. He was himself a living symbol of modern China. In his early youth
He also taught courses on Problems of the Pacific, International Relations: Far East, and a seminar in International Relations: Far East. He likewise often gave the sophomore course designed for prospective majors on Principles of Politics, for many years presented Political Science #162, Municipal Government, and at times was responsible for the required American Institutions 101, well attended by more than five hundred students in old Chemistry Auditorium. His teaching was not confined to the Berkeley campus. He was a visiting professor at the California College in China; the National Central University, Nanking; and the National Chi-nan University, Shanghai. He also taught at UCLA, San Francisco State, Mills, and Utah. Following several years in China, the greater attention to the Far East in the thirties, and two years in China in the late forties, Professor Mah became a much sought-after speaker in northern California; under the auspices of the Extension division he addressed dozens of forums, service organizations, alumni, and other clubs.
In 1929 Professor Mah returned to China to lecture at the above-mentioned universities. Already in 1925 he had offers to professorial posts in China and from 1927-36 received offers of full professorships at three universities. From 1929-32 he was executive secretary, Central Political Council, National Government of China, Nanking. From 1930-33 he was a member of the Legislative Yuan and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nanking. Simultaneously he had been offered and
Wing Mah published a number of articles and reviews, and several of his lectures and addresses appeared in scholarly journals. Unfortunately, the ambitious project on the origins of Chinese government, to which he devoted many years of quiet research, did not reach print, but he was well regarded as a sound, careful, and dedicated scholar.
He was a devoted member of his department and of the University. It was fitting that N. Wing Mah was one of the one hundred “persons and groups presented with citations for distinguished achievement during the celebration of the University's One Hundredth Anniversary” in 1968. His inclusion on the Honor Roll of the Centennial Year was deserved recognition of his service.
Mrs. Mah (Berta Hosang) died in 1959. They are survived by a son, Bertwing Mah, an economist and director of research, California State Bank Department, who occupies the family residence; two daughters, Mrs. John (Lynn) Early, Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Frank (Winberta) Yao, Phoenix, Arizona; his brother, Frederick Mah, and two grandchildren.
Gerald Emir Marsh, Speech: Berkeley
| 1900-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Gerald Emir Marsh was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, February 12, 1900. A graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1920, he studied law briefly at Harvard and taught speech in Carleton College and Northwestern University, where he received a M.A. in 1928. In 1929 he joined the Department of Public Speaking (later Speech, then Rhetoric) at Berkeley. He taught in that department for thirty-eight years, retiring in 1967. He died on February 11, 1975, one day short of his seventy-fifth birthday.
Professor Marsh contributed notably to the academic community at Berkeley through his administrative service and his teaching. He was chairman of the department for sixteen years, from 1939 to 1955. During his chairmanship the department grew greatly in campus esteem, in student enrollment, and in additions to its staff of distinguished scholars. The range of course offerings expanded in new directions; at the same time the traditional offerings in speech were strengthened. After his service as chairman he was appointed associate dean of the College of Letters and Science and served there for three years. He was director of the Summer Sessions for eleven years, resigning in 1970.
Teaching was of abiding concern to Professor Marsh, and he gave generously of his time and energy to his students. He was an extremely popular and effective teacher. His classes were always overcrowded, and he was regarded as a highly stimulating and challenging instructor. He was open, warm, and receptive to students and one of his great pleasures was engaging in discussions and arguments with them in class and on the campus. He was never didactic or pompous. He took a kindly and genial Socratic attitude, elucidating their views and trying to induce them to see what their points of view entailed and required for proof or demonstration. There can be no doubt that he spurred many of them, through his dialectical finesse and charm, to question, probe, and examine issues and problems rather than to accept ideas uncritically.
Professor Marsh initiated the department's public lecture recital series, in which departmental members gave readings of poetry, plays,
Professor Marsh was a stout supporter of the University and worked closely with many of the activities of the alumni association. He was in great demand as a speaker at alumni functions throughout the state and responded to these requests with such enthusiasm that in 1967 on his retirement the California Alumni Association awarded him the first honorary life membership for his volunteer alumni service and for his pioneering work on behalf of the alumni foundation's scholarship program.
After his retirement in 1967 he was appointed by Governor Reagan as the University representative to the State Scholarship and Loan Commission, which is responsible for administration of the state graduate and undergraduate student aid programs. Professor Marsh served as vice-chairman from December 1968 until his death. The director of the commission wrote that Professor Marsh “established his presence in the Commission and made a great impact on it. I doubt if in the history of the Commission there has been a person more warmly regarded by his colleagues than Gerry. We miss his humor, wisdom and friendship and... his rhetoric.” This can equally well be said of Professor Marsh's participation on the innumerable college and university committees on which he served during his thirty-eight years on the campus.
Professor Marsh is survived by his wife, Estelle Westcott Marsh, his daughter, Mrs. Joseph (Sally) Bertino, Jr. (UCB 1951), and by two grandchildren.
William Matthews, English: Los Angeles
| 1900-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
The London Times called his career “zestful,” and, indeed, Will Matthews was one of the best of the scholarly adventurers. Who but Will, with his uncanny nose for detection, could have discovered that a fifteenth-century portrait of Chaucer had hung for fifteen years unidentified in the English Reading Room? Or that the dust of Chaucer and Dryden share a common grave? He excelled in every area of our profession--as investigator, teacher, author, and administrator--but he wore his accomplishments lightly and with grace.
Born within sound of Bow Bells, in London, William Matthews was a true Cockney and extremely proud of it, one who early evinced the inquisitive, wide-ranging brilliance that before his death was to bring him international recognition. His entire secondary and graduate training was taken while he worked full time, principally as a clerk and court reporter in the parliamentary solicitor's office. Here the future Professor Matthews developed not only a reputation for phenomenally rapid shorthand but an interest that was to lead to one of his most outstanding academic achievements--the new text of Pepys' shorthand diary. He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of London, taught for one year at Bedford College, for another at the University of Wisconsin, then came to UCLA to remain from 1939 until his retirement in 1972.
During the years between, his work brought distinction not only to himself but to this University as well. Articles (more than sixty) and books (more than a dozen) flowed from his typewriter (fortunately so; for only he could read his hand). Perhaps the most influential of his writings, ones that reversed scholarly trends, were the books on Arthurian romance: The Tragedy of Arthur, which redefined the genre of “The Alliterative Morte Arthure,” and The Ill-Famed Knight, which refuted the traditional identification of Sir Thomas Malory, author of “Le Morte d'Arthur.” But news of the Matthews edition of Pepys' diary was deemed important enough to be announced to the world via satellite television.
Will was a highly popular, versatile teacher. His speciality was medieval
Yet to recount the accomplishments of this man does not capture his essence. Will Matthews had a real flare for living as well as for learning, a love of travel, art, a good story, and the songs of the Cockney music halls. He was a most genial, generous, high-spirited host; and he once won a magnum of champagne for his dancing.
Despite all that he finished, Will leaves us with a sense of his having been in the middle of new undertakings. He was always beginning something, and there remain among his papers many articles and two book-length manuscripts needing but little to ready them for publication, and the bulk of a new edition of “Le Morte d'Arthur.” This work is to be carried on by his students and colleagues. But it will be with a mingled sense of affection, frustration, and awe. For who could ever hope to follow successfully in the graceful, erudite, dancing steps of William Matthews.
Edward Chester Maxie, Pomology: Davis
| 1919-1974 | |
| Professor | |
| Plant Physiologist in the Experiment Station |
Edward Chester Maxie was born on September 30, 1919 in Laurel, Mississippi, where he completed his primary and secondary education. He served five years in the U.S. Army during World War II, part of the time in the South Pacific. Upon completion of military service, Ed entered Mississippi State College and graduated in horticulture in 1948. He was appointed research assistant in the Department of Pomology, University of California, Davis in 1948 and received the M.S. degree in horticulture in 1950. Upon receipt of the Ph.D. in plant physiology from Purdue University in 1953, he returned to the Department of Pomology at Davis as junior pomologist in the Experiment Station. He advanced through the ranks and in 1966 became professor of pomology and pomologist in the Experiment Station.
Ed's varied interests in postharvest physiology in particular and horticulture in general led to over 100 technical publications in areas such as the effects of pre- and postharvest growth-regulator treatments on fruit metabolism; the effects of ionizing radiation on fruit metabolism, quality, and storage life; respiration, ripening, and chilling injury in the olive; growth and ripening of fig fruits; heat injury of stone fruits; and the ripening response of pear fruits to temperature manipulation. As a reflection of his growing interest in postharvest problems of the cut-flower industry, his Experiment Station title was charged in 1971 to plant physiologist. He authored numerous articles dealing with handling, storage, and transportation of primarily chrysanthemums, carnations, and roses. His research contributions throughout his short career were marked by excellence, and he was the recipient of the prestigious Gourley and Woodbury Awards of the American Society for Horticultural Science.
Ed was a highly competent and respected teacher of both undergraduate and graduate courses. He was a dynamic speaker, who, with great self-confidence, presented his material in an enthusiastic, interesting, and logical manner. Students and colleagues alike agreed that he was an effective and inspiring teacher. His greatest satisfaction, however,
Ed was extremely active and most effective in service to the University, to his professional society, and to the public. He devoted much of his time to service as chairman or member of many committees at the departmental, college, and overall campus levels. He served as assistant dean of research of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences during 1967-70. In addition to participating in many committees of the American Society for Horticultural Science, he was a member of its board of directors and was a past president of its Western Region. In 1967, he was given the distinguished designation of Fellow in the American Society for Horticultural Science. Being an accomplished and lucid speaker, he was frequently invited to speak to various clubs and organizations at the high school, junior college, and university levels, to service clubs, and to industry gatherings. He was a charter member and past president of the Davis Toastmaster Club.
Ed died in Bet Dagan, Israel on June 12, 1974. He had completed six months of a year's sabbatic leave in the Union of South Africa and had recently arrived in Israel to work at the Volcani Institute the remainder of the year. His death resulted from a coronary thrombosis one morning while he was away from home jogging. He is survived by his widow, Elizabeth Bush Maxie, whom he married in 1943, and by three sons: Edward, Jr., Tom, and Robert. A fourth son, David, preceded him in death.
James McEvoy III, Sociology; Environmental Studies: Davis
| 1940-1976 | |
| Associate Professor | |
| Associate Dean for Research |
James McEvoy III was born on April 16, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan and took his own life in Palo Alto, California on March 29, 1976. This tragic act cut short the career of a fine teacher and social scientist, and has taken a wise, energetic, and generous person from a large group of friends and colleagues across the country.
Jim McEvoy spent his childhood in both Michigan and California, and attended Northwestern, Michigan State, and the University of Michigan as an undergraduate. After graduation from the University of Michigan with a degree in English, he went directly into that university's graduate program in American studies, developing for himself an unusual program of studies that included the history of social and political thought in the United States and the qualitative methods of Michigan's political behavior program. He also combined his studies with a vigorous and prominent role in public affairs; he was active in the Ann Arbor chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the University's Graduate Student Association, several political campaigns, and was a continuing and sophisticated supporter of the civil rights and antiwar movements that marked his adult life. During his graduate years he completed a study of extremists, “Letters from the Right,” and his doctoral dissertation, Radicals or Conservatives: The Contemporary American Right, became a book in 1971.
In 1967 Professor McEvoy joined the Department of Sociology on the Davis campus of the University of California. His courses in political sociology, social movements, collective behavior, public opinion, and research methods were popular and respected combinations of history, philosophy, and data gathering; undergraduates enjoyed Jim's enthusiasm for his subjects, and some of the department's best graduate students developed their dissertations under his supervision. His own research productivity continued to be strong but became notable in its fusion of scientific, public policy, and administrative concerns; he contributed to the work of the President's Commission on the Causes
By 1974 Professor McEvoy's skill at research management and his ability to facilitate the establishment of new research and teaching units had resulted in his appointment as associate dean for research within the Graduate Division. He took on this assignment with the same thorough commitment that characterized his other pursuits. Among his distinctive contributions: work on organized research unit reviews, improved procedures for administration of grants and contracts, and the development of a comprehensive directory of faculty research.
Jim McEvoy's rare insights, quick understanding, and intense commitments were unfortunately coupled with a painful tendency to self-depreciation, an inclination so thorough as to seem, to those who saw it, the other side of his brilliance, a characteristic that worked itself out in tragedy. During his life he created a unique and precious place in the lives of his friends and colleagues--a rare combination of warmth, excitement, and concern that has now become an indelible memory. Few persons succeed as scholar, teacher, citizen, and friend--as Jim McEvoy did; those of us who knew him well can only wish that he had seen his own life in the same light.
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The James McEvoy Memorial Fund has been established to aid students engaged in the kinds of work Professor McEvoy encouraged. Contributions will be acknowledged; they can be sent c/o Chair, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, California 95616.
Percy Harold McGauhey, Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering; Public Health: Berkeley
| 1904-1975 | |
| Professor of Sanitary Engineering and Public Health, Emeritus | |
| Director of the Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory, Emeritus |
Percy Harold McGauhey died in October, 1975. He is survived by his wife Margo and sister Mrs. Dorothy Carson. He was born on January 20, 1904 on his mother's homestead in the eastern Oregon community of Ritter Hot Springs. From this rugged and remote region Professor McGauhey fought frailty in health to rise to a position of eminence and respect in his profession.
After an early education in a one-room school, he attended Oregon Agricultural College and graduated with the B.S. in civil engineering in 1927. Thereafter he spent twenty-one years teaching civil and sanitary engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where he rose to the rank of professor. While at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, he obtained the civil engineering degree from that institution and the M.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin through study during summers. He was working on his Ph.D. at Wisconsin when, with only the dissertation to complete, he contracted tuberculosis and spent the next two years in the sanatorium and hospital. The years 1948 to 1950 were spent at the University of Southern California; he returned briefly to Virginia to head up the civil engineering department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute for one year, then in 1951 he took the post of assistant director of the Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.
It was the beginning of a new career for Professor McGauhey. At the Richmond Field Station, he found the workplace type of environment in which he thrived. He often said, “We could do things here on a scale that you couldn't do in a teaching laboratory...we could bore holes in the walls and put up pipes and pilot plants without destroying any marble or tearing down any ivy.” Professor McGauhey conducted pioneering investigations on an impressive list of topics, including the composting and management of solid wastes, the fate of detergents in sewage treatment, water reclamation, septic tank percolation field
In each of these areas it is safe to say that Professor McGauhey became a world expert. What was so amazing, besides the diversity and excellence of his research, was his ability to bring his spirit of eternal optimism and his manner of meaningful compromise into the organization of his research and later into his efforts of organizing the Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory and the academic programs in civil engineering and public health. These qualities are reflected in the type of research he undertook--he had the ability to hold interdisciplinary research groups together with the knack of allowing each individual to contribute both toward the objective of the group as well as to their own individual satisfaction.
In 1957 P. H. McGauhey was appointed director of the Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory (a post he held until his retirement in 1969), professor of civil engineering, and professor of public health. For the years 1963 to 1965 he was chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering.
Professor McGauhey published widely. His literary talents spread far beyond the technical fields of his interest where he published over 150 articles and reports. He was the author of three books: Engineering Management of Water Quality, Rimrock Ranch and Other Verse, and The Oral History of the Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory.
P. H. McGauhey's technical and professional excellence was recognized by numerous organizations. He was a registered professional engineer in Virginia and California. He was honored by the Water Pollution Control Federation with their research prize (the Harrison Prescott Eddy Medal) in 1960, with the Gordon Maskew Fair Medal for excellence in engineering education in 1969, and with honorary life membership in 1974. He was elected to honorary life membership of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1971 and to the National Academy of Engineers in 1973.
Professor McGauhey had a way with words that often defied their true sense yet astounded and delighted the mind of the listener. He would describe a decaying roadside barn as being a structure held up by termites holding hands, and he would refer to a boring activity with the quip, “It's a long worm that has no turning.” Above and beyond all of his achievements as author, educator, and engineer, he excelled as a sponsor of young men and women. He saw the goodness in everybody. He gave you his support and advice freely, without wishing or expecting any benefit or thanks, save the satisfaction of seeing your success. It was this kindly, appreciative, and unselfish
Professor “Mack” McGauhey was “a true example of the type of individual now being paid homage to during the bicentennial year: a descendant of pioneer Americans who took the promise of the American dream literally, and who achieved it through the application of strenuous physical labor to a life-long quest for education and excellence.” Chall, M. P. H. McGauhey: The Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory: Administration, Research and Consultation, 1950-1972. The Bancroft Library Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley, 1974.
This man of class and humility himself wrote an appropriate epitaph:
| He did not lose his zest for life | |
| Nor judge the race not worth the run. | |
| But he would have judged his duty shirked | |
| If he failed to do--what must be done. |
John Parker McKee, Psychology: Berkeley
| 1921-1971 | |
| Professor |
John Parker McKee was born August 11, 1921 in New York City, one of five children of H. Harper McKee, a geologist, and Mabel H. McKee. He received his elementary and secondary education in the public schools of New York City and entered Harvard College in 1937. At Harvard he pursued a variety of interests--French literature and psychology among them. He graduated with the class of 1941. In 1942 he married Mary Ellen Driscoll before being assigned, as a second lieutenant, to the American forces in Great Britain. He participated in the Normandy landings of June 1944 and served in the European theater until the end of the war, advancing to the rank of captain.
After the war he entered the graduate program in child development at the State University of Iowa. He received his Ph.D. under Vincent Nowlis in 1949. Upon receipt of his degree he was invited to Berkeley under a joint appointment as research associate in the Institute of Child Welfare (now the Institute of Human Development) and assistant professor of psychology. He became a full-time appointee in the department in 1959 and was advanced to professor in 1967.
John McKee was a broadly trained psychologist of catholic interests. Although primarily a developmental psychologist, he was highly knowledgeable about theories of learning and of sensory discrimination. Graduate students and colleagues alike profited from theoretical discussions with him in these areas as well as in those more closely related to developmental psychology.
Most of McKee's research was undertaken jointly with others, but his was always a full and active collaboration. His early research was based upon that large and diverse body of carefully and systematically collected developmental data which--since the twenties--had been accumulating in the Institute of Child Welfare. His work entailed analysis of these data with an eye both to the determination of developmental parameters and to the testing of a variety of hypotheses about the course of child development. He also worked in the area of attitude formation and cultural stereotypes, the experimental work dealing with attitudes of men and women toward men and women. His contribution
McKee possessed an active appreciation both of the responsibilities that the fortune of birth and educational opportunity lays upon the competent and educated person, and of the values that should guide the lives of persons and institutions. (He would certainly have you reminded, however, that his values would not be perfectly consistent with yours!) It was this appreciation and this sense of values that made so valuable his contributions to the analysis and amelioration of many of the problems which--during his tenure--faced the growing department. He served as vice-chairman (experimental-biological group) from 1967 to 1970. Both as a faculty member and as vice-chairman he turned his truly exceptional administrative talents to the advantage of the department.
His most important contributions to psychology and to the department were made in the encouragement and support of students and colleagues in the work they were doing: informal discussions of theory and methods with students and colleagues; critical review and editing of articles others were preparing; and in the wise, thoughtful, and tactful discussion of--and decision making about--departmental policies.
McKee was fiercely--sometimes aggressively--independent. In him this was a trait at once admired and deplored by his friends. It often seemed to them that his understanding of friendship was that friends should be cherished and friendship nourished with kindness and helpfulness on his part--but that friends were not to be permitted to be helpful to him in troubled times. The intensity of his independence undoubtedly made his own life and that of his family more rigorous than it need have been.
In his case, independence was a general trait, manifest in all aspects of his life, personal and professional. It moved him to a certain disregard of the conservative traditions and constraints of academic life. Thus, although he wrote well and with a real appreciation of style, his own published output was limited.
His independence of thought led editors to request of him critical reveiws of potentially influential new books in the ares of his competence. These reviews were always carefully and critically written and were contributions to the field rather than mere guided tours through the book under review.
He was a man of quick and ready wit, a raconteur, and a thoroughly competent psychologist who respected the capacity of undergraduates; his undergraduate courses were popular and appreciated.
A man of deep convictions and loyalties, his notable strengths were
Effortlessly he could elucidate the important features of theories of rote learning, of discrimination learning, of phyiscal, physiological, intellectual, and personality development, recite dozens of data on any of these topics--yet with equal enjoyment he could produce for you exactly the right word, the correct grammatical structure, the complete Shakespearian quotation (and identify it) or the whole of that vaugely remembered fragment from Gilbert and Sullivan.
This would have been a better memorial had we had in its preparation the editorial assistance from him which we have had with other writing chores.
He died March 5, 1971. Psychology, the department, and the University are the poorer in his loss.
Powers Slater Messenger, Entomological Sciences, Berkeley
| 1920-1976 | |
| Professor of Entomology |
Powers S. Messenger, distinguished scientist, teacher, and friend to those with whom he became associated in the University, the state, and the broader world scientific community, died suddenly in Berkeley, California on August 16, 1976.
Powers “Bud” Messenger was born in Redding, California, August 14, 1920. He married Diana Defee in 1950, and they reared two sons, Mark and Noel, to whom he was devoted. He entered the United States Naval Reserve in 1942 as an ensign and became lieutenant and executive officer by the end of World War II, serving as a deck officer aboard a destroyer in the Pacific area. He remained in the naval reserve as an inactive officer until 1946.
Messenger received both his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in agricultural chemistry at Berkeley, where he joined the staff as an entomologist in 1951. Except for a period of research for the University carried out in Hawaii and Texas, a sabbatical leave in England in 1964, and special leave in Thailand in 1972, his entire academic career was at Berkeley. His lifelong dedication to the University and the Berkeley campus in particular, was reflected in many ways throughout his twenty-five years of active teaching, research, and administration on this campus.
His first responsibility within the University as an entomologist in the Berkeley division of the statewide Department of Biological Control took him to Hawaii and later to Texas in a research activity that initiated a new and differently oriented career than what had previously held his interest. This symbolized the capacity for change and for intellectual growth that characterized his life.
The first major group of pest insects in which he became interested was the fruitflies; this was while he was in Hawaii studying the oriental fruitfly, Dacus dorsalis, an insect which California agriculturists feared would soon invade and threaten California agriculture. Messenger's studies made it possible to predict those areas in California which probably would be threatened and those which would not. He soon became a good ecologist and moved into the areas of bioclimatology
Messenger quickly became recognized as a leading world authority on the climatic relationships of insects, both of pest species and of those that are parasitic or predaceous on them. He was concerned particularly with how climatic factors may affect the host-parasite or predator-prey relationship in terms of affecting the degree of biological control that may be exerted by such natural enemies or pest species.
Using the same bioclimatic cabinets he had used in Hawaii and Texas (they were moved to Berkeley), and the concepts and techniques explored there, he later studied such relationships in the cherry fruitfly, and particularly a major new alfalfa pest, the spotted alfalfa aphid. In the case of the latter, he studied closely several of its parasites and produced the most thoroughly documented example of the intricate interrelationships of an insect pest species and its natural enemies, as this relationship is affected by climatic factors.
Messenger published widely and was coauthor of the book, Biological Control and co-editor of another, Theory and Practice of Biological Control.
He was much sought out for his analytical ability and broad knowledge as a collaborator and participant in deliberations on such problems as possible entry of threatening new pests, quarantine procedures concerning plant pests, and proposed plans for eradication of recent arrivals. He also was a member of a panel which reviewed the California guidelines for regulatory quarantine.
Messenger taught courses in insect ecology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, conducted seminars in both insect ecology and biological control, and became keenly interested in the development and conduct of teaching programs in integrated pest management. He was a fair-minded and fine teacher and endeared himself to those students who became closely associated with him. He always showed concern for students and gave generously of his time and efforts in their behalf.
Despite his exceptional abilities as a researcher and teacher, it was inevitable that he would be called upon also for administrative and committee work. His talents were widely used in such service to the University. He served as vice chairman of the statewide Department of Biological Control, then as chairman of the Division of Biological Control at Berkeley after it became a part of the Department of Entomological Sciences, later as acting chairman of the Division of Invertebrate Pathology, and finally as chairman of the Department of Entomological Sciences--all responsibilities he met with competence and dispatch. He made contributions of the highest order through
In his personal life “Bud” Messenger was very close to his family, enjoyed sailing and, above all, stimulating conversation, which those who have been privileged to enjoy with him will always remember and be strengthened by.
We have thus lost a rare friend and colleague.
Richard James Miller, History: Davis and Berkeley
| 1918-1976 | |
| Professor |
Richard J. Miller was a man of remarkably diverse interests and accomplishment, the more so because he worked at America's cultural frontier for almost his entire professional life. Even while an undergraduate at Berkeley, where he first majored in art and then in history, he had begun his lifelong study of East Asian languages. Upon graduation from college he entered the Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, intending to prepare for the ministry as a missionary. Ultimately, however, he served as a missionary of a different kind, promoting education, scholarship, and understanding across cultural boundaries in Pakistan, Taiwan, Japan, and finally, his native California.
After wartime service with the U.S. Navy, Dick returned from Japan in 1946 to Berkeley for graduate studies. He also worked as head of the Far Eastern and Russian Language School connected with the Extension division. He earned his doctorate in 1953 with a dissertation that a generation of Berkeley graduate students have read for their qualifying examinations--on the seventh-century Japanese state. After a year as lecturer in history at Berkeley he joined the Asia Foundation, serving as its representative at Tokyo and then in Pakistan and Taiwan. He continued to be associated with the foundation until 1966 through the Center for Social and Political Studies (Tokyo): an institute that Dick himself was responsible for founding. Years later Dick would reminisce on this period, when he befriended Asians of all persuasions, learning a great deal from them even as he tried to assist them. He capped this phase of his career with the founding in 1962 of the Journal of Social and Political Ideas in Japan (now The Japan Interpreter). As editorial adviser and principal translator, he helped make the journal the best source in a Western language on the vital currents of thought in Japan in the 1960s.
Through these years, Dick had not given up his earlier interests in art and scholarship. He developed a passionate admiration for Asian folk art. A theatrical mask, a rusted sword, or simply a pottery urn for everyday use appealed to his aesthetic taste as much as a majestic
And yet amidst his teaching responsibilities and increasing University service, he embarked with amazing discipline and energy on a systematic series of monographs on ancient Japan, dealing with monarchy, nobility, bureaucracy, and their interrelationships. Dick's understanding of contemporary Japan was, remarkably enough, matched by his profound inquiry into the early formative period in her history.
Dick's Ancient Japanese Nobility: The Kabane Ranking System appeared in 1974. It is a skilful and thorough study of one of the most crucial but least understood institutions of the late Yamato state--the kabane (hereditary noble titles). Based on ancient chronicles written in difficult Japanized Chinese, which only a few Western scholars have mastered, this monograph is now considered the foremost work on the subject in any language, bringing out the subtleties of ancestry and title manipulation during and around the reign of Emperor Tenmu (672-686 A.D.). As one reviewer wrote, “...the author has introduced a quantitative methodology that has profound meaning for the future treatment of pre-modern Japanese institutions. This is not only an original piece of research, but one of the very few history books relating to Japan that has shown us a new technique of inquiry.”
Important as is Dick's study of the kabane system, it merely laid the foundation for what would become his major work: “Japan's First Bureaucracy: A Study of Eighth-Century Government.” At the time of his death from massive cerebral hemorrhage on July 2, 1976, Part One of this work (over 200 pages) was in near-final form. In fact, we hope that it may soon be published, for it can stand by itself as a detailed survey of the government offices and agencies of the time
Dick is survived by his wife Miriam (they were married in 1942) and their children Michael and Patricia. On the morning after his death, Miriam, in grief and shock, nevertheless remembered to phone a graduate student, who was departing for Japan that day, to give him a Tokyo address Dick had found for him the previous afternoon, just before his sudden illness. That phone call will be remembered by the student and by all of us who know the Millers well, symbolizing as it does their desire, transcending even their devotion to scholarship and art, to help others to realize their potentialities and effectively pursue their interests. For Miriam and Dick, the promising young people they have known in Japan and in California have been part of their own lives.
Lawrence Ordin, Biochemistry: Riverside
| 1926-1974 | |
| Professor |
Dr. Lawrence Ordin, professor of biochemistry, Riverside campus, died on 9 August 1974 after a long illness. Diagnosis of a brain tumor had been followed by extensive radiotherapy and chemotherapy. In spite of this protracted period, his parting left colleagues and friends with a sense of suddenness and shock.
Dr. Ordin was born on October 21, 1926. He graduated from Glenville High School, Cleveland, Ohio in January 1945. After service in the U.S. Navy from February 1945 to July 1946, he attended Western Reserve University, 1946-1948. Subsequently, he transferred to the University of California and obtained a B.S. degree in soil science from Berkeley in 1950. He continued as a graduate student at Berkeley and obtained his Ph.D. under the direction of Dr. L. Jacobson in plant physiology in 1954. Dr. Ordin was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. James Bonner at the California Institute of Technology, 1954-56, and then continued his research, 1956-59, at the Agricultural Research Station, Rehevot, Israel. In 1959, he was appointed assistant biochemist at the University of California, Riverside, and continued through the ranks, being biochemist and professor of biochemistry at the time of his death.
Plant biochemistry was the general area of Dr. Ordin's research. As a postdoctoral fellow, he started his studies in the metabolism in plant cell walls, and this remained his major interest throughout his career. For some time he held a joint appointment in the Statewide Air Pollution Research Center, and his research on effects of air pollutants on plant growth was supported by grants from the U.S. Public Health Service. Dr. Ordin published forty-seven research papers on the two subjects already mentioned. Three students obtained their Ph.D. under his direction and his laboratory received visiting research workers from Israel, Canada, England, and Rumania. Dr. Ordin's work was characterized by very careful experimentation and scrupulous care in interpretation. His reputation would have continued to grow had he been able to pursue his research. His published works provide a substantial
Dr. Ordin worked steadily and unobtrusively not only in his research but also in service to the Academic Senate, the Statewide Air Pollution Research Center, and the Department of Biochemistry. He also provided valuable service to government agencies reviewing research grant proposals. During his term as graduate advisor, the graduate students learned that behind a rather stern appearance was a deep concern for their welfare. In committee work in general, Dr. Ordin could be counted on to voice opinions which were both humanitarian and concerned for the retention of time-proven values; he was conservative in the sense of conserving the best of traditional systems. Dr. Ordin taught in the Department of Biochemistry at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He did not try to charm or amuse his students, but rather to present in a clear and organized fashion the basic tenets and the current status of his subject. He was a teacher to be appreciated well after the class was over.
The visits Dr. Ordin made to Israel in 1956-59 before appointment to the faculty at UCR and again on sabbatical leave in 1971-72 excellently combined for him the opportunity to do scientific research and to visit the historic sites of his religion. He was a devout follower of the Jewish Orthodox faith. He was not demonstrative about these beliefs; they were part of his everyday life. They were undoubtedly a factor in his ability to bear the burden of his illness. After the treatment started, he continued his scientific work as much as his strength allowed and he resisted the temptation to complain about his affliction.
Dr. Ordin is survived by his wife, Rita, and four children. We extend our deep sympathy and we feel it is appropriate to quote Rabbi S. Wasserman who wrote to the Department of Biochemistry after Dr. Ordin's death, “We mourn the departure of a friend of great ideals, goodness, and humbleness.”
Franklin Charles Palm, History: Berkeley and Los Angeles
| 1890-1973 | |
| Professor of Modern European History, Emeritus |
When Franklin Charles Palm died on September 12, 1973, the University of California lost a scholar and teacher who helped Berkeley to become one of the world's great universities.
He was born August 16, 1890 in Willmar, Minnesota, the son of Alvin and Frances L. (Branton) Palm, of English and Swedish ancestry. He received his A.B. degree (1914) at Oberlin College and his M.A. (1915) and Ph.D. (1981) at the University of Illinois, Urbana. He taught first as assistant professor and then as professor of history in Colorado College (1918-1921). He came to the Berkeley campus as assistant professor of modern European history (1921), became associate professor (1929), professor (1939), and professor emeritus (1957).
Palm's research interests focused on French history. His doctoral dissertation led to the publication of his The Economic Policies of Richelieu in 1920. It was followed by Politics and Religion in 16th Century France in 1929; The Establishment of French Absolutism (1574-1610) in 1928; Calvinism and the Religious Wars in 1932; The Middle Classes, Then and Now in 1936; and England and Napoleon III in 1948. In these volumes as well as in his articles, book reviews, and other studies, Palm opened new fields and contributed new insights. The Festschrift of fourteen essays, Studies in Modern European History, ranges from 1547 to 1919, covering varied topics in four different countries.
Palm did not limit his work to the specialized topics typical of research; his textbooks give a panoramic view of the past and the interplay of the political, social, and cultural factors equally important in understanding history. His first textbook appeared in 1934 as Europe since Napoleon with the assistance of Fred E. Graham. The second was published in 1939 as Parts III and IV of European Civilization, in collaboration with his colleagues J. W. Thompson and J. J. Van Nostrand; the third, as Volume II (since 1660) of Western Civilization (in collaboration with Paul B. Schaeffer and J. J. Van Nostrand) in
The University needs support from the community, and Professor Palm was one of those who won it friends off the campus by speaking to many church and service groups, and teaching in University Extension in summer sessions at UCLA, 1932 and 1939, and at USC in 1941. Professor Palm served on committees of the department, the college, and the University as well as those of national associations. He was a member of the American Historical Association, the Colorado State Historical Society, the Royal Society of Arts (London), the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, and an honorary member of Scabbard and Blade Honor Society. In addition he belonged to the Faculty Club, the Exchange Club, the Elks Club, and the Claremont Country Club in Oakland.
Teaching duties always claimed Palm's greatest devotion. He guided fifty graduate students to the Ph.D. degree, directed 150 through their master's theses, and introduced countless thousands of undergraduates to freshman courses in western civilization and upper division classes in revolutionary Europe and in modern Europe. The numbers reflect the load he bore as part of the generation which saw Berkeley's enrollment increase from approximately 5,000 before World War II to 10,000, only to double again in the regular sessions after World War II despite efforts to reduce the number each term by the introduction of the quarter system.
A much more important testimonial is the effect Palm had upon the individual students with whom he came in touch. Let them speak for themselves through the letters they wrote to his sister, who survived him and had been with him during his last illness: They agree that “All his students, including the thousands of freshmen as well as his graduates, saw in him a true scholar and friend; human and humane... without any pomposity or false pride... an extremely generous, fine person.” A graduate student reports that “in seminar we had much work to do but we also had much fun.” One who “was scared stiff by the size of the place” had all his fears vanish after “the first handshake with Franklin Palm.” Another who doubted whether he should go on with graduate work obtained “the courage and the guidance to proceed even under very difficult circumstances.”
That Palm's influence was abiding there can be no doubt. One student, who after completing his college and academic training turned to a business career, tells how Palm influenced each turning point in his life “to my advantage, and more than he ever knew... for over forty-eight years.” Another reports that he shall never forget “how much I owe to his kindness and human helpfulness, as well as his inspiration and guidance in studies. Very often when I am being the professor and when I have students with all sorts of problems--academic and personal--I
Frank would have especially appreciated the plea a letter made “for those of us who were his students and friends” to rededicate “ourselves in our lives and profession to those qualities he sought to instill in us, integrity, fair mindedness and humanity.” It provides a memorial particularly appropriate “for one whose whole career was itself an affirmation of the value of life and of the future of the young.”
George Albert Pettitt, Anthropology: Berkeley
| 1901-1976 | |
| Lecturer Emeritus |
George Pettitt collapsed on the golf course and died at the Brookside Hospital on May 6, 1976. He is survived by his wife, Eleanor, and two daughters, Nancy Kyle Pettitt and Jennifer Graves Pettitt.
A uniquely useful member of Berkeley's Town and Gown, George Pettitt inherited a granitic quality of character, combining a love of the precise craft of his father, who was a ship's carpenter, with that of the ancestors on his mother's side, who were stonecutters.
Dr. Pettitt was one of the originators of a number of important developments in education and in writing in the field of scientific research. During the early thirties, when reporting on sciences carried no particular distinction, he achieved a seemingly impossible task of obtaining interviews for writing assignments concerning the work of such scientists as Herbert Evans, Karl Friedrich Meyer, and Gilbert Lewis.
Working on the Berkeley campus presented him with an opportunity to witness and to write of the development of experimental nuclear physics in America and to report on some of the scientific achievements of the centrury. In association with Ernest Orlando Lawrence, he described the invention of the cyclotron, a device that made possible the study of the atomic nucleus. He worked with other University of California researchers in their fields and interpreted their contributions to the public at large.
During the early thirties, George Pettitt, as a member of a newly forming group, in association with the scientist and writer Paul DeKruif, helped to initiate an emerging style of creditable writing about science. The group members earned recognition by bringing science and various programs to the public through the media, which were themselves in the process of developing.
Born in Oakland in 1901, a second-generation Californian, he received his B.A. in English in 1925, and while a student, worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and the Oakland Tribune until his return to the Berkeley campus in 1926. By this time he had already put in three and a half years as a ship's carpenter in Oakland. He joined the University's staff, and from that year until 1936, served
In 1933, with Hale Stoner Sparks, he originated the “University Explorer” radio series and wrote 104 half-hour scripts for what remains the longest-lived network radio program in the United States. Meanwhile, George did graduate work in anthropology, receiving his doctorate in 1940 after studying with Kroeber, Lowie, and Gifford. Already a member of Phi Beta Kappa, he was elected to Sigma Xi and to the Fellowship of the American Anthropological Association. He served as lecturer in anthropology for twenty-six years, regularly meeting his ever popular class, Culture Transmission and the Socialization of the Individual, at eight o'clock in the morning before proceeding to his duties in the Administration Building at nine o'clock.
In 1939, he became assistant to President Robert Gordon Sproul, with special responsibilities for official systemwide publications, and for thirty-two years he was to serve the University from Sproul Hall. He became one of the President's closest working aides, which included the writing of speeches. Subsequently, he became the author of an account of President Sproul's term of office with the book Twenty-Eight Years in the Life of a University President, 1966. After President Sproul's retirement in 1958, Dr. Pettitt continued his service to the University as assistant to the vice president--governmental relations and as assistant to the vice president--administration. In June of 1966, he retired from his teaching and administrative duties in the University.
When it was still usual for the University to be well represented on the council of the City of Berkeley, George Pettitt served with excellence as an elected member from 1949 to 1958. He was also serving continuously on the boards of several civic, business, and cultural organizations. A pioneer in educational radio and television broadcasting, he served as vice president of the board of trustees of the Bay Area Educational Television Association from 1952 until 1960, having been one of the founding fathers of TV Channel 9 when the educational station KQED was put on the air. Most recently he was president of the board of trustees of the City of Berkeley Cazadero Musci Camp.
He was a member of the Education Committee, State of California Centennial, 1949-50, and from 1947 to 1958, acted as coordinating officer, All-University Faculty Conference. At various times he was a member of the California State Coordinating Committee on Higher Education, and of the Governor's Educational Television Committee. In another area he was vice president of the American Public Relations Society, and the American College Public Relations Association. A
During World War II George Pettitt served in the United States Naval Air Corps from 1943 to 1946, ending up with the rank of lieutenant commander. He was stationed in the Pacific Northwest and following that in Washington D.C., where he spent much of his time in the Library of Congress doing research for the navy. During his tour of duty in the Northwest he had an opportunity to study his beloved Indians again, which resulted in The Quileute of La Push, published by UC Press in 1950.
He frequently wrote for the newspapers and contributed to the latest edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. In 1946 the UC Press published his Primitive Education in North America. In 1969 he wrote Clayton: Not Quite Shangri-La, Parthenon Press and the Contra Costa County Historical Society. Prisoners of Culture, Charles Scribner's Sons, was published in 1970, and in 1973, Berkeley, The Town and Gown of It, Howell-North Books, a definitive history of Berkeley, became a sellout.
The Six Companies, in 1935, commissioned him to write So Boulder Dam Was Built, which netted him his first laurels as an author and a honeymoon in the director's house at Boulder City.
Orda Allen Plunkett, Botany; Plant Biochemistry: Los Angeles
| 1899-1975 | |
| Professor of Botany, Emeritus |
Orda A. Plunkett was born in Advance, Indiana, where he received his early education. After graduation from Wabash College, Illinois in 1920, he received the master's degree in 1922 and the doctorate in 1924 from the University of Illinois. He taught at Normal University, Normal, Illinois for the year 1924-25, and came to the Southern Branch, University of California in 1925, moving to the Westwood campus in 1929. Orda continued in teaching and research until his retirement in 1965 from UCLA. He was recalled for a one-year post-retirement joint appointment as research botanist in the School of Medicine and in the Department of Botany and Plant Biochemistry.
Orda was a teacher well remembered by many students because of his deep, sincere interest in their welfare and education. He devoted much time to counseling and inspiring students, providing special study opportunities in his laboratory, and was never too busy to counsel, advise, or encourage. Graduate students, especially, will not forget the warm hospitality extended to them by Orda and his late wife, Marie, in their comfortable home.
His instruction in the introductory courses in botany and in the advanced courses in mycology and plant pathology prepared many students for successful careers in several fields related to botany in general and especially to medical mycology.
He was unselfish in his public service. His expertise in the field of medical mycology resulted in great demand for consultations from the Veterans Administration, the Los Angeles County Hospital, and the Los Angeles Public Health Laboratory, as well as the Poison Clinic for diagnosis and confirmation in mycological cases. He was a member of the planning committee for an International Symposium on Therapy of Fungus Infections, Division of Dermatology, School of Medicine, in June 1955. A partial recognition of his attainments in the field of medical mycology was the Silver Medal Award, June 1948, by the American Medical Association for “Excellence of presentation and correlation of facts” in an “exhibit of culture and identification of Fungi as an office procedure.” The culmination of efforts in this field and a fitting
He is survived by his brother, Code, of Walnut Grove, California.
Wilson Marcy Powell, Physics: Berkeley
| 1903-1974 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Professor Wilson Marcy Powell, associated with the University from 1941 and a member of the Department of Physics at Berkeley from 1946, died on March 2, 1974. He was born on July 18, 1903 at Litchfield, Connecticut, the son of Wilson Marcy Powell, a New York lawyer, and Elise Knapp Powell, from whom he apparently inherited his musical talents. He entered Harvard College in 1922 and graduated in 1926. Influenced by his father, he entered Harvard Law School in 1926, but after one year withdrew to start graduate work in physics at Harvard. As an undergraduate he had already participated in two Swarthmore College solar eclipse expeditions. Almost fifty years later in 1972 he went on his last eclipse expedition to the Arctic Circle in Canada.
He received the Ph.D. degree in 1933, with research under Theodore Lyman. He spent the next two years as an assistant teaching at Harvard and Radcliffe. He also worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. From 1935 to 1937 he taught at Connecticut College and from 1937 to 1941 at Kenyon College. In the summer of 1935 he began research work in cosmic rays as a research fellow at the Bartol Laboratory of the Franklin Institute. Money for research, particularly in a small college, was almost unattainable then. He showed remarkable ability in obtaining support from the Fund for Astrophysical Research, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Carnegie Institute. In 1941 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. His interest was in the heavier-than-electron component of cosmic rays, particularly the “mesotron.” In both 1940 and 1941 he took his cloud chamber to Mt. Evans in Colorado to take pictures at 14,125 feet. In 1941 he continued to Berkeley to work with Robert Brode in Le Conte Hall.
After completing his Guggenheim Fellowship in 1942, Powell started work on the Manhattan Project to separate uranium isotopes. He quickly became the head of the “magnet group” which designed magnets, first for the pilot models at Berkeley and then for the racetracks
Powell's 1946 appointment was as associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 1951. He and his associates at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory published about forty substantial papers; he gave several invited papers at meetings and at international conferences, contributed papers at many meetings, and directed the research of thirty-three Ph.D. students. He had a special enthusiasm for finding rare decay modes and those hard-to-find particles that abound in high energy physics. In teaching he was one of the few members of the department with a serious interest in optics, so he often taught the upper division optics courses. While he had substantial concerns with department affairs, his true home was the Lawrence Laboratory, where his ingenuity, his interest in graduate students, and his “just plain fun” in physics made him an invaluable member. Just before his retirement, with Livermore personnel he returned to cloud chambers. His expertise was important in refuting a previously reported discovery of quarks.
Throughout his life he had a deep interest in music. He played a number of instruments, even the bagpipe. He sang very well and for more than fifteen years was the director of the Monks Chorus, which sang every year at the Faculty Club Christmas Dinner. With W. F. Fry, a physics collaborator from the University of Wisconsin, he participated in making stringed instruments. They made detailed measurements on famous instruments, such as Stradivarius and Guarnerius violins. Although their reproductions had problems in the aging process, they marketed a number of good instruments.
In 1930 Powell married Fredrika Richardson. They had three children, Wilson M., Jr., David Richardson, and Fredrika (now Mrs. James Spillman). They were divorced in 1955. In 1956 he married Dorothy J. Gardner, who continues to live in Berkeley, and whose daughter Claire (now Mrs. William Bove) he adopted.
Wilson Powell was a delightful enthusiast whose joy in his work and in living enriched the lives of many students and associates both on the campus and in the Laboratory.
Robertson Pratt, Pharmacognosy and Antibiotics: San Francisco
| 1909-1976 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Robertson Pratt was born in Brooklyn, New York, October 28, 1909. Early in his life Pratt became interested in plant life and pursued this interest as a hobby prior to entering Columbia University. As an undergraduate student, he worked at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, where he accumulated a great deal of information about uncommon plants which he drew upon later to add “spice” to his lectures in pharmacognosy. He was an outstanding quarter-miler and was, at one time, captain of Columbia University's track team.
Pratt received the Bachelor of Arts degree in botany in 1931 and continued at Columbia's graduate school, majoring in plant physiology. His thesis research, under Professor Sam F. Trelease, dealt with cell division in Chlorella vulgaris, a green algae. Professor Trelease was at that time editor of the American Journal of Botany and, in assisting him, “Rob” Pratt learned the ardors and subtleties of editorial work. All of his later writing was marked by a fastidious adherence to the written and unwritten rules of the English language. He received his doctoral degree from Columbia in 1936.
After completion of his studies, Dr. Pratt accepted a position as instructor in pharmacognosy at the University of California's College of Pharmacy in San Francisco. This subject, although related to plant physiology, was new to him and before coming to San Francisco in 1938, he spent as much time as possible at the Columbia College of pharmacy to orient himself in the subject he was to teach at UCSF.
Soon after his arrival in San Francisco he resumed his studies on Chlorella vulgaris; in particular he examined the factors that control its growth. His attempts to isolate a substance from the cultures that slowed their growth succeeded in 1944 with the discovery of chlorellin, an autotoxin that limits the cell density in a culture. Chlorellin, in addition to regulating the life span of chlorella cultures, showed antibacterial properties; thus it was a genuine, although weak, antibiotic.
The insight into the growth conditions of chlorella which Pratt gained in his research turned to unforeseen benefit in efforts to attain large
Professor Pratt's work with penicillium mold led to an ever widening interest in antibiotics. In 1949, together with Professor Jean Dufrenoy, he published one of the first comprehensive books on antibiotics, which appeared in two editions. By now, he had also become a leading authority on pharmacognosy, and together with Professor Heber W. Youngken, Jr., published a textbook on pharmacognosy in 1951, which has also appeared in a second edition.
By this time, antibiotics had become his consuming interest. He searched for them in ocean plants, in soil samples, and even in wine. His comprehensive report about the results of his research on the factors affecting the growth of penicillium mold won for him the Ebert Prize of the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1949, which made him the first faculty member of the College of Pharmacy so honored. His academic title, professor of pharmacognosy and antibiotics, reflected his areas of competence; his was the first such appointment in a pharmacy school.
Dr. Pratt was invited by Dr. Arthur Osol, editor-in-chief of the United States Dispensatory, to serve as associate editor and to revise the monographs on antibiotics for the twenty-fifth edition of the Dispensatory, which was published in 1955. In 1960, Pratt was named co-editor of the Dispensatory, beginning with the supplement to the twenty-fifth edition, and he continued to serve in this capacity through the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh editions. He was at work on the twenty-eighth edition at the time of his death. His monographs were models of precise, scientific writing, encompassing a plethora of correct and fully documented information.
Pratt became interested in slime molds as a hobby and, with his characteristic thoroughness, he gathered a large collection of species and mounted the fruiting bodies in such a way that they presented a microscopic wonderland.
Professor Pratt enjoyed his work enormously, although the rapidly increasing number of antibiotics and the equally rapidly expanding scientific literature about them made the challenge of keeping abreast a formidable task. By virtue of his superb organizational ability, he was able to accomplish this without assistance and at the same time to carry on personal communications with a large number of scientists in the
As a teacher, he was always available to students and often spent long hours discussing their problems and his favorite subjects, medicinal plants and antibiotics. His scholarship, his sound academic traning, and his cautious evaluation of antibiotics set exemplary standards for both teaching and research. During his long career devoted to the education of pharmacists, Rob Pratt represented the best academic traditions, emphasizing fundamentals at the expense of superficial information.
Dr. Pratt belonged to the small, closely knit group of professors who joined the School of Pharmacy (then “College”) after its integration with the University of California in 1934. He was among the faculty nucleus which brought this school to its eminent position among pharmacy schools in the U.S., and he was the last of this group to retire, in 1975. Even after retirement he was asked by Chancellor Francis Sooy to continue serving as chairman of the Employee Grievance Committee, an assignment begun some time earlier. This was a time-consuming task, requiring close attention to detail and extraordinary patience. His fairness in the arbitration process won him the respect of all parties concerned. At one time, he forced the opposing parties to proceed with their arguments past midnight to arrive at a conclusion.
His lifetime habit to throughly and indefatigably pursue whatever project he turned his attention to may very well have contributed to his unexpected, premature fatal illness, which struck him down less than eighteen months after his official retirement. It was not unusual for him to sleep four to five hours at night and to be at his desk between 6 and 7 in the morning. Rob found but little occasion to retreat from this exhaustive pace of life. On a little piece of land not far from his home near Sonoma, he planned to remodel a “habitable shack into a livable structure” and to spend time with soil and plants, his lifelong interests. It was at this retreat that he suffered his fatal attack, to which he succumbed on May 21, 1976. He is survived by his widow and two children by a former marriage, Robin and David, both students at the University of California at Davis.
His friends and those of his colleagues who knew him well lost a man of dynamic drive, of engaging gentility devoid of solemnity, a man imbued with gracious chivalry and of the highest ethical standards.
Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin, Psychiatry: Los Angeles
| 1908-1976 | |
| Professor Emeritus | |
| Associate Director, Neuropsychiatric Institute |
Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin (Gene Mindlin) was born in New York City, July 18, 1908. He received the Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia in 1928 and the Doctor of Medicine from the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 1935.
Following an internship at Manhattan's Metropolitan Hospital, Gene undertook advanced training in both neurology and psychiatry at Metropolitan, Mount Sinai, and Bellevue hospitals, all in New York City, from 1937 to 1941. He was certified as a diplomate in both psychiatry and neurology by the American Board in 1943 and eventually become a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He was also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Well trained in psychoanalysis, first at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute (1938-1941) and subsequently at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute (from which he was graduated in 1951), Gene became a world leader in that field. He was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies at Princeton, New Jersey, and attended their annual conferences from 1961 to 1973. From 1956 onward he held many important offices and committee appointments locally (in the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, where he was a training analyst) and in the American Psychoanalytic Association, which he served in many capacities, including councilor-at-large (1964-68) and secretary (1967-69).
During World War II Gene served as a captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, first in the Fourth Service Command and then in the European theater of operations. Following the war he maintained an active involvement in the medical and psychiatric care of veterans. From 1946 to 1960 he worked in the Los Angeles Veterans Administration Mental Hygiene Clinic, first as clinical director and then, after 1952, as chief. From 1969 until his death he served on the UCLA Dean's Committee for the Brentwood Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles.
After serving five years on the clinical faculty at USC, in 1958 Gene was appointed associate professor of psychiatry at UCLA. From 1958 to 1963 he taught full time on the Westwood campus, working also as director of the outpatient service at the Neuropsychiatric Institute.
In 1963 Gene was persuaded to move to Oklahoma City, where he spent the next six years as professor of psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, and vice-chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He also served as professor of biological psychology in the Graduate School, chief of Adult Psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma Hospitals, and chief of the Mental Hygiene Clinic at the Oklahoma City Veterans Administration Hospital.
In 1969, Gene returned to UCLA as professor of psychiatry, vice-chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, and associate director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute. On July 1, 1976, he assumed emeritus status.
Following his original move to Los Angeles after leaving the army in 1946, Gene engaged in numerous mental health-related local activities committees and advisory bodies. He was president of the board of directors, Westwood Psychiatric Hospital, 1960-62. He also served on the board of directors of the Westland School (1950-54), the Governor's Continuing Committee on Mental Health (1949-51), and the Governor's Advisory Committee on Childhood and Youth (1951-53).
Throughout his professional career Gene made important clinical and theoretical contributions to medical and psychoanalytic literature and was the author of some forty scientific articles. These included many practical papers on patient care, several on the problems of veterans, discussions of psychoanalytic theory in relationship to treatment, and to psychiatric and psychoanalytic education. He authored the section on psychoanalysis for The Encyclopedia of Mental Health (1963). His classical paper on omnipotentiality (“Omnipotentiality, Youth, and Commitment,” 1965) gave a new concept and a new term to psychoanalytic literature. An important book, Psychoanalysis as Science, was edited by Gene in collaboration with the late Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie and published by Stanford University Press in 1952. A second edition was published by Basic Books, New York, 1956.
As a student, friend, and colleague of the late Dr. Paul Schilder, Gene worked with Schilder's widow (Dr. Loretta Bender) in organizing, editing, and eventually publishing two of Schilder's major works (Goals and Desires of Man and Mind, Perception and Thought). Gene also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Although Gene was an accomplished clinician, psychotherapist, author,
Central to Gene's educational approach was the view that issues could best be understood in relation to their historical contexts. This position was strengthened by both a keen sense of history and a remarkable mastery of its facts and theories. Gene's most influential writings reflect this historical interest and orientation. In a number of instances he anticipated major changes in the direction of psychiatry through his ability to assess current knowledge and problems from an historical perspective, and thereby to project new trends.
Despite his many professional accomplishments, it is Gene's warmth, kindness, and deep and genuine care for others that everyone will miss most. He was a person to whom other people were drawn during their most difficult moments in life. In fact, this gifted and sensitive man was so generous with his skills and with himself that an enormous share of his own life was truly given to others: quietly, cheerfully, effectively, and lovingly given away.
Gene died at UCLA Hospital on July 24, 1976 after a lengthy illness. He is survived by his wife, Martha; by four children--Frederic, Eva Bess, Michelle Carla, and Ilya Nicole; by two stepdaughters--Linda Huntington and Fredda Bartolucci; and by four grandchildren--Noah, Milagra, Sky, and Erica.
Ralph Rabinowitz, Medicine: San Francisco
| 1894-1975 | |
| Assistant Clinical Professor |
Ralph Rabinowitz died October 16th, 1975 at eighty-one years. He was the son of Cantor and Mrs. Joseph Rabinowitz.
Dr. Rabinowitz, after graduation from Lowell High School, had his entire later education at the University of California, graduating from the School of Medicine, Berkeley and San Francisco in 1919. He had an internship at UC Hospital, and received his M.D. degree from UC, Berkeley. As resident in medicine, 1919-20, he continued in 1920-21 as Dr. H. C. Moffitt's personal resident. Entering practice, he spent the years 1923-24 in Dr. Moffitt's office.
At about this time his health became progressively bad, but he continued in private practice and as an assistant clinical professor of medicine at UC Medical School (of the Affiliated Colleges on Parnassus Heights, San Francisco), until he was forced to retire in 1936. Since then, because of chronic illness, he was unable to practice. In later years he had a series of additional complicating illnesses and finally expired from a massive stroke.
Older friends still remember him for his early brilliance as a clinician and his devotion to his patients. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Alpha Omega Alpha as well as the Sphinx Society (honorary philosophical) in Berkeley.
He maintained a lively interest in and read extensively and continuously current medical literature in the science and practice of medicine and, in addition, in the history of science and medicine, together with fine literature and music. The tables in his bedroom were stacked four feet high with books and journals. His phonograph and record collection and his radio maintained his contact with the world of music when he could no longer attend public performances. Only in later years did failing health and visual and hearing difficulties interfere with his continued interests.
He is survived by his brother Bert, a San Francisco lawyer, and by a devoted nephew, Dr. Lawrence Rabinowitz, professor of physiology of UC, Davis. To these we send our sincere sympathy.
All those who have known Ralph Rabinowitz are saddened by the effect of chronic and recurrent illness in stultifying his brilliant potential and remember him fondly.
Magnar Ronning, Animal Sciences: Davis
| 1922-1976 | |
| Professor | |
| Associate Dean of Animal Sciences | |
| Nutritionist in the Experiment Station |
The passing of Magnar Ronning, on October 13, 1976, meant the loss of a conscientious and dedicated member of the faculty of the University and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at Davis. “Mag,” as he was fondly known by students, colleagues, and a host of friends, was born in Alen, Norway, and at an early age immigrated with his parents to the United States. His early years were spent on a dryland wheat farm in eastern Montana during the depression.
Upon graduation from high school, in Libby, Montana, Mag enrolled in dairy science at Montana State University. His baccalaureate degree was delayed until 1948 by a four-year stint of military duty, where he was assigned to a special Norwegian-speaking ski patrol which saw service in the European theatre. After earning his master's and doctorate in nutrition at Pennsylvania State University, Mag served seven years on the faculty in dairy science at Oklahoma State University. He then accepted a position in animal science at the University of California at Davis, where he rose through the ranks to professor and served as department chairperson for five years (1968-1973). From 1973 until his death he served with distinction as associate dean for animal science and resident instruction in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Professor Ronning's contributions to the University and to society were as a scientist, a teacher, an administrator, and a humanitarian. Mag was an unselfish investigator and contributed ideas, time, and resources freely in collaborative research efforts. The research findings of this creative and productive scientist are found in over 100 publications throughout leading scientific journals. Both his colleagues and industry have given high praise to his findings on carotene and vitamin A requirements and metabolism in dairy cattle, vitamin-B-complex needs of calves, and feeding management regimes for dairy cattle. In 1969 he was awarded a merit certificate by the American Forage and Grasslands Council for outstanding contributions to research in the
His influence as a scientist was further extended through his teaching and development of many graduate students. His graduates are now found in responsible teaching and research positions in both academia and industry.
He likewise contributed as a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at the University of Cairo and the University of Alexandria in 1963-64 and as an agricultural coordinator at the University of Chile under the California Convenio program in 1967-68. In each of these universities he played a leading role in the development of teaching and research programs in animal nutrition. Each assignment attracted graduate students to Davis to study under Professor Ronning. The Chileans recognized his contribution to animal science through honorary membership in the Veterinarian Medical Society of Chile. He continued as an advisor to the Chile-California Convenio program, returning to Santiago at least once a year, and was scheduled to return to Chile at the time of his final illness.
Teaching was an important part of the life of Magnar Ronning. He initiated and taught highly popular courses in dairy cattle nutrition, energy metabolism, and ruminant nutrition. He was rated an exceptional teacher by his students. Both in the classroom and as dean, he worked with students individually in an effort to foster their dignity and self-esteem. Mag and his wife, Jane, often held discussions in their home, which became a home away from home for both students and their families. This was especially true for many Chilean students and their families adjusting to University life in the United States.
As a citizen of the University, Mag had few equals. He practiced his belief that the university professor has responsibilities to students, colleagues, and the public. He directed his research into publications for his academic colleagues as well as developing valuable information on the nutrition of dairy cattle of public benefit in California, the nation, and developing countries. As a professor and dean he enjoyed taking time to know and understand students, parents, colleagues, and groups interested in the University. He tested each administrative procedure for its potential impact upon people as opposed to its bureaucratic efficiency. These are evidences of Professor Ronning's total commitment to the concept that the university is an integral part of the broader society, and he worked tirelessly to make the institution open and responsive to students and the public at large.
As a humanitarian Mag lived life to its fullest. Everything he undertook was done with vigor, good humor, and quiet patience. He was a family man much dedicated to his wife, Jane, and their children, Karen
Carl Ortwin Sauer, Geography: Berkeley
| 1889-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Carl Sauer's wife, Lorena Schowengerdt, to whom he had been married more than sixty-one years, died on June 19, 1975. Almost exactly one month later, on July 18, his own long and busy life, which began in Warrenton, Missouri on December 24, 1889, came quietly to its end.
Before his appointment at Berkeley in 1923, Sauer had spent seven years at the University of Michigan. He went to Ann Arbor in 1915, just after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and from 1915 to 1922 advanced in rank from instructor to full professor. In Berkeley he took charge of a department that consisted, besides himself, of only two “associates,” instructors without the doctorate. Within a few years, almost entirely by his own efforts, he earned for his small department a high reputation, both in the United States and abroad, for scholarly quality. To an unusual degree the department was his lengthened shadow; he retained the chairmanship until 1954, and until his retirement in 1957 most of its graduate students were attracted to Berkeley by his teaching and example.
A year or two after his arrival in Berkeley, Sauer discovered Baja California as a conveniently accessible area in which little scientific work had been done. Year after year he took students into that peninsula and then into mainland Mexico, pursuing his own inquiries and supervising those of his students. He and they, together with colleagues and students from other departments of the University, investigated a broad range of topics in the natural and cultural history of Mexico and later of the Caribbean lands, aboriginal and colonial populations, and especially the native cultivated plants. Sauer's scholarly curiosity expanded backward in time as well as southward into new territory. In the spring of 1975, accepting the latest of his numerous distinctions, the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, London, he wrote of the “new horizons” he followed “south into Mexico and farther into the Tropics. Time became the fourth dimension of geography: Indian agricultural origins, prehistoric cultures.” He did not shun bold speculation where evidence was scanty; his extrapolations concerning the antiquity of man in the Americas and the existence of an independent
After his retirement, to which he looked forward as promising “a spot of travel to learn and a spot of time for study and writing,” he wrote four books on the historical geography of the Americas: The Early Spanish Main, 1966; Northern Mists, 1968; Sixteenth Century North America: The Land and People as Seen by Europeans, 1969; and Seventeenth-Century North America, still in press at the time of his death. He left the preliminary outline of a work intended to review what the people of the United States have done with their land, and to have the title Recessional at the Bicentennial. The title of that un-written work, with its obvious allusion to Kipling's “Recessional,” reflects the pessimism concerning the future of humanity that grew on him with the years, expressed long before what he called “the present ecology binge.” He saw with dismay the exhaustion of mineral resources to feed an insatiable economy of consumption, and entertained little hope that either technology or political action could check the lemming-like rush of industrial society toward destruction of the very basis of its existence.
Sauer deplored any attempt to apply “universal” principles in the interpretation of cultural--including economic--phenomena, knowing that humanity is composed of diverse groups, each associated with a particular part of the earth's surface, whose cultural differences are apparently permanent. He judged intellectual work by its mastery of facts and the degree to which it is motivated and informed by humanistic values. His conversation and correspondence often adverted to the brevity of life in relation to the number of questions and problems he always saw ahead. The fragment of verse he cited most frequently was Chaucer's rendition of the Hippocratic plaint, “The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.” His own life lasted well beyond the span allotted to man, and he made full use of it by a devotion to humane scholarship encountered too rarely in the academic world.
Samuel Alexis Sher, Nematology: Riverside
| 1923-1976 | |
| Professor |
Samuel Alexis Sher was born in San Francisco, April 24, 1923. He died of cancer on May 22, 1976 in Fontana, California. His untimely death terminated an outstanding academic career at the peak of its productiveness. He is survived by his wife, Judith, a son, Stephen, his parents, Anna and Louis Sher, and a brother and sister.
S. A. Sher, or Skip, as he was known to all his friends, grew up in San Francisco and attended Lowell High School. He attended San Francisco Junior College in 1940-41 majoring in zoology. He entered the University of California, Berkeley in 1941. His studies were interrupted by World War II when at the age of nineteen he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, serving in the Air Force Medical Research Program from 1942 to 1946.
After discharge from service, he returned to UC Berkeley to complete his B.A. degree in zoology. In 1948 he entered graduate school at Berkeley in the Department of Entomology and Parasitology, where he met Dr. Merlin W. Allen, nematologist in the Experiment Station and professor of entomology and nematology. Dr. Allen became Sher's major professor and a strong influence in developing his fascination and continuing interest in nematodes. From 1949 to 1952 he was a research assistant in the Department of Entomology and Parasitology and assisted Dr. Allen with his research on nematode problems of California crops. His thesis research on the genus Pratylenchus resulted in a revision of the genus Pratylenchus which appeared in 1953 in the University of California Publications in Zoology. This work was widely acclaimed as a significant scientific contribution and was used by research nematologists and regulatory officials throughout the United States. This early work of Professor Sher established a level of scientific excellence from which he was not to deviate during the remainder of his most productive career.
He received his Ph.D. in June of 1952 and shortly thereafter joined the staff of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, as assistant nematologist. During his year in Hawaii he worked successfully to solve a serious problem of Vanda orchids caused by the foliar nematode,
He returned to the University of California in December of 1953 and was appointed junior nematologist in the Department of Plant Pathology, UC Riverside. He rose through the ranks to become nematologist and professor of nematology in 1966. In 1954 a statewide Department of Nematology was created in the University of California for which he served as vice-chairman from 1955 to 1960. When the UCR Department of Nematology received independent status he served as its first chairman. He helped found and for many years was co-chairman of the California Nematology Forum, an organization which fostered development of the science in California.
In 1959, under the auspices of the National Science Foundation, Dr. Sher went to Europe, including Hungary, where he was invited to confer with prominent European taxonomists. He received a Fulbright Fellowship for 1963-64 and spent a sabbatical year at the Nematology Laboratory at Cap d'Antibes, France. During this period he worked with many nematology laboratories in Europe, examining nematology collections, consulting with taxonomists and collecting nematodes from type localities. In 1966 he participated in the Pan-Pacific Science meetings in Tokyo and worked briefly in Dr. M. Ichinoe's laboratory.
During his career he completed two assignments for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, one in Thailand in 1968 and another in 1975 in South Korea. In addition to assisting local nematologists in teaching and research, he collected plant parasitic nematodes extensively.
Professor Sher had a thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of biology and was especially impressive in his breadth of understanding of the principles and concepts of systematics. He was one of the few world authorities on the taxonomy and morphology of plant parasitic nematodes in the order Tylenchida. In addition to his earlier work on the Pratylenchinae, he is known for his work on the Hoplolaiminae and Tylenchorhynchinae, which set new standards of detail and excellence in nematode taxonomy. Five years of research on the last subfamily was coming to fruition at the time of his death. During his career he studied nematode problems in Asia, Europe, and Central America and published over seventy scientific papers. He established one of the largest and finest collections of nematodes in the world. He was a charter member of the Society of Nematologists, a member of the European Society of Nematologists and the Organization of Tropical American Nematologists as well as other scientific societies.
Professor Sher also had a contagious enthusiasm for science and the
Professor Sher took an active part in the teaching program of the Department of Nematology, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. In addition to his work with graduate students, he taught an outstanding course on nematode taxonomy and morphology. Numerous U.S. and foreign nematologists came to Riverside to study under Dr. Sher's guidance. Always active in academic affairs on the Riverside campus, he served on the Committee on Budget and Interdepartmental Relations of the Academic Senate from 1970 to 1973. He was also active in the Riverside Local, American Federation of Teachers.
In addition to his passion for nematodes, Skip had a passion for politics and stamps. He was active on the Riverside County Democratic Central Committee from 1968 to 1974, and worked vigorously for citizen participation in better government. He was a concerned citizen who was willing to take a stand on controversial and sometimes unpopular issues. Stamp collecting was one of his major hobbies and he pursued it with the same enthusiasm and intelligence that characterized his other endeavors. In later years he contributed much time and energy to the affairs and work of the American Cancer Society.
Finally, Skip Sher was a warm, gentle, friendly, open-minded human with a keen sense of humor. In his foreshortened career he contributed much to science, to the University of California, and especially to the encouragement and intellectual support of his colleagues. He was always willing to listen to the other side of any question. His advice was often sought. It was always reasoned.
Abe Sherman, Music: Berkeley
| 1922-1972 | |
| Lecturer with Security of Employment |
Abe Sherman, a lecturer in musicianship in the Department of Music since 1953, died February 8, 1973, of cancer of the liver. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, and his three children, Laura, Bruce and Sylvia.
Abe was born October 8, 1922 in New York City, the youngest of three children. At age two his family moved to Los Angeles, where he grew up. Although he began musical studies quite early, he concentrated in mathematics at Los Angeles City College (1940-42) and UCLA (1942-43). From 1943 to 1946 he served as a statistician in the armed forces at Los Alamos, New Mexico. In 1947 he came to Berkeley, where he received his A.B. degree in music that year. During the course of his first year at Berkeley, he began piano instruction and coaching with the late Marjorie Gear Petray.
Abe began his teaching career as a teaching assistant in Music 27 while he attended graduate school here. From 1950 to 1953 he was away from the University, serving as accompanist and composer for the Halprin-Lathrop Dance Company in San Francisco and the Mimi Kagan Dance Company in Berkeley. In 1953 he opened a studio for private teaching in Berkeley and became a part-time associate in the Department of Music. In 1965 he became a full-time lecturer and in 1968 received security of employment. He continued private teaching and his University work up until the time of his death.
Throughout his teaching career in the Music Department, he was constantly alert toward improvements in the ear-training program. He was particularly sympathetic toward those of his students whose background was predominantly in popular music, and, at the keyboard, he was able to relate to their sound and style immediately.
In the summer of 1972 Abe taught without pay in the department's summer program for low-income minority youngsters. It meant a great deal to him to be in contact with a group of young musicians whose cultural background was so diverse from his own, and to know that his capabilities as a teacher were as useful and valid--and successful--in this environment as in the more familiar one of instructing department
Francis Loren Smith, Agronomy: Davis
| 1902-1974 | |
| Professor Emeritus | |
| Agronomist in the Experiment Station |
After thirty-eight years of dedicated service to the University and the agriculture of the state through the Department of Agronomy and Range Science, Francis Loren Smith retired in 1968. A heart attack in 1960 did not diminish his devoted service and dry humor; they even seemed enhanced throughout the final fourteen years that he called his “borrowed time.”
Francis Smith was born in Woodruff, Arizona on June 18, 1902, and died at his home in Davis on September 14, 1974. He is survived by his wife, Florence, and by two sons, three grandchildren, four brothers, and five sisters.
Professor Smith was awarded the B.S. in agronomy by the University of Arizona in 1927, his M.S. in agronomy by Kansas State College in 1929, and his Ph.D. in genetics by the University of California at Berkeley in 1938. He had joined the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California at Berkeley in 1930 as a technical assistant to the late Professor W. W. Mackie and thus was able to continue his studies for the Ph.D. on a part-time basis. In 1934 he was appointed junior agronomist. He was transferred to the Davis campus in 1941, and in 1942 he was named assistant professor and assistant agronomist.
He was early placed in charge of the breeding programs on beams and corn, and from 1950 he concentrated on bean varietal development, genetics, and cultural practices. His work improved the quality and yield of bean varieties, established cultural guidelines for farmers, and contributed to basic knowledge of bean genetics. Three years after his retirement, the National Bean Improvement Cooperative presented him with a special award for meritorious service to the bean industry, noting, among other things, that he had developed all the major varieties of common dry beans now grown in the state and several additional varieties comprising considerable bean acreages in other states. He published over forty technical papers on beans and corn.
Upon his arrival in Davis he was assigned the introductory course in agronomy, which he taught successfully for years. He was highly regarded by his students. He taught the agronomic crops course in the two-year program until it was closed out. His rapport with students was exceptional. For many years, because of his interest in needy students, he served as chairman of the Educational Aid Committee. He was secretary of Phi Kappa Phi honor society for thirteen years, and acted as faculty advisor and member of the board of directors of Theta Xi for twelve years. He was a member of Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Sigma, and Gamma Alpha. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of Sigma Xi, the Genetics Society of America, and the American Society of Agronomy, serving two years as vice-president of the Western Section of the latter organization.
In 1964 Professor Smith spent a month at the Rural University of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where his highly successful intensive course on bean diseases, genetics, breeding, and culture was attended by agronomists from all over that country.
The community of Davis and Yolo County also benefited from Professor Smith's service. For many years he was a member of the campus Faculty Club, the Davis Improvement Association, the local Democratic Club, and the Davis Rotary Club, serving on its board of directors as secretary for five years and as president in 1967-68.
His unusually fine human as well as intellectual qualities help explain Professor Smith's role as husband and father, as teacher and scientist, and as citizen and friend. Beyond these qualities, endearing him to his many associates and friends, was a dry humor that was a joy to all who knew him. Over the years, he wove the trials and tribulations of his early years with poor but God-fearing Mormon parents into a delightful series of homespun tales, which he later assembled in a little volume entitled “Folklore.” He used this same talent on numerous special occasions in University circles to honor a colleague or point out one of life's foibles.
This gentle man will long be remembered by those of us who were privileged to call him colleague and friend.
Leslie Malcolm Smith, Entomology: Davis
| 1903-1976 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Leslie Malcolm Smith, a distinguished professor of entomology, emeritus, of the Davis campus, died in his sleep at Carmel, California on February 10, 1976. His father, Emory D. Smith, migrated from New York to grow olives at Yolo, California. Leslie was born October 4, 1903 at Yolo and later attended Sacramento High School, graduated in 1922 from Oakland Technical High School, and received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
D. Smith's entomological interests were stimulated while attending high school, and he became intensely interested in insect biology, ecology, and control. These early interests are exemplified in his first publications dealing with parasites of tree crickets, the life history and control of bean thrips on pears, the control of the walnut aphid, and the biology and control of the cyclamen mite.
From 1927 to 1942 Dr. Smith was stationed at the Deciduous Fruit Field Station of the University of California at San Jose, where he became widely known for his work on the biology and control of pests of prunes, pears, strawberries, walnuts, grapes, and berries. One of his many publications, “Biology of the Mealy Plum Aphid, Hyalopterus pruni,” Hilgardia 10(7): 167-209, 1936, is a classic in biological studies.
After moving to Davis Dr. Smith's interests shifted and he assumed the responsibility for a biological and ecological study of a quarantined pest, the Oriental Fruit Moth, first discovered in California in 1942. He initiated studies on the control of the devastating infestations of mites on grapes. This work was broadened to include a study of all the forty or more insect pests of grape vines and fruits and resulted in one of his best-known Experiment Station publications, “Grape Pests in California,” Circular 445, published jointly with E. M. Stafford, 1955.
Professor Smith's office was always open to students and staff alike. He had an agile, analytical, and penetrating mind, and his ideas were frequently sought. He was a dedicated teacher, his lectures meticulously prepared, and he presented insects to students in unique and interesting ways. He taught economic entomology for many years with several
Dr. Smith's early interest in systematics was shown in his excellent studies of Protozoa associated with the Jerusalem cricket. This early interest was reactivated in 1958 when he began studies on the systematics of a rather inadequately known group of soil-dwelling insects, the Japygidae. These studies ended with eleven publications on the North American species and six on the South American fauna.
In addition to serving on many committees on the Davis campus, Dr. Smith was secretary-treasurer of the Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America from 1951 to 1957, chairman-elect in 1957, and chairman in 1958. He was one of the first entomologists to recognize the need for establishing professional standards for entomologists. He was a member of many professional and scholastic societies and was active in the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco.
Dr. Smith was captivated with Denmark and made five trips to that country, and with his usual dedication, he learned to speak Danish fluently. At Carmel he took up oil painting and photography.
The family, friends, colleagues, and former students of Leslie will long remember his keen intellect, friendliness, warmth, and willingness to give a helping hand. He is survived by his wife Edna of Carmel; aunts Mrs. Lindsay Morris of Woodland and Mrs. Robert Schmeiser of Fresno; and cousins Kenneth Morris, June Schmeiser, Mrs. Kermit Koontz, Mrs. Carl Smittcamp, Mrs. Kenneth Unden, and Mrs. Stephen Vetrecin.
Patricia Sparrow, Dance: Santa Barbara
| 1927-1975 | |
| Associate Professor |
The death of Patricia Sparrow, associate professor of dance, March 19, 1975 brought a premature end to the creative and productive career of one of UCSB's most gifted artists. Born near Pasadena on June 3, 1927, Patricia attended Santa Barbara High School and received a B.A. degree from UCSB in 1949. After teaching at Coachella High School in Southern California for two years, she went to New York, where in 1954 she earned a B.S. degree from the Juilliard School of Music. Her advanced degrees, M.A. and Ph.D., were awarded by New York University. In 1964 she received a Founder's Day Certificate, honoring her outstanding scholastic record at that institution.
Dr. Sparrow joined the faculty of UCSB in 1962, after having taught at Indiana University (where she also served as resident choreographer for the opera company of the School of Music) and at Montclair State College in New Jersey. Additionally, before her appointment at UCSB, she had performed professionally in concert and had choreographed for off-Broadway productions.
Dance was in the Department of Physical Education when Patricia Sparrow first came to the UCSB campus. It was largely through her efforts that the present dance major program was formulated. When the Division of Dance was moved and attached to the Department of Dramatic Art in 1966, Dr. Sparrow was made director of the division. She served the University in that capacity for several years, building the reputation of the department through her enormous energy and vision as to the direction that dance would be taking on university campuses throughout the country.
Central to her creative accomplishments was the formation of her own company in 1963. Dr. Sparrow made two very successful cross-country tours with that group. She directed and was the sole choreographer for the company until it was dissolved in 1968. Her excellent choreography ranged from impressionistic to dramatic in style and always contained an emphasis on spacial design; her own performance was described typically by the press as being lyrical. She choreographed
One of the most important of Patricia Sparrow's choreographic works was a dance entitled “Chansongs.” It is also the basis for a book that will be published posthumously, concerning the analysis of a choreographic work from conception to performance. The book reviews her previous research on opposition as a factor in basic human movement and on the nature and function of choreographic devices as related to the principle of opposition; it goes on to apply her theories to the choreographic process as it related to “Chansongs.”
The University Dance Group was also under the direction of Dr. Patricia Sparrow for many years. Her guidance of student choreographers as well as the choreography she designed for student performers was greatly appreciated by those who worked under her capable direction.
In addition to her teaching and creative work, Dr. Sparrow served on numerous University committees throughout her tenure at UCSB. She was active on the Arts and Lectures Subcommittee, was on the Faculty Club board of directors, served on the Committee for Effective Teaching, and was a member and later chairman of the Executive Committee of the College of Letters and Science. Her service work extended past University boundaries, as she was active in Zonta International and worked for that organization in the area of public affairs and on its committee that concerned itself with the status of women. Her position as dance chariman of the Santa Barbara Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters also demanded her time and energy, of which she gave freely.
Colleagues, students, and friends of Patricia Sparrow will always remember her devotion and dedication to her profession. Her courage and unfailing spirit during the years of her illness revealed extraordinary strength of character and evoked the admiration of all who lived and worked with her during that time.
Patricia Sparrow is survived by her mother, Mrs. Elaine Sparrow, a sister, Mrs. Kathryn Ann Mackey, and a brother, William Sparrow.
Robert Gordon Sproul: Systemwide
| 1891-1975 | |
| President Emeritus, University of California |
The death of Robert Gordon Sproul, president emeritus, on September 10, 1975, removed a unique and commanding figure in the extraordinary rise, during his administration, of the University of California to a position of great eminence among the leading universities of the world. His life was dedicated not only to the University but to the people of California and the nation, and was almost without parallel for its length and effectiveness. Because of the wide range of his interests and the impact of his personality, he exemplified to many what a university president should be.
In July, 1930, Robert G. Sproul assumed office as the eleventh president of the University, in succession to the astronomer, William Wallace Campbell. The appointment, in view of Sproul's purely administrative rather than academic background was unprecedented. However unusual the appointment may have appeared to his contemporaries of nearly fifty years ago, the Regents possessed knowledge of his capacity and abilities from their observation of more than a dozen years in which he acted as their agent in dealing with the problems that the University encountered during World War I and the postwar depression. His precision with figures, phenomenal memory, attention to detail, personal qualities, and educational philosophy made him an impressive candidate under the circumstances, and a most felicitous choice in retrospect.
Following graduation from the School of Engineering at Berkeley, Sproul served the City of Oakland as an efficiency engineer for a short period, returning to the University at first in the capacity of cashier, and finally as secretary of the Regents and vice-president of finance and business affairs. Although the Regents had some notion of his merits from his handling of the problems thrust on the University by the federal government during the war years, it was not until the war was over that they saw the flowering of his talents. The postwar recession, which deepened into the Great Depression, was critical for the University because of the failure to stabilize the University's budgetary support at a time when it was facing the increasing pressure of
The dissatisfaction of the farmers with the University's programs in research, education, and problems affecting their industry was expressed with the introduction of a bill into the legislature to separate the College of Agriculture from the University and to establish it as an independent college. Sproul not only persuaded the legislature to drop the bill, but gained acceptance of his proposal for the establishment of a commission to study and make recommendations for the improvement of agriculture through education and research. The effects of this new approach to the problems of higher education were to prove profound. It prevented not only a disastrous schism in agricultural education, but established a fruitful new mechanism through which the University was able to respond with flexibility to the needs of the state and of higher education. The new approach to the University's problems was based fundamentally upon Sproul's abiding faith in the reasonableness of men when brought together under intimate conditions to discuss alternatives.
These two aspects of his early career are illustrative of the considerations which led the Regents to make an unusual choice in nominating a president. The qualities which led to his success on these occasions provide us with some insight into the rest of his career and serve to give coherency to the mass of detailed decisions which inevitably constitute the daily routine of a president.
The administrative technique developed by Sproul assured the continuance of the University as a Land Grant institution, and served again and again to prevent local and limited interests from overiding the general welfare by political action that sought to split the University. A report of the Commission on Agricultural Education was followed by a succession of reports of the greatest significance to the future of the University, such as those on the “Advancement of Teaching,” 1932; the “State Council for Educational Planning and Coordination,” 1933; the “Liaison Committee of the Regents and State Board of Education,” 1945; the “Needs of California in Higher Education,” 1955; the “Additional Centers Study,” 1957; the “Coordinating Council on Higher Education,” and many others.
In July of 1930, as president-elect, Sproul made an extraordinary address to the Commonwealth Club of California which was his first statement of purpose.
The glory of a university is obviously the men who constitute its
― 220 ―faculty. It cannot be too often repeated that it is men, and nothing but men, who make education. The reason why the University of California occupies the high position it does throughout the academic world is that there has never been a time when its faculty could not boast of men who were finding their way along rough trails, illuminated only by the spark of genius, to the heights of scholarship. Within a few years after the receipt of its charter from the state there were to be found in the University a goodly number of men whose reputation is even yet undimmed, such men as Daniel Coit Gilman, later president of Johns Hopkins University, Hilgard in agriculture, LeConte in geology, and many others. Nor is the present faculty devoid of men who, in their respective fields, hold high the lamp of learning--Campbell in astronomy, Kofoid in zoology, and G. N. Lewis in chemistry, to pick out a few of the most obvious. In a very real sense, such men are the University of California, and similarly elsewhere, for material development is futile without brains to use and to direct it and personality to irradiate it. Students are getting a gold brick if they go for education to a school where there are no great teachers.
Finally, he commented upon the problem of student numbers produced by the increasing affluence of society and parental ambitions which “has almost overwhelmed the undergraduate departments of American universities” in the postwar era and threatened university standards everywhere.
Sproul was unwilling to discuss problems without offering the possibilities of a solution. He did not think university problems hopeless, but that we had to begin by recognizing the heterogeneity of the student body. “We need,” he said, “not lower standards of admission to the universities, but higher and better ones... and the development of new kinds of institutions with curricula designed for those whose talents do not lie along the line of a university career, but who are interested in further education.” Thus began his extraordinary continuous, effort, extending over the life of his presidency, to bring order into the confused array of colleges and universities, both private and public, which maintained what he called “a conglomerate condition” in higher education. Here were the principles which, following his presidency, presaged and saw their eventual form in the Donahoe Act of 1960, integrating all higher education in California.
It is not necessary to trace in any detail the evolution of Sproul's ideas. It suffices to recognize how continuity of effort during the entire length of his administration could eventually bring his academic and educational concepts to fruition. Indeed, Sproul's persuasive personality and persistence enabled him to hold the support of the State of California, the Regents of the University, and the Academic Senate for
For Sproul's fundamental precepts on higher education we may turn to his inaugural address of October 22, 1930. In this address Sproul made a thoughtful and eloquent plea for the maintenance of the unity of the University of California, a unity which he achieved, despite powerful divisive forces, both within and without the Board of Regents, by demonstrating not to the state but to the nation that it resulted in a higher standard of performance and achievement than was possible under the demoralizing competition of local provincial institutions. However, in seeking unity, he was not blind or indifferent toward the need for other state-supported institutions. The approach to the university should be open to all who could profit from its offerings. In his own words, the system “should provide a number of highways of varying grades leading to many useful careers and open... to all whose talents and desires make it seem probable that they may come thereby to a happy and successful life.” Time has shown that for Sproul unity did not mean rigidity, but flexibility in the regional development of the University, since under his administration the growth of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Davis was either initiated or fostered to create a single galaxy.
The second of Sproul's precepts briefly commented upon in his inaugural address relates to the age-old question of how best to provide an inspiring experience for the student and yet foster the creative genius of the faculty. He returned to this question over and over again, especially in connection with his responsibility for the recruitment and evaluation of men and women of talent. He recognized that teaching and research were inseparable and stated that “the teacher must keep abreast of his subject and the investigator must transmit what he has learned. Research is merely a search for knowledge, and no man belongs on a university faculty who is not engaged in that search.” Nevertheless, as a practical man he recognized equally that some were primarily investigators, others inspiring teachers, and some extraordinary men were both. In academic affairs he was sensitive to the faculty opinion, to which the Davis Conferences, which he initiated, fully testify. His solution to the dilemma was, on the one hand, to encourage the faculty to think more in terms of the University and to foster educational experiment and innovation, and on the other, to develop research opportunities, notably in the development of research institutes, whose activities he hoped would cross departmental barriers and support to a greater extent programmatic research. He anticipated that young faculty would be attracted to the University through greater research opportunities and that students would profit. “If research is the great adventure we believe it to be we cannot introduce good students to its inspiring difficulties too soon. The interest aroused by such an early introduction
The student, his welfare as well as the intellectual fare offered him, engaged much of his attention. He insisted on meeting every new student personally and took every opportunity of making himself accessible not only in his office but on the campus, in the street, at the barber shop, and everywhere. “It gave one a sense of real importance to meet the President on the campus of 13,000 students and be called by the first name,” said Wakefield Taylor in his memorial address. The impact of his personality, the influence of his memory for people, and his genuine concern for students had a miraculous effect, and graduates of forty or more years ago still feel his presence and inspiration.
The fourth element and exceedingly important aspect of the Sproul administration, which has received little comment, was his recognition that the University budget and other sources of funding constituted his most powerful weapon for the implementation of policy. He often pointed out that the savings from the prudent, judicious, and efficient use of the budget made innovation and the rapid development of the University possible. Consequently, the cross-examination of his administrative officers at budget hearings was detailed and searching, in order to reveal the thoroughness with which the requests had been examined in terms of their policy implications. Their rigor was arduous to some, but they made possible the great new adventures of the faculty, the construction of Lawrence's cyclotron, the Virus Laboratory, the initiation of new ventures such as pilot programs, and the acquisition of outstanding faculty. He defended the University's practice before the legislative committees with equal vigor and with uncommon success.
Sproul received no less than twenty-one honorary degrees from institutions across the world. He was a member of numerous international boards and commissions, and was decorated by six foreign governments. He was senior advisor on the Allied Commission on Reparations and a member of the Committee for the Marshall Plan. The Rockefeller Foundation honored his international commitments by funding Berkeley's International House. But how did his presidential colleagues judge him? President Conant of Harvard and Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia said of him that Bob Sproul was the university president of their time. The Academic Senate testified to their feeling for him with the words:
You have abundantly earned our confidence. You have demonstrated over the years your appreciation of the high standards of both discovery and teaching upon which the greatness of a university must be built. You have devoted yourself with zeal and success to maintaining the unity, the dignity, the distinction of the University of California. We deeply appreciate the fact that your leadership has been effected by patient, persuasive wisdom rather
― 223 ―than by recourse to the formal authority of your office. You have been receptive to constructive criticism. You have treated us as colleagues and have shared the sense of obligation to our common task which has become the genius of the institution. Such a combination of virtues, essential to the distinction of a university, is too rarely found in a university president.
Stat magni nominis umbra--there stood the shadow of an illustrious name.
Beside him stood a loyal staff and above all a confidant of rarest quality, his wife Ida.
Walter F. Starkie, Spanish and Portuguese: Los Angeles
| 1894-1976 | |
| Professor-In-Residence |
Walter Starkie came to UCLA in the fall of 1961 as visiting professor of Spanish literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. His welcome was campuswide, and demands on his time as lecturer over an appealing range of topics established him almost immediately as a University Professor-in-Residence, assigned to the departments of English, folklore-mythology, Italian, music, Spanish-Portuguese, and theater until his retirement in 1970.
The multidepartmental appointment proved to be a fitting challenge for a man with the academic experience, the contacts, the cultural interests, the publications, the instant recall, and the prodigious memory of Walter Starkie. Walter Starkie's teaching experience had expanded rapidly since his initial years as a professor in Spanish and Italian languages and literatures from 1921 to 1928 at Dublin University, from which he graduated in 1920. In 1928 he was appointed visiting professor at the University of Madrid, an appointment that was to culminate years later in a professorship of comparative literature at the same institution from 1947 to 1956. In 1930, on the occasion of his second lecture tour in the United States--he had barely completed his first tour of 1929--he was invited to teach at the University of Chicago as visiting professor in romance languages. It was after his third American tour in 1956 that he was called to similar posts at Texas (1957), New York University (1958), Kansas (1959) and Colorado (1960). By the fall of 1961 Walter Starkie was eager and ready to renew contacts with the University of California, where as far back as 1930 he had come to know the eminent Hispanists S. Griswold Morley and Rudolph Schevill.
Walter Starkie's long courtship with Spain first surfaced during his apprenticeship as a teacher of Spanish and Italian languages and literatures at Dublin University when, as a music and drama critic, he sent article after article to the leading Irish and English journals and reviews of the day. His main thrust was on the theater, the literature, and the music of Spain, but he also wrote extensively on similar cultural topics and events of Ireland, Italy, and Great Britain. Many of
Walter Starkie's enduring ties with Spain took firm root during the years 1940-54, when he was named representative of the British Council to Spain, served as director of the British Institute in Madrid, was appointed Britain's cultural attaché, founded branches of the British Institute in Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia, and Seville, taught comparative literature at the University of Madrid, and lectured in almost every other university in Spain. In 1950 he extended his lecturing to Spanish America and, in 1954, to Portugal. By 1956, when his tour of duty as Britain's spokesman in Spain came to a close, his many colleagues and admirers were quick to acclaim Walter Starkie as the most dynamic and most productive ambassador of good will--“Starkie, sin más, cordialmente, ya que él es la flor y nata (cream) de la cordialidad”--ever to have served the Spanish and English peoples of the Western world. Walter Starkie was never to dissolve those deeply rooted bonds with Spain. When he left for America he kept his home in Madrid so he could return often and at will during the intervening years. And when he retired from UCLA in 1970, he looked forward with grateful nostalgia to those final years in Madrid. And in Madrid he died on 2 November 1976. His body rests in the family tomb in Dublin.
Walter Starkie was the recipient of many decorations: among others,
Walter Starkie is survived by his inseparable and ever solicitous Augusta, by a daughter, Alma Herrero, also of Madrid, and by a son Landy, of Hollywood.
Ernest Seymour Starkman, Mechanical Engineering: Berkeley
| 1919-1976 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Professor Emeritus Ernest S. Starkman died at his home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in January 1976 at the age of fifty-six. A member of the Berkeley faculty in mechanical engineering from 1950 to 1971, he was since 1971 vice-president for environmental activities of the General Motors Corporation. Thus there ended a career of dynamic and productive activity, distinguished by teaching and research in the area of thermodynamics and combustion, by substantial contributions to the University in administration and on Academic Senate committees, and by wide professional and public service contributions, particularly in the area of air pollution.
Professor Starkman was a 1942 graduate in mechanical engineering on the Berkeley campus, from which he received the master's degree in 1945. He married Marjory Ulbricht in 1940, and he is survived by her and their four children.
On returning to the campus as a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1950, he continued research on internal combustion engines which he had initiated at the Shell Development Company. He expanded this research and altered its focus to an emphasis on the products of combustion and the impact of these products on the general problem of air quality. International recognition followed from his sixty publications in this area of research; for these contributions he was honored by the Society of Automotive Engineers by the Horning Award in 1959 and by the Colwell Award in 1968.
Professor Starkman's energy and productivity was demonstrated as well in a wide range of services to the University, to the college, and to the department. For the University, he was a member of the Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools from 1957 to 1962, serving as chairman in the last year. Later, he served on the University Welfare Committee and on the Committee on Budget and Interdepartmental Relations, and was a member of the Academic Assembly from 1966 to 1968. His contributions to the college and department were equally significant, and as chairman, he led the Thermal Systems Division of the mechanical engineering department from 1964 to 1969.
Professor Starkman's professional activities in combustion and motor-vehicle air pollution were centered in the Combustion Institute and in the Society of Automotive Engineers, and in service, contributing both in research and administration, to the State of California. At the time of his death he was president-elect of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Air Resources Board of the State of California and served as its chairman in 1968. Retiring from that service in 1969, he organized a University effort on air pollution in 1970 as Project Clean Air and, when he left the University in 1971 he was assistant vice president for University work in the air pollution area.
In his association with the General Motors Corporation, Professor Starkman continued to exert a major influence in the area of air pollution and safety requirements and legislation, often as a congressional witness, defining the practicable limits of amelioration in terms of technological and economic feasibility. He also continued his interest in the University, serving on the College of Engineering Advisory Board.
With these manifold activities Professor Starkman was, throughout his career, a loyal and considerate individual, with a warm and personal interest in his students, faculty colleagues, and associates, and he demonstrated a particular concern for the development of the junior staff and for the recognition of the work of the nonacademic staff. These social concerns extended outside the University community as well, and while a resident of Orinda, he was a leader of group efforts in Sleepy Hollow. Thus, there is a particularly broad community, of family, University staff, and professional colleagues, who remember fondly Professor Starkman's warm personality and recognize as well his diverse and substantial talents and accomplishments.
Perry Robert Stout, Soils and Plant Nutrition: Berkeley and Davis
| 1909-1975 | |
| Professor | |
| Chemist in the Experiment Station |
Perry Robert Stout was born on the evening of February 9, 1909, almost literally in the shadow of the Mariposa Sequoiadendron. Indicative perhaps of the pioneering spirit that he subsequently showed in his research, Perry was born in a barn--the first birth in a newly opened agricultural tract, which was later to become the community of Hughson, southeast of Modesto in the Central Valley of California. His father, a farmland developer, and his mother had recently moved to the new Hughson tract, and in keeping with the tradition of the times had built a barn as the first structure on the Stout property. The barn was serving as home, pending construction of a more permanent dwelling.
In addition to his early opportunities to observe firsthand the evolution of agricultural practices in the Central Valley, Perry and his brothers had more direct and personal experiences. Their father, evidently as imaginative as his sons, had provided several acres that they were permitted to manage themselves, retaining the profits (if any) of this operation for their personal use. From discussions with Perry concerning this period, one gathered that the financial profits were not spectacular, but that the experience was a treasure of surprises both pleasant and unpleasant.
In this pioneer community, children were educated in small schools--most of them of the one-room variety, wherein much of the teaching responsibility frequently devolved to the older students. Discipline was rigid during class hours and almost nonexistent during periods of recess, when the complicated and almost feudalistic subculture of the preteen school child dominated, with all of its sometimes cruel ritual. The community was an expanding melting pot of varied cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and one which encouraged individualism, but at the same time provided a broader input of cultural possibilities than that encountered in an older, more stable, community. This varied environment and the customary, adventuresome nature of youth when coupled with a vivid imagination resulted in more than
An avid scholar, Professor Stout received his A.B. degree from the University of California in physics in 1930. Upon graduation he joined the staff of the UC Agricultural Experiment Station. He earned his Ph.D. degree in soil science in 1939 at the same institution. During this early period at the University of California, in what was then the Division of Plant Nutrition, Professor Stout worked with the late D. R. Hoagland and the talented group of workers who developed routine water culture techniques for growing plants, thus paving the way for a series of developments leading to the better understanding of processes of plant nutrition.
His early publications are strongly dominated by analytical chemical procedures. These include the development of the cobaltinitrite method for determining potassium and the exploration of a new family of methods for determining ions in exceedingly low concentration by extraction as organic complexes. The awakening of interests in what are now called “micronutrients” made necessary chemical methods of a different scale of sensitivity than had been available. This led him to the exploration of the polarographic method for determining zinc, mercury, nickel, and a number of other ions.
Two of his publications dealing with the polarographic method appeared in a Czechoslovakian journal. These papers were submitted to an American journal for publication but rejected on the arguments of the reviewers that the method was based upon no known physical principle and therefore probably an artifact of the laboratory. The papers were accepted by the Czechoslovakian journal, and the polarograph is now a common and powerful laboratory tool.
Also during this period, the significance of hydrogen ion as it related to biological processes was gaining increasing recognition. Methods for hydrogen ion determination were complex, laborious, and frequently inaccurate. The glass electrode had been discovered, although the design and construction of such electrodes was still somewhat empirical. Perry Stout recognized the possibility of the vacuum tube amplifier for such measurements and saw that the principal limitation in applying electronic devices for the purpose was the high internal resistance of the glass electrode and the comparatively low input resistance of available amplifying circuits. By improving the quality of the electrode and by selecting a number “30” vacuum tube of particularly good characteristics, he found that it was possible to devise an electronic circuit that would do the job. Several of these were the first used in the Division of Plant Nutrition and other departments on the Berkeley campus, and at one time Professor Stout considered the possibility of their industrial construction. The flair Professor Stout had for instrumentation also appears in refinements he brought to the techniques of x-ray diffraction and x-ray fluorescence analysis. In some
The development of the cyclotron made possible the use of radioactive tracers in the study of plant nutrition, and Professor Stout was a pioneer in this exciting field. His classical experiment demonstrating upward movement of potassium in the woody tissue of willow was among the first plant physiological uses of radioisotopes. He refined the electroscope for the determination of radioactivity, obtaining sensitivities far beyond the commercially available electroscopes of the day. An interesting sidelight of this activity was the stable of selected spiders that he maintained to provide him with the fine filaments of various diameters for reticle cross hairs.
As the state of the art progressed and the electroscope became obsolete for the determination of radioactivity, the Geiger tube counter came into general use. Professor Stout played a very important role in perfecting and refining this technique. For measuring the soft radiation of some nuclides, such as carbon-14, it was necessary to use windows that were exceedingly thin and yet of sufficient strength to withstand the pressures that resulted when tubes were evacuated and filled with helium gas. Sheet mica was used for the purpose and split to thin dimensions by means of tungston needles sharpened by immersion in molten sodium nitrate. Although Professor Stout did not originate this technique, he refined it to remarkable perfection.
In 1941, as the United States became increasingly involved in the events of the Second World War, he obtained leave of absence from the University of California, joining the National Bureau of Standards at Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the development of radar application to missile guidance. This included direct participation, first in concept development, then field testing, and finally, application in the Pacific theater as a civilian technician.
He returned to his agricultural research pursuits at the University of California in 1946 and, with radioactive tracer materials becoming more readily available, further stimulated the micronutrient research program, at this time also initiating the application of stable tracers to agricultural research and developing the mass spectrometry capability that this required. In 1950 he attained the rank of full professor and four years later was appointed director of the M. Theodore Kearney Foundation for fundamental research in soil science on the Berkeley campus. In 1959 he was named chairman of the combined Department of Soils and Plant Nutrition Berkeley-Davis and moved to Davis in 1960.
During this period, while providing intellectual leadership for the soils and plant nutrition group as well as a decade of administrative leadership, his interests, his research, and his lecturing carried him to
Of his many achievements, perhaps the demonstration of molybdenum as an essential element for plants and extrapolation of this observation to field application was the most spectacular. Because molybdenum is required in such exceedingly small quantities, it was considered unlikely that field manifestations of molybdenum deficiency would be encountered. It later developed that extensive regions of Australia were molybdenum deficient, and response to the addition of molybdenum at the rate of two ounces per acre converted what was previously desert area into highly productive legume pastureland. Subsequently, areas of molybdenum deficiency have been found in California and elsewhere. Professor Stout calculated that the photosynthetic energy captured as a result of the enhanced yields resulting in some instances from small applications of molybdenum exceeded the energy obtainable by fission from an equivalent quantity of uranium.
Perry Stout gave imaginative attention to many of the current problems of each decade his professional activity touched. During the post-World War II period, when large agricultural surpluses and the threat of nuclear war dominated public thinking, he introduced the idea of a national food cache, storing agricultural products for future use should a nuclear holocaust drastically lessen agricultural production capability. Although the idea was never implemented, it was a logical and imaginative one in the context of the times.
With the threat of food, energy, and water shortages in countries of rapidly expanding population, he introduced the concept of a combined agricultural-industrial complex, utilizing nuclear energy for the fixation of nitrogen, the desalting of water, and the direct generation of electricity. Because of diurnal and annual fluctuations in demand for water and electricity, the concept was to use nitrogen fixation and water purification alternately and as needed during periods of low demand for electrical energy. Such a complex is now under construction, and development in India is being actively considered for other locations.
Most recently he had given attention to combining the problems of organic waste management and energy needs. The conversion of organic wastes to gaseous or liquid fuels and its direct conversion to electricity are being examined in a number of quarters. Besides having made a detailed study of the quantities and distribution of various organic wastes, Professor Stout had done extensive calculations on the possibility of the local conversion of organic wastes to electrical energy and the direct coupling of small generating installations at the site to existing electrical distribution networks.
A continuing interest in the fundamental physical constants prompted Perry Stout to examine some of the anomalous results obtained for the
Perry loved the Central Valley and knew it well. A trip through the valley with him was an educational experience, not only with regard to the procedures and practices of agriculture, the characteristics of soils, and the geology of the area, but also a rich source of background and cultural information. His grandmother once had a dream that he was killed in an automobile accident on the Grapevine Road to Tejon Pass. She admonished him not to travel this route, yet it was the only convenient route across the Tehachapi range. When he traveled this road, he expressed a mild feeling of guilt for failing to abide by her instructions.
A disciplined and driving scholar, he was also a warm and gregarious family man. In 1929 he married Mabel Goldstein, who became his constant mentor and companion, frequently accompanying him at scientific meetings and in his world travels. Her charm and her alert concern with both the science and the culture of the countries they visited added much to the success of their visits. She and their two sons and two daughters survive him.
Louis Avrom Strait, Physics; Pharmaceutical Chemistry: San Francisco
| 1907-1975 | |
| Professor of Biophysics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Emeritus |
Louis A. Strait, faculty member of the San Francisco campus since 1937, died of a coronary at the age of sixty-seven on March 23, 1975. He had retired from the University on June 30, 1971.
Louis Strait was the youngest of a large family living in Denver, Colorado, and since his parents were not affluent, in his early years he helped operate the family grocery store and worked at odd jobs on the side. By virtue of his industry and abundant energy, he was able to support himself through the University of Colorado, where he distinguished himself as a scholar and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Professor James W. Broxon persuaded him to continue at that university for advanced work and research in cosmic ray physics. Concluding this work with the master's degree, Strait moved on to the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, commencing an association with the University which was to continue for more than forty years. There his interest focused on spectroscopy in the laboratory of F. A. Jenkins, under whose direction he earned the Ph.D. degree in 1937, submitting a thesis on the hyperfine splitting due to the nuclear spin of iodine in its emission spectrum.
While still a Ph.D. candidate, he was recommended by Harvey E. White of the Berkeley physics department as a physicist to meet the needs of Robert B. Aird of the San Francisco neurology department for a collaborator on a project concerning the chemical identification of substances involved in convulsions and their relationship to the blood-brain barrier permeability. This contact proved to be a milestone in Strait's career, for upon attainment of the Ph.D. degree, he accepted a joint invitation of the deans of medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry to set up a spectrographic laboratory for the solution of biological problems related to the health professions. Thus he became “biophysicist” in fact when that term had little currency. In 1947 the laboratory was placed in the School of Pharmacy for administrative purposes while still performing its all-campus function. He remained director of this laboratory until his retirement.
With his appearance on the San Francisco campus Strait accepted an appointment as instructor in physics in the School of Pharmacy; later, joint titles in the Schools of Dentistry and Medicine were added. He attained the professorship in 1952.
At first he taught elementary physics to professionally oriented pharmacy and physical therapy students. In these areas he earnestly sought to relate his subject matter to the needs of the students, from which arose his interest in the physics of anatomical mechanics; he and Professor Verne T. Inman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery developed some original analyses of human musculature and its action. In later years his area of teaching responsibility shifted to the application of spectroscopy for graduate students in pharmaceutical chemistry. Despite the interests of his audience in applied aspects of physics, Louis Strait let no student escape without an intense exposure to a development of each application from the basics, nor did he spare his own efforts in this. He was well respected by students and was often called upon to help them with their own research problems, at which he was most generous with his time.
Although primarily involved in the application of spectroscopy to biological and other medical problems, including medical diagnoses, he also maintained ties with more conventional spectroscopists, and he was instrumental in the founding of the Northern California Society for Spectroscopy. In recognition of his contributions, this society in 1975 established an annual award named the Louis A. Strait Award, of which he was the first recipient. A silver medallion bearing his profile is a part of the award. During World War II he acted as a consultant in spectroscopy for the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and he was a leader in a group that developed a lamp and an effective filter for long-distance signaling by ultraviolet radiation.
He had an abiding belief in the principles of faculty self-government, in which he was an active participant. A zealot in the faculty's self-protection against arbitrary administration action, he also recognized the responsibilities of faculty members and was the first to lecture them in the halls or from the floor of any forum if he deemed it necessary. It is doubtful if any faculty member has been more highly respected by both faculty and administration. He had been chosen by the faculty for committee and other assignments, consuming countless man-years of effort, both locally and statewide, and upon his retirement, the Academic Senate, San Francisco Division, passed a rare resolution extolling his many contributions.
The University officially applauded his virtues by conferring the honorary LL.D. degree in 1972, reserving special mention in the citation for his activities in behalf of faculty self-governance.
The above comments are concentrated on those activities related to Louis Strait's academic career, and they are thus defective in omitting
Jonathan Dean Swift, Mathematics: Los Angeles
| 1918-1975 | |
| Professor |
J. Dean Swift was born on November 12, 1918 in Portland, Oregon. He went to school in Seattle and in Berkeley, from 1925 to 1938, and did his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley. He started his graduate work at the California Institute of Technology in 1939. His studies were interrupted by service in World War II (1941-1945), where he advanced from 2nd lieutenant to captain in the ordnance department of the U.S. Army and company commander of the Ledo-Burma Road (1943-1945). He returned to Cal Tech in 1945 and completed his Ph.D. thesis in number theory under the direction of E. T. Bell in 1947.
He joined the UCLA Department of Mathematics in 1947 and played an active part in both the scholarly and the administrative life of the University during his twenty-eight years at UCLA.
Dean Swift's mathematical research was primarily in the areas of number theory and combinatorics with special emphasis on Diophantine equations, Steiner triples, and their generalizations and finite projective planes. His career coincided and strongly interacted with the development of electronic computers. He used them skilfully to perform the algorithms and search techniques needed to characterize, for example, all projective planes of orders 8 and those of order 9 which have certain algebraic structures. Even high-speed computing has so far not been able to penetrate projective planes of higher orders.
Much of his research and administrative service was done for more than a decade as consultant to the National Security Agency and the Institute for Defense Analysis.
In collaboration with L. J. Paige he wrote a widely used textbook in linear algebra.
It is impossible to recount here all the distinguished administrative services that he performed for the University, the American Mathematical Society, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and others. The list of his chairmanships alone include the faculty of the College of Letters and Sciences, the Academic Senate Committees on Undergraduate Scholarships and Prizes, University Welfare, and
Dean Swift was a scholar in the classical sense of the term, with a range and depth of knowledge almost never seen in our age of academic specialization. He had a passion for knowledge of every kind--not diffuse general information, but an eagerness to know and understand every detail. He taught himself classical Greek and read many of the Greek mathematical texts in their oldest preserved versions. He wrote a meticulously researched account of the work--and what little is known of the life--of Diophantus of Alexandria. Every conversation with him was a great intellectual pleasure. In those rare cases when he did not have the precise facts on a question at his disposal or when someone disputed his facts, he would usually have the appropriate reference in his office. When even this did not work, you were likely to find a carefully researched analysis in your mailbox a day or two later. The University has lost a fountain of erudition and intellectual stimulation with his untimely death.
As long as he could, Dean refused to make concessions to the rapidly advancing malignancy. He completed teaching his classes in the spring term despite increasing pain and discomfort. He continued his active intellectual life and even planned on teaching until the last two weeks when the disease finally overwhelmed him.
Dean Swift was married twice. His first marriage to Rosemary Ann Moore ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife Hildegarde and two brothers, George and Mark.
Bruce Allan Tindall, Physical Education: Berkeley
| 1943-1976 | |
| Assistant Professor |
Allan Tindall was born on January 26, 1943 in San Jose, California, and died at the age of thirty-three on July 7, 1976, a victim of cancer. After service in the army and attendance at Foothill Junior College, he transfered to Brigham Young University, where he played varsity football. Prompted by realization that his aims in pursuing physical education called for other employment of his energy and talents, Allan decided not to continue at Brigham Young and returned to California to complete requirements for the A.B. degree in physical education at San Jose State University. In 1968, Allan enrolled for graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, eventually completing requirements for the M.A. degree in physical education and the Ph.D. degree in anthropology and education, in the School of Education. During this period Allan became increasingly engaged in ethnographic study of sports, games, and play. He developed the methodology and conceptual framework for such study while holding appointment as a predoctoral fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health, 1969-72. He received appointment first as a research associate and then as an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He returned to Berkeley in 1974 as an assistant professor of physical education.
Allan brought a multidisciplinary approach to bear in research, beginning with his doctoral dissertation, “The Psycho-Cultural Orientation of Anglo and Ute Boys in an Integrated High School” (1973). In his field research, he utilized psychological projective tests, participant observation, interviews, and life histories to acquire knowledge about cultural differences in ways students respond to participation in sports. The research interests embodied in his dissertation led to the founding, in 1973, of the Society for the Anthropological Study of Play. Allan was elected president of the society for the two-year term, 1975-77. Publications reflecting his major interest in research consist of the book he co-edited with David F. Lancy, The Anthropological Study of Play, Problems and Prospects, and include such articles as the following: “Ethnography and the Hidden Curricula of Sport,” “The Cultural
Allan served as an officer of the Committee on Cognitive and Linguistic Studies of the Council on Anthropology and Education (1974-75) and participated in the Project in Ethnography in Education (directed by Frederick Gearing) at S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo. Among his contributions to this project was joint editorship with David F. Lancy of the monograph on Improving Observational Skills for Better Understanding. He produced for the Conference on Studies in Teaching of the National Institute of Education (1974) a report on Teaching as a Linguistic Process in Education. His application of ethnographic methods to educational research brought in turn frequent requests for consultation. In 1974-75, he served as a consultant to eleven projects, the majority concerned with bicultural and bilingual education.
Allan accomplished much in the few years of his professional life. He earned widespread recognition for innovative contributions to our understanding of the cultural significance of sports, games, and play. He participated vigorously in furthering interdisciplinary work requisite to solving problems presented by multicultural education. Characteristically, he sought to gain an understanding of social process by searching out and analyzing the meanings attached by peoples to their own experiences and ways of behaving. He aimed to have knowledge gained be utilized to enhance the quality of peoples' lives by mitigating limitations placed by society upon realizable fulfillments of human potentiality.
With those who knew him personally, Allan is remembered above all for the exceptional individual he was in traits combined. A strong, confident, and proud man, he remained in his relations with others an open, gentle, and affectionate person. A loving husband and father, he is survived by his wife Gail, his daughter Karin, and his son Brian.
Herbert Eugene Vandervoort, Ambulatory and Community Medicine; Psychiatry: San Francisco
| 1926-1976 | |
| Associate Professor |
Professor Vandervoort was born June 13, 1926 in Alameda, California and died July 15, 1976 in San Francisco, California following an acute illness. Herb Vandervoort is mourned by his colleagues, generations of students, and his many patients and friends in all walks of life. He possessed a delightful sense of humor and was a warm, compassionate individual. His mild, pleasant manner was backed by an inquiring mind and a wide-ranging, flexible, and analytic approach to problems. Lack of pretense was the hallmark of Herb's personal and intellectual life.
Professor Vandervoort attended the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Texas, Austin as an undergraduate, and received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1949. Following an internship, Dr. Vandervoort served as a U.S. Navy medical officer from 1950 to 1952. He then completed his psychiatric training at Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute and become a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry in 1955. Prior to joining the University of California faculty in 1959, Dr. Vandervoort had served as the chief of the Psychiatric Service at the San Francisco Veteran's Hospital, and as psychiatric consultant to the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
Professor Vandervoort joined the University faculty in October, 1959 and after several years as a member of the Department of Psychiatry, joined the Division of Ambulatory and Community Medicine when it was organized in 1966. During his career, he made many important contributions to the University and his profession. Professor Vandervoort was an educational innovator, continually searching for improved methods of teaching behavioral science to students of the health professions. After reviewing all teaching of behavioral science in the UCSF School of Medicine, Dr. Vandervoort developed several new courses, including one in human sexuality. Teaching this course made him acutely aware that all health professionals needed instruction in this area of human behavior. Accordingly, he set about developing
As a practicing clinician, Dr. Vandervoort was particularly interested in psychosomatic medicine. It was clear to him that physicians who cared for patients on a continuing basis needed to have the knowledge and skill to manage uncomplicated emotional problems as part of their care of the total patient. This led him to explore the requisite behavioral science content for pre and postdoctoral training programs in family medicine. Professor Vandervoort published a key article in The Journal of Medicine Education which defined the concept of the family approach to health care. He was recognized as an original contributor to the development of modern clinical training programs in family medicine. He held several offices in the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and was called on by the Society many times for consultative advice on educational matters.
In addition to his professional career, Professor Vandervoort was an accomplished nature photographer and wood-carver and enjoyed hiking and skiing. He was a devoted husband and father and, in spite of his many professional responsibilities, made certain that much of his life was shared with his family. Herb Vandervoort was a kind, friendly person, whom students and colleagues found very approachable and always willing to help with personal or professional problems. He will be fondly remembered by all who had the good fortune to know him.
Professor Vandervoort is survived by his wife, Ruth, and four children, Cathy, Peggy, Paul, and Peter, to whom our faculty express their condolences.
Lawrence E. Vredevoe, Education: Los Angeles
| 1904-1975 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Lawrence E. Vredevoe joined the faculty of the UCLA School of Education in 1953, and, after eighteen years of distinguished service, retired in 1971.
Professor Vredevoe was born on May 6, 1904, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He graduated from Hope College in Holland, Michigan in 1929. He received the Master of Arts degree in political science in 1933 from the University of Michigan and the Ph.D. degree in education from the same institution in 1942.
After several years in public school teaching and administration in Ohio and Michigan, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1948 as associate professor of education and director of the Bureau of School Services. His outstanding contribution in this assignment attracted nationwide attention. In 1953 he accepted a professorship in education at UCLA.
His teaching and research interests were related primarily to secondary education. In addition to the excellent outlines of secondary education he published for students, he contributed numerous articles to professional journals concerning various aspects of secondary education. As a result of his interest in problems related to high school discipline, he was invited to develop a series of fifteen programs on school discipline for NBC.
Professor Vredevoe participated actively in numerous professional associations. He was a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science; an active member of the National Association of Secondary School Principals; and a contributor to the meeting of the American Educational Research Association. For many years he delighted his colleagues in the School of Education with the light touch of his appeal for the faculty to join the California Education Association.
In addition to his teaching and research, Professor Vredevoe was in demand as a public speaker. His more than 500 speeches were delivered to luncheon clubs, conventions of business people, graduating
More than most faculty members, Professor Vredevoe understood that the University needed to have the endorsement of a wide and various public. He accepted speaking assignments before groups because he considered them opportunities to develop understanding for University activities. Unfailingly charismatic in delivery, he demonstrated in his speeches the concerns of the University for the public welfare. As a result of his efforts, the value of the University to society is more widely appreciated.
Professor Vredevoe was devoted to his family. His wife, Verna (Brower), is a talented homemaker, a gracious hostess, and was a source of strength during their life together. Their son, Lawrence Jr., earned a Ph.D. degree in physics at UCLA and subsequently a M.D. degree. He plans to do medical research utilizing his background in physics. Their daughter, Donna, earned a Ph.D. degree in microbiology and is on the staff at UCLA.
Kathleen Mary Williams, English: Riverside
| 1919-1974 | |
| Professor |
Kathleen Mary Williams died unexpectedly in Riverside, California, on December 4, 1974. She was born in Wales on June 11, 1919, the only child of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Williams. Her father was railway controller at Newport, Wales, a position he held until his retirement. Her mother died when she was barely two years old, so that she was brought up by her aunt, the late Mrs. Stella Richards, who was a schoolteacher at Gwehelog, Wales. Her childhood was spent for the most part in the Welsh border country. Professor Williams attended Monmouth High School for Girls, where she easily distinguished herself academically. At graduation she won leaving and state scholarships, enabling her to continue her education at the university level. Professor Williams matriculated in English at Somerville College, Oxford, from which she was graduated with First Class Honors, B.A. in 1941; her M.A. from Oxford was conferred in 1945. She received the D.Litt. from the University of Wales in 1964.
During World War II Miss Williams entered the civil service, where her analytic powers and writing skill quickly advanced her to the position of administrative assistant and secretary to Mr. Gwilym Lloyd George in the Ministry of Food. It was during this period of physical rigors and extremely hazardous living that she developed the acute sinusitis that later was to prove so painful. After the war she entered university teaching by joining the faculty of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, where in due course she became senior lecturer in English. In 1958 her first book Jonathan Swift and the Age of Compromise appeared and was immediately hailed by both American and British critics as a significant contribution to the study of a great and complex figure and writer. One eminent scholar called it the best book on Swift's thought in the past twenty-five years.
The year after the book's appearance she was awarded the Bissing Research Fellowship for 1959-60 by Johns Hopkins University, where she continued her studies of Swift and Edmund Spenser. There she was invited to teach an advanced graduate course in Restoration literature and to deliver the Tudor and Stuart Club lecture on Edmund Spenser.
In 1964 she came to California, joining the Riverside faculty. She remained for two years before accepting a full professorship at Rice University. A year later a fitting position was offered her by UCR which she accepted. From her return in 1967 until her death in 1974 she more than met her commitments to the University and herself. This is all the more impressive in view of her having lost her father, who was killed in the automobile accident they sustained on their return to Riverside from Houston.
In 1966 her second book, Spenser's World of Glass: The Faerie Queene, appeared, once again, to resounding praise and received the Explicator award for the best book of literary criticism of the year. Of her treatment of that vast and multifaceted epic poem, one critic was led to observe: “so naturally does this book reflect the texture of the poem that it appears to have forgotten all about iconography and other learned disciplines, and to be reading the poem like an infinitely clear piece of music.” And one of the most formidably learned Renaissance scholars in America declared it to be the best book on Spenser in a decade of lively and prolific study of that great poet.
Even during the trying times following her personal loss, she continued to perform herculean feats under all the traditional categories of the University. She taught undergraduate and graduate courses in two distinct historical periods--the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries--and directed dissertations simultaneously in both areas, a feat that was as remarkable as it was vital to the welfare of the department. And in both fields she earned the admiration of her students for the lucid, informed lectures she presented and for her enthusiasm for the subject and the text before her. Though a scholar of impeccable credentials, she never forgot that learning underlay the academic enterprise. Nor did her students. As one remarked accurately and simply, she was “from the point of view of a student, a supremely good teacher.” She rarely went to bed much before two o'clock and most of her evenings were given over exclusively to rereading the texts and scholarship to be discussed the next day. To be unprepared for a class was for her not so much a sin or a crime (though on occasion she would use such terms) as an unthinkable act. The result for her students was not only a thorough knowledge of the subject matter articulately and eloquently presented but also a real enthusiasm for learning, thinking, and writing.
Professor Williams also made sterling contributions to the University in the area of service, both intramurally and extramurally. She served long and well on the departmental Graduate Committee; her intimate familiarity with two major fields of literary study and her acquaintance with the practices and expectations of major institutions made her counsel invaluable. She also served as chairman of the Riverside Graduate Council, where she tried desperately to encourage the development of adequate educational standards for students and faculty alike as well as the formulation of a viable policy governing the institution of new programs. At the time of her death she was a member of the personnel section of the Riverside Budget Committee. As a result of her stature in the profession she was also much in demand to serve on University-wide ad hoc committees. Nationally, she was also frequently tapped for service to the profession. She was on the editorial boards of PMLA and of Studies in English Literature and was a manuscript consultant to a number of presses in this country and abroad. She served too the National Endowment for the Humanities as an advisor on its annual fellowship program. In the summer of 1975 she was scheduled to conduct an N.E.H. seminar on “Literature and Iconography” at the University of Southern California, where she had been Visiting Florence C. Scott Professor in addition to her UCR duties. And at the time of her death she was a member of the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association of America.
Despite these many demands on her time she continued her scholarly activity with unabated energy. In addition to her two major works, she also wrote a number of articles and reviews on eighteenth century and Renaissance subjects as well as editing several important and useful critical collections in the same areas. These activities were supported in 1973-74 by a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She was much in demand as a public lecturer at other universities, and her private papers testify to the delight and profit others found in her talks and conversations at other institutions. Needless to say, such a gifted teacher and scholar was also the ceaseless recipient of overtures and invitations to join other faculties. Among those anxious to have both her professional services and the pleasure of her as a friend and colleague were such far-flung and diverse institutions as Washington, Illinois, Duke, Southern California, Northwestern, Oxford, Yale, and Johns Hopkins. Until just before her death she had courteously and, sometimes, with misgivings declined their invitations. That Riverside was destined to lose her the undersigned recognized with profound regret, for she made teaching and learning and the
James French Wilson, Animal Husbandry: Davis
| 1892-1975 | |
| Professor of Animal Science, Emeritus |
The sheep and wool industry recently lost one of its pioneers, James (Jim) F. Wilson. During his thirty-eight years of professional career at the University of California at Davis, the industry counted heavily on Jim's advice, his research findings, and on his legacy of well-trained students.
James French Wilson was born on August 14, 1892 in Stewartsville, Indiana, the son of John Benson Wilson, M.D. and Nellie French Wilson. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Wyoming in 1913, his M.A. degree from the University of Missouri in 1916, and an honorary LL.D. degree from the University of Wyoming in 1944. After receiving his B.A. degree he was appointed superintendent of the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Dry Farm, a position he left to enter the graduate school at the University of Missouri. Upon completing his M.S. training, he joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. in 1916 and continued in this position, interrupted by a stint as 2nd lieutenant, U.S. Army during World War I, until 1919. In that year he married Margaret Arnold, who, with three of four children, John, Mary W. McCollum, and Elizabeth W. Knott, survives him. His son, attorney Robert A. Wilson, preceded him in death in 1951. In 1919 he was appointed assistant professor of animal husbandry, University of California, Davis. In 1957, he became professor emeritus, Department of Animal Husbandry.
In addition to his professional duties, Professor Wilson served on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Sheep and Wool Research Advisory Committee and the Board of Collaborators of the Western Sheep Breeding Laboratory at Dubois, Idaho in the 1950s and was for many years involved in the California State Fair Wool Show. He was an advisor to the Western Regional Research Laboratory at Albany, California in the establishment of the Wool Research Program. He held memberships in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Genetics Association, and the American Society of Animal Science.
Throughout his tenure at the University of California, Davis, Professor
During his early tenure at Davis he taught courses in feeds and feeding, applied animal genetics, and sheep production. Later, his teaching was confined to courses on wool technology at the upper division and graduate level. He also lectured extensively on wool technology and production at sheep producers' meetings. He was a firm believer in thorough preparation of his lectures and was highly regarded for the quality of his teachings.
His research was devoted to studies of factors influencing the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of wool. he developed a macroscopic procedure for identifying medullated wool fibers designed to be used by sheep producers in wool improvement programs. He showed that adverse nutritional regimes markedly reduced the quality and the quantity of wool produced. He made numerous contributions on methods of evaluating wool, studied the characteristics of wool of several sheep breeds, and showed that the quality of wool varied markedly at various body locations. He studied the influence of nutritional status and on twinning on body characteristics of Hampshire and Merino ewes. With Dr. P. W. Gregory, he studied improving wool and body characteristics of sheep through crossbreeding and selection. He was also responsible for introducing strains of Merinos with superior wool characteristics for sheep breeders in California.
Professor Wilson developed procedures for scouring and drying the wool, and because of the problem of obtaining jute for the manufacture of wool sacks during World War II, he developed a mechanism for baling of wool either with wire or cardboard.
Professor Wilson played an important role in the classroom and in the field in developing an awareness of the importance of wool quality for the varied uses of wool in manufacturing.
Together with W. P. Wing of the California Woolgrowers Association and Professor R. F. Miller, Professor Wilson was instrumental in the affairs of the California Sheep and Wool Industry, including developing exhibits for the World's Fair on Treasure Island in 1939,
Professor Wilson was respected internationally for his knowledge of sheep and wool. One of Jim's remarkable characteristics was his genuine common sense. This, coupled with his wide knowledge and native wit, enabled him to command the attention of most any group to which he spoke. He will be missed by all who knew him.
Charles Douglas Woodhouse, Geological Sciences: Santa Barbara
| 1888-1975 | |
| Professor of Geology, Emeritus |
When Charles Douglas Woodhouse passed away after a brief illness on August 5, 1975, the sharp loss was not only felt by his family but by the entire Department of Geological Sciences. Although he had retired twenty years earlier, there were very few students who were not aware of his interest in them and in the well-being of the department. Even though he was eighty-seven years old, he visited the department one or two times each week, bringing mineral specimens and stories of mines and miners. Everyone was left with a warm joy for having visited, if only briefly, with him.
Doug Woodhouse began teaching geology and mineralogy informally at Santa Barbara State College in 1938, serving as lecturer without salary. The following year he joined the staff of the department of science on a formal basis. Prior to coming to Santa Barbara, Woodhouse had been mine manager of the Champion Sillimanite, Inc., at their mine in the White Mountains of Mono County, California.
Professor Woodhouse was born on May 1, 1888 in Burlington, Vermont, into a family of bankers. He graduated from Williams College in 1910 with a B.A. degree and from Columbia Law School in 1915 with an LL.B. degree. During World War I he served with the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army. He resumed his law education with an M.A. degree in jurisprudence from the University of California, Berkeley in 1925. By this time, however, his interests in geology, minerals, and mining developed to the point where he decided to make a major change in his professional life. He spent 1925-26 studying mineralogy at the University of Paris. While in Paris he married Muriel Jeffery, his lifelong companion and support.
When he returned to California, he managed the mining operation in the White Mountains, where Champion Sillimanite, Inc. was obtaining andalusite, the raw material for the spark-plug ceramic. During these ten years he maintained close but informal relationships with the geology department at UC, Berkeley and Stanford University. He also spent part of his time visiting nearly every operating mine in the western United States, amassing a large collection of minerals and ores.
After moving to Santa Barbara and joining the staff at Santa Barbara State College, he served the campus and community continuously until his death. In 1948, when a second geologist joined the staff, the enthusiasm in geology was very great--entirely due to the vigor of Doug Woodhouse. From 1942 to 1952 he served in various additional capacities, such as assistant dean and dean of men, and coordinator of veterans affairs for the Santa Barbara campus. Even with these duties, Doug Woodhouse taught full schedule in geology and mineralogy. The major in geology was authorized in 1950, but its installation was postponed to 1954, coincident with the move to the Goleta seashore campus.
Doug Woodhouse gave his time to the Santa Barbara community as well. During World War II he taught meterology at the U.S. Marine base, now the UCSB campus, and was on the advisory board for the Santa Barbara Red Cross. Almost from the time he arrived in Santa Barbara, he supported the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and had served as trustee for decades.
The special honor to a mineralogist of having his contributions recognized by having a new mineral named after him was bestowed on Woodhouse in 1937. Woodhouseite, an aluminum sulfate-phosphate, was found with other unusual aluminum minerals during the mineral operation in the White Mountains. This material, described by Dwight Lemon, then a graduate student at Stanford University, is only one example of minerals and locality information that Doug Woodhouse shared with other mineralogists, especially those just getting started in the profession. Of these findings, he kept only the satisfaction of helping someone solve a mineralogic problem.
Following his retirement in 1955, Doug Woodhouse remained intensely interested in geologic education at UCSB. He endowed a fund in 1958, the income from which constitutes an award given each year to the graduating senior of highest excellence. Moreover, he has donated his entire collection of more than 10,000 specimens of minerals and ore samples to the Department of Geological Sciences, to enhance teaching and research in mineralogy. These are the tangible legacies left to the department and campus, but to those who knew him there will remain memories of a generous man, teaching students, who lived life in the hills and the natural world of minerals.
William Wilson Wurster, Architecture; Environmental Design: Berkeley
| 1895-1973 | |
| Professor of Architecture, Emeritus | |
| Dean of the College of Environmental Design, Emeritus |
William Wilson Wurster was born in Stockton in 1895 and studied architecture under John Galen Howard at Berkeley. He graduated with honors from the University of California in 1919, clearly influenced both by the classical traditions known to his mentors and by the indigenous building which he saw responding to the particular materials, technology, climate, and terrain of California.
After apprenticeship in San Francisco and New York and a year abroad, Bill Wurster returned to the Bay region, where within five years he established a national reputation for the simple, direct design, fitting the local environment, which would distinguished his work for the following forty-five years.
In the middle 1920s Wurster, through his work, publications, and prizes, emerged as a hero to a large group of young men looking for a direction and inspiration and constructive answers to the problems that they saw emerging from their criticisms of the stylish, commonplace, and slavishly eclectic work being produced in that era. Wurster gave these students sustenance and hope for future development.
In 1939 Wurster met a vivacious, liberal, New Dealing, public housing advocate named Catherine Bauer, who inevitably became Mrs. Wurster.
Professor Wurster came late to the academic world. At forty-eight with an international (and strong local) influence on architectural thought and with vast war-housing projects completed, he left California for a year's study at Harvard--and the subsequent appointment as dean of architecture and planning at M.I.T.
The Wurster house in Cambridge became a center of debate and discussion of postwar development concerning architectural, environmental, and social issues. Students and faculty felt equally at home there. Aalto, Gropius, Albers, and other leaders of the international style were frequent guests. The Wursters' daughter, Sadie, was born there in 1945.
The architectural firm of Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons was established in San Francisco to give professional continuity through these years of a continent's separation. Summers back in the Bay Area were crowded with activity. In the East, Bill was to serve on the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and in 1949 was asked by President Truman to chair the commission.
In 1950 Wurster came back to Berkeley as dean of what was then the College of Architecture and began negotiations with the Departments of Landscape Architecture and City and Regional Planning to join him in the establishment, in 1959, of the College of Environmental Design.
Bill achieved a long-held hope when the Wursters acquired the house on Greenwood Terrace, designed by John Galen Howard for Bill's friends, the Gregorys. As in Cambridge, the Wurster home was a natural annex to the college, with constant meetings of classes and students, faculty groups, and visitors.
The late 1950s and 1960s were immensely busy years. Serving as dean of the new college, helping to secure the financing and construction of the new college building (now named by The Regents after Catherine and William Wurster), helping to establish the traffic-free campus plan, he was at the same time engaged in a very large practice. While a series of distinguished residences continued to flow from his office, commissions such as the new consulate in Hong Kong now competed for attention. There were banks and offices for the Bank of America, a major role in their World Headquarters design, and in projects such as the Golden Gateway. Bill served as chairman of important national competition juries--the Jefferson Memorial arch in St. Louis and the Boston City Hall owe something to his discernment, as do many a foreign embassy whose architects he helped to choose.
Bill was known and honored throughout the architectural world as a key figure in this century's patently irreversible architectural revolution. The fresh outlook that William Wurster forcibly pointed out was that buildings are for people and should satisfy human needs. But these were beyond mere primitive functions. His designs considered the dignity of approach, entrance, exit, light, air, sunshine, shelter, and outlook, of total development of the site.
Because his buildings were simple forms, sympathetic to indigenous structures using ordinary materials in a straightforward way, his approach to living has had far-reaching influence, greater than that of more structured or exotic expressions.
William Wurster was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Denmark; a member of the Akademie der Kunste of Germany; and a corresponding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. At Berkeley, his alma mater conferred on
In 1963 it was clear that Bill was seriously ill. An operation arrested the effects for a year. Catherine's tragic death in 1964 and Bill's progressive impairment, especially after 1966, reduced his activities to those of his office, where there were years of unparalleled achievement. Despite his handicaps, he continued to participate, as alert of mind as ever, but often unable to communicate, or later, to move unaided. His courage in the face of these awesome handicaps could only be a source of inspiration to those who knew him in better years. Those were the years of his deceptively simple houses, his widely acclaimed Schuckl Office Building, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behaviorial Sciences, and the Ghirardelli Square, all glowing testimonials that human considerations expressed in a simple idiom are basic architectural principles that William Wurster had the genius to synthesize into works of great art.
Louis Jenrette Zeldis, Pathology: Los Angeles
| 1912-1976 | |
| Professor | |
| Assistant Dean, School of Medicine | |
| Vice Chairman, Pathology |
We are pleased to be asked to record some of our recollections of this great man. Any number of our associates would do likewise from their own personal knowledge of him, from having had one or many experiences with his wisdom, kindness, devotion to service, his wit, his smile--all this and much more. We wish there were space for this here, though we know the memory of him will be perpetuated in other ways. In the following brief account, we shall try not to exaggerate. He would not like exaggeration, especially about himself.
Louis Jenrette Zeldis was born in Philadelphia, February 21, 1912. He was in the third grade when he realized for the first time one could recognize a person across the street--he had been given his first pair of eyeglasses! After high school he drove delivery trucks, worked as a longshoreman, rowed on the Syracuse crew, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. A postsophomore student fellowship in pathology in the medical school at Rochester induced an interest in pathology; but he had gone to medical school to become a surgeon, so he took an internship, in medicine, after graduating first in his class. His professor of medicine, William McCann, years later stated to one of us that he was the best intern he had ever had.
George Whipple, his professor of pathology and dean, offered him an instructorship following his internship, and with pleasant memories in mind of work in research and pathology as a student fellow in Dr. Whipple's department, he accepted for a year. A further rapid acceleration occurred in the next year when he was persuaded to go to Atlanta as an assistant professor in Emory University School of Medicine. Then came the first blow: the army was a more powerful persuader, taking priority over the academic appointment. After two years of army service, followed by a year and a half at Emory, came the second blow, a small but persistent focus of pulmonary tuberculosis. He tolerated three and one-half years of medical and surgical care before cure was achieved, following which he accepted appointment in the Department of Pathology, UCLA School of Medicine in 1952.
In the new department the selection of teaching materials, the teaching itself, the planning and execution of research, the care of patients through pathologic diagnosis, and the promotion of departmental, school, and University welfare through service on numerous committees and much individual counseling: all consumed his long waking hours. He gave fully to this massive array seeking excellence whether time permitted or not. He remained devoted to the department, although he might have accepted chairmanships elsewhere. He served as vice-chairman of the department, 1968-76, and assistant dean of the medical school, 1970-76.
In 1960-61, while on sabbatical leave, he made possible a meaningful study of the late effects of radiation upon atomic bomb survivors in Japan. He did this by describing the required protocol for procurement of autopsy permission on members of the exposed and carefully matched control members of the population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and then by negotiating the acceptance of this procedure with nine disparate community agencies. He was made an honorary councillor of the Japan Pathology Society and later in the United States became chairman of the advisory committee on the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission of the National Research Council--National Academy of Sciences.
His research included early studies on blood plasma proteins and lipids, observations on cancer in A-bomb survivors, the effects of bodily injury upon liver protein and RNA synthesis, and many other contributions. He became an authority in diagnostic pathology of the female reproductive system and scarcely less so of surgical pathology in general.
But back to the man: we have known none more generous of his time in the aid of others, more objective in his appraisal of one's problem when asked, nor wiser in counseling. He maintained this effort for all of us despite the steady shrinkage of his cardiac reserve and energy. We hold him to be one of the finest human beings we have known. And this, in our estimation, is not exaggeration. Finally, we who know recognize that he could not have accomplished so much in the face of recurring odds against him, were it not for the constant help of his wife, Elda, and the efforts and devotion of his four sons, Louis Jr., Peter, William, and John. We are all saddened by his death on May 17, 1976.
Courtesy of University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info
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Title: 1977, University of California: In Memoriam
By: University of California (System) Academic Senate, Author
Date: May 1977
Contributing Institution: University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info
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