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In Memoriam 1943
Louise Christine Struve Crowder, Home Economics: Davis
| 1899-1943 | |
| Assistant Professor | |
| Adviser to Women |
Louise Christine Struve Crowder was born in Watsonville, California, May 12, 1899, daughter of Henry Struve, a well-known farmer and agricultural leader. She received the B.A. degree from Mills College in 1921 and the M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1927. She entered the field of teaching in 1921 and served as teacher of home economics in Pasadena, Mountain View, and Watsonville high schools. She spent two years on the staff of Oregon State College, 1927-1929, and the next three years at Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu. She recalled with pleasure her years in Honolulu, where she often returned to visit.
After two years at Centerville High School, she went to Humboldt State College as Director of Home Economics, then to Salinas Union High School for a year, and in 1938 to the University of California, College of Agriculture at Davis, as Assistant Professor of Home Economics and Chairman of the Department. There she remained until her untimely death on March 30, 1943.
Her service to the students on the Davis campus was generous and efficient. In 1941 she became Adviser to Women and made this post unusually effective in the development of the growing social life of the campus. More women students were registered at Davis during this period than ever before and the problems which arose were handled by Mrs. Crowder with understanding and firmness.
Although the campus was occupied by the Army early in 1943, Mrs. Crowder remained in Davis until her death a few months later.
On October 2, 1941, Louise Christine Struve was married to Paul W. Crowder
Her unending generosity and loyalty to students and friends were her most outstanding characteristics. Foreigner and native daughter, boy and girl, rich and poor, each student had equal claim on her time and often enough her material aid. She brought to the Department of Home Economics at Davis a truly human practical philosophy.
Rowland Hill Harvey, History: Los Angeles
| 1889-1943 | |
| Associate Professor |
Rowland Hill Harvey, for nearly twenty years a member of the history department and the faculty of the Los Angeles campus of the University, passed away on March 10, 1943, after an illness of several months. He was not quite fifty-four years of age, having been born March 24, 1889, at Battle Creek, Iowa. He was the son of Frank and Jessie Anderson (Preston) Harvey. Of his immediate family, two members survive him: his widow, the former Claire M. Edwards, of Whittier, California, whom he married on July 28, 1914, and a daughter, Elizabeth Claire, formerly a student at the University of California, Los Angeles, and later at Stanford University.
Harvey attended the public schools of his native state. Some time after coming West in 1912, he enrolled at the University of Southern California, where he received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in 1918 and 1920. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree in history at Stanford University in 1923, and in the following year he held a position as instructor in history at the University of Iowa. In 1924 he joined the staff of the University of California, Los Angeles, as instructor in history, was promoted to assistant professor in 1925, and five years later to associate professor, the rank he held at the time of his death.
Foreshadowing his lifelong interest in the American workingman, he became in his early twenties a social worker in the shadow of Hull House, Chicago. This was in 1910-1912. Having moved to the West Coast at the end of this period, for the next three years he continued his social work in Los Angeles. Meantime, he had demonstrated his ability as a public speaker by filling successfully a series of engagements
Harvey was a born teacher. He thoroughly enjoyed associating with students and lecturing to them. Small groups always gathered about him after his lectures and followed him down the halls and into his office. The many students who came under his instruction testified to the stimulation they derived from his lectures, which were as orthodox in subject matter as they were unorthodox in presentation. He was an unusually well-read man; but as a reader he was discriminating, not omnivorous. Harvey's spontaneity as a speaker, his unconventional way of approaching his subject, his rare command of picturesque and cogent language, and his great fund of historical illustrations and anecdotes further explain the peculiar hold that he had upon his students. He gave himself so wholeheartedly to his classes that he was little known on the campus, except to his students. To him, that was enough.
Harvey's one other interest was historical investigation. He possessed qualities that made him a successful writer. His Samuel Gompers--Champion of the Toiling Masses was brought out by the Stanford University Press in 1935. It is a sound work, based on thoroughgoing research, and is accepted as the definitive biography of the pioneer labor leader. The style is vivid and popular and well-adapted to the general reader. At the time of his death Harvey was in the midst of an extensive program of writing. He had recently completed and prepared for publication a biography of Robert Owen, the preparation of which had taken him to England during his sabbatical leave in 1928. His manuscript on the Federation of Western Miners was so near completion that his family plans to publish it in book form in the near future. He contributed articles and reviews to historical journals, and he read papers before meetings of historical associations.
In the course of nearly two decades of service to the University he
Earle Raymond Hedrick, Mathematics: Los Angeles and Systemwide
| 1876-1943 | |
| Vice-President | |
| Provost | |
| Professor |
The University of California lost a man of brilliant intellect, singular courage, and exceptional clear-sightedness with the death on February 3, 1943, of Earle Raymond Hedrick. As Professor of Mathematics from 1925 to 1937 and as Vice-President and Provost from 1937 to 1942, he exercised a vigorous and progressive influence on the development of the Los Angeles campus of the University. Through varied University-wide services, he attained and held a place of high esteem on all campuses. His unexpected passing is mourned by colleagues, students, alumni, and friends of the University everywhere.
Dr. Hedrick was born in Union City, Indiana, in 1876. His early education was obtained in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, public schools and his undergraduate work was done at the University of Michigan. He received the Master of Arts degree at Harvard University and was there awarded a Parker Fellowship for European study. The Ph.D. degree was granted him by Göttingen University in February, 1901, after which he spent several months in further study at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 1901-1903 he was an instructor in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, and this was followed by twenty-one years as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri. When he retired on June 30, 1942, he held the positions of Vice-President and Provost of the University.
Dr. Hedrick was recognized throughout the scientific world as an outstanding scholar and investigator in the field of mathematics. His early work on partial differential equations and his later works
As a member of the University of California faculty, Dr. Hedrick exhibited qualities of leadership which resulted in his participation in almost every major activity or development that occurred during his
Dr. Hedrick possessed a sharp wit and a love for stimulating conversation on subjects of broad interest. He was always in the center of a group of people deeply absorbed in lively discussion. He was highly social by nature and was a delightful member of any gathering. He had a wide circle of friends, each friendship firmly based on
Dr. Hedrick is survived by his widow, Mrs. Helen B. Hedrick, and their nine children.
Alice Osden Hunnewell, English: Los Angeles
| 1876-1943 | |
| Instructor |
When death came to Alice Osden Hunnewell on June 27, 1943, she was the senior active teaching member of the faculty on the Los Angeles campus. She had joined the faculty of the Los Angeles State Normal School in 1906, and during her long and notable career in Los Angeles her work was in the field of oral English--public speaking, storytelling, literary analysis, and oral interpretation.
Mrs. Hunnewell was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1876. On both sides she was descended from families whose history in America begins with the landing of the Pilgrims. She was a direct descendant of Governor Bradford. In 1897 she graduated from The Emerson College of Oratory in Boston. She was married to William Boone Hunnewell in 1909.
Throughout her life in California Mrs. Hunnewell was active in civic and cultural affairs. From 1912 to 1926 she was a member of the Board of Education of the Beverly Hills School District and she also served on the Beverly Hills Library Commission and the Beverly Hills Realty Board. Active in club work, she was a member of committees of numerous organizations, including the State Teachers' Association, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Ebell Club, and the Beverly Hills Women's Club. In 1906-1907 she served on the State Text Book Commission. For many years, as part of her civic and teaching career, she gave public readings of current plays and through the University Extension Division reached large groups interested in adult education. One of her notable courses, evolved to meet a civic need, was the “Technique of Previewing Motion Pictures.”
Mrs. Hunnewell was devoted to teaching. Cordial to and coöperative
By her rich social personality and her capacity to project that personality, by her taste and poise, she exerted a lasting influence on generations of boys and girls who worked with her. A fine sense of humor and an alertness to the drama of life and life's irony, coupled with kindliness and a superb pride in her country, made Alice Hunnewell a glowing personality to all who encountered her, whether as teacher, civic leader, clubwoman, lecturer, or friend. To her community and to this University her death is a great loss.
Ernest Irving Jeffery: Davis, Riverside, and San Francisco
| 1883-1943 | |
| Resident Engineer |
Ernest Irving Jeffery was born at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 9, 1883, and died in Davis, California, February 3, 1943. His father was Canadian, his mother American. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States by act of the Middlesex County Court, Massachusetts, in 1904.
After graduation from Lowell Industrial Institute, Massachusetts, in 1902, he served an engineering apprenticeship in Boston. Thereafter he worked as a plant and construction engineer in several eastern states. In 1910, a position with the J.G. White Engineering Corporation required his residence in the Philippines.
Returning to the United States in 1923, he made his home in San Francisco, where he was employed by private contractors as a building and engineering inspector. His first work on University of California buildings began in 1928, and during the next three years he represented the companies which had contracts for erecting new structures on the San Francisco and Los Angeles campuses. He was first employed by the University in 1932 as inspector of the Entomology Building then under construction at Riverside. Later he served as inspector of the Clinic Building, University of California Hospital, San Francisco. From 1934 to 1936 he was again employed by private contractors and by the Oakland Public School Department. He returned to the University rolls in 1937 as inspector of the new gymnasium at Davis and later served as inspector of the Library and Administration Building and the Chemistry Building. At the time of his death he was resident engineer at Davis.
Mr. Jeffery was well known on several campuses of the University,
In 1912, Mr. Jeffery married Nellie Estelle Brandt of Fennville, Michigan. He is survived by his widow, and by his daughter, Mrs. Robert Blackford of Wheatland, California.
Mr. Jeffery served as captain in the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, in 1918. Proud of this service in World War I, he made repeated efforts to enlist for action in World War II. At the time of his death he was still hopeful that, despite his age, he would be accepted. Taps sounded by the U. S. Army Signal Corps at his funeral service in Davis were in honor of a good soldier, a highly efficient engineer, and a patriotic citizen.
Arthur Mourad Johnson, Botany: Los Angeles
| 1878-1943 | |
| Associate Professor | |
| Director of the Botanical Garden |
Arthur Mourad Johnson was born January 19, 1878, in Fredrikstad, Norway, to parents who shortly thereafter moved to this country to make their future home in Minnesota. To this household were born two sons, and each became a specialist in science: Arthur M. became an outstanding botanist; and his brother, Charles S., received widespread recognition as a zoologist.
Arthur Johnson received high school training at Warren, Minnesota, and his undergraduate and graduate work for the Ph.D. degree in botany was completed at the University of Minnesota in 1919.
After receiving his B.A. degree from Minnesota and before he reëntered that University in graduate status, he acquired extensive experience as an instructor in high schools, both in Minnesota and in the state of Washington. During the latter part of this period he married Eleanor A. Henderson in 1915 at Spokane.
Johnson served as regular staff botanist, or as lecturer during the summer periods, with a number of leading American institutions, including the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, DePauw, California, and the State College of Washington. Postdoctoral study took him to Harvard University and Kew Gardens.
Dr. Johnson, as a professional botanist, was devoted to field work. He preferred to observe the plant in its natural environment, for he was interested in societies of plants in areas where man had not introduced artificial alterations. He made botanical explorations about the headwaters of the Mississippi and around the more inaccessible lakes of northern Minnesota. With his brother, Charles S., he traversed on Vancouver Island the areas previously unexamined by a botanist.
As a result of these explorations and his scientific discoveries, of his continuing interest and study, and of his tenacity of purpose, he was recognized as a leading authority on the taxonomy and plant ecology of the northwestern tier of states and of northern Minnesota. His botanical publications to the time of his death included twenty-five titles, and others were in preparation. The genus Saxifraga constituted the main center of his morphologic and taxonomic research.
His linguistic ability was remarkable. He had a knowledge of Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, and French, in addition to English, and some facility in Russian and Japanese as well.
His avocation was pictorial art, and he utilized well his skill in this to increase his efficiency as an instructor, to depict and to reveal nature as he observed it. His text entitled, The Taxonomy of the Flowering Plants, included 478 of his own original illustrations on its nearly nine hundred pages. To a large number of our students on the Los Angeles campus his courses in scientific illustration were valuable. He was a member of two art societies, and his work has been exhibited in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Arthur Mourad Johnson was a man of firm and discerning friendships. He understood the weaknesses as well as the strength of those whom he selected to be his friends, but was loyal to them always. His sense of humor was contagious and was one of the fine qualities which caused people to love him, though few suspected that beneath the lively surface of his mind there moved a profoundly religious spirit. He exemplified the characteristics desirable in an academic and cultured gentleman, but it is for those human qualities which he valued above all others that he will be both missed and remembered.
Frederick Herman Kruse, Medicine: San Francisco
| 1879-1943 | |
| Clinical Professor |
Fred Kruse, as he was generally known to his friends, to his myriads of patients, and one might add, to his students, was born in Milburn, Kentucky, June 30, 1879. He died in his home overlooking the Golden Gate, San Francisco, January 14, 1943.
Fred Kruse left Kentucky in 1891 at the age of twenty-one. His father having died, his mother moved with her three sons to Tulare, California. The three boys worked at odd jobs about Tulare, attending the grade schools, and later graduating from the high school. Fred Kruse attended the University of California from 1902 to 1904, leaving to accept a position as a teacher in a school at Vacaville, California. The following year he became associated with the Alameda Schools as a teacher of Latin. In a few years he was principal of the Alameda High School and was strongly urged by friends and family to follow teaching as a career. As a family inheritance, through his paternal and maternal grandfathers, both physicians, he had a strong predilection in favor of medicine. Returning to the University of California, he finished his academic course and graduated in medicine in 1915.
During 1915-1916, as an intern in medicine at the University of California Hospital, he laid the foundation for his career as an internist and consultant. The following year Dr. Kruse went to the Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore, Maryland, as an assistant resident in the private service of the late Dr. Lewellys F. Barker. During part of 1917 an opportunity became available to serve as resident at the Bayview Hospital in Baltimore. In August, 1917, he married Gertrude Eabes, a nurse in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and returned with her a few weeks later, to San Francisco.
He entered private practice as an assistant to Dr. Herbert C. Moffitt, 240 Stockton Street, San Francisco; in September, 1917, was appointed by the University of California Medical School as Chief of the Medical Out-patient Clinic, with the rank of Associate in Medicine on the Medical School Faculty. His rise during the next thirteen years was a steady, gradual, climb to the position of Chief of the Gastro-enterology Unit in the Hospital Wards and the Out-patient Department, with the rank of Clinical Professor of Medicine.
The following were his medical society affiliations: the San Francisco County Medical Society; the California State Medical Society; the American Medical Association; the American Gastro-enterological Association; the California Academy of Medicine; Fellow of the American College of Physicians; Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine.
Doctor Kruse was one of the outstanding diagnosticians and consultants of the Pacific Coast. Not a brilliant clinician, he possessed, however, certain attributes of character, among which were a profound interest in his work and a steadfastness of purpose, that transcended mere brilliance of intellect and carried him to the top rank of dependable, well-grounded, clinicians.
Gifted with a kindly, sympathetic personality, he attracted patients from all walks of life, and soon gathered a very extensive personal following, entailing demands on his time and energy that would have dismayed an ordinary internist. But Fred Kruse had endless patience and tireless perseverance, and carried on with his teaching, hospital ward, and clinic work, in addition to his extensive consultation and office practice, with an abiding faith and good nature that amazed his colleagues and his students.
His example will long be an inspiration in our Medical School and his niche will be difficult to fill.
He leaves his widow; two daughters; and two brothers, both of whom follow the profession of dentistry.
Howard H. Markel, Orthopedic Surgery: San Francisco
| 1879-1943 | |
| Assistant Clinical Professor |
Howard H. Markel was born in Davis, Illinois, on November 3, 1879. After graduating from high school in Monroe, Wisconsin, he attended successively the University of Wisconsin, Willamette University, and Pacific University in Oregon, obtaining his A.B. degree from the last-named institution. While engaged in social service work in San Francisco, he became interested in medicine as a career. In 1911 he graduated from the University of California Medical School, after which he served continuously as a teacher of orthopedic surgery until his death.
Doctor Markel's career was motivated by his desire to assist crippled children. Through his membership in the Rotary Club he was able to direct the activities of that association in the aiding of underprivileged youth throughout California. He also played a prominent role in the organizations which promote the advancement of his specialty. He was a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and at the time of his death was president-elect of the Western Orthopaedic Association. When his endeavors came to an end on February 13, 1943, his professional associates lost a respected colleague, and the crippled children of California a valued benefactor. He is mourned by his widow, Mrs. Bertilda Markel, and a son, Howard Markel, Jr.
Eugene Irving McCormac, History: Berkeley
| 1872-1943 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
Eugene Irving McCormac, Professor of American History, Emeritus, died suddenly on January 10, 1943. When he retired from the active service of the University at the end of the preceding academic year, he was the senior member of the Department of History, having been for thirty-nine years in the Department, and having been a full professor for twenty-three years. To the end of his service he was an inspiring teacher; his inflexible integrity, his sense of humor, and his devotion to his theme, built up and retained for him a following of loyal students.
Professor McCormac was born in Boone County, Illinois, March 12, 1872. Early recognition of his ability was shown by his employment as principal of the Fredricksburg, Iowa, grammar school, 1892-1894, before he completed his college work, and as principal of the Montour, Iowa, high school immediately following his bachelor's degree, which was awarded by Upper Iowa College in 1896. He received his doctor's degree at Yale University in 1901, and became Instructor in History at Northwestern University. During 1902-1903 he served as Professor of History and Political Science at the University of the Pacific. In 1903 he was called to the University of California as Instructor in American History, becoming Assistant Professor in 1910, Associate Professor, 1915, Professor, 1919, and Professor Emeritus, 1942.
Professor McCormac's first publication was White Servitude in Maryland, 1634-1820 (1904), an important investigation which has not been superseded. He followed this with an original and illuminating demonstration of Colonial Opposition to Imperial Authority during the French and Indian War (1911). By a curious coincidence,
Professor McCormac's abilities as an historian became fully evident with the publication of his “political biography” of President James K. Polk. As was said at the time, “Since Polk was instrumental in gaining California for the United States, it was fitting that this scholarly appraisement of his political career should have been written by a Californian.” Polk is one of our “forgotten presidents”; while he was “a seemly and dignified gentleman,” he was cold and aloof, and aroused no enthusiasm either in his lifetime or subsequently, consequently his eclipse in retrospect has been complete. Yet, as his biographer made evident, he was a constructive statesman possessed of vision, sound judgment, and unusual executive ability. In a single term of office he settled the Oregon question with England, and the question of the annexation of Texas; he acquired California, and thus extended the national boundaries to the Pacific Ocean. McCormac made no effort to popularize his account of an administration, which he regarded as eminently successful and of great significance. On the other hand, what he presented was a notable example of exhaustive research combined with sobriety of statement, and it still conveys the impression of “rather unusual fairness, detachment, and judicial poise.” The book has been described by competent authority as “a model biography.”
Later, he contributed various studies to the volumes entitled American Secretaries of State and to the Dictionary of American Biography. Among his minor writings special interest attaches to his paper “The Supreme Court and Unconstitutional Laws” (1936). The great work, for which he had been collecting materials during his
Professor McCormac was greatly interested in the effective functioning and democratic freedom of expression of the faculty of the University and was active in the reorganization of the Academic Senate in 1919-1920. He was elected a member of the first Committee on Committees (1919) set up by the Senate and served as chairman for two years (1920-1922). In the course of years he served on a number of other Senate committees: Courses, Library, Research, American Institutions, and the Council of the Graduate Division. He was elected a representative of the College of Letters and Science faculty on the University Council for successive terms (1919-1929), and also served on the Executive Committee of the College. He never took his committee work as a routine matter, but always studied each proposal carefully and criticised sharply all points that did not meet his approval as best academic policy.
Cyrus DeWitt Mead, Education: Berkeley
| 1875-1943 | |
| Associate Professor |
Cyrus DeWitt Mead was born in Spencer, Indiana, November 4, 1875, the son of William Stanley and Amma Rebecca Mead. His ancestors came from England in the middle of the eighteenth century, gradually moving westward to Kentucky and Indiana. He received his elementary and secondary education in Spencer, Indiana. From 1894 to 1898 he attended DePauw University, receiving the degree of Ph.B. He was a Graduate Fellow in Teachers College, Columbia University, from 1910 to 1912, and at the end of that period received the degree of M.A. Continuing his graduate studies at intervals in Columbia University, he was granted the degree of Ph.D. in 1914.
While he was a Graduate Fellow--in 1911--he married Helen Howe Hutchinson of Spencer, Indiana.
Shortly after graduation from DePauw University, he entered upon his lifelong profession, education. From 1899 to 1904 he served as teacher and principal in various Indiana rural and city elementary and secondary schools. When his native State decided to modernize its policy toward the institutionalized feeble-minded, it appointed him Principal of the Indiana State School for Feeble-minded Youth. From 1904 to 1910 he exerted leadership over this institution. In reorganizing the institution and its program he substituted professional vision and scientific method for custodial attitudes and procedures in dealing with the inmates.
Following the receipt of his M.A. degree, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Elementary Education in the University of Cincinnati and Critic Supervisor in the Cincinnati Public Schools. He served there six years, training teachers in service, directing graduate students
In 1918, Dr. Mead became Associate Professor of Education in the University of California, being assigned to the newly created chair of Elementary Education. Under this assignment he offered the first graduate seminar at the University devoted entirely to research in elementary education. He also introduced intensive instruction in educational tests and measurements. His services to the University and to the State were also marked by his introduction of educational surveys dealing with the measurement of achievement in elementary school subjects. In this pioneering work he directed many educational surveys in various California cities and counties. Through his teaching in the University he contributed to the training of prospective teachers for elementary and junior high schools, furnished advanced training to experienced teachers, and directed the research of many graduate students specializing in elementary education. All his students considered him an inspiring teacher, a wise counselor, and a beloved friend.
Professor Mead lectured in the summer sessions of Brigham Young University in 1923, and of the University of Illinois in 1931.
In the course of his long professional career he contributed many articles to educational periodicals, produced several educational monographs, and was the senior author of The Transitional Public School. The great variety of titles and subjects of his published studies attests to the breadth of his interests. This breadth is revealed also in the numerous researches of his graduate students.
He was a member of the National Education Association, National Society for the Study of Education, National Society of College Teachers of Education, National Association of Supervisors and Directors of Education, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa, and Kappa Delta Pi.
As a personality, Professor Mead will be fondly remembered for his great love of children, his lively interest in new acquaintances, his deep appreciation of trees, and his zest for the lore of our pioneer days.
Professor Mead died in Berkeley, California, on September 27, 1943, in his twenty-sixth year of valuable service to the University. At the time of his death he was still engaged in research and writing. Surviving him are his widow, Helen Howe Hutchinson Mead, and their daughter, Martha Jane Mead.
Francisco Montau, Spanish and Italian: Los Angeles
| 1894-1943 | |
| Associate in Spanish |
Francisco Montau, Associate in Spanish at the University of California, Los Angeles campus, died in Los Angeles on May 31, 1943.
Mr. Montau was born in Los Angeles, Chile, the son of Romulo A. Montau and Florentina Moreira Montau. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chile in 1914. From 1914 to 1916 he studied civil engineering at the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile, and at the University of Chile. In 1916 he came to the United States, where he spent the rest of his life. In 1920 he was a student in the College of Engineering and Commerce of the University of Illinois. In April, 1921, he married Leonor López López. He became an American citizen in 1932.
Mr. Montau began his teaching career in 1918 as Instructor in Spanish at the Texas Military College, Terrell, Texas. The following year he taught Spanish at the University of Illinois. After serving as Instructor in Spanish at the Rice Institute, 1920-1925, he came to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he served as Associate in Spanish until his final illness.
Mr. Montau's greatest interest was in popular aspects of scientific, agricultural, and educational problems. Even while teaching Spanish, he continued study in these fields through correspondence courses of the Extension Divisions of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Ohio, Pennsylvania State College, and other colleges. For a period of years he contributed articles to Chilean and other Spanish newspapers on the practices of university extension in the United States, the educational value of motion pictures, etc. In line with this interest he prepared an extension course on aviculture to serve as an
For many years Mr. Montau had been planning and collecting materials for a book in Spanish on self-help and personal efficiency, and it was to the completion of this work that he devoted himself in the last months of his life. The manuscript, under the title La técnica del éxito, will be published by his widow.
Mr. Montau will be remembered by all who knew him for his gentleness, his delicate feeling, and his Latin courtesy and good manners. Students found him stimulating, sympathetic, and willing to help in any difficulty. His colleagues knew him as a congenial companion, ever at the service of themselves, his department, and the University.
Mr. Montau is survived by his widow, Leonor, of Los Angeles, and by four sisters and two brothers residing in Chile.
Walter Spangenberg Morley, Mining and Metallurgy: Berkeley
| 1875-1943 | |
| Associate Professor of Metallurgy, Emeritus |
In an accident on the evening of Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1943, Professor Walter Spangenberg Morley was instantly killed while driving, with his wife, in his automobile from the railway station at Los Gatos, California, to his home in the foothills near by. His wife survived him but two days. This tragic accident brought deep sorrow to all who knew them.
Professor Morley was born in Merced County, California, June 3, 1875. He received his early education in the public schools of California, and in 1898 was granted the degree of Bachelor of Science in the College of Mining of the University of California.
In 1898 he was appointed Assistant in Mining at this University, and in 1899 became Instructor in Assaying and Mill Assistant. He was made Instructor in Metallurgy in 1906 and Assistant Professor of Metallurgy in 1920, serving in this capacity until his retirement as Associate Professor of Metallurgy, Emeritus, in 1941.
During his early years of service at the University, he assisted Professor S.B. Christie in various research projects. He wrote on assaying and the flotation process.
He was competent as a teacher, beloved by his students, and helpful in guiding his classes in excursions to accessible operating metallurgical plants. His friendly encouragement and advice have been valued by numerous workers in the metallurgical field. His good influence extends broadly through the practices and methods of the many former members of his classes and those who have been under his guidance.
Professor Morley was a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and the societies of Sigma Xi and Theta Tau.
Samuel Ruben, Chemistry: Berkeley
| 1913-1943 | |
| Assistant Professor |
Samuel Ruben was born in San Francisco, November 8, 1913. He was awarded the B.S. degree in 1935 and the Ph.D. degree in 1938 by the University of California. His death, September 28, 1943, resulted from an accident in the laboratory while he was working as Official Investigator for the Office of Scientific Research and Development.
Rarely has the world of science known a young man so keen in analysis of complex problems and so resourceful in devising new and original techniques for their solution. He was not one to follow beaten paths. His genius lay in exploring new fields. His own scientific contributions were outstanding and the methods which he originated will be employed by generations of chemists in pursuing the ever-expanding circle of research which he initiated.
Dr. Ruben's greatest achievements resulted from the use of radioactive isotopes of the light elements as tracers to follow the course of biological reactions. He was codiscoverer of the isotope carbon 14, but many of his experiments were performed with the short-lived carbon II. In these experiments he displayed great ingenuity in devising methods which enabled the entire experimental procedures to be completed in the course of a few hours.
His research in photosynthesis received world-wide recognition. This work revolutionized traditional points of view which had been generally accepted, and the continuation of his method of attack promises to unravel the process of photosynthesis which has long remained so mysterious.
He was an inspiring teacher, handling equally well the large elementary lecture course and the small graduate seminar. His generosity
In 1935 he married Helena West. He is survived by his widow and three children.
For several months preceding his death Ruben had devoted his full energy to a war research program, obtaining by his extraordinary talents important results within a very brief period. On the day of the accident, he had received a message requesting a certain experiment. The work was hazardous. In the manner so characteristic of his nature, he himself assumed the responsibility and shielded his assistants from the danger. The loss to science and the University is indeed great.
Glanville Yeisley Rusk, Pathology: San Francisco and Berkeley
| 1875-1943 | |
| Professor |
On the evening of November 22, 1943, Glanville Yeisley Rusk died at his home in San Francisco. Dr. Rusk had been ill for several years, nearly two years of which he was confined to his home. With his death western pathologists lost their Dean and an ever wise and patient counselor.
Dr. Rusk was born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 15, 1875. He was a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and in 1901 he graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School. After his internship he served one year as House Officer at the Sheppard-Pratt Institute for Mental Diseases in Baltimore. He then moved to New York and was a member of the staff of the New York Pathological Institute, where for seven years he specialized in the pathology of the central nervous system. In December, 1906, he married a Virginia girl, Miss Agnes Woodruff. They were the parents of three daughters.
In September, 1910, he came to Berkeley, joining the faculty of the University of California in the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology. In 1918 a separate Department of Pathology was established in San Francisco, headed by Dr. Rusk. In the years following he became nationally known as an authority on pathology, especially of the central nervous system and of tumors. He was a member of Sigma Xi and Nu Sigma Nu societies. From 1930 to 1942. Dr. Rusk was in charge of the pathological laboratory at the Mount Zion Hospital.
Dr. Rusk was a very quiet, unassuming person, greatly loved by those who knew him well. He possessed a keen, somewhat skeptical, and exceedingly dry sense of humor which endeared him to his associates and somewhat bewildered casual acquaintances. The characteristic
In his quiet, kindly, unassuming way he did much for the care of the sick, he advanced his special field of study, and he passed along a share of his great store of knowledge to the generations of young physicians who will follow him.
Margaret Schulze, Obstetrics and Gynecology: San Francisco
| 1894-1943 | |
| Assistant Professor |
On February 7, 1943, death came to Dr. Margaret Schulze, who had been for some twenty-two years an esteemed member of the University of California Faculty of Medicine.
Dr. Schulze received the degrees of B.S. from the University of California in 1913, M.S. in 1914, and M.D. in 1916. After an internship at the University of California Hospital, she became an Assistant Resident in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and later, in 1919-1920, served as Resident Obstetrician and Gynecologist. She was appointed Instructor by the University in 1921, and in 1931 was promoted to Assistant Professor, in which capacity she served until her death.
Dr. Schulze was recognized on the Pacific Coast as a very conscientious and able obstetrician and gynecologist. Early in her career she became interested in gynecological pathology, a field in which she became thoroughly accomplished and widely recognized. Her contributions to the scientific literature of gynecology, although not numerous, were characterized by thorough and sound reasoning. Her building stones for each article were a meticulous review of the literature, a knowledge of the fundamental pathological processes, and good common sense. Her papers on mammoth ovarian tumors and granulosa cell tumor of the ovary were especially noteworthy.
One of Dr. Schulze's most outstanding qualities was her profound sense of responsibility. This was particularly evident in the manner in which she discharged her medical school responsibilities and in the meticulous care her patients received. This conscientiousness often tended to make life overly arduous for her. Nevertheless, this quality
For years she was the main cog in the machinery of the University of California Gynecological and Obstetrical Service at the San Francisco County Hospital, where the house officers and interns learned to recognize in her, as indeed did all who knew her, intellectual integrity, a keen mind, and an exceptionally conscientious nature.
Dr. Schulze was a member of the California Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and the Pacific Coast Gynecological Society. She was also a Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Schulze's sudden death at the height of her career causes a great loss to the Medical School, and a void in the hearts of those who knew her.
William Albert Setchell, Botany: Berkeley
| 1864-1943 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
William Albert Setchell, Professor Emeritus of Botany, died in Berkeley, California, April 5, 1943. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, April 15, 1864. He married, in 1920, Mrs. Clara B. Caldwell, who died on September 4, 1934. After his graduation from Yale University in 1887, he attended Harvard University, where he received degrees of M.A. in 1888 and Ph.D. in 1890. The following year, he returned to Yale University as an assistant in biology. A year later he became Instructor in Biology, from which post he was called to the University of California in 1895 to become Professor of Botany and Chairman of the Department. He held this position until his retirement in 1934. Thus, Professor Setchell devoted practically his entire professional life to the University of California.
Professor Setchell's scientific career was an outgrowth of an early love for and interest in living things, a love and interest which expressed itself even before his student days at Yale University in the compilation of a brief catalogue of the flowering plants of his home locality. At Yale University, although enrolled in a classical course, which then offered scant opportunity for scientific study, he became associated with Professor Daniel Cady Eaton, who encouraged him to continue his botanical studies. As a consequence, upon graduation, he was awarded a Morgan fellowship at Harvard University which permitted him to engage in graduate work on the marine algae under the tutelage of Professor William Gibson Farlow. This subject engaged the major part of his scientific attention until his death. At Harvard he became associated with F.S. Collins and I. Holden in an ambitious project of collection and distribution of herbarium
Professor Setchell was not content, however, to limit his attention solely to algae. As a matter of fact, there is scarcely a specialized field of botanical study to which he did not devote some attention. His studies of crustaceous coralline algae naturally led to a consideration of their role in coral reef building. In 1920, upon invitation of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he spent the summer in the Samoan Islands engaged on this problem. There, with characteristic zeal, he grasped the opportunity to devote a part of his time to a study of the insular vegetation and to the ethnobotany of that region. During the next ten-year period, he made, with Mrs. Setchell, a series of excursions which included visits to Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, the Great Barrier Reef, and Rarotonga, as well as to Japan, the Netherlands East Indies, New Zealand, Australia, and Africa in further pursuit of these problems. He was a delegate to the Third Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Tokyo in 1926 and to the Fourth Pacific Science Congress in Batavia and Bandoeng, Java, in 1929.
His work on algae led to his recognition and specification of the major role of temperature in the distribution of algae in particular and of plants in general. He made a number of contributions dealing with the living inhabitants of thermal waters of Yellowstone National Park and other localities. An early interest in fungi laid the foundation for a program of research on this group which is still continuing under departmental auspices. He initiated the Nicotiana investigations by assembling and growing a collection of species of the genus
Professor Setchell was honored by election to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow), and by the distinction of selection by his colleagues as Faculty Research Lecturer in 1931. He was a member of some thirty professional societies and organizations, including a number of foreign academies and societies. He was for many years an active member of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco and a regular attendant at its summer encampments at the Bohemian Grove.
Professor Setchell was a man of commanding presence, magnetic personality, catholic taste, and congenial disposition. He loved to converse with a circle of friends, drawing, to their delight, upon his broad experiences, exhibiting to the end the keen powers of observation and zestful appreciation of cultural activities which had characterized his entire life. He leaves scattered over the world a host of devoted disciples who feel deeply indebted to him for his kindly encouragement and competent assistance. His was a full life, rich in achievement and friendship and reflecting high distinction upon the University which he served so long.
Ernest Martin Setzer, Orthodontia: San Francisco
| 1895-1943 | |
| Associate Clinical Professor of Orthodontics |
Ernest M. Setzer was a Californian by birth; and by virtue of his character and his devotion to the University and the community, he was one of the State's finer citizens. He was born in Lodi, October 5, 1895. He completed his education in dentistry at the University of California in 1917. After a period of service in the Army Dental Corps during World War I, he returned to Lodi to practice general dentistry. In a few years he decided to continue his professional education and enrolled in a postgraduate course in orthodontics in the Edward H. Angle School in Pasadena. Upon the completion of this work he began the practice of this specialty in Oakland, where he was practicing at the time of his death. His unusually full life was ended September 29, 1943, after a brief illness.
Dr. Setzer was a member of the faculty of the College of Dentistry from 1926 until his death, serving continuously with the exception of one year's leave of absence. At the time of his death he was an Associate Clinical Professor of Orthodontics. He had many of the qualities valued in a teacher; he was approachable, and his enthusiasm evoked a quick response in students. Members of the faculty were grateful for his dislike of discord and his tactful handling of disputes. Without retreating from a stand which he believed to be right, he could revive in his colleagues the sense of humor which was temporarily in eclipse, thereby bringing many problems to a reasonable solution.
Dr. Setzer's field of teaching was primarily clinical, but he was greatly interested in comparative anatomy, with particular reference to the face, jaws, and teeth. Although he was never actively engaged
Surviving Dr. Setzer are his widow, Margaret, his daughters Barbara and Margaret, his son George, a sister, Mrs. Lillie, and a brother, Fred.
Harry Munson Showman, Mathematics: Los Angeles
| 1889-1943 | |
| Lecturer | |
| Registrar |
Harry Munson Showman was born in Denver, Colorado, April 17, 1889, the son of Harry D. and Alice M. Showman. In 1911 he married Verdie Crews. He is survived by his widow, one son, Harry Crews Showman, Associate in Mechanic Arts on the Los Angeles campus, two grandchildren, two brothers, and a sister.
Mr. Showman received his elementary and secondary education in the public schools of Denver, Colorado. Graduating from the West Side High School of that city in 1906, he entered the Colorado School of Mines, and received from that institution the degree of Engineer of Mines in 1910. His record was the best in his class. He spent the academic year 1918-1919 as a student in the graduate school at Harvard, and earned the M.A. degree in mathematics. Later he attended the University of Chicago, working for three quarters toward the Ph.D. degree. He always maintained a very high scholastic rating, winning honors, competitive scholarships, and fellowships.
In 1910 Mr. Showman joined the faculty of the Colorado School of Mines as Instructor in Mathematics. His promotions at that institution were so rapid that by 1917 he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering. He spent the year 1919-1920 as Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio. In the fall of 1920 he came to the Los Angeles campus of the University of California as Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Mathematics. In 1928 he became Recorder, and at the time of his death he held the titles of Lecturer in Mathematics and Registrar at the University of California, Los Angeles campus.
Mr. Showman was a most effective and successful teacher. He was conspicuous for friendliness, integrity, charitableness, firmness, sound judgment, sympathetic understanding, and clear logical reasoning. He had a great capacity for taking pains, and whatever he undertook he did superlatively well. His reputation for accuracy became so wide that his opinions, statements, and interpretation in University matters were constantly sought and accepted without question. The University publications for which he was responsible were models of correctness and clarity of expression. As secretary to the Academic Senate and as a member of many important policy-forming committees, he displayed an outstandingly comprehensive knowledge of the details of administration within the University.
He was a notable Christian gentleman in his personal and professional relations; a good citizen, serving his community and his fellows in many and varied activities; a faithful officer of the University, who combined such knowledge, understanding, and competence that his loss is well-nigh irreparable.
Alfred Smith, Soil Technology: Davis and Berkeley
| 1888-1943 | |
| Associate Professor | |
| Associate Soil Technologist in the Experiment Station |
Alfred Smith was born in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, on January 4, 1888. He received the A.B. degree in 1907 from Wittenberg College, Ohio. Then he spent two years as a consulting chemist at Cincinnati, and one year as a graduate assistant in chemistry at the University of Cincinnati. In 1910 he returned to Wittenberg College as an instructor and in the same year earned his M.A. degree. From 1911 to 1914 he was Instructor in Chemistry and Geology at Pomona College, and then joined the College of Agriculture at Berkeley as an Instructor in Soil Technology. He was soon promoted to Assistant Professor, and some time later was transferred to the Davis campus to teach soil science and carry out soil investigations. In 1925 he received the doctor's degree from the University of Wisconsin, and in 1927 was promoted to Associate Professor.
Professor Smith devoted much of his time and energy to teaching. He taught a general course on soils to the regular degree students and also a very popular course on soils to nondegree students. He had a deep interest in the welfare of individual students and gave generously of his time in helping them with their personal problems. His research was varied and enabled him to obtain firsthand information on numerous soil problems. All these experiences were of great help to him in his teaching and his advisory work. He assisted in soil surveys and carried out experiments on various phases of soil moisture relationships. Gradually he became more and more interested in soil temperatures. For these studies he designed and installed elaborate recording equipment, and studied the march of soil temperatures
Soon after Pearl Harbor, when the Davis campus was taken over by the Army, Professor Smith again joined the Soil Survey, and collaborated in the selection of suitable lands for the production of guayule in the San Joaquin Valley. He died suddenly and unexpectedly on August 9, 1943, while on a vacation in the Russian River country. He is survived by his mother, his widow, Bessie Archibald Smith, whom he married in 1914, and by one son, Donald. His son Robert died in an accident while serving in the Army Air Corps in 1942.
Mildred Thornton, Dental Hygiene: San Francisco
| 1918-1943 | |
| Instructor |
Miss Mildred Thornton of San Francisco, California, died September 4, 1943, at the age of twenty-five. She attended the Modesto Junior College from 1936 to 1938, after which she entered the Stanford School of Nursing. In 1940, she enrolled at the University of California College of Dentistry from which she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Dental Hygiene in May of 1942. In July of the same year, Miss Thornton was appointed Instructor in Dental Hygiene, as well as Chief Technician in Dental Radiography. She was an active member of the Northern California State Dental Hygienists Association.
Burton Merrill Varney, Geography: Berkeley and Los Angeles
| 1883-1943 | |
| Associate Professor |
Burton Merrill Varney was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on September 2, 1883. He was descended from early New England settlers, the Merrills, Coles, and Spoffords. He attended Phillips Academy at Andover, 1899-1903. He received the A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1907 and the M.A. degree from Harvard University in 1910. In June, 1911, he married Florence Ellen Lahee. To them were born two sons, Frederick Merrill and Justin Arnold.
Dr. Varney was Assistant and Teaching Fellow in Physical Geography and Meteorology at Harvard 1908-1910 under William Morris Davis, a high school teacher in Maine 1911-1913, and Instructor in Geography, Meteorology, and Climatology at the University of California (Berkeley) during the period 1917-1923. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree by Clark University in 1925. During the years 1924-1927 he was Assistant Meteorologist in the office of the Weather Bureau at Washington, D.C., and Assistant Editor of the Monthly Weather Review. In 1927 he was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of California (Los Angeles). This position he held until his death, June 4, 1943.
As a man of diversified interests and abilities he was keenly interested in the physical and mechanical sciences and appreciative of the arts and humanities. The classics comprised an important part of his early education. To music and good literature he was always devoted. His love of the out-of-doors and of the sea stemmed from his New England background. He was an enthusiastic yachtsman and a navigator of considerable skill--sailed his 34-foot ketch to Honolulu and back. He was an active member of the Los Angeles Yacht Club.
Dr. Varney's principal scientific interest lay in the field of regional climatology. His most significant contribution to the subject was a detailed study of rainfall distribution in California. The effect of the ocean upon the West Coast climate was the chief subject to which he devoted his research interest in recent years. Many geography students gathered from his courses a sound understanding and appreciation of the distribution of world-wide climatic phenomena, and a goodly number of them over the years entered the professional services of the United States Weather Bureau. Dr. Varney was a fellow of the Meteorological Society, editor of the Bulletin in 1926, and Councilor, 1927-1932. He was also a fellow of the American Geographical Society and a member of numerous other scientific and professional organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, Pi Gamma Mu, and the Harvard Club.
Professor Varney was deeply interested in scholarly activities. He sought for a high standard of accomplishment in his own work and in that of his students and colleagues. He spent much of his energy and time in helping others to clarify their understanding of difficult problems and to bring to completion the products of their research. He was extremely modest about his own accomplishments and abilities. He possessed a keen sense of humor and a cultured and refined personality.
Important contributions were made to the University during his chairmanship of the Department of Geography and through his painstaking work on many faculty and administrative committees. His sound judgment, inquisitive nature, and cooperative spirit fitted him for varied and difficult assignments. He was a kindly and sympathetic friend of both faculty and students. His untimely death is mourned by many who shared his warm and sincere friendship.
Dr. Varney was deeply devoted to his family. He shared with his wife and sons his many accomplishments and interests and they in
In Memoriam 1944
John Mead Adams, Physics: Los Angeles
| 1882-1944 | |
| Associate Professor |
John Mead Adams was born in Reading, Massachusetts, June 6, 1882. Dr. Adams was a member of the famous Adams family; he was of the eighth generation in descent from the eighth son of Henry Adams, founder of the Adams family in America. His mother, too, was an Adams, a descendant of John and Abigail Adams, the parents of President John Quincy Adams. In his ancestral tree are found also Thomas Hooker, the American colonial divine (who often is called the Luther of New England), and General Richard K. Meade, who served on Washington's staff throughout the Revolution. His father, who died when John Mead Adams was fourteen, was a Congregational minister, loved and respected by the entire community in Reading.
After his father's death, John Mead Adams and his mother moved to Cambridge. Here his mother maintained a boarding house. The meager earnings from this enterprise, together with several scholarships, made it possible for Dr. Adams to attend Harvard, where he received his degrees of A.B. (1903), M.A. (1905), and Ph.D. (1907), and where he held appointment as Assistant in Physics from 1904 to 1908. The bachelor's degree was accompanied with the Dean's announcement that John Mead Adams graduated at the head of his class; he ranked third that year among Harvard's initiates in Phi Beta Kappa. He was awarded the John Tyndall Scholarship following the completion of his doctorate work at Harvard, which enabled him, after serving one year as Instructor in Physics at Simmons College, Boston, to pursue postdoctoral studies in physics (1908-1909) at Leipzig and at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
Before leaving for Europe, he married Edna Roberts, who had been his friend and sweetheart since childhood. At Leipzig they experienced the joy of parenthood, but the joy was short-lived as the baby died in early infancy.
Dr. Adams began his professional career in California in 1909 as Professor of Physics at Occidental College. He served there until 1912, when he accepted an assistant professorship at Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario. While there, in April, 1913, his wife died. In 1916 Dr. Adams transferred to the University of Saskatchewan as Assistant Professor of Physics. In 1919 Dr. Adams began his most important professional work, that of building the physics department at the University of California, Los Angeles. This he was obliged to begin at the beginning--the laboratory equipment that greeted him that first year consisted of a meter stick and brick. Dr. Adams added a few spring balances, purchased from his own funds, and improvised many ingenious experiments and demonstrations for teaching physics, many of which are yet used on the Los Angeles campus of the University, and at other colleges. It was no easy task. There were no shops, no laboratories, no assistants. Dr. Adams' mother, but not Dr. Adams, has told several of his friends and colleagues of occasions when he worked in the laboratory at night until exhausted, then slept two or three hours, and resumed his work. Teaching physics was Dr. Adams' career, and he succeeded well, as thousands of his students can testify. During the last week of his teaching at the University, his students in kinetic theory complimented him on his lucid and instructive method of teaching.
Among Dr. Adams' freshman students that first year at the University was L.P. Delsasso, who soon was recruited as an assistant in the department; from that time on, J.M. Adams and L.P. Delsasso were the best of friends. In the following four years, Dr. Adams, as Chairman of the Department of Physics, recruited Arthur Warner, later a Lieutenant Colonel assigned to the U.S. Army's Supreme
In 1941-1942, when the clouds of the war were darkest, Dr. Adams worked strenuously and effectively with the University of California Division of War Research project at San Diego. He was not well when he returned to the University in the fall of 1942, and he was in poor health thereafter.
In 1922 he married Virginia Hill, the Mrs. Adams known to his colleagues on the campus. Those of us who have enjoyed the friendliness and generous hospitality of the Adams home, and who have been regaled with John Mead Adams' “That's Where the Vest Begins,” know that love and devoted companionship bound John Mead and Virginia to each other.
But under the stress of continuing ill health he came to feel that he could give less to life than he received, and in his last note to his wife he unselfishly explained what he considered to be the best way out.
John Mead Adams was not only an excellent teacher--he was a much better man than his reticent and dignified manner revealed.
Ruby L. Cunningham, Hygiene: Berkeley
| 1880-1944 | |
| Senior Physician in Student Health Service | |
| Associate Professor |
Thirty-three years of unremitting service by means of curative treatment and educational method, to maintain the health of students has been the contribution of Ruby L. Cunningham to the University of California. Her life, from the time that her scientific bent first became obvious, was devoted to the attainment of high qualifications for her chosen profession and to the practice of medicine.
She was born in Riverside on July 29, 1880, to parents who had come to California in the early eighteen seventies. Her education was pursued in the public schools and at the University of California from which she received the B.S. degree in 1903, the M.S. degree in 1912, and the M.D. degree in 1914.
In the interval between her graduation in 1903 and her return to the University in 1911, she taught science in both public and private high schools, gaining during these years something of the clarity of exposition which made it possible for her at a later time, year in and year out, to win and control the attention of hundreds of freshman women in a compulsory course in hygiene.
From 1911 on, with the exception of a short period of private practice, she was connected with the University as Assistant, Instructor, and Infirmary Physician, until in 1918 she became Physician for Women and Assistant Professor of Hygiene. In 1925 she advanced to the rank of Associate Professor.
Her professional standing was recognized by the American Student Health Association, of which she was vice-president for a year, and by the Pacific Coast Section of the same organization, of which she was president. She was also a member of the National Council of
Dr. Cunningham's interest in Public Health was expressed in her work with the Alameda County Medical Milk Commission through which the sanitation of dairies was supervised. She also found time for community service as Clinical Physician at the Berkeley Health Center. In 1932-1933, she was President of the Berkeley Health Center and directed this essential community agency in its early stages to the place it now holds in the health service of the county.
Quiet and modest in manner, she was an accepted authority in her field, and her wisdom and fine perception were sought and appreciated among students and colleagues. She was an honored member of several student societies and an indispensable member and guide of the Women's Faculty Club, of which she was for many years vice-president or director. When administrative duties fell to her lot as Chairman of the Department of Hygiene, she carried them with ability.
After some years the required course in hygiene for freshmen was abandoned, but Dr. Cunningham continued to give the substance of such a course to meet the needs of prospective teachers and others who might elect it. In spite of the heavy responsibilities connected with the Health Service, of which she had become Senior Physician, she carried on her teaching and through it she reached far into the lives of students who are now teachers, scattered throughout the State. It was not until 1942 that warnings of overtaxed strength finally
After a brief period of curtailed activity, Dr. Cunningham died on June 25, 1944. In her were exemplified the highest professional standards, for she was rigorously trained and widely experienced. She worked unceasingly for human welfare. She was a physician, teacher, and friend who will live in the memory and affection of those whose lives she touched with her healing art and her guiding wisdom.
Franklin Theodore Green, Pharmacy: San Francisco
| 1863-1944 | |
| Dean Emeritus of the College of Pharmacy |
Franklin Theodore Green, Dean Emeritus of the College of Pharmacy, died in San Francisco on February 11, 1944. Professor Green was born May 5, 1863, at North San Juan, Nevada County, California. Soon thereafter his parents moved to Austin, Nevada, where he received his primary education and where he first acquired an interest in mineralogy, a subject later to become one of his hobbies. During his early boyhood his parents moved to San Francisco where he completed his secondary education and in 1880 matriculated in the College of Pharmacy. Following graduation with distinction he was appointed to the faculty of the College of Pharmacy and in 1893 was advanced to the rank of Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, In addition to his title in the College of Pharmacy, Professor Green held two appointments in the School of Medicine of the University. In 1901 he was made Professor of Materia Medica and Chemistry, later receiving an appointment as Associate Professor in Physiological Chemistry. Following the death of Dean William M. Searby in October of 1909, Professor Green was made Dean of the College of Pharmacy, a position he retained until 1925 when ill health forced his retirement from executive duties. He maintained an active interest in the College, however, and continued to teach until 1935.
During the period of his activity on the San Francisco campus of the University, Professor Green occupied many positions of civic importance. First, in 1898, his ability as a chemist earned for him the position of chemist to the San Francisco Board of Health; he was reappointed to this office in 1900. The “milk agitation” inaugurated by
Professor Green was prominent in the activities of several learned societies. In 1896 he was elected President of the California Pharmaceutical Society, and, when this organization was discontinued, he became active in several of the pharmaceutical organizations that followed. Successively he served as councilor, vice-chairman, and chairman of the California Section of the American Chemical Society. He also held membership in the Miner's Society, the British Chemical Society, the California Academy of Sciences, the American Pharmaceutical Association, and the Veteran Druggists of California. Professor Green was founder and the first president of the latter organization. Despite these many and varied activities, Professor Green found time to supervise the operation of Green's Pharmacy which still stands at the corner of Divisadero and Fell Streets in San Francisco. Earlier he and his father operated the pharmacy together.
Lively and genial, both in manner and speech, Professor Green made friends easily. At all times, he radiated the joy and enthusiasm common to those who live an active and useful life. Never was he more enthusiastic than when speaking of his friendship with John C. Muir, the naturalist, who did much to foster his interest in geology and the chemistry of various mineral deposits. Correlated with this interest in mineralogy, was his intense interest in precious and semiprecious stones. This interest led to the gathering of a rather large collection of cut and uncut precious stones. His knowledge of gems was sufficient to justify his reputation as an expert. Shortly before his
In 1884 he married Miss Georgia Rooker, daughter of General and Mrs. J.E. Rooker. The Greens had two daughters, Miss Alice Green and Mrs. Helen Halloran, both of whom survive their parents.
With the passing of Professor Green, pharmacy loses one of its most scholarly and colorful figures.
George Whiting Hendry, Agronomy: Davis
| 1885-1944 | |
| Assistant Professor |
George Whiting Hendry was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on January 22, 1885, and died suddenly at his ranch home near Napa, California, on April 15, 1944. After attending Michigan State College for a short period, he transferred to Cornell University to complete his education and there received the B.S. degree in 1913. Following graduation, he was appointed Assistant in Agronomy in the University of California where he continued as an active member of that Division until his death.
For a number of years he was in charge of the experimental work with field crops at the University Farm, Davis. He was the author of numerous scientific and popular papers on various agricultural and crop subjects. During this period he developed a number of new crops, some of which have since come into general use and have contributed materially to the agricultural development of the state. Among the more important of these are California Mariout barley and Double Dwarf milo--which practically replace all other varieties of grain sorghums in California.
From the outset, he was vitally interested in the history of California agriculture and in the various crops and plants which had been introduced from the old world. In his search for information on plant migration, he devised a technique for the removal and identification of the plant material preserved in adobe bricks. By means of the analysis of adobe brick from the early missions and other old adobe structures, he was able to date more accurately than had heretofore been possible, the time of the introduction of many of our weed and crop plants. His method provided a new and useful tool in the study of plant migrations.
Professor Hendry's chief activity, however, was teaching, in which field he achieved outstanding success. He possessed the rare ability of being able to organize and present his subject matter in a logical and interesting manner. He was able to impart to his pupils his own interest and enthusiasm and to inspire them with a desire for a greater knowledge of the subject at hand. Professor Hendry was interested in his students and he gave generously of his time in council and advice on academic and personal problems.
His widow, Margaret Munn Hendry, and two sons survive him.
William Titus Horne, Plant Pathology: Berkeley and Riverside
| 1876-1944 | |
| Professor |
William Titus Horne, Professor of Plant Pathology in the University of California, died on April 12, 1944, after an illness of a few days. He was born near Kankakee, Illinois, November 8, 1876. Professor Horne received his early education in the public schools of Bennett and Lincoln, Nebraska, and then attended the University of Nebraska, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1898. After serving as instructor in the Nebraska Wesleyan University and University of Nebraska Farm School, he was employed in a fish hatchery at Karluk, Alaska, 1901-1902. He undertook graduate study at Columbia University as a Fellow in Botany, 1903-1904. At the Cuban Agricultural Experiment Station, from 1904 to 1909, he served as assistant and then chief of the Department of Plant Pathology. He came to the Berkeley campus of the University of California as Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology in 1909. In 1919-1920 he was Acting Head of the Division of Plant Pathology. He transferred his activities to the Citrus Experiment Station in 1928, where he became Associate Professor and then in 1939, Professor of Plant Pathology. Here he had a long and useful career, especially in the fields of avocado and other subtropical plant diseases.
While he was at Berkeley, many students benefited by his kindly influence and careful instruction, and numbers of them are now prominent in scientific research, teaching, and commercial life.
At the Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside, he made notable scientific contributions, especially to the better understanding of avocado disease problems. He made a host of friends because of his friendly attitude and gentle kindliness, not only among his immediate
The Avocado Department of the Los Angeles County Farm Bureau takes this means of expressing to William Titus Horne, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of California, its deep appreciation of the years of untiring and unselfish work devoted by him to the problems of the avocado industry. Much of this work has been beyond the requirements of his position. His modest, unassuming manner and deep human interest in the problems of the growers has endeared him to all of us.
Later, in 1938, he was asked by the California Avocado Association to present the medals at Atlixco, Mexico, in recognition of the introduction of the Fuerte variety of avocado into California. In the same year his colleagues in Plant Pathology made him President of the Pacific Division of the American Pathological Society. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Phytopathological Society, Mycological Society of America, California Botanical Society, Torrey Botanical Club, Sigma Xi, and Alpha Zeta.
One of his most important publications after coming to Riverside was his bulletin on avocado diseases (1934). He had ready at the time of his death a completed manuscript on the diseases of the guava, which is being edited for publication.
In 1906 he married Mary Tracy Earle, sister of the late Professor F.S. Earle, at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. Their beautiful home and garden at Riverside, from which friends received innumerable gifts of flowers and fruits, was an expression of their kindly life and endearing hospitality.
Alexander Kaun, Slavic Languages: Berkeley
| 1889-1944 | |
| Professor |
Alexander Kaun was born in Russia on October 30, 1889. His grandfather was president of a rabbinical college; his father taught Hebrew in private schools. He himself was educated in private schools and, from 1905 to 1907, at the Free University in St. Petersburg. As a boy he took part in the Russian revolutionary movement. When he came to this country he taught Hebrew from 1909 to 1916 at the Chicago Hebrew Institute. He entered the University of Chicago in 1913, graduated in 1916, and lectured there on Russian literature in the summer of 1916. In January, 1916, he married Valeria Gretchen Tracewell. In 1917 he moved to Berkeley, California, for the sake of his health, and lectured on Russian literature in the University of California Summer School. He was appointed Assistant in Russian at the University of California, 1917-1918, and also enrolled as a graduate student. In 1918 he received the degree of M.A. in Slavic Languages and in 1923 the degree of Ph.D. He became Instructor in Russian in 1919, Associate in Russian in 1920, Assistant Professor of Russian in 1923, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages in 1927, Professor of Slavic Languages in 1943; and was appointed chairman of his department in 1942. He died suddenly of heart failure on June 22, 1944.
Professor Kaun was a member of the Modern Language Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Advisory Board of the Russian-American Institute of New York; a corresponding member of the School of Slavonic Studies of the University of London; and an honorary advisor of the Roerich Museum of New York. In 1932 he attended the World's Congress of Pen Clubs in Budapest as a delegate of the Pacific Coast. Beginning with
By temperament Kaun was an artist rather than a professor. He deeply enjoyed music, had keen appreciation of painting and sculpture, and could himself use pencil and brush. But the art for which he cared most was literature. In his early years he did some writing of stories, later he made literary research and criticism the main business of his life. He was acutely sensitive to literary style in every language that he knew, and he knew many. He read with varying skill Russian, English, French, Italian, German, Yiddish, Polish, Bohemian, Serbo-Croatian, Church Slavic, and Hebrew; he had studied Greek and Latin, but not beyond the high school stage. English became almost a second mother tongue for him. Yet, though he wrote our language with vigor and grace, he never developed for English literature the same love that he felt for Russian, and probably also for Hebrew. His critical writing was confined to Russian topics, but he bought many Hebrew books, planning to read them when he was past seventy. He read rapidly and formed quick, precise judgments. His contributions to Books Abroad are a running commentary on new Russian books and books about Russia. Probably no man in this country had so thorough a knowledge of recent Russian literature.
By nature unsystematic in his habits and impatient of pedagogy and academic routine, Kaun enjoyed lecturing to outside audiences more than instructing university students; and in the University he liked best his lecture classes on Russian literature and Russian institutions. He brought to many men and women the message of young Russia, aspiring and inspiring. Yet by a stern effort of the will he made himself also an effective teacher of the Russian language, with its elaborate grammatical system, so bafflingly and so drearily complicated for the average American student. He became a careful pedagogue and a conscientious administrator without losing the charm of his personality.
Kaun's reputation as a scholar will rest on three books: Leonid Andreyev, a Critical Study (1924), Maxim Gorky and His Russia (1931), and Soviet Poets and Poetry (1943). The first of these volumes, which is his doctoral dissertation, slightly revised, is an excellent piece of research, piecing together from a multitude of small sources a detailed biography and a convincing portrait of a man of no small force; it is also a sympathetic critical study. The book on Gorky, though it contains much good work, is not so well proportioned and in general is less adequate. Soviet Poets and Poetry is Kaun's masterpiece. In only 203 pages Kaun gives a clear account of a bewilderingly complex topic and--most precious quality in a critic--manages to make even the least expert reader interested in the poets whom he discusses. This study was to be followed by an account of Soviet literature as a whole. Alexander Kaun's life was cut short when he was at the prime of his powers.
Jerome Konigsberg, Medicine: San Francisco
| 1908-1944 | |
| Clinical Assistant |
Jerome Konigsberg was born June 23, 1908 in Bayonne, New Jersey. He was educated in the public schools of Bayonne. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1930 and then had one year in chemistry at New York University. Entering the University of California Medical School in 1931, he graduated in 1936. Dr. Konigsberg interned at the San Francisco Hospital; he was house officer and resident in Medicine for the University of California Service at the San Francisco Hospital, 1937-1938. He was on the Medical staff of Mount Zion Hospital and also engaged in private practice in San Francisco, specializing in internal medicine.
Dr. Konigsberg was commissioned in the United States Army Medical Reserve Corps in 1936, and was called to active duty on November 1, 1940. He served at Fort Ord until November 22, 1940, when he was sent to the Pacific as medical officer of the 147th Field Artillery. Later he was transferred to the 148th Field Artillery and had active service in Australia, New Guinea, and islands in the Pacific until his death in Sydney, Australia, February 4, 1944.
Thomas Joseph Lennon, Medicine: San Francisco
| 1896-1944 | |
| Clinical Instructor |
To live each day so that our every act is an example to those around us, by our actions rather than our words to influence for the better everyone with whom we have contact, by unfailing cheerfulness, friendliness, kindness and tact, yet with sincerity of purpose, fulfillment of obligations, and a fully developed sense of responsibility to make life better for those around us, is a standard of life which few attain. Thomas Joseph Lennon reached such a high standard. Every one of us who knew him was better for it, and that influence making itself felt without words, intangible, yet strong, continues to influence us.
He was born in San Francisco on January 27, 1896. He attended St. Ignatius College and received his degree of Bachelor of Arts there in 1916. In 1924 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of California. The same year he married Miss Katherine Buckley, who became the mother of his three children, Daniel, Patricia, and Katherine.
Following an internship at the San Francisco Hospital he continued his postgraduate studies at the National Heart Hospital in London and at the Affiliated Clinics of the University of Vienna.
After returning from Europe he followed the example of his brother, Dr. Milton Lennon, Professor of Neurology, with whom he was closely associated, by joining the Faculty of the University of California Medical School. As Chief of Medicine at St. Mary's Hospital he will be especially remembered by the numerous young men influenced by his excellent teaching and example.
His patriotism led him to accept a commission in the University
His experience in the Atlantic when the ship he was on was torpedoed served only to make him kinder and more thoughtful of others in distress. His cheerful bravery in the face of insurmountable odds at the end gives an indication of his character.
He was stricken in a happy moment of his life, for he had just returned from a visit with his son Daniel in the south of England. We first became aware that he was ill when he mentioned that climbing a hill one day caused him to have slight shortness of breath. He was told that he must enter the hospital. With a smile he consented, asking only that he be kept with his friends as long as possible and not be sent to a hospital among strangers. He remained at the hospital until the exigencies of war made it necessary to move the hospital. Tom was then sent to the United States for further treatment.
Never once did he complain. Two lines in a letter we received from him told us that the lesion we suspected, but hoped was not present, was beyond any doubt there--merely those two lines. He did not mention himself again, but wrote in his customary cheerful language.
We, the members of the University of California Unit, General Hospital No. 30, and members of the University of California Medical School Faculty, sorrowfully take leave of Tom Lennon with a profound sense of loss crowding our memories of him.
Charles Bernard Lipman, Botany: Berkeley
| 1883-1944 | |
| Professor of Plant Physiology | |
| Dean of the Graduate Division |
Charles Bernard Lipman, Professor of Plant Physiology and Dean of the Graduate Division, died in Berkeley on October 22, 1944. He was born in Moscow, Russia, August 17, 1883; and was brought to America at the age of six. His early education was obtained in the face of many hardships. For a time he supported himself by farm labor. The B.S. and M.S. degrees were awarded to him by Rutgers University, and later another M.S. degree by the University of Wisconsin. While he was a Goewey fellow at the University of California, he earned the degree of Ph.D. In later life the honorary degree of Sc.D. was conferred by Rutgers University. When he first came to the University of California in 1909, he formed a close association in his scientific researches with the distinguished investigators, Hilgard, Loeb, and Osterhout, and his early work was greatly influenced by them. He started at that time some of the pioneer studies on the antagonistic effects of salts on the growth of microorganisms and also established systematic research on the bacteria of arid and semiarid soils, a subject to which but little previous attention had been given in California. His general interests in the field of bacteriology and certain of his own observations led him in a later period to the study of the longevity of soil and other microorganisms. Dr. Lipman advanced the view that some types of microörganisms can survive in their resting stages over periods of time far longer than had generally been thought possible. In support of this view he submitted a large amount of experimental evidence, characterized by boldness of concept and originality of experimentation.
Very early in his career Dr. Lipman became impressed by the then insufficiently appreciated point of view that in the scientific study of the growth of crops, research is needed not only on the soil system but also on soil and plant interrelations, guided by understanding of plant physiology. His interest in the latter science stimulated him to give effective support to the establishment of the American Society of Plant Physiologists and to the development of its journal, of which he was an active associate editor for many years. In the field of study of plant physiology Dr. Lipman and his coworkers first reported conclusive experiments to prove the essentiality of minute quantities of certain chemical elements for the growth of higher plants. The significance of these experiments for agriculture later became apparent. His concern with research and education in the College of Agriculture was not limited to the specific technical fields he represented. At every opportunity he lent his influence to the cause of building a College of Agriculture in which fundamental scientific research and instruction worthy of a great university should be recognized as of paramount importance.
For twenty-one years Dr. Lipman served with distinction as Dean of the Graduate Division where he sought uncompromisingly to maintain high standards of scholarship as well as of administrative efficiency. He had a remarkably wide acquaintance with leaders in American universities and in the foundations supporting research. For many years he acted as a member of the Advisory Board of the Guggenheim Foundation and recently he also devoted much time and thought to the welfare of the Phi Beta Kappa society, as a member of its National Senate. Many other national or local organizations for the promotion of scholarship were indebted to him for conspicuously valuable service. Among these services may be mentioned his contributions as director of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation, chairman of Committee on Organization of the Sixth Pacific Science Congress, president of the California Chapter American-Scandinavian
Dr. Lipman's program of teaching was necessarily limited, but his enthusiasm for teaching never diminished, even in the midst of the most pressing duties of administration. His seminar for advanced students in plant science was one of his chief pleasures and became a valued source of guidance and inspiration for many participants.
His friends and colleagues will feel deeply the personal loss of Charles Lipman. They will cherish the memory of a man of great vitality, of high idealism, with uncommon gifts for hospitality and friendship, intensely earnest in all matters of principle, yet characteristically genial and keenly alive to the humorous aspects of education and of life in general.
Herbert Ingram Priestley, History: Berkeley
source. The memorial for Herbert Ingram Priestly did not appear in the original publication of In Memoriam, 1943-1945, but was published separately at an unknown date. For ease of use, the editors of the UC History Digital Archives incorporated
this additional memorial into the electronic edition of In Memoriam, 1943-1945.
source. The memorial for Herbert Ingram Priestly did not appear in the original publication of In Memoriam, 1943-1945, but was published separately at an unknown date. For ease of use, the editors of the UC History Digital Archives incorporated this additional memorial into the electronic edition of In Memoriam, 1943-1945.
| 1875-1944 | |
| Professor | |
| Director, Bancroft Library |
Herbert Ingram Priestley was born in Fair-field, Michigan, January 2, 1875, son of the Reverend John Stanley Priestley and Sarah Parker Priestley. In 1889 the family moved to Pomona, California, and Herbert entered Chaffey College, Ontario, from which he graduated in 1895. He attended the University of Southern California from 1896 to 1900, receiving the degree of Ph.B. in 1900. The following year he taught at the Los Angeles Military Academy. In 1901 he married Bessie Bell Snodgrass. From 1901 to 1904 he taught in a primary school for Filipinos at Naga, Camarines Sur, Luzon, Philippine Islands. From 1904 to 1907 he taught and served as principal in the Wilmington Grammar School, Wilmington, California, and at the same time pursued his graduate studies at the University of Southern California, from which he received his M.A. in 1907. He taught Spanish at the Riverside High School from 1907 to 1910, and from 1910 to 1912 he served as supervising principal of the Corona, California, schools.
His connection with the University of California began in 1912, when he was called to Berkeley as Assistant Curator of the newly acquired Bancroft Library. He continued his graduate work here and received his Ph.D. in History in 1917. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Mexican History in 1917 and Librarian of the Bancroft Library in 1920, a post which he filled until 1940, when he was made Director upon the retirement of Professor H. E. Bolton, serving in that capacity until his death in 1944. Meanwhile he had been advanced to Associate Professor of Mexican History in 1920 and to Professor in 1923.
In spite of a late start in his scholarly work, Professor Priestley achieved an early and extraordinary distinction in it. His doctoral dissertation, José de Gálvez, Visitor General of New Spain, won immediate recognition as an important pioneering work in the little-explored field of Spanish colonial administration, and for it he was awarded the second Loubat prize at Columbia University in 1918. Following his initial success, Professor Priestley wrote a semipopular history of Mexico, The Mexican Nation, in 1923, which has been a standard text ever since. His growing reputation as an authority in American colonial history
In view of Professor Priestley's extraordinary activity as a scholar it is all the more astonishing that he found ample time for his work with the
Professor Priestley was a patient and humorous teacher, wise in the ways of undergraduates, always on the lookout for those who showed more than a routine interest in his courses. In spite of the restricted demand for work in his field, a respectable number of graduates, thanks to his encouragement, achieved some distinction in it. Students found in him a sympathetic adviser, always willing (his loud protests to the contrary notwithstanding) to talk over their problems with them. Not content with mere oral advice, he went out of his way to help struggling students materially, on one occasion giving up his own office to a desperate Ph.D. candidate who had no place
William Emerson Ritter, Zoology: Berkeley and San Diego
| 1856-1944 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
William Emerson Ritter died on January 10, 1944. For several months his health was far from robust although his intellectual activity and clarity of mind were in no ways impaired. He had reached his eighty-eighth year, but he remained young in spirit, keenly interested in the basic problems of biology and their philosophical bearings. Within a month of his death a recently completed manuscript was accepted for publication.
Dr. Ritter was born at Hampden, Wisconsin, November 19, 1856. After graduating from the State Normal College at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1884, he taught for a few years in the schools of Wisconsin and California and then came to the University of California from which he was graduated in 1888. In 1891 he married Dr. Mary E. Bennett who, after practicing as a physician in Berkeley for several years, served the University as Lecturer on Hygiene and as medical examiner of women students. Very appropriately the University conferred the degree of LL.D. on W.E. Ritter and M.B. Ritter in 1933 and 1935, respectively.
Two higher degrees were taken at Harvard University, the M.A. in 1891 and the Ph.D. in 1893. After his return to California in 1891, Professor Ritter was made Instructor in Biology in the University, where he organized the first laboratory instruction in zoölogy. In 1894 he was made Assistant Professor of Biology. The following year, 1894-1895, was spent abroad where he studied in the Zoölogical Station at Naples and at the University of Berlin. He was advanced to an associate professorship in zoölogy in 1898, and to a full professorship in 1902.
While he was in charge of instruction in zoölogy in the University of California Dr. Ritter established summer laboratories at a number of places on the coast--Pacific Grove, Catalina Island, San Pedro, Coronado, and La Jolla, where he was followed by many students who were attracted by his stimulating instruction, his boyish enthusiasm, and his ever kindly and helpful attitude. He was always keenly interested in natural history, but his earlier researches were mainly in the field of comparative morphology. These resulted in the publication of several papers on the tunicata and other chordates.
During the summer spent at the seaside laboratories at Coronado and La Jolla, Dr. Ritter became acquainted with Mr. E.W. Scripps who became much interested in the possible contributions of biology to the scientific understanding of human nature and human social problems. As a result Mr. Scripps and his sister Ellen B. Scripps were led to establish the institute later known as the Scripps Institution for Biological Research. Dr. Ritter became its first director in 1902. The institution soon embarked upon a systematic plan of research on a wide scale. Its program involved subsidiary investigations in the field of oceanography and these came to include more and more of its activities. Accordingly its name was changed later to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The association between Dr. Ritter and Mr. Scripps bore fruit in another direction, the establishment of Science Service of which Dr. Ritter became the first president. Science Service is now an active agency in contributing reliable scientific information to the press throughout the country.
Dr. Ritter's published books afford a good index of the scope of his intellectual interests. They include War, Science and Civilization, 1915; The Higher Usefulness of Science, and Other Essays, 1918; The Probable Infinity of Nature and Life (1918); The Unity of the Organism and the Organismal Conception of Life, two volumes, 1919; An Organismal Theory of Consciousness, 1919; The Natural History of Our Conduct
It is not possible in a short space to give an adequate account of Dr. Ritter's contributions to biological thought. His observational and descriptive work was painstaking and sound; but his writings of greatest import are contained in his books and articles dealing with general topics. His general biological philosophy is ably developed with a wealth of pertinent facts in his two volumes on the unity of the organism, a work which has elicited favorable comment from a number of leading biologists and philosophers. He was deeply impressed with the unity of nature and the value of the “natural history mode of philosophizing,” not only in biology, but also in ethics and the social sciences. Man he regarded as a product of nature in all aspects of his being. Hence we can attain a really scientific knowledge of man only by recognizing his kinship with the rest of the organic world. This conclusion is especially emphasized in his last published book, The California Woodpecker and I, which is replete with valuable, original observations. Something of the message and spirit of this volume may be gleaned from its concluding sentence: “The Moral Law to which I, my birds, and all living things are subject is a basic element in the Web of Life; it is one of the profoundest manifestations of Nature's order, unifiedness, and oneness.”
Edward Thomas Williams, Oriential Languages and Literature: Berkeley
| 1854-1944 | |
| Professor of Oriental Languages, Emeritus |
Edward Thomas Williams was born in Columbus, Ohio, October 17, 1854, and died at Berkeley, California, January 27, 1944. He was educated at Bethany College, West Virginia. He received his bachelor's degree in 1875, his master's degree in 1893, and the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1915.
He first went to China in 1887, where he served as a Protestant missionary for nine years. In 1896 he was appointed interpreter to the American Consul General in Shanghai and later Chinese Secretary to the American Legation in Peking, where he remained from 1901 to 1908. He was Consul General at Tientsin from 1908 to 1909; and served as Assistant Chief of Division of Far Eastern Affairs in the State Department from 1909 to 1911. During the decisive years, 1911-1913, he was Secretary of the Legation in Peking, and Charge d'Affaires in 1911 and 1913. From 1914 to 1918 he was Chief of Division of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State.
In 1918 Professor Williams resigned from the State Department in order to accept the Agassiz chair in the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature in the University of California. He held this professorship until his retirement in 1927 with the exception of two interruptions when he again served the United States Government: in 1919 he went as technical delegate to the Versailles Peace Conference, and in 1921-1922 he was special assistant to the Department of State during the Conference on Limitations of Armaments and Pacific and Far Eastern Problems. Upon his retirement from academic work he presented to the University his extensive library of Chinese classics,
Professor Williams enjoyed a wide reputation as a good teacher and an accomplished speaker. He was also a well-known author who concentrated his interest chiefly on problems of modern Chinese legislation, politics, and history. His publications include such works as China Yesterday and Today (1923), A Short History of China (1928), Recent Chinese Legislations (1904), The State Religion under the Manchus (1913), and many monographs and articles.
His writings were well received and the first two books were adopted by several colleges as standard textbooks on China. He was a member of numerous learned societies and was decorated twice by the Chinese government (1918 and 1936). Professor Williams will be long remembered by his students and colleagues as the kind and venerable dean of American sinology, which unofficial title he bore with the quiet modesty and philosophic dignity so characteristic of the best representatives of the nation he knew and loved.
As a student of Far Eastern affairs Professor Williams showed unusual foresight. He predicted the present conflict as far back as 1919 when he denounced the Shantung decision of the peace conference before a United States Senate Committee “as constituting a standing menace to the whole world which might lead to another world conflict.” He visualized the development of Japanese expansion as the outcome of a program formulated in 1854.
Professor Williams is survived by his widow, Rose Sickler Williams, two sons, E.T. Williams and C.L.L. Williams, who returned from China shortly before their father's death, and two daughters, Mrs. T.M. Pinch of Florida and Miss Gladys Williams of the Carnegie Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Dorothea Clinton Woodworth, Classics: Los Angeles
| 1893-1944 | |
| Assistant Professor of Latin and Greek |
Dr. Woodworth was born in Portland, Oregon, January 27, 1893. Her mother was for many years secretary to the Superintendent of Schools and then an instructor in one of the high schools of that city. As a girl, Dr. Woodworth gave promise of the successful career to come. She graduated from Portland Academy at the age of sixteen, and from Bryn Mawr four years later. After teaching at Roosevelt High School, Portland, Oregon, for nine years, she enrolled for graduate work at the University of Chicago in 1921. There she took a great deal of work with Professor C.D. Buck. In 1922 she received her M.A. and in 1924 her Ph.D. in Latin with minors in Greek and Linguistics. While at Chicago she was married to a friend of her girlhood days, Lewis A. Woodworth. She had three sons and a daughter, all of them to become people of outstanding personalities. At Chicago she gave instruction in the Extension Division and was a teaching assistant in Classics. On attaining the doctorate she served on the staff of Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. In 1926 she was called as an instructor to the Department of Classics at the Los Angeles campus of the University of California. In 1928 she became an assistant professor.
Professor Woodworth was thoroughly devoted to her undertakings. She gave herself wholeheartedly to her students. In high school she had been progressive in the sense that she “sold” her subject; she kept this up in college. Her success in handling student clubs was noteworthy. She was counselor for many years. She stimulated a love of research. Many of those who had studied with her went on to Berkeley, Yale, and Chicago. For years after graduation many of her students kept up a correspondence that she faithfully acknowledged. She taught
Professor Woodworth died on August 10, 1944.
In Memoriam 1945
Anthony Faulkner Blanks, Public Speaking: Berkeley
| 1884-1945 | |
| Associate Professor |
With the death of Anthony Faulkner Blanks, Associate Professor of Public Speaking, the University lost one of its most devoted and most effective teachers.
Professor Blanks was born in Louisiana and from earliest childhood trained according to the finest traditions of the South. He graduated from Vanderbilt University at the age of twenty-one and turned almost immediately to teaching as his profession. His early teaching years were spent in various institutions in the South, in Ohio, and in New York, followed by a brief sojourn (1918-1919) in Japan as Professor of English in a Japanese college at Tokyo. That was a turning point in his career, for when he came back to the United States he adopted California as his home, and shortly thereafter became a permanent member of the faculty of the University of California.
His influence was felt far beyond the confines of this State, not only through the books he edited or assisted in editing, but also because of his generous services as a member of the curriculum commission on oral English of the National Council of Teachers of English, as director for the Pacific Southwest of the National Oratorical Contest on the Constitution, and as director, for Northern California, Nevada and Utah, of speakers in connection with the Vergilian Bimillenium Celebration.
These activities assured renown; but greater renown was his because of his extraordinary success as a speaker and lecturer on occasions of all sorts, and as a reader, especially of the drama. Everywhere in California his services as lecturer or reader were sought and sought again, and were always ungrudgingly rendered.
Though successful in all these ways, to teaching he brought an especially buoyant enthusiasm, winning both respect of colleagues and devotion of pupils. The coldly critical atmosphere of the study in which textbooks and scientific articles are prepared did not appeal to him; but rather the classroom with its warm, glowing, personal relationship between teacher and pupil, where good fellowship tempered by sober judgment and an intuitive understanding of individual misgivings generated the reward of mutual confidence and esteem. Thousands will long remember Tony Blanks as a potent and salutary influence in their lives.
Theodore Crété Burnett, Physiology: Berkeley
| 1861-1945 | |
| Associate Professor Emeritus |
Theodore Crété Burnett was born in Brooklyn, New York, December 6, 1861. After preparation in a private high school and by private tutors, he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, where he received the M.D. degree in 1887. Following his internship at the Brooklyn Hospital, he was for some months post surgeon at Ft. Niagara; he then resigned to become attending surgeon at the Brooklyn Orthopedic Dispensary and Laryngologist at the Brooklyn Dispensary, 1888 to 1891. From 1895 to 1899 he was attending physician in the eye department of the House of Mercy, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
In 1899 he discovered that pulmonary tuberculosis had made such headway that he was given but six months to live by the examining physicians. Deciding to fight this predicted fate, he gave up his position and practice and went to California where for three years he spent his winters in Santa Barbara and his summers in outdoor work on a ranch he acquired near Mount Shasta. Having by the end of that time been fully freed from the threat against his life, he went back to New York to “try out the climate,” but soon returned to California which he made his home for the rest of his life.
In 1902 the University of California set up a department of physiology with emphasis on research; a building was provided by Mr. Crocker, and Jacques Loeb was called to head the organization. Dr. Burnett met an enthusiastic assistant of Loeb's, J.B. MacCallum, who was on vacation near Burnett's ranch, and decided in 1903 to join him in physiological research. This incident permanently diverted him from his original choice of a career in the practice of medicine to a life
During 1913 Dr. Burnett served as ophthalmologist at the Student Infirmary, and in 1916 was Assistant Dean of the Medical School. In the period of the S.A.T.C. in the first World War, he rendered valuable service as post surgeon in connection with the influenza epidemic.
Even after his retirement, for several years he voluntarily assisted in laboratory class work when help was needed. In 1939 he went to Carmel to live. At the time of his final illness he entered a hospital in Oakland where he died December 18,1945.
From his first association with the Spreckels laboratory until his retirement Dr. Burnett was continually engaged in research. His attention was first directed to the effects of temperature on striped muscles and to antagonistic salt action and balanced salt solutions. He later studied the effects of lecithin, cholesterin, and extracts of the pituitary upon the growth of cancer and the development of metastases. Another series of papers dealt with liver extract, at first as to its effects on catalase action; later, as to its depressor action, which he showed was effective in conditions of hypertension in lowering the blood pressure, and giving symptomatic relief in many cases. He also prepared many abstracts for scientific journals, his last contributions of this type being published in 1938.
He was a member of a number of scientific and professional societies, among which were Sigma Xi, American Medical Association,
In 1890 Dr. Burnett married Isabelle Nannette Cherbuliez who died in 1918. Their daughter Marguerite (Mrs. H. S. Glidden of Berkeley) survives him. In 1934 he married Mrs. Ruth Dexter Louis, who survived him but a few months.
Dr. Burnett had a very friendly nature. He was a member of several clubs of which he enjoyed most the Bohemian Club and its annual encampments, and the Faculty Club where he lived some fifteen years. Whatever he undertook--whether work or play--he approached with enthusiasm. His was an unassuming gentle spirit, generous to others, demanding little for himself, open to conviction, undogmatic.
Bruce Lawrence Clark, Paleontology: Berkeley
| 1880-1945 | |
| Associate Professor | |
| Curator of Invertebrate Collections, Museum of Paleontology |
Bruce Clark was born in Humboldt, Iowa, on May 29, 1880. His father's people had been Americans since Colonial days and had gradually moved West, taking up land and farming. His mother's family, the O'Connors, came from Cork, Ireland, and homesteaded in eastern Iowa.
Bruce's father was a semi-invalid, so when only ten years old, Bruce helped to support the family. At fourteen he hired out as a farm hand, attending school in winter. At seventeen he graduated from the teacher's course at Humboldt College and the next year began teaching along with his farm work.
The family moved to Chino in southern California, returned to Iowa, and then came back again to California. Bruce entered Pomona College in 1904, graduated with a premedical diploma in 1908, and then entered the University of California, obtaining an M.A. in geology the next year.
Under the influence of John C. Merriam, he entered the field of invertebrate paleontology, becoming Merriam's assistant in 1910 and an instructor in 1911. In 1913 he received his doctorate. His thesis was on the fauna of San Pablo Miocene in the Bay area.
In 1918 he became assistant professor and later the first director of the Museum of Paleontology, which was founded by Miss Annie M. Alexander in 1921. In 1923 he became associate professor and following the death of W. D. Matthew, was for a time Acting Chairman of the Department of Paleontology, afterwards continuing as Curator of Invertebrates in the Museum. Because of his illness he
Bruce Clark was exceedingly generous, friendly, and coöperative, always ready to give his time ungrudgingly to discussion and comment. He pursued his own research with a vigorous and contagious enthusiasm which was especially stimulating to students. He attracted scores of graduates who are now in teaching and in pioneer work with oil companies in the East Indies, Arabia, Mexico, and South America. Among these are many distinguished students who remember him with great affection.
He devoted his abundant energy and even his personal funds to the welfare of his students. He inspired his students to take up field problems and he accompanied them to the field. He was careful to point out interpretations which differed from his own. If he could avoid it, no differences of opinion ever stood in the way of his friendship for another.
Doctor Clark brought together in the Museum the greatest collections of Tertiary megafossils, Foraminifera, and Radiolaria ever assembled in Western North America. He traveled extensively also in eastern United States, in Europe, and in Mexico, adding to his extensive knowledge of the systematic and geographic relationships of his faunas. His knowledge of Tertiary invertebrates was profound and he could identify material with skill and rapidity. Yet his impulsiveness sometimes led him into error which cost him some pains to correct.
He was recognized as the great leader in his West Coast field, revealing a large part of the present Tertiary evidence through his own research and collaboration with students.
He devoted many years toward mapping the complex geology of the Mount Diablo Quadrangle, which he finally admitted was an unfortunate digression; yet he felt he must see it through and was greatly disappointed that he could not live to complete it.
In the course of the Mount Diablo survey he arrived at an interesting and unusual theory of Tectonics--faulting before folding--which he applied to the study of the coast ranges in general. In this theory he maintained that the main fault blocks are very old, extending into the Mesozoic, and that the alleged subsequent folding was predetermined by these faults.
Doctor Clark's contributions to stratigraphic and faunal paleontology, continued through thirty years, include many substantial contributions. Altogether, his research and teaching have been of profound importance in fields in which there have been many other prominent investigators.
Doctor Clark was active in his public and scientific relations. He organized coöperative seminars such as the one on paleontology in memory of Matthew. He fostered and promoted the Mount Diablo Museum project. He was an active member of many scientific societies, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological Society, and the LeConte Club.
He was a deeply religious man and held positions of high honor in his church. His youthful struggle to accept the theory of evolution without betraying family loyalties was a vivid memory which made him tolerant of personal feelings and beliefs.
He married Delia Elden in 1912. Their son, Bruce Elden, was in the South Pacific with the Seabees, and their daughter, Elizabeth Elden, was a Second Lieutenant in the Army Nurses Corps.
Ermon Dwight Eastman, Chemistry: Berkeley
| 1891-1945 | |
| Professor |
Ermon Dwight Eastman, Professor of Chemistry, was born in Marysville, California, November 30, 1891. He attended the Marysville schools through the lower grades and graduated from high school after a final year in the Fremont High School, Oakland. He entered the College of Chemistry of the University of California where he received the B.S. degree in 1913, one year after the reorganization of the Department of Chemistry under the late Gilbert N. Lewis. From 1912 to 1917 he served as a teaching assistant in chemistry and during this interval engaged in graduate work. The M.S. degree was granted him in 1914 and he received the Ph.D. degree in 1917, after which he was appointed an instructor in chemistry. His recognized ability brought him rapid advancement through the intervening academic ranks to that of professor in 1931.
Professor Eastman was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1932-1933 as a result of which he spent a year in Munich studying the structure and properties of atomic nuclei. At the time of his sudden death from a heart attack, May 19, 1945, he was codirector of an important research program for the Manhattan Engineering District on the chemistry of plutonium.
He is survived by his widow, Ann Gunn Eastman, and two daughters, Jeanne and Elizabeth.
The research activities of Professor Eastman led to the publication of thirty-eight scientific papers, of which he was either sole or joint author. In 1942, with G. K. Rollefson, he published a book on physical chemistry. Most of his contributions dealt with various problems in chemical thermodynamics. By experimental data as well as theoretical
He was an effective teacher, spending his efforts with equal generosity upon graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and freshmen. His expositions were models of organization and clarity. He was beloved by his colleagues in the department for his kindly spirit, his wisdom, his tolerance, and his generous sharing of the burdens of departmental work. His dignified bearing, subtle humor, and friendliness caused him to be sought as a companion.
The rest of the University came to recognize these same qualities
Alva F. Englehart, Military Science and Tactics: Berkeley
| 1895-1945 | |
| Professor |
Colonel Alva F. Englehart, Coast Artillery Corps, United States Army, died suddenly of a heart attack on April 15, 1945.
From July 5, 1944 to the time of his death he was Professor of Military Science and Tactics, and was also in command of Army units at the University of California in Berkeley. Before coming to the University of California, he held a similar position with the University of San Francisco.
He was born in Laclede, Missouri, on January 31, 1895. He received the A.B. degree in 1917 from Missouri Wesleyan College, at Cameron, Missouri. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1921-1922.
He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps of the regular Army on March 22, 1917, and attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1939. He was promoted to the temporary rank of Colonel in the Army of the United States on February 1, 1942, and held that rank until his death. He was a graduate of the Coast Artillery School and the Command and General Staff School. His regular Army service, in addition to his service in World War I and World War II, included tours in the Philippines and Hawaii, and on the Coast Artillery Board.
He was retired from active duty because of physical disability incurred in line of duty on January 31, 1942, but was recalled to active duty the next day.
His widow, Helen Grimes Englehart, and a five-year-old daughter, Helen Ann, survive him.
He was an officer both broadly educated and highly trained technically,
Although retirement because of physical disability came to him at an age and at a time when he might look forward to distinction in active service, he never allowed this to shadow his cheerful and kindly outlook on life nor to abate one with his able and energetic performance of wartime duty. Faithful to the highest standards of his profession, he carried on to the very end and laid down his life for his country as truly as if he had fallen in battle.
Henry Rand Hatfield, Accounting: Berkeley and Systemwide
| 1866-1945 | |
| Professor |
Henry Rand Hatfield was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 27, 1866, son of Reverend Robert Miller Hatfield and Elizabeth Taft Hatfield; and died on December 25, 1945 in Berkeley, California. He was married to Ethel Adelia Glover in 1898, and is survived by his widow and two children, John Glover Hatfield and Elizabeth Glover, and six grandchildren. A second son, Robert Miller Hatfield, died in 1927 at the age of twenty-five.
Professor Hatfield attended school in Evanston, Illinois and here, in 1884, he entered Northwestern University. After two years of college he withdrew to take employment in a bond house; but five years later he returned to complete work for a bachelor's degree. Following this he enrolled at the University of Chicago where he received, in 1897, the degree of Ph.D. His chief college interest was in the classics. He studied economics and political science, however, at Northwestern and Chicago and these studies enabled him to accept an instructorship at Washington University, St. Louis, in 1893. In 1898 he was appointed instructor at the University of Chicago. Two years later, at the suggestion of the University but not at its expense, he visited Germany to observe the organization of business teaching in that country. The University of Chicago had established its College of Commerce and Administration in 1898, the same year in which he had joined its staff, and the survey of German practice was undertaken in the interest of this technical program. In 1902 he was appointed assistant professor and dean of the new college, serving until 1904.
His connection with the University of California began in 1904,
During World War I Professor Hatfield was on leave from the University of California from July, 1918 to June, 1919. For most of this time he was Director of the Division of Planning and Statistics of the War Industries Board--a responsible position in which his technical competence, his administrative ability, and his skill in establishing friendly relations with his associates, were displayed. After the War Industries Board ceased operations he remained in Washington for a few months as expert with the Advisory Tax Board, discussing the formulation of government policy during the period immediately following the war.
His friends and associates will always remember him as a shrewd, witty, and affectionate person, endowed with a breadth of interest which caused him to be helpful to many people in many ways. This
His contribution to the profession includes organization work of the first quality assisting in the reorganization of the State Board of Accountancy, and in the formation of the California State Society of Certified Accountants soon after he arrived in California. These new or revived institutions introduced new methods into local practice at a time when the morale of California accountants was at its lowest ebb.
His ideas upon accounting were even more significantly expressed in written form. Here his major work was the volume Modern Accounting, published in 1908, repeatedly reprinted, and in 1927 rewritten and enlarged under the title of Accounting, its Principles and Problems. Before 1908, when Modern Accounting was first issued, almost nothing above the level of discussion of technical rules and perfunctory procedures had been written on the subject for many years; Hatfield's original and systematic discussion has been described as a white light in a previously rather dark landscape. By 1927 the situation had changed somewhat; but his fuller treatment was again welcomed with appreciation and respect, and the later volume has preserved its significance during the following years. In 1938 and 1940 he rounded out his contribution by preparing considered statements of accounting principles in collaboration with other writers.
Besides these major works, Professor Hatfield exerted influence through a long succession of reviews and articles providing selective, constructive, and critical discussion of accounting principles as they were stated and restated in England and in the United States over more than two decades. His concise and vigorous style, his clarity of thought and tinge of humor, and his practice of restricting each article
Finally, and this amounted to more than a diversion in his long career, Professor Hatfield maintained a consistent interest in the history of his subject, which resulted in the accumulation of a substantial body of little-known material and in the publication of many articles. In this work he benefited from the classical training of his early days. It is probably safe to say that he was the best informed scholar on the history of accounting in the United States and perhaps in any country. His persistent historical studies and his sound general knowledge enabled him to trace the beginnings of practice and of theories upon which modern systems have been built. It is a loss to economic and to cultural history that the fruits of his research were never gathered together and comprehensively set forth.
Professor Hatfield, at one time or another, was president of the American Association of University Instructors in Accounting, vice president of the American Economic Association, delegate of the United States Government to the International Congress on Commercial Education, and Honorary Member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. From 1923 to 1928 he was Senator of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1928 Beta Alpha Psi, the national accounting fraternity, gave him an award for the most outstanding contribution to the literature of accountancy for that year. He was Dickinson lecturer at Harvard in 1942. He received the LL.D. degree from Northwestern University in 1923 and from the University of California in 1940. In conferring this last degree President Sproul referred to him as a “constant champion of the logical approach, the sane view, and the clear disclosure of the essential facts of goods and proprietorship; discoverer of scientific principles and sound philosophy in a field obscured by dogma and convention; one able to find life and even humor in the dust of ledgers.” The essential modesty of the man was
Olly Jasper Kern, Agricultural Education: Berkeley
| 1861-1945 | |
| Assistant Professor Emeritus |
Olly Jasper Kern was, in his day, the leading advocate of the introduction of the study of agriculture into the public schools and was a pioneer in bringing the need for elementary vocational education to the attention of the nation.
Olly J. Kern was born on a farm in Moultrie County, Illinois on January 1, 1861. His whole life was associated with the open country and the out-of-doors. He attended country schools and, because of the lack of a high school in his locality went directly from grade school into De Pauw University. There he obtained the usual classical education, but failed to graduate because of eyesight difficulties.
In 1889, Olly Kern married Jessie C. Allen. Of their four children, two graduated from the University of Illinois and two from the University of California.
In 1891, he became principal of a four-room village school and eight years later county superintendent of schools of Winnebago County, Illinois. He continued in that office until 1913, when he came to the University of California as assistant professor of agricultural education. It was owing to his work and experiences in Winnebago County that Kern achieved his national reputation. He was a leader in movements for school gardens, for traveling libraries, for agricultural clubs of rural boys and girls, and for improvements in rural school buildings. Under his guidance the first consolidated rural school in Illinois was established.
Kern's pioneer work brought him requests for lectures from other states. Much of his time in his later years in Winnebago County was given to lecture tours throughout the nation. The list of states that
In October 1913, he came to the University of California as a member of the enlarged staff of the College of Agriculture, a staff that was brought together from over the nation under the leadership of the new dean, Thomas Forsyth Hunt. Here in California, Kern continued his pioneer work until his retirement in 1930 at the age of seventy. For fifteen years thereafter Kern remained a resident of Berkeley. His death on August 12, 1945, occurred in his eighty-fifth year. During his seventeen years of active service in the University he gave instruction in courses on the country school, on nature study, and the rural community. He also continued to be active in traveling and lecturing. Kern himself is authority for the statement that in those years at the University he delivered in California, 1272 extension lectures to an aggregate audience of 233,170 and that in so doing, he traveled 171,257 miles. His inspirational addresses were greatly appreciated by the rural people of the state.
Although Kern received a classical education he was accustomed to say, “There is educational value in corn roots, as well as in Greek roots.” His ability to detect these educational values in the life of the country made him famous. His pleasant smile and sense of humor endeared him to a very large number of people.
Frank Worthington Lynch, Obstetrics and Gynecology: San Francisco
| 1871-1945 | |
| Professor |
Frank Worthington Lynch died suddenly at his home in San Francisco on January 12, 1945. His death ended the enviable career of one of the most prominent educators and authors in the field of obstetrics and gynecology of this generation and brought a deep sense of loss to the many in the profession who had been his associates and friends.
Doctor Lynch's dynamic force, untiring spirit, his thirst for scientific research, and his engaging and sympathetic personality, combined with his skill and experience as a surgeon, and his zeal advancing the interest of his students to make him an exceptionally inspiring teacher. He had an earnest and oratorical ease of expression that impressed his precepts into the memories of his students and which made him a leader in the many scientific societies of which he was a member.
His loss is very real to those who have sat under him as students and to those who were his resident assistants before entering their own fields of endeavor. For all these his keen desire for their success and his intense lasting interest in their work was one of the characteristic traits which endeared him to them.
To his patients his loss is irremediable. In his intense feeling for each one's personal problem he gave to each one all that he had of sympathy, understanding, patience, and the force of his fighting spirit for their welfare. To each one of them he was a great champion and friend, the truly great physician.
In his accomplishments and honors, the medical profession takes great pride.
Born in 1871, Doctor Lynch received his A.B. at Western Reserve
Although several years before his death he had suffered a coronary accident which left him so badly crippled that pain and intense suffering were his daily companions, his spirit was unconquerable. Rather than permit himself the rest in retirement that held out relief and prolongation of his days, he moved his private office to a downtown location, expressing to his physician a determination to die in the harness rather than to give up. His sense of obligation to his patients transcended any consideration of his own condition. So, after a trying operation upon a patient, he died quietly in his sleep that night.
Doctor Lynch was a member of the editorial board of Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics; American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Western Journal of Surgery; member of the advisory board of the Committee on Prenatal and Maternal Care, White House Conference; member of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology; honor guest of the Pan American Surgical Congress, 1936; fellow of the American College of Surgeons (Board of Governors; vice-president, 1937-1938); member of the American Medical Association (Chairman of the Section on Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1924); California Medical Association (Chairman of the Section on Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1922); San Francisco County Medical Society; San Francisco Obstetrical and Gynecological Society (President, 1930); San Francisco Pathological Society; Pacific Coast Surgical Society; Pacific Coast Obstetrical Society (President, 1931); Member Obstetrical Advisory Committee of the Children's Bureau,
He was coauthor of Pelvic Neoplasms (with A. F. Maxwell), 1922; contributed chapters to American Practice of Surgery, 1911; Oxford Surgery, 1921; Nelson's Loose Leaf Surgery, 1928; Davis' Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1933; Curtis' Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1933; The Treatment of Cancer, 1937. He also contributed numerous articles on gynecology and obstetrics to American and foreign medical journals.
Doctor Lynch was married in 1904 to Rowena Tyng Higginson, who, together with their son, Frank W. Lynch, Jr., survive him, and to whom the members of the medical profession through this bulletin express their deep sympathy in their bereavement.
It is with pride and pleasure that this great doctor and inspiring teacher is remembered: pride in his success in advancing the standards of his profession, and pleasure in his charming personality and loyalty in friendship.
Orrin Kip McMurray, Jurisprudence: Berkeley
| 1869-1945 | |
| Professor of Law, Emeritus | |
| Dean Emeritus of the School of Jurisprudence |
The who's who facts of the life tell little of the real man. Orrin Kip McMurray was born in San Francisco, November 25, 1869; and died January 31, 1945, leaving a widow and three children. He was educated in the Urban School of San Francisco and in the University of California; he was a distinguished scholar of the Class of 1890. He graduated from Hastings Law School in 1893 and practiced law in San Francisco from 1893 to 1904. He did part-time teaching at Hastings and Berkeley in 1902. He was a professor in the School of Jurisprudence from 1907 to 1940 and Dean from 1923 to 1936. He was President of the Association of American Law Schools, 1925; member of the Board of Freeholders Charter for Alameda County; member of the State Constitutional Committee; member of the American Law Institute. In addition he was author of articles in various legal periodicals and encyclopedias.
What is it that gives significance to this life as a member of the faculty of the University of California? Born only twenty years after the Gold Rush of '49, his roots were firmly embedded in his native state. California of the nineteenth century was a pioneer state. Those were the horse-and-buggy days. There were no elevators, no telephones, no typewriters, no law factories until late in the century. There were, however, many adventurous, brilliant men. Some of these survived to the end of the nineteenth century. McMurray knew them personally. He was steeped in the case law, statutory law, and the history and personnel of the bench and bar of California. It would have been, however, a provincial law had it included nothing more
Not having been exposed to the direct influence of great law teachers (he liked to quote John Bright that `great thinkers usually think wrong') he did his own thinking and consequently took a free and original view of the law. His mind was essentially that of the humanist. Pedantic classification and reduction to system killed for him the life he was studying and living. It was sometimes baffling to hear him express one view one day and something quite different the next. Yet both were parts of a whole, a whole most of us are unable to grasp. Many of us have had the disillusioning experience of witnessing the shattering of systems developed by the great teachers of our youth. They tried to do too much--to enclose life in a formula and life has had its revenge and left them stranded. It is interesting to reread McMurray's writings of thirty years ago, Changing Conceptions of Law and of Legal Institutions, Field's Work as Lawyer and Judge in California, Liberty of Testation and Some Modern Limitations Thereon, and the inimitable notes contributed to the California Law Review. We are just catching up with them. They were prophetic and have a quality of timelessness.
McMurray's legal system, if system it can be called, was achieved not by abstract contemplation but by direct observation of, and participation in, life itself. There was no attempt to reduce that life to an academic formula. There was the simple reaction of a mind sensitive to “the needs of mankind struggling for utterance.” The utterance of those needs was dictated by no ulterior motive of popular acclaim, financial reward, or political or academic preferment. Their expression was clothed in felicitous words, not by conscious phrase-making but the natural spontaneous language of a mind steeped in
Carl Copping Plehn, Economics: Berkeley
| 1867-1945 | |
| Professor of Finance, Emeritus |
Carl Copping Plehn was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on June 20, 1867. After his graduation from Brown University in 1889, he spent two years at the University of Göttingen, where he received the Ph.D. degree in 1891. He was one of the last of that generation of scholars in economics to include study at German universities as a significant part of their education. Among his contemporaries in this respect were Taussig of Harvard, Seligman of Columbia, Ely of Wisconsin, and many others. The development of graduate instruction and facilities for study in this country have made our own provision for advanced study relatively sufficient for our needs; but it is nevertheless true that the wide contact with contrasting types of thought and the easy familiarity with several languages, which a combination of American and foreign training brought about, supplied advantages which Dr. Plehn demonstrated in his career.
Upon his return from Germany, Dr. Plehn was appointed Professor of History and Political Science at Middlebury College. A year later (1893) he was called to the University of California as Assistant Professor of History and Political Science. The department of which he became a member consisted of one professor, two associate professors, one instructor, and one fellow, and offered twenty courses covering subjects now taught in the departments of History, Jurisprudence, Political Science, and Economics. Dr. Plehn began his academic career before the great specialization had occurred which characterizes modern work in the social sciences as, indeed, it characterizes work in other disciplines. The need for division of tasks in attacking current problems is obvious, but his generation enjoyed a wider horizon the
In 1897 Dr. Plehn was made Associate Professor of Economics and in the following year, Associate Professor of Finance and Dean of the Faculty of the newly established College of Commerce, holding the latter position until 1910. In 1904 his title was changed to Associate Professor of Finance and Statistics on the Flood Foundation, and in 1907 he was appointed Professor of Finance on the Flood Foundation. In 1926 he became Flood Professor of Finance, a position he occupied until his retirement in 1937. In addition to serving as administrative head of the College of Commerce, he was for several years Chairman of the Department of Economics.
Dr. Plehn's published writings early established him as a scholar of high order. His Introduction to Public Finance, the first edition of which was published in 1896, was for many years the standard treatise used in courses in public finance in American colleges and universities. In addition to this treatise, which went through five editions, he published two other books in the field of governmental finance and taxation and a large number of monographs and articles. The bulk of his writing was in the field of public finance and taxation, although his
His record of public service was equally distinguished. He served as chief statistician with the Philippine Commission in 1900 and 1901, and from 1905 to 1911 he was Secretary of the Commission on Revenue and Taxation of the State of California. In the latter capacity, he was primarily responsible for the fundamental change in the California state tax system effected by constitutional amendment in 1910. For more than thirty years he exerted a significant influence on tax practice in California by virtue of his extensive and accurate knowledge of state finance, his ability to combine a capacity for detail with a steady regard for principle, and his tact in presenting his conclusions to the State Legislature. He succeeded during many years in offering advice with respect to contentious problems without partisanship or commitment to a political as distinguished from a scientific point of view. It was doubtless this trait of character which accounts for the generally high esteem in which he was held at Sacramento although his abilities would in any case have commanded respect.
His contributions to the field of economics were recognized by his selection as President of the American Economic Association in 1923 and as Faculty Research Lecturer on this campus in 1924.
He played an important part in shaping the system of contributory retiring allowance which protects members of the faculty at the present time. When he began work upon this problem, the University had just realized its financial inability to continue a retirement system that had been possible in earlier days. The problem before the administration and faculty then was to find a substitute which was administratively feasible and practically helpful and would replace the old liberal but insecure arrangements. Dr. Plehn's knowledge of and sympathy with the faculty, along with his training in finance, enabled him to contribute effectively in this important undertaking.
His relationships with faculty and students of the University of
Ralph Henry Smith, Entomology: Riverside and Los Angeles
| 1888-1945 | |
| Professor | |
| Entomologist in the Agricultural Experiment Station |
Ralph Henry Smith, Professor of Entomology and Entomologist in the Agricultural Experiment Station, was born on a farm at Kincaid, Kansas, June 7, 1888, of American parentage. He died at his home in Los Angeles on September 22, 1945.
He attended the country schools near Kincaid, and after two years at the Garrett High School he taught two terms in a country school before he was twenty years old. After graduation from the Kansas State Teachers' College at Emporia, he taught for one year in the high school at Blue Rapids, Kansas, and then served as Superintendent of Schools in Irving, Kansas, for the next two years. After graduating with an A.B. degree in 1916 from the University of Kansas, he accepted a teaching fellowship for one year at the Oregon State College at Corvallis. In 1917 he entered the University of California at Berkeley, where he held a teaching fellowship in Zoology while studying for an M.A. degree, which he received in 1918. Then the federal government put him in charge of a war emergency project on the control of clover aphis at Twin Falls, Idaho. At the end of the war the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station took over the project and established a sub-station at Twin Falls with Dr. Smith in charge.
In 1922 he accepted the position of research entomologist for the California Central Creameries in San Francisco, where for two years he conducted extensive studies on the control of the codling moth and also with casein as a supplement in agricultural sprays.
In the fall of 1924 he reentered the University of California at Berkeley, where he completed the work on his Ph.D. degree in the
In March of 1926 he became Assistant Entomologist in the University of California Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside. Here his outstanding researches on petroleum oil as an insecticide for use against insects on citrus and his development and perfection of the tank-mix oil spray earned him his rapid promotion to the position of Entomologist in 1931. While at Riverside, he served on the City Board of Education and was particularly active in the development of better school facilities in that city.
In 1936 he transferred to the Los Angeles Campus with the additional title of Lecturer in Entomology. In 1938 he was made Professor of Entomology.
After settling in Los Angeles he investigated the insects affecting ornamental plants, and devised means for their control. At the time of his death he was conducting extensive experiments on the use of the insecticide DDT in the control of insect pests of ornamental plants.
Dr. Smith has published many articles which are worthy contributions to the science of entomology. Death prevented his completing two books, The Insect Pests of Ornamental Plants in the United States and The History of Oil Sprays.
He was a very successful teacher. His illustrative teaching materials, such as
rikerand other mounts of insects in their various stages of development, together with preserved specimens of plant material showing typical insect injury, are unsurpassed.
Although in later life he was not strong physically, his ambition and determination drove him to great heights of endeavor, and he accomplished noteworthy results in many walks of life. His splendid character, high ideals, honesty, and friendliness made him a man of great worth in his home life, society, and in his profession.
He was married in 1914 to Sarah Fake, a fellow school teacher in
Francis Bertody Sumner, Biology: San Diego
| 1874-1945 | |
| Professor Emeritus |
With the death of Francis Bertody Sumner on September 6, 1945, the staff of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography lost a close friend and distinguished colleague.
Dr. Sumner was born August 1, 1874, at Pomfret, Connecticut, the son of Arthur and Mary Augusta (Upton) Sumner. His boyhood was spent in Oakland, California, Colorado Springs, and later in Minneapolis. He graduated in 1894 from the University of Minnesota, where through the influence of Professor Henry F. Nachtrieb he chose zoology for his life work. In the Graduate School of Columbia University, he worked under the guidance of three of the country's leading zoologists, Professors Edmund B. Wilson, Henry F. Osborn, and Bashford Dean. He received the Ph.D. degree from Columbia in 1901.
For several years Dr. Sumner taught an undergraduate course in natural history at the College of the City of New York. From this experience he concluded that he lacked the aptitude for undergraduate teaching. Accordingly, he decided to enter some field of research in biology. From 1903 to 1911 he was Director of the Biological Laboratory of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries at Woods Hole. Here, Sumner and several associates conducted an extensive biological survey of the neighboring seas and sea coasts. He also found time to carry on studies of the interrelations between heredity and environment, using mice as his material and this field of research was his chief interest for twenty-seven years.
After serving two years, 1911 to 1913, as naturalist on the Bureau of Fisheries Steamer Albatross, in a survey of the physical and biological conditions of San Francisco Bay, the welcome opportunity of resuming
These contributions brought him much distinction, as indicated by his election to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences.
Next in importance to biological theory were his ingenious experiments confirming the reality of adaptive coloration in the selective survival of individuals and, hence, in evolution. Later he conducted detailed studies on the changes in the pigmentation of fishes subjected to different conditions of lighting. His published papers demonstrate the extreme care he took in devising and executing experiments, and in analysing and interpreting the results.
His acceptance of the field method, supplemented by appropriate experiments, and, as far as possible, involving quantitative measurements to be subjected to mathematical analysis, was in harmony with the general point of view prevailing at the Scripps Institution. Although oceanographic research continued to be the leading field of activity, Dr. Sumner was always able to present the case for his work on land mammals in such a convincing manner as to secure a fair
Dr. Sumner was truly a naturalist and had broad interests, as is evidenced by the large number of his publications relating to sociology, psychology, philosophy, and conservation. His central interest, however, remained chiefly in pure, or fundamental science. His last publication, The Life History of an American Naturalist, a fascinating autobiography, appeared in print shortly before his death.
All who worked with him will miss the stimulation of his scholarly discussion and his entertaining sense of humor.
In 1903 Dr. Sumner married Margaret Elizabeth Clark. His widow and their son and two daughters survive him.
Thomas A. Watson, Engineering: Los Angeles
| 1892-1945 | |
| Assistant Professor of Mechanic Arts |
Thomas Adamson Watson, veteran of World War I, zealous civilian participant in World War II, loyal and energetic member of the University, staunch citizen of the community, state, and nation, died April 22, 1945. In a larger sense Tom's presence is still with us and will remain for he so lived that part of himself was given to every significant job that came his way.
He was born on the third day of November, 1892, in Glasgow, Scotland. His grammar school education was concluded at the age of thirteen years. During the following five years he completed a Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship and promptly sailed for the United States where he became a citizen in the country of his choice. Between 1910 and 1917 he served with several large industrial companies in the New England states, in the development of models for various devices and as a gauge maker. His thirst for education was evidenced by continuous attendance at evening high school classes and other special courses.
When the United States entered World War I Tom resigned his position with the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to enlist in the armed forces. Within three months he was in France and shortly thereafter was in the thick of battle. During the battles of the Meuse-Argonne and St. Mihiel he was gassed and wounded with shrapnel. Following the Armistice he served eight months with our occupation forces and during this time attended the U. S. Army Engineering School in Berncastle, Germany.
It is characteristic of Tom that he was able to rise to an Assistant Professorship in the University without having had a formal secondary school or college education. Shortly before his death he was invited to join the faculty of the new College of Engineering as an Associate Professor.
Professor Watson played a very active part with those who worked to secure the enabling legislation and appropriations for establishing engineering on the Los Angeles campus. Tom's place in Engineering will be difficult to fill because he was uniquely qualified in the fields of tool design, production engineering, and as a liaison officer who knew the industries of southern California and the key men in them more intimately than any other man in the entire University.
Tom's full stature became fully apparent in the Engineering, Science, Management War Training Program. His contributions to the war effort through this agency were imaginative and far-reaching and in large measure were responsible for the success of that part of the program involving tooling and production methods. The outstanding success of the University of California War Training Program attracted nation-wide attention and became a model in many industrial areas. The entire nation can well pay tribute to Tom for the very conspicuous role he played in organizing the technical training of about 75,000 workers in fields where very few trained persons were available. Tom gave everything he had and more to this program. Close associates could see that he was driving himself too hard, but he could not be dissuaded. There was a job to be done and he did it. He died at it.
Professor Watson wrote and published relatively little in the conventional sense of those words. His communications were largely by word of mouth and what he has published will live as long as machines are made. They live in the form of methods of tool design, production methods, workable and working ideas incorporated into
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