In that same year, he accepted an assistant professorship at L.A. State College in both chemistry and microbiology. Although Alzheimers disease slowly caused his decline, Bob kept his affectionate nature to the end of his life, still blowing kisses to the nursing staff who cared for him in his last days. he balances a love of the arts with his passion for the sciences: he plays the piano and is a professional oboist who performed with the San Diego Symphony while a student at San Diego State. Tom was devoted to his wife Sharon, with whom he shared a love for music. He joined the History Department at Cal State LA in 1962 and retired as professor emeritus in 1997. After finishing his Ph.D., Mike accepted a prestigious Bateman Instructorship at Caltech. The Emeritimes, Fall 2002 MARY ALICE PEAIRS, Curriculum Librarian, 1952-1972, died in early November 2002 at the age of 98. Everyone with whom you talk about John Greenlee describes him with such simple words as "calm," "cool, "relaxed," "never irritated," "easy to talk with," and "a patient listener." That same semester, Bruce was elected chair of the department for the period 1970 to 1973. Byong-kon retired in 1994 for health reasons, needing a bypass operation. Early this year, he underwent surgery, from which he expected to recover, and he planned to resume teaching in September. In 2001, he drove extensively in Europe, through Poland, Germany, and Austria. His father was a plumbing contractor who died when Sig was 10. In his professional field of secondary education, Rogers was a contributor to professional research journals and served extensively over the years on accrediting committees of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Her deep sense of the dignity and value of every individual were hallmarks of her personal relationships, her teaching, and her scholarship. After World War II and his three years of military service, he returned to the University of Iowa, where he earned his Ph.D. and subsequently taught marketing from 1950 to 1970, the year he was hired by the School of Business and Economics at Cal State L.A. He and his wife, Beverly, have resided in Cambria Pines, CA, since their retirement in 1975. It was a race against time completing the last edition, but she was able to finish it and actually received a copy shortly before her death. The Nigerian people awarded Bill the honorary title of "chief professor" as a title of respect and appreciation. It was then that she met her second husband, Bernard Warner, a professor of health and safety studies at Cal State L.A., whom she married in 1967. He completed his doctorate in 1974 and remained in the English Department until his retirement in 2000.From the outset, Jim was recognized as one of the most knowledgeable and dedicated teachers at the University. Born in Aurora, Illinois to Frederick and Jessie Numrich, Carol moved with her family to Southern California in 1948 and was a resident of the San Gabriel Valley for the remainder of her life. He chaired the Department of History at different intervals for six years, and built a reputation as an outstanding administrator. Maryann, 40, had been at Cal State L.A. for more than twenty years, the last fifteen in charge of the Academic Senate office. He attended New York University until his army service in World War II. In the Department of School Administration and Supervision, he taught courses in principles and practices of curriculum development and supervision of instruction and curriculum. During his retirement, he shared his broad knowledge as a speaker on countless ocean cruises. In 1936, at the age of 23, he left Sweden for the United States. Bob served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946. After retirement, he spent more time at his cabin in Big Bear, baked bread, and exercised energetically. From 1946 to 1956, he served as professor and head of the Department of Accounting at Bradley University in Peoria. He had celebrated his 73 rd birthday with family and friends, but succumbed to colon cancer the following week after more than a year's struggle. He was the co-founder of the Los Angeles Cooperative Library Consortium, and coordinator for the California Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress. Group Think by Irving Janis had a strong impact on Harry's thinking and political analysis as well, as Janis' framework resonated with Harry's and his wife Jean's earlier experiences working at RAND Corporation in Santa Monica in the late 1940s, prior to Harry's attending graduate school at UCLA and the University of Chicago. He was transferred to the Signal Corps to do research on the new technology, radar. He graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa in 1942, where he played football; in 1981, he was named to the 100-year, all-time Drake football team. During this period, she established the Dance Improv Collective Workshop, taught in Hong Kong and Sydney, Australia, and continued in her quest to "learn to dance without pain. He taught in the Department of Elementary Education until his retirement in 1992. cum laude in English from Doane College in Crete. In September 1960, Jack was hired by the Engineering Department at what was then Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences. "But," he said, "I was rich; no one in town had cash." During this period, he also was able to continue to support the department activities previously mentioned and to hire new undergraduate and graduate assistants to support classroom instruction. She didn't want any barriers to impede the goal of getting a college degree. The program's success was abetted during Joe's administration by the addition to the faculty of Leonard Steinberg, Dorothy Perkins, and Bernard Somers. Born on March 13, 1909 on a farm in Cleveland Township, South Dakota, he attended a rural elementary school in Hamlin County, Lake Norden High School, and Augustana College of Sioux Falls. At the onset of World War II, he enrolled at the Curtis Wright Technical Institute and graduated as a master aviation mechanic in 1942. Friedman came to Cal State L.A. in 1968, and has held many positions in the Department of Sociology, including chair, associate chair, principal adviser, and, most recently, graduate adviser. Prior to moving to California in 1949, he was director of music education for Spokane, Washington public schools. Pete was born in the Bronx, New York on March 17, 1933. He is survived by sons Larry and Alan, daughter Vivian, former wife Lucy Ann, sister Beverly, and longtime friend, Elaine Amromin.The Emeritimes, Spring 2013, JEAN PHYLLIS LACOUR, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, 1977-2001, died on November 22, 2012 at the age of 91, after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Leonard was a widely known printmaker of screen prints, etchings, and lithographs. Working in stone and bronze, he won local awards for his craftsmanship and elegant designs. They were married a few months afterward. Individual school efforts at executive education ceased after a time and were folded into Extended Education. She especially enjoyed her Renaissance song group and, as the character Candide recommended in Voltaire's famous philosophical tale, working in her garden. As an outdoorsman, he enjoyed hunting, fishing, horseback riding, and competitive marksmanship. The book also fit the behavior he observed among elite decision-makers in the 20th century in the area of nuclear policy in particular, and more generally on the American political scene. He was 50 years of age and been at the University for 26 years.The Emeritimes, January 1986, ADDISON POTTER, Emeritus Professor of Political Science who retired in Spring Quarter 1985 after 30 years on the University faculty, died February 9, 1986 at his home in South Pasadena. Norman was born the son of immigrant parents in the Bronx, New York, on December 2, 1923. Fondly remembered for her charm, tact, and bright conversation, Marie was also a teacher and scholar with high standards, and was devoted to literary excellence. The Emeritimes, Fall 2002, JOHN A. TOMASKE, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Statistics, 1965-1997, died on Saturday, July 20, 2002 of pancreatic cancer. Before that he supervised the education of Air Force recruits and civilian personnel during World War II. Mac then began his life as a consummate potter, painter, sculptor, writer, and poet. He then started graduate school at UCLA, completing the requirements for an M.A. She continued her education there, in part with a major fellowship, and received an M.Ed. A long and difficult struggle followed, coping with the loss of his wife and his familys stability, as well as suffering professionally by his inability to find a job in academia; he was blacklisted. Her last book was Mosaicos , which, according to her husband Rodolfo, kept her going during her illness. D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1953.The Emeritimes, August 1983, HOMER D. FETTY, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Studies, died at age 84 on April 13, 1983. He was promptly offered a similar position as professor of theatre arts in 1972 at California State University, Los Angeles, from which he subsequently retired in 1980too brief a period to be considered for emeritus status. He was hired on a one-year contract as a replacement for a professor on leave, when the campus was still housed at the Vermont campus of Los Angeles City College. When he earned CPA certification for California and Kansas, he decided to return to teaching. The couple co-authored a second book, CounselingToday's Families (2001), to help beginning practitioners gain knowledge and skills for practice with a wide range of families. His musical avocation culminated with his acceptance into the Masters of Harmony, a barbershop chorus, in 1989. Her distinguished record in archery includes service as head coach of the 1979 championship team and subsequent recognition as national Archery Coach of the Year in 1982. D. in 1944 from the University of Virginia. ), a postwar development also known as systems analysis, drew Don to his first professional job as a member of the research group in O.R. On his retirement in 1977, he was granted emeritus status. In 1993, she was honored by the California Nurses Association, Region VI, for her distinguished service to the nursing profession. He published over 50 articles and reviews for the Pasadena-based Salem Press, mostly on modern and contemporary poets, but also on numerous 20th-century writers from all over the world. In 1977 he retired from Cal State L.A. after 17 years of outstanding service. He returned to Texas and completed his Ph.D. in 1969 at the University of Texas, Austin, where his dissertation, The Political Theory of Institutional Economics, combined his love for political theory with political science and political economy. Before coming to Cal State L.A., Grover provided reference service at the Wright State University Library from 1978 to 1981. Harry and Jean enjoyed eating out and were experts at finding outstanding eating experiences in and near the San Gabriel Valley, including such favorites as the Parkway Grill in Pasadena and La Serenata de Garibaldi in Boyle Heights. at UC Berkeley in 1954 and Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in 1964. His work was exhibited in formal galleries internationally, in installations and performances, and in site-specific pieces. Largely as a labor of love, he spent a decade restoring a mural at the San Gabriel Mission. His major book, Shaw, Plato and Euripides: Classical Currents in Major Barbara, was published in 2012 by the University Press of Florida. His long and wide-ranging experience in academic governance, along with his exceptional training in deliberative processes, made it possible for him to provide for meetings where complex issues could be explored with full participation and genuine respect for the democratic values that inform and sustain our society. There he taught legal aspects of health care administration at the Hawaii campus of Central Michigan University, and served as an arbitrator and mediator in Hawaii and other Pacific islands under the aegis of the American Arbitration Association. Many internationally known singers, including Carol Neblett, formerly with the Metropolitan, had studied with her. She is survived by two sons and a daughter.The Emeritimes, Winter 2005, BETTY FRANCIS, died on September 1, 2004 at her home in La Caada, of undisclosed causes. Emil is survived by his wife Alice; sons Daniel, Philip, and Steven and their spouses; nine grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and extended family back east with whom he maintained regular contact over the years. Teresa, the senior woman in the Legislature at the time, was selected to chair the caucus. His preferred genre then was folk music, and he sang and strummed throughout his college years. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings grabbed their attention. The Van de Graaff lab was not Hubert's only contribution to the physics program. Once their ammunition was gone, they were overwhelmed and forced to surrender. In 1945, Ivan graduated from high school and joined the Navy. Jack is survived by his former wife Mary (Jeanne), his children Meri and John, and their spouses, Robert McMurray and Melinda Rathbun.The Emeritimes, Fall 2008, ALAN PAUL STEIN, Librarian, Liaison to College of Business and Economics, 1977-2008, died on May 25, 2008 at his home in Arcadia after a multi-year battle with cancer. Lloyd's most important legacy, though, is his strong support for a true teacher-scholar model, where one's research endeavors are most meaningful when they provide opportunities for students to directly engage in expanding our knowledge. Lloyd was the author of more than 50 scientific journal publications and six books, including three widely used organic chemistry textbooks: Electron Structures of Organic Molecules, Text-book of Organic Chemistry , and The Modern Structural Theory of Organic Chemistry . In Richmond, he created the Y-Lions Boys Choir, which spawned several professional musicians, including Cal State LA colleague William Belan. John obtained his B.A. A lover of music, singer, and piano player, Ed was active in arts and civic organizations in his home communities through the years. In 1975 John took early retirement, and the Norbys settled in Langley, where in the ensuing years they became involved in many community projects. in 1946 from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Bill and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. degree in business and commerce at the University of Denver. Martha was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. Always known for his love of learning and educating others, especially in alternative health, he was passionate about people taking charge of their health holistically and keeping their brains active and engaged. But she was fiercely independent, in spite of being legally blind due to macular degeneration, profoundly deaf, and needing her cane to walk. Bonar was appointed to Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences in September 1954. During the summer she performed in Europe and throughout Central and South America. She became a certified psychologist in California in 1950. The final major category is less whimsical American history, especially the lives of American statesmen, for whom he developed a major passion accompanied by extraordinary literary production. from San Diego State University in 1980. She was awarded a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech from the American Speech and Hearing Association in 1955 and became a Licensed Psychologist in California in 1959. He was a self-taught behavior analyst who pioneered an experimental technique called joint control based on basic behavioral principles and B. F. Skinners analysis of language in the book Verbal Behavior. He was a talented tenor soloist, performing in his church and in Los Angeles Civic Opera productions. degrees in physics at the University of Virginia (1949) and the University of Southern California (1954), respectively, and studied advanced engineering at UCLA. Edythe was a member of the faculty in elementary education from 1952 to her retirement in 1983. Following retirement he resided in Pomona until he moved to Mt. A David Lindsey Memorial has been established in his honor at Boys Town, Nebraska. His intellectual growth was made evident in a media event when he shared the top prize with another contestant on the nationally popular television show, The 64 Thousand Dollar Challenge, in 1957. Born in New York on January 13, 1923, Irving completed his education there, obtaining his BCE in 1944 from City College of New York, MCE in 1949 from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and MBA and D. Eng. Photo on the right: Don Dewey, ever the newspaperman, with University Times in hand.The Emeritimes, Fall 2017, RICHARD S. BALVIN, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, 1956-1990, died peacefully at his home in Bellingham, Washington on July 4, 2017 at the age of 90.