The 1960s: Education: Deaths

THE 1960s: EDUCATION: DEATHS

Ludwig Bemelmans, 64, best known for his illustrated children's books though he was also a writer of satire, 1 October 1962.

Edward H. Chamberlin, 68, professor of economics at Harvard University for more than forty years; his Theory of Monopolistic Competition attacked the theory that higher wages benefit the economy, 16 July 1967.

Sidney B. Fay, 91, historian, educator, and authority on Germany whose most important work was The Origins of the World War, 29 August 1967.

Wilfred John Funk, 83, publisher, poet, and lexicographer whose twenty-year feature in Reader's Digest, "It Pays to Increase Your Wordpower," was a vocabulary lesson for the masses, 1 June 1965.

Howard R. Garis, 89, U.S. author known for his "Uncle Wiggily" tales totaling over seventy-five books, 5 November 1962.

Virginia C. Gildersleeve, 87, U.S. educator, feminist, and internationalist, dean emeritus of Barnard College and the only woman delegate at the conference to draft the charter for the UN, 7 July 1965.

Sir Ernest Gowers, 85, British authority on English usage; revised Fowler's Modern English Usage and wrote Plain Words: Their ABC, 16 April 1966.

Sir Herbert Grierson, 94, British professor and scholar of seventeenth-century English literature; largely responsible for the renewed interest in writer John Donne, 19 February 1960.

Alfred Whitney Griswold, 56, president of Yale University since 1950; known as defender of academic freedom and critic of many aspects of American education, 19 April 1963.

Moses Hadas, 66, teacher and classical scholar who wrote more than thirty books including A History of Greek Literature, 17 August 1966.

George Rolfe Humphries, 74, poet, teacher, and translator, whose versions of the classics, especially Virgil and Ovid, were widely read, 22 April 1969.

Bob Jones, Sr, (Robert Reynolds Jones), 84, fundamentalist, evangelist, and educator who led national attacks on Roman Catholicism and liberalism; founded Bob Jones College, now Bob Jones University, 22 January 1968.

Carl Jung, 85, Swiss pioneer in analytic psychology who founded his own school for teaching and training psychotherapists; creator of such terms as introvert and extrovert to define the workings of the subconscious mind, 6 June 1961.

Helen Keller, 87, deaf and blind American educator; she learned to read, write, and speak; devoted her life to crusading for education for the deaf and blind; the story of her education was dramatized in The Miracle Worker, 1 June 1968.

William Heard Kilpatrick, 93, former professor and leading educational philosopher, known primarily for his role in the practical application of John Dewey's educational philosophy of progressive education, 13 February 1965.

Oliver La Farge, 61, author, historian, and anthropologist who fought to improve the education and welfare of the American Indian; his novel Laughing Boy, a portrait of Navajo life, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, 2 August 1963.

James M. Landis, 64, former dean of Harvard Law School and adviser to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy, 30 July 1964.

C. Wright Mills, 46, U.S. sociologist and author of White Collar; The Power Elite; Causes of World War Three; and Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba, 20 March 1962.

Leander H. Perez, Sr., 76, political boss of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, who fought vigorously to maintain segregated schools, 19 March 1969.

Roscoe Pound, 93, dean of Harvard Law School and internationally known authority on law, 1 July 1964.

Samuel C. Prescott, 89, U.S. biologist and first dean of the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; pioneer in scientific methods of food canning in the 1890s, 19 March 1962.

Howard Percy Robertson, 58, professor of mathematical physics at California Institute of Technology and scientific advisor to President Kennedy, 26 August 1961.

Most Rev. Joseph Francis Rummel, 88, Roman Catholic archbishop of New Orleans, who introduced integration into southern parochial schools, 8 November 1964.

Margaret Higgins Sanger, 82, pioneer in the education of the American public on birth control; in 1916 she opened the first American birth-control clinic and was jailed for thirty days; she was a founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Case for Birth Control, 6 September 1966.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., 77, history professor at Harvard for over thirty years, editor of Pulitzer Prize winner The American Migration, and coeditor of the thirteen-volume History of American Life, 30 October 1965.

Courtney Craig Smith, 52, president of Swarthmore College and U.S. secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, 16 January 1969.

Polly (Mary Agnes) Thompson, 75, Scottish-born teacher, companion, and interpreter for deaf and blind Helen Keller, 21 March 1960.

George Macauley Trevelyan, 86, British historian whose texts History of England and English Social History were studied internationally, 21 July 1962.

John Dover Wilson, 87, Scottish Shakespearean scholar whose texts The Essential Shakespeare and What Happens in "Hamlet" were widely studied, 15 January 1969.