A decorated veteran of World War II, during which he served as an artillery liaison pilot in the Pacific, Don continued his service in the Active Army Reserve during his graduate study years and early in his faculty career. 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 completed his formal education in 1963 with a Ph.D. from Caltech. In his early years at Cal State L.A., he team-taught methodology classes with Morris Better. Bob was born on March 4, 1929 in Flint, Michigan, then a rural area. He also provided technical and equipment support for the Ebony Showcase Theatre. She and her husband, former Cal State L.A. president Albert Graves, lived there together in the independent living facility until he died in 1992. The Silverman home was filled with art and music, and these passions were passed on to their children. in 1949, for which he majored in chemistry with minors in physics and math, he went into public school teaching for four years, and concurrently began graduate study in education. After he retired, he taught for the department for six additional years. The Sidney P. Albert-George Bernard Shaw collection is a significant source of research material for Shaw scholars. John served as chair of the Department of Music and was currently associate dean of the College of Arts and Letters. When the permanent campus was built and the curriculum expanded, he transferred to the newly formed Department of Health and Safety. 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. He gave credit to Marie Hopkins Healy of Idaho State College for sparking his interest in vertebrate paleontology. He joined the Cal State LA faculty in 1976 and retired in 2004. On several occasions, Jack accompanied President McDonald for campus trips, particularly during the annual Emeriti Association visits to the Academic Senate and the receptions following those meetings. It was he who gave the publication its character, format, and professionalism, and for years he supervised all aspects of its contents. John was born in Spokane in 1913 and married Isabel S. Clemen in 1939. A long-time member of the Universitys Academic Senate, he served as its chair from 2004 to 2006. He particularly loved to sail on such trips. Harry remembered his first depression-days teaching job for which his first paycheck was a tax anticipation warrant for $85, subject to a 5% discount at the local bank. James earned a B.A. Anita is survived by son Robert, daughter Karla, eight grandchildren, 13 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and four great-greatgrandchildren.The Emeritimes, Spring 2016, WILLIAM R. HANSON, Emeritus Professor of Biology, 1960-1988, died on October 31, 2015 at age 96. Dr. Bishop earned a B.S. Ken came to Cal State LA in 1988 as the assistant university librarian and manager for public services. Despite a small roster, Miller guided the Golden Eagles to their best home record in the programs history. She attended the University of Minnesota, where she became one of the first women to receive her bachelor's degree from the University's School of Business. He regularly visited Los Angeles for opera and symphony performances. After his military service, he continued his education at the University of Nebraska, and received a B.A. Among his writings were "The Western Hero in History and Legend" and "Western Outlaws, the 'Good Badmen in Fact, Fiction and Folklore , plus many articles in western journals. Under Hershel's leadership, it received a $7.5-million federal grant in 2006 to replicate the program in 50 agencies in Los Angeles County. In all respects, James Dunkelberg' s contributions were many and highly significant to the welfare of the University.The Emeritimes, Spring 1998, DAWN M. PATTERSON, Dean of Continuing Education, 1984-1996, died December 14, 1997 at The Scripps Home in Altadena after a short illness. Michael did not cancel one class. Martha is survived by a cousin in Beatrice, Nebraska, and by her long-time companion, Lois DiSanto. A specialist in the field of inorganic chemistry, he served as coordinator of the Chemistry Department's freshman program.The Emeritimes, March 1985, RICHARD J. WHITING, Professor of Management and Assistant Dean of the School of Business and Economics, died October 17, 1985 after a brief illness. She was very involved with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Club of Pasadena, among other organizations. He was a household name across the campus for having served on the Educational Policy Committee, General Education Subcommittee, and Faculty Affairs Subcommittee. He served on the board of scholars for El Pueblo State Historic Park, the advisory committee for the Center for the Study of Media and Values, and the advisory board of the Pat Brown Institute. When he retired from Cal State L.A., John and his wife were divorced and he lived alone in Fallbrook, focusing on golf and duplicate bridge. A strong believer in the necessity for women to be economically independent, he was also committed to and active in progressive politics. Herb's checklists of North American Indian Languages and South and Central American Indian Languages, amounting to more than 350 pages, appeared in Current Trends in Linguistics and were revised for Native Languages of the Americas . He landed a job with the American Comics Group and made good money writing horror, science fiction, and romance stories. He served as president of the California Geographic Society and was on its board of directors as well as the editorial board of the California Geographer. 16 Feb 2023 04:02:09 Rays numerous accomplishments as dean were validated by his selection as the first California State University administrator to be awarded the prestigious systemwide CSU Wang Family Excellence Award for administrative leadership. When the Mexican-American Studies Program was founded at Cal State LA in the fall of 1968, Lou was serving as director of Project Head Start in Lincoln Heights. in 1941 from Linfield College in Oregon, for which he had a scholarship as well as part-time employment. During the last 10 years of his career, Ron worked with the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. His family moved to Southern California when he was one year old. He continues to receive universal and unanimous praise for his leadership style and his contributions to the development of the University's engineering programs.The Emeritimes, Fall 2010, ALFRED H. FRITZ, Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 1971-1988, died on July 7, 2010 in San Luis Obispo at the age of 85. In 1988 she retired from Cal State L.A. She passed away in September, and is survived by her daughter, Lani, and two grandchildren who live in Palmdale, where Mona also lived for a number of years.The Emeritimes, Winter 1996, JAMES F. RICHMOND, Professor of Geology, 1955-1970, founder of Cal State L.A.'s Geology Department, died on August 281995 as a result of complications after injuries he sustained during a fall while on a visit to Idaho. He moved information literacy as a full-fledged campus wide initiative and assisted the information literacy coordinator, library Information Literacy Advisory Committee, and campus information literacy advisory committee in planning and implementing a series of workshops, community college summit, and many staff development opportunities. in 1953 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and M.A. Ed's major contribution to his given field is his book, The Underground Man , a study of eight significant contemporary writers, which he saw as operating within a tradition exemplified by Dostoevsky' s Notes from the Underground . This program included co-ed archery, badminton, bowling, and fencing; and women's basketball, cross-country, field hockey (dropped in 1974), golf (dropped in 1979), gymnastics, swimming/diving, tennis (begun before 1958), track and field, and volleyball. Bill is survived by his wife of more than 60 years, Maxine, along with a son, William, and two grandsons.The Emeritimes, Fall 2013, JOAN BARBARA WILSON, Emeritus Professor of Education, 1981-1992,celebrated her 83 rd birthday a month prior to her death on July 24, 2013 from complications following a fall. He received a football scholarship in 1948 from Utah State, but was not happy there and subsequently changed to Idaho State. His interests were centered on the problems encountered by elementary teachers and on the teaching of American ideals. In 1940, he joined the faculty of Iowa State College and spent 19 years as an administrator and teacher of government and history. On campus, Sig always enjoyed discussions with faculty outside of chemistry. He was born in Portland, OR, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Reed College with a bachelor's degree in math in 1942. . Like many historians of his generation, he did not immediately settle on history as his career, serving even a stint as a fireman on a railroad locomotive. He stood next to a concrete tree designed and built by the Art Department and read his speech from a roll of toilet paper, which unfurled as he talked about saving trees and the environment. Many were limited edition publications. He also said the salary scale was attractive, and he negotiated a beginning salary of $5,232 for the academic year beginning September 1956. They visited California in 1947 and never returned to the north. As the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Although he was frequently called upon as an expert witness in criminal trials, Ziskin long advocated banning expert psychiatric testimony. Long-time department staff member Nancy Miranda recalls trying to learn to sail from master seaman Bert Potter, with Vilma standing by overseeing and kibitzing. His work on these projects played an important role in our understanding of the plate tectonic history of southern California. She joined the Cal State LA faculty in 1968 and completed her Ed.D. She was a strong advocate of aural/oral education teaching hearing-impaired individuals to use their residual hearing to learn to speak and speech-read. They moved to California, where Gunjit founded Sikand Engineering Associates in 1958. . He had shows of his drawings, paintings, lithographs, and sculptures during the period from 1946 to 1962. Although in his later work he followed a career path closer to clinical psychology than mainstream sociology, he was still very much a part of his department community, enjoying social activities with his colleagues and opening his home to department holiday parties. While his primary residence since 1970 was in California, he returned almost every summer later in life for extended stays at the family summer home on the upper peninsula of Michigan, which he owned jointly with his brother. His last trip was a cruise down the Volga River and side trips to remote areas of Russia and Georgia.The Emeritimes, Winter 1994, KENNETH ZIMMER (Office Systems and Business Education, 1961-1983), Professor Emeritus of Business Education, died January 18, 1994 after a long illness. Born into a tennis family on October 10, 1929 in Wyandotte, Michigan, she was a serious player from the age of 17. Ed also published many review articles, participated in symposia on campus, and delivered lectures off campus, including a year-long series of monthly talks on "the contemporary theater" for radio station KPFK. From 1980 to 1994, he served on the California State Registration Examination Commit-tee, formulating the exam for geologists and certifying exams for engineering geologists and geophysicists. Peter unfortunately died the following year. Her dedication was inspiring to so many and was fully realized as the director of two schools of nursing. He was a frequent guest conductor, judge, and clinician throughout Southern California. 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 published 15 articles, most of them in places like the Los Angeles Times , The New York Times , and The Christian Science Monitor . But especially memorable were the many trips they took to visit her family in Switzerland. Chuck continued his own artwork and exhibited in various galleries such as the Burbank Creative Arts Center (2007) and Jos Vera Gallery in Los Angeles (2010). He was truly a person who tried to work out the inevitable difficulties between administration and faculty governance. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1953 and 1961, re spectively. The family reached the U.S. and settled in Hartford, Connecticut, where he attended public school and completed his undergraduate education at Trinity College in 1949. There he met graduate student Jean Chenoweth. He was known for the thoroughness of his preparation of graduate students who went on for the Ph.D. Tom lived in Pasadena, where he raised his family, later moving to Silver Lake and Camarillo before going to Paso Robles in 1988. His first book, Statistics with a Sense of Humor, is still widely used nationwide after 20 years because it has been so successful in demystifying what had been an impenetrable topic for generations of students. His studies on Georgian art often explored the connections between Byzantine Europe and the Eastern provinces. Born in France, Jeanne met Leon in Paris and they were married in 1949. While these volumes poured from the book factory in the basement of The Huntington Library that was best known as Zall's Stall, Paul was also generous in granting his time and sharing his intellectual discoveries with other scholars. Prior to retiring in 1989, he served as the department chair. Al did extensive teaching, consulting, and writing on teaching English as a second language and reading with a focus on English language learners. Shortly after the launching of Sputnik by the USSR, Julian traveled to the Soviet Union to familiarize himself with its science programs. The family attended interment at Rose Hills Cemetery.The Emeritimes, Spring 2017, GEORGE ROBERT VICK, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, 1967-2002, died at his home in Pasadena on September 30, 2016 in the presence of his wife and son. Dutch returned to Los Angeles and married Marjorie Teague. He also served as music adjudicator in Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri, Kansas, and Southern California. Fluent in German and also able to read Russian, Clem made several professional connections to Europe. In 1938, Bruce began studying at UC Berkeley, where he obtained his A.B. Upon his retirement, the couple moved to Laguna Niguel Shores, where they became active in social and civic affairs. For years, she sold tickets for the Mutual Theatre Ticket Agency, which enabled her to attend plays and concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and other Los Angeles venues, fostering a love of all kinds of music. In addition to making notable contributions to teachers and administrators both in classes and in state and federal grant-supported government projects, she published widely. A memorial was held on August 29 in Salem.The Emeritimes, Fall 2011, MARY A. KRAMER, Emeritus Associate Professor of Family Studies and Consumer Sciences, 1963-1991, passed away on December 31, 2010. Described by one colleague as a powerful force on campus, a brilliant mind, a deeply committed scholar-activist, and a kind, caring, warm soul, Halisi loved music, poetry, good food, lively debate, and dear friends. Teaching students about the world was Dons calling. She was born in upper New York State and attended universities there. Jack was always very proud of his parents effort during the war. George Engler, associate dean during Ron's tenure as dean, recalls Ron's energy and enthusiasm in reinvigorating the college's somewhat dormant outreach programs.