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Herbert C. Barrows
Herbert C. Barrows Jr., a professor emeritus who taught in LS&A and donated more than 200 pieces of art to the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA), died Aug. 31, 2002 after an extended illness. He was 84.
Spencer was died at the emergency room at Garden City Hospital Aug. 13, 2002. She was 54.
Fisher’s research focused on virology and microbiology with a special interest in emerging infectious diseases, including measles, West Nile Virus and HIV. She was a national leader in the area of science education. She lectured to professional groups on how to improve science teaching at the secondary and college levels and on ways to encourage women and minorities to pursue careers in science.
“Her teaching was characterized by deep concern for students’ learning and for their ability to write,” says physics Prof. Paul W. Zitzewitz, chairman of the Department of Natural Sciences.
“She was the kind of colleague with whom you could feel comfortable in discussing both professional and personal issues, and for that reason, she had many close friends across campus,” he says. “Even though she had health problems over the past few years, she remained cheerful and positive, and devoted to the University.”
Fisher earned her bachelor’s degree in microbiology and German at the University of Kansas in 1969 and her doctoral degree in microbiology there in 1974. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in New Jersey and at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine before joining the U-M–Dearborn faculty as assistant professor of biology in 1978.
She was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1984. Fisher also served as a visiting scientist at the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis and as a visiting professor at Spelman College in Atlanta.
Fisher was active in the American Society for Microbiology at the local and national levels. In 2001, she received a two-year appointment in the Waksman Foundation for Microbiology lecturers program, which provides speakers for scientific meetings.
For her service to women’s issues on campus and in the community, Fisher was awarded the U-M–Dearborn Susan B. Anthony Award in 1988. She also was recognized for her mentoring activities by an award from the Detroit chapter of the Association for Women in Science.
Fisher served on numerous campus committees, including the chancellor search committee in 1999-2000, the College of Arts, Sciences and Letters executive committee, the Faculty Senate, the disability resources advisory committee and a diversity task force.
In addition to her teaching and research, Fisher was advisor to the biological students’ honor society, Tri-Beta, and volunteered several summers as an instructor in a program to introduce girls to the world of science. The program, called “Labcoats and Microscopes,” was coordinated with the Michigan Metro Girl Scout Council.
Fisher was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
She is survived by her husband, Louis, an architect, and her 14-year-old son, Jason. A memorial service was held for Fisher Aug. 24. Contributions can be made to U-M–Dearborn to support students in the sciences. Checks can be sent to the Office of Institutional Advancement, Room 1040 Administration Building, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, Mich. 48128.
Nathalie Drews
Nathalie Drews, an associate professor emerita of social work who was known for her research on death and dying, interment in Holland, Mich. Drews is survived by friend Leona Jacobs, brother and sister-in-law John and Lily Drews, and several nieces and nephews.
Francis Cope Evans
Francis Cope Evans, retired ecologist and professor emeritus of biological sciences, born in Phildelphia Dec. 2, 1914. He was educated at Germantown Friends School and Haverford College. He participated in the first group of the Experiment in International Living, spending a summer in Germany in 1932.
Upon graduation from Haverford in 1936, he was named a Rhodes Scholar and studied at Oxford University (Oriel College) with ecologist Charles Elton, earning a D.Phil. In 1939, he returned to the United States to pursue a career of research and teaching of zoology, specializing in ecology. He held fellowships and assistantships at the University of California (U-C), Berkeley, the Hooper Foundation in San Francisco and U-C, Davis. He was called back to Haverford in 1943 to serve on the teaching faculty, and as acting dean in 1944.
In 1948, Francis joined the faculty of U-M and was appointed a professor of zoology in 1959. During his tenure at Michigan, he served as associate director of the E.S. George Reserve and as editor of publications of the Museum of Zoology.
Upon his retirement in 1982, he was named emeritus professor and served in 1983 as president of the Ecological Society of America, from which he received the Distinguished Service Award in 1987. Francis was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to which he was elected a fellow; the British Ecological Society; the American Society of Naturalists and the Society of the Study of Evolution. He also was a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Francis met his wife, Rachel Worthington Brooks of Milton, Mass., during college, when she was at Bryn Mawr. They married in 1942 and had four children: Kenneth Richardson Evans (Mary May) of Hurley, N.Y., the Rev. Katharine Cope Evans of Wakefield, Mass., Edward Wyatt Evans II (Deborah Dawson) of Logan, Utah and Dr. Rachel Howe Evans (Steven Julius) of Tempe, Ariz. He had five grandchildren.
A service to celebrate Francis’ life will be held at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 306 N. Division St., Ann
Arbor at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28, with a reception to follow. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Robert Whittaker Travel Fund of the Ecological Society of America, 1707 H St., NW, Suite 400, Washington, D.C., 20006, or to the U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105.
