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Roger A. Pack
Roger A. Pack, professor emeritus of Greek and Latin, died June 1, 1994 at his home here after a long illness. He was 75 years old.
While serving with the U.S. Navy during World War II, Dolph was part of a team of scientists who developed an IFF (“Identification: Friend or Foe”) radar system, which is still used by military and civilian aircraft today. Dolph’s early research on antenna arrays was instrumental to the founding of Hughes Electronics.
Dolph joined the U-M faculty in 1946 as a lecturer in mathematics and research mathematician at the Engineering Research Institute. He was promoted to assistant professor of mathematics in 1947, associate professor in 1954 and professor in 1960. Dolph retired from the U-M in 1988.
His research covered a wide range of problems in applied mathematics-including antenna theory, compressible fluid flow, shock problems, stochastic processes, plasma physics, atmospheric science, scattering theory, singular expansion methods and non-self-adjoint operators.
A native of Ann Arbor, Dolph donated the land for the Dolph Park Nature Area off Wagner Road between Liberty and Jackson to the City of Ann Arbor in 1982. The land was originally owned by his parents.
Dolph received his A.B. degree from the U-M in 1939, his M.A. degree from Princeton University in 1941, and his Ph.D. degree from Princeton in 1944. He was a physicist in the Naval Research Laboratory in 1943–44, an ensign in the U.S. Navy in 1944–45, and a member of the technical staff at Michigan Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1945–46.
He was awarded the 1947 J. Browder Thompson Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the 1946 Thompson Prize of the Institute of Radio Engineers. In 1957–58, he spent a sabbatical year at the Technical Universities of Munich and Aachen as a Guggenheim Fellow.
He is survived by his wife, Brita; son and daughter-in-law Lawrence R. Dolph and Lynn M. Nybell; and two grandchildren, Christine and John-all of Ann Arbor.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. today (June 6) at the First Congregational Church, 608 E. William.
Memorial contributions may be made to the C.L. Dolph Scholarship Fund. Checks should be made out to the U-M and sent to Ethel Rathbun, Department of Mathematics, U-M, 3220 Angell Hall, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1003.
Melville B. Stout
Melville B. Stout, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, died at his home here March 24, 1994. He was 84.
Haugh joined the U-M in 1940 as a teaching fellow and was a member of the Department of English from 1947 until he retired in 1979. Following retirement he returned to active duty a number of times to teach Freshmen Seminars.
He was the author of numerous articles and books on Joseph Conrad and Nadine Gordimer. As a graduate student he won a Hopwood Award and served as director of the Hopword Awards in 1965–72.
During his early teaching years, he managed annual writing conferences and was executive secretary of the Michigan Schoolmaster Conferences.
He taught at universities in Cape Town and Johannesburg under the auspices of the U.S. State Department in 1959–60, and also lectured in Zimbabwe and Uganda at the time.
He was a lieutenant during World War II, attached to the carriers Lexington and Yorktown. He received citations for participation in the invasion of Iwo Jima and the landing at Okinawa. Haugh did his undergraduate work at the University of Kansas, University of Arizona and the University of Oklahoma.
Haugh was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, the Thursday Noon Luncheon Club and the Charles Wesley Club.
Surviving, in addition to his wife, Georgia, are two nephews, Theodore Haugh of Huntington Beach, Calif. and James Haugh of Monterey, Calif.; one niece, Sally La Torres of Tacoma, Wash.; and many Harlow cousins, including Phillip Montgomery of Ann Arbor.
Tributes may be made to the Hopwood Awards Program, Room 1006, Angell Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, or the First United Methodist Church, 120 S. State, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
Stephen B. Preston
Stephen B. Preston, associate dean emeritus and professor emeritus of natural resources, died Nov. 30, 1994 of lung cancer.
Preston joined the U-M in 1951 after earning a master’s and a doctoral degree in wood science and technology from Yale University following military service in World War II. He held various teaching and administrative positions here until retiring in 1984, including chair of the Department of Wood Science and Technology and of the Department of Resource Planning and Conservation, and associate and interim dean.
His numerous publications include research and technical articles on the physical and mechanical properties of wood.
He was chair of the Division of Wood Utilization for the Society of American Foresters and was on the Forest Sciences board. He chaired the Great Lakes and the National Division of Drying, Anatomy and Properties of Wood of the Forest Products Research Society, and also served on the executive board of that organization.
A founding member of the Society of Wood Science and Technology, Preston served as president twice and received the organization’s Merit Award in 1992. He served as executive director of the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), a consortium of U.S. and Costa Rican universities and research organizations with field headquarters in Costa Rica. He also was on the OTS executive committee and served as president for two years.
Preston’s consulting work included site visitations for the National Science Foundation and technical assistance to industries, and he was a senior consultant to the Forestry Division of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy. He also provided consultation on educational program development in Liberia and Nigeria; environmental impact assessment in Gabon, West Africa; and industrial development assessment in Costa Rica.
He is survived by his wife, H. Katherine; two sons, Des and Boylan; grandchildren Willis and Shena; and sister, Connie Stone.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Organization for Tropical Studies-North American Office, c/o Donald Stone, Box 90632, Durham NC 27708. Friends may wish to plant a tree in his memory.
