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Irving J. Cantrall
Irving J. Cantrall, professor emeritus of zoology and curator emeritus of insects at the Museum of Zoology, died of acute leukemia Jan. 26, 1997 in Philadelphia. He was 69.
Stokes, who served as dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton in 1974-92, taught political science at the U-M from 1957 to 1974. He also was dean of the Graduate School in 1971-74.
"Don Stokes was a pioneer in the development of modern political science and a distinguished builder of academic programs, both at Princeton and previously at the University of Michigan," says former U-M President Harold T. Shapiro, now president of Princeton.
A specialist in public opinion research, Stokes was known for his studies of American and British voting behavior. He co-wrote the books The American Voter, Elections and the Political Order and Political Change in Britain, all published while he was a U-M faculty member in the 1960s.
At Princeton, his interests turned to the science policies of the federal government and the relationship between basic and applied science. He was the principal author of The Federal Investment in Knowledge of Social Problems, and an upcoming book Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation will be published this fall.
died April 25, 1997 near Tokyo. He was 78.
He was a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. Among the numerous honors accorded him were a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (Germany), the Theodore von Karman Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers (1981), the U-M's Stephan S. Attwood Award, the Fluid Dynamics Prize of the American Physical Society, and the Otto Laporte Award of the American Physical Society. He was elected to the American Physical Society, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Academia Sinica (the Chinese National Academy of Science in Taiwan). Yih was one of three scientists who, at the 1996 meeting of the Academia Sinica, proposed the creation of an institute of mechanics in Taiwan. He was en route to this meeting to discuss the status of mechanics in Taiwan and the mission of such an institute when he born in 1918 in Kweiyang, Kweichow Province, China.
After graduating in 1942 from the National Central University, Nanking, Yih worked as a research assistant at the National Hydraulic Laboratory in Quanshien, an engineer at the national Bureau of Bridge Design and an instructor at the National University of Kweichow. Selected by the Ministry of Education to study in the United States, he entered the University of Iowa in 1946, earning his M.S. in 1947 and Ph.D. in 1948. He taught at various universities in North America and France before coming to the U-M as an associate professor in 1956. Two years later, he was promoted to professor of fluid mechanics. In 1967 he was named the Stephen P. Timoshenko Distinguished University Professor, and in 1974 he was chosen to give the Henry Russel Lecture---the highest honor the University can bestow upon a senior faculty member.
His students found him an inspiring teacher whose excitement and enthusiasm were contagious. He was much in demand as a doctoral thesis adviser for students in other departments as well as in his own. He is remembered by many students, colleagues and friends for his quick mind, spontaneity, enthusiasm and love of life.
His published work covers a wide field and includes well over 100 scientific papers as well as two books, Dynamics of Nonhomogeneous Fluids (1960), later revised as Stratified Flows (1980), and Fluid Mechanics, A Concise Introduction to the Theory (1969). These have been widely used and one has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. One colleague noted that "his depth of achievement in the broad areas of mechanics and applied mathematics is matched by his abilities in the physical sciences generally. He can speak from the platform of sound knowledge on a whole gamut of subjects in physics and mathematics ... he could logically be a professor in mathematics or physics or in any one of several engineering departments where he would be capably at home."
Yih is survived by his wife, Shirley; sisters, Chia-Ju and Chia-Ling; children, Yiu-Yo, David and Katherine; and three grandchildren. A memorial ceremony will be held in Ann Arbor in July.
Robert Lyons Danly
Robert Lyons Danly, an award-winning translator, writer, editor and professor of Asian languages and cultures, born May 27, 1942, in Detroit. She is survived by her husband, Daniel; daughter, Deborah, and her husband Mark of Los Angeles; son, David, and his wife Sharon of Durham, N.C.; her parents, Alfred and Gerti Strauss of West Bloomfield; and her sister, Carol Shook of St. Louis.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Susan Lipschutz Fund for Women Graduate Students, Dean's Office, Room 1004, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070.
