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Clarence E. Chrisp
Clarence E. Chrisp, professor of comparative pathology in the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM), born May 26, 1934, during the Dust Bowl in Broken Bow, Neb. After high school, he attended Colorado State University and Iowa State University in 1952–54, then taught elementary school in 1954–56 before returning to college at the University of Idaho, where he received a B.S. in bacteriology in 1959. He earned a master’s degree in veterinary science (microbiology) from Washington State University in 1961 and a doctoral degree in veterinary medicine from the University of California, Davis, in 1967.
Chrisp joined the U-M in 1967 as an instructor in ULAM, but left in 1969 to head the University of California, Davis, radiology laboratory’s clinical medicine division. He returned to the U-M in 1982 as associate professor of comparative pathology to direct the diagnostic laboratory at ULAM, and was named professor in 1998.
“Dr. Chrisp was a veterinary pathologist who specialized in the diseases of laboratory animals. He began his career as an educator as an elementary school teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in Nebraska,” said Howard G. Rush, associate professor at ULAM. “In many ways, that is how he functioned best-in small groups or one-on-one with his students. Many leaders in the field of laboratory animal medicine learned about the pathology of animals used in research sitting across from Clarence at the teaching microscope.
“Clarence was an avid birdwatcher and taught us as much about birds as he did about pathology,” Rush said.
“He also made significant contributions in his role as a pathologist on studies on cancer and aging in laboratory rodents and, more recently, to our understanding of the pathobiology of genetically modified mice,” Rush noted. “Clarence was affectionately regarded as a character by his colleagues and students. He pulled no punches and always gave his honest and unembellished opinion. Characters like Clarence don’t come around very often and tend to leave a lasting impression on those they contact long after they are gone. He will be sorely missed.”
Chrisp was a member of the scientific review board for Laboratory Animal Science in 1998–2000 and served on ad hoc review committees for eight other scientific journals between 1990 and 1996. He authored more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals and several chapters in books.
He is survived by his wife Rosalind, Ann Arbor; son Bruce (Laura) Chrisp, San Francisco; son Eric (Anna) Chrisp, Albuquerque; sister June Stone, Gordon, Neb.; and brother Jerry Chrisp, Sargent, Neb.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Memorial Christian Church or to The Nature Conservancy, Michigan Field Office, 2840 Grand River, Suite 5, East Lansing, MI 48823.
Michael Aldrich
Michael S. Aldrich, professor of neurology and founder of the U-M Sleep Disorder Laboratory, passed away at St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital June 30, 2000 after a short illness.
In World War II, he served more than six years with the U.S. Navy on destroyers in both the Atlantic and Pacific theatres, attaining the rank of Lt. Commander.
He received his B.A. and advanced degrees at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
Sheridan began his distinguished career in English literature at the University of Michigan in 1950 and retired as an emeritus professor in 1984.
He received a Fulbright lectureship at the University of Nagoya, Japan, in 1961 and a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in Bellagio, Italy, in 1978. He received the U-M Distinguished Service Award in 1960.
He used his editorial talents on many publications, including the Michigan Quarterly Review in 1964–71.
He was a published poet as well as an 18th-century scholar with an abiding interest in the writings of Henry Fielding. He published articles about Fielding’s work and scholarly editions of Tom Jones and Shamela. He also was very interested in the teaching of writing, and wrote books of rhetoric, which included many editions of The Practical Stylist, The Essayist, The Complete Stylist and The Practical Imagination.
He also published Ernest Hemingway: An Introduction and Interpretation and The Harper Handbook to Literature.
“Baker was probably the faculty member in our department best known nationally, partly through his best-selling composition text, The Practical Stylist, and partly because of his work on Fielding,” said Richard W. Bailey, professor of English. “He had a sharp eye for detail and was proud of the fact that his edition of Tom Jones (for Norton) was superior textually to the ‘definitive’ collected-works volume published by Wesleyan.
“In his young days as a faculty member, he published poetry in The New Yorker, entered into controversy about usage as represented in the 1961 Merriam-Webster dictionary and wrote an influential book on Hemingway.
“He was a good citizen of the University in many ways,” Bailey added, “not least in sustaining (by editing it) the Michigan Quarterly Review during a low point in support for creative work here. Each issue began with a genial essay, ‘On the Diagonal.’ He was a wonderful teacher and, as his hearing began to decline in the early ’60s, felt obliged to take early retirement because he could not easily teach the large, popular and (alas) noisy classes that had made him famous.
“He was a good man.”
Baker’s hobbies were traveling, tennis, reading and gardening.
He was died of cancer June 13, 2000 at his home in Ann Arbor.
Goldberg, the son of Russian immigrants, spent some of his undergraduate years in Ann Arbor studying history, but earned his bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University. He came to the U-M in 1952 to begin graduate studies in sociology, demography and statistics. He was affiliated with the University for the rest of his life.
Goldberg became an instructor in the Department of Sociology in 1956 and advanced to professor in 1968. He directed the Population Studies Center in 1972–76 and the Detroit Area Study (DAS) in 1977–81. He also served as vice president of the Population Association of America.
For much of his early career, Goldberg analyzed the determinants of fertility using information from the first DAS studies and from the pioneering Indianapolis fertility survey. In the 1960s, he initiated his own large-scale fertility surveys in Turkey and Mexico, long before birth rates in those countries started to decline.
Two of his papers are models of the demographer’s ken. His 1962 paper in Population Studies about two-generation urbanites carefully measured the effects of a rural background on the childbearing of urban women in the early baby boom years. His 1975 paper with Bernard Agranoff concerning the geographic distribution of multiple sclerosis provides an important and unchallenged explanation for geographic variations in this disease. This is widely regarded as a masterpiece of ecological research.
Goldberg also was a dedicated and serious educator. He was particularly proud of his ability to teach introductory statistics, especially to students who were reluctant to recognize the value of the quantitative approach in social science. Perhaps no other instructor spent as much time as Goldberg did in developing and administering imaginative tests for his statistics students. He also was very proud of his ability to help dedicated graduate students complete their dissertations. In the course of his 31 years as a faculty member in the Department of Sociology, Goldberg chaired 28 dissertation committees. Those students can be found at leading universities occupying such roles as professor, director and university president.
After a rich and productive career as a scholar, teacher and colleague, Goldberg retired in 1997. His wife, Jeanette, died that same year. His younger daughter, Debra, lives in Ann Arbor, while his older daughter, Susan, lives in San Jose.
