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Bradford Perkins
Bradford Perkins, emeritus professor of history, born March 6, 1925 in Rochester, N.Y., the son of Dexter and Wilma Lord Perkins. Following combat service in the European theater during World War II he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at Harvard in 1947. While there he met and married until her death in 1993.
Perkins received his doctorate in history, also from Harvard, in 1952. Subsequently, he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, before joining the Department of History at U-M in 1962. During his career at the University, he twice served as department chairman and served on many department, college and university committees. Perkins was the author of five books and numerous other publications. One of his books, "Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812- 1823," earned a Bancroft Prize, the premier award in American history, in 1965.
During his career, Perkins received a number of honors in addition to the Bancroft Prize. He was awarded fellowships by the Social Science Research Council, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Charles Warren Center at Harvard. He delivered the Commonwealth Fund Lectures at University College, London, in 1965 and the Albert Shaw Lectures at Johns Hopkins in 1979. In recognition of his achievements, he was elected to membership in the Society of American Historians, the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society.
In 1986 he received a Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the University. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations elected him president in 1974 and awarded him the Norman and Laura Graebner Career Achievement Award in 1992. Perkins served on leading committees of the American Historical Association, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Organization of American Historians. For 10 years ending in 1994 he was a member of the Department of State Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation. In this capacity he struggled with substantial but by no means complete success to improve scholarly access to the documentary record of recent American foreign policy.
Perkins is survived by his sons Dexter of Grand Forks, N.D., and Matthew of Seattle; daughter Martha Nash Perkins of Seattle; and grandsons George, Douglas and Tobias. His youngest son James Bradford Perkins died Oct. 6, 2008 in Ann Arbor. He was 94.
He was a physiologist and morphologist, a psychoacoustician, a student of animal behavior, a biochemist and a historian of auditory science. His research appeared in publications spanning from 1939-2006.
In 1963 Hawkins joined the faculty at U-M and the newly founded Kresge Hearing Research Institute. There he added novel behavioral assessments to his studies on ototoxicity in collaboration with his colleagues William Stebbins and David Moody. He also continued in his interest in noise trauma and defined the role of stria vascularis and vasoconstriction. Finally, his attention turned to auditory and vestibular changes with aging.
In 1994 Hawkins became emeritus professor and he continued his pursuits of science and scholarship. His recent years were devoted to one of his great hobbies, researching and writing on the history of otolaryngology.
Together with S.S. Stevens, he published seminal papers in the psychoacoustics of auditory masking and on auditory evoked potentials. He was known for his work on otopathology, particularly on the ototoxicity of aminoglycoside antibiotics. Others may recall his contributions to our knowledge of the cytoarchitecture and vascular patterns of the inner ear or his work on the physiological and traumatic effects of noise that refined our view of the anatomy and pathology of the inner ear.
Hawkins graduated in 1933 from Baylor University, where he returned 50 years later in his retirement as a distinguished visiting professor teaching undergraduate courses in anatomy.
Following a year of graduate study at Brown, he attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, leaving in 1937 with a bachelor's degree. He then enrolled at Harvard University, where in 1941 he earned a doctoral degree in medical sciences.
He moved to Wake Forest University (1945-46) and then to the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research (1946-56). It was there that he first explored the auditory and vestibular effects of the newly discovered aminoglycoside antibiotics, a line of research that became a life-long fascination.
He returned to academia in 1956 to an appointment at the New York University Medical School Department of Otolaryngology. He visited Hans Engström in Sweden (1961-63), and made one of the earliest uses of the surface preparation as a superior technique for studying inner ear structure.
Later in his career he returned to Oxford to complete a Master of Arts degree in 1966 and Doctor of Science degree in 1979.
His honors include the Award of Merit of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, the Distinguished Achievement and the Distinguished Alumnus Awards of Baylor College, the Gold Medal for Basic Science of the Prosper Menière Society, and he was awarded the medals of the cities of Pleven, Bulgaria, and Bordeaux, France.
His wife Jane preceded him in death in 2002. He is survived by sons Richard, Peter, James and William, a daughter Priscilla, and their spouses and children.
The family requests that remembrances to the memory of Joe Hawkins be made to the Merle Lawrence/Joseph Hawkins Lectureship Fund, University of Michigan, Kresge Hearing Research Institute, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, 4605 Medical Science II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109- 5616.
Albert Richards
Albert Richards, one of the world's foremost authorities in dental radiography, Born in Chicago in 1917, Richards was a faculty member with the School of Dentistry for more than 40 years. He joined the school as an instructor in July 1940, was named professor of dentistry in 1959 and was the Marcus L. Ward Professor of Dentistry when he retired in 1981.
An advanced amateur photographer who was making his own color prints in the 1930s when they were a rarity, Richards focused his interest on X-ray photography and its application to dentistry, teaching himself dental radiology.
He earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1940 from U-M, after transferring from Northwestern University, and a master's degree in physics in 1943, also from U-M.
What many faculty, students, and staff remember most about Richards were his floral radiographs that adorn a wall on the first-floor hallway near the main lobby in the School of Dentistry building. The radiographs show the petals and inner structures of the lily, calla lily, fuchsia, daffodil, cosmos and iris. His floral radiographs have been exhibited in art galleries around the nation and featured on the cover of a 1987 Smithsonian magazine, among others. He also devised a method for making 3-D images of flowers.
His accomplishments included inventing the recessed cone X-ray head, becoming the first dental radiologist to use electron microscopy to view the internal structure of teeth, and developing a technique that shows the topography of surfaces.
Richards also developed a radiographic procedure that enables dentists and physicians to examine living tissue by layer, and a method of determining the relative location of objects hidden in the oral region. He also developed a liquid mold technique for showing the topography of surfaces that have diverse applications elsewhere, such as in determining the fingerprints of burn victims.
During his distinguished career, Richards earned numerous honors including the Meritorious Award from the Michigan Dental Association in 1972 and a special award from the Dental Society of Japan for developing the recessed cone X-ray head, which reduces stray radiation as dental X-rays are taken.
Richards authored more than 100 publications, belonged to numerous professional organizations (including serving as president of the American Academy of Oral Roentgenology), was an honorary member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon and Sigma Phi Alpha honorary societies, a consultant to the Veterans' Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, and editor for several professional journals. He also held patents on seven inventions. In 2001 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the School of Dentistry Alumni Society Board of Governors for his service and contributions to the School and to the dental profession.
Richards was a lifelong member of the First United Methodist Church of Ann Arbor where he was a tenor soloist in the choir. He was a master gardener and enjoyed plants of all types.
Richards and his wife Marian were died Sept. 13, 2008 at his home. He was 62.
Prior to his deanship, Moon was professor of operations management at the school.
"Dean Moon's contributions to the School of Management will endure for decades," says U-M-Flint Provost Jack Kay. "Doug was a caring individual, and we will miss him very much."
Through a generous endowed gift of $10,000, he created the I. Douglas Moon School of Management Undergraduate Merit Scholarship Fund. Creating the scholarship was a demonstration of his commitment to the highest academic standards at U-M-Flint. His fund will support the education of undergraduate students who have demonstrated academic excellence.
Before coming to U-M-Flint in 1989, Moon was a faculty member at Columbia University and Rutgers Graduate School of Management.
Under his leadership the school established its first global articulation agreements for international undergraduate and graduate education. During his tenure, he signed six articulation agreements for double MBA degree programs with business schools in India, Taiwan, China and South Korea.
Funeral services were held Sept. 17.
G. Robinson (Bob) Gregory
G. Robinson (Bob) Gregory, a School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) alumnus, longtime professor and natural resource economist, born in Michigan and grew up hunting, fishing and iceboating in numerous small towns across the state - experiences that informed his revolutionary thinking regarding forests, ecology and conservation, colleagues say.
Gregory earned two degrees - a Bachelor of Science and a master's degree in forestry - from U-M in 1940 and returned 12 years later to begin more than three decades of teaching and research at SNRE.
"Bob will be missed by many friends and former students as well as his family," says David Allan, SNRE professor and acting dean.
Gregory worked briefly for the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon and conducted statistical analysis at Duke University and also in Maryland. He then enlisted in the U.S. Navy and flew airplanes during World War II. When the war ended, he again worked in the forestry industry for a few years then used the G.I. Bill to earn his doctorate in economics at the University of California-Berkeley in 1952.
He began his U-M teaching career the same year, and became one of the first researchers to combine forestry and economics; his first U-M appointment was split between economics and the School of Natural Resources, as it was then called. By the time he retired in 1983, he held SNRE's endowed George Willis Pack Professorship of Natural Resource Economics.
Gregory was a pioneer in the emerging field of forest economics. His theories about multiple use and natural resources policy greatly influenced forest management of public lands throughout Michigan and United States. His book "Forest Resource Economics," published in 1972, immediately became the best-selling forest economics textbook in English. It still was used widely 15 years later when he published a revised edition under the title, "Resource Economics for Foresters."
While at the University, he chaired committees for 34 doctoral students and 30 additional master's students.
In the latter half of his career, Gregory focused on development of forest resources in developing nations, work inspired by two years spent with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. He worked in and consulted with governments in more than 30 countries.
In retirement Gregory and his wife Ann traveled, including more than 20 Elderhostel trips and visits with former students around the world.
He is survived by children Bonnie Ann Inouye, Robin Scott Gregory and Sharolyn Kay Gregory; brother John; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
A funeral service was held Sept. 20 in Ann Arbor.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 310 N. Main St. Suite 100, Chelsea, Mich., 48118, or to Motor Meals of Ann Arbor, 1000 Wall St., Suite 1311, Ann Arbor, Mich., 48109.
