ALBERT H. BOWMAN, retired professor of history, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga died in early January 1987. He was sixty-five years old.
Professor Bowman received his bachelor’s degree from Trinity College, and received his MA and PhD from Columbia University.
He retired from the University of Tennessee faculty after a long career that began in 1962 when he accepted a position as director of libraries and professor of history. Prior to that he taught at Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens, was a visiting professor at Long Island University, and a Fulbright Lecturer and visiting professor at Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.
His major publication was The Struggle for Neutrality: Franco-American Diplomacy during the Federalist Era, 1974.
Professor Bowman served in World War II, and worked for the Armed Forces as a translator and for the Central Intelligence Agency as an intelligence officer.
A long-time member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the AHA, the Chattanooga Times refers to Professor Bowman as a “valued friend, out standing historian, and a trenchant observer of American life.” He will be missed.
Lawrence S. Kaplan
Kent State University
LYMAN B. BURBANK, retired director of teacher education and member of the history department at Vanderbilt University died on June 18, 1987 in Nashville.
After graduating in 1938 from Harvard University, Professor Burbank served in World War II. He was shot down over Germany and spent two years as a prisoner of war.
After the war, he received the MA from the University of Chicago in 1946, the PhD from New York University, 1950 and a MSc in social sciences from the New School in 1957.
From 1954-55 Professor Burbank was a Fulbright Lecturer in Denmark. He also lectured in the department of history at Yale University from 1955-59, after which he occupied the Eppley Chair in history at Culver Military Academy. From 1960 until his retirement in 1981 he served at Vanderbilt University where he specialized in the history of American education. He is survived by his wife Allene and three daughters.
Anna B. Luton
Vanderbilt University
CHARLES DeBENEDETTI, professor of history, University of Toledo, and leading student of American peace movements died on January 27, 1987, his forty-fourth birth day, after an illness of several months.
Born and raised in Chicago, Professor DeBenedetti received his undergraduate education at Loyola University, Chicago graduating in 1964 and his PhD in US diplomatic history from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1968. In that year he joined the faculty of the University of Toledo, achieving the rank of professor, ten years later.
In addition to his many articles, Dr. DeBenedetti authored Origins of the Modern American Peace Movement, 1915-1929, 1978 and The Peace Reform in American History, 1980. He also edited Kirby Page: Writings on Peace and justice, 1977 and Peace Heroes in Twentieth- Century America, 1986.
After 1980, he devoted much of his effort to a study of the anti-war movement in America. In August 1986 he received a large grant from the Social Science Research Council to complete an oral history on elite dissent and foreign policymaking during the Vietnam War.
Active in professional affairs, Professor DeBenedetti was a member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and served as president of the Conference on Peace Research in History. At the time of his death, he was president of the Society for the Study of Internationalism.
Professor DeBenedetti was appreciated by students, colleagues, and friends for his humaneness, cordiality, and good humor. He is survived by his wife, two children, two brothers, a sister, and his parents,
Norman A. Graebner
University of Virginia
FREDERICK CHARLES DIETZ, American pioneer in English economic history, died in Urbana, Illinois on May 6, 1987, just two weeks from his ninety-ninth birthday.
A native of Philadelphia, Professor Dietz was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. While at Harvard, he studied with Charles Homer Haskins, E.F. Gay, and C.H. Mcllwain, and other notables. As a Bayard-Cutting Fellow, he pursued research in England for two years, after which he received his PhD from Harvard in 1916.
He taught for four years at Smith College and then accepted an invitation to join the faculty of the University of Illinois where he spent the remainder of his academic career. Professor Dietz was an innovator in the study of English fiscal history of the Tudor and Stuart periods. His volumes on that subject, over half a century old, are still consulted and cited by students in the field. Included among his many monographs, textbooks, and scholarly articles, he published The Finances of Edward VI and Mary, 1918, The Exchequer in Elizabeth’s Reign, 1923, and Receipts and Issues of the Exchequer during the Reigns of James I and Charles I, 1928. These were accompanied by his more extended works, English Government Finance, 1485-1558, 1920 and English Public Finance, 1558-1641, 1932. He hoped to continue his studies into the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but this project was interrupted by World War II and subsequently by his responsibilities from 1948 to 1956 as head of the history department at the University of Illinois.
In 1919 Professor Dietz married Elsie Winneberger who died in 1981. He is survived by two daughters.
A few fortunate friends will have been favored with Fred’s delightfully frank and warmly personal memoir, Aus Meinem Leben or Things That I Remember, finished only last year. Professor Dietz will be remembered by all who had the privilege to know him.
Robert M. Sutton
Caroline M. Hibbard
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
CHARLES GARSIDE, JR., professor of history at Rice University and member of the American Historical Association since 1970, died of complications from a stroke on June 11, 1987. He was sixty years old.
Born in New York City, Charles Garside received his AB degree in history from Princeton University in 1950. In 1951 he received an MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He received his PhD from Yale in 1957, and specialized in the history of the Reformation.
From 1956 to 1966 Charles Garside taught at Yale. And from 1966 until his death he was with the department of history at Rice University. He was an outstanding teacher and was awarded five George R. Brown Awards at Rice for superior teaching.
As an active member of many historical organizations, Charles Garside was president of The American Society for Reformation Research from 1973 to 1975. He was also a member of the AHA ad hoc Committee on Relations with Affiliated Societies in 1974.
Professor Garside was vitally involved in his vocation, research, community, and university, His publications include Zwingli and the Arts, Yale University Press, 1966; The Origin of Calvin’s Theology of Music: 1536-1543, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 69, Part 4, 1979; “The Vanished Tower: Reflections on the Crisis in the University Today,” The Congressional Record, Vol. 115 (October 14, 1969), No. 167; and “‘La Farce des Theologastres’: Humanism, Heresy, and the Sorbonne, 1523-1525,” Rice University Studies, Vol. 60 (Fall, 1974).
STEPHAN N. HORAK, professor of Russian and modern history, Eastern Illinois State University, died of a heart attack on December 20, 1986 in Charleston, Illinois. He was sixty-six years old.
Born in the Ukraine, Professor Horak was educated in the “gymnaziia” in L’viv, then in Poland, and in Soviet schools during World War II. After the war, he studied in Erlangen and obtained his doctorate there in 1949.
He and his wife came to the United States in 1956 after he had taught in Regensburg and had served as a research fellow at the East European Institute in Tübingen. In this country, he served as documents librarian at Wayne State University for a year, obtained a MLS degree at the University of Michigan in 1960. He became librarian of the Slavic reading room at Indiana University in 1960 and left the position in 1964 to teach at the University of Kentucky and Vanderbilt University before going to Eastern Illinois State University.
Professor Horak won Eastern Illinois University’s Faculty Merit Award twice and the university has established a scholarship for undergraduates in his honor. His research productivity included four books on Poland and the Ukraine in international politics in the twentieth century, five bibliographies, thirty articles, thirty papers at national and international conferences, and almost 100 book reviews. At his death, three volumes were in press, one a bibliography, one a set of essays on the Ukraine during World War II, and one a volume on the Ukraine Treaty with the Central Powers.
An organizer of great skill, Professor Horak founded the Association for the Study of Nationalities, USSR and Eastern Europe in 1972, and from that time edited the association’s semi-annual Nationalities Papers.
Most Americans fail to appreciate the personal qualities and professional contributions that people such as Professor Horak make to our understanding of the Soviet system and of this country. Professor Horak through difficult circumstances achieved a successful career and at the same time was an active citizen of this country and of the world. He was a tribute to his native country as well as the United States.
Robert F. Byrnes
Indiana University
ARNALDO DANTE MOMIGLIANO, Italian historian, internationally known professor of classics, and AHA honorary foreign member died September 1, 1987 in London. He was seventy-eight years old.
Professor Momigliano began his academic career teaching Greek, Roman, and Jewish history at the Universities of Rome and Turin from 1932 to 1939. In 1939, after imposition of anti-semitic laws by the Italian Fascist government, he went into exile in Great Britain.
During World War II, Professor Momigliano pursued research at Oxford University and then between 1947 and 1951 he served as a reader at the University of Bristol. He went on to teach ancient history at University College in London for twenty-three years. During his career, he also taught at other universities and colleges including: the Universities of Pisa, Turin, California, Michigan, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge as well as Bryn Mawr and Hebrew Union Colleges.
Among his publications were The Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century; The Development of Greek Biography; Alien Wisdom: The Limits of Hellenization; and New Paths of Classicism in the 19th Century.
Professor Momigliano had received a Mac Arthur Foundation fellowship last spring. He is survived by his wife and a daughter.
SHARON HAMILTON NOLTE, assistant professor of Asian history, DePauw University, died July 11, 1987 of a brain aneurism. She was thirty-eight years old.
Professor Nolte began her career in Asian studies at Carleton College, receiving her BA in 1970. She went on to receive her MA in 1972 and PhD in 1979 from Yale University. Before finishing her graduate work, she began teaching at Appalachian State University in 1978. After receiving her degree she accepted positions at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse and the University of Iowa. She taught for four years at Southern Methodist University before moving to DePauw in 1984. At DePauw University she was instrumental in building a pro gram in East Asian studies.
Beginning her career as an intellectual historian, Professor Nolte published Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and his Teachers, 1905-1960, 1987. This book was preceded by three articles: “Individualism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan,” Journal of Asian Studies; “Industrial Democracy for Japan-Tanaka Odo and John Dewey,” Journal of the History of Ideas; and “National Morality and Universal Ethics: Onishi Hajime and the Imperial Rescript on Education,” Monumenta Nipponica. As she matured as a historian, her interests shifted to women’s history. Her following articles reflect that interest: “Women, the State and Repression in Imperial Japan,” Women in International Development and ”Women’s Rights and Society’s Needs: Japan’s 1931 Suffrage Bill,” Comparative Studies in Society and History.
She recently spent time in Japan researching for a new book in Japanese women’s studies. At her death she was revising the article, “The New Japanese Woman: The Home Ministry’s Redefinition of Public and Private, 1890-1910.”
A thoroughly professional scholar, her teaching and publications served to clarify ways in which East Asian history is a part of our common cultural heritage. Her friends will miss her contentiousness, knowledge, wry humor, critical eye, and editorial judgment. She died too soon; her friends and the field of Japanese history are the worse for it. The history department at DePauw University is establishing a scholarship in her honor. Contributions may be sent to John Dittmer, Department of History, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135.
Anne Walthall
University of Utah
Ann Waltner
University of Minnesota
MARY EVELYN PUGH, professor of history, George Mason University, died of cancer on April 24, 1987 in Fairfax, Virginia. She was fifty-seven years old.
Born and raised in Piney Green, North Carolina, Professor Pugh received her bachelor’s degree in history in 1952 from East Carolina University. She took her master’s degree in history from Duke University in 1959 and her PhD in history from American University in 1966. She taught in the department of history at George Mason University since 1965. In that time, she was named History Professor of the Year in 1970-71, served as acting department chair, and was a long-time graduate studies coordinator.
Her specialization was John Stuart Mill and British and US feminism. Her many articles were published in scholarly journals including: The Journal of British Studies, International journal of Women’s Studies, Canadian Journal of History, and The Historian. Professor Pugh was also closely involved in commemorating the women suffragists who had been imprisoned in Lorton, Virginia for demonstrating in Washington to secure voting rights for women.
She was a member of the Washington Women Historians, the Fairfax chapter of the American Association of University Women, the AHA, and the Southern Association of Women Historians. She is survived by her husband Dr. Robert Pugh, also a faculty member of George Mason University. Mary Evelyn Pugh will be sorely missed at her university, in her community, and in her profession.
Marion Deshmukh
George Mason University
Eugene L. Rasor
Emory and Henry College
NAOMI RICHES, AHA life member, died in Fairfax County, Virginia on July 19, 1987. She was ninety-two years old.
Born in 1895, Dr. Riches was graduated from Reed College and after a few years of high school teaching, she left the West Coast to attend Columbia University where she received a master’s degree in history in 1924. In 1925, she joined the faculty of Goucher College as an instructor, advancing to associate professor and then director of admissions.
Professor Riches received the PhD in his tory from the University of Chicago, having specialized in English agricultural history. Her dissertation, The Agricultural Revolution in Norfolk, a pioneer study based on research in estate records, was published in 1937. Thirty years later, Dr. Riches’ scholarship was honored by a second edition.
In 1943, she left teaching for research, first with the Division of Program Analysis, Social Security Administration and later with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor. She retired from the federal government in 1960.
Blanche D. Coll
Washington, DC
JOSEPH REESE STRAYER, eighty-two, died on July 2, 1987. A specialist in medieval history, Professor Strayer received his AB degree from Princeton University in 1925 and did graduate work in history at Harvard under Charles Homer Haskins. He received his PhD in 1930. After teaching one year at Stevens Institute in New Jersey, he joined the faculty of Princeton University as an instructor in 1930, rising to professor in 1942. He served as chair of the history department for twenty years beginning in 1942 and held successively the Lea chair and the Dayton Stockton chair. He became professor emeritus in 1973.
Among his principal publications were The Administration of Normandy under Saint Louis, 1932; The Royal Domain in the Bailliage of Rouen, 1936; Studies in Early French Taxation (with C.H. Taylor), 1939; Feudalism, 1965; On the Medieval Origins of the Modem State, 1970; and The Reign of Philip the Fair, 1980, which received the Haskins medal of the Medieval Academy of America in April of this year. At the time of his death he was also editor-in-chief of the thirteen-volume Dictionary of the Middle Ages published by Charles Scribner and Sons.
Professor Strayer received honorary degrees from the University of Caen, 1957, Lehigh University, 1976, and Princeton University, 1980. He served as the president of the Medieval Academy of America, 1966-1969 and of the American Historical Association, 1971.
Widely considered the dean of American medievalists, Joseph Strayer’s interests were not confined to medieval French history. He served as a consultant to the State Department, published learned studies in English and American history, and counseled several generations of young men and women in many fields as they undertook to try to continue the tradition of scholarship, learning, and service that he embodied, His first wife, Lois, died in February 1984. He is survived by a daughter and by his second wife, Sylvia Thrupp, whom he married in 1986.
William Chester Jordon
Princeton University
LYNN WHITE, JR., professor emeritus of history, University of California, Los Angeles and internationally known medievalist died from heart disease March 30, 1987. He was seventy-nine years old.
Professor White received his undergraduate education at Stanford University, and received his doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1934. He taught at Stan ford and Princeton Universities and became president of Mills College in Oakland in 1943. In 1958 Professor White left Mills College to join the University of California at Los Angeles faculty. During his time at UCLA, he founded the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in 1964 and was the institution’s director until 1970.
Named as Faculty Lecturer at UCLA in 1973, Lynn White was the recipient of other scholarly honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship. He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1973 and president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA, 1972-73, as well as holding member ship and positions in other learned societies such as the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Author of four books, numerous papers, and other scholarly works, he was also editor of two historical collections and a collection of essays. His book, Medieval Technology and Social Change, 1962, is considered by many to be a classic in the field and has been translated into several languages.
Professor White is survived by his wife, Maude MacArthur White, three daughters, and a son.