Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1963-1966)

DECEMBER MEETING, 1965 1145
The Regents confirmed the following as members of the Board of University
Musical Society
Directors of the University Musical Society, to succeed themselves for Board of Directors
the three-year term ending at the time of the annual meeting in 1967
(p. 197):
Roscoe 0. Bonisteel Charles A. Sink
Thor Johnson E. Thurston Thieme
The following changes in status were approved (p. 1120): Promotions, etc.:
Academic
PROMOTIONS, TRANSFERS, SALARY ADJUSTMENTS,
AND OTHER CHANGES IN STATUS
By authorization of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs. All items reported are
for the year 1965-66 unless otherwise stated.
COLLEGE OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS
Physics
Clifford T. Coffin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, leave without salary, fall term, 1965,
canceled, restored to full time
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Harold H. Harger, B.A., from Administrative Associate, Electrical Engineering, to
Assistant to the Dean, College of Engineering, effective December 1, 1965
Resignations were accepted with regret, as follows (p. 1121): Resignations:
Academic
RESIGNATIONS
MEDICAL SCHOOL
A ncsthesiology
Leslie E. Soper, Instructor, resignation effective November 30, 1965
Pharmacology
M. Kent Shellenberger, Research Associate, resignation effective October 31, 1965
INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Jack R. Rademaker, Research Associate, resignation effective November 23, 1965
The Secretary reported with regret the death on December 8, 1965, D.B. McLaughlin:
of Dean Benjamin McLaughlin, Professor of Astronomy. The following Memoir
memoir was adopted:
The friends and colleagues of Dean Benjamin McLaughlin, Professor of Astronomy, mourn his death on December 8, 1965, at age sixty-four.
Professor McLaughlin earned three degrees from The University of Michigan
and began his work in astronomy here in 1927, after teaching for three years at
Swarthmore College. His amazingly broad scientific knowledge embraced also
geology. He had recently published studies of the Triassic rocks of the eastern
United States.
Professor McLaughlin remained continuously with the University from 1927,
except for a period of wartime research undertaken at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. His professorship dated from 1941. Within recent years he had given
fresh evidence of his versatility as a teacher by simultaneously directing advanced
students and preparing a warmly received text for beginners in astronomy. His
research, much of it carried out with an instrument posing mechanical barriers, was
directed toward the perfect and definitive description of certain stars which, because
of the authority of Professor McLaughlin's studies, have come to be regarded as his
own. At the time of his death, he was extending this unique work to cover all novae.
No astronomer at The University of Michigan has equaled Professor McLaughlin's
scientific bibliography.