Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1963-1966)

JULY MEETING, 1963

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the Honors Program of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. His own
scholarship, including his American population studies and his articles on the New
England frontier, proved seminal, somewhat in the manner of his teaching.
For the mechanistic and bureaucratic elements in modern university life, he
had less predilection. It was perhaps in reaction against these that he undertook
the discipline leading to his ordination as an Episcopal priest in 1955. On the
occasion of his early retirement, the Regents of the University thank him most
warmly and regret the loss of services which no other man, of whatever gifts, can
now supply. Appointing him Professor Emeritus of Geography, they trust that he
will long retain his associations within the University community.
MAURICE BARKLEY EICHELBERGER, Associate Professor of Engineering Graphics, retired from the active faculty of the College of Engineering at the
end of the past academic year, concluding a forty-year span of teaching.
Upon earning his baccalaureate from Michigan Agricultural College in 1916.
Professor Eichelberger worked for six years, chiefly as a draftsman, for industrial
houses and for the United States Army. He then came to the College of
Engineering to teach drawing, though continuing also at intervals to add to his
industrial experience. The University advanced him to Assistant Professor in 1924
and to Associate Professor in 1953. A patient and painstaking teacher, Professor
Eichelberger became well acquainted with his students individually and was
rewarded by their affectionate regard. A devoted and in a manner jealous
guardian of the standards of his department, he was active in departmental affairs.
adjusting the credit of transfer students and co-ordinating the examination program
in engineering drawing. As manager of the blueprinting facilities of the Engineering College, he efficiently performed invaluable services for the entire University.
As he now enters upon his retirement, the Regents of the University thank
him most warmly for his able and faithful fulfillment of his many obligations over
the years, and cordially welcome him among the emeritus faculty with the title
Associate Professor Emeritus of Engineering Graphics.
STANLEY GEORGE FONTANNA, Dean of the School of Natural Resources.
who was granted permission to retire from the active faculty at age sixty-nine.
began his retirement on June 8, 1963.
Dean Fontanna was graduated from the Department of Forestry of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts in 1917, earning a Bachelor of Science in
Forestry degree on the second occasion when that degree was conferred. After a
term of military service, he embarked upon an eminent career in private and state
forestry, becoming in 1934 Deputy Director of the Michigan Department of Conservation, and enjoying such honors as the presidency of the Association of State
Foresters and membership on the governing council of the Society of American
Foresters. In 1951 the University accepted his breadth of experience and analytical
bent of mind in lieu of a specifically academic background, and invited him to
assume the deanship which he has just relinquished.
Coming to the School of Natural Resources shortly after its sweeping reorganization, Dean Fontanna devoted himself to securing the foundation upon which
a school as comprehensive as that name implies must build. Specifically, he was
fruitfully concerned with problems of staffing and housing. Under his leadership.
his school occupied respectably commodious quarters for the first time in many
years. Its steady growth in accord with the philosophy underlying the reorganization of 1950 became assured. During his deanship he further continued his active
professional career, serving as chairman or councilman of national forestry associations and of numerous state committees devoted to conservation in Michigan.
His colleagues in natural resources, sensitive to the warmth of his personality
as well as to his administrative gifts, experience a sense of personal loss upon his
retirement. The Regents of the University express their own warm appreciation
of his talents and his services as they confer upon him the titles Dean Emeritus of
the School of Natural Resources and Professor Emeritus of Forestry.
BRUCE DOUGLAS GREENSHIELDS, Lecturer in Transportation Engineering and Assistant Director of the Transportation Institute, formally concluded his
teaching career in the College of Engineering on the thirtieth of June. at the
statutory age of seventy.
Mr. Greenshields was educated at Oklahoma University and The University of
Michigan, earning his doctorate here in 1934 with a thesis on the photographic
study of traffic. His teaching experience comprised terms on the faculties of Mar
quette University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Denison University, the College
of the City of New York, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, New York University
and George Washington University. His further professional experience embraced

M. B. Eichelberger:
Memoir
S. G. Fontanna:
Memoir
B. D. Greenshields:
Memoir