Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1963-1966)

DECEMIBER MEETING, 1964

623

Internal Medicine
Ed.vard L. Kean. Research Associate, resignation effective November 30, 1964
Ophthalmology
Elsa D. Kertesz. Instructor, resignation effective September 23, 1964
INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
George H. Mycroft. Research Associate. resignation effective October 31, 1964
At the request of Dr. Adam A. Christman, Professor of Biological
Chemistry, and on the recommendation of the Dean of the Medical
School and of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Professor
Christman was placed on retirement furlough beginning January 1, 1965.
Dr. Christman reached his sixty-ninth birthday on December 11, 1964.
In recommending favorable action on Professor Christman's request.
the Dean of the Medical School said:
Since Dr. Christman has served the Medical School and University most faithfully and devotedly since 1922. he certainly has earned the privilege of requesting an
early retirement of one semester.
While we view Dr. Christman's retirement with regret for the loss of his valuable
services, we forward this recommendation in a sense of deep appreciation for his
many contributions and outstanding loyalty to The University of Michigan.
At the request of S. Chesterfield Oppenheim, Professor of Law. and
on the recommendation of the Dean of the Law School and of the
Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Professor Oppenheim was permitted to retire one year earlier than the compulsory retirement age.
Professor Oppenheim's sixty-eighth birthday will occur on January 15.
1965. He will terminate his service to the University at the end of the
University year 1965-66.
The Secretary reported the death of Ava Comin Case. Professor of
Music, on December 15, 1964. The following memoir was adopted:
The University community mourns the sudden death, on December the fifteenth.
of Mrs. Ava Comin Case. Professor of Music and for thirty-five years a teacher of
piano in the School of Music. She was in the sixty-fifth year of her age.
Mrs. Case was born in Des Moines. Iowa, but spent most of her life in Michigan.
Being graduated from high school in Three Rivers, she earned a Bachelor of Arts
degree from this University in 1921. Settling permanently in Ann Arbor two years
later when she married Lee Owen Case. of the University's Department of Chemistry, she proceeded to earn bachelor's and master's degrees in music, and herself
joined the piano faculty in 1929.
Mrs. Case was a respected teacher, an admired musical performer, and a warmly
esteemed counselor and friend. As an official of teachers' organizations and an arbiter
of standards of teaching, she extended a beneficent influence throughout the state
and region. A former student of Artur Schnabel's, she meanwhile continued to cultivate her own talents as accompanist, soloist, and member of a two-piano ensemble.
Generously committed to students and colleagues alike, she was a firm but sympathetic mentor; she further made her wisdom and experience profoundly felt in the
councils of the Music School.
At this sad time, the Regents of the University would express their personal
sorrow for the premature loss of this gifted and devoted woman. And they would
join the music faculty in tendering deep sympathy to her husband, Professor Case.
to her sons, and to her other surviving relatives.
The following staff members were assigned to duty off campus
(p. 597'):
William W. Bishop. Jr., Professor of Law, winter term of the University year
1964-65
Alfred F. Conard, Professor of Law, winter term of the University year 1964-65 and
summer term of 1965

A. A. Christman:
Retirement
Furlough

S. C. Oppenheim:
Retirement
A. C. Case:
Memoir
Off-Campus
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