Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1963-1966)

APRIL MEETING, 1965

763

sixty-five. In recommending the request, the Associate Dean of the
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts said of Dr. Husselman,
"She represents the tradition of scholarly excellence and probity of
which this University is justly proud, and it is with great regret that this
retirement is recommended."
The Secretary reported the death on March 26, 1965, of Wilfred w. M. Senseman:
Minnich Senseman, Professor of English in the College of Engineering. Memoir
The following memoir was adopted:
It is a sad duty to record the sudden death on March 26 of Professor Wilfred
Minnich Senseman of the English Department of the Engineering College. Professor
Senseman, who was fifty-two, died of a heart seizure.
Professor Senseman earned a bachelor's degree, with honors in English, from
Columbia College in 1933, and added to it a master's degree in 1935. He came then
to The University of Michigan to work toward his doctorate. Accepting an instructorship in English at the Engineering College in the following year, he rose through
the several ranks to a professorship in 1956. His doctoral work was completed
in 1950.
Through exceptional endowments of mind and character and through unremitting industry, he became a superb teacher known for his versatility in the fields of
English literature and composition. His attainments in such diverse fields as literary
criticism and technical report writing were of the first rank. He was the pattern of
the earnest and able professor who, though not much mindful of personal reputation, performed every duty conscientiously and won the warm respect of everyone
whom he encountered. It is upon the devotion of such men that the University bases
its most cogent claims to educational excellence.
The Regents of the University join Professor Senseman's fellows in the Engineering College in mourning his untimely passing and in tendering to Mrs. Senseman
and the Senseman children their profound sympathy.
The following staff members were assigned to duty off campus Off-Campus
(p. 730): Assignments
Adelia M. Beeuwkes, Professor of Public Health Nutrition, June 29, 1965, to
July 26, 1965
John B. Burch, Associate Professor of Zoology and Curator of Mollusks, Museum
of Zoology, March 19, 1965, to July 15, 1965
Ruth G. Cumings, Associate Professor of Public Health Nursing and Mental
Health, June 14, 1965, to July 18, 1965
Marvin Eisenberg, Professor of the History of Art and Chairman of the Department of the History of Art, April 26, 1965, to May 23, 1965
Frederick H. Epstein, Professor of Epidemiology, April 9, 1965, to June 9, 1965
Vlado A. Getting, Professor of Public Health Administration and Chairman of the
Department of Community Health Services, June 1, 1965, to June 30, 1965
Robert R. Miller, Professor of Zoology and Curator of Fishes in the MIuseum of
Zoology, March 19, 1965, to April 30, 1965
Robert L. Shaffer, Associate Professor of Botany and Curator of Fungi and Lichens
in the University Herbarium, June 1, 1965, to November 1, 1965
The following leaves of absence were approved (p. 736): Leaves of Absence
William P. Alston, Professor of Philosophy, July 1, 1965, to June 30, 1966, without salary, to serve as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, California
Manuela Cirre, Assistant Professor of Spanish, fall term of the University year
1965-66, without salary, to study Spanish-Arabic literature while in Spain
where her husband will be on a Guggenheim grant
William D. Drake, Associate Research Engineer, Institute of Science and Technology, -March 1, 1965, through December 31, 1965, without salary, to serve
as a professional staff member of the National Commission on Technology,
Automation, and Economic Progress
Johan W. Eliot, Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health, April 19, 1965,
to July 11, 1965, without salary, to serve as a consultant to the American
Friends Service Committee in Algeria
Frank Grace, Professor of Political Science, winter term of the University year
1965-66, with full salary, sabbatical, to revise Francis G. Wilson's American
Political Mind, the work to be done in Ann Arbor