Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1960-1963)

NOVEMBER MEETING, 1960 171
of Washington invited him to Olympia to direct all penal and mental institutions
under state control there. Nationally, he has served as president of the American
Prison Association and the American Parole Association and consultant to the
Secretary of War on military prisons.
Dr. Heyns possesses in pre-eminent degree the disparate qualities essential to
the penologist: conviction and humanity, an imperviousness to pressure, and a.sympathetic insight into individual human potentialities. His many articles and
the courses of lectures on criminology which he has offered here and at Calvin
College testify to a scholarly bent in harmony with the power of decisive action.
In tendering him this Outstanding Achievement Award, the University expresses
admiration for his attainments and qualities and gratitude alike for his services to
the state and the honor which he has reflected upon his Alma Mater.
WESLEY MINNIS, Ph.D., 1922; Director of Research of the Allied Chemical W. Minnis:
and Dye Corporation. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees at the Univer- Outstanding
sity of Washington, Dr. Minnis came to The University of Michigan as a graduate Achievement
student in organic chemistry and, after a term of military and industrial service Awar
occasioned by the First World War, returned to complete his doctorate. He then
entered upon his long career as research chemist and director of research in the
chemical industry. His present responsibilities as Director of Research for Allied
Chemical and Dye were assumed in 1951. As chairman of company committees
awarding fellowships and grants, Dr. Minnis has fruitfully expressed his continuing
interest in chemical education, initiating or expanding programs of aid for chemistry students in many universities, not least The University of Michigan. The
example of his company during his tenure has perhaps called forth as much
support again from other corporations. And he has further fostered the cause of
chemical education through personal gifts, one of these being an annual prize
awarded through the Department of Chemistry here. In tendering him an Outstanding Achievement Award, the University honors at once a gifted scientific
mind, a statesmanlike career, and a generous man.
EMILIE GLEASON SARGENT, A.B., 1916, M.S.P.H., 1938; for many years E. G. Sargent:
Executive Director of the Visiting Nurse Association of Detroit. Miss Sargent, Outstanding
Achievement
who originally prepared herself to teach English, was attracted into nursing during Aceveta
the First World War, and her University, her City, and her State have richly
benefited from her labors in the latter calling. Appointed to her present post before
her thirtieth year, she has steadily improved and diversified the services which the
Visiting Nurse Association has rendered, communicating her own energy and devotion to her fellow workers and introducing new skills, like those of physical and
occupational therapy, as the medical and health sciences have made them available. To the School of Public Health, her aid and counsel have proved invaluable.
In concert with the faculty in public health nursing, she has devised programs of
supervised field experience for students and freely adapted these to changing educational needs. Among Miss Sargent's many professional offices have been the
presidency of the Michigan Public Health Association and the National Organization for Public Health Nursing, and the vice-presidency of the American Public
Health Association. Earlier this year, the American Nursing Association conferred
on her its Pearl Mclver Public Health Nurse Award for her "outstanding contribution to mankind." The University takes this occasion to make known its grateful esteem.