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Tom D. Rowe
Tom D. Rowe, professor emeritus of pharmacy and dean emeritus of the College of Pharmacy, died Oct. 20, 1997 after a long struggle with cancer.
Boseman joined the business office at the Institute for Social Research in 1953 and was named business manager in April 1971. She retired last March.
Family and colleagues note that Boseman ³had a great flair and love for simple beauty that was reflected in her impeccable taste in art, design, her home and her clothes, and shared her business and artistic talents with many local organizations.²
She was a founding member and served on the board of the Ann Arbor Black Theater and also served on the boards of the UMCA, Planned Parenthood and the U-M Credit Union, and on the advisory committee of the Ann Arbor Public Library.
She served as president of the board of Soundings and was a member of the fund-raising committee while on the board of the Museum of Art.
Boseman was died Oct. 29, 1997 of pancreatic cancer. She was 63.
died Oct. 19, 1997 in Bloomington, Ind., of a possible heart attack. He was 58.
Makarewich was died Oct. 13, 1997 after a long illness.
Walker devoted much of his professional life to the study of human motivation and learning. He also contributed to such diverse fields as the study of learning in laboratory animals, night vision in pilots, human problem-solving, experimental aesthetics and the social psychology of conformity. He was known to his graduate students and colleagues for his intellectual rigor, delightful sense of humor and his wisdom.
He was the author of 11 books and numerous articles and book reviews.
The central theme of much of Walkerıs research and theorizing was a challenge to the vision of motivation and learning that dominated psychology when he entered the field in the late 1940s. At the time, both Freudian psychoanalysis in clinical psychology and behavioristic theory in experimental psychology saw human motivation as driven entirely by biologically insistent impulses such as hunger, thirst and sex, implying that once these drives are satisfied, nothing more is sought. Walker insisted the human beings and even animals are not simply driven, but, given a choice, will prefer challenge to passivity, complexity to sameness. He developed evidence for this point of view in an amazing variety of contexts from the study of rat behavior in a simple maze to the study of musical preferences among college students.
Walkerıs professional honors included serving as president of the Midwestern Psychological Association and of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association and receipt of a Career Research Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health. This award allowed him to spend much of his professional life on research, theorizing and writing.
He was a fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Walker was born June 18, 1914, in Connersville, Ind. He received his B.A. and masterıs in psychology from Indiana University. Following graduation, he was a junior clinical psychologist in the Indiana Department of Corrections, then pursued addition al graduate work at the University of Iowa and Stanford University. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II. Following the war and completion of his doctorate in experimental psychology at Stanford University, he joined the U-M, helping a small department grow into one of the largest and most prestigious.
Following his retirement in 1980, he wrote a series of essays and remembrances, recalling his life in Connersville, his experience as a prison psychologist, being a witness to an atomic test in 1952 and his life as a graduate student.
His first wife, Alice, and his son, Bruce, preceded him in death. He is survived by his second wife, Kathryn; sister Mary Janice McGraw, Connersville; stepsons William and Robert Sage; and four grandchildren.
