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Obituaries Inyong Ham, 74, distinguished professor emeritus of industrial engineering, died Nov. 23. In 1948, he received a bachelor's degree from Seoul National University, Korea; in 1956, a master's degree from the University of Nebraska; and, in 1958, a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin; all in mechanical engineering. Since 1958, he was associated with Penn State, retiring as distinguished professor emeritus of industrial engineering in 1995. He also served as FANUC Professor of Industrial Engineering from 1989-92 and director of the Manufacturing Research Center from 1990-92. Before his death, Ham was serving as director of the Foundation for Promotion of Advanced Automation Technology in Japan. Claus P. Janota, 59, former research associate for the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) and assistant professor in the graduate program in acoustics, died Nov. 4. After immigrating from Germany, Janota received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and physics from Midwestern University in 1962 -- the first physics graduate from that institution. He studied physics at Penn State from 1962 to 1964, and served as a U.S. Army officer in Germany from 1965 to 1968. Janota started at ARL as a research assistant in 1968, and was promoted to research associate in 1977 after earning a doctorate in acoustics. In 1984 he took a dual appointment as research associate and assistant professor in acoustics. Janota worked with the submarine fleet at Pearl Harbor through the Navy Science Assistant Program from 1980 to 1982 and was on sabbatical at the Australian National University in 1989. Janota received ARL's technical contribution award in 1978 for inventing a Braille interface for electronic calculators and research into computerized speech recognition. Emery Keck Jr., associate professor of animal science in the College of Agricultural Sciences, from Feb. 1, 1954, until his retirement April 1, 1985; died Dec. 11, at the age of 78. Donald L. Krebs, photographer in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, from Aug. 1, 1958, until his retirement Jan. 3, 1990; died Dec. 13. He was 75. John D. McAulay, 88, professor emeritus of education, died Dec. 14. He taught at Penn State from 1959 to 1977. He taught school in a one-room schoolhouse in Vulcan, Alberta, Canada, and served in the Royal Canadian Armed Forces. He received a master's degree from the University of British Columbia and a doctorate in social studies from Stanford University in 1948. From 1958-59 he taught at Southern Oregon College in Ashland, Ore. He went on a Fulbright Scholarship to Australia in 1956 and spent two years abroad. He also taught in South America, South Africa, Rhodesia, Canada, Panama, the Philippines, Costa Rica and elsewhere. Colette R. Welch, senior psychiatric assistant in the College of Medicine, The Hershey Medical Center, from Aug. 20, 1973, until her retirement Dec. 1, 1995; died Dec. 17, at the age of 63. Mary Jane Wiles, senior assistant librarian in University Libraries, from Sept. 1, 1962, until her retirement March 31, 1984; died Nov. 15. She was 76. |