The Independent-News, Volume 93, Number 12, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 17 August 1967 — Page 3

Man Os Science: Dr. Harold C. Urey

This week's edition on Dr. uold C. Urey, comes to us ..in an article by William R. - i. lton, entitled: "Harold Urey, Adventurer”. He commences s .th the statement. Unswayed I v honors of position, the Nobel I,aureate pushes on to exciting j w frontiers in science.” As tuis story unfolds: Along the bank of Montana's Hitterroot River in the early . inlhs of World War I, a meetna: took place between two high--1 individualized and forceful , rsonalities. It proved to be an . vent that would profoundly Itai the course of American < ience. One was a former hobo, named Archibald Wilmotte Leslie Bray, v.ho had the unusual distinctiovir a hobo, of holding a master's gree from Cambridge Uni\ersity in England. During his wanderings across the United States, Bray was thrown off a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul frieght train at Missoula, Mont. He needed a job, and he found it . t the University of Montana as janitor. University officials Kin discovered, however, that their slightly built, angulartaced, black-eyed janitor pos•ssed a brilliant mind and a cholar’s curiosity; that he was. in fact, a biologist. They had the g<Mxl sense to pass the janitor's broom to someone else to make Archibald Bray, who was then 30 years old. an instructor of biology. It was as such that Bray met and changed the life of a concientious. blue eyed Indiana farm boy, mimed Harold Clayton t'rey. Young Urey had a fair knowledge of Latin, and he knew how to drive a team of horses, harrow a field, and thresh wheat. His only academic honor was a five-dollar gold piece he had won in high school for a speech he made on his idol, Theodore Roosevelt. Urey was self conscious about his rural Indiana accent, and spent his evening studing the pronunciation of words in a Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, which he had purchased with his hard-earned savings. His only job experience, besides farming, was limited to teaching in Montana country schools, a calling that followed in the footsteps of his father, a teacher and lay minister. This occupation already partly justified Harold Urey’s prophetic high school nickname of "Pro-

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fessor." Hi.s purpose in enrolling at the University of Montana was to become a psychologist. There, he studied under the former hobo Archibald Bray. "Professor Bray had a rare enthusiasm," Urey recalled a half century later. "He had i knowledge of everything except math. He was interested in the , humanities, religion, all kinds of science, and most important to me he took a personal and tutorial interest in my work. "I soon realized that under him I was getting a Cambridge education and was gradually changing from little country boy to more nearly a man of the world. I changed my major to biology and chemistry, and from then on never had any trouble making straight As. Professor Bray was just a splendid, model teacher who opened up the whole fascinating world of science to me." While Bray went to a brilliant teaching career at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. (where a building is now named for hinn, Harold Urey pursued a career that was to make one of America's most distinguished and respected scientists and teaches. His brilliant work on the origin of the solor system, the moon, and diamond studded meteonties: on the temperatures of the ancient seas of the earth; on the structure of the atom and molecules; and in discovering deuterium, vital to the successful functioning of certain types of atomic reactors, won him nearly every honor available to a scientist from the Nobel prize in chemistry to over 20 honorary degrees, including a doctorate in science from Oxford University, where he was once invited to lecture for a year. But neither his work, his honors, nor his administration association with the Manhattan Project, which developed the world's first nuclear bombs, have deterred Harold Urey from his first love; personal research and teaching. "The salt of the academic world," says Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, former chancellor of the University of Chicago, "is those few who cannot imagine themselves doing anything but teaching and research and could not be kept away from them by administrative barriers or lured away by any promises of poWer or profit. Harold Urey is one of

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those few. His devotion to his work is notorious. At Chicago, I recall hi.s long, unsuci essful, and sometimes hilarious campaign against telephones in professors offices. His telephone interrupted his work. (Continued Next Week) □ □ DEATHS □ a Chark*s Schmeltz Charles Schmeltz. 48. died at 12:45 p.m,, Saturday at Riverside Hospital, Trenton, Mich. A resident of Romulus, Mich., he had been seriously ill for 12 days. He was born Aug. 29, 1918 at Homer, Mich., living in the Detroit area the past 14 years and going there from Plymouth. He was married July 2. 1938 at North Liberty to Marian Marcella McGriff, who survives. His parents were Fred and Nellie Hawblitzel Schmeltz. He was a licensed operator for Spaulding Feed Company. He was a graduate in 1937 of Walkerton high school and was a WWII veteran. He was a member of the Romulus Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Plymouth Eagles lodge and the Argos American Legion Post. Survivors include two sons, Dale and Leßoy Schmeltz, both at home; his mother, Mrs. Nellie Bockman of Lakeville; one sister, Mrs. Fred (Marie) K-d---ler, Buchanan. Mich.; and two brothers. Orville Schmeltz, Walkerton, and John Schmeltz, Rolling Prairie. Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Grossman Funeral Home, Argos with the Rev. John Reid, of the Apostolic Gospel Tabernacle 'of Bourbon, and Rev. Ernest TrSber, retired Argos minister, officiating. Burial was in Maffei Grove cemetery, Argos, with military rites conducted by the Janies Lowell Corey American Legion Post of Argos. Mr*. Della Chapman Mrs. Della Chapman. 93, of 711 Virginia St., Walkerton, died at noon Saturday in the Walkerton Nursing Home. She was born July 7, 1874. in O'Dell, 111. She had lived in Walkerton for five years, after moving from Fort Wayne. She was married to the late Edward Chapman. She is survived by a son, Clyde, of Walkerton; a daughter, Mrs. Gladys Simonton Laporte; three grandchildren, and seven great - grandchildren. Services were held in the Nusbaum Funeral Home in Walkerton, at 2 p m. Tuesday with Rev. Harold Williams, pastor of the United Methodist Church, of which she was a member, officiating. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemeterj in Walkerton. She was a member of the Royal Neighbors Lodge. NOTICE The office of the Clerk-Treas-urer of North Liberty will be closed from August 16 through August 27. HERE IS > W THE^ MAN TO CALL FOR THE BEST BUY ON YOUR INSURANCS W. DeWayne Pavey Kt. 1 Walkerton Phone: 586-3210 f^STATE FARM Ham OWM* •**■*■•>* #**•

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PLJ School Corp. List Calendar For School Year The time schedules for buses on Friday. September 1. will be unchanged from last year. Students will be delivered to school at 8 (X) a.m. The shuttle runs between buildings will deliver for 8:20 am. starting time. Students will be in school from 8:20 to 10:30 a m. September 1. Parents please note that students will not attend school until September 5. Calendar - 1967-68 August 30 • 31 Faculty - Pre - school Meeting September 1 Students - 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. 4 Labor Day - No School 5 Regular Classes begin October 13 End first grading period 18 Report cards due 26 - 27 I.S.T.A. Meetings November 23 - 24 Thanksgiving Vacation December 1 End of second grading period 6 Report cards due 22 Dismiss 11:00 a.m. - Christmas Vacation ' January 2 Classes Resume 11 - 12 Final Exams 12 End of Third Grading Period

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