Chilton High School - Tigerette Yearbook (Chilton, WI)

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Chilton High School’ 1963 - 1964 Tigerette Editor Business Manager . . Soliciting Editor . . . . . . Barbara Voigt Vicki Schieble

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Dedication This year we are dedicating our annual to a well known man, who graduated from Chilton and is now a very successful scientist. His name is Professor Harry Steenbock. Professor Steenbock is now retired, but he has a laboratory at the University of Wisconsin as long as he wants to use it. When Professor Harry Steenbock of the University of Wisconsin discovered a process of investing foods with the properties of ultra-violet rays, or Vitamin D, without affecting the taste, he could have become a millionaire. However, he refused to patent the process in his own name. The wise professor renounced all personal profit from the discovery and assigned it to a trust, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, in order that the proceeds might go to further scientific research. When he was asked why he gave away a fortune, he refused, at first, to answer. On being pressed he said, The money would do me little, if any, good. What use is money personally to an individual if he receives enough to provide for the reasonable needs of himself and his family? During the years, many outstanding contributions to human knowledge and health have been made by Wisconsin biochemists. They include the discovery by Harry Steenbock that ultra-violet irradiation will increase the Vitamin D content of milk and the discovery of Conrad A. Harry Steenbock trapped the sun by discovering an inexpensive method for the artificial irradiation of foodstuffs to create Vitamin D--the sunshine vitamin. With this discovery he enabled mankind to end the great scourge of rickets and make the arms and legs of children throughout the world straight and strong, keep their backs erect, and their bones and teeth healthy and normal. Back in 1950 a poll was taken in our state to give the people an opportunity to name the ten greatest living Wisconsin residents. Harry Steenbock was named by the people to that honored list--the only University of Wisconsin staff member to be chosen. More than money and fame has come to Dr. Steenbock. He has honorary degrees from his alma mater, from Lawrence College. Yale University, and the University of Berlin. In 1931 he was official delegate of the U.S. at the International Conference on Vitamin Standardization. In 1940 the National Association of Manufacturers honored Dr. Steenbock for his work in creating jobs and improving the American standard of living. No doubt the good professor found, as we too might find, that life’s deepest satisfactions come in giving and in serving, not in getting and in bei ng served.