University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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WALTER STANLEY I-IAINES Died January 27, 1923 Professor Walter Stanley Haines was horn September 27, 1850. For over fifty years he was a teacher of Chemistry and Materia Medica to medical students, forty-seven of these years being given to the service of Rush Medical College. For twenty-four years he was lecturer on Medical Chemistry in the University of Chicago. I-le was a recognized authority on Toxicology, especially in its Medical-Legal aspects, with remarkable ability to express technical facts and findings in clear, simple languageg a contributor to current medical and scientific literature of important articlesg joint author of a standard text-book on Toxicology and Legal Medicine: a member of the Committee on Revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia from l900 to I920, and also of the lllinois State Food Standard Commission since l909. He was a member of the American Chemical Society, the Chemical Society of London, the American Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical Society and several local medical and scientific organizations. The distinguished son of a pioneer father and a splendid mother, he was a man of high ideals, wide learning and rare culture, with exceptional ability as a teacher. He was beloved by all the students and the alumni of Rush Medical College, and by the men who have been connected with its faculty. A loyal, devoted and generous friend. Page S1'.i'fvc'11

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FRANCIS W. PARKER Died October 9, l922 The University of Chicago received with profound sorrow the news of the death of Francis W. Parker, wihch occured at his home in Evanston on the ninth day of October 1922. Mr. Parker became a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago in 1901, and at once began to take an important part in its work. His devotion to the University was immeasur- ableg he gave to its affairs his closest attention, responding cheerfully whenever called upon for any service, great or smallg he was an active member of the Committees of Finance and Investment, Press and lnvestment, Press and Extension, and Instruction and Equipment, and took his full share of the work which devolved on special committees. Mr. Parlcer's sound legal and business training, coupled with his clear vision and logical mind, made him a wise counselor, and his broad conception of the functions of a great institution of learning enabled him to bring understanding and sympathy to the consideration of' its problems. His enlightened public spirit showed itself in many other ways, notably in his service as State Senator, and during the late war in his mission abroad as a representative of the Young lVlen's Christian Association. Mr. Parker was invariably courteous and considerate in his relations with his fellow members and had their highest regard and esteem. Both the University and his associates have lost a real friend by his death. Page Fifteen

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EDWARD EMERSON BARNARD Died February 6, i923 In l895, in anticipation of the early completion of Yerkes Observatory, the University of Chicago called to its faculty E. E. Barnard, a man not yet forty, who had, by his own efforts, already won for himself distinction in visual and photographic astronomy and who had enriched science by his dis- coveries. Fatherless at his birth, in a section impoverished by the Civil War, he was able to attend school for only about two months. His determination to get an education, and to learn more of the mysteries of the heavens, lead him to devote every free moment to study. He fitted himself to 'enter Vanderbilt University and received the degree of Bachelor of Science in I887, but was in charge of the Observatory during the four years that he was enrolled as a student. At the opening of the Lick Observatory, in ISSS, at Mt. Hamilton, California, he was called to an important position on the staff. While there he discovered the fifth satellite of Jupiter, and several comets, and he also began as a pioneer to photograph the heavens, particularly the Milky Way. In his work at the Yerkes Observatory he made innumerable precise measurements and took thousands of superb photographs which he studied minutely. He was smitten with a mortal illness nine years ago, but it did not stop his work. He died, universally recognized as the foremost leader in observational astronomy, and his place can never be filled. His memory will ever remain in the hearts of his great circle of friends. His career is well characterized by the phrase: Ad asira per aspera. Page Sewezztemz