University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Published by the student body of the UNIVERSITY of MASSACHUSETTS

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1956 INDEX Eighty- seventh Edition ( I J .VII i:r

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n (illcmortam i Ray Ethan Torrey M.A. PhD On January 16, 1956, the University of Massachusetts lost one of its great professors and the country one of its most stimulating teachers of botany. Dr. Ray Ethan Torrey was born in the very shadows of the University at North Leverett in December, 1887 - and he spent his boyhood in the Amherst country. Later, he came to the University, where he was awarded a B.S. degree in 1912. He then went on to Harvard University for graduate work in botany where he studied under the great plant anatomist, Professor E. C. Jeffrey. Harvard awarded Torrey an M.A. in 1916 and a Ph. D. in 1918. He taught at Grove City College and at Wesleyan for a few years before returning (in 1919) to Massachusetts, where he spent the rest of his life, indeed, rarely if ever, leaving the environs of Amherst. He was promoted through the various academic ranks, culminating in 1937 in his appointment to a full professorship.