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Washington University Record, May 20, 1982 Washington University School of Medicine Digital Commons@Becker Washington University Record Washington University Publications 5-20-1982 Washington University Record, May 20, 1982 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record Recommended Citation "Washington University Record, May 20, 1982" (1982). Washington University Record. Book 237. http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record/237 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Washington University Publications at Digital Commons@Becker. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Record by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Becker. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS Two WU faculty elected to science academy Two WU School of Medicine resear- chers have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon an American scientist or engineer. Stuart Kornfeld and Donald C. Shreffler were two of 60 new members elected to the academy at the organiza-, tion's annual meeting in "recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research." Kornfeld, professor of medicine and biochemistry and co-director of the Divi- sion of Hematology-Oncology, was rec- ognized for his research on the biochem- istry of glycoproteins. His work has helped to reveal the structure of the carbohydrate units of these molecules and to define the steps involved in their biosynthesis. These carbohydrate units are of interest because they serve as specific recognition markers in a variety of biologic reactions. A 1962 graduate of the School of Medicine, Kornfeld served his internship and residency at Barnes Hospital. He joined the WU faculty in 1966 as an in- structor in medicine. Kornfeld is a member of the American Society of Biological Chem- Banners representing the different divisions and schools add pageantry to the University's most important and ceremonious annual function. istry, the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Society of Hematology. He is the author of 95 publications and is currently editor of Some 2,100 estimated to graduate Friday the Journal of Clinical Investigation. An estimated 2,185 degrees will be tor of Laws degree. Brimmer, a noted en's Building; Business, Edison Theatre conferred at WU's 121st commencement Washington, D.C. economist, will speak and Bowles Plaza; ceremony Friday, May 21. on ' 'The Erosion of Equity in American Dental Medicine, Stouffer's River- Candidates for doctoral level degrees Society." front Towers; Engineering, Millstone number 110 for the doctor of philosophy The seven others receiving honorary Plaza between Bryan Hall and McMillen degree in the Graduate School of Arts degrees are: Sir Godrey Hounsfield, a Laboratory; Fine Arts.Steinberg Audi- and Sciences; 129 for the doctor of Nobel Prize winner; Lee Hunter, a St. torium; Health Administration and Plan- medicine degree; 17 for the doctor of Louis inventor who holds many patents ning Program, Program classrooms and science degree; 77 for the doctor of den- for automotive equipment; Paul Oskar lounge, also Cori Auditorium on Medical tal medicine degree, and 173 for the Kristeller, a world-famous renaissance School campus; doctor of law degree. An approximate scholar and educator; Rita Levi-Montal- Law, Graham Chapel and Mudd In- total of 1060 graduate and 1125 under- cini, a celebrated neurobiologist and WU formal Lounge; Medicine, Chase-Park Kornfeld Shreffler graduate degrees will be conferred at the professor emeritus of biology who now Plaza Hotel; Program in Occupational exercises. resides in Rome; Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer Therapy, Umrath Hall Lounge; Program Shreffler, James S. McDonnell Pro- Also invited to participate in the Prize-winning cartoonists; Morton D. in Physical Therapy, Breckenridge Inn- fessor and head of the Department of ceremonies are graduates who received May, St. Louis business executive, patron Frontenac; Social Work, Brown Auditor- Genetics, was acknowledged for his study degrees during the past year. In August of the arts and life trustee of WU; and ium and Brown Lounge; University Col- of immunogenetics and biochemical 1981, 105 undergraduate degrees and Arjay Miller, former president of Ford lege, Southeast Terrace, Brookings Hall. genetics of the major histocompatibility 219 graduate degrees were awarded; in Motor Co. and Dean Emeritus of the gene complexes. Specifically, Shreffler is December 1981, 156 undergraduate and Stanford University Graduate School of a specialist in the genetics of the im- 173 graduate degrees were awarded. Business. munologic system and in the genetic Three issues of the WU Record basis for molecules that cause organ and The academic procession will start at Paul A. Bohlmann, who will grad- will be published over the summer, tissue transplant rejections. 8:30 a.m. into Brookings Quadrangle. In uate summa cum laude with an AB, will after this current issue. They will case of rain, the ceremony will begin at be the student commencement speaker. He received his undergraduate and appear on June 3, July 1 and master's degrees from the University of 10 a.m. at the Checkerdome. The editor-in-chief pf Student life, the August 5. Calendar items must be Illinois in 1954 and 1958, respectively, Richard Coles, director of the WU campus student newspaper, he will speak submitted, at the latest, two weeks and his PhD from the California Insti- Tyson Research Center, will serve as on the individual's responsibility toward prior to the date of the issue in tute of Technology. Shreffler joined the grand marshal at the ceremony. Jarvis the community. which the item is to appear; news Thurston, WU professor of English, will Receptions with brunch for grad- WU faculty in 1975. items may be submitted 10 days in A member of the American Associa- be the honorary grand marshal. Student uates, their families and friends will be advance of this date. Send news tion of Immunologists, the Transplan- marshals representing each school will ac- held at the following locations: items and queries to the editor and tation Society and the Genetics Society cept symbolic diploma covers and hoods Architecture, Givens Hall; College calendar items to the calendar of America, Shreffler also serves on the for their classes. of Arts and Sciences, north side of Gra- editor, both at Box 1142. Chancellor William H. Danforth ham Chapel; Graduate School of Arts editorial boards of the Annual Review of will confer eight honorary degrees. The and Sciences, Ann Whitney Olin Wom- Genetics and Human Immunology. He commencement speaker, Andrew F. has written 174 papers. Brimmer, will receive an honorary Doc- Eliot Society Board of Trustees elects selects Lowry Hunter, Stiritz to membership George H. Capps, chairman of the ington University Engineering Task for annual award WU Board of Trustees, has announced Force. He is married and has two chil- Dr. Oliver H. Lowry, Distinguished the election of two prominent St. Louis dren. Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology at business and civic leaders to the board. Stiritz became associated with Rals- the WU School of Medicine and an in- They are: Lee Hunter, chairman of the ton Purina Co. in 1964 and was elected ternationally respected scientist, received board and chief executive officer, Hunter president and director in January 1981, the William Greenleaf Eliot Society Engineering Co., and William P. Stiritz, after serving as a group product man- Award Thursday, May 13, for his service chairman of the board and chief execu- ager, director of product management to the University. tive officer, Ralston Purina Co. and a division vice president. He was George Kassabaum, president of the Hunter, a native St. Louisan, subsequently elected chairman of the society and a member of the University's founded Lee Hunter Jr. Manufacturing board and chief executive officer in Janu- board of trustees, presented the award at Co. in 1936, and a year later was elected ary 1982. A native of Jasper, Ark., he re- the group's annual dinner meeting. president of the Hunter-Hartman Corp., ceived a BS in business from North- Named to the School of Medicine followed by his election to the presi- western University in 1958 and an MA in faculty in 1947 as chairman of the De- dency of Hunter Engineering Co. in history from St. Louis University in partment of Pharmacology, Dr. Lowry 1947. In 1955 he was elected chief 1968. He is married and has four chil- conducted research there in biochemistry executive officer. A well-known inventor, dren. that has made him one of the most cited he holds many patents, including the Capps said that the election of authors in scientific literature. Concerned first rapid battery charger and the first Stiritz and Hunter to the board "reflects with* deciphering the internal workings on-the-car mechanical wheel balance. the outstanding quality of our trustees. Oliver H. Lowry of life's basic unit — the cell — his re- Hunter attended Westminster College, The University is extremely fortunate to prestigious Borden Award. Selected by search has expanded knowledge of Fulton, Mo., and WU and is a trustee have executives of their caliber and lead- Nature Magazine as one of the world's several protein deficiencies among chil- for Westminster. He recently served on ership from the St. Louis community." most eminent scientists, he has also been dren and led to the development of tests the Commission on the Future of Wash- honored with membership in the Na- for vitamin deficiencies that cause tional Academy of Sciences, the Amer- diseases like beriberi. ican Academy of Arts and Sciences and He is particularly known for his the Royal Danish Academy of Science. work with the microbalance, an instru- He was chairman of the Department ment that he has refined over many of Pharmacology for nearly 30 years, and years to the point that it now can concurrently, from 1955 to 1958, dean measure portions of cells weighing less of the School of Medicine.
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