RICHARD S. WELLS, University of Oklahoma: JAMES D. LAINO has resigned from Stanford associate professor. University. CHARLES WESTON, Western Illinois Univer- STUART A. MACCORKLE, University of Texas, sity: assistant professor. has resigned as professor of government and director of the Institute of Public Affairs. He ORION F. WHITE, University of Texas: asso- spent 37 years at. the University. ciate professor. GUNNAR WIKSTROM, JR., Northern State Col- E. W. PETERSON, Iowa State University, has lege, Aberdeen S.D.: assistant professor retired. JAMBS Q. WILSON, Harvard University: pro- RAM M. ROY has resigned from Memphis fessor. State University. JOHN W. WOODS, University of Oklahoma: pro- fessor. WALTER F. SCHEPFER, University of Oklahoma, has resigned as chairman and will devote full WILLIAM W. YOUNG, Sonoma State College: time to teaching and research at the University. professor. WARREN A. ROBERTS retired from Wabash Col- RETIREMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS lege in June, 1967. CHRISTINA P. HARRIS has retired from Stan- ford University. ALBERT STCRM, Florida State University, has resigned as director of the Institute of Govern- E. ALLEN HELMS, Ohio State University, re- mental Research and will devote full time to tired at the end of June with the rank of professor teaching and research at the University. emeritus. He joined the University in 1928 and became a professor in 1937. HARVEY WALKER, Ohio State University, re- OLE R. HOLSTI has resigned from Stanford tired at the end of June with the rank of profes- University. sor emeritus. He joined the University in 1925 and became a professor in 1935. He will continue to ERICH HULA, New School for Social Research, teach part-time at the University on a visiting has retired after 29 years of service at the School. professor basis. IN MEMORIAM The stormy career of WILLMOORE KENDALL study at Oxford he went to Madrid as a corre- came to an end on June 30, 1967. Death occurred spondent for United Press and observer of the in his home a few hours after a visit to the doctor Spanish Civil War. who was treating him for a heart disorder. He was Kendall returned to the United States to 58 years of age. Since 1963 he had been Chairman study for the Ph.D. degree in political science at of the Department of Politics and Economics at the University of Illinois. Here he wrote the the University of Dallas. He is survived by his dissertation, John Locke and the Doctrine of wife and mother. He had two previous marriages Majority Rule, which was later published and but no children. gave him a claim to scholarship that could never Kendall was born and grew up in Oklahoma. be impeached. Before completing the disserta- He entered Northwestern University at the age tion and immediately afterward he taught at of 14, but withdrew for a period of further study Louisiana State University, Hobart College, and under his father's direction. His B.A. degree the University of Richmond. At the outbreak of was from the University of Oklahoma. His World War II he joined the staff of the Office of first years of graduate training, at Northwestern the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Dur- University and the University of Illinois, were ing 1944-46 he was in the United States Army, in French and Spanish literature. While an in- serving principally in liaison work with Spanish- structor in Spanish at the University of Illinois, speaking allies of the United States. At the close he was named a Rhodes Scholar. He read political of the war he accepted an appointment in political theory and economics under R. G. Collingwopd science at the University of Minnesota only to be at Pembroke College, receiving the B.A. in 1935 borrowed back for service in the organization and the M.A. three years later. Upon completing that soon emerged as the Central Intelligence Winter 1968 55 Agency. From 1946 to 1954 he was almost con- by American, English and other European schol- tinuously employed full time or part time in the ars. The textbook on political parties which he intelligence and psychological warfare activities co-authored, and his articles on the conditions of the United States. and consequences of democratic government seem In 1947 Francis Coker wrote William Anderson to me to provide some of the most perceptive and that Yale needed Willmoore Kendall more than most persuasive analysis in our literature. Neither the University of Minnesota did, and the Min- he nor his scholarly work will be soon forgotten. nesota Department released him prior to his having taught a course at Minnesota. The suc- CHARLES S. HYNBMAN ceeding years at Yale were marked by recurring Indiana University controversy in matters of politics, political sci- ence, and educational policy, and in 1961 his service was discontinued by mutual agreement CHARLES R. CHERINGTON, Harvard University, of teacher and institution. The next two years died, June 7, 1967. were devoted to study in Europe and teaching at Stanford University, Los Angleles State College, and Georgetown University. He managed also On June 24, 1967 JAY JULIUS SHERMAN during this period to find time for an Associate passed away at Sequim, Washington, where Editorship of National Review. In 1963 he took he had been living since his retirement in 1957 the chairmanship of the new department of Pol- from service as Professor of Political Science itics and Economics at the University of Dallas. at Wayne State University. Willmoore Kendall was esteemed by many of Born November 9, 1888, Jay Sherman was his colleagues and by others as a discerning educated in the schools of Iowa, at Iowa critic and constructive adviser; for many of State Teachers College, and received his ad- them manuscripts were greatly improved by vanced degrees from the State University of generous donations of his time and thought. He Iowa. His teaching career included posts at was perhaps equally well known as an unyielding the University of Iowa and a tenure from critic and fierce antagonist. He was out of phase 1925 to 1957 at Wayne State University. For with the liberal mood of American scholarship; he thirty years (1925-55) Professor Sherman was believed that liberal prescriptions were rooted in head of the Department over which he was the misconceptions or unconcern for sound political first to preside. His publications include ar- principles, and he thought it his proper business ticles in the Palimpsest and a now classic to expose the fraudulent and set the well-meaning study of State and County Drainage Systems. right. He was by no means unaware of the price Beyond these professional and academic ac- he paid for performing a service that was not tivities Professor Sherman can be noted as always asked for and perhaps usually not ap- the first layman to be named Moderator of preciated. the Detroit Presbytery of the United Presby- As a teacher he was surely universally stimulat- terian Church in the United States of America ing. He made probing analytic inquiry an impor- and for a period of years was upon its Board tant and urgent necessity for great numbers of of Foreign Missions. In his years as Emeritus students. Many of them remember a Kendall Professor Jay Sherman achieved literally a course today as a turning point in their intellec- new career as member of the Clallam County tual interests. Some of those students entered into Civil Service Commission and as a Justice of a continuing relationship of tutelage that crowded Peace of that County. the borders of intellectual domination. For some More importantly perhaps he will be re- of these young men the inevitable break was not membered by hundreds of students as a warm easy, but I have never heard one of them say that personality, sympathetic indeed to youth and his gains were not. genuinely important and last- their aspirations. His erstwhile colleagues ing. pause in tribute to his memory which is equal- Kendall's contributions to professional liter- ly warm and perdurant to them. ature are less than they could have been, less —Charles W. Shull than they would have been if he had not had such Wayne State University a raging compulsion to expose error and force recognition of sound principles here and now. His contributions are important, nonetheless; JOHN ALTON BURDINE, Professor of Gov- my own judgment is that few of his generation in ernment and Dean, College of Arts and Sci- American political science can match his claim ences at The University of Texas at Austin, for attention over the decades immediately ahead. died on September 15, 1967. His association This judgment rests not only on the admiration with the University spanned some 45 years for his study of Locke which has been expressed as student, teacher and administrative officer. 56 P.S..