Volume 27 · Number 4 · Summer 2010
In Memoriam
Harley English, Frederick Lorenz and Donald McQuarrie
W. Harley English, a professor emeritus of plant pathology who contributed to Chile’s development as a world-leading fruit exporter, died in Davis in March one month shy of his 99th birthday. A faculty member in 1947–78, he was an expert on fruit tree diseases. As part of a UC-Chilean exchange program that fostered Chile’s fruit boom, he spent two years teaching and researching at the University of Santiago, and in 1967 was named an honorary faculty member there. A lifelong tennis enthusiast, he won state and national titles as a senior player and continued to play until he was 94. A court at the campus’s Marya Welch tennis complex is named after him.
Frederick Lorenz, a professor emeritus of animal physiology, died in March at his Davis home at age 101. He joined the faculty in 1938 and in 1964 became the first chair of the newly formed Department of Animal Physiology. After becoming a professor emeritus in 1974, he studied human psychophysiology with a special emphasis on biofeedback. An accomplished painter and sculptor, he helped found the Davis Art Center.
Donald McQuarrie, an emeritus professor of chemistry and a noted textbook author, died in Mendocino County last July. He was 72. He joined the faculty in 1978 and received an Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. He retired in 1994 but continued writing textbooks. He authored or co-authored 10 textbooks and 95 scientific papers.