Died: Daniel Robbins, the May I. Baker Professor of Visual Arts, died January 14. He was sixty-two.
Robbins, a distinguished art historian, devoted much of his career to the theoretical and philosophical origins of Cubism. He wrote extensively on the work of Albert Gleizes, Jacques Villon, Joachim Torres-Garcia, and Jean Metzinger. He also served as curator for numerous exhibitions and museums.
A graduate of the University of Chicago, he earned his master's degree from Yale University and his Ph.D. from New York University. He joined the College in 1980, having taught at Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Williams, and Brown.
Robbins held positions at the Fogg Museum, the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, and was instrumental in the formation of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, where he served as a trustee. He was also a trustee of the American Federation of Arts in Boston and the
Federation Albert Gleizes in Paris. He was the author of a history of the Vermont State House
in Montpelier and participated in its restoration.
In 1959 he received a Fulbright Fellowship to the Institute of Art and Archaeology at the University of Paris. Other honors included a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an American Council on Learned Societies grant.
Survivors include his wife, Eugenia Scandrett Robbins, and two daughters, Juliette and Miranda. Memorial contributions may be made to the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center's Hematology and Oncology section in Lebanon, N.H.
Died: Harold E. Way, the Frank and Marie Louise Bailey Professor of Physics Emeritus, died January 18 in East Lansing, Mich., where he lived. He was ninety.
Born in Colchester, Ill., Mr. Way graduated from Knox College and received his master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh and his doctorate from the University of Iowa.
He was a professor of physics at Knox College from 1927 to 1948 and was acting president in 1946. He joined the Union faculty in 1948 and later served as chairman of the Physics Department and dean of the Science and Engineering Division. In 1962, while on sabbatical, he was the head of the Institute Section of the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C.
He retired in 1966.
Survivors include his wife, Fern Robbins Way; a son, John; two daughters, Mary Ann Lauder and Jane Ellen Way; twelve grandchildren; and eleven great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to Union, Knox College, or the Congregational Summer Assembly in Frankfort, Mich.
Named: Dwight Wolf, registrar and director of academic services, has been named associate dean for academic services and planning.
Penelope Adey, associate registrar for graduate and continuing studies, is the College's new registrar. The appointments are effective July 1.
Dan Lundquist has had his title changed to vice president of admissions and financial aid.