Caryl
P. Haskins, who cofounded the former Haskins Laboratories at the College, died
October 8 in Westport, Conn., He was ninety-three.
A
native of Schenectady, he received degrees from Yale and Harvard and began his
career with the General Electric Co. By the mid-1930s, however, he was doing
independent research on radiation's effects on living material, using research
space made available at Union and MIT (he also taught at both institutions). A
biophysicist who wrote several scientific books and hundreds of papers, he was
president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington from 1956 to 1971. Haskins
Laboratories, which now studies the biological bases of speech, hearing, and
language, is now based in New Haven. Conn.
Shirley
Hotaling Holmes, an administrative assistant in the Admissions Office for
forty-four years before retiring in 1992, died October 17 at her home in
Schenectady. She was seventy- one. She joined the Admissions Office after
graduating from high school and worked with a number of deans of admissions.
Her husband, Donald, who died in 1976, had been the College's bursar.