Dr. Robert E. Habel Became Professor Emeritus of Veterinary Anatomy at the College of Veterinary

Dr. Robert E. Habel became Professor Emeritus of Veterinary Anatomy at the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) at Cornell University when he retired in 1978. He was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. His parents were descended from German, Swiss and Scotch-Irish immigrants. During the summer, Dr. Habel often visited the farms run by his grandparents, uncles and aunts. While at Devilbiss High School in Toledo, Ohio he excelled in the studyof German and learned freestyle wrestling at the YMCA. Dr. Habel received his D.V.M. degree from the CVM at The Ohio State University in 1941. Following graduation, he joined the Meat Inspection Division of the U.S.D.A in Philadelphia. In 1942 he was drafted as a private in the U.S. Army and then was transferred to the Army Veterinary Corps in 1943 as 1stLieutenant. He was initially stationed in Dallas, Texas where he attended night classes at SMU to learn Russian. Then he was assigned to Calcutta, India for meat inspection duty following which he was reassigned to head the meat inspection detachment in Kunming, China. While in the China- Burma-India theater, he also attended to the health of the army mules and continued his study of Russian by correspondence. In 1946, he was discharged from the regular Army as Major and in 1967, he retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Lt. Colonel.In

1946, he was appointed Instructor in Veterinary Anatomy at the CVM at The Ohio State University where he earned his M.Sc. degree in 1947.

In 1947, Dr. Habelwas recruited by Dr. Malcolm Miller, Head of the Department of Anatomy at the CVM at Cornell University and appointed Assistant Professor. In 1956 he received his M.V.D. from the University of Utrecht for his studies on the innervation of the ruminant stomach. In 1960, Dr. Habelwas appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy at Cornell University, a position he held until1976.

Dr. Habel was recognized by his anatomical peers throughout the world for his professional excellence. He readily translated French, German, Dutch and Russian. In 1979, he served as a senior staff member in the Department of Functional Morphology at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and in 1981 he was a Williams Visiting Scholar in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Sydney in Australia. He served as president of the American Association of Veterinary Anatomists (1965-1966) and the World Association of Veterinary Anatomists (1971-1975). He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from The Ohio State University in 1983, was honored in 1988 with the Outstanding Achievement Award by the American Association of Veterinary Anatomists and in 1996 received the Outstanding Service Award from the New York State Veterinary Medical Society.

Dr. Habel was one of the founding members of the International Association of Veterinary Anatomists (IAVA) in 1957. At their meeting in Freiburg, Germany, the IAVA established the International Committee on Veterinary Anatomical Nomenclature (ICVAN) and elected Dr. Habel to chair the subcommittee on Splanchnology. At the next meeting of the ICVAN in 1963, he was appointed Vice Chairman and as part of the editorial committee was instrumental in establishing the first edition of NominaAnatomicaVeterinaria (NAV) in 1968. Dr. Habel continued as chairman of the subcommittee on Splanchnology up to and including the fourth edition of the NAV in 1994. He was appointed Chair of ICVAN from 1980-1986. Together with other colleagues, he elaborated and

further developed the principles and criteria of the ICVAN, thus creating the solid basis for a veterinary anatomical nomenclature that received worldwide acceptance. The 5th edition of the NAV was respectfully dedicated to Dr. Habel, amongst others, in appreciation and gratitude for the many years of expert work of this outstanding veterinary anatomist.

Dr. Habel was a dedicated and skilled anatomist both in his dissection of specimens and his detailed description of his findings. He strove for perfection in his anatomical descriptions and did not tolerate subpar performance in himself, his departmental colleagues or his students. On a personal level, Dr. John Cummings and I (AD) were his graduate students in the early 60s and both of us were appointed to faculty positions in his department through his efforts. As graduate students, we both experienced handing in 10 pages of manuscript and getting back 20 of corrections. After our initial faculty appointments, he often sat in on our lectures. John and I knew that if he said nothing after our presentation, it was acceptable. He only let us know when some thing we said was not quite right.

At the Cornell University CVM, Dr. Habel established a course in applied anatomy for third year veterinary students that was very popular as students could directly relate their anatomical learning to its clinical application. He is well remembered by his Cornell students for the rigor of his course. His frequent brief oral examinations in this course came to be known as “Habelgrams.” Dr. Habel kept score of answers on an umpire’s ball and strike clicker.

The sound of the click or the lack thereof was clearly audible to the student so there was no wondering how you did on the quiz.Dr.

Habel regularly attended the weekly senior seminars and continued to do so for many years after his retirement. We believe that he did this in respect for the remarkable efforts of the students, his interest in clinical medicine and to be sure they were anatomically correct. As testimony to his teaching, he received the Norden Teaching Award in 1975.

On a personal note, I (AD) owe Dr. Habel for my opportunity to develop a teaching program for first year veterinary students that directly correlated the teaching of neuroanatomy with clinical

neurology. As an applied anatomist, he saw the value of the direct correlation of basic and applied sciences in the education of the veterinary students.

Dr. Habel was an avid fan of The Ohio State University and Cornell University athletic teams and he regularly attended wrestling matches on the Cornell campus. Those of us who worked closely with Dr. Habel remember him for his dedication to academic integrity and excellence, his application of anatomy to clinical diagnosis and treatment, and his dedication to a valid universal veterinary anatomical nomenclature.

As a veterinary anatomist Dr. Habel published many anatomical articles in professional journals and authored or co-authored the following textbooks:

Budras, KE ,Habel, RE: Bovine Anatomy an Illustrated Text. 2 editions

deLahunta, A, Habel, RE: Applied Veterinary Anatomy

Habel, RE: Applied Anatomy: a Laboratory Guide for Veterinary Students. 5 editions

Habel, RE: Applied Veterinary Anatomy. 2 editions

Habel, RE: Guide to the Dissection of Domestic Ruminants. 4 editions

Habel, RE: Guide to the Dissection of the Cow. 3 editions Orsini, PG, Morrison, AR, Habel, RE: Habel’s Guide to the Dissection of Domestic Ruminants.

Rooney, JR, Sack, WO, Habel, RE: Guide to the Dissection of the Horse

Sack, WO, Habel, RE: Rooney’s Guide to the Dissection of the Horse. 6 editions

Schaller, O, Constantinescu, GM, Habel, RE, Sack, WO, Simoens, P, de Vos, NR: Illustrated Veterinary Anatomical Nomenclature. 2 editions

Trautman, A, Fiebiger, J: Fundamentals of the Histology of Domestic Animals. Translated by: Habel, RE and Biberstein, EL. World Association of Veterinary Anatomists. International Committee on Veterinary Gross Anatomical Nomenclature: NominaAnatomicaVeterinaria. 5 editions

The ultimate testimony of Dr. Habel’s dedication to teaching was his donation of his body to the Department of Anatomy at the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY.

Alexander de Lahunta, Chairperson; Abraham Bezuidenhout, Maurice White

Alan J. Hahn, 71, Professor Emeritus of policy analysis and management, who taught political science and focused on education about public dispute resolution, died May 21 in Denver, Colorado.

Born March 3, 1940, in Gary, Ind., he was the son of the late Adam Hahn and Mary Jacoby Hahn. His wife Lau ie Hahn, his aunts Caroline Hahn and Elizabeth Samson, survive him.

He received his bachelor's degree in sociology, masters in government and doctorate in political science, all from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He worked in the area of public policy education in the Department of Consumer Economics and Housing in Cornell's College of Human Ecology from 1969 to 1976. He then joined the college's Department of Human Service

Studies until he retired in 1996. While a faculty member Alan served on various Cornell

Cooperaive Extension Agent Faculty Committees and the Advisory Board of the Community and Rural Development Institute. Alan advised numerous Master and Doctoral candidates and was valued for his expertise as a teacher and his professional guidance as a mentor.

Hahn served on the Cooperative Extension Northeast Public Policy Education Committee and

was a presenter at a number of national public policy conferences. He was a leader of the

1993-94 Public Issues Education Task Force of the National Public Policy Education Committee, which led to publication of the monograph "Public Issues Education: Increasing Competence in Resolving Public Issues." He also authored The Politics of Caring: Human Services at the Local Level (1994), “Resolving Public Issues and Concerns through Policy

Education” among ther publications. “Educating about Public Issues: Lessons from Eleven

Innovatve Public Policy Education Projects” co-authored with Jennifer Greene was funded

by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and became an important resource to scholars studying the development of public policy education and practitioners who wanted to understand the process.

Cooperative Extension professionals knew Professor Hahn across the United States for his

advice on community development and public policy education. His willingness to work directly with community groups and to conduct applied research projects in the field served as further evidence of his commitment to experiential learning. According to the Farm Foundation, Hahn "made major contributions to his fellow extension educators through his leadership in advancing public issues education methodology. Hahn's insights from the disciplines of government and public affairs have helped in addressing the complexities of modern issues, changing decision-making processes and new extension audiences."

Alan is remembered by his colleagues and students for his ‘little smile” when amused by something and his quiet patient manner. It was often said that he was a most skillful listener but when he spoke it was with deep insight and substance. He enjoyed traveling, hiking mountains and taking pictures of wild flowers. He often found himself in the company of the “birding” folks in the Lab of Ornithology and enjoyed the company of similar minded community members on their travels and hikes. His pictures and essays online are a continuing tribute to his love of the outdoors.

Alan, in describing his post retirement life, said, “Now, my chief occupations are hiking in wild places (not necessarily big wilderness areas, but little pockets of wildness, too), photographing them, and writing about them. I love the Internet for the outlet it provides for my photographs (Flickr) and my essays on wildness, travel, and mountains (BlogSpot)”.

Donald Tobias, Chairperson; Josephine Allen, Nancy Potter

Emil J. Haller, husband, father, outdoorsman, and scholar, passed away on November 20, 2011 surrounded by his loving wife and cherished family. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 5, 1933 to Walter and Consuelo Haller. Raised with humble and blue-collar roots, Emil earned his B.S. degree from the University of Missouri in Education and later earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966. He served his country as 1st lieutenant in the U.S. Army from 1955-1958 and taught middle school from 1958-1963 before earning his Ph.D.

Beginning in 1968, Emil became a professor of educational administration in the Department of Education at Cornell University where he served for 30 years. He was a scholar who didn’t suffer fools and relished his role as iconoclast both in his teaching and research. Emil taught undergraduate and graduate students with the same standard and care, and he was not afraid to tell students or colleagues what he honestly thought about their work. A productive and influential scholar of educational administration, Emil partnered often with his colleagues on research and applied policy projects. He is best known for his work on the effect of teacher expectations on student achievement (contradicting widely established beliefs), administrator quality and ethics, and school district reorganization. After 30 years, he retired from Cornell in 1997 with Emeritus status.

Emil was a loving and complex man. First and foremost he was a family man. Emil was not one for maudlin sentimentalities, had little tolerance for nonsense, and was willing to tell you what he thought, but (usually) only if you asked. Every conversation with Emil included at least one story of his wife, his children, and one or more of his grandchildren or great-grandchildren. His pride in his children and eventually his grandchildren and great-grandchildren was profound. He was never boastful, but simply proud to know them and watch them grow and mature. After his retirement from Cornell University in 1997, Emil did not look back. Instead he focused his energies on trips with his wife Ev, visiting his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren and the great natural wonders of the United States. Emil was a graceful man with a well- proportioned body that served him well for many of his passions like fly fishing and jitterbug dancing. He always moved with a characteristic economy ofmotion.

Anyone who knew Emil knows how much he loved the outdoors. Camping, kayaking, hiking or fishing with family, friends, or by himself, Emil was at peace with the isolation and peace of the woods and waters. Kayaking well into his 70s, he was a wonderfully delightful companion on a lake or trail, but he also enjoyed his time alone with the fish and paddles. Emil introduced a number of his colleagues to canoeing and participated in an annual spring pilgrimage beginning with excursions to the St Lawrence River and morphing into an annual retreat to the Adirondacks

– which still continues with a libation to his memory. He was officially designated as the libation selector and wine steward for this annual CU Expats kayaking event. He had excellent taste in wine, bourbon, and scotch.

His love of the outdoors was matched by his love of good literature and good writing. He was often the source of valued recommendations for good books, and he was an excellent critic of academic writing. If one asked him to read over something one had written, an act requiring some courage, one always got back a valuable critique.

Emil is missed and will never be forgotten. Emil left a legacy of care, class, and wit to all who knew him. Emil is survived by his wife of 57 years, Evelyn (Adams), and his four children, Barbara, Deborah, David, and Gregory. He is also survived by his nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

John Sipple, Chairperson; David Monk, Kenneth Strike

Professor Emeritus John Snodgrass Harding taught in the Department of Human Development, in its previous identity as “Child Development and Family Relations,” from 1953 to 1989, after graduating with a B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota and then completing both an M.S. and Ph.D. in psychology at Harvard University. Professor Harding, a social psychologist, was an acknowledged scholar in the area of prejudice and social relations. His work was distinguished from the rest of the field at that time by his emphasis on examining how cognitive factors and judgment influence the formation and expression of attitudes and behavior toward others. He authored chapters describing his approach in the first and second Handbooks of Social Psychology, work which anticipated the development of judgment decision-making and social cognition perspectives, which dominate the field of social psychology today. His work revolutionized the field of personality studies by showing how stereotypes could provide a cognitive bias in reasoning.

Consistent with his work on prejudice and discrimination, Professor Harding had a life long interest in policy and applied psychology.

He edited the Journal of Social Issues from 1956-1959, an

interdisciplinary journal concentrating on applications of social psychological theory to addressing social problems such as prejudice and discrimination, addictions and mental illness, and health disparities. He was one of the first American social psychologists to publish a comparative study of how symptoms of mental health and illness may vary across cultures. In the 1980s he developed an interest in the growing field of gerontology. In 1981, he wrote a proposal arguing for the establishment of a departmentof policy analysis in the College of Human Ecology (a change which eventually came tofruition).

One of his last visits to the College was as an invited guest for the dedication of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.

John Harding had a prodigious memory, and it was something that he put to good use. He was always ready to retrieve information about previously published research if it would help a colleague. He was also able to complete superb reviews of a colleague’s research by relying on his extraordinary memory to situate the research in a broader historical context and contrast it to, and compare it with, the research of others in the field. John’s memory was something that colleagues teased him about. It was also something that he himself made self-deprecating and good-natured comments about,comments that were typically followed by a robust and almost explosive laugh. He long served as the department’s unofficial historian. John was always eager to help out younger colleagues, not just by serving as a sounding board for their ideas, but also by supporting them with kind words and the sort of broader perspective that only experience can provide. He was, in addition, always the consummate gentleman, making only positive comments about colleagues themselves, even when being sharply critical of theirwork.

A substantial collection of Professor Harding’s papers and correspondence can be found in Cornell’s Rare and Manuscript Collection.

Barbara Lust, Elaine Wethington and Barbara Koslowski

Richard G. Harrison

November 19, 1945 – April 12, 2016