Morrow: Former University provost

Ralph E. Morrow, Ph.D., wrote the University's official history book, "Washington University in St. Louis: A History," published in 1996. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton described the work as "a book of uncommon importance to this community."

1920-2001; Former Provost Morrow 'leaves a profound legacy'

By Neil Schoenherr

Former University Provost Ralph E. Morrow, Ph.D., died Monday, Nov. 19, 2001, at St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood, Mo., after a prolonged illness. He was 81.

"Ralph Morrow was a great academic leader," Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton said. "His leadership of Washington University contributed significantly to our advance in quality and impact."

After Morrow's formal retirement, he served from 1988-1996 as University historian and wrote its official history book, "Washington University in St. Louis: A History," published in 1996. Wrighton described the work as "a book of uncommon importance to this community."

"Ralph was a tremendous scholar and leaves a profound legacy from his scholarly work and academic leadership," Wrighton said.

Morrow was born in Marshall County, Ind., on Sept. 16, 1920. He graduated from Kokomo (Ind.) High School and earned a bachelor's degree from Manchester College in North Manchester, Ind., where he also played center for the football team.

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TIGER to collect galactic cosmic ray data over Antarctica

By Susan Killenberg McGinn

That's what University cosmic ray researchers are hoping their experiment aboard a high-altitude balloon will be able to accomplish when it launches from McMurdo Station in Antarctica. The launch ready date is Dec. 5.

The Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder, better known as TIGER, is a balloon-borne instrument built by faculty, staff and students in the cosmic ray astrophysics group in the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences and the Department of Physics in Arts & Sciences.

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Woman's Club to hold open luncheon Dec. 7

By Jessica N. Roberts

The Woman's Club of Washing- ton University will be holding a luncheon and program featuring excerpts from the University Opera Theater's Opera for a Winter Evening in Umrath Lounge in Umrath Hall Dec. 7.

The Woman's Club, founded in 1910 to promote friendships and provide a social forum for women with an established connection to the University, is inviting all women who are interested in joining the group and its current members to the final event open to the general membership of 2001.

The club's membership includes women who are or who have been members of the University faculty, administration, staff, postdoctoral fellowship, graduate student body or alumnae, as well as women who are wives or widows of faculty, administrators, staff, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, alumni and sponsored members. There are currently more than 200 members in the club.

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Baby teeth
Discovery opens door for research

By Tony Fitzpatrick

The discovered remnants of a forgotten study begun in the '50s and concluded in 1970 have presented scientists with a research windfall.

Some 85,000 baby teeth, collected from St. Louis children, were found last May in shoeboxes in one of many ammunition bunkers at the University's Tyson Research Center.

The teeth were part of the world-renowned St. Louis Baby Tooth Survey, conducted from 1959-1970 and spearheaded by then professor of biology in Arts & Sciences Barry Commoner, Ph.D., who became nationally known in the 1970s and '80s for his environmental and political activism.

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