Death Takes Dr. Karl Cowdery Following Extended Illness
(The Peninsula Times Tribune, 13 Sep 1944, page 1)
Death coming to him last night at his Stanford campus home closed the career of Dr. Karl Montague Cowdery, 49, associate registrar of the university and academic secretary, following an extended illness. A very rare blood disease, which was discovered at the time he was about to be commissioned in the navy, proved fatal. His last acute illness occurred early in August while he was on vacation in the Feather river region.
Family was with him at the end - with him at the time of his passing were his parents, Prof. and Mrs. (Emily) Kirke Lionel Cowdery of Oberlin; two children, Richard, a member of the army student training corps stationed at Pullman, WA, and Dorothy, a senior at Palo Alto High School, as well as Mrs. James Gordon Emerson and James Jr., with whom the Chowderys made their home for the past 11 years....Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 in Stanford Memorial Church...Interment will be at Alta Mesa Memorial Park.
...Speaking in an official capacity, Dr. Alvin Eurich, academic vice president, said:
"It is with very deep regret that we hear of the death of Dr. Cowdery. He has been at Stanford since 1923. Over the years his real ability and capacity for work was such that most of us naturally turned to him for help whenever there was a particularly difficult or arduous task to be done. The example of his loyalty, his devotion to his work, and his graciousness was the finest I have ever known. Personally and professionally, we feel keenly the loss of Karl Cowdery. We shall miss him greatly in the Stanford community."
Dr. Cowdery was a specialist in educational psychology, a field in which he enjoyed a national reputation. He had worked with Dr. Strong and Dr. Terman in vocational testing...
A graduate of Oberlin College with the class of 1915, Dr. Cowdery took his master's degree at Stanford in 1922 and his Ph.D. in 1926. His department was psychology.
Before coming to Stanford he acted as a research worker at Whittier State School from 1915 to 1917, and between 1919 and 1922 he was assistant superintendent at that institution and director of education from 1922-1923. Immediately thereafter he joined the Stanford faculty, becoming attached to the registrar's office, in which he carried on his scientific investigations.
During World War I he was a first lieutenant in the army sanitary corps and also served as psychology examiner. In the current war he was representative of the armed forces on the Stanford campus. In that capacity he took care of the men students in their relations with the army and navy programs. In 1943, he was named regional director of army-navy qualifying tests for civilians, and while serving in that capacity helped to originate plans for testing.
Dr. Cowdery was a former member of the Kiwanis Club and was active in church and Boy Scout affairs. He was for several years a member of the choir of the First Congregational Church. He held memberships in Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, and Sigma Xi, honorary scientific fraternity, (and 6th president of the ACPA, College Student Education International).
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He married his wife, Edythe Alice Graves on Jul 8, 1919 in Whittier, CA. She was born in London but had come to California as an infant with her parents. She was a graduate of Pomona College and had worked as a teacher before they wed.
(The Peninsula Times Tribune, 13 Sep 1944, page 1)
Death coming to him last night at his Stanford campus home closed the career of Dr. Karl Montague Cowdery, 49, associate registrar of the university and academic secretary, following an extended illness. A very rare blood disease, which was discovered at the time he was about to be commissioned in the navy, proved fatal. His last acute illness occurred early in August while he was on vacation in the Feather river region.
Family was with him at the end - with him at the time of his passing were his parents, Prof. and Mrs. (Emily) Kirke Lionel Cowdery of Oberlin; two children, Richard, a member of the army student training corps stationed at Pullman, WA, and Dorothy, a senior at Palo Alto High School, as well as Mrs. James Gordon Emerson and James Jr., with whom the Chowderys made their home for the past 11 years....Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 in Stanford Memorial Church...Interment will be at Alta Mesa Memorial Park.
...Speaking in an official capacity, Dr. Alvin Eurich, academic vice president, said:
"It is with very deep regret that we hear of the death of Dr. Cowdery. He has been at Stanford since 1923. Over the years his real ability and capacity for work was such that most of us naturally turned to him for help whenever there was a particularly difficult or arduous task to be done. The example of his loyalty, his devotion to his work, and his graciousness was the finest I have ever known. Personally and professionally, we feel keenly the loss of Karl Cowdery. We shall miss him greatly in the Stanford community."
Dr. Cowdery was a specialist in educational psychology, a field in which he enjoyed a national reputation. He had worked with Dr. Strong and Dr. Terman in vocational testing...
A graduate of Oberlin College with the class of 1915, Dr. Cowdery took his master's degree at Stanford in 1922 and his Ph.D. in 1926. His department was psychology.
Before coming to Stanford he acted as a research worker at Whittier State School from 1915 to 1917, and between 1919 and 1922 he was assistant superintendent at that institution and director of education from 1922-1923. Immediately thereafter he joined the Stanford faculty, becoming attached to the registrar's office, in which he carried on his scientific investigations.
During World War I he was a first lieutenant in the army sanitary corps and also served as psychology examiner. In the current war he was representative of the armed forces on the Stanford campus. In that capacity he took care of the men students in their relations with the army and navy programs. In 1943, he was named regional director of army-navy qualifying tests for civilians, and while serving in that capacity helped to originate plans for testing.
Dr. Cowdery was a former member of the Kiwanis Club and was active in church and Boy Scout affairs. He was for several years a member of the choir of the First Congregational Church. He held memberships in Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, and Sigma Xi, honorary scientific fraternity, (and 6th president of the ACPA, College Student Education International).
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He married his wife, Edythe Alice Graves on Jul 8, 1919 in Whittier, CA. She was born in London but had come to California as an infant with her parents. She was a graduate of Pomona College and had worked as a teacher before they wed.
Death Takes Dr. Karl Cowdery Following Extended Illness
(The Peninsula Times Tribune, 13 Sep 1944, page 1)
Death coming to him last night at his Stanford campus home closed the career of Dr. Karl Montague Cowdery, 49, associate registrar of the university and academic secretary, following an extended illness. A very rare blood disease, which was discovered at the time he was about to be commissioned in the navy, proved fatal. His last acute illness occurred early in August while he was on vacation in the Feather river region.
Family was with him at the end - with him at the time of his passing were his parents, Prof. and Mrs. (Emily) Kirke Lionel Cowdery of Oberlin; two children, Richard, a member of the army student training corps stationed at Pullman, WA, and Dorothy, a senior at Palo Alto High School, as well as Mrs. James Gordon Emerson and James Jr., with whom the Chowderys made their home for the past 11 years....Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 in Stanford Memorial Church...Interment will be at Alta Mesa Memorial Park.
...Speaking in an official capacity, Dr. Alvin Eurich, academic vice president, said:
"It is with very deep regret that we hear of the death of Dr. Cowdery. He has been at Stanford since 1923. Over the years his real ability and capacity for work was such that most of us naturally turned to him for help whenever there was a particularly difficult or arduous task to be done. The example of his loyalty, his devotion to his work, and his graciousness was the finest I have ever known. Personally and professionally, we feel keenly the loss of Karl Cowdery. We shall miss him greatly in the Stanford community."
Dr. Cowdery was a specialist in educational psychology, a field in which he enjoyed a national reputation. He had worked with Dr. Strong and Dr. Terman in vocational testing...
A graduate of Oberlin College with the class of 1915, Dr. Cowdery took his master's degree at Stanford in 1922 and his Ph.D. in 1926. His department was psychology.
Before coming to Stanford he acted as a research worker at Whittier State School from 1915 to 1917, and between 1919 and 1922 he was assistant superintendent at that institution and director of education from 1922-1923. Immediately thereafter he joined the Stanford faculty, becoming attached to the registrar's office, in which he carried on his scientific investigations.
During World War I he was a first lieutenant in the army sanitary corps and also served as psychology examiner. In the current war he was representative of the armed forces on the Stanford campus. In that capacity he took care of the men students in their relations with the army and navy programs. In 1943, he was named regional director of army-navy qualifying tests for civilians, and while serving in that capacity helped to originate plans for testing.
Dr. Cowdery was a former member of the Kiwanis Club and was active in church and Boy Scout affairs. He was for several years a member of the choir of the First Congregational Church. He held memberships in Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, and Sigma Xi, honorary scientific fraternity, (and 6th president of the ACPA, College Student Education International).
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He married his wife, Edythe Alice Graves on Jul 8, 1919 in Whittier, CA. She was born in London but had come to California as an infant with her parents. She was a graduate of Pomona College and had worked as a teacher before they wed.
(The Peninsula Times Tribune, 13 Sep 1944, page 1)
Death coming to him last night at his Stanford campus home closed the career of Dr. Karl Montague Cowdery, 49, associate registrar of the university and academic secretary, following an extended illness. A very rare blood disease, which was discovered at the time he was about to be commissioned in the navy, proved fatal. His last acute illness occurred early in August while he was on vacation in the Feather river region.
Family was with him at the end - with him at the time of his passing were his parents, Prof. and Mrs. (Emily) Kirke Lionel Cowdery of Oberlin; two children, Richard, a member of the army student training corps stationed at Pullman, WA, and Dorothy, a senior at Palo Alto High School, as well as Mrs. James Gordon Emerson and James Jr., with whom the Chowderys made their home for the past 11 years....Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 in Stanford Memorial Church...Interment will be at Alta Mesa Memorial Park.
...Speaking in an official capacity, Dr. Alvin Eurich, academic vice president, said:
"It is with very deep regret that we hear of the death of Dr. Cowdery. He has been at Stanford since 1923. Over the years his real ability and capacity for work was such that most of us naturally turned to him for help whenever there was a particularly difficult or arduous task to be done. The example of his loyalty, his devotion to his work, and his graciousness was the finest I have ever known. Personally and professionally, we feel keenly the loss of Karl Cowdery. We shall miss him greatly in the Stanford community."
Dr. Cowdery was a specialist in educational psychology, a field in which he enjoyed a national reputation. He had worked with Dr. Strong and Dr. Terman in vocational testing...
A graduate of Oberlin College with the class of 1915, Dr. Cowdery took his master's degree at Stanford in 1922 and his Ph.D. in 1926. His department was psychology.
Before coming to Stanford he acted as a research worker at Whittier State School from 1915 to 1917, and between 1919 and 1922 he was assistant superintendent at that institution and director of education from 1922-1923. Immediately thereafter he joined the Stanford faculty, becoming attached to the registrar's office, in which he carried on his scientific investigations.
During World War I he was a first lieutenant in the army sanitary corps and also served as psychology examiner. In the current war he was representative of the armed forces on the Stanford campus. In that capacity he took care of the men students in their relations with the army and navy programs. In 1943, he was named regional director of army-navy qualifying tests for civilians, and while serving in that capacity helped to originate plans for testing.
Dr. Cowdery was a former member of the Kiwanis Club and was active in church and Boy Scout affairs. He was for several years a member of the choir of the First Congregational Church. He held memberships in Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, and Sigma Xi, honorary scientific fraternity, (and 6th president of the ACPA, College Student Education International).
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He married his wife, Edythe Alice Graves on Jul 8, 1919 in Whittier, CA. She was born in London but had come to California as an infant with her parents. She was a graduate of Pomona College and had worked as a teacher before they wed.
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