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Show DR. FRED COTTRELL AGAIN HONORED FOR SERVICES Plaudits for Cot'.rell, new fields for Scripps. These were twin themes of a program at the Miami University Uni-versity Center Saturday, Dec. 2, marking the fiftieth anniversary anniver-sary of Miami's Scripps Foundation Foun-dation for Research in Population Popula-tion Problems and honoring its current director, Dr. W. Fred Cottrell. New directions for the Scripps Foundation over the past eight years have been a recent concern in the distinguished disting-uished career of Cottrell, whose seventieth birthday next August Aug-ust will round out 43 years of Miami U faculty service. Appraisals of Cottrell's contributions con-tributions made frequent references refer-ences to his major books, "Energy "En-ergy and Society," published in 1955, and "Technological Change and Labor in the United Unit-ed States," published in 1970; his early book "The Railroader," Railroad-er," reflecting his boyhood in Milford; his frequently republished repub-lished case study, "Death by Dieselization," and his more recent publication on problems of the aging. Cottrell was born in 1903 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and was reared in Milford. He attended Westminster College at Salt Lake City, and was graduated from Occidental College in 1925. He attended the University of "Utah and the University of California, then received his masters and doctoral degrees from Stanford University. He has been on Miami's faculty fa-culty since 1930, and has held full professorship since 1946. He was named as one of the Outstanding Educators of America Am-erica for 1971. He and Mrs. Cottrell, the former Annice Lyman, were married in 1925 in Salt Lake City. They are parenls of three: William Cottrell, Miami '52, Executive Director of the Clark County, Nevada, Housing Authority; Auth-ority; Robert Cottrell, Miami '54, an industrial engineer with the Kroger Company and a vice president of Beta Theta fraternity, frater-nity, and Mrs. Frank Nelson (Colleen Cottrell). He is the brother of Mrs. Joe Tribole of Milford. |