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Show Sr. feU ofhl roiiis . rat mmi ! Eteal dta. Dr. W. Fred Cottrell, 75, died early Wednesday morning morn-ing (April 18) in Deaconess Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, after a five week stay. Dr. Cottrell had been a member of the Miami University Uni-versity faculty for 44 years prior to his retirement in 1974 and continued to remain re-main active with the university uni-versity and the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, head- f ' 1 yf,t j L n Dr. Cottrell, who moved with his family to Milford in 1905 at the age of 2, was born August 19, 1903 in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and the family moved to Milford at the time the SP, LA & SL railroad was costructed from Milford Mil-ford to Southern California. He was a member of the first graduatingclassofMil-ford graduatingclassofMil-ford High School in 1918, and went on to Westminster College in Salt Lake City, then only a two year institution. insti-tution. He taught at Milford Mil-ford High in 1925 and 1926 where he also coached the first football team, was advisor ad-visor for the yearbook, and put on school musicals and dramas, In addition to teach- . ing 6 or 7 different class subjects each day. He graduated from Occidental Occi-dental College in Los Angeles and then attended the University of Utah and the University of California, after which he received his M.A. degree (1929) and Ph. D (1930) from Stanford University. Uni-versity. In 1930 he accepted a teaching position with Miami University in Oxford, Ox-ford, Ohio, an association which continued until his death 49 years later. At Miaml,Dr. Cottrell was the first recipient of the prestigious Benjamin Harrison Har-rison Medallion Award in 1974, which honors a University Uni-versity faculty or staff member mem-ber who exemplifies per- (Continued on Page 2) DR. W.FRED COTTRELL quartered at Miami, until his illness. A noted educator, honored honor-ed citizen and aqualifiedex-pert aqualifiedex-pert in an unusual scope of interest and activities, Dr. Cottrell, professor of sociology socio-logy and anthropology emeritus, had served the University as chairman of sociology - anthropology from 1959 to 1969; chairman chair-man of the University's Athletic Ath-letic Advisory Board, 1957 until his retirement, and director di-rector of the Scripps Foundation Foun-dation 1964-74. He was the only Miami faculty member holding full professorship in two academic departments concurrently, also holding this rank in government, now political science. gang, and later on the telegraph tele-graph gang which ran the first dispatchers telephones tele-phones through Nevada and into California. In my generation gen-eration my late cousin Ross Cottrell was a general foreman fore-man in SLC, and of course, cousin Bill Tribole still runs between SLC and Milford. Dad was asked recently about who had the greatest effect on his life, and his immediate reply was "Joe Smith," who was a high school teacher at the time, and who apparently had a great influence on his going on to college. an international contest contest con-test conducted by the Institute Insti-tute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway (1954); Energy and Society (1956); Technological Tech-nological Change and labor " in the Railroad Industry, (1970); Transportation of Older Ol-der People in a Rural Community Com-munity (1971); Technology, Man and Progress (1972), and Ohio's Older People, (1972). In 1971 Dr. Cottrell was named Ohio's Outstanding Older American for contributions contri-butions to the state and his national leadership, and was selected as one of the Outstanding Out-standing Educators of America. Miami students honored Dr. Cottrell as Miami "Dad of the Year" in 1963, he was Homecoming Marshall in 1970, and in March, 1972 he was commencement speaker. He was preceded in death by his brother, Roy Cottrell and sister-in-law, Bertha Cottrell, of Milford, and by his sisters, Delia Cottrell and Myrtly Cottrell Tribole, both long time Milford residents. resi-dents. He is survived by his wife, Annice Lyman Cottrell of Oxford, Ohio; son, Bill, Boulder. City, Nevada; son, Bob and daughter Colleen, Hamilton, Ohio; and 11 grandchildren. Other surviving sur-viving family members include in-clude his brother-in-law, Joe Tribole, of Milford; brother-in-law Lee Gray, of Chula Vista, California; nephews Bill Tribole, Bountiful; Frank Tribole, of Lake wood, California, and Lee Gray, Manila, The Phillip Phil-lip ines; and nieces Hazel Tribole Nelson, Diamond Bar, California, and Lorraine Lor-raine Gray Heywood, Chula Vista, California, all of whom lived or were raised in Milford. In accordance with Dr. Cottrell's wishes; his body was cremated and his ashes scattered in "his" Mineral Mountains by members of the immediate family. A memorial mem-orial service will be held at the Memorial Presbyterian Church in Oxford, Ohio on Saturday, April 28. Editor's Note: The following follow-ing was written by Dr. Cottrell's Cot-trell's son, Bill, and expres -ses the attachment he had for Milford: Dad hadn't lived (physically) (phys-ically) in Milford for more than 50 years, but he still felt it was home. When he was a youngster, living on old company row, his bedroom bed-room window faced the granite gra-nite peaks in the Mineral Mountans, and that view stayed with him all his life. He seemed rejuvenated after af-ter any time spent in Milford Mil-ford - his last visit was during dur-ing deer season in 1977, after af-ter attending a reunion at Westminster College in Salt Lake. Our family has many "war stories" about Milford, and one that Dad enjoyed telling on many occasions concerned concern-ed the football team he put together at the high school. Apparently most of the fellows fel-lows had never seen a game, let alone played in one, and Dad was explaining the rudiments rudi-ments to them. He showed one young man how to hold the ball, fingers over the laces, and to throw it so it had the right spin. The young man . . . Ross Patterson . . . said "You mean like this?" and proceeded to throw what Dad always claimed was a perfect 50 yard pass! The entire family was associated as-sociated with theU.P. Grandad Gran-dad Cottrell was car foreman, fore-man, and later moved on to Provo to be succeeded by uncle un-cle Roy; Uncle Joe was a carman, and Uncle Lee a conductor. Dad worked for the railroad on many occasions, oc-casions, beginning during the first World War as an engine wiper; he was Tlso a hos-tler's hos-tler's helper, machinists helper, worked on a B & B HERE'S MORE ABOUT COTTRELL sonification of the aspiration aspir-ation of the University as it seeks excellence in service ser-vice to the nation, and was further honored by Miami with an honorary degree, the Doctor of Humane Letters at the May, 1978, commence -ment exercises. Also in 1978, Dr. Cottrell Cot-trell was selected as a charter char-ter member of Ohio's Senior Sen-ior Citizen's Hall of Fame, one of 18 chosen for this recognition, joining such other notables as comedian Bob Hope and 1936 Olympic champion Jesse Owens and Dr. Albert Sabin. For 49 years Dr. Cot trell brought national attention atten-tion to Miami through publications pub-lications and participation, particularly in two fields; the relationship between technology and society, and the problems of aging. Each activity provided stimulus for his share in directing the Scripps Foundation toward special studies in gerontology and in the establishment of the Scripps Foundation's Gerontology Geron-tology Center as one of a few select training agencies in that field. He participated in White House Conferences on Youth and the Aging, a Governor's Commission of Mental Health, other commissions on mental health and alcoholism, alco-holism, Oxford's Board of Public Affairs, and from its creation,, the Butler County Welfare Advisory Board. Dr. Cottrell was on President Presi-dent Richard Nixon's National Nation-al Advisory Committee on Aging, serving as chairman of its subcommittee on research, re-search, and was on the Advisory Ad-visory Board for Older Americans for Elliott L. Richardson, then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. As an author, Dr. Cottrell's Cot-trell's first book, The Railroader, Rail-roader, was published in 1940, and was reflective of his background as the son of a railroad man, reared in a railroad town. Other books included: Men Cry Peace; Essay on a Science of Peace, a prize winner in |
