Deaths

Glen Wade Salisbury

Glen Wade Salisbury, retired director of the Agricultural Experiment
Station and professor emeritus of dairy science, died Feb. 3 at Carle
Foundation Hospital. He was 83.

Salisbury joined the UI faculty in 1947 as head of the department of dairy
science. He remained in that position until 1969, when he became associate
dean of the College of Agriculture and director of research in the
Agricultural Experiment Station. He retired in 1978.

During his 55-year career, he achieved national and international
recognition for his pioneering work in animal reproduction and artificial
insemination. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.
He received the Borden Award in 1945 for dairy production research and the
Morrison Award in 1964 for outstanding research in livestock production.

He was knighted by the Italian government in 1964, receiving the Cavaliere
Ufficiale dell'Ordine Al Merito della Repubicia Italiana. He was the
recipient of the Award of Merit at the Fifth International Congress on
Animal Reproduction and Artificial Insemination in 1964.

He served as director of the International Dairy Show in Chicago from 1953
to 1970. He was a member of President John F. Kennedy's Science Advisory
Panel, Department of Agriculture, from 1960 to 1963. Salisbury was a
founding member of the American Society for the Study of Reproduction.

Survivors include his wife, Dorothy; a daughter; a son; a sister; a
brother; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

Memorial contributions may be made to the University YMCA.


Roberta Jones Scouffas

Roberta Jones Scouffas, former instructor in English and speech, died Jan.
30 at the Champaign County Nursing Home. She was 79.

She was on the UI faculty from 1946 to 1972. She graduated from
Jacksonville High School and in 1932 from MacMurray College. She received a
master's degree from the UI in 1938.

During the 1940s and 1950s she was on the editorial staff of Accent
Magazine. She was one of the early members of the Red Herring Poets.

Survivors include her husband, George, professor emeritus of English; two
daughters; a sister; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Champaign County Nursing
Home's Adult Day Care or Alzheimer's Unit.


Robert Dale Seif

Robert Dale Seif, professor emeritus of biometry in the department of
agronomy, died Feb. 10 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. He was 66.

Seif joined the UI faculty in 1956 and retired in 1993.

He received a bachelor's degree in botany and a master's degree in
horticulture from Ohio State University and a doctorate in vegetable
crops from Cornell University.

Seif was  a member of the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science
Society of America. He was a member of the National Association of Colleges
and Teachers of Agriculture since 1970 and served as the chairman of the
association's teacher evaluation and recognition committee and executive
committee. He received the Teacher's Fellow Award in 1988 and the
Distinguished Educator Award from the association. He also received the
Undergraduate Instructional Award from the UI.

Seif was a member of the Illini Union Board and was the faculty adviser of
Alpha Phi Omega national service fraternity. He also was assistant dean of
resident instruction in the College of Agriculture.

Survivors include his wife, Martha; four daughters; four grandchildren; a
sister; and his stepmother.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Community United Church of
Christ, Champaign.