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                                        the time of his death he was editing
a
                                        difficult set of papers relating
to Wis-
                                        consin's pine-Popple Wild Rivers
for
                                        Transactions.
                                           Dr. Noland was a former president
                                        of the American Microscopical Society
                                        and the Wisconsin Chapter of Phi
B3eta
                                        Kappa. Other memberships included
                                        the Entomological Society of Ameri-
                                        ca, the Society of Limnology and
                                        Oceanography, the Ecological Soceity,
                                        American Association for the Advance-
                                        ment of Science, University Heights
                                        Poetry Club and the Madison Art
                                        Association. -GMS               
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                                           Professor George E. Klak, an Honor-
                         Dr. Noland    ary Life member of the Wisconsin
                                        Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters,
He joined the university faculty as a  died in San Jose, California on Decem-
member of the zoology department,       ber 21, 1971.
becoming a full professor in 1935 and     Professor Klak was born on a farm
later serving for a decade as depart-  near Thorp, April 16, 1899, and at-
ment chairman. His research interests  tended the school district number
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focused on invertebrate zoology, espe-  and the Thorp High School. After
cially protozoology.                    obtaining a B.A. degree at Ripon
Col-
  A member of the committee which     lege, he was granted an M.A. by the
organized the UW International Liberal  University of Minnesota in 1932.
He
Studies program in 1948, Dr. Noland    did further study toward the Ph.D.
continued active in this project. He   degree during summer sessions at Wis-
retired from  the university in 1966   consin, Michigan and Minnesota.
after 46 years of service.                 Professor Klak taught at New Rich-
  Following retirement, Dr. Noland     mond and Green Bay, Wisconsin before
continued his interest in research and  jioning the faculty of the College
of
writing and participated actively as a  William and Mary in 1948. He was
member of the Madison Audubon So-       professor of biology at San Jose
State
ciety and the Wisconsin Academy. He    from  1958 until he became emeritus
had been a member of the Academy        professor in 1969.
since 1921, becoming a Life Member         From 1937 to 1939, he was engaged
in 1947. During the Academy's Cen-     in research work for the Fish and
Wild-
tennial in 1970, he was presented an   life Service. Professor Klak's career
as
Honorary membership in recognition     a biologist was interrupted by service
of his contributions to Wisconsin scho-  in the U.S. Navy during both world
larship and the Academy.                wars and in the Korean War as a Naval
  Dr. Noland's service to the Academy  Reserve officer. During World War
II,
included terms as secretary-treasurer,  he served in the Pacific Theater
on the
Transactions editor and as president,  aircraft carriers USS Petrof Bay and
1946-1948. He also represented the     USS Yorktown. From 1953 to 1954,
Wisconsin Academy at the 1951 AAAS     he served as United Nations observer
meeting.                                in Kashmir, Pakistan, and India.
He
  While editor of Transactions, Dr.    retired from the Navy with the rank
Noland produced and published the       of Commander after 24 years of ser-
first subject and author index, covering  vice.
the period from 1870 through 1932.         Survivors include his wife, the
for-
As president, he was instrumental in   mer Ethel Reppinger; two daughters;
establishing the Junior Academy and in  five grandchildren; five brothers
and
initiating the Brule River survey. At   two sisters. -JB                
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PORTRAIT OF THE PAST: A
PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY
THROUGH WISCONSIN, by Howard
Mead, Jill Dean and Susan Smith, de-
signed by William T. Pope, Wisconsin
Tales and Trails, Inc. of Madison, 1971.
$12.50.
  For about the price of two tickets
for splintery seats at a Big Ten football
game you can purchase a passport to
another era.
  Conductor of the excursion is How-
ard Mead and the editors of Wisconsin
Trails magazine. Conveyance is pro-
vided by Portrait of the Past: A
Photographic Journey Through Wis-
consin-a hauntingly affective volume
of photographs of Wisconsin scenes be-
tween the Civil War and the Roaring
Twenties.
  The 210 striking and evocative
photographs employed in creating this
compelling link with the past were
selected "from thousands of old tin-
types, fragil glass plates, and treasured
prints in archives and albums all around
the state."  The editors cannot be
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pains were taken in the production of
this book. High quality paper, remark-
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   Howard Mead is not a man to com-
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provide it.
   The book is divided into seven
photographic themes: The Days of
the Lumberjack, A Rural Remem-
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and The Fabric of Life. Particularly
uncanny (and pleasurably so) is the
way in which the reader-viewer seems
SPRING, 1972
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