Clark University - Clarknews winter 2007
In Memoriam (winter 2007)
Clark remembers two geographers, pioneers in the field:
Salvatore J. "Sam" Natoli M.A. '57, Ph.D '67 died on July 4, 2006 in Oxford, Pa. He was 76.
Dr. Natoli was a stalwart advocate for geography education. After serving as a geography consultant in the U.S. Office of Education (1966-69), Dr. Natoli joined the American Association of Geographers (AAG) as educational affairs director. During his 18-year tenure, he worked tirelessly to improve the status of geography at all levels of the educational system.
Dr. Natoli was instrumental in the work of the High School Geography Project (1961-74), the Commission on College Geography (1963-74), the Visiting Geographical Scientist Program, the consortium for teacher education, the Commission on Geography and Afro-America, and the Remote Sensing Project. He chaired the joint committee that developed Guidelines for Geographic Education (1984) and later was coordinator for GENIP, which provided a framework for the subsequent publication of national standards for geography.
His advocacy laid the foundations for the status that geography achieved in the national education plan formulated during the administration of George H.W. Bush, which culminated in Goals 2000: The Educate America Act signed by President Clinton in 1994. In 1999 Dr. Natoli received AAG's Gilbert Grosvenor Honors for Geographic Education.
Dr. Natoli served as director of publications and editor of Social Education at the National Council of Social Studies (NCSS) from 1987-93. In his retirement, he served as a special-publications editor for National Council of Geographic Education (NCGE) and acted as an independent scholar in geography. Over the course of his career, Dr. Natoli was the author of numerous articles and publications and performed many public lectures. His publications include "Nurturing Healthy Geography Programs in Colleges and Universities" (1982) and "Careers in Geography" (1983).
Karl Stacey died at his home in Topeka on June 14, 2006 at the age of 97.
Stacey earned a B.A. in geography from the University of Colorado and was a student at the University of Zurich in 1938-39. He received his Ph.D. from Clark University in 1995.
Professor Stacey was the pioneer geographer at Kansas State University. His tenure there began in the fall of 1943. He left his post temporarily to serve as an officer in Europe during World War II, returning to K-State in 1947. Professor Stacy was on the faculty when the word "geography" first appeared in the1951-52 Kansas State catalog, coupled with the word "geology" in the department title. He was also on the faculty when the stand-alone Department of Geography was created in 1970.
Professor Stacey, whose research interest was energy policy, taught courses in economic, political and regional geography. He was a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (1956-57) and Australia National University (1967-68). He retired from Kansas State University in 1974 as emeritus professor of geography.
Robert Apkarian M.A. '83, Ph.D. '97, Atlanta, Ga.
Robert Phillip Apkarian died on Feb. 28, 2006, the victim of a tragic accident.
In 1975, Dr. Apkarian received a B.S. in life sciences/biochemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In 1983, he obtained a master's degree in cellular endocrinology from Clark University, where he later received his Ph.D.
Dr. Apkarian pursued the scientific frontiers of the microworld, and combined his love of the natural sciences with his passion for electron microscopy. Early in his career, he was an electron-microscope technician for Nobel Prize winner George Palade at Yale University. He later served as senior electron microscopist and supervisor at the Scanning Electron Microscope Facility at the University of Louisville from 1981-1985.
In 1985, Dr. Apkarian was appointed research scientist and director of the Integrated Scanning Electron Microscope & Microanalytical Facility at the Yerkes National Research Center at Emory University. There he founded and directed the Integrated Microscopy and Microanalytical Facility at Emory University, and served as senior research scientist in the Chemistry Department.
An internationally recognized microscopist, Dr. Apkarian developed chromium-coating methodologies and was a pioneer the field of cryoscanning electron microscopy. He authored over 100 articles in leading scientific journals, contributed chapters to definitive texts on advanced scanning microscopy for nanotechnology and served on the editorial boards of distinguished journals including SCANNING published by the Foundation for Advances of Medicine and Sciences. He also served on review panels for the National Institute of Health and National Science Foundation, and carried out collaborative research and consultancies with a range of major international corporations.
Dr. Apkarian's awards include one for special service as chairman of the International Committee of the Microscopy Society of America. For his dedicated work on behalf of scientists in the Republic of Armenia, he was appointed honorary member of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to being a visionary scientist, Dr. Apkarian was also an avid motorcyclist and mountain climber.
Deaths:
Lucy Aharonian M.A. '61, Weston, Mass., died on Nov. 5, 2006. An In Memoriam will be published in the Spring 2007 issue of Clarknews.
Howard Green '47, M.A. '49, Southfield, Mich., died on Dec. 18, 2006. He will be remembered in the Spring 2007 issue of Clarknews.
Benjamin Moulton '39, Terre Haute, Ind., died on Sept. 30, 2006. A remembrance will be published in the Spring 2007 issue of Clarknews.
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