In Memoriam
Robert Sherwood
Robert Jeremy Sherwood, retired senior lecturer on industrial hygiene in the Department of Environmental Health, died in a car accident in Queensland, Australia on July 4. Also killed were his wife, Naomi, and another passenger, Patricia Beyger. Sherwood was 75.
Sherwood came to HSPH in 1989 as an internationally known and respected environmental scientist. He conducted pioneering work on aerosol measurements and respirator design and was passionate about improving health and safety programs in developing nations. He directed the internship program for the Industrial Hygiene Program. In 1992, Sherwood successfully took on the task of winning accreditation for the Master's Program in Industrial Hygiene. In that same year, he helped secure the designation of HSPH as a participant in the Industrial Hygiene Fellowship Program of the US Department of Energy.
The international community recognized Sherwood's many contributions up to the time of his death. He was in Cairns, Queensland to receive a lifetime achievement award for his work in occupational health and safety in developing countries.
Betty Hauser
Betty Hauser, retired staff member in the Department of Environmental Health, died on June 19 after an illness.
Hauser first worked for John Spengler, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, in 1975 and joined the Physiology Program in 1976 where she worked as a librarian, editor, and secretary. As a child, Hauser escaped Nazi threats by traveling on the last boat that took Jewish children from the Netherlands to England. Years passed before she knew whether her parents were dead or alive, but the family was eventually reunited.
"Betty was an amazing woman who was never conquered by evil or pain and who always affirmed what was right and good," said Joseph Brain, the Joseph David Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology in the Department of Environmental Health. "We will miss her. Her family and the world will miss her."
