As a young faculty member he overlapped with Prof. Tom’s career spanned three major epochs of Reed chemistry. It’s with great sadness that we report the passing of emeritus chemistry professor Tom Dunne on 5 April 2020. Zesean, like any “typical” Reedie, simply defies easy labels.Ĭongratulations, Zesean. He’s headed to the Harvard Divinity School. Nor was I surprised to watch that plan morph into his leadership of our student American Chemical Society chapter, and another deep dive into organic chemistry research (natural product chemistry of mushrooms), and now, yet another direction.
So I wasn’t surprised to hear him tell me a couple of summers back, just before he returned to his fall semester classes, that his summer research project had convinced him that his future lay in public policy, not scientific research. He is energy personified, and you can count on him to be looking around the next corner. To sit and talk with Zesean for a few minutes is to watch the future unfold before your very eyes. This year’s dozen includes Chemistry major, Zesean Ali ’20. Of course these dozen represent the graduating class!” If you asked, “Are they typical students? Do they really represent the graduating class?”, I would have to reply, “You don’t understand Reed College! There is nothing typical about any of our students. It’s become an annual feature of the Reed Magazine, What Is a Reedie? A dozen graduating seniors from all sectors of the College are profiled. MacNaughton (1880-1960), who distinguished himself by serving simultaneously as president of the Oregonian newspaper, chairman of First National Bank, and president of Reed College (notable fact: MacNaughton did not accept a salary for his work as Reed president). Kovac has written several other entries for the Oregon Encyclopedia, including a biography of the College’s first president, William Trufant Foster (1879-1950), and a biography of the College’s seventh president, E.B.
As Kovac put it, researching and writing this piece for the Encyclopedia was “a labor of love.” Scott Laboratory of Chemistry.Īlthough Scott had retired from full-time teaching well before Kovac graduated from Reed, Kovac got to know Scott well. It is only natural that today’s Reed students study chemistry in the Arthur F. In addition, Scott pioneered many projects in chemical research and education, on and off the Reed campus (one of these projects was the creation of the still-operational Reed Nuclear Research Reactor, the only device of its kind to be housed at an undergraduate college), and he received several national awards and honorary degrees in recognition of his tireless efforts. For Scott was not just a member of the Reed College faculty, he was the chair of the chemistry department from 1937-65, and he served as interim president of Reed College for most of World War II (1942-45). However, as Kovac quickly makes clear, “distinguished” is a vast understatement of Scott’s life and work. Emeritus Jeffrey Kovac ’70 (Chemistry, U. “Arthur Frederick Scott, known as Scotty, was a distinguished member of the Reed College faculty.” So begins the Oregon Encylopedia‘s new biographical entry on Prof.
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