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News and Notes of Interest
Walter and Helen Ferree [The Ferrees were two of our teachers at RPHS. This item is from the Summer 2002 issue of Liberal Arts, a publication of the College of the Liberal Arts of the Pennsylvania State University. It is excerpted as an item of class member interest. You are invited to submit similar items for inclusion in this space.] "Dr. Walter Ferree, '31 arts and letters, '32 M.A. history, a professor of history at Penn State for many years, with his wife, Helen '32 HHD willed just over $1 million to the [History] department to endow two professorships for senior faculty."With Mrs. Ferree's unfortunate passing last year, the couple's dream of empowering historical inquiry on a permanent basis at Penn State has come true.
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| "Walter Ferree spent his career teaching at
what is now Penn State Abington. As a researcher, Ferree spent decades
collecting materials for a publication of the papers of Martin Van Buren,
the eighth President of the United States. The
collection appeared posthumously, published on microfilm by
Chadwyck-Healy, edited by Lucy Fisher West, and is housed in
Special Collections, in Pattee Library at University Park. "The Ferrees' gift recognizes professors who illustrate outstanding scholarship, drive, and teaching ability. Wilson Moses is now the Ferree Professor of American History, and Robert Proctor is the Ferree Professor of the History of Science. The research interests of the two Penn State Professors cover a period of over two centuries, and involve study of American social thought, politics, economics, medicine, war imperialism, philosophy, and much more." |
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