Spring 2002 - Haverford College

Obituaries
25 William Hinrichs, 97, died in his
home in Meriden, Conn., on Friday, Jan.
11, 2002. Hinrichs received a doctorate
from Columbia in 1929, going on to
work as psychologist at the Connecticut
School for Boys in Meriden. After World
War II, he was employed as a professor of
psychology at Georgia State University.
He returned to Meriden in 1985 and volunteered
at Miller Memorial Community
and in the pharmacy at MidState Medical
Center for 11 years. Hinrichs
participated in many walkathons for
multiple sclerosis. For several years, he
was both the oldest walker and the oldest
team captain in the nation. He
received a gold medal for the 10K in the
Senior Olympics. Hinrichs is survived
by his daughter Ange and her husband
Mohammed Islam, as well as numerous
nieces and nephews.
32 A. Keith Smiley died peacefully
from natural causes on Thursday, Dec. 6,
2001, at age 91, in Goshen, N.Y. Smiley’s
lifelong involvement with Mohonk enterprises
began upon his return from Haverford.
In 1963, he and his brother Daniel
were instrumental in founding the
Mohonk Trust, now the Mohonk Preserve.
In 1980, Smiley founded Mohonk
Consultations, which sponsors programs
that promote a broader understanding of
the need for the sustainable use of the
Earth’s resources. He authored several
published essays on human interaction
and the environment and was an early
proponent of the idea that environmental
degradation arises from regional and
global problems. He dedicated himself to
facilitating communication and understanding
among different constituencies
to find common ground for maintaining
the health of the planet. A lifelong Quaker,
Smiley was involved with the New
York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society
of Friends and the Quaker United
Nations Office. He was a member of the
Board of Managers of the Oakwood
School in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., from 1958-
67, and served a term as Chairman. He
also worked with Mid-Hudson Patterns
for Progress. Smiley was honored in 1978
with an Award of Merit from Haverford
College and the Quality of Life in the
Hudson Valley Award from Mid-Hudson
Patterns for Progress in 1992. He is survived
by his wife of 61 years, Ruth Happel
Smiley, his daughter Sandra, his son
Albert, three grandsons, and three greatgrandchildren.
34 Francis Hole, 88, died Tuesday,
Jan. 15, 2002. Hole received a B.S. from
Earlham in 1933 in geology and biology,
an M.A. in French from Haverford, and
a Ph.D. in soil science and geography
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 1943. He joined the faculty of UW
in 1946 as an assistant professor of soils.
He published widely and co-wrote a standard
textbook, Soil Genesis and Classification
(Iowa State University Press). He
received the university’s distinguished
teaching award in 1974. Hole retired in
June 1983 but remained active in education.
As an emeritus professor, he lectured
to any interested audience, from
preschoolers to academics to retirees,
In Tribute
Jonathan E. Rhoads ’28 of Haverford died
January 3, 2002. He was 94. Rhoads
received his medical degree at Johns Hopkins
in 1932 and then began his internship
at the university hospital. He earned
a D.Sc. degree from Penn’s Graduate
School of Medicine in 1940. Dr. Rhoads
joined Haverford’s Board of Managers in
1948; he served as chair from 1963 to
1972. He was awarded an honorary doctor
of science degree from Haverford in
1962. Throughout most of his career at
the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
and the university’s medical
school, Rhoads focused his research on
surgical patients’ nutrition. He first broke
ground by concocting a mixture that, fed
intravenously, made young animals grow
normally to maturity and that kept children
alive, despite bowel deformities that
prevented them from processing food. In
the 1950s, he served as university
provost. Then, in the 1960s, he directed
a research project that led to greater use
of intravenous feeding, and his approaches
came into common use. From 1935 to
2001 he published nearly 400 papers.
Many dealt with his findings about pancreatic,
gastric, colon, breast, and liver
cancers. He shed light on blood coagulation
and the properties of vitamin K and
on a common blood thinner. Early in his
career, he was known for his expertise on
shock and burns and published papers
on those topics. He was among the first
doctors to use sulfas, a family of drugs
fighting bacterial infections, for burns
and peritonitis. Rhoads worked at the
university hospital for 70 years, starting
as a junior physician in 1932. He was
chairman of the university’s department
of surgery from 1959 to 1972 and
Jonathan E. Rhoads ’28
remained an active member of the medical
school faculty until his final hospitalization.
He was a past president of the
American Cancer Society, whose medical
journal, Cancer, he edited for two decades.
Rhoads is survived by his wife Katherine,
daughter Margaret Kendon, sons
Jonathan, George, Edward, Philip, and
Charles, twelve grandchildren, and five
great-grandchildren.
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