We have received word that Professor-Emeritus Melvin (Mef) Seeman of Sociology has died at age 101 (almost 102). No obituary has yet appeared.
In 2014, the UCLA Emeriti Association bestowed a Lifetime Achievement Award on Prof. Seeman. From an announcement of that award:
Melvin “Mef” Seeman, Professor Emeritus
of Sociology, has been chosen by the UCLA Emeriti Association as the recipient
of its Lifetime Distinguished Service Award. Over his long and distinguished career Mef
has been best known for his foundational contributions to the empirical study
of alienation. He served as Department Chair and President of the Pacific
Sociological Association, and in 1991 was awarded the American Sociological
Association’s prestigious Cooley-Mead Award for contributions to social
psychology. He formally retired in 1988, among the last professorial
cohort obliged to retire because of “age.” From 1988 until very recently Mef served UCLA as special advisor to the Academic Vice
Chancellor, helping out successive incumbents, as well as myriad Committee on
Academic Personnel chairs and department chairs, with
especially delicate and difficult academic personnel matters. This
quarter century “post-retirement” second career is as remarkable as it is
unusual, if not unique.
Source: http://cucea.ucsd.edu/reports/UCLAApril302014ReporttoCUCEA.htm
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