forestry expert Bruce Stowe
A memorial service will be held on Friday, Nov. 21, in Dwight Hall Chapel for Bruce Stowe, professor emeritus of botany, biology and forestry, who died on Sept. 21 after a long illness.
A former resident of Hamden, Professor Stowe suffered a stroke while doing research in Wales on the life of Elihu Yale, the benefactor for whom the University is named. He died in Gainesville, Florida, at age 75.
The service in his memory will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Dwight Chapel, 67 High St. A reception will follow at Saybrook College, where Professor Stowe had been a fellow.
Bruce Stowe was born near Paris, France, to American parents. His father, Leland Stowe, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign war correspondent. His mother, Ruth Bernot, was a pioneering woman dentist.
Professor Stowe served in the U.S. Army Radio Signal Corps, 131st Battalion C, in occupied Europe. After the war, he enrolled at the California Institute of Technology, where he graduated with honors. He went on to earn a master's degree and a doctorate in biology and physiology from Harvard University.
He taught at Harvard for three years and completed a National Science Foundation Fellowship at the University College of North Wales. He was appointed to the faculty at Yale in 1959 and taught here for 39 years. During his tenure, Professor Stowe served as secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, head of the Premedical Advisory Program and director of the Marsh Botanical Gardens.
"I have known Bruce Stowe since his undergraduate years at CalTech, where he was my student," said Arthur Galston, the Eaton Professor Emeritus of Botany, professor emeritus at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and senior research scientist in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. "From the very outset his outstanding characteristic was his strong sense of personal integrity and honor. He maintained these high standards throughout his professional teaching and research career."
Professor Stowe's teaching and research was in plant physiology and biochemistry, subjects that he taught at Yale for many years to students in biology and forestry. His research involved studies on the biochemistry of plant hormones, plant lipids and the unique components of the woad plant, an original source of indigo. Professor Stowe published widely on this subject. One review in Science on the gibberellin class of hormones generated more than 1,000 reprint requests. He received several honors while at Yale, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Professor Stowe was married to the late Betty Stowe. In her honor he established the Betty K. Stowe Bookshelf at the University Health Services building. The bookshelf contains literature on common health problems written for the layperson.
He is survived by two sons, Mark Stowe of Gainesville, Florida, and Eric Stowe of New Haven, and by a brother, Alan Stowe of Lakeland, Florida.
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