Dr LeRoy Weld to retire from Coe Physics teaching
Dr LeRoy D. Weld longtime Coe College physics professor will retire from teaching at the close of the winter term March 24. He will remain active in laboratory work on campus and continue as chief physicist at Turner Company Cedar Rapids since 1943. A chapel tribute and honors convocation will mark his retirement with Dr Myron E. Graber of Morningside College delivering the principal address.
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Nature Lover Dr Weld A Colossal Scholar Of Science
Dr Weld a Mississippian nature lover and Coe College summer geology member authored The Theory of Errors and Least Squares in 1916 and co authored Textbook of Modern Physics with Dr Frederick Palmer of Haverford College. He contributed about 625 articles on physics to the Van Nostrand Scientific Encyclopedia and helped translate Helmholtz Physiological Optics.
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Dr Weld longtime Coe scholar and community leader
Dr Weld served as first president of the Coe chapter of Phi Kappa Phi in 1825 and led the Iowa Academy of Science as president in 1927. He was active in Sigma Xi and the American Physical Society and remained a church elder since 1916. The Welds resided at 1838 Blake boulevard SE with daughters Rose Esther Weld and Mrs Karl E Swanberg, both Coe graduates.
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