In Memoriam

His passing creates a deep void for his family and many close friends. However, his keen analytic capacity in unraveling complicated administrative and financial conditions, his virtually unmatched ability to explain complex phenomena so that others could easily understand them, his straightforward personal manner, complete honesty and lack of pretension, his generous gifts of time to colleagues, and the dignity he invariably accorded others will long serve as a professional model for all who knew him. Moreover, his legacy in pioneering analytic techniques for educational research, policy analysis, evaluation, administration, and school finance will benefit scholars, public officials and students for generations to come. Mickey, as he was affectionately known, was born in Hayden, Arizona where his father was a mining company executive. He attended Stanford University for a Bachelors degree in chemical engineering and an MBA. He was initially employed in the private sector, but eventually found public service more to his liking. He taught in the Antioch, California schools from 1950 to 1958. He later became the Assistant Superintendent for Business Services in the same district. In 1950 he married his wife, George Ann, and started a family. He subsequently returned to Stanford University and completed a Ph.D. in 1967 under the tutelage of Professor H. Thomas James. While at Stanford, Mickey assumed the duties of the chief administrative officer for the Stanford University Research and Develooment Center on Teaching. He initiated his research on school finance and developed an interest in the application of modern computer techniques to the analysis of educational policy and evaluation problems. He subsequently became a professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia (1967-72), and later moved in the same capacity to the University of Rochester School of Education (1972-87). He became dean at Rochester during a particularly difficult period, and was widely recognized for having measurably enhanced the institution. He retired from his administrative position at Rochester in 1985 and moved to Berkeley in 1987 to be near his children and California friends.