APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 165A tribute article Our Remembrances of Howard Malmstadt STANLEY R. CROUCH, CHRISTIE G. ENKE, JOHN P. WALTERS, and GARY M. HIEFTJE* Howard Vincent Malmstadt, a giant in the field of an- alytical chemistry, passed away peacefully in his sleep on July 7, 2003, in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. He was 81 years of age. His multifaceted career spanned five de- cades. He was, to us, a scientist, research director, teacher, mentor, co-author, partner, role model, and good friend. His research, his mentoring, his books, his tireless activ- ities, and his inspiration reached thousands of people, some in the areas of his science but many more in the international community. At the time of his passing, Howard Malmstadt was Professor Emeritus at the Uni- versity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and International Chancellor of the University of the Nations, Kona, Ha- waii. His influence in many areas will continue for de- cades to come. Malmstadt was honored by a symposium at Pittcon 2004 in Chicago arranged by Gary Hieftje, Indiana University, and Gary Horlick, University of Al- berta. The symposium was entitled Howard Malmstadt: His Ongoing Legacy for Analytical Chemistry. The pre- sentations were by Malmstadt’s former students, his sec- ond- and third-generation academic progeny, and his col- leagues. AN ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER Howard Malmstadt was born in 1922 in Marionette, Wisconsin. He earned his bachelor’s degree, in organic chemistry, at the University of Wisconsin in 1943. He was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy in 1943 and was chosen for an elite program to study electronics and the new technology called ‘‘radar’’ at Princeton Uni- versity, MIT, Bell Labs, and Pearl Harbor. Subsequently, he served as a radar officer for a division of destroyers in the Pacific during World War II. He then became Su- pervisor of the Department of Electronics Fundamentals at the Naval Radar School on Treasure Island in Califor- nia, in 1946. He returned to Wisconsin after the war to earn his M.S. (1948) and Ph.D. (1950) degrees under Walter J. Blaedel, with studies involving high-frequency titrations. He continued the following year as a postdoc- toral associate. In 1951, he accepted an instructorship at the University of Illinois. A letter from the Illinois ar- chives, dated February 22, 1951, states that he was to * Crouch is Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University; Enke is Pro- fessor of Chemistry, University of New Mexico; Walters is Professor Emeritus, St. Olaf College; and Hieftje is Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University. ‘‘take over the teaching duties of the retiring G. F. Smith’’. He rose through the ranks and assumed a full professorship in 1962. Malmstadt would remain at the University of Illinois until 1978. While there, he became a leader in the de- velopment of modern analytical chemistry and a major inspiration to a large number of students, postdocs, and colleagues. Malmstadt probably produced, directly or in- directly, more Ph.D.s in academic careers than any other analytical chemistry professor. At one time more than 25 of his Ph.D. students and postdocs were in academia. Many of his students, such as Jim Winefordner (Florida), Harry Pardue (Purdue), Willard Harrison (Florida), John Walters (Wisconsin and St. Olaf), Stan Crouch (Michigan State), Gary Hieftje (Indiana), Gary Horlick (Alberta), Ray Barnes (Massachusetts), Themis Hadjiioannou (Ath- ens), Bonner Denton (Arizona), and others, have them- selves produced academic offspring. Several of these sec- ond-generation students have produced Ph.D.s who have themselves gone on to academic careers. There are now several fourth- and fifth-generation Malmstadt academic progeny. In 1974, Malmstadt met Loren Cunningham, founder of Youth with a Mission; together they forged the vision for a new missions-oriented university. In 1978, he gave up his distinguished scientific career at the University of Illinois and moved to Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, where he began the development of Pacific and Asia Christian Uni- versity, the forerunner of today’s University of the Na- tions. Under Malmstadt’s leadership, the University of the Nations has expanded from its original Kona location un- til today it encompasses a worldwide network of some 300 branch locations in 90 different countries. Hundreds of different courses are offered at the various worldwide locations. As Loren Cunningham, President of the Uni- versity of the Nations, has stated, ‘‘Dr. Howard V. Malmstadt was a son, a husband, a father, a grandfather, a scholar, a naval officer, a scientist, a university profes- sor of renown, a mentor of scientists, an advisor to U.S. presidents, co-founder of the University of the Nations, Founder of the U of N College of Science and Technol- ogy, Founding Provost of the U of N, International Chan- cellor of the U of N, and a good friend to many. But most of all, he was a mighty man of God—a man after God’s own heart—who humbly served and wisely coun- seled others in the ways of God.’’