Obituary
Lee Emerson Bassett of Stanford Dies at Home.
Lee Emerson Bassett, 87, organizer of the speech and drama department at Stanford drama department at Stanford University and a professor there for 35 years before his retirement in 1938, died Saturday evening in his Palo Alto home, 141 Cowper St.
Stanford's first president, Dr. David Starr Jordan, selected Dr. Bassett, then a speech teacher at the University of Southern California, for the Stanford staff in 1900.
For more than 10 years Dr. Bassett handled every speech course offered at Stanford. Then more courses and teachers were added and the speech and drama department was separated from the English department in the early 1920s.
Dr. Bassett served as its executive head. In 1931 he was elected president of the Western Association of Teachers of Speech, and in 1933 he was named president of the national association.
He also was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Kappa Lambda and the American Association of University Professors. He was official critic of the Palo Alto Toastmasters Club for more than 20 years.
His writings include a "Handbook of Oral Reading," "Handbook of Extemporaneous Speaking," and various contributions to educational journals.
The year after his retirement Dr. Bassett was dean of the Max Reinhard Workshop in Hollywood, which trained potential film actors and technicians.
He and his wife, the late Florence Jackson Bassett, were married in 1903 and celebrated their 50th anniversary before he death in 1954. The Bassetts lived most of their married life at 740 Santa Ynez St. on the Stanford campus.
They had two sons, William as killed when the destroyer Moneghan was sunk in the Pacific during World War II, Dr. David Bassett now lives in Seattle. He is a former associate professor of anatomy at Stanford.
Dr. Bassett was a native of Wisconsin.
Four grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services for Dr. Bassett will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Roller and Hangood, 90 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto. The Rev. George M. Wilson of the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto will officiate.
Interment will be in Alta Mesa Cemetery, Palo Alto.
Source: Palo Alto Times, December 21, 1959.
Lee Emerson Bassett of Stanford Dies at Home.
Lee Emerson Bassett, 87, organizer of the speech and drama department at Stanford drama department at Stanford University and a professor there for 35 years before his retirement in 1938, died Saturday evening in his Palo Alto home, 141 Cowper St.
Stanford's first president, Dr. David Starr Jordan, selected Dr. Bassett, then a speech teacher at the University of Southern California, for the Stanford staff in 1900.
For more than 10 years Dr. Bassett handled every speech course offered at Stanford. Then more courses and teachers were added and the speech and drama department was separated from the English department in the early 1920s.
Dr. Bassett served as its executive head. In 1931 he was elected president of the Western Association of Teachers of Speech, and in 1933 he was named president of the national association.
He also was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Kappa Lambda and the American Association of University Professors. He was official critic of the Palo Alto Toastmasters Club for more than 20 years.
His writings include a "Handbook of Oral Reading," "Handbook of Extemporaneous Speaking," and various contributions to educational journals.
The year after his retirement Dr. Bassett was dean of the Max Reinhard Workshop in Hollywood, which trained potential film actors and technicians.
He and his wife, the late Florence Jackson Bassett, were married in 1903 and celebrated their 50th anniversary before he death in 1954. The Bassetts lived most of their married life at 740 Santa Ynez St. on the Stanford campus.
They had two sons, William as killed when the destroyer Moneghan was sunk in the Pacific during World War II, Dr. David Bassett now lives in Seattle. He is a former associate professor of anatomy at Stanford.
Dr. Bassett was a native of Wisconsin.
Four grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services for Dr. Bassett will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Roller and Hangood, 90 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto. The Rev. George M. Wilson of the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto will officiate.
Interment will be in Alta Mesa Cemetery, Palo Alto.
Source: Palo Alto Times, December 21, 1959.
Obituary
Lee Emerson Bassett of Stanford Dies at Home.
Lee Emerson Bassett, 87, organizer of the speech and drama department at Stanford drama department at Stanford University and a professor there for 35 years before his retirement in 1938, died Saturday evening in his Palo Alto home, 141 Cowper St.
Stanford's first president, Dr. David Starr Jordan, selected Dr. Bassett, then a speech teacher at the University of Southern California, for the Stanford staff in 1900.
For more than 10 years Dr. Bassett handled every speech course offered at Stanford. Then more courses and teachers were added and the speech and drama department was separated from the English department in the early 1920s.
Dr. Bassett served as its executive head. In 1931 he was elected president of the Western Association of Teachers of Speech, and in 1933 he was named president of the national association.
He also was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Kappa Lambda and the American Association of University Professors. He was official critic of the Palo Alto Toastmasters Club for more than 20 years.
His writings include a "Handbook of Oral Reading," "Handbook of Extemporaneous Speaking," and various contributions to educational journals.
The year after his retirement Dr. Bassett was dean of the Max Reinhard Workshop in Hollywood, which trained potential film actors and technicians.
He and his wife, the late Florence Jackson Bassett, were married in 1903 and celebrated their 50th anniversary before he death in 1954. The Bassetts lived most of their married life at 740 Santa Ynez St. on the Stanford campus.
They had two sons, William as killed when the destroyer Moneghan was sunk in the Pacific during World War II, Dr. David Bassett now lives in Seattle. He is a former associate professor of anatomy at Stanford.
Dr. Bassett was a native of Wisconsin.
Four grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services for Dr. Bassett will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Roller and Hangood, 90 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto. The Rev. George M. Wilson of the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto will officiate.
Interment will be in Alta Mesa Cemetery, Palo Alto.
Source: Palo Alto Times, December 21, 1959.
Lee Emerson Bassett of Stanford Dies at Home.
Lee Emerson Bassett, 87, organizer of the speech and drama department at Stanford drama department at Stanford University and a professor there for 35 years before his retirement in 1938, died Saturday evening in his Palo Alto home, 141 Cowper St.
Stanford's first president, Dr. David Starr Jordan, selected Dr. Bassett, then a speech teacher at the University of Southern California, for the Stanford staff in 1900.
For more than 10 years Dr. Bassett handled every speech course offered at Stanford. Then more courses and teachers were added and the speech and drama department was separated from the English department in the early 1920s.
Dr. Bassett served as its executive head. In 1931 he was elected president of the Western Association of Teachers of Speech, and in 1933 he was named president of the national association.
He also was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Kappa Lambda and the American Association of University Professors. He was official critic of the Palo Alto Toastmasters Club for more than 20 years.
His writings include a "Handbook of Oral Reading," "Handbook of Extemporaneous Speaking," and various contributions to educational journals.
The year after his retirement Dr. Bassett was dean of the Max Reinhard Workshop in Hollywood, which trained potential film actors and technicians.
He and his wife, the late Florence Jackson Bassett, were married in 1903 and celebrated their 50th anniversary before he death in 1954. The Bassetts lived most of their married life at 740 Santa Ynez St. on the Stanford campus.
They had two sons, William as killed when the destroyer Moneghan was sunk in the Pacific during World War II, Dr. David Bassett now lives in Seattle. He is a former associate professor of anatomy at Stanford.
Dr. Bassett was a native of Wisconsin.
Four grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services for Dr. Bassett will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Roller and Hangood, 90 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto. The Rev. George M. Wilson of the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto will officiate.
Interment will be in Alta Mesa Cemetery, Palo Alto.
Source: Palo Alto Times, December 21, 1959.
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