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Frederic Poole Gorham, 1871-1933, one of the founders of the Society of American Bacteriologists, and a former secretary, vice-president and president, died at his summer home in Glocester, Rhode Island, on June fourth of this year. To those who knew him well his death seems like the passing, not of a man, but of an institution.
As a biologist, bacteriologist, teacher, citizen and friend
few men have exerted greater influence so unostentatiously, not
only in his chosen field of scientific endeavor but also upon the
civil and social fabric of the community in which he lived.
Immediately upon graduation from Brown University in 1893,
he was appointed instructor in biology at that institution. The
discovery of diphtheria antitoxin in the previous year gave a
tremendous impetus to bacteriology, a science at that time still
in its infancy. Gorham was quick to appreciate the future importance of this branch of biology to medicine and general sanitary science. He became one of the pioneer bacteriologists of
America and under his able guidance Brown University was one
of the earliest institutions to offer instruction in this new field.
His thirty-five years of service in the laboratory of the Providence Health Department and his forty years as a teacher, together with his numerous other activities in the many scientific societies to which he belonged, have left an impression which time cannot efface. As a member of the Laboratory Section of the American Public Health Association and as its former chairman he was instrumental in developing Standard Methods for Water Analysis
and for the Examination of Shellfish and took a prominent part
in the numerous revisions of these procedures. Gorham was
recognized both by the members of the faculty and by his students colleagues of his generation. During his forty years in this institution he gave formal instruction to more students than any
other professor at Brown. As a lecturer he had a way of presenting
his subject, no matter how abstruse, in a simple, clear, interesting and forceful manner. On several occasions the senior class voted him its most popular teacher. It was among his graduate
students, however, that his ability as an administrator, organizer
and teacher developed to its full. Here he was not hampered by
formal pedagogy. He had the ability of developing the latent
talents of his pupils without their knowledge. His method was
simple, direct and effectual. His keen intellect, depth of knowledge and excellent judgment enabled him to give proper guidance without hampering the student's own intellectual development.
He was known throughout the country for his ability to develop
students who could stand upon their own feet. It is said that
"the number of post graduates achieving the doctorate under his
direction is probably unmatched at Brown."
Few university teachers have taken a larger interest and a
greater part in the life of the community and the state. Besides
being bacteriologist for the City of Providence, for many years
he was in charge of milk inspection and mosquito eradication. As
biologist and bacteriologist to the State Commissioners of Shell
Fisheries he was in a large measure responsible for the saving of
the oyster industry in Narragansett Bay. As secretary of the
Board of Trustees of the Rhode Island State Sanatorium from 1908
to his death he was instrumental in developing that institution
to its present place of importance in the public health program
of the state. He was president of the Rhode Island Tuberculosis
League and at one time a member of the Providence Park
Commission. He was one of the few laymen to have been elected
an honorary member both of the Rhode Island Medical Society
and of the Providence Medical Society.
If to have attempted and to have successfully achieved many
things are criteria by which one's success in life is measured, then to the "Prof," as his students affectionately called him, was
granted a full measure of success. Endowed with those sterling
qualities of keen intelligence, genial personality, remarkable versatility and adaptability, capacity for indefatigable industry, and
a youthful, buoyant enthusiasm which was contagious, Frederic
Poole Gorham has contributed a proud heritage not only to
Brown University and to his chosen field of bacteriology but to his
students, his friends, his city and his state.
LESTER A. ROUND.