Alton A. Markley
Alton A. Markley, a forty-year professor of chemistry, died March 24, 1983.
A graduate of Washington State University, Alton earned master’s and doctoral degrees from Cornell University. He came to °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ as professor of chemistry in 1924, only two years after °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ was chartered as a baccalaureate-granting, four-year college. He chaired the Department of Chemistry until his retirement from °®ÎÛ´«Ã½ in 1964.
A major force in faculty governance at the time was °®ÎÛ´«Ã½â€™s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which Alton and six other professors founded in 1929.
His survivors are unknown.