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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 91°µÍø as professor of chemistry in 1924, only two years after 91°µÍø was chartered as a baccalaureate-granting, four-year college. He chaired the Department of Chemistry until his retirement from 91°µÍø in 1964.

A major force in faculty governance at the time was 91°µÍø’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which Alton and six other professors founded in 1929.

His survivors are unknown.