OBITUARIES
Psychology professor
Dorothea Jameson, one of the world's foremost theorists of color and vision and a University professor of psychology, died April 12 at the age of 77.
Jameson, a 1942 alumna of Wellesley College, went on to become a research assistant at Harvard, where she met Leo M. Hurvich, who would become her collaborator in research and husband of more than 50 years.
During her career, Jameson published some 95 papers in her field, often writing with Hurvich. She won the 1971 Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists; the 1972 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association; and the 1973 Godlove Award for Research in Color and Vision of the Inter-Society Color Council.
Starting as a research associate when Penn still had a nepotism rule, Jameson was named full professor when it was discontinued, and eventually received an endowed chair as University professor of psychology.
She is survived by her husband, Hurvich; two brothers, Robert and Richard; a sister, Marie Cooper; and her nieces and nephews.
Family counselor
Emily Mudd, a pioneering marriage and family counselor and the third woman to be named to the faculty of Penn's Medical School, died Saturday, May 2 at the age of 99.
Mudd helped form the Philadelphia Marriage Council in 1933 at a time when there were only two other such organizations in the country. She and her husband, Stuart, a Penn microbiologist, helped start Pennsylvania's first birth control clinic six years before that -- and Mudd was still without a degree. She worked part-time and obtained a master's in social work from Penn, and eventually received her doctorate here.
After her retirement from the Philadelphia Marriage Council, Mudd continued to see patients well into her 80s and dedicated herself to her elaborate gardens at her Haverford home. She is survived by two sons, John and Harvey; two daughters, Margaret and Emily Mitchell; 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Sociologist
Otto Pollak, an emeritus professor of sociology noted for his work on aging, died April 18 at the age of 89.
Pollak left a career in law in Austria before the Nazi takeover in 1938, engaged in academics in America, enrolling in Bryn Mawr, where he received an M.S. in 1940. He came to Penn in 1942 and, after a serving the government in World War II, he completed his Ph.D. here in 1947. He became an assistant professor that year.
A full professor by 1957, Pollak published more than 80 articles before he became an emeritus professor in 1978, and he continued to teach in retirement years.
He is survived by Trudi Pollak, his wife of 60 years.