LYLE JORDAN MICHAEL
Feb. 1, 1895 - Mar. 25, 1977
Feb. 1, 1895 - Mar. 25, 1977
Memorial service are
Saturday for Dr. Michael
Memorial services for Dr. Lyle Jordan Michael, longtime Otterbein College faculty member, who died March 25, will be at the Church of the Master on Saturday at 2 p.m.
Dr. Michael, who was chairman of the chemistry dept., taught at Otterbein from 1937 until his 1964 retirement. He was instrumental in establishing the Central Ohio Science Fair, now known as the Otterbein -Battelle Regional Science Fair.
His departmental chairmanship covered the depression years, the period of World War II, and the post-war growth in student population. An influential member of the faculty in policy making, Dr. Michael served on numerous committees on the campus and was chairman of the Curriculum Committee and a Divisional Chairman.
During his student days at Otterbein he was the first editor of the campus newspaper, "The Tan and Cardinal" and the first initiate of Cook House, a predecessor of Zeta Phi fraternity. He obtained both his masters and doctoral degrees from the Ohio State University.
In honor of his distinguished service to Otterbein two scholarship funds bear his name, the Michael-LeMay Scholarship Fund and the "Schatzer-Michael Scholarship. Friends may, if they wish, contribute to these funds in Dr. Michael's memory.
"Dr. Michael was one of the faculty members who had enormous influence on the lives of many students over a long and distinguished teaching career," Pres. Thomas J. Kerr, IV said this week. "He gave strong leadership to the Otterbein faculty during this 27 years of service. The impact of his work will continue."
Academic Dean Roy H. Turley, who succeeded Dr. Michael as Chemistry Dept. had, recalled him as "a man of principles." "He really stood up for the principles he believed in, whether with curriculum matters or in working with people."
He and his wife Gladys, who survives him, were longtime residents of Westerville. They had moved to the Otterbein Home in Lebanon a little more than a year ago.
An active churchman, Dr. Michael was a lay leader and general conference delegate for the Evangelical United Brethren, later United Methodist Church. He was a member of the American Chemical Society, Westerville Lions Club, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Sigma Xi and Torch and Key. He received Otterbein's Distinguished Service Award in 1970.
Born in Phillips, Wisc. on Feb. 1, 1895, he worked for the Norton Company in Worcester, Mass. and taught at Indiana Central College before coming to Otterbein.
Public Opinion - March 31, 1977
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