Understanding the criminal mind was Wes Hiler’s profession. After earning his doctorate in psychology at the University of Michigan in 1954, he was for many years a dedicated psychotherapist who treated patients housed in the Nevada State Prison. Later he helped others in the California Correctional Medical Facility, an institution for the medical/psychiatric care needs of imprisoned male felons.
Wes liked to broaden his horizons. He gained a professorship at the University of Nevada at Reno, then at Chapman College in Anaheim, Calif. Next he taught at Clarkson College in Potsdam, N.Y., followed by San Francisco’s Lone Mountain College. Last came the challenging job of teaching English at a language school in Smolyan, Bulgaria, a ski-resort town in the Rhodope Mountains near the Greek border.
When he died April 16, 2013, in the emergency room of Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis, Ore., Wes left his wife, Anne; children David Hiler, Katherine Harriet Jenkins, and Caroline Elizabeth Allen; four grandchildren; and one great-grandson. To them all, ’46 cordially sends its sympathy.