Churchill Eisenhart ’34

CHURCH EISENHART, a guest researcher in the Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory of the Natl. Institute of Standards and Technology, the successor to the Natl. Bureau of Standards, died June 27, 1994. Shortly before his death, at the annual dinner of the N.B.S. / N.I.S.T. Alumni Assn. (which he founded in 1985), he was presented its Distinguished Service Award. "The applause," he wrote a classmate, "was overwhelming! I sort of cried."

Church, the son of Dean Luther P., won a Dept. of Commerce Exceptional Service Award in 1957, a Rockefeller Public Service Award in 1958, our class's Outstanding Achievement Award in 1978, and the Wildhack Award of the Natl. Conference of Standards Laboratories in 1982. He was president of the American Statistical Assn. in 1971 and received the association's Wilks Memorial Medal in 1977.

Surviving are his wife of 55 years, Mildred (Behrens), two daughters, and five grandchildren. Our Bill and Edward C. Eisenhart '42 are cousins.