and the recipient of the First Sea Grant College 

 Award in 1968. 



He began his professional career in 1933 with 

 the International Fisheries (now Halibut) Com- 

 mission. He was later employed by the Wash- 

 ington State Department of Fisheries, the U.S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, and, in 1943, by the 

 California Academy of Sciences where he was 

 Curator of Fishes until 1947. It was during this 

 period that he served in a civilian capacity in 

 the South Pacific, his job being to develop sub- 

 sistence fisheries at advanced island bases. 



In 1947, Dr. Chapman became director of the 

 School of Fisheries at the University of Wash- 

 ington. He left there in 1948 to become the 

 first Special Assistant to the Under Secretary 

 of State for Fish and Wildlife. In 1951 he be- 

 came Director of Research for the American 

 Tunaboat Association; a decade later he joined 

 the Van Camp Sea Food Company as Director 

 of the Division of Resources. When Van Camp 

 was acquired by the Ralston Purina Company 

 in 1968, he became Director, Marine Resources, 

 of that firm, a position he held until his death. 



Milner Baily Schaefer was born in Cheyenne, 

 Wyoming, on December 14, 1912. He died in 

 San Diego, California, on July 26, 1970. He is 

 survived by his wife, Isabella, and three children. 



Dr. Schaefer obtained his B.S. degree cum 

 laude from the University of Washington in 

 1936 and his doctorate from the same institution 

 in 1950. He worked for the Washington State 

 Department of Fisheries from 1935 to 1938 and 

 for the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries 

 Commission from 1938 until 1942. 



Following wartime duty with the Navy, he 

 joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 

 1946, serving first as a fishery research biologist 



in the South Pacific Fisheries Investigations 

 at Stanford, and from 1948 to 1950 as Chief, 

 Research & Development, Pacific Oceanic Fish- 

 ery Investigations in Honolulu. 



He became Director of Investigations of the 

 Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission in 

 1951, holding that post until he became Director 

 of the Institute of Marine Resources and Pro- 

 fessor of Oceanography, Scripps Institution of 

 Oceanography, University of California, in 1962. 

 He remained there until his death save for an 

 18-month period in 1967-69 during which he 

 was Science Adviser to Secretary of the Interior 

 Stewart Udall. 



Among other honors, he was a fellow of the 

 California Academy of Sciences and a member 

 of the National Academy of Sciences. He wrote 

 more than 100 scientific papers, particularly in 

 the area of population djTiamics and fisheries 

 development and utilization. He served on a 

 multitude of panels at the international, national 

 and state levels. Despite his huge workload, he 

 always found time to discuss individual problems 

 with people both large and small, and to ad- 

 minister and develop first the Inter-American 

 Tropical Tuna Commission and later the Insti- 

 tute of Marine Resources in an exemplarj' man- 

 ner, setting standards for each that others will 

 be hard-pressed to equal. 



This recitation cannot give a measure of these 

 men: their unflagging energy, their knowledge 

 in fields far apart from fisheries, their ability 

 as raconteurs, their good fellowship. Nor does 

 it give a measure of their contributions to the 

 nation and to the world, contributions that will 

 help make it a better place in which to live for 

 a long time to come. 



Philip M. Roedel 



