IN MEMORIAM. 
GEORGE D. TIMMONS. 
L. F. BENNETT. 
George Deming Timmons was born August 10, 1867, in Warren 
County, Indiana. He received his early education in the common schools 
of his county and in the Green Hill Seminary. He taught in the public 
schools from 1884 to 1895. He entered Valparaiso University in 1895 
and graduated with honors from the Pharmacy class of 1897. Soon 
after graduation he was appointed Assistant Professor, of Chemistry at 
Valparaiso. In 1909 he was promoted to the position of Head of the 
Department of Chemistry, and in 1912 he was made Dean of the School 
of Pharmacy. During this time he did graduate work in Chemistry in 
Chicago University. 
Under Mr. Timmons’ leadership the School of Pharmacy became one 
of the most important and most completely organized and best equipped 
departments of the University. His acquaintance with members of the 
profession, his activity to place the School of which he was Dean among 
the most efficient in the country, a constant and conscientious endeavor 
to be loyal to the best interest of the students, the University, the ethics 
of his chosen work, and the spirit of his subject, made of him a distinct 
personality. 
A fellow teacher wrote of him: “A scholar without pedantry, a 
chemist whose world was not limited to chemical theories and formule, 
a teacher of a difficult subject who made it so attractive that even dull 
students got some insight into its laws and its poetry, a worker who 
never knew when to quit, a man with a heart big enough to feel the 
thrill of life intensely, its pathos, its heroism, its incongruities—such 
he seems as I try to set it down. Possibly, however, it was his amazing 
vitality and capacity for work that used to impress me most. So strong 
was this impression that he was the last man with whom I should have 
connected the idea of death. Of his remarkable gifts as a teacher I 
am not well qualified to speak, but I knew enough to be sure that he 
was a teacher born and made. He entered his classroom with a quick 
step of confidence and animation. He loved to teach—and to learn; 
and so it was that one would have sought far before finding a more 
alert, conscientious or inspiring teacher.” 
Mr. Timmons and I were colleagues for twenty years, and during 
all of this time we never had a single disagreement. I will always 
remember him for the many times he laid aside his own work in order 
that he might explain to me a chemical equation or reaction. He was 
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