Ivan Vallier (1927–1974)

"Ivan Vallier was just attaining the height of his powers as a scholar and teacher of comparative sociology when, after a briefly incapacitating illness, he died of malignant lymphoma on January 23, 1974. He was born on February 14, 1927 in Weston, Iowa, and after serving in the marines in the Pacific during World War II, he graduated from the University of Utah. After field work in Israel and study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and predoctoral teaching at Dartmouth, he received the doctorate from Harvard in 1959. There followed six years at Columbia, where he served as assistant and associate professor of sociology. He joined the University as associate director of the Institute of International Studies at Berkeley in 1965, where he carried effectively the major burden of administering the institute. In 1969, he joined the Santa Cruz campus as professor of sociology in Crown College. He was chairman of the Board of Studies in Sociology at the time of his early death." Married to Vivian Vallier.