Memorial Ural Stephen Ashworth

MEMORIAL URALSTEPHENASHWORTH Ural Stephen Ashworth, 74, Professor Emeritus of Food Science at Washington State University, died October 12, 1979. Ashworth was a member of the Washington State University faculty from 1939 until his retirement in 1971. He was noted for his research and in 1962 won the Borden Award for outstanding dairy research leading to flavor enhancement and longer shelf life for powdered whole milk. The former Washington State University faculty member was also a nationally recognized authority on milk proteins and developed tests to determine the protein content of milk. Ashworth was co-editor of the Journal of Dairy Science and served as president of the local chapter of Sigma Xi, national scientific honorary. He also was a member of the American Chemical Society and the Institute of Food Technologists. Ashworth earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry and then a doctorate in biochemistry at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He held a doctoral fellowship at Missouri from 1933 to 1935 and then a two-year fellowship at the Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT. He was an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Arkansas Medical School, Little Rock, for two years before coming to Washington State University in 1939. Surviving are his wife, Louise; two daughters, Lillian and Judith ; three sons, William, Jack, and Robert; and three grandchildren. The family suggests that any memorial contributions be made to a scholarship fund for graduate students in food science. Contributions may be sent in his name to the Washington State University Scholarship and Development Fund, Room 122, French Administration Building, Pullman.

1997