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FORRESTER CALL STANLEY, educator, scientist, editor and legislator, died at Oskaloosa, Iowa, November 5, 1949; born on a farm near Ackworth, Warren county, Iowa, November 26, 1881; removed to Indianola, Iowa, in 1890; graduated from Indianola high school in 1899; interested in stock farming a few years; attended Simpson college at Indianola and graduated in 1907 with a B. S. degree; read law with O. C. Brown and became a partner in the publication of the Indianola Herald; attended the University of Wisconsin and received his master’s degree in chemistry in 1910; married to Ada C. Whitney of Beaver City, Nebraska, July 27, 1915; was head of the department of chemistry of William Penn college, Oskaloosa, since 1910 until appointed president interim of the institution April 1, 1949, and elected president by the board of trustees September 1, 1949; on leave of absence spent a year in 1913-1914 in Europe specializing in chemistry at the University of Berlin, in Germany; traveled extensively through Europe, Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey; completed a four-months round-the-world trip by plane in June 1948, made to film in color many scientific and scenic spots and to visit two of his daughters, Mrs. Margaret Tesdell, a nurse in Shanghai, China, and Mrs. Barbara Stanley Pittenger, Newington, Conn., who, at that time was a dietitian in New Delhi, India; two other daughters, Mrs. Kathryn Stroud, Norfolk, Virginia, and Mrs. Joseph Ferguson, Des Moines, and his widow survive him; elected an Iowa state senator in 1924, serving two terms in the Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third and Forty-fourth General Assemblies; during the period of his service as president of William Penn college accomplished a reorganization of the school, engaged new instructors, replenished a depleted college treasury and restored many of the old accepted Penn traditions, including re-establishment of former relations with the Iowa yearly Meeting of Friends society; prominent in local activities and fathered many civic musical events; also instrumental in restoring the former community lyceum courses; an active and effective civic leader and a Republican.