Professor Robert D. Meade, April 8th, 1927 ­ August 1st, 2015.
Dr. Meade graduated from Straughn High School in 1945, receiving his undergraduate education at Indiana University & his doctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania. He was on the faculty at Penn & served as professor at Trinity College in Hartfort, Connecticut for ten years. In 1965 he was named Professor at Western Washington University, Bellingham Washington. He retired in 1993.
While at Western, he was co­founder of the Center for Cross­Cultural Research Psychology and chaired the committee that created Huxley College of Environmental Science, an affiliated college at Western. In 1964 Dr. Meade was appointed Fulbright Professor to Raja Balwant Singh College in India. He was also serving as visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), University of California at Berkley and Meerut University of Newcastle in Australia. He was named a National Science Foundation Fellow of the U.S. National Science Foundation in 1971. He was elected a member of Psi Chi psychology honorary, Pi Gamma Mu, social science honorary & Sigma Xi, national science Honorary. He was listed in American Men and Women of Science.
In 1964 he hitch­hiked around the world from Capetown to Cairo, Africa. He loved climbing mountains, climbing the Matterhorn in Switzerland three times. He left the world a better educated place, touching so many in his 88 yrs.
He was proceeded in death by his parents, Lee and Martha Meade of Straughn, and brother Malcolm Meade of Dayton Ohio. He leaves his brother Donald of near Knightstown, wife Barbara, three nieces, Donna Tauber of Spiceland, Rhonda Brown of near Knightstown and Diana Lynn Wilson of Cincinnati, Ohio. One nephew Norman Meade of Straughn. Also great nieces and nephews.