Alton A. Markley
Alton A. Markley, a forty-year professor of chemistry, died March 24, 1983.
A graduate of Washington State University, Alton earned master’s and doctoral degrees from Cornell University. He came to Ãļ§Ö±²¥ as professor of chemistry in 1924, only two years after Ãļ§Ö±²¥ was chartered as a baccalaureate-granting, four-year college. He chaired the Department of Chemistry until his retirement from Ãļ§Ö±²¥ in 1964.
A major force in faculty governance at the time was Ãļ§Ö±²¥â€™s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which Alton and six other professors founded in 1929.
His survivors are unknown.