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Boulder City NEWS, Boulder City, Nevada Thursday, June 24, 1971 DRI Plans Memorial Lab For Late Raymond J. Hock On June 28, friends of Ray­mond J. Hock will gather at the Desert Research Insti­tute’s Laboratory of Environ­mental Patho - Physiology in Boulder City to dedicate a room as a memorial to Dr. Hock. Dr. Hock, world - renowned environmental physiologist, was killed in an accident in the Grand Canyon, Aug. 27, 1970. He had joied the faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas only a year earlier. His death was a tragic blow to the University community and to the world of science. He had been a friend of Bruce Dill for many years and had written two chapters for the volume, Adapation of the En­vironment edited by Dill, Adoph and Wilber and publish­ed by the American Physiolog­ical Society. His chapters were entitled Terrestrial animals in cold: reptiles and Animals in high altitudes: reptiles and am­phibians. Mrs. Hock and their four ’sons presented to the labora­tory Dr. Hock’s library, his valuable collection* of scientific journals and reprints and in­struments of his own design. To house, this collection a room 14’ x 24’ has been built in the ground floor of the laboratory which is located on the grounds of the Metallurgy Research La­boratory, USBM. The new room will serve as library and lab-1 oratory; it was built by John [ Richardson and fellow students who are laboratory assistants. The two - hour program be­ginning at 10 a.m. June 28, has been arranged by Dr. G. Edgar Folk long - time friend of Dr. Hock and Professor of Physio­logy at the University of Iowa. The program follows. Three of Dr. Hock’s close friends will present scientific papers pert­inent to his interests. Those ex­pected to attend the dedication in addition to the laboratory staff and visiting scientists in­clude Mrs. Hock and her four sons, President John M. Ward, Desert Research Institute, Uni­versity of Nevada System, Pro­fessors Wesley E. Nile$ and j W. Glen Bradley, UNLV, Dean | Robert B. Smith, College of Science and Mathematics, UN LV, Vice - President Donald H. Baepler, UNLV, and Thom­as S. White, M.D., Boulder City. It is planned to publish in the Preprint Series of the Des­ert Research Institute a rec-ord of the proceedings and the papers presented. Added to the record will be the memorial statement for Raymond J. Hock read before the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada System October 9, 1970. Included also will be a list of donors to the Raymond J. Hock Memorial Fund, his com­plete bibliography of published papers and a list of those at­tending the Symposium hela in his honor. Introdiiltory Comments — David Bruce Dill, Desert Re­search Institute. Prlogue — G. Edgar Folk, University of Io­wa. Review of Small Animal Me­tabolism — Marvin L. Ricdes-el, University of New Mexico. Review of Biochemical As­pects of Acclimation — Robert Em. Smith, University of Cali­fornia, Davis; Ways of Interpreting the Nat­ural Thermal Environment —, Herman P. Roth, Webb Asso­ciates. A Short Biography — Donald R. Griffin (read by G. Edgar Folk). 1 ROOM W ILL BE MEMORIAL — The combination lab and library at the Desert Research Institute's quarters at the Bureau of Mines in BC will be dedicated at 10 am June 28 to Dr- Raymond J- Hock: Dr- Hock, world-re­nowned environmental physiologist was killed in an accident in the Grand Canyon last August- He had joined the U of N faculty in LV only a year ear­lier- Mrs. Hock and four sons presented Dr- Hock's library, his valuable coll­ection of scientific journals and reprints and instruments of his own design- — Knighton photo