Julian Benedict Roth

In Memoriam

Julian Roth ’41, July 24, 2001, in Portland, where he had recently moved. After graduating from Reed, he joined the U.S. Navy during World War II and served in the Pacific. He earned a teaching credential and master’s degree from San Francisco State University in 1950 and taught in the San Francisco Unified School District in 1950–56. In 1955, he earned an EdD from Stanford University, and in 1956 he moved to Los Angeles, where he joined the faculty of the education department at California State University. He served as chairman of the Department of Educational Foundations at Cal State in the 1970s, and was president of the California College and University Association in 1971. He retired as full professor in 1980, and he and his wife moved back to the Bay Area.

Appeared in Reed magazine: August 2002