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J. Arthur Herrick, 100, wife Margaret, 95, die within days of each other
Published on Wednesday, Jul 23, 2008
Beacon Journal staff report
A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Laurel Lake Retirement Community in Hudson for former Kent State faculty members and benefactors J. Arthur and Margaret Herrick.
He died Sunday at 100. She died Friday at 95.
Mr. Herrick began teaching botany at Kent State in 1937 and retired in 1972. Mrs. Herrick graduated from KSU in 1941 and taught speech pathology and audiology there until retiring in 1982, the year the couple married.
Together, the Herricks gave more than $2.4 million to Kent State and were the first supporters to give more than $1 million. In 2004, they received the university's Lifetime Philanthropy Award. Many of their gifts supported an endowed chair in their names in plant conservation biology.
After retirement, Mr. Herrick was known to many in the Kent community as the ''tree man'' because he cut down dead trees and donated payments to Kent State's Cooperrider Herbarium Fund. At his home in Kent, he planted hundreds of trees and plants.
In 1969, he bought land in Portage County to ensure that it would not be developed. In 2001, that land became the J. Arthur Herrick Fen Nature Preserve, which Mr. Herrick donated to Kent State and the Ohio chapter of the Nature Conservancy, of which he was a founding member.
In 1969, Kent State gave Mr. Herrick the President's Medal, the highest honor for a faculty or staff member. In 1972, he was inducted into Ohio's Natural Resources Hall of Fame and in 2001 he was named Ohio's Conservation Hero.
In 2007, the university named its planned-giving organization for the couple. Campus sites named after the couple include the Aquatic Ecology Research Facility and the Conservatory Gardens and Arboretum.
The couple also endowed a research fund to support students at the Aquatic Ecology Research Facility.
They leave Arthur Herrick's son, Glenn, of Utah, and others.
The couple donated their bodies to the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy.
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