Riley Dee Housewright

Background

Housewright, Riley Dee was born on October 17, 1913 in Wylie, Texas, United States. Son of Jick and Lillie (Townsend) Housewright.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University North Texas, 1934. Master of Arts, University Texas, 1938. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1944.

Postgraduate, Cambridge University, England, 1950.

Career

Public school teacher, Texas, 1934-1936; instructor, S.W. Texas State College, San Marcos, 1937-1941; chief microbial physiology and chemotherapy branch, Fort Detrick, Maryland., 1946-1950; deputy chief, chief medical bacteriology division, 1950-1956; science director, United States Army Biological laboratories, 1956-1970; science director, United States Army Command Management School, 1957; Brookings Institution Federal Executives Programs, United States Army Biological laboratories, 1960, 64, 69; Aspen Institute for Advisory Studies, United States Army Biological laboratories, 1968; vice president, science director, Microbiol. Associates Inc., Bethesda, Maryland., 1970-1975; principal staff officer, National Academy Science-National Research Council, Washington, 1975-1981; executive director, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, 1981-1984. Member of advisory commission to science director Institute Microbiology, Rutgers University, 1959-1967.

President 4th International Congress Chemotherapy, 1965. Member panel on regulatory biology National Science Foundation, 1967-1970. Consultant Office Education, Department Health, Edition and Welfare, 1973-1975.

Senior consultant Leonard Wood Foundation, 1975-1982. Consultant pharmaceutical and food industry, 1970-1981, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Allergy and Infecious Diseases, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Academy of Science. Chairman Institutional Review Board, National Academy Sciences, 1980-1981.

Member Institutional Review Board Frederick Cancer Research Institute, National Cancer Institute, 1983-1993.

Achievements

• Riley Dee Housewright has been listed as a noteworthy Microbiologist/ scientific society executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Captain United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1966, president American Society Microbiology Foundation, 1973-1974. Board associates Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, 1969-1980. Trustee American Type Culture Collection, 1973-1981, 87-93, Frederick Memorial Hospital, 1977-1983.

Served to lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946, captain Reserve retired, 1946-1966. Fellow American Academy Microbiology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences. Member American Society Microbiology (honorary member 1981, president 1965-1966, Barnett E. Cohen award Maryland branch 1967), Society General Microbiology (England), Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Research Society of America, Sigma Xi, Phi Delta Kappa, Gamma Alpha Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).

Connections

Married Marjory Bryant, June 10, 1939 (deceased July 1962). 1 son, Kim Bryant; married Artemis Skevakis Jegart, August 30, 1969.

Father:

Jick Housewright

Mother:

Lillie (Townsend) Housewright

Spouse:

Marjory Bryant

Spouse:

Artemis Skevakis Jegart