Roger Conant Crafts

Background

Crafts, Roger Conant was born on January 26, 1911 in Lewiston, Maine, United States. Son of Seldon T. and Alice (Conant) Crafts.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Bates College, 1933. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1941.

Career

Teaching assistant department biology Bates College, 1931-1933. Research assistant department anatomy Columbia College Medicine, 1934-1939, instructor anatomy, 1939-1940, Boston University School Medicine, 1941-1943, assistant professor, 1943-1949, associate professor, 1949-1950. Francis Brunning professor anatomy, head department University Cincinnati College Medicine, 1950-1979, professor anatomy, 1979-1981, Francis Brunning professor emeritus, since 1981.

Fellow Graduate School University Cincinnati, since 1961. Consultant division fellowships, National Institutes of Health, 1960-1963, health facilities division, 1962-1963. Chairman council faculties Midwest-Great Plains region Association American Medical Colleges, 1969-1970.

Treasurer International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee, since 1982.

Achievements

• Roger Conant Crafts has been listed as a noteworthy anatomist, emeritus educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board management Young Men’s Christian Association, Cincinnati, 1955-1957. Member Citizens School Committee, 1967-1978, executive committee, 1967-1970, chairman, 1968-1970. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Member American Association Anatomists (chairman nominating committee 1965-1966, member nominating committee 1978-1979), Midwest Anatomists Association (president 1968-1969), Cincinnatus Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi (president University Cincinnati chapter 1965-1967).

Connections

Married Margaret Dean Findley, August 10, 1938. Children– Roger Conant, Susan Dean.

Father:

Seldon T. Crafts

Mother:

Alice (Conant) Crafts

Spouse:

Margaret Dean Findley

child:

Susan Dean Crafts

child:

Roger Conant Crafts