Year: 1988
Type: article
Abstract: Government at Pomona College, died at home in Claremont, California, on February 12, 1988.Though he was in his eightythird year, the day before his death was spent in a manner typical of his life-long involvement in the world about him.He attended a meeting at Pomona College on the liberal arts curriculum, and at lunch participated in a spirited discussion of the presidential primaries, offering as always various proposals for the reform of the political system.That night he attended a community committee meeting.A student of Charles Merriam at the University of Chicago in the 1930s, John Vieg managed to combine a strong sense of the empirical rigor and systematization necessary for a genuine discipline of political science with a continuing reformist zeal and irrepressible optimism, Not just the good cheer which he had in abundance, but a dedication to a cause lay behind his efforts as a founding father of the Western Political Science Association, which he served as President in 1959-60, or the Southern California Political Science Association, which he was instrumental in founding.He was on the Council of the American Political Science Association in 1947-50, and Vice President of the Association in 1958-59.Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Vieg earned an A.B. degree in history from St. Olaf College in 1926.He was Phi Beta Kappa and class president.He continued in his-
Source: PS Political Science & Politics
Authors: Fred Krinsky, Lee McDonald
Institution: Pomona College
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2329522716