July 5, 1932 - April 5, 2013
With sadness, we report the passing of William Wagman '50.
William Dale Wagman was born July 5, 1932, the only child of Dr. Ida R. Holzberg Wagman and Leon Wagman in New York City. He died April 5, 2013 in McConnellsburg, PA at the age of 80. Bill attended high school at Friends Seminary in New York. He received his bachelor's degree from William and Mary College in Williamsburg, VA where he met his lifelong partner and wife Althea Margaret Illiff. They married in 1954. He obtained his PhD in psychology from Columbia University in NY. He taught psychology at Hofstra University on Long Island, NY, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL and worked as a civilian psychologist at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. He spent the majority of his professional career at University of Baltimore in Baltimore. There he founded and chaired the Psychology Department, he helped create the College of Liberal Arts, and developed a master's degree program in Psychology. He also founded the Wagman Applied Psychology Laboratory and served on all the central committees of the university. He was a mentor to countless undergraduate and graduate students in psychology. After his "retirement" Bill devoted himself to the study of conservation, organic farming and husbandry at his Mater Manoeuvre Farm in Fort Littleton, PA. There he and his wife Althea raised almost all their own food from extensive organic gardens and raised chickens, pigs and cows. He researched, raised and taught other farmers about the virtues of grass feed cattle. He used goats to clean his fields, collected rainwater from his roofs to water his gardens and sold electricity back to the power company long before these green initiatives were popular. He was a staunch advocate for protecting the earth from the burning of carbon fossil fuels. He tried to recycle everything. His farm hosted classes for Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) and Penn State School of Agriculture. He is survived by his wife and three children, daughter Althea Susan Wagman-Bolster and her husband Paul Bolster of Andover, MA, son David Wolfe Wagman and his wife Denise Saunders of Corvallis, OR, daughter Idalee Wagman DiGregorio and her husband Anthony DiGregorio,Jr of Baltimore, and grandchildren Thomas and Althea Rachel Bolster, Zachary and Justin Wagman, Christopher, Nicholas and Caroline DiGregorio.
Published by Baltimore Sun on Apr. 9, 2013
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