- land Bruce Reynolds, PhD, 83, of E. Michigan St., 2005 Marquette General passed away, Friday, October 21, Hospital. He was born February 15, 1922 in Mountain Home, Idaho to Robert and Marian (Whitson) Reynolds and was a graduate of the Nampa High School. After attending the College of Idaho for a year, he transferred to the University of Idaho, Southern Branch (now Idaho State University), where received his B.S. degree Pharmacy in 1945.
He attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1945 to1946, and then went on to work as a lab technician at Mangum Clinic, Nampa, Idaho, until 1952. Orland spent the next seven years at Boston University, where he received his Masters and his PhD degrees in Biochemistry. His future wife Moira was supervising professor for his Masters work. He did a postdoctoral year at Harvard University from 1960-61, working in the lab of Dr. George Wald, who later won the Nobel Prize.
After teaching Boston University and Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt., Orland came to NMU in 1968 as an Assistant Professor of Biology, and taught classes in physiology and cell biology, advanced to Associate Professor, and retired as a Professor Emeritus in 1989. With Moira, he was a founder of Northern Michigan Planned Parenthood, and was an early member of both PROBUS and the Northern Center for Lifelong Learning. His interests as a young adult were many, and included bicycling, hiking, camping, and Boy Scouts. In middle age he took up trick unicycling and (winning, some national titles), spinning, and diablo top spinning.
A memorial service will be| held at 1:00 pm Saturday, November 12, 2005 in St. Paul's Episcopal Church with Rev. Mark Engle officiating.
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1922 - 2005 (83 years)
