Waugh, Albert E. (Albert Edmund), 1902-1985

Professor and department head, Dept. of Economics, and dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut, and local official, of Storrs, Conn.

Albert E. Waugh was born in 1902 in Amherst, Massachusetts . He received a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1924. He received a Master of Science degree in economics from Connecticut Agricultural College in 1926. He also attended Columbia University in 1925 and the University of Chicago in 1931-1932 and 1942-1943. Waugh was hired as an instructor of agricultural economics at Connecticut Agricultural College in 1924. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1928, Associate Professor in 1932, and Professor in 1937. He served as head of the Department of Economics from 1939 to 1945,and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1945 to 1950. He became Provost of the University of Connecticut in 1950, and served in that position until he retired in 1965.

In 1938, Waugh published the textbook, Elements of Statistical Method, and its accompanying laboratory manual. The text was translated into Portugese in 1946; and in 1947, he published Principles of Economics . He also served on many university committees; including Scholastic Standards, of which he was chairman; The Committee on Athletics; Curricula and Courses Committee; Senate Salary Committee; and Advisory Committee to the President. He was also a member of the University Senate, elected and ex-officio, during most of his years at the University.

In addition to his University commitments, Waugh was also a member of the American Economic Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association of University Professors, and Phi Kappa Phi . He was an active member of his community as well, serving on the Board of Trustees of the Windham Community Memorial Hospital, and as Director of the Willimantic Trust Company . He was well known as the moderator of Mansfield Town Meetings, a service he began in 1941. He served on a number of State commissions; and in 1965, he was chosen by the Republican Party to attend the State Constitutional Convention.

Dr. Waugh died in 1985 at the age of 82.