Stroke Takes Professor Maney
PROF. CHARLES A. Maney, 75, [address deleted], former head of the
physics department at the Defiance College, died at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday
in Gratiot County Community Hospital, Alma, Mich., due to complications
from a stroke and heart attack.
Prof. Maney suffered a stroke on Oct. 16 in Defiance, and was, taken to the Defiance City Hospital Oct. 19. He was transferred to Alma Oct. 29....
HE WAS the author of numerous articles including "Experimental Study of Sliding Friction" which appeared in a 1952 edition of the American Journal of Physics. The article demonstrated a number of new findings in the study of friction, and established experimentally a revision of the so-called third law of friction.
Prof. Maney, who was an instructor at the Defiance College from 1946 until his retirement in 1964, was the author of two books on unidentified flying objects.
He was co-author of the book "The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects" in 1961, and had completed another book in September of this year which deals with physical evidence evidence of UFO. It is at the publishers, and is expected to be released in a few months [Second book was never published].
BORN March 19, 1891 in Minneapolis, Minn., he received his bachelor of arts degree at the University of Minnesota and a master of science degree at the University of Chicago in 1915. He did graduate work at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan and the University of Kentucky.
Following service in World War I, he taught college in Wisconsin, and at Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky., from 1920 to 1932.
From 1932 to 1940, Prof. Maney studied and wrote a series of articles, on college enrollment trends for the Kentucky department of education. From 1940 until joining the Defiance College in 1946, he served as a statistician for the federal government.
Prof. Maney shared credit with the late Prof. Edwin B. Frost, former director of Yerkes Observatory, for the first measurements of internal motions in the Nebula of Orion in 1915.
IN 1950, he submitted to the late Senator Brien McMahon his "Atoms For Peace Plan," now on file in National Archives, Washington, D. C. He was also a member of the board of governors of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP).
In August, 1918, he married the former Eva B. Wolansky, who survives. He also leaves a daughter, Mary Maney, Indianapolis; a son, C. Thomas Maney, Kettering [OH], a sister, Elsie Maney, Minneapolis; a brother, Will, St. Paul Minn., and six grandchildren.
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From THE UFO INVESTIGATOR, Volume 1, Number 2, August-September 1957
Published by the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)
Prof. Maney Says NICAP is Opportunity for Honest Answers
Statement By PROFESSOR CHARLES A. MANEY
The Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio Member,
NICAP Board of Governors
NICAP, a strictly non-profit organization, dedicated to the enterprise
of searching out the truth in regard to UFO's, is absolutely free from
Govermental censorship. It offers to the American public, and to free
people throughout the world, the opportunity to find answers to the
many intriguing questions arising in regard to the strange aerial
phenomena now being observed in the skies about this planet.
NICAP approaches this problem with an open mind and seeks the co-operation of all who have something to contribute in the way of experience and reason. The aims and purposes of NICAP are to serve honestly and sincerely the public interest in searching out the facts pro and con, believing that knowledge of the truth, whatever it might be, serves to benefit humanity far more than the suppression of information.
NICAP is sponsored by patriotic citizens whose sole interest is to work to the end that information concerning aerial phenomena to which citizens in a free democracy are entitled, be made available to them without restriction, except where it is plainly obvious that the release of such information would jeopardize the national defense.
Professor Charles A. Maney, one of the first members, NICAP Board of Governors, has been physics professor at The Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio, for the past eleven years. Defiance is a liberal arts college, headed by Kevin McCann, until recently the principal speech-writing assistant to President Eisenhower.
A native of Minnesota, Professor Maney was graduated by the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in 1913. In 1915, he received his masters degree from the University of Chicago, after major study in astrophysics. His subsequent graduate study has been at the University of Michigan and the University of Kentucky.
Before joining the Defiance faculty, Prof. Maney taught at Alma College, Mich., Lawrence College, Kansas, and Translyvania College, Ky. He also held a research post with the State government of Kentucky.
For the past seven years, Professor Maney has made a serious study of unidentified flying objects, and has lectured and written widely on this subject.
