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February 8, 2002

Memory researcher with long ties to Grinnell College to give convocation

GRINNELL, Iowa - Don't forget to mark your calendars for the next convocation at Grinnell College. The speaker, a noted researcher in the field of memory research, is also someone with quite a few ties to the Grinnell community and Grinnell College.

Larry R. Squire, professor of psychiatry, neurosciences, and psychology at the University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, will give the February 14 Scholars' Convocation titled "Memory Systems of the Brain" at 11 a.m. at Herrick Chapel, Grinnell College.

Squire, who is also a research career scientist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, has extensive ties to Grinnell College. His father, Dr. Harold W. Squire, graduated from Grinnell College in 1938, and is the son-in-law of former Grinnell Professor J. P. Ryan. Larry Squire's mother, Jean Ryan Squire, graduated from Grinnell College in 1938. She passed away in 1995.

Harold Squire's brother, Donald E. Squire, graduated from Grinnell College in 1942, while two cousins also graduated from Grinnell - Everett Tarvin in 1927 and Cleo Tarvin in 1931.

Larry Squire, who received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is recognized internationally for his research investigating the organization and neurological foundations of memory.

He has published approximately 370 research articles and two books: Memory and Brain (Oxford Press, 1987) and Memory: From Mind to Molecules, with Eric Kandel (W. H. Freeman, 1999).

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, Squire is also a William James Fellow of The American Psychological Society.

The Squire family remains the primary contacts for the Class of 1936 John P. Ryan Memorial Scholarship, an endowed fund established in 1986. The fund, endowed by a gift given by the Class of 1936, was in memory of John P. Ryan, professor of speech at Grinnell College.