In Memoriam: William Howard Waugh

ECU Professor Emeritus Dr. William Howard Waugh, former director of the Department of Clinical Sciences and former acting chair of the Department of Medicine, died July 18. Waugh was instrumental in founding the School of Medicine at ECU.

He served the university for 30 years and chaired the institutional review board for research with human subjects for 18 years. He retired in 2001, remaining active as professor emeritus in physiology. Following retirement, Waugh continued scientific research and publication, working from a laboratory at home. His last publication appeared in 2010 when he was 85.

Waugh was a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine in Medford, Mass., and attended Boston University and West Virginia University. He served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in WWII and with the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps in the Korean Conflict. In addition to ECU, he held faculty positions at the Medical College of Georgia and the University of Kentucky School of Medicine.

He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Eileen Garrigan Waugh, of Greenville; children, Mark H. Waugh, of Knoxville, Tenn., Kathleen C. Waugh, of Scottsdale, Ariz., and William P. Waugh, of Goldsboro; and a grandson, Robert M. Waugh, of New York City.