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James H. McMicking
(Wayne State, Delta Nu ’50)

James H. McMicking, professor emeritus of chemical engineering and materials science, entered Chapter Eternal on August 9, 2008. He was 79.

McMicking enrolled at Wayne State University in 1947 and majored in chemical engineering. As a professor at his alma mater, he became an institution in the department of chemical engineering, where his door was always open to students.

McMicking stood out as the increasingly rare professor who placed the student above everything else. Throughout his 40-year teaching career, he dedicated himself to his students inside and outside class, maintaining positions on the Engineering Student Faculty Board, and other student-related councils and committees, not to mention leading roles in social activities invovling students and faculty.