Dr. Albert C. Fuller, Director of the Bureau of Alumni Service and Public School Relations, Emeritus, passed away Sunday, May 4, 1958, in West Englewood, New Jersey.

Mr. Fuller was born in Wright County, Iowa, May 16, 1877. He married Olive Whitmore of Fairfield, August 7, 1901, and was preceded in death by his wife and a son, Robert. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. John Brickner of West Englewood, New Jersey, Mrs. Roger L. Preston, Grinnell, Iowa, and six grandchildren.

Mr. Fuller's professional career began in 1899 following the receipt of his M. Di. degree from the Iowa State Normal School. He served as superintendent of schools in Manning, Sidney, Storm Lake, and Washington, Iowa. In 1911 he received the B. A. degree from the State University of Iowa and in 1937 Buena Vista College awarded him the honorary degree of LL. D. From 1913 to 1917 he served as State High School inspector. In 1917 he joined the staff of Iowa State Teachers College, serving until 1934 as Associate Director of Extension Service. He assumed the direction of the newly-created Bureau of Alumni Service and Public School Relations in 1934, holding this post until his retirement in 1949. He was connected with College activities until 1956.

Active in community affairs at both the state and local level, Mr. Fuller served as President of the Cedar Falls Chamber of Commerce, Vice-President of the Iowa Society for Crippled Children, and President of Cedar Falls Rotary Club. In 1936 he was Governor of District No. 11 of Rotary International. He served on the Board of Ruling Elders of the First Presbyterian Church, Cedar Falls, from 1919 to 1943.

His record of fifty-three consecutive years of attendance at the state convention of the ISTA and its successor, the ISEA, testifies to his strong support of the professional education associations. He held continuous memberships in the State Association since 1897 and in the NEA and AASA since 1906.

The Campanile is a memorial to the Founders and Builders of the Iowa State Teachers College. The work done by Mr. Fuller as chairman and active manager of the Campanile Committee of the Alumni Association entitles him to be honored among the Founders and Builders of this College. Probably the greatest service that he rendered for the Alumni Association was as President of the Seerley Foundation from its organization in 1928 until 1957. In administering loans from this fund to students, he was helpful, conservative, and judicious.

To his close associates there was an affability, an amiability, and a sense of humor about A. C. Fuller that greatly enhanced the friendship and the fellowship of his immediate coterie. These aspects of his character were not apparent to the casual acquaintance, although he was eminently easy to approach and ever showed an eagerness for new friends. He was a man of dignity and had a reserve about his personal affairs that prevented too great intimacy, even on the part of those who knew him well. He was ever a loyal supporter of his superior officers; he was magnanimous to his equals, and gracious and thoughtful to those whose duty it was to serve him. He was a conscientious, earnest, and sincere Christian gentleman of the old school.