found: calisphere, via WWW, April 22, 2015(University of California: In Memoriam, 1974; Vernon John Puryear, Political Science: Davis and Berkeley, 1901-1970, Professor Emeritus; born in Sulphur Springs, Oklahoma, March 31, 1901; as a teenager he wrote for rural newspapers and was once called “the youngest editor in the state;” at Baylor University, in Texas, he edited the students' Lariat, transforming it from a weekly to a daily; back in Oklahoma after receiving his A.B. (1921), he was business manager or advertising specialist for the Pawhuska Daily Journal and other newspapers; he attended graduate school at the University of Missouri, from which he emerged with an M.A. (1925); he taught at Missouri for two years (1926-1928), but he spent the summer of 1927 studying at Harvard and the summer of 1928 researching in the British Record Office, the archives of the British Board of Trade, and the Bibliotheque Nationale; in the fall of 1928, he began a year as Teaching Fellow in European History at Berkeley; in September 1929, he took the final public examination then required for the Ph. D.; he taught history and political science at Albany College, Oregon, until 1933, with a year off (1930-1931) for research in London, Berlin, Vienna, and Paris on a fellowship from the Social Science Research Council; in 1931 his first book, England, Russia, and the Straits Question, 1844-1856 (U. C. Press), won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association; two years later. he accepted a position at Humboldt State College; in 1935 the Stanford University Press published his second book, International Economics and Diplomacy in the Near East: A Study of British Commercial Policy in the Levant, 1834-1853; in 1937 he joined the faculty of the University of California at Davis; and from then until 1952 (except for some teaching at Berkeley during the war) he was Chairman of the Department of History and Political Science; in 1941 the U.C. Press set forth his France and the Levant: From the Bourbon Restoration to the Peace of Kutiah; he became a full professor in 1948; in 1951, the U. C. Press published his fourth book, Napoleon and the Dardanelles; the career of Napoleon became his chief scholarly interest; he contributed eight articles on the subject to the World Book Encyclopedia; beginning in 1952, Professor Puryear taught courses in political science; after his retirement in 1968, Professor Puryear still conducted correspondence courses in the University Extension; he died November 10, 1970)
