Chauncey Leake
From Philosopedia
Leake, Chauncey Depew (5 September 1896 – 11 January 1978)
When he signed Humanist Manifesto II, Leake was a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
He also had been executive director of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. A pharmacologist, he wrote Old Egyptian Medicine (1952) and Practical Philosophy: The Ethics (1973), The Logics (1974), and The Esthetics (1976).
With Anatol Rapaport, Leake once approached the American Association for the Advancement of Science, suggesting that the American Humanist Association could appropriately be its philosophical branch. The proposal was declined on the basis that the humanists’ membership did not include a high enough percentage of Ph. D’s.
Leake died after attending "An Evening With Chauncey Leake," sponsored by San Francisco's Bohemian Club, where with friends and colleagues he read several of his poems. He collapsed while receiving an ovation and died a few hours later from a ruptured aortic aneurysm.
(See "Essays of an Information Scientist", #7, 13 February 1978.)
