School of Biology
In 1954, this large department transforms into the School of Life Sciences. Areas of emphasis include anatomy, general biology, some biochemistry, botany, zoology, animal behavior, and human psychology. The head of the school is Dr. Conrad Miller, 58 years old. Among the staff is 31-year-old Professor Percy Lake who is slated for the forthcoming expedition to the Antarctic. Assistant Professor Alex Warden presses radical proposals such as mass parapsychological screening, much to the faculty’s amusement and aggravation.
The botanists operate a small greenhouse attached to the south side of the building. One, 29-year-old Professor Robert Angley, has raised eyebrows with his active opposition to the proposed reservoir project. Angley uses the arguments of altered ecologies and endangered species, although those concepts lack the supporting evidence available later in the century. He may take some of his students on a weekend field trip to the area of the Blasted Heath.
Wingate Peaslee, son of economist Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, was the only member of the elder Peaslee’s family to not desert the man after his strange psychological attacks. His father’s problems led young Wingate, in his early thirties, into psychology. Peaslee is scheduled to accompany the University expedition to Australia and, among other things is a skilled airplane pilot. He owns his own plane and keeps it stored in the hangar of Arkham Airfield.
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