Philleo Nash, anthropologist with a unique record of contributions to his country and his profession, died of renal cell cancer on October 12, 1987, at a hospice in Marshfield, Wisconsin. Honored with both Distinguished Service Award of American Anthropological Association (1984) and Bronislaw Malinowski Award of Society for Applied Anthropology (1986), Nash at time of his death was two weeks shy of his 78th birthday. His unusual personal name was in fact family name of his mother, Florence Philleo Nash. She was daughter of H. B. Philleo, described as an abolitionist, writer, and man of letters. On his father's side, Dr. Nash was grandson of Irish immigrant named T. E. Nash, who rose from a peasant background to prominence as a Wisconsin industrialist. Another kinsman-uncle Roy Nashcaptained a company of Black soldiers during World War and became first secretary of National Association for Advancement of Colored People. Philleo's father was a cranberry grower, and Nash liked to recall that during one of his Wisconsin political campaigns of 1950s, opponent referred to him as the leaping leprechaun of cranberry bogs. He always had a great affection for cranberry business and returned to it several times during his life. When Philleo began his college training at University of Wisconsin in 1927, he and several of his brightest colleagues were guinea pigs in a liberal education venture that came to be known as Meiklejohn Experimental College. There were no exams, grades, or courses-'-nothing but learning and books, according to Philleo. During first year of program, students explored one topic: fifth-century Athens. I enjoyed lectures, Nash once told a reporter, although didn't often get to them! Between their first and second years, Meiklejohn students carried out original research based on Lynds's Middletown, endeavor that may well have whetted young student's appetite for social sciences. After completing work for his baccalaureate degree at Wisconsin in 1932, Nash enrolled for further studies in anthropology at University of Chicago. While a graduate student, he met and (in 1935) married Edith Rosenfels. The couple's oldest child, daughter Maggie, was born in 1938, and her sister Sally in 1940. Nash received his Ph.D. in 1937. His dissertation, concerned with American Indian religious revivalism, was based on research among Klamath Indians of Oregon, a group with whose members he maintained contact throughout remainder of his life. He organized a symposium on theme of Klamath termination for Society for Applied Anthropology meetings held in Tucson in 1973.