Notes:
Data source is the 1990 book, "Moomaw-Mumma-Mumaw-Mumaugh Genealogy" compiled by Robert Austin Moomaw (deceased).
[From the "New Orleans Genesis", Vol 21, Number 83 (July 1982) p. 296 - the official publication of the Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans.]
~~~ In Memoriam ~~~
The Society extends its sympathy to the family of Dr. H. Warner Kloepfer, who passed away Saturday 27 March 1982. Dr. Warner was a charter member of the Society. He was director of the Genetic Counseling Center and associate Professor of Human Genetics at Tulane University Medical School. His work researching the identification and description of specific major genes was also helped by his researching family lineage. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. H. Warner Kloepfer, the former Ruth Elizabeth McCoy, three daughters, Jean Elizabeth Watts, Karol Grace Kloepfer, and Dr. Ruth Ann Peters, and one son, Rev. John Warner Kloepfer.
We deeply regret the loss of this dedicated member.
[Memoriam contributed by Greg Tucker]
[As a tribute to the work of Warner, the "Curriculum Vitae" printed in his 1965 genealogy book is reproduced below].
CURRICULUM VITAE
H. Warner Kloepfer (22173671) grew up on a very poor hill farm located in southeastern Ohio. He secured his entire elementary education from a one-room country school known as the Bell School, finishing In 1927. The school was located about one mile from his father's farm. He was graduated from RoseviIle High School at the end of three years (1930) having to walk across country 5-6 miles each day, and in 1934 he was awarded a B.S. degree from Ohio University with a major In mathematics. After a year of further study he received an A.B. degree in 1935 from Muskingum College with a major in Philosophy and Religion. Undergraduate honorary societies included Phi Kappa Phi (scholastic), Psi Chi (psychology), Pi Gamma Mu (social science), Tau Kappa Alpha (speech), Philosophy Club, and Phi Tau Theta (social). While In high school he was on the first team in football, basketball and baseball In college his Intra collegiate sports were limited to track where his best record for the half mile was 2 minutes and 2 seconds.
From 1935 to I930 he taught science and mathematics at St. Clairsville High School, directed the Junior Play, and was Boy Scout Master. From 1936 to 1937 and including summers of 1932 through 1937, he was a District Manager for the B. B. Kirkbride Bible Company, a direct sales organization for the distribution of the New, Chain Reference Bible. During his first summer of sales work he won third place for high sales. During his second summer and each succeeding summer he won first place, each summer exceeding his previous record among some 100 competing salesman. One of the salesman he recruited for work during his second summer was Ruth McCoy who had to work her way through school and who won second place for high sales during her first summer of work. Later, after one year of high school teaching, she became his wife. He was able to finance his entire college education plus a car with no assistance or loans from anyone.
He and Ruth each received a Master's degree from Ohio University in 1938 (his degree was in Zoology and her degree was in Speech). Between 1938 and 1942 he was a graduate student under Dr. Lawrence Snyder in the Department of Zoology at Ohio State University where in 1942 he received his Ph. D. degree which included specialization in human medical genetics, a new field in which Dr. Snyder had pioneered. His dissertation was on mapping of human chromosomes.
In 1942 there were no openings as as yet, in his field of specialization, consequentually he became a Professor of Biology and Head of the Department at Dakota Weseylan University where he also was Coordinator of their School of Nursing which granted both 3-year (R.N.) and 5-year (R.N. and B.S.) degrees. From 1946 to 1947 he was Academic Dean, and Dean of Men, at the College of Emporia, and from 1947 to 1952 he was Academic Dean at the College of the Ozarks where under his administration the college obtained accreditation from the North Central Association and developed for the first time in the state of Arkansas a School of Pharmacy which also met requirements for accreditation. At the College of the Ozarks he was advisor to the student YMCA.
Since 1952 he has been Associate Professor of Anatomy (Genetics) at Tulane University School of Medicine. From 1952 he has been on the Visiting Staff of Charity Hospital as Scientist from the division of Pediatrics. In 1964 he also became a member of the Department of Medicine which includes a Division on Human Genetics. He has been Director of the Genetic Counseling service at Tulane University since 1953. At the time he Initiated this service there were only about 12 such centers organized throughout the United States and Canada.
Membership In scientific societies include: Sigma Xi, American Society of Human Genetics (Treasurer, 1957-1960, Board Member 1961-1963), American Genetics Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of American Medical Colleges. Extra curricular activities include: Board member of the New Orleans Chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association; Board Member of the New Orleans Council on Race Relations; Board Member of New Orleans Genealogical Society; Board Member American Friends Service Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.); formerly Clerk of the New Orleans Monthly Meeting of Friends; Treasurer, since 1958, of the South Central Yearly Meeting of Friends; Member of Executive Committee of the South Central Regional Area of the American Friends Service Committee.
Travel includes Canada, Mexico, five trips to Europe with ten days in 1963 behind the "Iron Curtain" where he got into homes selected on a random basis in Lenigrad, Moscow, and Prague, to learn more exactly how life there compares with life here when homes are entered on a random basis.
He has participated in the following symposia and congresses: First International Symposium on Medical Genetics, Rome, Italy, 1953; First International Congress onh Human Genetics, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1956; Second International Conference on Human Genetics, Rome, Italy, 1961; Eleventh International Congress on Genetics, Netherlands, 1963; Third IBM Medical Symposium, Endicott, New York, 1961. He is a Founding Member (Secretary 1961-1965) of the Problem Commission on Neuro, the World Federation of Neurology, Geneva, Switzerland, 1961; Symposium on Human Genetics in Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1964; A Danforth Visiting Lecturer for the Arts Program sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and the Danforth Foundation, 1962-66. As a Danforth Lecturer he has made a two visit to 33 college campuses throughout the United States. The topics for these lectures include Genetics in the Service of Man, Radiation and Human Genetics, Pyschogenetics, Should the gene be synthesized? and New Horizons in Medical Genetics.