Andrew W. Monlux

July 4, 2013

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Andrew W. Monlux, retired Regents Professor of Veterinary Pathology at Oklahoma State University, passed away on July 4, 2013. He was born in Algona, Iowa, in 1920. He was graduated from Algona High School in 1937 and received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Iowa State University in 1942. He married Jean Hauser on Aug. 19, 1950. The marriage lasted 55 years until Mrs. Monlux’s passing. In 1956, he accepted an appointment as Professor and Head of Veterinary Pathology at Oklahoma State University. In 1958, a graduate program in Veterinary Pathology was approved that allowed the college to be fully accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association. He and his brother William revised Runnells’ Principles of Veterinary Pathology in 1965. In 1972, he became a Regents Professor of Pathology and was awarded a cooperative grant from the National Institute of Health in which he classified and published research on dog and cat tumors collected in the Greater Tulsa area.