WALTER J. MUELLER ’34

WALTER J. MUELLER, who retired as a senior foreign service officer with the US Department of State, and a former dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Alaska, died Nov. 2, 2006. He was 92. The son of Carl S. Mueller of the class of 1903, he received his degree with distinction in German. In 1935 he received a master’s degree from Wesleyan and later a PhD from Cornell, where he taught until joining the US Army during World War II. After the war he joined the US State Department and served in various posts. He retired in 1970 and became a faculty member at the University of Alaska, where he launched innovative programs in Peace Studies and the preservation of Native Alaskan cultures. Predeceased by his wife, Eleanor Maack Mueller, survivors include two children and four grandchildren.