S. Charles Maurice: in memoriam.

• Author: Saving, Thomas R.

S. Charles (Chuck) Maurice, long-time member and former officer of the Southern Economic Association, died March 4, 1999, in Gainesville, Florida. He was 67 years old. Maurice is survived by his wife Niccie L. McKay, an economist in Health Services Administration at the University of Florida; two sons (S. Charles Maurice Jr. and John Michael Maurice); a daughter (Ann Maurice Cragin); eight grandchildren; and a sister, Sandy McKissick.

Chuck Maurice was born June 25, 1931, in Huntington, West Virginia, but was raised in Pennsylvania. He received his A.B. degree from the University of Georgia in 1953. He served in the U.S. Army Tank Corps from 1953 to 1955 and then worked at Sears Roebuck for several years. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1967 from the University of Georgia.

Maurice joined the faculty of Texas A&M University in 1967 as Assistant Professor of Economics. He worked his way through the ranks, being appointed Associate Professor in 1972 and Professor in 1977. He served as Department Head from 1977 to 1981. Maurice was appointed as the first Rex B. Grey University Professor from 1981 to 1985. He also served as Associate Director of the Center for Education and Research in Free Enterprise at Texas A&M during the period 1981 to 1989. He retired as Professor of Economics in 1997 and was immediately appointed Professor Emeritus.

In his early years at Texas A&M, Maurice worked closely with C. E. Ferguson, with whom he collaborated on a series of professional articles and on one of the most successful intermediate microeconomics textbooks of its time, Economic Analysis (R. D. Irwin and Company), which eventually went through six editions. Maurice's research was firmly rooted in the neoclassical paradigm and dealt mainly with the theory of production, especially factor demand. It included generalizing earlier work on the effect of factor price changes on minimum average cost in competitive industries and investigating factor demand in consumer-managed and labor-managed firms. His published research...