Artist-Scientist A Man Of Warmth, Perception

Funeral services were held today at the Beth Israel Chapel for Dr. Leonard A. Greenbaum, a man who made his mark in both the arts and sciences. Dr. Greenbaum, 43, died early Thursday of an apparent heart attack at his home, 374 HilldaleDr. Showing early promise as a writer and playwright, he won a Hopwood Award in Drama in 1953 while a gradúate student at the University. At the time of his death, Dr. Greenbaum was assistant director of the U-M's Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project, the largest scientific program on peaceful uses of atomic I energy in the state. He also was active in comI munity service work, in the I local Democratie party, and I in religious work of the Beth I Israel Congrega tion. I Dr. William Kerr, Phoenix I Project director and professor lof nuclear engineering, said I today that "in his role as asIsistant director of the Phoenix ■ Project, Dr. Greenbaum parIticipated in a wide range of I activities related to peaceful I uses of nuclear energy. I "His own writings on govI ernment research policy in I the development of nuclear I energy are recognized as clasI sics in the field. His warmth I and perception as a human I being and his inteeest in peoI pie made friends for him throughout the University and community." A 1952 U-M gradúate, Dr. Greenbaum received his master's degree in 1953 and a doctórate in 1963, also both on the Ann Arbor campus. He started his career on the U-M staff as a teaching fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature in 1953, and from 1958 to 1960, served as writer-producer for the University's Televisión Center. He was named editor of the Phoenix Project in 1960, became assistant to the director in 1962, and was promoted to assistant director in 1964. He served as assistant professor in the U-M College of Engineering from 1963 to 1968. Dr. Greenbaum won recognition as a playwright when his 1953 Hopwood Award play, "The Geoffrey Moving and I Storage Company or the Van I Man Strikes Again" was performed in 1965 at the Dramatic Arts Center. He was the author of numerous magazine articles and play reviews, and of the books "The Hound and Hom," and "Out of Shape," a novel published in 1969. He authored a number of short stories. His activities in the local I Democratie Party included I service as vice-chairman for I issues, and as delégate to I county and state conventions I of the party, along with other I activities. Dr. Greenbaum had served I as chairman of the Mayor's I Committee on Problems of the I Handicapped, as a member of I the Washtenaw Intermedíate I School District Citizens' 1 cial Education Committee, I and was active in the National 1 Association for the 1 ment of Colored Peoplel (NAACP). He was active in the U-M's I Committee to Aid Disabled I Students, served on the I tute for Study of Mental I Retardation Faculty-Parent Committee, and on many other University committees. He had served as a member of the Beth Israel executive board. Dr. Greenbaum was bom on Sept. 30, 1930, in Boston, Mass. He is survived by his widow, Judith, and four children.