A memorial service for S. Milton Henderson, professor emeritus of biological and agricultural engineering, is scheduled at 4:30 p.m. May 14 at the Heidrick Western Center for Agricultural Equipment on campus.

Henderson died March 13 at the age of 98. He had been a resident of St. John's Retirement Village in Woodland, where Dateline interviewed him in April 2006 for an article on three generations of Hendersons on the UC Davis faculty: S. Milton Henderson; his son Jerry, a professor emeritus of mechanical engineering; and Jerry's son Brad, an Academic Federation faculty member in the University Writing Program.

S. Milton Henderson received a bachelor's degree in physics from Simpson College in Iowa, and bachlor's and master's degrees in agricultural engineering from Iowa State College.

He arrived on the Davis campus in 1947 — when it was still the University Farm — and stayed for 30 years. He was a professor, a graduate adviser and an associate dean. His research focused on the processing of agricultural crops, such as the drying of rice and hops, the cooling of eggs and the grinding of animal feed components.

He became widely known to agricultural engineering students worldwide as the co-author of the textbook, Agricultural Process Engineering.

A map and directions for the memorial service is at wcae.ucdavis.edu/MapDirections.jpg.

— Dateline staff