A Remembrance: Three Who Helped to Shape the West – Bay Area Blog – NYTimes.com.

In recent weeks, the West lost three men who helped to shape it: Edgar Wayburn,a past president of the Sierra Club, Stewart L. Udall, who was the interior secretary in the 1960s, and Charles Muscatine, a Chaucer scholar who was among the University of California, Berkeley professors fired after they refused, in 1949, to sign an anti-Communist loyalty oath.