Former Chemistry Professor Dies at 84; Retired in 1922

John Inglee Phinney, one-time associate professor of Chemistry, died yesterday at the age of 84. Phinney taught here from 1917 to 1922, and was also on the staff of several secondary schools during the past 50 years.

He graduated from Yale in 1892 and was a Silliman Fellow there for the next two years. The chemistry instructor also taught at the Brockton High School, Cambridge Latin School, Browne & Nichols, and until his retirement in 1947 headed the science department at New Preparatory School in Cambridge.