Lewis Acrelius “Creel” Froman, a founding member of the UCI and School of Social Sciences faculty, passed away peacefully on March 12 at the age of 78. Froman was hired in July 1965 as a professor of political science. He later served a four-year term as dean of the School of Social Sciences from 1971-75. He retired in 2004.
 
Froman earned a bachelor’s in political science from Yale University in 1957 and a doctorate from Northwestern University in 1960. His research and teaching interests included political economy, the sociology of knowledge, critical political theory, sexism, the language of politics, and nineteenth-and twentieth-century philosophy— particularly the works of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Foucault, and Marx. The early part of his career was spent studying the U.S. Congress. He devoted many hours to university service during the formative years of the school and campus.
 
Creel is survived by his wife of 16 years, Anh Tran, and two daughters, Liz and Katrina.