OXFORD — Edwin M. Ingersoll, professor emeritus of zoology at Miami University, died July 18 of an aneurysm. He was 81.

        Dr. Ingersoll joined Miami's faculty in 1951. He taught undergraduate courses in zoology, human physiology and parasitology, among others. When he retired in 1987, he was assistant chairman of the zoology department.

        “He was a Miami father to hundreds of students,” said Russell Griffith of Oxford, a fellow zoology professor. “They would come to him for more than just class work. He was a very patient, fatherly type to lots of kids.”

        They were so fond of him that members of the student body named Dr. Ingersoll and his wife, Olivia, parents of the year in 1977.

        Dr. Ingersoll received a bachelor's degree from Bemidji (Minn.) State Teachers College and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota.

        During World War II, he served in the Army Medical Corps at the First Convalescent Hospital in the Philippines.

        He received several research grants from the National Institutes of Health and a fellowship in tropical medicine from Louisiana State University that took him to South America, Panama and the Caribbean to study health issues.

        In 1979 he was a biomedical consultant with the U.S. Navy Medical Research Laboratory in Taipei, Taiwan.

        He also illustrated several texts, lab guides and atlases, and was a visiting professor of human anatomy and physiology at Bethesda Hospital School of Nursing from 1952 until 1970.

        MU named Dr. Ingersoll one of its top 10 professors in 1970.

        He was a member of the Oxford Kiwanis Club and co-founder of Circle K, a service organization. He also served as a scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 930. Oxford named him its citizen of the year in 1978.

        Survivors include: his wife, Olivia; two daughters, Karen Hanson of St. Croix Falls, Wis. and Susan Klenkof Kettering, Ohio; two sons, Robert of Tenstrike, Minn., and Christopher of Columbia, Miss.; a brother; a sister; and seven grandchildren.

        A memorial service is planned for mid-September.

        Memorial: Miami University Scholarship Fund, Advancement Services Building, 926 Chestnut Lane, Oxford, OH 45056.

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