J.O. (James Owen) Perrine J.O. Perrine was born in 1886 and died in 1974. He was a physics professor at UNI, and twice served as the school’s football coach, in 1910 and again in 1917. This is his obituary from www.findagrave.com: James Owen Perrine was the son of Peter and Elizabeth Rockefeller Perrine. He married Blanche Albright in Burlington, Iowa in 1910. She died in 1960. They had one son, James Perrine, Jr., who died in 1984. A veteran, he was a captain in the U.S. Army and during World War I headed the officers candidate school for the Army Signal Corps at Yale University. He earned a doctorate's degree in physics from Cornell University and as an executive at AT&T advised the U.S. Navy on submarine detection during World War II. In 1963 he wrote "The Slide Rule Handbook." A noted physicist, he lectured at 173 colleges in the United States and Canada. He retired as a professor at the University of Northern Iowa. He died at the age of 88 at the Western Home in Cedar Falls. At the time of his death a wake was held and contributions were made to a scholarship fund in his name at Cedar Falls High School. There was no funeral service at that time. His cremains were interred with full military honors on May 14, 2010 through the efforts of the Missing in America Project.
