Grover C. Stephens

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Grover Cleveland Stephens (1925-2003), born in Oak Park, Illinois, was a marine biologist and comparative physiologist at the University of Minnesota and the University of California at Irvine. Stephens was born 12 Jan 1925 in Oak Park to Grover C. and Celene Madeleine (Seibert) Stephens, and grew up in Cicero, Illinois. He entered military service on 13 Nov 1943 and trained at the Great Lakes Naval Station. After one year of engineering training at Purdue University and Princeton University, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Navy in the spring of 1945 and assigned as a gunnery officer on the USS Philippine Sea, which was commissioned after VJ-Day. He was released from active duty in the Navy in 1946, and after completing his remaining college course work, graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in mathematics in 1948.