Vernon Hortin Jensen

Salt Lake Tribune
Types: Utah
Date: 10/07/1998
Page: D5
Keywords: Obituaries
Vernon Hortin Jensen
    TUCSON, AZ.--Vernon Hortin Jensen, 91, passed away Sept. 27, 1998 in Tucson, AZ.
   He was Professor Emeritus and former Associate Dean of the New York State School of Industrial Labor Relations, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he joined the faculty in 1946. He earned his Bachelors degree at Brigham Young University in American History in 1932. He completed a Masters degree in Economics in 1934 and a PhD Dissertation on a study of Labor Relations in the Northwest Lumber Industry in 1939 from the University of California-Berkeley.
   While writing his PhD Dissertation he was a faculty member at the University of Colorado-Boulder from 1937 to 1946. He was a member of the National Defense Mediation Board as a mediator and arbitrator for the National War Labor Board commencing in 1941. He also became director of the Wage Stabilization Board - Rocky Mountain Division during that same time.
   He was also chairman of the New York State Advisory Council on Employer and Union Improper Practices Act from 1969 to 1973. He was a member of the  Presidential Railroad Marine Workers Commission. He was a member of the presidential Board of Inquiry, East Coast Longshore Industry Dispute in 1962. He was also a member of the American Economic Association, the Industrial Relations Research Association, the National Academy of Arbitrators, and the International Industrial Relations Association.
   He authored "Lumber and Labor" (1945); "Heritage of Conflict - Nonferrous Metals Industry up to 1930" (1950); " onferrous Metals Unionism 1932-1952" (1954) and "Strife on the Waterfront: The Port of New York Since 1945" (1973); Hiring of Dock Workers and Employment Practices in the Ports of New York, Liverpool London, Rotterdam, and Marseilles' (1964); and "Decasualization and Modernization of Dock Work in London" (1991).
   He also authored numerous scholarly articles on Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining.
   He was born on July 10, 1907 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He retired form Cornell University in 1973 and became a mediation and arbitration specialist for the next 20 years.
   He moved to Tucson in 1991.
   He was preceded in death by his loving wife of 63 years, Esther Chapman Jensen and his son, Vernon Hortin Jensen, Jr.
   Survivors include a sister, Gweneth Jensen (Parker) Traynor of Tucson, AZ; a brother, Grant Hortin Jensen, Brigham City; daughters, Karen Jensen Harvey of Tucson and Massachusetts; Margot Jensen Gasch of Steamboat Springs, CO; Linda Jensen Hamlet, Steam Boat Springs, CO; and a daughter-in-law, Judith Shumway Jensen Lambert of Richfield, WA; grandchildren, Helen Harvey (Mark) Chamberland; Kirsten Harvey (John) Thompson, Lars Jensen Harvey, all of Massachusetts; Channing Darren Hamlet of Philadelphia; Brendan Hunter Hamlet and Tyler Jensen Hamlet both of Steam Boats Springs, CO; Nathan Jensen, Joseph, Christopher and Steven Jensen, all of Oregon; great-grandchildren, Arthur Chamberland and Madison Thomson.
   He is a member of the El Dorado Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Tucson, Arizona.
   Burial, Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park