1941. In 1965, the Connecticut Republican Party selected him to attend the state's constitutional convention. Waugh served on the State Institutional Building Commission. Waugh was a sundial enthusiast, described as a "world authority" on the subject by the Hartford Courant. He designed sundials at Mystic Seaport and other locations and wrote Sundials: Their Theory and Construction, published by Dover Publications in 1973. Waugh was the only American invited to join a German organization called "Friends of Old Clocks." He traveled to Europe four times to visit timekeepers there. In 1974, UConn dedicated in his honor a large sundial, garden, and quadrangle opposite the William Benton Museum of Art on UConn's Storrs campus. Waugh published two textbooks: Elements of Statistical Method (1938), which was translated into Portuguese in 1946, and Principles of Economics (1947). Death Waugh died on March 6, 1985, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after a long illness. He was survived by his wife, Edith, and sons John S. Waugh and Robert E. Waugh. References External links Albert E. Waugh Papers - UConn Archives & Special Collections Albert E. Waugh's daily journal, 1941–1969 1902 births 1985 deaths Massachusetts Agricultural College alumni University of Connecticut alumni American academic administrators American economists University of Connecticut faculty People from Amherst, Massachusetts 20th-century American academics