by then-university president Dr. Martin David Jenkins, who sought to establish a physics department at the university. In 1954, after years of building the physics program, Taylor became the university physics department's first chairman and earned tenure as a professor. Over his career, he guided many students in earning their PhDs in physics, and helped to establish dual-degree programs in engineering in partnerships with engineering schools at New York University, Cornell University and the Rochester Institute of Technology. During his career, he also served in various scientific committees and societies, including as a liaison to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the National Science Foundation. He was a member, section representative, and president of the executive committee of the Chesapeake division of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Along with Warren Henry, he helped to start a committee on minorities for the American Physical Society, and started a similarly focused committee for the American Association of Physics Teachers. Beginning in 1955, Taylor worked as an editor, for "The Negro in Science," a book about prominent African-American scientists and their research accomplishments. Its introduction was written by Herman Branson. He served on the board of the Maryland Academy of Sciences and chaired its Scientific Council, and was appointed as Commissioner of the Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission by then-governor Marvin Mandel in 1975. He also served on the Governor's Science Advisory Council and as president of the Traveler's Aid Society of central Maryland. He was a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, a historically Black fraternity, and a lifelong member of the NAACP. Taylor retired in 1987, and lectured at American University in Washington, D.C., in the years before his retirement. In 1987 he also became professor emeritus at Morgan State University and continued teaching there part-time until 1999. There is a Julius H. Taylor Endowed Scholarship Fund named for Taylor at Morgan State University. Throughout his career and after retirement, Taylor mentored students in the Baltimore Public School system. Athletic accomplishments While at Lincoln University, Taylor competed on the track team, and was the first African-American person to compete in pole vaulting at the Penn Relays. Taylor was an avid golfer throughout his life, playing into his nineties. He started and was the first coach of the Morgan State College golf team, which won the CIAA Championship while he was coach. He was inducted into the African-American Golf Hall of Fame