on food technology and wrote an additional 70 articles from his 1954 retirement to his 1968 death. In 1970, IFT created the William V. Cruess Award in honor of his lifetime teaching skills that had great influence among others. The Cruess Award is awarded for excellence in teaching of food science and technology and is the only award in IFT in which students can nominate. Personal life Cruess married Marie Gleason in 1917 and she was a constant companion through the remainder of his life. See also List of wine personalities References External links DavisWiki.org information on Cruess Hutchinson Encyclopedia information on Cruess DavisWiki.org information on Cruess Hall William V. Cruess Papers at Special Collections Dept., University Library, University of California, Davis IFT Past Award winners University of California biography In Memoriam of Cruess in May 1969 American Society of Enology and Viticulture Merit Award Recipients 1886 births 1968 deaths American food scientists University of California, Berkeley alumni University of California, Berkeley College of Natural Resources faculty University of California, Davis faculty Stanford University alumni