Seitz, Frederick (4 July 1911–2 Mar. 2008), physicist, university president, and scientific consultant, was born in San Francisco, California to Frederick and Emily Hofman Seitz, who ran a small local bakery successful enough to offer their only child a comfortable middle-class upbringing. Seitz attended Monroe Elementary School and Lick-Wilmerding High School, where he served as class president and from which he graduated a semester early in December ...