BOZEMAN (UP) -- Dr. George Mangun, since 1952 director of research for Warner-Chilcott, producer of pharmaceutical supplies, recently returned to Montana in different fashion than the first time he came to the state in 1928.

Mangun, then 17, rode a freight train to Livingston where Lloyd and Mary Shellhamer, now of Bozeman, gave him work on their ranch.  He attended Clyde Park High School.  A state physics contest scholarship led to his enrolling at Montana State College.

After he was graduated from MSC, Mangun received a doctorate at Western Reserve University, Cleveland, where he taught for several years.

Later, he taught at the Medical College of South Carolina at Charleston, served as associate director of the University of Chicago Toxicity Laboratory and was director of clinical chemistry at Henry Ford General Hospital, Detroit.

Research under his direction has included development of the hormone, releasin, and a new tranquilizer known as pacatal.

Mangun says, "chemistry, supported by physics, is undoubtedly a backbone to progress in many fields, especially biology, agriculture and medicine.  I would by all means urge that MSC continue its policy to train young people in these basic scientific subjects."