Professor Emeritus James L. Price died at age 81 Dec. 10, 2008. Jim received his PhD at Columbia University in 1962 and after short stints at the University of Oregon and the University of Maryland he came to Iowa in 1966, where he stayed until retirement. Jim served as Sociology DEO twice, but is best recognized for his dedication to teaching and to research, both of which centered on the study of organizations. Although his earlier interest was primarily in organizational effectiveness, he quickly changed his focus to the study of employee turnover. The study of turnover behavior had traditionally been dominated by economists and psychologists (in business schools); Jim was one of the first organizational scholars to emphasize the importance of sociological factors as determinants of why people quit their jobs. Jim, in his book The Study of Turnover, reviewed existing theories, argued for the importance of a sociological perspective, and developed a model that integrated arguments from all three fields. Jim’s early research on organizations and turnover relied mainly on qualitative field methods, but in the early 1980s Jim began a close to two decade collaboration with Charles Mueller, who brought the statistical/methodological skills necessary for larger sample quantitative studies of turnover behavior. This research resulted in two research monographs, a volume on scales and measures used in organizational research, dozens of journal articles, and collaboration with and training of dozens of graduate students. The crowning achievement of his study of turnover was referred to as the “Price-Mueller model of turnover” which is routinely cited when prominent theories of turnover are written about. Jim was intensely dedicated to his research, his teaching, and the mentoring of his students—all of which were viewed as life-long missions to him.