UF memorial service for Dr. J. Robert Cade scheduled for Wednesday

December 3, 2007

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in University Auditorium for Dr. J. Robert Cade, who died Nov. 27 at age 80.

Cade is perhaps best known as one of the creators of Gatorade and was a longtime professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Florida.

UF President Bernie Machen will welcome guests, and other speakers will include Dr. Edward Block, chairman of the department of medicine at UF, and Phoebe Miles, one of Cade’s six children.

The Rev. John Roth, pastor of First Lutheran Church in Gainesville, will give the invocation and closing remarks.

Several musical selections will be presented by professors from UF’s College of Music.

Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.

Cade came to the university in 1961 as an assistant professor for the College of Medicine’s renal division and went on to become UF’s first kidney specialist. He and his team invented Gatorade in 1965, and he continued to do research until he was 79.