Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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SAMUEL ROBINSON W LlAMS, Theta Xi, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa Professor of Physics on the Eliza I. Clark Folger Foundation. 'l6g D.Sc., Grinnell, '28' M.A. at Amherst '34, Graduate work at the University of Nebraska, 1901-031 University of Berlin, 1903-057 Columbia, 1905-06. Private Research Assistant and Instructor Barnard College, 1906-08. Professor and Head of Department of Physics Oberlin, 1908-24. Professor of Physics, Amherst, 1924-. Civilian Appointed as Engineer in the Bureau of Air Craft Production 1918. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Physical Society. FREDERICK SCOULLER ALLIS, Psi Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa Secretary of the Alumni Council and Secretary of the Corporation. B.A., Amherst, 931 M.A., 25. Graduate study at Law School of Harvard University. Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar, 1897. Practiced Law at Erie, Pa., and in New York: engaged in business in the West until 1913. Appointed First Secretary of the Alumni Council at Amherst 1914-. CHARLES AMOS ANDREWS, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Beta Kappa Treasurer of the College. B.A. Amherst '95, Taught school, Latin and French, Holyoke High School, 1895-98. With Penn Mutual Life lnsurance Co. Boston 1898-1907. Member of Massachusetts House oi Representatives, 1904-06, where he was a member of the Committee on Codification of Railroad Laws and a Special Commission on Taxation. Deputy Commissioner of Corporations and Taxations, Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1907-15. In commercial business 1915-21. Connected with investment banking, 1921-1. Treasurer of Amherst College, 1931-. CHARLES HOWARD CADIGAN, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Director of Religious Activities. B.A., Amherst, '27g B.D., Virginia Theological Seminary, 30. Assistant Coach oi Football, Episcopal High School, Alexander, Va. 1927-287 Coach of Basketball, 1927-28. Student Secretary, National Student Council ot the Episcopal Church, 1928-29. Rector of Grace Church, Amherst 1930-. Appointed Director of Religious Activities at Amherst, 1930-. ROBERT STILLMAN FLETCHER, Chi Psi Otis Librarian. B.A., Amherst, '97, t I I , t t lt' r W. ' t Ph.B., Grinnell, 'Ulf M.A., University of Nebraska, '03, Ph.D., Columbia, Connected with the Buffalo Libraryg the Carnegie Library, Bradford, Pa., the Brooklyn Libraryg and The Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1898-1908. Assistant Librarian, Amherst, 1908-115 Otis Librarian, 1911-. Twenty-six I l, tu,

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COLSTON ESTEY WARNE, Kappa Delta Rho, Artus Associate Professor of Economics. B.A., Cornell. '2Og M.A., '2lg Ph.D., University of Chicago, '25. Instructor in Economics at Cornell, 1920-21: University of Pittsburgh, 1921-22. Assistant in Economics at the University of Chicago, 1922-25. As- sociate Professor of Economics, University of Denver, 1925-26. Assistant Pro- fessor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1926-29. Associate Professor of Economics, Amherst, 1930-. Author: The Consumers' Cooperative Movement in lllinois, 1926. ALFRED GEORGE WHEELER, Phi Delta Theta Associate Professor of Physical Education. B.A., Oberlin, '22. Instructor and Coach at Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, California 1923-24. At Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, 1925-26. Instructor in Physical Education at Amherst, 1927-295 Associate Professor, 1929-. GEORGE FRISBIE WHICHER, Theta Delta Chi, Phi Beta Kappa Samuel Williston Professor of English. B.A., Amherst, '1Oy M.A., Columbia, '11, Ph.D., 'l5. University Scholar in English, Columbia, 1911-127 University Fellow, 1913. Instructor in English, University of Illinois, 1913. Associate Professor of Eng- lish, Amherst, 1915-225 Professor, 1922-. Editor of the Amherst Graduate Quarterly, 1919-32. ' ROBERT BYRON WHITNEY, Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma X1 Phi Lambda Upsilon Assistant Professor of Chemistry. B.A., University of Minnesota, '24p Ph.D., '27, Research Assistant and Instructor in Chemistry at the University of Mm nesota, 1927-28. Instructor in Chemistry, Northwestern University, summer session, 1928. Instructor in Organic Chemistry and Research, Harvard and Radcliffe, 1928-30. Instructor in Chemistry at Amherst, 1930-. Member of the American Chemical Society and of the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science. RALPH COPLESTONE WILLIAMS, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Beta Kappa Professor of French. B.A., Iohns Hopkins, 'O8p Ph.D., '17, Twenty-five Instructor in French, Ohio State University, 1918-19, Assistant Professor, 1919-21. Assistant Professor of French, Iohns Hopkins, 1921-25. Associate Professor of French at Amherst, 1925-27, Professor, 1927-. Author: The Theory of the Heroic Epic in Italian Criticism of the Sixteenth Century, Chicago, 19207 The Simplified Essentials of First Year French, 1924, A Bibliography of the Seventeenth Century' Novel in France, 1931, The Merveilleux in the Epic, 1925. Articles in Romantic Review, Modern Philology, Modern Lan- guage Notes.

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Assistants on the Faculty HARMON IARVIS KELSEY, Reg.P. ........ ......... A ssistant in Chemistry GEORGE WILLIAM LOW, Ir., M.A. ........ .......... A ssistant in Chemistry WALTER CHARLES MARKERT, B.S. ...... ........ A ssistant in Botany' CARL EMIL MEYER, M.D. ................. ....... A ssistant in Biology' SYLVAN MERYL ROSE, B.A. ..... ........ A ssistant in Biology HENRY HUNTER SMITH, M.S. ...... ....... A ssistant in Physics Teaching Fellows CHARLES KILBOURNE BUMP, Ph.D. ...... ........... T eaching Fellow in Chemistry RICHARD DALE HUMPHREY, M.A. ............................ Teaching Fellow in History ARTHUR ROBERT SAYER, M.A. .... Teaching Fellow in Physics and Astronomy HENRY FRANKLIN WILLIAMS, M.A. .......................... Teaching Fellow in History Twenty-s ven