Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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SHERMAN KIRK, A.M., Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Drake since 1897. S.B., Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va., 18883 A.M., 18983 Student, Drake University, 19013 Chicago University 1903. Has been Dean of the College of the Bible, and is present Head of the Department of Greek and Latin. Author of a treatise The Value of Greek for Christian Workers , which was previously read at a meeting of the State Teachers of Latin and Greek and had also been requested read before the National Convention of Eta Sigma Phi. Member of Philological Association of America, and the Des Moines Chapter of the Archaelogical Institute of America, of which he has been chairman several times. Spent the spring and summer of 1929 in study and travel in England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Palestine and Egypt. E221 QNIV5 wx , ,P 2' Q gi -1 O. Lfklvs .Y 1539

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fwf N -. ,ff X5 Nl Lf S 'f-X Q F if T 'T NN .... ed xf ,l 5 ., at Pl 'f.,1'A' te T' . NQQPX f wigfglf CHARLES NOYES KINNEY, S.M., Professor of Chemistry at Drake since 1896. S.B., Drake University 1892, S.M., 18933 Massachuseitts Institute of Technology, 1892-18933 Yale University, 1893-18943 Uni- versity of Chicago, 1894-1896, State Chemist of Iowa, 1901-1915. Has worked under five presidents of Drake University. Joint author of Des Moines' Water Supply , author of Chemical Composition of Food , published first in 1929, and a second edition published in 1930. Melnber of American Chemical Society, the Iowa section of which he has served as president and councillorg both the French and German Chemical Societies, the Iowa Academy of Science, the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, the National Geographical Society, the State Historical Society, and the American Water Works Association. H191 l .

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DANIEL WALTER MOREHOUSE, Ph.D., Northwestern Christian College, Excelsior, Minnesota, 1895-18975 S.B., Drake University, 1900, S.B., University of Chicago, 19025 S.M., Drake University, 19025 Ph.D., University of California, 1914. Professor of Physics and' As- tronomy at Drake since 1900. Has served Drake as Dean of Men, 1919-19225 President and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, 1923- 1930g President 1930-. Awarded the Donahue Comet Medal for the discovery of the Morehouse Comet in 1908, and one of America's foremost authorities in the field of Astronomy. Member of American Astronomical Society, British Astronomical Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Fellow Royal Astronomical Society, Fellow Iowa State Academy of Science fPresident, 1921-221, received Community Cup awarded to the citizen rendering the most distinguished service to the City of Des Moines. i231