Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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WILLIAM FRANCIS BARR, A.M., Graduate Eastern Indiana Normal School, 18805 student Summer School, University of Chicago, 18965 Harvard, 19035 Ph.B., Drake University, 1903, A. M., 1907. Taught in Drake University Academy, 1900-035 Dean of Drake Normal School, 1903-075 Dean of the College of Education, 1907-115 Director of School of Education and Dean of Men, 1911-135 and Dean of the College of Education since 1913. Metnber of Iowa State Board of Educational Examiners, 1923-255 member of National Educational As- sociation, Kappa Delta Pi, Kappa Phi Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa. Has been president of Western Association of College Teachers of Educa- tion, chairman of Bureau of Education, member Chamber of Com- merce, Des Moines. Lecturer at University of New York, summer of 19125 and University of Chicago, summer of 1914. Author of Drill Lists in Arithmeticu, published in 1894, also of Outline of Physics Cthird editionj in 1904. U41 gui 6 40 3? fa gi -4 O. Psgivfi .Y fggx

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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

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QWVG 33' ia 4 -4 Q L- is u T ISAAC FRANKLIN NEFF, S.M., S.B., Bachelor of Pedagogy, Drake, 19005 S.B., Drake, 1902, S.M., Drake, 19043 granted Special Master of Science Degree in Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1905. Since 1905 has done graduate work in the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the University of Wisconsin. Instructor in Mathe- matics in Drake 1900-1902, and Professor of Nlathematics since then. He declined an appointment as Instructor of Mathematics at Columbia University in 1916, and refused election to the head of the depart- ment at Texas Christian University in 1921. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of University Professors, and the American Mathematical Society. As charter member of the Mathematical Asso- ciation of America he has helped to organize the Iowa section, and at some time has filled every office in that section, co-founder of the Iowa Mathematics Teachers Association, Fellow of Iowa Academy of Science. Has served on the executive committee of Phi Beta Kappa since 1925. H51