Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Dr. A. M. Proctor, Education Dr. K. E. Gilbert, Aesthetics, Art and Music (M.S., Physics) in 1924, joined the electrical engineering staff at Towne Scientific School, University of Pennsylvania, as an instructor. He re- mained there for six years. During this time he also did some work on (and hold onto your hats ' cause here ' s where we get technical) the de- signing of variable condensers with semi-circular, straight line wave length and straight line frequency plates for use in receivers and wave meters. He also designed inductances to be used with the condensers in neutrodyne circuits. And yet we wonder how our profs, can ever be so smart as to keep track of all our cuts. Why, man, compared with the semi-circular straight line wave length and the neutrodyne circuits, we are but mere few(ses) that have blown and we take no ingenuity at all. Professor Seeley worked part time for four years on street lighting problems in Trenton, New Jersey. This fact may explain the simultaneous Dr. C. Vollmer, German Dr. R. B. Jordan, Romance Languages Dr. W. T. Laprade, History J. R. Grout, Health and Physical Education

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Dr. E. W. Berry, Geology Dr. R. S. Rankin, Political Science Dr. J. J. Gergen, Mathematics And now, therefore, it can be told — the stark results of this amazing survey — the true story of this carefully cribbed report — a document com- piled only after long, arduous months of intensive research and investi- gation. In fact, the investigation was so long and so arduous that only a small part of its contents is herewith revealed. The rest can only be whispered of. But nevertheless, statistics show that be they short or tall, young or old, gay or grumpy, hard or — harder, the average head of a department here at Duke, somewhere, deep down in his innermost soul, is almost sure to be a pretty good joe. For conclusive proof, we offer two who could easily stand as examples of just what we mean. Professor Walter J. Seeley, head of the Electrical Engineering Depart- ment, was born November 30, 1894, in Shamokin, Pennsylvania. Several Ions later Professor Seeley, having graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (E.E.) in 1917, and the University of Pennsylvania Capt. R. Earle, Naval Science I r. X. G. Wiener, Bus«lan Pr. I. E. Gray, Zoology

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Dr. R. S. Rogers, Latin Dr. G. Negley, Philosophy appearance of purity lights on East and Prof. Seeley on West. He served in both world wars, installing listening devices in the first, and working in Washington during the second. Among his writings are many articles for publication. His name has appeared in Who ' s Who, Who ' s Who in Engineering, Modern Men of Science, Who ' s Who in Education, and Who Knows and What. He is a member of a wide variety of societies and organizations. To list a few, there are Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Pi Sigma, Pi Mu Epsilon, O.D.K., and Naval Ordnance Laboratory, of which he was the first president. But on to Asbury, the Department of Aesthetics, Art, and Music, and Dr. Katherine Everett Gilbert. Asbury is, in itself, a fascinating building with all sorts of surrealistic-looking pictures hanging about on walls of pale blue and questionable pink. Stairs go wandering off in all man- or. J. H. Saylor, Chemistry H. E. Myers, Religion Or. J. E. Jensen, Sociology Dr. W. H. Irving, English