Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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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

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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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ner of odd, elusive directions. String quartets and madrigal singers are likely to pop up almost anywhere. But we suspect that the real charm of the place lies in the wit and understanding of its department head. Dr. Gilbert is a truly bril- liant woman. This shows up never more clearly than in her Ethics classes, where she must con- tinually be transposing the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, Mill and Locke into words of more or less one syllable, comprehensible to the mind of the average college freshman. The mark of true genius is not the ability to confound and use big words, but to make clear and use big thoughts. Dr. Gilbert was born in 1886. She got her A.B. from Brown University in 1908, her A.M. in 1910, her Ph.D. from Cornell in 1912, and Mrs. from Alan H. Gilbert in 1913. She taught in the elementary schools in New England for two years. She was an Assistant in English at Brown. Perhaps the only black mark on her record is the fact that she was once a member of the faculty at Carolina. Here at Duke, in her hands, the Down: Doctors Rankin, Thompson, Reed, and McHugh take time off to meet the students. Right, Profs relieve tension with volleyball.