Linfield College - Oak Leaves Yearbook (McMinnville, OR)

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OAK LEAVES 1931 Paul J. Orr Pi •ofessor of Education H. W. Lever Athletic Coach and Physical Director William Jabez Jerome Pi -ofessor of Political and Social Sciences Perry Daniel Woods Pi ofessor of Bible arid Religious Education Lebbeus Smith Shumaker Professor of Philosophy James Arthur Macnab Pr ofessor of Biology and Geology Roy Deane Mahaffey Instructor in Spanish Alice Morrison Instructor in History Emanuel Northup Professor Emeritus of Mathematics ♦ Page 16

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OAK LEAVES 1931 George Woodford Payne has been a member of Linfield College faculty since 1906. He holds an A. B. and A. M. degree from Hamilton College, and has taken graduate work in Colorado University and the University of Washington. A faithful and conscientious worker, Professor Payne has been striving to interpret the classical languages in the light of the culture of ancient Greece and Rome. Steady and dependable, with a calm, unruffled manner, he is synonymous in the mind of the student body with constant stability. Herschel Edgar Hewitt has received an A. B. degree from Grand Island College, an A. M. from the University of Oregon, and has since been a graduate student of the same university. A member of the Linfield College faculty since 1921, Professor Hewitt has shown a real interest in the college activities and has been their loyal support! ' . He is friendly and kindly, and shows a personal interest in his students, and these qualities, together with his dry humor, have endeared him to his classes and his fellow faculty members. William Reinhard Frerichs, a graduate of Carthage College and also of the Colgate- Rochester Divinity School, holds as well an A. M. degree from the University of Oregon and has done graduate work with the Universities of Washington and of Oregon. He is spending this year at his old home in Germany, studying his native language. Professor Frerichs is a man of deep and firm convictions, and is deliberate and calm of manner. He is always helpful, hopeful and optimistic, and has an infinite capacity for taking pains. The return from abroad of this cheery and dependable personality will be welcomed with genuine gladness. Since 1923 Miss May Chalfant has served on the faculty as professor of French and Spanish. She is also coach of dramatics, and by her unfailing work has kept the standard of Linfield College dramatic presentations up to an unusually high level. She holds the ad¬ miration and respect of the students by her personal interest in them, by her genius as a teacher and coach, and by her wide fund of information on subjects outside her realm of teaching. Her extensive travel in foreign-speaking countries makes her exceptionally well qualified for her teaching of languages. Miss Chalfant received her Master’s degree from the University of Chicago, and has done further graduate work in Stanford University, Uni¬ versity of Paris, University of Madrid, and Columbia University, New York. Hannah M. Wiggman came to Linfield last year to take over the directorship of the commons. The previous five years she spent in Pryor, Montana, as a missionary to the Crow Indians. Miss Wiggman has also done missionary work among the Hopi Indians at Toreva, Arizona, and among the mining settlements in Gebo and Crosby, Wyoming. She is a graduate of the Baptist Missionary Training School in New Y T ork and also of the Bethel Institute in St. Paul, Minnesota. The training in home economics she received at the training school and her experiences in instructing domestic science have made her fully qualified to fill her present position. Among her outstanding characteristics is her loyalty and her consideration for her friends. Le Forest Waterman Sawtelle is decidedly enthusiastic about the future of public speak¬ ing work, recognizes its importance in the life of every college graduate, and imbues his students with his own energy and enthusiasm. He has built up his department until it now embraces a large number of students and may be chosen by a student for his minor sub¬ ject. He is a graduate of the State Normal School of Madison, South Dakota, and also of this college. He holds a Ph. B. from the University of Chicago and has been a graduate student of that university and of the Universities of Oregon and Southern California. William Charles Gregory has been with this institution for two years. He is a graduate of the State College of Washington and received his M. S. degree from that institution. He has done graduate work in the University of Washington, University of Colorado, Golden Gate Law College, and University of Chicago. Professor Gregory has a thorough knowledge of his subject, and in his classes illustrates with interesting anecdotes and experiences. Few are the individuals more affable and sweet-tempered than he or with more interesting and diverting characteristics. Mrs. William R. Frerichs has been teaching German this year while Mr. Frerichs studied in Germany. She holds a B. A. degree in German from the University of Idaho, and taught for two years in that institution. A charming simplicity and dignity of manner that is un¬ usual and that is almost striking sets Mrs. Frerichs apart and gives her individuality. She is sweet-tempered and gracious, and in all and above all, womanly. Alice Clement is a graduate of Pacific University Conservatory of Music, has a B. Mus. from Northwestern University, and has studied in the University of California. She also is a student of piano under Alberto Jonas in Berlin, under Arthur Loeser and Mme. M. M. Liszniewska, and of organ under Lucien E. Becker, F. A. C. O., William R. Boone and Edwin Stanley Seder, F. A. G. O. She has been with the Linfield Conservatory of Music since 1922. An accomplished musician. Miss Clements imparts to those under her an excellent technique and a sympathetic interpretation, and her ability as a teacher is coupled with an attractive , optimistic personality and a friendly disposition. Ralph Ewing Storey, a graduate of Linfield College and a teacher in the institution once before, he is thoroughly familiar with Linfield traditions and aspirations and in sympathy with them. His latest connection with the college began in 192S. Besides his Lit. B. from Linfield, he holds an A. B. from Brown University, a B. D. degree from Newton Theological Institution, an A. M. from the University of Washington, attended Harvard University as a graduate student, and is now a candidate for his Ph. D. degree from the University of Washington. Deliberate in speech and action, genial in temperament, and well steeped in our literature and language is Professor Storey. Page 15

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OAK LEAVES 1931 Paul J. Orr is another graduate of Linfield who has returned to this college as a profes¬ sor. He received hi si A. B. from Linfield, has a B. S. from the College of Puget Sound, an A. M. from the University of Washington, and a Ph. D. from the same university. Progressive and up-to-date, both in his teaching methods and his beliefs, Dr. Orr is aggressive and at the same time earnest in his probing for facts, urging his students to be the same. As teacher of the Conquest Class of the Sunday School, Dr. Orr comes in contact with students he does not meet in the classroom and has attracted to himself a large following. Although this is Coach Lever ' s first year in Linfield, he has already won the respect and confidence of the men with whom he works, and athletics in the college have made great progress in this one year. Coach Lever has received a B. S. from Ohio University, and has taken graduate work in that school and at Oregon State College and University of Oregon. During the time which he coached athletics in college and normal he won ten state cham¬ pionships as coach of major college sports. One of his basketball teams played and won ten straight games, scoring 254 points to opponents’ 41 points, for a season’s record. William Jabez Jerome is a true gentleman of the old school and impresses all who meet him with his gentle manner and never failing courtesy. He will long be remembered for his unswerving loyalty to his high ideals, for his inspiring belief in the Eternal Goodness, and for his soft, low voice and pleasing manner. He has received his B. A. and M. A. degrees from the University of Washington, and came to Linfield in 1925 from a city school super¬ intendency. May he contnue to inspire many to seek a higher level of achievement, both mental and spiritual. Perry Daniel Woods holds an A. B. as well as an A. M. from Denison, a B. D. from the Colgate-Rochester Divinity school, and he has done two years’ work in Ohio State University. At present he is doing graduate work at the University of Oregon. The years between. 1911 and 1918 he spent in Porto Rico as principal of the Grace Company Institute, then a training school for Baptist ministers. A man of utter sincerity and personal integrity, Professor Woods adds much not given in the curriculum to his classes through his personal acquaintance with the students. Lebbeus Smith Shumaker has been a member of the Linfield College faculty since 1920. He received his A. B. from Colgate University in 1902, and his A. M. from the University of Iowa in 1921. He has also done graduate work in the University of Oregon. A man of lofty ideals and sincere purposes, he gives his time without reserve to the support of the collejre and for the best interests of his students. He is an ardent advocate of high scholarship and inspires those under him to attain their highest level of achievement. James Arthur Macnab became a member of our college faculty in his present position in 1924. A real student himself, he insists that members of his classes put forth their best efforts in study and research work. But a winning smile, red hair, and a fund of ready wit and humor will always find a place in human hearts, and Professor Macnab is decidedly popular with his students. Besides his A. B. from Albany College, Professor Macnab holds an M. S. from the University of Nebraska and has done graduate work in the University of Nebraska and in Puget Sound Biological Station. Roy Deane Mahaffey graduated from this college in 1928 and has been teaching Spanish in Linfield for the past three years. Fun-loving and peppy, “Happy has made Spanish highly interesting, illustrating the subject with colorful bits of life in Old Mexico as he has seen it himself. With his keen mind and his thorough knowledge of the language, her also enables his students to get a good grasp of the subject. Exceptionally talented in dramatics, “Happy” has taken the lead in many college plays, both before and since his graduation. Alice Morrison has spent only one semester as a member of the Linfield faculty, but has proved to be a capable teacher of history. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amity College, Iowa; a diploma from Oregon State Normal and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Washington. A number of years in teaching experience in high schools and colleges has given Miss Morrison a thorough knowledge of her subject and ably fitted her for the work here. Her pleasant manner, varied methods of teaching, and her interest in the students are combining to make her work successful. A gruff exterior, which must have been acquired to subdue untractable college students and to hide his wonderful warmth of his heart, characterizes Dean Northup, who has. been connected with the college faculty since 1888, and who holds an A. B. and A. M. degree from Colgate University, a B. D. from the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, and an L. L. D. from Linfield College. The casual acquaintance remembers his deep, gruff voice and the piercing gleam in his deep-set eyes, but those privileged to friendship know that a twinkle usually lurks in those same eyes and that the gruff voice frequently gives utterance to thoughts that are noble and sublime. Page 17