Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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Looking through the windows of the Faculty Women ' s Club next door to the Men ' s Union, we saw a buffet luncheon in progress. The club, a recre- ational center for faculty women, convenes regularly on the first Monday of every month . . . February 15 and 16 we saw the annual faculty play — this year The Royal Family of Broadway. The Mrs. Janssen and Kelly and Pro- fessors Lasher, Kelly, McCabe, Peckham, and Swanson — and Florence Mes- chan — demonstrated their versatility as thespians in this satire about a family of emotional actors. Vincent Jukes provided a beautiful and thoroughly workable stage set done in old rose and ivory ... If we wanted to find any of the university officials around noon on any Thursday, we ' d know right where to look — in one of the private dining rooms in Howard Hall. Here the Administrative Council gathers regularly to discuss matters pertinent to Ohio University in an informal luncheon meeting. 1

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James, Herman Gerlach, univ. pres., author; b. Phila., Jan. 2, 1887; s. Edmund James and Anna Margarcte (Langc) J.; student Northwestern U., 1903-04; A.B., U. of III., 1906, A.M., 1910; law student Harvard, 1906-07; J.D., U. of Chicago. 1909; Ph.D., Co- lumbia, 1911; studied U. of Berlin, 1912; LLD., University of New Mexico, 1931; Miami University, 1936; m. Genevieve Campbell Kuby, Chicago, August 21, 1912; children — Margaret Helen, Genevieve Campbell, Herman G. Admitted to III. bar, 1909; pvt. sec. with Am. delegation to 4th Pan-Am. Conf., Buenos Aires, Argentina, and to Centenary of Chilean Independence, Santiago, 1910; lecturer U. of Leipzig, Germany, 1911; mem. fac- ulty, U. of Tex., 1912-25, was prof, govt., dir. Bur. Municipal Research and Reference until Sept. I, 1918; research asso., Carnegie Instn, of Washington to study Brazilian govern- ment, 1922-23; prof, polit. science, chmn. dept. and dean Coll. Arts and Sciences, 1925- 29, U. of Neb., dean Grad. Coll., 1926-29; pres. U. of S. D., 1929-35; president of Ohio University since July I. 1935. Visiting mem. summer faculties of many universities. With War Camp Community Service, first as community organizer then as dist. rep., 1918-19. Organizer and sec.-treas.. League of Tex. Municipalities, 1913-18; asso. editor Nat. Mu- nicipal Review, 1914-18. I st pres. Southwestern Polit. Science Assn., 1 920; mem. Austin City Charter Commn., 1921 ; sec.-treas. Nat. Assn. of State Univs., 1 935-. Mem. Nat. Mu- nicipal League, Am. Polit. Science Assn., Am. Acad. Polit. and Social Science, Phi Kap- pa Psi, Phi Delta Phi, Order of Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, Scabbard and Blade, Rotary Club. Author: The Introductory Articles of the Illinois Constitution, 1911; Principles of Prussian Administration, 1913; Applied City Government, 1914; A Handbook of Civic Improve- ment, 1915; Municipal Functions, 1917; Local Government in the United States, 1921; The Republics of Latin America (with Percy A. Martin), 1922; The Constitutional System of Brazil, 1923; Brazil After a Century of Independence, 1925. Editor Municipal Research Series (bulls. U. of Tex.), also of pubis, of League of Texas Municipalities, 1913-18; asso. editor Southwestern Polit. Science Quarterly, 1920-23, editor 1923-25. Contbr. to period- icals and newspapers. Address: Athens, Ohio. (Reprinted from Who ' s Who in America. 1938-1939 Edition. Page 1330)