Simpson College - Zenith Yearbook (Indianola, IA)

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CLYDE W. EMMONS, M. A. Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy It's like pulling a cork out of a bot- tle to get an answer out of some of you people.” W. A. LARIMER Instructor in Stenography The average person doesn’t know how to write a check.” HAROLD L. MAXWELL, M. S. Professor of Chemistry “The average tea drinker drinks enough shoe leather in a year to make a pair of shoes.” MARY OLIVE HUNTING, M. A. Professor of Latin To use the slang expression—Oh my!” MURIEL STEEL, A. B. Professor of French Oh Xfadamoisellc. Non preparee? C’est epouvantable, n’est-ce pas?” T. E. WIGGINS, A. M. Assistant Professor of English and Literature Well, now, there are two ways of looking at this. What does the rest of the class think?” 9 9

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Jesse Allen Baker The thing of which Simpson is proudest this year is its Roll of Honor, the men who have gone to serve our country in this crisis. So, although it was our great loss, we are glad that Professor Baker, too, is helping win the war in a more direct way than he could here. Professor Baker came to Simpson almost ten years ago —in the summer of 1908. He expected to teach in sum- mer school, but instead ran straight into his romance, for he took typhoid fever, and not a great many years after married his “beautiful nurse”. In various ways Professor Baker has developed the Chemistry department. The first thing he did was to clean up the laboratory and put it in order. He sorted the thousands of bottles, built the shelves in the store room, and card-indexed all the supplies. He had new floors and new and proof desks put in and after the science building had a day current, he made the hood and fan, and later put in the large ventilating fan. He improved the water distilling apparatus and put in the steam bath, brought four splendid balances, renovated the old ones, and bought the large projcctoscopc. Now the chemistry department is one of the largest, strongest and best equipped in the school. On December 23, 1917, he left for New York to take the training for government powder inspector and now is chief inspector at the Atlas Powder Works at Landing, New Jersey. He likes his new laboratory and interesting work; but he says as soon as the war is over he is coming back to teaching, because he prefers to work with boys and girls rather than ammonium nitrate. And when one thinks of the long list of “his” boys and girls successfully practicing medicine and dentistry, engaged in ad- vanced chemistry work and teaching chemistry in high schools and colleges, one does not wonder that he’d like to make some more like them. Professor Baker won both the respect and the friendship of his students. As a teacher he was exceptionally thorough. But few men have ever been able to gain the personal friendship and deep respect of so many of their students. It is because he was personally interested in every one of them, and because he had again and again given his precious time to them for things outside of school, that his students wish to express to him their deepest appreciation and to wish him the best of success in his work. 9 9

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KATHERINE K. FRISBIE, B. A. Women’s Physical Director “Girls, I do wish you would learn to distinguish your Irft foot from your right. EUNICE PETERS, B. S. Professor of Home Economics “Uh-huh. A'ow, girls, what’s your idea on that?” MISS HILDEGARDE JEND, A. M. Professor of German “If'r’rr here for Il'ORK. EARL D. ROSS, Ph. D. Professor of History Since there isn’t any fire today, don’t get excited. If'e’ll recite the last six minutes. BENJAMIN D. SCOTT, Ph. D. Professor of Bible, Philosophy, Psychology To refer again to that hoy of mine—” C. BERT GOSE, B. S. Academy Professor of Science Now the girls sing the verse and the boys the chorus. Ready now,—'Keep the Home Fires Burning’. 9 9