University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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James Blanton Wharey, Ph.D., LL Scholar, Teacher, Gciir(t. ' man K i ' 7)ORN in Virginia, educated at Davidson College and Johns Hopkins Uni- CAJ versity, research student in Germany and England, he has taught English at Southwestern Presbyterian University, Peabody College for Teachers, and The University of Texas. He became a member of the English staff here in 1 91 2, was made a professor of English in 1924, and a member of the Graduate Faculty in 1930. He is the author of A Study of Bunyans Allegories (1904), and editor of the Oxford University Tercentenary Variorium Edition of Bunyan ' s The Pi grim ' s Progress (1928). That he is an ardent supporter and a warm friend of student activities is evi- denced by his valuable service for fourteen years on the Board of Directors of the University Student Publications. He has endeared himself to thousands of stu- dents by his uniform courtesy, his equable temper, and his wise counsel. He is more than a teacher, a scholar, an executive — for of him the words of the poet may be truthfully paraphrased: The elements are so mixed in him that Nature may stand up and say to all the world, ' This is a man V

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APrnOACHING STORM Samuel P. Ziegler, teacher, lecturer, etcher, and pair ter, is now director of the Art Depart- ment of Texas Christian Uniiiersity in Fort Worth. He was horn in Lancaster, Pennsyl- vania, and began studying art at an early age. Later he studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts where he was awarded the Cresson European Scholarship. After a year ' s study and travel in Europe he returned to the Acad- emy for another year ' s study. After painting and teaching two years in Philadelphia he came to Texas and became a member of the Fine Arts Faculty of T. C. U. Since then he has taught at Texas Women ' s College in Fort Worth and is now head of the Art Department at T. C. U. Ziegler paints vigorously with brilliant colors in brokai strokes, giving a vibration of light and life to his canvases not attained by the ordinary artist. In addition to his painting, he is making a series of lithographs of Fort Worth, its indus- tries and imprmements.

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RED lillD TREES Ella K. Mewhinney worka almost entirely in oil, painting landscapes and still life. After attending Texas Presbyterian College studying art under Miss Mollie Bishop, she began to teach classes of her own in Bartlett, Granger, and Holland. Since then she has studied at the American Woman s League in Saint Louis doing flower painting and china under Kathryn Cherry and still life and landscape w der Frank Phoenix, in Chicago where she again studied china painting, and in New York at the Art Students League under George Bridgeman and Hans Hansen. In 1925 she studied landscape painting in Colorado Springs under Randall Davey and portraiture under Robert Reid, N. A. The painting used on the cover is also by Mrs. Mewhinney.