Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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GeorGcE WILLIAM HorTon, M. S. Peck-Williams Professor of Physics B. S., Illinois Wesleyan; M. S.,. University of Wisconsin. Member: Sigma Xi, Gamma Alpha, Tau Kappa Epsilon, American Physical Society, Indiana Chapter of the American Association of Physics Teachers. At Wabash for 18 years. Mar- ried—two children. Served for 18 months in the Signal Corps, U. S. Army. Interests: Athletics and woodworking. JAMES JAMIESON PATERSON, Bes: Assistant Professor of Economics, Assistant Dean, Freshman Coach B. S., Northwestern University. Member: Sigma Chi, Beta Gamma Sigma, Delta Sigma Pi, Deru. At Wabash for 15 years. Mar- ried—one child. American Ambu- lance Field Service, 1917. A. E. F. 169th Infantry, 1918-19. Employed as assistant sales manager, J. J. Badenoch Co., 1923-27. Graduate work at Columbia and Chicago Uni- versities, JOHN DorEN TOMLINSON, Ph. D. Associate Professor of Political Science A. B., Northwestern University; A. M., Columbia University; Ph. D., University of Geneva. Member: Delta Upsilon, Sigma Delta Chi, American Political Science Associa- tion. At Wabash for 13 years. Mar- ried—one child. Director, Ameri- can Committee, Geneva, Switzer- land, 1930-38. Author: The In- ternational Control of Radio Com- munications. (Dr. Tomlinson was on leave of absence 1941-42 to the State Department in Washington, Dec) Myron Gustavus PHILLIPS, Az M. Associate Professor of Speech, Debate Coach A. B., Wabash; A. M., Univer- sity of Iowa. Member: Phi Beta Kappa, Lambda Chi Alpha, Tau Kappa Alpha, National Association of Teachers of Speech. At Wabash for 14 years. Mar- ried. Has done graduate work at Northwestern University. Co-au- thor: A Notebook for Speech. In- terests: Debate and dramatics.

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WiLttiam Norwoop BRIGANCE, Ph. D. Professor of Speech A. B., U. of South Dakota; A. M., U. of Nebraska; Ph. D., U. of Iowa. Member: Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kap- pa Alpha, Lambda Chi Alpha, Nat’! Ass’n of Teachers of Speech. At Wabash for 20 years. Mar- ried—one child. Lieutenant, 32nd Division,: VA. Ga obs 9s OO Headed English department at the University of Hawaii, 1936-1938. Has written nine speech textbooks. THEODORE GREGORY GRONERT, Ph. D. Professor of History and Political Science A. B., A. M., Ph. D., University of Wisconsin. Member: Phi Gam- ma Mu, Phi Eta, American His- torical Society, Mississippi Valley Historical Association. At Wabash for 18 years. Mar- ried. Served as Adjutant, U. S. Army. Has taught at Texas State College for Women, University of Arkansas, and Centre College. Au- thor: History of the American Business Corporation. Co-author: Wabash College, the First Hundred Years. Sixteen Litoyp BRELsFoRD HoweELt, Pi Professor of Chemistry A. B., Wabash; M. S., Ph. D., University of Illinois. Member: Phi Beta Kappa, Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, PN, INN BS At Wabash for 18 years. Married —four children. Has done grad- uate work at Ohio State and Illinois. Also taught at Illinois, In- terested in research. ROBERT WALLACE BRUCE, Phas Associate Professor of Psychology A. B., Wabash; A. M., Ph. D., University of Chicago. Member: Phi Beta Kappa, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Kappa, Sigma Xi, The Amer- ican. Psychological Association. At Wabash for 20 Years. Mar- ried—two children. With U. S. Marines, 1917-1918. Interests: Mu- sic; track; chess; aviation; hiking; and tennis.

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JosEPH CRAWFORD POLLEY, Pha: Thornton Professor of M athematics A. B., A. M., Yale University; Ph. D., Cornell University. Mem- ber: Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Xi, American Mathematical Society, Association of Mathematics Teach- ers, Fellow of A. A, A. S. At Wabash for 13 years. Mar- ried—two children. U. S. Naval Officers’ Training Unit at Yale, 1918. Taught at Cornell, Yale, Colgate, and Susquehanna Univer- sities before coming to Wabash. FRANZ SCHUBERT PRELL, A.M. Assistant Professor in German, Organist A. B., Wabash; A. M., Univer- sity of Minnesota. Member: Phi Beta Kappa, Omega. At Wabash for 7 years. Mar- ried. Was Alumni Secretary of Wabash for 3 years. Now Senior Council Advisor and college organ- ist. Chief interests: Sports, music, and German literature. Eighteen OBED SIMON JOHNSON, Phe Ly Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Chaplain A. B., Carleton College; B. D., Oberlin College; Ph. D., University of California. Member: Delta Sig- ma Rho, American Oriental Society, Royal Asiatic Society. At Wabash for 11 years. Mar- ried—two children. Spent 14 years in Canton, China as a missionary. Has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Mills College, Stanford University, University of California, and Lingnaan University in Can- ton. Author: A Study of Chinese Alchemy. Byron KIGHTLY TRIPPET, A.M. Dean, Assistant Professor of History A. B., Wabash; A. M., Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar). Mem- ber: Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Theta Pi, Tau Kappa Alpha. At Wabash for 8 years. Mar- ried. Interests: People, books, and political philosophy.