West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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Mr. Wesleyan Dr. Nicholas Hyma, 1886-19% In Whose Memory the 1957 Murmmmontis Is Dedicated

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Contents Introduction Administration Faculty Student Government Academic Life Special Activities Religion Organizations Greeks Sports Classes Ads and Index Finis

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H H-c gone, yet lives its n reverend memory. The ground around Hay- mond Science Hall is hid lowed by his ashes. Dr. Nicholas Hyma was horn April 19, 1S86. at 515 Howard Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. He attended the Dutch Reformed Church where he soon became an organist and iras later organist and choir director at the Bethany Reformed Church. He matriculated at Kalamazoo College and pursued graduate studies in medicine at the University of Michigan for one year. He began teaching chemistry at a high school in Canton, Illinois. Nicholas Hyma taught at Hoive Military Academy and then came to West Virginia Wesleyan. He earned his master of science degree from the University of Chicago and. in 19if , Wesleyan honored him with a doctor of science degree. Dr. Hyma ' s inspirational teaching will forever be a guiding force in the lives of his many students. His influence was instrumental in Wesleyan ' s ranking thirty-seventh for the proportion of graduates earning Ph.D ' s in science. Loved for his magnetic personal- ity and revered for his unique mind, Dr. Hyma ' s life was a monu- ment of dedicated devotion to knowledge. w Dr. Hyma in his coal lab.