Adelphi University - Oracle Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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Frank Dickinson Blodgett, A.B., A.M., ARE, I B K Born in Cortland, X. V. Graduated from State Normal School, Cortland, X. Y., 1889; from Amherst College in 1893; A.M. from Amherst in 1896; Professor of Greek and Latin State Normal School, Oneonta, 1893-1907: Processor of Logic and Pedagogics, State Normal School, Oneonta, 1907-1915; Mayor of Oneonta, 1912-1913; Trustee, Adelphi College; President of Adelphi since 1915. Frederick Webster Osborn, B.A., M.A. Born in Bloomfield, N. J. Prepared at Bloomfield Institute; studied at Yale University, where he received degree of B.A., in 1855, and M.A. in 1858; entered Andover Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1861; became Professor in Adelphi Academy in 1873; Professor of Psychology and Philosophy in Adelphi College, 1896-1909; made Emeritus Professor, June, 1907.

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Clinton L. Rossiter Reverend S. Parkes Cadman, D.D., S.T.D. Llewellyn A. Wray James H. Post Edward T. Horwill Gilbert C. Halsted John V. Jewell William McCarroll F. A. M. Burrell Frederick E. Crane Herbert K. Twitch ell Herman A. Metz Frederick J. H. Cracke Charles G. Balmanno Thomas L. Leeming Frederick D. Mackay Hon. Charles S. Whitman Eugene C. Alder James A. Smith Charles Brody 23

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William Clark Peckham, B.A., M.A., A A h, I B K Born in South Royalston, Mass. Prepared at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., studied at Amherst, where he re- ceived the degree of B.A. in 1867, and of A.M., in 1870; Principal of Leicester Academy, Mass.; Instructor in Willis- ton Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.; traveled around the world; studied theology at Union Seminary, New York City; taught in Lockwood’s New Academy, Brooklyn; took part in War, 1861-1865; Post Commander of U. S. Grant Post, G. A. R.; Fellow of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; Member of American Physical Society; Fellow of American Association of Advancement of Science; on editorial staff of “Scientific American”; Meteorologist of City of Brooklyn, 1894-1898; Instructor in Adelphi Academy, 1875-1896; Professor of Physics in Adelphi College since 1896; Chair- man of Administrative Council, Adelphi College, 1913. John Barnard Whittaker Born in Templemore, Ireland. Began his career as an artist when he was twenty years,old; studied at Brooklyn Institute of Arts and at the Academy of Design; took charge of Art School, 1875-1876; Member of Salmagundi Club, New York and Brooklyn Art Club; Professor of Painting and Drawing in Adelphi College since 1896. Elizabeth Venable Gaines, B.A., M.A. Born at Mossingford, Va. Entered Vassal College, 1888; studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1892-1894; Professor of Biology, Adelphi Academy, 1894; B.A., Adelphi College, 1898; M.A., Columbia University, 1903; Professor of Biology, Adelphi College, since 1896. 26