Albright College - Speculum Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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Aaron Ezra Gobble, A.M., DD., was born near D-ilanheim, Pa. The edu- cational advantages of his youthful days prepared him to matriculate as a Sopho- more at Franklin and Marshall College, from which institution he graduated as Valedictorian in 1879. He was elected Professor of lllathe- matics at Union Seminary, New Berlin, in 1879, and served as Principal from 1880 to 1887. The curriculum Was revised, and the Seminary chartered as Central Penn- sylvania College, Dr. Gobble serving as its only President from 1887 to 1902. Since 1902 he has occupied the chair of Latin and Hebrew at Albright. Clellan Asbury Bowman, A.M., Ph.D., was born at Dauphin. He took a prepara- tory course in Berrysburg Seminary. Graduated from Nlillersville Normal School. He subsequently took special courses in Wesleyfan University, Psychol- ogy at Harvard University, and Sociology and Economics at the University of Berlin Linder Paulsen, Simmel and Wagner He taught in a good high school four years, organized what is now Dallas Col- lege, Ore., and took part in the re-organ- ization of Albright College, and its con- rolidation With Central' Pa. College He has been alternately President and Dean of this institution since 1897. I2

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PRESIDENT DUN LAP I I

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William Phillips Winter, A.M., Ph.D., was born at Galion, O. His course of instruction in the Public and High Schools was followed by two years of College pre- paratory training at Qberlin College He then entered Ohio Wesleyfan University, from which he was graduated in the Class- ical Course in 1887. The greater part of his time since graduation has been spent in College teaching, in Ohio, Indiana, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania. Dr. Wintei' spent several years at John Hopkins University and a summer at Cor- nell University. He received his Ph.D. degree from John Hopkins in 1904. For the past nine years he has been Pro- fessor of Physics and Chemistry at Al- bright. Walter joseph Dech, A.B. , was born at Bethlehem. His early educa- tion Was received in the public schools, and Svvartzys Academy of that place. He grad- uated from the Lehigh Preparatory School, and later entered Lehigh University, from which institution he graduated in 1893. After graduation he taught in the pub- lic schools of Bethlehem for one year, and he also taught three years at the Lehigh Preparatory School. Since 1898 he has been at Albright, as Professor of Greek Language and Litera- ture, and German. 13