Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Alfred Shepard Goodale is associate professor of botany. He graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1898. After serving as acting registrar in 1901, he was oflicially made registrar from 1902 to 1918. He was ap- pointed instructor in botany in 1904, holding this position to 1911, at which time he was made assistant professor. He remained an assistant professor only two years, being promoted to associate professor in 1913. He is a member of the New England Botanical Club, the Torrey Botanical Club and the American Fern Society. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Oscar Emile Schotte is assistant professor of biology. He is a graduate of the Imperial Russian State Gymnasi- um and received his D.Sc. degree at Geneva in 1925. His first position was as an instructor at the Institut de Zoologie et d' Anatomie Cam- paree of Geneva University from 1920 to 1928. He was a research fellow at the Rockefeller Founda- tion at the University of Freiburg during the year 1931-32 and at Yale University from 1932 to 1934. In 1934 he became assistant pro- fessor of biology at Amherst College. He is a member of the Societe Suisse de Zoologie, of the American Zoologi- cal Society and of the corporation of the Marine Biologi- cal Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. His publications in- clude research papers in the embryological field. George Percy Child is an instructor in biology. After taking his B.S. at New York University in 1929, he went on to take his Ph.D. there in 1934. He was an assistant in biology dur- ing his senior year and a graduate assistant in biology from 1929 to 1933. In 1933 he was appointed Rockefeller Research Assistant in Poultry Husbandry and Genetics at the University of Minnesota. Coming to Amherst as research i Q assistant in biology in 1935, he was appointed instructor in biol- ogy in 1937. He has conducted important research in ex- perimental embryology. He is a member of the New York Museum of Natural History, of the Genetics Society of America and of the American Zoological Society. Chemistry Ralph Alonzo Beebe graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1920. He was engaged in graduate study at Princeton during the years 1920 to 1923. On obtaining his Ph.D. at Princton in 1923, he was ap- pointed instructor in chemistry at Amherst. He was promoted to as- sociate professor in 1925 and fur- ther advanced to professor of chem- istry in 1937. He has done out- standing and significant chemical research in the field of molecular adsorption of heat. He is a member of the American Chemical Society. He is also a member of Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Child helps students in a biology problem. Howard Waters Doughty is Massachusetts Professor of Chemistry. After attending Johns Hopkins, he engaged in commercial work for seven years. Returning to Johns Hopkins in 1900, he received his Ph.D. in 1904. After working as Carnegie Research Assistant in Vvlashington for a year, he taught at the Uni- versity of Missouri and at the Uni- versity of VVisconsin. He came to Amherst in 1907 and was appointed successively assistant professor, as- sociate professor and, in 1913, pro- fessor. He received his M.A. from Amherst in 1916 and his B.E., extra ordinen, from Johns Hopkins in 1927. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, of Phi Gamma Delta, of Sigma Xi and of Phi Beta Kappa. 20-

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David Todd is professor of astronomy, emeritus. He took his B.A. at Amherst in 1875 and then got his M.A. in 1878. He received his Ph.D. from Washington and jefferson in 1888. He was made professor of astron- omy and director of the Amherst observatory in 1881, in which post he served Amherst for thirty-six years, being appointed professor emeritus in 1917. He was made director of the National Academy Eclipse Expedition to Japan in 1887. He acted as chief of the Gov- ernment Eclipse Expedition to Japan in 1896. He is a member of the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America, of the Astronomiche Gesellschaft of Ger- many and of Phi Beta Kappa. 'fl 6 Professor Plough is assisted by Biologist McKee Arthur. Richard Francis Nelligan is associate professor of hy- giene and physical education, emeritus. After graduating from the Boston School of Gym- nastics in 1886, he became instruc- tor at the Young Men's Christian Association Gymnasium at De- troit for a year. The following year he held the same position at Chel- sea, Massachusetts. He was gym- nasium instructor at Cornell from 1887 to 1892. He was made gym- nasium instructor at Amherst in 1892. He was appointed instructor in hygiene and physical education in 1906 and associate professor in 1910. During the war he served as civilian director of athletics at Camp Devens, where he was com- missioned captain in 1918. He retired in 1929. Astronomy Warren Kimball Green, profes- sor of astronomy and director of 7 the observatory on the Sidney Dil- lon Foundation, served as marshal on the present administration. Having received his B.A. degree at Harvard in 1913 and his M.A. there in 1914, he was awarded his Ph.D. at the University of Cali- fornia two years later. A student at the Lick Observatory from 1914 to 1917, he served the U.S. Army Signal Corps, A.E.F., during the World War. Returning to enter the Amherst faculty in 1921, he has become a full professor. He is a member of Theta Xi and Sigma Xi. Biology Otto Charles Glaser obtained his B.A. from Johns Hopkins in 1900 and took his Ph.D. there in 1904. After five years' graduate work at Johns Hopkins, including study at marine laboratories, Beau- fort, North Carolina, Cameron, Louisiana, Naples, Mt. Desert, Maine, and at the University of Budapest, he was made instructor and professor of Zoology at the University of Michigan from 1905 to 1918. He is a trustee of the Marine Biological Laboratory. He was appointed Stone Professor of Biology at Amherst in 1918 and com- pleted his M.A. at Amherst in 1923. He is a member of Phi Chi and Phi Beta Kappa. Harold Henry Plough is the Rufus Tyler Lincoln Pro- fessor of Biology. After graduating from Amherst in 1913, he went on to take his M.A. and his Ph.D. at Columbia. On obtaining his Ph.D., he returned to Amherst as instructor in biology in 1917. He was appointed associ- ate professor in 1919 and professor in 1924. During the War he was commissioned second lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps, he is now a captain in the Sanitary Reserve Corps of the United States Army. He has studied in Germany, Naples and Florida during vacations and has done outstanding work in the held of evolution and genetics. He is a member of Delta Upsilon and of Sigma Xi. -19-

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Robert Byron Whitney is assistant professor of chem- istry. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Minne- sota in 1924 and his Ph.D. from that institution in 1927. Upon graduation he acted as research assistant and instructor in chem- istry there for one year. He was instructor in organic chemistry and research at Harvard and Rad- cliffe from 1928 till 1930, coming to Amherst as instructor in chem- istry in 1930. He was appointed assistant professor in 1933. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi and Phi Lambda Upsilon. a-7. ,,.., 4 Professor Beebe's research work has warranted generous awards from the American Chemical Society. George William Low, Jr. is an instructor in chemistry. He is a member of Sigma Xi and also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated from Princeton in the Class of 1931, re- ceiving his B.A. in that year. After spending four years in intensive graduate study at that institution, he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1934. He first came to Amherst as an assistant in chemistry during the 1934-1935 school year. He was ap- pointed instructor in chemistry in 1935. Besides rendering valuable assistance in both classroom and laboratory in elementary chemistry, he works with more advanced students in the laboratory. He is a member of the American Chemical Society. fare Colbert, he was a traveling fel- Economics Charles Woolsey Cole after grad- uation from Amherst in 1927 took his M.A. at Columbia the follow- ing year while holding a univer- sity fellowship. He served as in- structor in history at Columbia from 1928 to 1935, obtaining his Ph.D. degree there in 1931. Author of Frerzelo Mercemtilirt Daetriner Be- low of the Social Science Research Council in 1932-33 and returned to Amherst as associate professor of economics in 1935. Afliliated with Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Professor Cole achieved the position of professor of economics in 1937. George Rogers Taylor, associate professor of economics is an alumnus of the University of Chicago where he took his Ph.B. degree in 1921. From there he went to the University of A Iowa as instructor in the depart- ment of economics. ln 1923 he served in the capacity of acting professor of economics at Earlham College. First coming to Amherst in 1924, he was an instructor in economics for three years, then was advanced to the rank of assist- ant professor of economics. Re- C turning to the University of Chicago for further study in 1929, he obtained his Ph.D. degree. He was elevated to his present position as associate professor of economics at Amherst in 1929. Colston Estey Warne, associate professor of economics, is a graduate of Cornell, where he also took his M.A. in 1921. From instructorships in eco- nomics at Cornell and the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh he went to the University of Chicago as assistant in economics from 1922 to 1925 and received his Ph.D. degree at the end of that time. He became associate professor of economics at the University of Denver and then assistant professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh from 1926 to 1929. In 1930 he came to Amherst and his present position. Professor Warne is president of Consumers' Union, author of The Comumerr' Cooperative Movement in Illirmir, member of Kappa Delta Rho and Artus. 21-