Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Ralph Cleland McGoun, Jr., instructor in clramatics, is an Amherst graduate of the class of 1927. Remaining at Amherst after receiving his degree, he served as assistant in biology ' for the two years until 1929. At I the end of this time he was award- ed his M.A. degree by the College, and in the same year he was ele- vated to the rank of instructor in biology, which position he held until 1937. In 1929 he became tech- nical director of the Amherst Masquers, and it is in connection with this work that he has studied at Yale University on a Clyde Fitch Fellowship this year. Mr. McGoun is a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. Newton Felch McKeon, Jr., instructor in English and assistant to the director of Converse Memorial Library, received his B.A. degree from Am- herst in 1926. He served as a master at Lawrenceville School for one year after graduation before going into business in New York City. It was not until 1931 that he was called to Amherst and his present instructorship in English. Two years later he went abroad for study at Cambridge University as a Simpson Fellow in English and a research student at Emmanuel College. For the first sem- ester of 1936-37 he served as acting dean of Amherst. Mr. McKeon is a member of Chi Phi and Phi Beta Kappa Fraternities. John Richmond Theobald, instructor in English, re- ceived his B.A. degree from Oxford University in 1925. Upon completing his undergradu- ate studies, he remained at Oxford for three years doing graduate work which led to his being awarded his M.A. degree in 1928. He then left Oxford and came to this country, holding English fel- lowships at the Union Theological Seminary. Studying at this semin- ary for one year, he received the S.T.M. degree in 1929. After leav- ing the Union Theological Seminary, he took a position as lecturer in English at Queens University for the period 1929-30. In 1931 Mr. Theobald accepted the instructor- ship in English at Amherst which he now holds. James Playstead Wood is an instructor in English. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1927 and his M.A. from that institution in 1933. Between 1922 and 1924 he worked for the Herald-Suez Syndi- cate and the New York Tribune. In 1927 he was associated with Charles Scribner's Sons. From 1928 till 1930 he worked for the Mc- Graw-Hill Book Company in the capacity of Copywriter. From 1930 to 1937 he acted as instructor in English in various schools. Be- sides his academic duties he was a book reviewer on the Courier-jezmzezl from 1932 until 1937. Then he came to Am- herst in 1937 and is the author of The Prefenee of Everett Nfezrfln. Professor Scott's fine arts class enjoys work in the early fall. Fine Arts Charles Hill Morgan, II, asso- ciate professor of fine arts, gradu- ated from Harvard in 1924, ob- taining his M.A. in 1926 and his Ph.D. in 1928 from Harvard. The following year he studied in Ath- ens, Greece, and then accepted a position as instructor in fine arts at Bryn Mawr. In 1930 he came to Amherst as assistant professor of fine arts and became associate professor in 1936. Professor Morgan is a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, the American Numis- matic Society, Archaeological Institute of America and is director of the American Classical School in Greece.

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George Frisbie Whicher, professor of English on the Frank L. Babbott Endowment and honorary curator of Edward Hitchcock Memorial Room, is an Amherst alumnus of the Class of 1910. Taking his M.A. degree at Columbia in 1911, he was a university scholar in Eng- land, then a university fellow at 1 Columbia. Going to the Univer- sity of Illinois in 1913 as instructor in English, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1915 from Columbia. He came to Amherst as associate pro- fessor of English in that year and advanced to a profes- sorship in 1922. A member of Theta Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa, Professor Whicher served as editor of the Amherrt Gradaatei' Quarterly from 1919 to 1932. Professor Elliott holds an informal meeting with undergraduates. Theodore Baird, associate professor of English on the Samuel Williston Foundation, received his B.A. degree in 1921 from Hobart College, l where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Society. The following year Harvard conferred its M.A. degree on him. Going to Western Reserve University in 1922 as instructor in English, he next took a similar position at Union College. ln 1925 he returned to Harvard as a uni- versity scholar, then as assistant in English and Dexter Scholar. He became instructor in English at Amherst in 1927, obtain- ing his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1929. That year he was made assistant professor of English, and in 1932 he ad- vanced to associate professor of English. -23 Fayette Curtis Canfield, associate professor of dramatic and director of the Kirby Memorial Theatre, received his B.A. degree at Amherst with the Class of 1925. Serving one year im- mediately after graduation as as- sistant in dramatics here, he was an instructor in dramatics for the three years before 1930. He assumed the rank of assistant professor in 1930 and took his present position as associate professor of dramatics in 1934. justly acclaimed for his excellent work in directing the Masquers' productions, he is a member of the National Theater Conference and Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. Pro- fessor Canfield has edited in 1929 Plays ofthe Irish Renair- Jante and in 1936 Plays of Changing Ireland. Stewart Lee Garrison, associate professor of English and public speaking, is a Harvard graduate with the Class of 1912. He served as assist- ant in English at Harvard after his graduation and also attended Harvard Law School. Then he went to Worcester Academy as instructor in English and public speaking for five years, becoming head of the department of English in 1919. He came to Amherst the following year, taking his present position as associate professor of English and public speaking, and in 1930 he received his M.A. degree from Harvard. A member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Professor Garrison is joint author of The Erren- tialf of Argument and editor of Nlacaalajfr Life ofjohnmn. Gilbert Thomas Hoag, instructor in English, received his B.A. degree from Haverford College in 1920. After graduation he attended Harvard Business School, then became af- filiated with the banking firm of Brown Brothers and Co. in Phila- delphia. He was connected with Parrish and Co., brokers, for a short while before he went to Harvard to do more graduate work from 1924 to 1927. In this period Harvard conferred its M.A. degree upon him, and he then served for one year as instructor in English and tutor in the division of modern languages at Harvard. Mr. Hoag came to Amherst in 1928, taking the position which he now holds as instructor in English.

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Henry Edwards Scott, Jr., associate professor of fine arts, received his B.A. degree from Harvard in 1922. He did graduate work here and abroad and was with the division of fine arts at Harvard and Radcliffe from 1923 to 1926 as assistant, head tutor and lecturer on Venetian painting. He did further study abroad on a Sachs Summer Fellow- ship and from 1926 to 1928 on a Bacon Art Scholarship. He then became instructor in the depart- ment of history of art at the Uni- transferring the next year to the University of Pittsburgh as assistant professor of fine arts. In 1935 he came to Amherst and his present position as associate professor of fine arts. versity of Rochester, Professor Funnell's courses have developed increased popularity in the French department. French Geoffroy Atkinson, professor of romance languages, graduated from Amherst in 1913. He took his M.A. degree at Columbia the next year and then held teaching posi- tions at Union College and Colum- bia, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1920. That year he came to Amherst as associate professor ' and was made professor of ro- mance languages in 1926. From 1929 to 1931 he was dean of the College. Active in the since been a fellow of the C.R.B. World War, he has Foundation and of the Guggenheim Foundation abroad. A member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, Professor Atkin- son is the author of several volumes in both French and English dealing with French literature. Johns Hopkins University, where Ralph Coplestone Williams, a member of Phi Gamma Delta, received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1908, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1917 from his alma mater, he became instructor in French at Ohio State University, where he was later made assistant professor. In 1921 he returned to he remained as assistant professor of French until 1925, when he came to Amherst as an associate professor. He was made professor in 1927. Professor Wil- liams is the author of The Theaiy nf the Heroic Epic in Italian Criticifm ofthe Sixteenth Century and The Simplified Errenlialr of Fim' Year French. Frederick King Turgeon was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at Bowdoin College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1923 and was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1924 he was awarded his Master of Arts degree at Har- vard University and then remained at that school as instructor of French until 1926. At that time he came to Amherst College where he continued as an instructor of French until 1930, when he was made an assistant professor of French. He remained in that rank for three years until 1933. He now serves in the capacity of an associate pro- fessor of French. George Banks Funnell graduated from Amherst in 1924, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts and was elected to Phi Beta Kap- pa. He then entered into graduate work at the University of Chicago and at Harvard University, at which school he received his Mas- ter of Arts degree in 1928. From 1925 to 1928 he served as an in- structor in French at Amherst and then went to Harvard, where he served in the same capacity. He returned to Amherst as instructor in 1930 and continued in that office for four years until he was made an assistant professor in 1934. He is a mem- ber of the Modern Language Association, For several years he has served as recording and corresponding secre- tary of the Amherst chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, editing a catalogue of the local chapter in 1934. 25