Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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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

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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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Geology George William Bain, a member of Chi Phi and of Sigma Xi, is now serving as associate professor of mineralogy and geology on the Edward Hitchcock Foundation. Previously he had received his Bachelor of Science degree at Mc- Gill University in 1921 and the Master of Science degree in 1923. He was also awarded the degree of Master of Arts in 1923 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1927 at Columbia. He began at Amherst as instructor in geology and has since been appointed to his present position. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America. Fred B. Phleger, Jr., instructor in geology, graduated from the University of Southern California in 1931. The following year he received his M.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology, and from 1934 to 1936 he was at Harvard as assistant in paleontology. A mem- ber of the Administrative Com- mittee for the Harvard Tercenten- ary in 1936, he also obtained his Ph.D. degree in that year. He then did further study in Europe on a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard, and in 1937 he came to Amherst as in- structor in geology. A member of Kappa Alpha CSouth- ernD, Sigma Xi and the Paleontological Society of Amer- ica, Dr. Phleger has contributed several papers on paleon- tology to scientific journals. German Clarence Willis Eastman has been professor of German language and literature since 1909 and is now serving as the senior mar- shal. Professor Eastman received his Bachelor of Science degree at the Worcester Polytechnic Insti- tute, his Master of Science degree at Leipsic as well as his Ph.D. de- gree and his Master of Arts degree at Amherst. Instructor in German at the University of Iowa from 1898 to 1901, he was made assistant professor at Amherst and served in that capacity from 1901 to 1907. In 1907 he was made an associate pro- fessor and two years later was elected to a full professor- ship. Otto Manthey-Zorn, professor of German on the Emily C. Jordan Folger Foundation, received the Bache- lor of Arts degree from Adelbert College, Western Reserve Univer- sity, in 1901. The following three years he did graduate work at the University of Erlangen and the University of Leipsic, receiving the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1904 at the latter university. He then returned to VVestern Reserve University for a year in the capaci- ty of instructor of German. In 1905 he went to the University of Illinois as an instructor and came to Amherst in 1906. Since that time he has graduated through the professorial ranks, having been made a professor in 1908. Professor Manthey-Zorn is the author of falaumz Georg facabfr Irif and Germany in Tmmil. Professor Manthey-Zorn of the German department. Anthony Scenna received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1927 from Amherst, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He then went to Co- lumbia University, where he did graduate work until he was award- ed his Master of Arts degree in 1929. After receiving this degree he went to the University of Frank- fort, where he continued to do graduate work in the German language. He returned to America in 1930, serving as an instructor in German at Columbia University and later at the University of BuHalo. He came to Am- herst as an instructor in 1931 and was appointed an as- sistant professor in 1937. In the same year he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia Univer- sity.