Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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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.

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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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Manford Vaughn Kern, Phi Beta Kappa, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from William Jewell College in 1918, In 1919 he became a tutor in Latin and Greek at the Univer- sity of Indiana and was awarded the Master of Arts degree there in 1921. Returning to William Jewell College, he served as an assistant professor of Latin during 1921 and 1922. At this time he went to Princeton as an instructor in class- ics and remained there for a year, coming to Amherst in 1923 as an instructor in Latin. He continued in that capacity until 1935, when he was made an instructor in German. He had received the Master of Arts degree from Princeton in 1930. Professor Eastman, Amherst's departmental head of German. Greek Francis Howard Fobes is a mem- , ber of Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904 from Harvard Uni- versity, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. The next year he received the degree of Master of Arts from the same university. He served as an instructor in Latin and Greek at Harvard from 1907 to 1913 and then went to Union College from 1915 to 1920, where he was made an assist- ant professor of Greek. Coming to Amherst in 1920, he was appointed an associate professor in 1920 and was made a professor in 1921. Harry DeForest Smith is a member of Delta Kappa Ep- silon. Graduating from Bowdoin in 1891, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. From 1891 to 1895 he taught at Rockland, Maine, and then did graduate work at Harvard, where he received his degree of Master of Arts in 1896. He was appointed instructor in Greek at the University of Penn- sylvania in 1897, served as an in- structor in ancient language at Bowdoin in 1899 and was made an assistant professor of Greek in 1901. He came to Amherst as an associate professor in 1901 and has since gone through the various professorial ranks until now he serves as the Class of 1880 Professor of Greek and the director of Converse Memorial Library. History Herbert Percival Gallinger, Phi Beta Kappa, is a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Amherst in 1893 and was awarded the de- gree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Leipsic in 1898. He came to Amherst as an instruc- tor in history in 1898 and was made an associate professor in 1904. He continued in that rank until 1918, when he was made a professor of history. Professor Gal- linger is the author of Die Haltimg der dezitrehen Puhlizirtik gi: dem ezmerikmiirchen Unezhhizngigkeitrkriege and collabo- rated in translating and editing Ceneermtionr with Luther. Laurence Bradford Packard is a member of Delta Up- silon. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Har- vard in 1909, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He continued at Harvard until 1913 as a graduate student and Austin Teaching Fellow. He was appointed instructor in history at the University of Rochester in 1913 and was made a professor in 1919. He was appointed professor of history at Amherst in 1925 and served as the Anson D. Morse Professor thereafter. During 1929- 30 and 1932-33 Professor Packard professor at Yale atd Wesleyan respectively. He is the author of Ruffin and the Dim! Alliimee, The Commercial Revolution and The Age of Lauir XIV. served as a visiting