Amherst College - Olio Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

Page 31 text:

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

Page 30 text:

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.

Page 32 text:

Edward Dwight Salmon was a member of Delta Upsil- on at the University of Rochester, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1917. He did graduate work at Harvard University from 1922 to 1926 and was made an assistant in history in 1923, receiving the degree of Master of Science that year. He served as instructor in history at Harvard until 1926, when he became instructor at Amherst. In 1929 he was made an assistant professor and was ap- pointed associate professor in 1934. The same year he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard. He is the author of Imperial Spain and is a member of the American Historical Association. Alfred Freeman Havighurst is a member of Phi Delta Theta. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan in 1925 and did graduate work at the University of Chicago during 1927 and 1928, receiving the Master of Arts degree there at the end of the latter year. During 1929 he continued doing graduate work at Harvard. The following year he was made instructor in history at Pacific University and then returned to Harvard as an assistant in 1930. The next year he came to Amherst as an instructor in history. He returned to Har- vard University for one year, 1936, where he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Richard Cleghorn Overton, Theta Delta Chi, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Williams, where he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1929. He was engaged in banking from 1930 to 1932 and then was made a master in French at the Hotchkiss School. He returned to Williams in 1933 as an assistant and graduate student in economics. In 1934 he became an instructor in economic history at the North Adams State Teachers College and received the Master of Arts degree from Wil- liams. He entered graduate school at Harvard from 1934 to 1936 and received the Master of Arts degree from Har- vard in the latter year. He then came to Amherst as an instructor in history. Italian Reginald Foster French, assist- ant professor of rom ance languages, ' graduated from Dartmouth Col- r 1,55 lege in 1927 and took his M.A. lr degree in 1928 at Harvard. As a .Q f. fellow of the Institute of Inter- 5 national Education, he spent one .si. A- - , lgi year at the University of Rome and I then held instructorships at the ' , N i i University of Missouri and at I 4 N r Lf? Vvlilliams. In 1935 he received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard, and in that same year the University of Nebraska called him to be assistant profes- sor of romance languages. Professor French, a member of Alpha Sigma Phi and Phi Beta Kappa, took his present position at Amherst in 1937. Professor Packard lectures on 'The Battle ofjutlandf' Latin Charles Ernest Bennett, Moore Professor of Latin, graduated from Amherst College in 1905. While in college Professor Bennett was elec- ted to Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He served as assistant principal and instructor in Latin and German at the Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, High School and as sub-master at the Washington School for Boys dur- ing the years 1905 to 1907. He served as graduate student and teaching fellow at Cornell from 1908 to 1911 and received his Doctor's degree from that school. In 1911 he came to Amherst and was made a professor in 1919. -281