Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Ohio, and has written about thirteen widely-used books in his field. Dr. Einar Joranson, '08, has been a professor of history at the University of Chicago since 1917, and also in this sphere one thinks of Dr. George M. Stephenson, '10, who has been professor of history at the University of Minnesota since 1918. Dr. Roy V. Peel, '20, has been in the field of political science at the New York University since 1923, and Dr. Elmer Peterson '17, is now in the education department of the University of Iowa. Mr. J. A. Bexell '95, is the retired dean of the School of Commerce at Corvallis, Oregon, and has conducted an agricultural survey of Oregon. He was formerly a collaborator of the U. S. Bureau of Markets. Oscar Broneer, '22, is now an archae- ologist in Athens, Greece, and Alfred A. Anderson '99, is director of the school of commerce at Mackensie College, Sao Palo, Brazil. In writing of prominent scientists of Augustana the following should be mentioned: Dr. Philip Dowell, '85, botanist, chairman of the publication committee of Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences since 19055 O. VV. Ostlund, '79, entomologist, professor at the University of Minnesota., and one of the oldest liv- ing Augustana alumni, Johan A. Udden, '05, geologist, son of J. A. Udden, '81, XVarren O. Nelson, '28, zoologist, professor at the University of Missouri, Dr. Hans O. Haterius, '23, zoologist, Professor at New York University, Alvin Lugn, '16, geologist, professor at the University of Nebraska, Robert Sandstrom, '31, chemist with the Goodrich Rubber Company, and Clarence Berg, '24, biochemist, professor at the Univer- sity of Iowa. The list would have to be more than doubled if we would include all the industrial chemists and teachers in small colleges who are Augustana alumni. Carl R. Chindbloom, '90, is a United States Congressman from the tenth Illinois district. He has served as master of Chancery in the Circuit Court of Cook County from 1916 to 1919, and has been in the field of Constitutional law in Chicago since 1900. Joseph L. Larson, '06, has been a member of the House of Repre- sentatives ,of Massachusetts, and is now a banker in Boston, Massachusetts. Leonard Telleen, '96, has been a county judge from 1910 until his appointment as circuit judge, which position he now holds. Hugo C. Larson, '19, has gained attention as a metallurgist, since he began his Work in 1923 as inspector at the Illinois Steel Company, Gary, Indiana. ' Augustana has played a prominent part in the furnishing of missionaries to the foreign fields. Rev. O. L. Larson, '02, seminary '05, served in India from 1905 to 1923, and was the first treasurer of the U. L. C. Mission in India. Dr. Bertha'Anderson, ex-'20, is now Working in Tanganyika Territory, East Africa. Dr. Esther Johnson, '24, Dr. Edna Miller, '23, and Miss Verna Lofgren, ex-'20, all worked in the medical Held in Africa. Rev. Roy F. Thelander, seminary '14, worked as an Augustana missionary to Honan, China, from 1920 to 1925, and Rev. Thure Holmer, '09, seminary '12, was in the Rajahmundry field of India' from 1912 to 1933. Rev. Anton Lundeen, seminary '16, who is now field secretary of foreign missions, was sent to the Fuchow district in China from 1916 to 1923, and during that time C1922j was held in captivity by bandits for several weeks. ' ismumv.wv- 1 iii.. . . risk. frziulo . G-911' .1151 i V l I 1 i i lllllllll

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Fif- tered the Seminary, The same year he became instructor at Red XVing Seminary, Minnesota, and the next summer attended Harvard. Prof. Anderson was then appointed as Greek professor at Gustavus Adolphus where he remained until 190-L. During this time he had received the A.M. degree from Augustana, and had attended the University of Chicago in 1900-01 and University of XVisconsin in 1903. In 1913 Prof. Ander- son seemed to have become dissatisfied with teaching so he worked with the Mutual Trust Life Insurance Company for two years but in 191+ he dec'ded he could not leave teaching and came back to the position he has held ever since. In 1932 Gustavus Adolphus awarded him with the honorary degree of Litt.D. A member of Au'gustana's faculty who is included in the American Men of Science is Dr. John Peter Magnusson, at Augustana in a teaching capacity since 1906. Dr. Magnusson was born in 1872 at Krokeryd, Sweden, and he graduated from Gustavus Adolphus in 1898, after which he earned his A.M. de- gree at the University of Minnesota. I-Ie was a student-teacher the University of Wisconsin from 1903- 04, taught at Cornell and received his Ph.D. there in 1906 after which he became instructor of physics and chemistry here. From 1911 to 1922 he was Professor of Chemistry and from 1922 until the present he has had the Oscar II chair in Chemistry here. Dr. Magnusson has written some well-known books in his field, and has influenced many young men of his department to become industriaL.chemists. Dr. William Emanuel Cederberg first taught at Augustana from 1903 to 1905. He was born in 1876 in Uppsala, Sweden, and after attending Yale University from 1900 to 1902, he earned his master's degree while a student teacher at Brown University, and then came to Rock Island. For several years the Mathe- matics professor attended the University of Gottingen and then he returned to Augustana where he is still Professor of Mathematics. Professor Cederberg attended Lund University in 1919 and in the summers of 1920-21 was a student-teacher at the University of Wisconsin. He is a member of four distinguished societies in the field of Mathematics and Scien-ce and is listed in the Amerioarz, Bleu of Science. So diverse are the fields and professions into which Augustana alumni have entered that we Cannot touch upon all of them, nor even upon all the eminent men in each sphere of life-work. Among the pas- tors graduated from Augustana should be mentioned Rev. G. A. Brandelle, '82, the present president of the Augustana synod, who was ordained in 18844, among the first of the Synod, Rev. C. Albert Lund, seminary, '03, vice-president of the synod, and Rev. N. J. W. Nelson, seminary, '95, who is secretary of the synod. Rev. L. G. Abrahamson, '03, was ordained in 1880. The following pastors are all presidents of the various con- ferences of the synod: Rev. Peter Peterson, seminary, '94, Illinois, Rev. P. A. Mattson, seminary, '94, Minnesota, Rev. P, O. Bersell, '99, seminary, '06, Iowa, Rev. G. A. Dorf, seminary, '95, Kansas, Rev. Felix V. Hanson, 1900, seminary, '03, New York, Rev. C. O.Gulleen, '07, seminary, '10, Nebraska, Rev. Anton Nel- son, seminary, '24, Canada, Rev. N. VVm. Anderson, seminary, '2-lf, Columbia, Rev. C. G. Anderson, '12, seminary, '15, California, Rev. C. Albert Lund, seminary, '03, Superior, Rev. S. G. Hagglund, 1900, seminary, '04, New England, Rev. Oscar O. Gustafson, '13, seminary '16, Red River Valley, and Rev. Hugo B. Haterius, sem- inary '16, Texas. V In the field of medicine we cite Dr. Samuel C. Plummer, '83, of Chicago, who was Chief of Surgical Service in the American Expeditionary Forces in United States Base Hospital 14 in 1919 and consulting surgeon to the Hospital Center in Mars-sur-Allier in France in the same year. Dr. John A. Christenson, 1900, has become a well-known Chicago physician, and Dr. Louis Ostrom, '95, of Rock Island, who also worked in the overseas medical service in 1918-19, is an eminent eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist. G. Bernhard Anderson, '88, has practiced law in Chicago since 1896, worked there as vice consul for Sweden since 1913, and has been a student in Norse languages at Uppsala University, Sweden, at Berlin, and at Paris. Also the educational sphere has called so many of Augustana's graduates that men who are mentioned here are only a few of the group of whichwe would like to speak. Dr. J. Thorsten S'ellin '15, is the head of the sociology department at the University of Pennsylvania and is editor of the Annals of the American Academy of Politficcd and Social Science. Dr. George Ryden, '09, has been professor of American history and government at the University of Delaware since 1922, was the head of the Mission of Inquiry to the Ukraine, Russia, for the American Red Cross in 1919, with the rank of major, and among other honors was decorated with the Cross di Guerra for work on Piava River front, the Cross of St. Stanislav and St. Anne, 1920, and the C-ross of the Russian Red Cross for work in the Caucausus. Dr. A. Julius Carlson, '98, has become a na.tionally known figure in physiology since his professorship in that field at the Univ. of Chicago began in 1909. I-le served as lieutenant colonel of the U. S. A. Sanitary Corps in 1917 and with the A. E. F. in 1919. He has made valuable contributions in the last Hfteen years to the Anzoriczm Journal of Physiology. PSY- chology has claimed Dr. J. E. XV. XVallin '97, who since 1921 has been director of the bureau of special edu- cation and psycho-educational clinic, and professor of clinical psychology at Miami University, Oxford, 441844 44

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