Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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WILLIS YARDLEY WELCH. Willis Yardley Welch was born at Searsburg, Schuyler County, N. Y. He studied in the common schools of New York until he began teaching, in his sixteenth year. Two years later he entered Starkney Seminary, X. Y., going from there to Union Christian College, Merom, Ind., where he was interrupted, in his Senior year, by sickness. After recovery he taught in Indiana, Illinois and New York for several years. After taking a three years ' course in free- hand, mechanical, pattern and architectural drawing in the Rochester, . Y.. Athenaeum and Mechanic Institute, he entered the Oswego, . . Y., . ormal School, from which he graduated with highest honors in iSgg. For a time he was As.sistant Instructor in Science and Nature Study at Oswego Normal School, from which position he retired in 1899 to take charge of the Science Department in the Normal School at Clarion, Pa. Prof. Welch has specialized in Psychology, Pedagogy, Science and Nature Study and Literature at Cornell. At the Clarion Normal he has built up the Science Department until it is now considered to be one of the best in the State. Prof. Welch has done much commendable institute work. His lecture on the ' ' Psychology of the Development of the Number Idea is a scholarly production. Prof. Welch has contributed to educational periodicals on science and mathematical themes, and is the author of the Chemical Laboratory Manual now in use in the Clarion Normal. Bucknell conferred the degree of M. S. on Prof .Welch in 1Q07. GEORGE W. WAGENSELLER, A. M., ' 92. George Washington Wagenseller, now an in- fluential citizen of Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa., was born in Selingsgrove, Pa., April 27, 1868, the son of William J. Wagenseller and his wife, Rebecca, whose maiden name was Forrer. Mr. Wagenseller ' s early education was obtained in the High School and Susquehanna University at Selinsgrove. He entered the Junior class of Buck- nell in the fall of iSqo, graduating with the class of 1892. After leaving college, he taught for one year in the Coatesville Academy, and was for one year principal of Bloomfield Academy at Bloom- field, Pa. In March of 1894 Mr. Wagenseller en- tered the journalistic field, having acquired the Middleburg Post, a paper which has since borne his name as publisher and proprietor, and whose col- umns have obtained a reputation for being fear- lessly and ably edited. The Posl to-day holds the unique and unchallenged position of having a circu- lation equal to the combined issue of its three strongest competitors in Snyder County. At school Mr. Wagenseller was one of the few men in college who provided, by personal efforts and savings, the necessary funds for his education, without going into debt or accepting financial help from anyone. He returned to his home in Selins- grove, after graduation, with his diploma and ten cents in cash, but with debts all paid. In the business world, Mr. Wagen.seller ' s word is as good as his bond, and to-day he stands as a leading factor in every progressive movement, not only in his own town and county, but in many outside enterprises. He was the chief promoter of the Middlecreek Electric Cornpany, a $150,000 corporation that furnishes light and power in Selinsgrove, Sunbury, Northumberland and other places, and holds one-fifth interest in the Selinsgrove and Freeburg Electric Street Railway Company, and is secretary of both corporations. In his domestic life he is the father of two interesting daughters, Esther, born January 22, 1 90 1, and Doris, born January 2 , 1905.

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■ ' t: ' ' , ' ■M CHARLES EDWARD ALL, ' 02. GOOD- Charles E. Goodall was born in Drighlington, Yorkshire, England. His youth was spent in England and in Canada. He received his early education in the public schools of Xew Jersey, and South Jersey Insti- tute, class of 1898. and graduated from Bucknell with the class of 1902 with the A. B. and A. M. degrees. Mr. Goodall then went to Crozer Theological Seminary and graduated in 1905. He then spent the year of 1906 at Oxford University, Eng- land. In early life Mr. Goodall was connected with the Church of Eng- land. He was licensed to preach in 1899 and ordained to the gospel ministry November 23d, 1906. Mr. Goodall traveled in Texas and Cali- fornia in 1904, and in France and Italy part of 1905 and 1906. While in the Seminary he served as pas- tor of the Westmont Baptist Church, and for a while was assist- ant pastor of the Linden Baptist Church, of Camden, X. J. He settled at Huntingdon, Pa. .January ist, 1907, where he is presi- dent of the Huntingdon Ministerial Association. While in college he was manager of the foot- ball team, captain of the track team, member of the relay team for four years, and of the basketball team for one year. In society life he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Theta Delta Tau, and also of the Dramatic Club. ROMEYN H. ' 97, A. B., A. RIVENBURG, M. R. H. Rivenburg entered Key- stone Academy in 1891 and com- pleted the classical course in two years, graduating as valedictorian of his class. At Keystone he won prizes in Latin and oratory. In the fall of 189, he entered Bucknell, and graduated in 1897 with the A. B degree, Stimma Cum Laitde. The following June he received his A. M. degree. While in college he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, class tennis teain in Soph- omore and Junior years, president of his class and associate editor of Bucknell Mirror, and editorial writer and editor-in-chief in his Senior year. In the fall of 1897 he was appointed instructor in the Pre- paratory Department of Peddie Institute. The following year he taught part of the mathematics in the regular course, and the next year he was appointed head of the Depart- ment of Mathematics, which position he has held for the past eight years. He served as Vice-Principal of Ped- die for one year. 16

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HOWARD H. BALDRIDGE, ' 84. Howard H. Baldridge was born in HoUida -sburg, Pa., in June, 1864. He entered the Freshman class of the University at Lewisburg, September, 1S80, and graduated in 1884. He took a law course in the University of Penn- sylvania, and studied law with Benjamin H. Brewster, Attor- ney-General in the President ' s cabinet. He was engaged in newspaper work for the Times, of Philadelphia, during his law course at the University of Pennsylvania in 1886-87. He moved to Omaha, Neb., in 1887, and was married to a daughter of Dr. H. T. Coffey, of Peoria, on September 25, i88g. He has been engaged in the practice of law in Omaha from August, 1887, until the present time. In March, 1889, he was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney of Nebraska, in which office he served four years. He was elected District Attorney of Douglas County, Neb., in 1894 and re-elected in 1896. He was elected to the Nebraska State Senate in 1901, and has taken an active part in Repub- lican politics in Nebraska, having been chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1904. He was admitted to practice before the Su- preme Court of the United States in 1902, and is President of the Omaha Bar Association. ELMER E. HESS, A. B. Elmer E. Hess received the B. E. degree from Blooms- burg Normal School in 1891, and M. E. in 1892. He taught in the public schools from 1S91-1894, and was Principal of the Comans Schools from 1894-1896, after which he was for two years Professor of English Grammar, Theory, Physics and Political and Physical Geography in the Academic Depart- ment of Susquehanna University. Mr. Hess entered Buck- nell in 1898 and took the A. B. degree in 1900, and the A. M. in 1902. Since graduating from Bucknell he has held three principalships — the first from 1 900-1 903 in the Huntingdon High School at Huntingdon, Pa., the second from 1903— 1905 at Cress Fork, Pa., the third from 1905-1907 in the High School at Coatesville, Pa., and is now Supervising Principal of the schools at Oxford, Pa. Mr. Hess was for three years a member of the permanent Certificate Committee. REV. JAMES McLEAN PATERSON, ' 92. Rev. James McLean Paterson was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He was graduated from Bucknell in 1892, and from Crozer Seminary in 1895. His first pastorate was in Evans City, Pa., where he was pastor of the Amana Baptist Church for five years. From Evans City he was called to the First Baptist Church at New Kensington, Pa., and is now in the eighth year of his pa.storate there. He has done good, substantial work in both places, having recently made exten- sive repairs at New Kensington. He is always ready to speak a good word for his Alma Mater and uses his influence to persuade young men to go there for their education. 18