Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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PROFESSOR Lewis Edwin THEISS. journalist, free-hnce writer, juthor. and professor of journalism, was born in Birmingham. Connecticut. In I8 ' ' 8 he matriculated at Bucknell and was graduated with the Class of 1902. His college record shows achievement in the athletic, musical, and journalistic fields. In track he was one of the mainstays of the team, specializing in the high jump and the pole vault. He was captain of the team in his junior year. In pole vaulting he equalled the college record in his freshman year, and at graduation held a record that was unbroken for twenty years. He was Bucknell correspondent for three metropolitan newspapers and an editor of the college weekly. L ' Agenda of 1902 was published under his able editorship. After graduating from college Professor Thciss became a member of the staff of the New York Sun, a newspaper on which he worked from 1902 to 1912. Then he entered the ranks of free-lance writers, contributing articles to many magazines and newspapers and occupying at different periods department editorships on the Pictorial Review. Good Housekeeping, and the People ' s Home Journal. The World War found Professor Thciss associated with the National War Garden Commission, where he edited the publications of that body. When the movement for prohibition was under way. he investigated drink conditions in American colleges for The Ladies ' Home JournaL He studied for the Pictorial Review, prior to the passage of the national suffrage amendment, the working of equal suffrage in the eight western states then having equal suffrage. However, Professor Theiss has not confined his writings to magazine work, for since 1914. he has been busily engaged in writing books for boys, all of which are listed below: His Big Brother: In Camp at Fort Brady: Lumberjack Bob: The Camp Brady Wireless Patrol: The Secret Wireless: The Hidden Aerial: The Young Wireless Operator — Afloat: The Young Wireless Operator — As a Fire Patrol: The Young Wireless Operator — With the Oyster Fleet: The Young Wireless Operator — With the U. S. Secret Service: The Young Wireless Operator — With the U. S. Coast Guard: A Champion of the Foothills: The Flume in the Mountain: Aloft in the Shenandoah II. Seven oi these titles h.i ' e been placed on the approved list of supplementary readings by many mid-western states that annually select such a list for the clemcnlary schools. In 1903 Professor Theiss married Dr. Mary Bartol. a Bucknell graduate, then a professor in Rockford College, who for several years was editor of the Pi Beta Phi Arrow. They have been collaborating in magazine work ever since. In 19 2-t he was given the degree of Doctor of Letters by Bucknell. and he re- turned to his Alma Mater as Professor of Journalism. Professor Theiss is a member of Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Delta Epsilon. Theta Delta Tau. Sigma Tau Delta (professional English fraternity), and the society of Druids. ' A ' A A ' A ' A

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