Central Michigan University - Chippewa Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, MI)

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George R. Wheeler

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Chippewa Staff Assistants T3 ROW 'l: Anne Kebschull, Richard Hyman, Alice Dekycke, Perry Warner, Charlene Mertz. ROW 2: Joan Bullard, Charlene Zieske, Florence Knoblock, Ruth Sogge, Mary Jo Dodes, Barbara Hewitt, Joan Soderback. ROW 3: Merelyn Riches, Janet Butterfield, Doris Casey, Avis Mcllhargie, Betty L. Brooks, Rose Slow- inski, .lack Frye, Benjamin Clark, Edmund Moreno, Lois Anderson. The CHIPPEWA Staff is composed of students interested in working on a student publication and in gaining experience in the production of an annual. The editor and the business manager are appointed by the Stu- dent Senate upon recommendations ot the Student Publications Commit- tee. The rest of the staff is selected by the editor with the help of the advisor. Without a doubt, as in other vol- umes, names have been misspelled, omissions have been made, and errors have slipped by, but where credit is due, credit should be given, and credit belongs to everyone who worked so hard to produce this book. 6' Q. 'til

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Dedication To Prof. George Wheeler, head of Central's Department of Agriculture, 1950's Chippewa is dedicated. Mr. Wheeler, after four years of high school training at Central, received his B.S. at Mich- igan State in 1914, and returned to Central's chemistry and agriculture department to teach. In 1918 he resigned to manage the farm on which he was born and where he still lives. Then in 1925 he came back to teaching, until the college granted him a two-year leave to work with the state Farm Credit Association during the depression years. Upon the death of Prof. Myron Cobb, Mr. Wheeler was invited back to this campus to assume the duties of head of the department of agriculture. ln 1940 President Anspach ap- pointed him senior class advisor and head of the commencement committee, and he has served in that capacity ever since. He holds an M.A. from Columbia and has done gradu- ate work at Ohio State University. Besides his iob as educator and student friend, Mr. Wheeler has many outside inter- ests. He is a Kiwanian and is very active in farm and community organizations. He has been president of the County Farm Bureau and is a director of the State Farm Bureau, Michigan Livestock Exchange and Isabella County State Bank. He is interested, too, in conservation, and has become well known throughout the state for his work in this field. Not only Mr. Wheeler, but also his entire family, are truly credits to Central. Mrs. Wheeler, who, until her death in 1949, was very active in the community, graduated from this college in 1916 with an elementary cer- tificate. The three sons, all Central graduates, are in various positions throughout the state: George is in business in Saginaw, Dick is school principal at Elkton, and Jim is a game biologist for the state in Roseville. This is truly a Centralite family, and it is with pride that we dedicate this issue of Chippewa to them and to Prof. George Wheeler, today's educator of tomorrow's teachers. Mr. George Wheeler, Mrs. Ester Wheeler, and sons James, Richard, and George, Jr. ,yu 'ti WK. lvl'