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

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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'

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George R. Wheeler

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President's Message The Walls of Central Michigan College There is an old story that a King from the central part of Europe visited the King of Sparta, and during his visit said to the King of Sparta, Where are the walls of Sparta? He was told that at dawn of the next day he would be shown the walls of Sparta. At dawn he was taken to the top of a high wall and told to look down into the valley below. He saw ten thousand men. The King of Sparta then said, Below you will see the walls of Sparta. In answer to the question, Where are the walls of Central Michigan College'? l, like the King of Sparta, say, look about you and you will see in faculty, students, alumni,and friends, the walls of Central Michigan College, for a college is iust as strong, iust as weak, iust as effective, iust as ineffective, as the persons who carry her banner. This year's Chippewa, as the Chippewas of the past and the Chippewas of the future, records in pictures portions of the walls of our college. The many activities in which the students are engaged, in a sense, write the history of the College. We are all proud ofthe students of this college, and point with pride to the many activities in which these students engage. No better public relations volume is published in any one year than the college annual. To the students and friends who review the happenings as depicted and recorded in this volume, come memories of many happy moments. This book will be retained by each student as a treasure house of college memories. Charles L. Anspach, President President writes a memo.