DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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AND DEANS Dr. William Martin Blanchard, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, has been pro- fessor of chemistry at DePauw since 1901 and has held his present position of dean since 1927. He received his A.B. degree from Randolph-Macon College in 1894 and his A.M. degree in 1897. In 1900 Johns Hopkins University conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. He studied in Europe in 1912- 1913. Dean Blanchard is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Chemistry Society, and the National Economic League. Dean Robert G. McCutchan attended Park College in 1893-1894. For six years he was engaged in newspaper work. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1904 and Doc- tor of Music degree in 1927 from Simpson College. Dean McCutchan has studied abroad in Berlin and Paris. In 1911 he became Dean of the School of Music at DePauw. He edited the New Methodist Hymnal in 1931. Dean McCutchan was made a Doctor of Music in 1935 by the Southern Methodist University. Dean Katharine S. Alvord has been Dean of Women at DePauw since 1915. She was graduated with an A.B. degree from Mich- igan in 1893, received her M.A. degree from Columbia in 1908, and studied at Wisconsin and Cornell Universities. Dean Alvord teach- es Colonial History and History of the American Revolution. This year, since Dean Alvord is retiring after twenty-one years of service, the students and faculty pay tribute to her untiring efforts and her sympathetic understanding of the students' problems at DePauw. Dean G. Herbert Smith, Dean of Fresh man Men and Director of the Rector Scholar ship Foundation, came to DePauw in 1932 At Illinois University he had been Assistant Dean of Men for Iive years. He received his A.B. degree from DePauw in 1927 and his A.M. from Illinois in 1928. He is general secretary of Beta Theta Pi and has been national secretary of Phi Eta Sigma since 1928. Twenty-one

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ADMINISTRATION Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam has been president of DePauw University since 1928. He was graduated from the University of California in 1913 and received his S.T.B. degree from Boston University in 1915. His other de- grees are: D.D., College of the Pacific. 1925, LL.D., Ohio Wesleyan, 1929, Wabash, 1929, and University of Southern California, 1931, Litt.D., Boston University, 1930, D.Sc., Rose Polytechnic. Dr. Oxnam is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of the Amer- ican delegation to Russia in 1926, and a member of the Japanese Educational Com- mission of the International Missionary Council in 1932. Dean Louis H. Dirks, Dean of Men at De Pauw University since 1926, received his A.B. degree from Indiana University in 1906 and his M.A. degree in 1925. He is a mem- ber of Phi Beta Kappa. Dean Dirks taught German in the Bloomington and New Albany High Schools in Indiana until 1911. He then became head of the German department at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, and from 1919 to 1926, he was the assistant principal at Shortridge. In addition to his position as dean of men, Dean Dirks teaches several courses in the Education De- partment at DePauw. Mr. F. Russell Alexander has been Director of Publicity at DePauw since 1929. He was graduated with an A.B. degree from De Pauw in 1925. IIe is executive secretary of the DePauw Alumni Association. Mr. Alex- ander has taught classes in sports writing at the annual convention of the Indiana High School Press Association. Miss Veneta Kunter is registrar of De Pauw. She was graduated from DePauw in 1927 and became assistant registrar of the University the next year. In 1933 she gained her present position as registrar. Twenty

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EDNA TYNE BOWLES LUCILE CALVERT F. RUSSELL ALEXANDER Director of Publicity and Executive Sec- retary of the Alumni Association. A.B., DePauw University, 1925. KATHARINE SPRAGUE ALVORD Dean of Women and Professor of His- tory. A.B., University of Michigan, 18935 A.M., Columbia University, 1908. MARGUERITE ANDRADE Assistant Professor of French. Diplome de fin d'etudes, Lycee de Besancon, France, 19145 A.B., Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity, 19205 A.M., Yale University, 1922. WILLIAM CLARKE ARNOLD Associate Professor of Mathematics. A.B., DePauw University, 19205 M.S., Uni- versity of Chicago, 1923. GERHARD BAERG Chairman of the Foreign Language Di- vision, and Head of the Department of German. A.B., University of Kansas, 19165 A.M., Cornell University. 19185 Ph.D., ibid.. 1920. FACULTY EDWARD RANDOLPH BARTLETT Head of the Department of Religious Education. A.B., Iowa Wesleyan College, 19125 S.T.B. Boston University, 19175 D.D., Iowa Wes- leyan College, 19265 Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1933. RACHEL JANE BENTON Assistant Professor of Physical Educa- tion for Women. A.B., DePauw University, 19255 A.M., University of Iowa, 1932. HERMAN C. BERG Assistant Professor of Violin. B.S.. Kansas State Teachers' College, 19315 B.M., Eastman School of Music, 19335 Juilliard Graduate School, summer, 1935. BJ ORNAR BERGETHON Assistant Professor of Public School Music. Director of the University Sym- phony Orchestra and the University Band. Oslo University5 New York University: M.B., Bush Conservatory, 19295 A.M., In- diana University, 1935. WILLIAM MARTIN BLANCHARD Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Head of the Chemistry Department. A.B., Randolph-Macon College, 18945 A.M., ibid.. 18975 Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, 1900. Assistant Professor of Singing and Vio- loncello. M.B., Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 19275 Decreuse, Paris, 19315 Connel and Miquelle, Chautauqua, N. Y., 19345 American Con- servatory of Music, 1935. EARL CASSATT BOWMAN Professor of Education and Director of Student Teaching. A.B.. Miami University, 19095 A.M., Uni- versity of Chicago, 19225 Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1928. FOWLER DELL BROOKS Head of Departments of Education and Psychology. A.B. and A.M. Baker University, 19115 A.M., University of Oklahoma, 19155 A.M., Columbia University, 19165 Ph.D., ibid.. 1921. LILIAN BEESON BROWNFIELD Professor of English Literature. A.B., DePauw University, 18955 A.M., Ohio Wesleyan University, 19045 Ph.D., Indiana University, 1914. LEROY C. BUCHHEIT Instructor in Physical Education for Men. A.B., Lake Forest College, 1914. Assistant Professor of Speech. A.B., Lake Forest College, 19275 Northwestern University, 1929. A.M., WILLIAM WALLACE CARSON Head of Departments of History and Political Science. A.B., Wofford College, 1907: A.M., Trinity College, 19085 Ph.D., University of Wis- consin, 1914. ANDREW WALLACE CRANDALL Professor of History. A.B., Central College, Missouri, 1917: A.M.. University of Chicago, 19205 Ph.D., Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1928. LEAH CURNUTT Instructor in Piano and Public School Music. B.M., DePauw University, 19325 M.M., ibid., 1934. JARVIS CASTLE DAVIS Assistant Professor of English Litera- ture. A.B., DePauw University, 19255 A.M., University of Chicago, 1926. Twenty-two