DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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A V .V .. . . s . iff ,. if ' , ...f fi 52' fwfr' :WJ elf.-Q-ffffiamcifisii' Q5?9 fffaaltf5?rQf',iWf'.w.? 5ss'17if.w55ff5fi1,f?ffsf lllulnll K. One department with which all DePauw students come in contact is the English department. Lo- cated on the third floor of Asbury Hall, the thirteen members of the Department of English make their students feel at home amid surroundings of books, magazines, and easy chairs. VVell-known for his numerous textbooks, PROF. R. W. PENCE is a tireless worker, whose various whistles inform his colleagues of his moods. An extensive reader, he likes mystery novels, cats, bright flannel shirts, and boxing. The hobbies of DR. HIXSON, a national authority on linguistic development and one of the campus' most popular speakers, include architecture, air- planes, automobiles, and ranch life. FRED BERGMANN, new journalism instructor, rates him- self as an unconfirmed bachelor and studies all angles of the modern newspaper. PROP. PRATT, popular for his sparkling sense of humor, is a specialist in Shakespeare, while W. H. STRAIN, an alumnus of DePauw, likes to farm and raise flowers. W'IZZ KINNE, Poetry Club adviser, combines modern literature and old furniture for his interests. PROF. HUGGARD, famed for his dead-pan recitation of Ferdinand,U is an Emerson admirer. JARVIS DAVIS, back from a leave of absence, likes fly-fishing and Texas. Sports-fan, athlete, and drama-lover, DRr. PAUL CARTER spurns hobbies, while MERTON RAPP spends his spare moments in remodeling his barn-loft home and framing pictures. jovial MISS MILLS is interested chiefly in contemporary literature and her students as individuals. MRS. TAYLOR, The B0u1rlr'r's adviser, is a home-body and Constance Holme enthusiast. MARY FRALEY, an- other D.P.U. graduatels, hidden light is dramatics. 22

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.Q Hn... . 7 Efficient University 0rgunization Only on few occasions, mostly believed to be of an unpleasant nature, does the average DePauw student penetrate behind the doors of the Adminis- tration Building. As a result ed or co-ed has much less of an opportunity to know the members of the administration than those in the faculty, known merely as profs Sunk in the uimpossiblen job of being in charge of all men on cam- pus is DEAN LOUIS H. DIRKS, upper left. The dean is a notoriously good story teller-it even being claimed by some that he can beat his boys at that game, but of course they never do. At his right is DEAN WILLIAM M. BLANCHARD of the College of Liberal Arts, who for years was head of the chemistry department. Now he goes in for writing poetry and reading classical literature in his spare time. in the upper right is DEAN VAN DENMAN THOMPSON of the School of Music. Mr. Thompson began writing orchestrations 31 years ago. He spends his sum- mers in New Hampshire where gardening is his special interest. Center left is ROBERT H. FARBER, secretary of admissions. A DePauw graduate himself, Mr. Farber can be seen during the spring months showing prospective students about the campus. At other times you may find him selling DePauw in any high school in the Middle West. In the middle row center is DEAN HELEN C. SALZER, dean of women, who has, probably, a job even more difficult than Dean Dirks'. Miss Salzer is also resident head of Rector Hall and has traveled in the Orient collecting curios. At the right center is DEAN G. HERBERT SMITH, dean of administration and director of the Rector Scholarship Foundation. Dean Smith is outstanding for his national fraternity work. He helped organize Phi Eta Sigma and is connected with the National Interfraternity Council. Bottom left is F. RUSSELL ALEXANDER, director of publicity. Alex has a long journalistic background dating from his junior year at DePauw. He had one of the first Rector Scholarships to be awarded and followed it up by making Phi Beta Kappa. At his right is MISS VENETA KUNTER, registrar. Miss Kunter, as assistant registrar even before her graduation from DePauw in 1923, had the distinction of rolling her own diploma and then taking it over to her graduation. In thc next picture we switch over to the library where MISS LUCILLE' WICKERSHAM and MRS. VERA COOPER, assistant and head librarians, are in charge. Miss Wickersham, a graduate of Drury College, likes good music and contract bridge. Mrs. Cooper, who graduated from DePauw in 1912, collects sketches of Gluyas Williams, who draws for the Robert Benchley series. She says she has liked books ever since she was a child. 21

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QY. The walls of East College might well resound with many tongues as here the language depart- ments focalize and vocalize. On the top row, reading from the left, is PROP. P. G. EVANS, Head of the Department of Romance Languages. He happened to be organ-pumper and clock- winder in a small New England church at the time that President Wildnaan was student pastor there. J. Y. CAUSEY, a netman and swimmer, is in a small school for the first time and ap- proves heartily of our coeducational and social system. J. W. CHILDERS spends his spare time in folklore research, whereas PROP. LAUREL I-I. TURK fills his empty minutes with amateur movies and editing his own textbooks. H. J. SKORNIA, co-founder of Cinemart, was one of the original Norsemen quartet of radio fame. At Michigan State he was first in his class scho- lasrically and very active on campus. The feminine romance linguists include MISS MARGUER- ITE ANDRADE, lover of short wave and recordsg MRS. ANNA RAPHAEL, famed for her cookies and interested in her husband's church work, and MISS MILDRED DIMMICK, chair- man of the Foreign Language Division, whose favorite pastimes are making afgans and taking care of her pet dog, Snookums. On the second row PROP. GERHARD BAERG, Head of the Department of German, who is as apt to start spieling Russian or Chinese as German in class, E. H. MUELLER, intensely in- terested in all aspects of the 16th century and in photography, and HANS GRUENINGER, jo- vial national secretary for exchange students, comprise the German department. DR. HIRAM JOME, fondly acclaimed 'QGold Standard Jomef guides Economics. He is aided by quiet PROP. PRED RITCHIEQ politically minded CARL MCGUIRE, who collects and makes photos of state capitol buildings, and PROP. GERALD WARREN, our faculty cheerleader, who likes golf and dancing. 23