Gettysburg College - Spectrum Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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WILBER E. TILBERG, PHD. DEAN HE Dean of Gettysburg College, Dr. Wilber E. Tilberg, received his early education at Bethany College where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, in the year 1911. In 1912 he received his Master of Arts Degree at the Univer- sity of Kansas. After doing work in the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin, he received his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in the latter institution in 1928. Dr. Tilberg taught History at Midland College for twelve years, from 1913 to 1925, after which he became dean of that college. In 1927, Dean Tilberg came to Gettysburg College, and marks the tenth year of service at Gettysburg this year. The Dean is very prominent in all of the activities of the College, and takes a special interest in Sunday School work and in the Boy Scout program of the York-Adams Area. GEORGE D. STAHLEY, M.D. MILTON H. VALENTINE, D.D. Professor Emeritus of Biology and Hygiene Professor Emeritus of English Bible Page 21

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PRESIDENT OLLEGE life has many sides. Dormitories, libraries, chapels, class-rooms and athletic fields are arenas Within which We glean our experiences and organize our capacities. Among all the things we share, few are productive of keener satisfactions than our friendships. This volume contains a record of achievement. In the various phases of college life, young Women and young men have registered success. The success they have attained is not nearly so important as the habitsiof mind and the attitudes of soul which they will carry with them as they pass out of the period of opportunity into the period of testing. I see, however, in these pages a treasured hall of memory. Years of association have developed those ties of friendship which will be timeless. I desire to express in these lines not only my appreciation of those Whose faces appear within this volume but my profound conviction that in the days that lie ahead the promise of undergraduate life will find consummation in careers that are wholesome and worthwhile. May this volume remain not only a treasured memory but also a constant reminder of what the world has a right to expect from a Gettysburg College graduate. With best wishes to all, I am Cordially, your friend, HENRY W. A. HANSON Page 20

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PROP. JOHNSON PROP. LARKIN PROF. IDLE DR, KRAMER DR. SABY DR. FORTENBAUGH SOCIAL SCIENCE GROUP EDUCATION: FRANK H. KRAMER, PH.D., University of Pennsylvania , ..... ,..... . . Professor LESTER O. JOHNSON, A.M., University of Minnesota ........... Arrirtant Praferror The charter of Gettysburg College required that the institution maintain courses for the training of teachers. Since the schools in this locality were of German background, the first courses for this purpose were placed under the German Department. Modern education courses were introduced in 1911 and were taught by Dr. C. F. Sanders as a part of the program of the Philosophy Department. Before the state required Education courses for teaching, and before many of the other schools had introduced Education into their curriculum, a separate department of education was founded at Gettysburg, in 1921, with Dr. F. H. Kramer as the department head. The object of the pioneer venture into Education was to produce better and more efficient teachers for service in the public schools. POLITICAL SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS: RAsMUs S. SABY, PH.D., University of Pennsylvania ...........,... Professor GEORGE R. LARKIN, A.M., Wesleyan University .......,.,... Associate Praferror The first classes in Political Science and Economics were held on December 15, 1832. Mr. M. Jacobs, A.M., professor of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and Mathematics, was made the professor. Throughout the senior year, each student was required to take two hours of Political Economy. The popular demand for instruction in matters of public interest and duties of citizenship led to the development of the depart- ment. Now the allied courses of Economics and Political Science have proven themselves to be of suflicient worth to be divided into distinct departments. In keeping with the policy of Liberal Arts, these direct aids to active citizenship have become an integral part of the curriculum. HISTORY: Roanntr FORTENBAUGH, PH.D., University of Pennsylvania . . . . Profenror DUNN1NG IDLE, A.M., University of Michigan ................. Imrrucfor History was first taught at Gettysburg College as a minor subject under the German Department. The Chair was established in 1834, but was not permanently hlled until 1838, when Rev. H. I. Smith was elected professor of German and History. In 1843, Mr. M. L. Stoever was elected Professor of History.. He .soon assumed other duties, and finally, in 1867, the History Department was no longer maintained as an individual department. After this, except for a few short periods, there was no separate department of history until 1923, when the present department was formed with Dr. R. Fortenbaugh as the Adelaine Sager professor of History. Page 22