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K1312 JAMS Eoelz'cAer Miss Mitchell also was to be on the staff position. QR. FROELICHER, who was christened Johann Baptiste, was born in the town of Solothurn in German Switzerland in 1866. He is the son of Joseph Froe- licher, a business man, and Anna Froelicher. He attended the ele- mentary school in Solothurn for five years, then for two years at Dalle, 'France. He was in England at boarding school one year and finally, in 1885, he came to the University of Zurich. While he was an undergraduate at Zurich, he met Frances Henrietta Mitchell, a Philadelphia woman. who was studying for her degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the univer- sity. After two years they became engaged. The following fall Miss Mitchell came to America, having accepted a position in the English department of Bryn Mawr College. She intended to return to Switzer- land the next summer when Johann had obtained his degree. Just be fore summer, however, Dr. William Hopkins, of Baltimore, came to Zurich looking for faculty members for a womanis college to be opened that fall in Baltimore. Johann Froelicher was offered the position of associate professor of French. As of the new college, he accepted the In July, 1888, Dr. Froelicher received his doctor's degree. In August he sailed for America. He went, immediately upon his arrival in the United States, to Baltimore, where, on September 5, 1888, he and Miss Mitchell were married. I211 Dr. Froelicher has served Goucher College forty years. He is the only
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member of the present faculty who was a member at the foundation of the college. He has held chairs in the departments of French and German since 1888. In 1896 he organized the department of Art, to which he now devotes most: of his time at Goucheri His interesting and instructive art courses are very popular. One-lifth of the entire student body enrolls in the art depart- ment each year. Dr. Froelicher has never confined his activities to Goucher alone, however. He has given lectures at Johns Hopkins University, the Maryland Institute of Art, and Walters Art Gallery. He has also given public lectures under the auspices of the Municipal Art Society for the people of east and south Balti- more. Besides his work as a professor, Dr. Froelicher has been interested in the theory of education. He was influential in the founding of the Park School in Baltimore fifteen years ago. This school is organized and run upon progressive educational methods. Dr. Froelicher was offered the head- mastership of the school. He did not accept this position, but he became chairman of the board of trustees. Although his work as an educational leader has given him prominence in that line, it is his comprehensive knowledge of art, his skill as a leCturer, and his fineness of purpose that have made him beloved and admired at college. :1: 3k :k :k :k :k Fools, we are told, commit errors which angels avoid. yet we are adamant. Dr, Froelicher has been an active and vital force in giving the college those fine and rare qualities which are his own. Albeit this is one of those Hwell- known facts which, mayhap, are best left ungarnished simply because the embellishment must fall short of its purpose. But we are dissatisfied with passively taking him for granted. It is not possible to forget that he has left an indelible academic record in his departments of Art and German, and that he has worked with independence but always with the administration and for the college. What we would not have escape any hurried passer-by, however, is the other equally real stamp he impresses upon the people hereaboth those to whom he imparts knowledge and all the rest Whom he teaches by his very presence among them. So on this occasion of his fortieth year of unparalleled service, the veri- table giving of himself with increased rather than lessened powers to give, we crave one favor more: That he will be generous in understanding that we, like the little girl who lives in his Recollections, would like to be so uwise and good as to merit his friendship. Dr. Froelicher has been supremely cooperative in making it possible to see the early years of the college through his Recollections. It is a distinct dis- appointment that this book cannot afford them a truly fitting exposition, But if he should be moved to make more permanent and complete his invalu- able pictures of the beginnings of things, we should feel even more highly fortunate to have been able to claim them in their first form. This is not at all a conjecture; it is a definite hope, l221
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