Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION President................ Secretary to the President Dean .................... Recorder................. Treasurer, first semester . Treasurer, second semester Librarian................ Director of Athletics . Secretary of Public Relations College Physician Resident Nurse Superintendent John Milton Potter, Ph.D. ..................Josephine S. Bloom Walter Hetherington Durfee, Ph.D Marguerite McKay Firoozi, A.M. Henry Oliver Palmer, M.E. Horace Newton Hubbs, Ph.D. Irene Graves Harer, A.M. Francis Lucas Kraus, A.B. Clifford Edward Orr, B.S. Andrew Dunsmore Hubbs, M D. Lena Bronson Miller, R.N. ....................Ralph J. Ser en

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— JOHN MILTON POTTER In his first year as President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, John Milton Potter has definitely carved a niche for himself in Hobart history which places him along side of, if not ahead of, many former presidents of these colleges. His large physique and animated manner, never-failing interest in persons and ideas, and extraordinary fund of information, are some of the qualities which single him out from other people. The former two characteristics would have made him remarkable in any profession; the last marks him by nature an academic man. Another of Dr. Potter’s traits is his profound belief in the value of liberal education. In this time, when the dignity of the individual is constantly and justly spoken of as our chief objective in this war, it is a considerable assurance that such a man as he has been called to occupy a high place in American education. ‘ ‘ Give my regards to Prexy.....” 10

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TRUSTEES John Kimberly Walker, A.B., Buffalo, Chairman of the Board 1903 1946 Edward John Cook, LL.B., Geneva, Secretary 1917 1943 Charles Robert Wilson, A.M., Buffalo................... 1893 1946 William Bond Read, B.L., Philadelphia...................1917 1944 Daniel Magee Beach, B.L., Rochester.....................1918 1943 Oliver Bronson Open, A M , Bedford ... 1929 1943 The Rt. Rev. Frank William Sterrett, D.D., LL.D., Bethlehem, Pa.................................... 1931 1943 William John Ellis, LL.D., Trenton, N. J............... 1931 1946 Mrs. Agnes Bevan Lewis, Geneva......................... 1932 1944 Fitzhugh McGrew, LL.B., New York City .... 1935 1947 Barent Lambert Visscher, LL.B., Mountain Lakes, N. J. 1935 1945 William Bishop Warner, Esq., New York City . 1937 1945 William Higbee Eddy, B.L., New York City 1937 1947 William Joseph Graham, LL.D., New York City 1939 1945 George Houk Mead, LL.D., Dayton, Ohio .... 1939 1944 Joseph James Myler, A.M., Rochester 1939 1944 Mrs. Helen Moore Quigley, A.B., Geneva ... 1939 1944 Peter Cortelyou Cornell, M.D., Buffalo ... 1940 1945 Spencer Miller, Jr., LL.D., New York City ... 1941 1946 Mrs. Georgiana Farr Sibley, L.H.D., Rochester . 1941 1946 Thomas G. Allen, Jr., M.D., Buffalo . . . 1942 1947 Beverly Chew, Geneva................................... 1942 1947 Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, New York City . 1942 1947 The Rt. Rev. Bartel H. Reinheimer, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, ex officio The President of the College, ex officio 12