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

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mi WALTER H. DURFEE Walter H. Durfee has had a long and close association with Hobart College, llis lather, William Pitt Durlee was head of the mathematics department and Dean of the College. Born in 18S9 Dr. Durfee received his B.A. degree from Hobart in 1908 graduating Magna Cum Laude aft- er playing varsity lacrosse and being elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He continued his education at Harvard Engineering School, where he received his M.C.E. in 1911• From Harvard he went to Pittsburg where he worked as a draftsman design- ing bridges. In 1917 he became the assist- ant to the Engineer of the Locks and Canal Company in Lowell, Mass. He left in 1921 to become an assistant professor of mathematics at Hobart College. In 1936 he obtained his Ph.D. from Cornell and in 1938 became Dean of Hobart Col- lege. Dr. Durfee served as acting presi- dent in 1947 and 1948 when he became provost. TREASURER H. NEWTON HUBBS Horace Newton Hubbs is the Treasurer of Hobart College as well as the Secretary of the Board of Trustees and professor of mathematics. Dr. Hubbs received his B.E. at Union College, Schenectedy, New York in 1915. In 1925 he received his M.A. at the University of Rochester and in 1931 his Ph.D. at Cornell University. In 1955 Dr. Hubbs served as acting president of the Colleges and in 1956 received his LL.D. at Hobart College.

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MERLE A. GULICK CHAIRMAN of Hie HOARD of TRUSTEES Merle A. Gulick, chairman of the board of trustees of the Colleges of the Seneca, is the vice-president of Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, and an alumnus of Hobart’s class of 1930. In his four years at Hobart, Mr. Gulick was elected president of his freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes, played var- sity football, basketball and lacrosse, and was named to every campus honor society. Mr. Gulick joined Equitable as a service supervisor in the Group Department in 1930, and since then has worked himself up through the ranks to his present status of vice-president. While a lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard, Mr. Gulick helped organize the Port Security Division, the organization that protected two hundred and fifty ports against sabatoge during the war. He also saw action in both the European and Pacific theaters. '9

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ASSISTANT DEAN BENJAMIN P. ATKINSON Benjamin Atkinson, Assistant Dean of Hobart College received his B.A. at Am- herst in 1938, graduating Magna Cum Laude. He obtained his M.A. at Syracuse in 1941 where he became an instructor in English until 1947 when he came to Ho- bart. At Hobart he became assistant to the dean in 1950, associate professor of Eng- lish in 1954, and Dean in 1955. Aside from his affiliations with the College Mr. At- kinson is the co-editor of Literature jor Our Time, a college anthology of modern writing. ROBERT MILNE Acting Director of Placement Assistant to the Dean B.A. Hobart, 1952 CLIFFORD EDWARD ORR Director of Public Relations B.S. Hobart, 1925 21