Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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john Scholte N ollen 7,7 fi ' HETHER President John Scholte Nollen has any special life-motto we do H S not know, but his own record exemplifies strikingly that well-known 1 sid maxim: Be sure you're rightg then go ahead! Born in central lowa, of Dutch parents, he has shown in his life thus far the historic qualities of the Dutch race, patience and persistence, united with the alertness and re- ' sourcefulness of the Middle West. His preparation for his work as a teacher was broad and thorough. He had flve years of college study,-first at Central College, Pella, lowa, where he took the degree of A. B. in l885g later. for a year, at the State University of Iowa, where he took the A. B. degree again in l888. To this he added six years of graduate study in Europe: two years at the University of Zurich: half a year at Paris: three years at Leipsic, where he took his doctorate in l893g one year, l900-l90l , at Berlin. Eleven years of college and graduate study before the age of thirty-two. His record as a teacher shows his attention to the other part of the maxim. After graduating at Central College he taught there for two years, from ISS5 to l887. His European experience included two years work as teacher in a school in Zurich, from l888 to l890. From l893 to l903 he was Instructor and then Professor of Modern Languages in Iowa College, one of the strongest institutions of College grade in the West. From l903 to l907 he was head of the Department of German in the State University of Indiana. An educational experience thus wide and successful, on the part of a man not yet thirty-nine years old when he entered on his duties as President of Lake Forest, promises well for his usefulness in his new position. The same motto: Be sure you're right: then go ahead! seems to apply to his character as an administrator. During the year now closing he has been getting acquainted, not only with the college community, but with the alumni and the families of students, with the citizens of Lake Forest and with the church people of Chicago. He has shown him- self frank and hearty in his ways, vigorous of mind and body, quick to appreciate the good in other men, and able to catch their point of view while resolute in his own convictions. He is prudently holding fast to the good already achieved under his predecessors, Dr. Harlan and Dr. Halsey, and he is pushing on, quietly but untiringly, in the course of im- provement. Dr. Nollen has already diffused the spirit of cooperation and of persistent work throughout the college community. Confident in the full adequacy of her President to his duties, Lake Forest expects under his guidance, not only to hold the right course but to go forward. . 11

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PRESIDENT JOHN SCI-IOLTE NOLLEN, Ph. D 10

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W 4 5 MR T 'tif x X J 1 J X W7 X Z X f r W M Daw DCT. l ,el r Q. Di xx tx f'qQf5X 'gn 'jf QN X - r L lf .X 911,010 I D Q lil Vt 'aft A L.. i Y QS Q, 2 X X X f fliiiigll Cl' kj D f Ll . y W L. fjaficj Q! l 5 X ,S EQ x, N4 it jf JOHN j. I-IALSEY, B 9 H Was graduated from Chicago University in l870. Instructor in Chicago University 1870-71. Received the degree of M. A. from Chicago in '73, and LL. D. from Center College in '97. Professor in Political Science and English at Lake Forest College l878-89. D. K. Pearson Professor of Political and Social Science since ISS9. Acting President. I896-97. Dean of Faculty l899-l90l. On leave of absence as Acting Head of Department of Economics, Leland Stanford University, I90I-02. Editorial writer for the lnter-Ocean, l880-l882. Reviewer for the Dial, ISS7-08. Acting President, l906-07. MALCOLM McNE.ILL Was graduated from Princeton University in l877. Received the degree of M. A. in I880, and Ph. D. in l888 from Prince- ton. Taught in Palmyra, Mo., l877-78. Returned to Prince- ton as Fellow in Astronomy, l878-Sl. Instructor in Astronomy at Princeton, ISSI-82. Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Princeton, l882-88. Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Lake Forest College since l888. 12