Linfield College - Oak Leaves Yearbook (McMinnville, OR)

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OAK LEAVES 1931 George Woodford Payne has been a member of Linfield College faculty since 1906. He holds an A. B. and A. M. degree from Hamilton College, and has taken graduate work in Colorado University and the University of Washington. A faithful and conscientious worker, Professor Payne has been striving to interpret the classical languages in the light of the culture of ancient Greece and Rome. Steady and dependable, with a calm, unruffled manner, he is synonymous in the mind of the student body with constant stability. Herschel Edgar Hewitt has received an A. B. degree from Grand Island College, an A. M. from the University of Oregon, and has since been a graduate student of the same university. A member of the Linfield College faculty since 1921, Professor Hewitt has shown a real interest in the college activities and has been their loyal support! ' . He is friendly and kindly, and shows a personal interest in his students, and these qualities, together with his dry humor, have endeared him to his classes and his fellow faculty members. William Reinhard Frerichs, a graduate of Carthage College and also of the Colgate- Rochester Divinity School, holds as well an A. M. degree from the University of Oregon and has done graduate work with the Universities of Washington and of Oregon. He is spending this year at his old home in Germany, studying his native language. Professor Frerichs is a man of deep and firm convictions, and is deliberate and calm of manner. He is always helpful, hopeful and optimistic, and has an infinite capacity for taking pains. The return from abroad of this cheery and dependable personality will be welcomed with genuine gladness. Since 1923 Miss May Chalfant has served on the faculty as professor of French and Spanish. She is also coach of dramatics, and by her unfailing work has kept the standard of Linfield College dramatic presentations up to an unusually high level. She holds the ad¬ miration and respect of the students by her personal interest in them, by her genius as a teacher and coach, and by her wide fund of information on subjects outside her realm of teaching. Her extensive travel in foreign-speaking countries makes her exceptionally well qualified for her teaching of languages. Miss Chalfant received her Master’s degree from the University of Chicago, and has done further graduate work in Stanford University, Uni¬ versity of Paris, University of Madrid, and Columbia University, New York. Hannah M. Wiggman came to Linfield last year to take over the directorship of the commons. The previous five years she spent in Pryor, Montana, as a missionary to the Crow Indians. Miss Wiggman has also done missionary work among the Hopi Indians at Toreva, Arizona, and among the mining settlements in Gebo and Crosby, Wyoming. She is a graduate of the Baptist Missionary Training School in New Y T ork and also of the Bethel Institute in St. Paul, Minnesota. The training in home economics she received at the training school and her experiences in instructing domestic science have made her fully qualified to fill her present position. Among her outstanding characteristics is her loyalty and her consideration for her friends. Le Forest Waterman Sawtelle is decidedly enthusiastic about the future of public speak¬ ing work, recognizes its importance in the life of every college graduate, and imbues his students with his own energy and enthusiasm. He has built up his department until it now embraces a large number of students and may be chosen by a student for his minor sub¬ ject. He is a graduate of the State Normal School of Madison, South Dakota, and also of this college. He holds a Ph. B. from the University of Chicago and has been a graduate student of that university and of the Universities of Oregon and Southern California. William Charles Gregory has been with this institution for two years. He is a graduate of the State College of Washington and received his M. S. degree from that institution. He has done graduate work in the University of Washington, University of Colorado, Golden Gate Law College, and University of Chicago. Professor Gregory has a thorough knowledge of his subject, and in his classes illustrates with interesting anecdotes and experiences. Few are the individuals more affable and sweet-tempered than he or with more interesting and diverting characteristics. Mrs. William R. Frerichs has been teaching German this year while Mr. Frerichs studied in Germany. She holds a B. A. degree in German from the University of Idaho, and taught for two years in that institution. A charming simplicity and dignity of manner that is un¬ usual and that is almost striking sets Mrs. Frerichs apart and gives her individuality. She is sweet-tempered and gracious, and in all and above all, womanly. Alice Clement is a graduate of Pacific University Conservatory of Music, has a B. Mus. from Northwestern University, and has studied in the University of California. She also is a student of piano under Alberto Jonas in Berlin, under Arthur Loeser and Mme. M. M. Liszniewska, and of organ under Lucien E. Becker, F. A. C. O., William R. Boone and Edwin Stanley Seder, F. A. G. O. She has been with the Linfield Conservatory of Music since 1922. An accomplished musician. Miss Clements imparts to those under her an excellent technique and a sympathetic interpretation, and her ability as a teacher is coupled with an attractive , optimistic personality and a friendly disposition. Ralph Ewing Storey, a graduate of Linfield College and a teacher in the institution once before, he is thoroughly familiar with Linfield traditions and aspirations and in sympathy with them. His latest connection with the college began in 192S. Besides his Lit. B. from Linfield, he holds an A. B. from Brown University, a B. D. degree from Newton Theological Institution, an A. M. from the University of Washington, attended Harvard University as a graduate student, and is now a candidate for his Ph. D. degree from the University of Washington. Deliberate in speech and action, genial in temperament, and well steeped in our literature and language is Professor Storey. Page 15

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OAK LEAVES 1931 George Woodford Payne Professor of Classical Languages and Literature Herschel Edgar Hewitt Professor of Physics William Reinhard Frerichs Professor of German May Chalfant Head of Romance Languages Hannah M. Wiggman Director of the College Commons Le Forest Waterman Sawtelle Associate Professor of English William Charles Gregory Professor of Mathematics Mrs. Wm. R. Frerichs Instructor in German Alice Clement Piano, Organ, Theory Ralph Ewing Storey Professor of English Page 14

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OAK LEAVES 1931 Paul J. Orr Pi •ofessor of Education H. W. Lever Athletic Coach and Physical Director William Jabez Jerome Pi -ofessor of Political and Social Sciences Perry Daniel Woods Pi ofessor of Bible arid Religious Education Lebbeus Smith Shumaker Professor of Philosophy James Arthur Macnab Pr ofessor of Biology and Geology Roy Deane Mahaffey Instructor in Spanish Alice Morrison Instructor in History Emanuel Northup Professor Emeritus of Mathematics ♦ Page 16