McKendree University - McKendrean Yearbook (Lebanon, IL)

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GEORGE W. GREENWOOD, A. M. Professor ol Mathematics and AstroTiomy. 5

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WILLIAM C. WALTON, PHD. PROFESSOR OF GREEK. The subject of this sketcli. William C. Walton, was born in [.incoln count , Mo., in 1866, When not quite a vear old his i)arei-,ts moved to Illinois, in which State lie has spent the sjreater part of his life: his boyhood days were spent upon a farm near Brighti.m. Ill, where he attended school and worked during the vacation on the farm. He graduated from the ISrightnn I litjh School in 1886 and soon after took up teaching in the public school where he taught for two years. In 1888 he entered McKendree College and after pursuing a four years ' course he graduated in iSi). , receiving tlic degree of Bachelor of Arts. Shortlv after his graduation from McKendree he joined the Snutbern Illinois Conference of the Methtxlist Episcopal Church, where he served two years in the pastorate until i.S()4. when he was elected to the Chair of Creek in McKendree College, which position he holds at the present time. In i8()3 the cks;ree of F hd. was conferred upon him by his alma mater. I ' rof. Walton was elected ' ice-President of McKendree in iS ' ). which jiosition he still retains, thus having seen continuous service on the faculty since 1S94. Prof. Walton is a leading member of the M. R. Clitircli and a man of high ideals; as an instructor of fircek he is a capable and tireless worker; it is his object in teaching this difticull language to make it a pleas- ure instead of a task to the student.

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GEORGE WILLIAM GREENWOOD, A. M. PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY. George William Greenwood was born in Pittsburg, Pa., March lo. 1875. Wlien one year old his parents moved to Dunbar. Pa., his father at that time being employed by a large coal company in the Col- linsville coke region. When fifteen vears old he left school to accept a position as bookkeeper with a large firm, ar.d with the exception of seven months spent at a private academy, he worked until twiMity-one years old, imtting in spare time in later years preparing for college. In October, 1896. he became a member of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, of England, where lie t.wk up the honor course in mathematics. At the end of the second year in college he received second class honors in matheinatics. The next year he returned to Pennsylvania, where he taught school for one year, wheii he returned to Oxford Universit - to complete his fourth ear work, at the end of which he received first class lienors in mathematics. On July 7, 1900. he received the degree of I ' .achelor of y rts from Oxford University, and a short time afterward was elected to the Chair of Mathematics and Astronomy in McKendree College, which p osi- tion he still retains. Prof. Greenwood visited Oxford University during the summer of 1904, and on June 23, received the degree of Master of Arts, which was presented by Canon Edward Moore, of Cantebury. Prof, Green- wood ' s ability as instructor in mathematics is not only recognized by the best mathematical journals in the country, to which he frequently contributes original problems, but his election as a member of the three great s x:icties of mathematics, namely, the American Mathematical Society, Oxford Mathematical Society, and the Central .Association of Science and Mathem?tical Teacher, is in it.self a testimonial of which he may well he proud. On Januarv 1, 1905, Prof, Greenwood was elected a member of the American .Association for the .Vdvancement of Science.