Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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REV. JOHN A. W. HAAS, D. D. President; Professor of Religion and Philosophy. A. B. (Latin Salutatorian), University of Pennsylvania, 1884: A. M., and B. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1887; D. D., Thiel College, 1902. Bom in Philadelphia, August 31, 1862. Prepared at Parochial School of Zion’s Church and Protestant Episcopal Academy. Entered Mt. Airy Seminary 1884; ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church 1887. Graduate Work at the Uni- versity of Leipsic 1887-88. Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, New York City, from 1889 to 1896; Pastor of St. Paul ' s Church from 1896 to 1904, erecting a new church for this congregation in 1898. Elected fourth President of Muhlenberg College in 1904. Member of Pennsylvania German Society. Co-editor with Prof. Henry Eyster Jacobs, D. D„ of the Luthern Cyclopedia. Author of Annotation on the Gospel of St. Mark (Lutheran Commentary); author of “Bible Literature” and “Biblical Criticism”, and many valuable articles on theology. GEORGE T. ETT1NGER, Ph. D. Dean; Professor of Latin Language and Literature, and Pedagogy. A. B (Valedictorian), Muhlenberg College, 1880; A. M., Muhlenberg Col- lege, 1883; Ph D. New York University, 1891. Born at Allentown, Pa., November 8, I860. Prepared in private school and the Academic Department of Muhlenberg. Instructor in the Academic Department, 1881-84; Principal of the Academic Department 1884-92. Professor of Latin at Muhlenberg since 1892. Alumni Editor of “The Muhlenberg” since 1886. Fifteen years a Director of the Public Schools, and for a number of years President and later Secretary of the Board of Control. Member of the Pennsylvania German Soc- iety, the American Philological Society, the Pennsylvania Historical Society. President of the Lehigh County Historical Society, Secretary and Treasurer of the Alumni Association of Muhlenberg College, and Secretary of the Lehigh Prison Board. REV. WILLIAM WACKERNAGEL, D. D. Chaplain; Professor of Modern Languages and Literature. A. M., Muhlenberg College, 1882; D. D. University of Pennsylvania, 1883. Born at Basel, on the Rhine, Switzerland, September 25, 1838. Educated at Basel. Missionary in the Holy Land 1859-70. Assistant editor of “Der Pilger,” Reading, Pa., 1870-76. Ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church 1876. Pastor of St. John’s Church, Mauch Chunk, 1876-81; founded St. John’s Church, East Mauch Chunk, 1880. Professor at Muhlenberg since 1881. Pastor of St. Thomas Church, Altoona, Pa., 1884-87. Geiman Secretary of the Lutheran MiniSterium of Pennsylvania, 1882-87. Author of “Liedergeschichten,” “Dr. Martin Luther,” and “Hans Egede ; editor of the “Jugend Freund”; a frequent contributer to various church periodicals. REV. JOHN A. BAUMAN. Ph. D. Librarian; Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. A. B.( Valedictorian ), Muhlenberg College, 1873; A. M., Muhlenberg Col- lege, 1876; Ph. D., Muhlenberg College, 1894. Born at South EaSlon, Pa., September 21, 1847. Prepared at the Quakertown Seminary. Was gradu- ated from Mt. Airy Seminary, 1876, and ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church. PaStor in Westmoreland County, Pa., 1876-77. Vice-Piincipal cf the Keystone State Normal School and Professor of Mathematics, Kutztown, Pa., 1877-81. Professor of Latin and German at Gustavus Adolphus College, 1881-85; Asa Packer Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences at Muhlen- berg College, 1885-97, and since then Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. The first alumnus to be elected to a Professorship at Muhlenberg. ROBERT C. HORN, A. M. Mosser-Keck Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. A. B. (third honor), Muhlenberg, 1900; A. M., Muhlenberg College, 1903; A. M., Harvard University, 1904. Born in Charleston, S. C. Was graduated from the Charleston High School, 1896, with first honor. Entered Charleston College, 1896; entered Sophomore Class at Muhlenberg College, 1897. Gradu- ate work at John Hopkins University, 1900-01. Instructor in Ancient and Modern Languages at the North Carolina Military Academy, Red Springs, N. C., 1901 03. A graduate Student of Classical Philology at Harvard Univer- sity, 1903 04. Appointed Instructor of the Greek Language and Literature, 1904; later elected to the Mosser-Keck Chair. Spent summer of 1906 in Greece. Leave of absence for study at Harvard University, ]908 09. 22