Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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MuWfcRG GEORGE T. ETTINGER, Ph. D., Dean Professor of the Lati n Language and Literature Born in Allentown, Pa., November 8, 1860. Prepared in the private school of Miss S. 1 . Magruder and the Academic Department of Muhlenberg College. A. B., with Junior Prize in Oratory and First Honor and Valedictory, Muhlenberg College, 1880. Ph: Gamma Delta Fraternity. A. M., Muhlenberg College, 1883. Ph. D., New York University, 1891. Instructor in the Academic Department of Muhlenberg College, 1880-1884. Principal of the Academic Department, 1884 1892. Professor of Latin and Pedagogy, 1892-1917. Professor of Latin since 1917. Dean of Muhlenberg College since 1904. President of the Alumni Association of Muhlenberg College. For fifteen years a Direc- tor of the Public Schools of Allentown (I ’res- ilient and Secretary at various times). First President of the Lehigh County Historical So- ciety. Ex-President of the Pennsylvania-Ger- man Society. President of the Allentown Pub lie Library. Director of the Lutheran Theolog- ical Seminary at Mt. Airy. Member of the Le- high County Historical Society, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The American His torical Association, The National Geographic Society, The American Philological Society, The Pennsylvania Society of New York, The National Institute of Social Sciences, and Fel- low of the American Geographical Society. Joint Editor of “Geographical and Personal Memoirs of the Lehigh Valley,’’ with John IV. Jordan, LL. D., and Edgar M. Green, A. M., M. D. Literary Editor of the Allentown ‘ Morning Call. ’ ’ REV. WILLIAM WACKERNAGEL, D. D., Chaplain Professor of Modem Languages and Literature Born at Basel-on-the-Rhine, Switzerland, September 2.1, 1838. Early education at Basel. Lay Missionary in the Holy Land, 1859-70. As- sistant Editor of “ Der Pilger, ’ ’ 1870-76. Or dained Lutheran Minister, 1876. Pastor, St. John ' s Church, Man eh Chunk. Pa., 1876-81. Founded St. John’s, East Mauch Chunk, 1880. Professor at Muhlenberg College since 1880. A. M., Muhlenberg College, 1882. D. ])., Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1883. Pastor St. Stephen’s Church, Allentown, Pa., 1897-1900. German Secretary of the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, 1882-1887. Author: “Lie- dergeshichten, ’ ’ “Dr. Martin Luther,’’ “Hans Egede. ’ ’ Editor of ‘ ‘ Jugend Freund. ’ ’ LL. D., Muhlenberg College, 1918. 13

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MWfttRG REV. JOHN A. W. HAAS. D. D., LL. D„ President Professor of Keligion and Philosophy Born at Philadelphia, Pa., August 31, 1862. Prepared at Parochial School of Zion’s Church and Protestant Episcopal Academy. A. B., University of Pennsylvania, 1884. Entered Mt. Airy Theological Seminary, 1884. Ordained, 1887. A. M. and B. D., University of Penn- sylvania, 1887. Graduate work, University of Leipsic, 1887-88. Pastor, Grace Lutheran Church, New York City, 1889-96. Pastor, St. Paul’s Church, 1896-04. D. D., Thiel College, 1902. Fourth President of Muhlenberg College, 1904. LL. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1914. Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity, University of Pennsylvania, 1918. Member of College Presidents ’ Association of Pennsylvania. Member of American College Presidents’ Association. President, Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, 1913- 1916. Member of Board of Adjudication, United Lutheran Church, 1918. President of Com- mittee on Evangelization, Allentown Federation of Churches, 1918. Director, Mt. Airy Theo- logical Seminary. Co-Editor, with Professor Henry Eyster Jacobs, D. D., “Lutheran Cyclo- pedia.’’ Author: “Annotations on St. Mark,’’ “Bible Literature,’’ “Biblical Criticism,’’ “Trends of Thought and Christian Truth,’’ “The Menace to the Ideal of the Free State.’’ Convocation Speaker at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1915. Lecturer on Reformation Topics, 1916-17. Preacher at Harvard University, 1917. 12

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REV. JOHN A. BAUMAN, Ph. D. Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy Born in Easton, Pa., September 21, 1847. Prepared at Quakertown Seminary. A. B. (Val- edictorian), Muhlenberg College, 1873. A. M., Muhlenberg College, 1876. Graduated from ML Airy Seminary and ordained, 1876. Pastor in Westmoreland County, Pa., 1876-77. Vice- Principal and Professor of Mathematics, Key- stone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pa., 18 -1831. Professor of Latin, German, and English at Gustavus Adolphus College, 1881-85, Asa Packer Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences at Muhlenberg College, 1885-97. Ph. D- Muhlenberg College, 1894. Pastor of St. Paul ' s Lutheran Church, Fountain Hill, Pa. Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Muhlenberg College since 1897. The first alumnus to be elected to a Professorship at Muhlenberg College. ROBERT C. HORN, A. M. Mosser-Keck Professor of the Greek Language and Literature Born in Charleston, S. C., September 12, 1881. Graduated with first honor from Charles- ton High School, 1896. Entered Charleston Col- lege, 1896. Entered Sophomore Class, Muhlen- berg College, 1897. A. B. (Third Honor), Muhlenberg College, 1900. Graduate work at Johns-Hopkins University, 1900-01. A. M., Muhlenberg College, 1903. A. M., Harvard University, 1904. Instructor of Ancient and Modern Languages in the North Carolina Mili- tary Academy, Red Springs, N. C., 1901-03. Graduate Student of Classical Philology at Harvard University, 1903-04. Appointed In- structor of the Greek Language and Literature at Muhlenberg College, 1904. Elected 1905, to the Mosser-Kec-k Chair. Leave of absence for study at Harvard University, 1907-08. Member of the American Philological Association, Archaeological Institute of America, and Classical Association of the Middle Atlantic States. Contributor of articles to the ‘ 1 Luth- eran, ’ ’ “ Classical J ournal, ” “ American Lutheran Survey, ’ ’ and other papers. Ap pointed Editor of the History of Muhlenberg College to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the College and the four-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation. 14