Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Rev. John A. W. Haas, D.D., LL.D. President; and Professor of Religion and Philosophy Born at Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 31, 1862. Prepared at Parochial School Zion’s Church and Protestant Episcopal Academy. A. B. University of Pennsylvania 1884. Mt. Airy Theological Seminary, Ordained 1887. A. M. and B. D. University of Pennsylvania 1887. Phi Beta Kappa. University of Leipsic 1887-88. D. D. Thiel College 1902. Fourth President of Muhlenberg 1904. LL. D. University of Pennsylvania 1914. Doctor Haas has done wonderful work as President of our Alma Mater in bringing it to the position it occupies in the collegiate world. Being inducted into the presidency just as the college moved to its present site, he has seen it grow in all respects — number of buildings, men on the faculty, and number of students — until the present equipment is stretched to the breaking point. He has now turned his energy to arousing the friends of Muhlenberg to the needs of the institution and will make a speech anywhere and anytime that is likely to aid his hobby, the making of a Greater Muhlenberg. We students know him best when in the office he becomes one of “us fellows” and shows a deep interest in all things close to a college man’s heart. Many are the arguments which occur in “Bernie’s” office during the wait for the afternoon mail. Doctor Haas usually upholds one side and the rest of us the opposite side. When announcement is made that Doctor Haas will speak in chapel, most of the students attend for they know something is going to happen. His subjects range from dancing to the undesireability of certain kinds of students. We know our president best not as the preacher, not as the lecturer, but as the little fun-loving man who pants when he becomes excited. Page Fourteen

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FOREWORD EAR of those higher up limits us in the material we can use in the sketches ol the pro- lessors and the other records in this section ol our hook. We hope that the reader will read between the lines.

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George T. Ettinger, Ph.D., LL.D. Dean; Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Born at Allentown, Pa., Nov. 8, 1860. Prepared at Private School and the Academic Department of Muhlenberg College. A. B. (Valedictorian! Muhlen- berg College 1860. Phi Gamma Delta. A. M. Muhlen- berg College 1883. Principal of the Academic De- partment 1884-92. Ph.D. New York University 1891. President of the Muhlenberg Alumni Association. Professor of Latin and Pedagogy 1892-1917. Pro- fessor of Latin since 1917. LL. D. Muhlenberg College 1920. This is our dean. Altho he is a small man in stature he is large in the work he has done for Muhlenberg. Being connected with the institution, first as a student, then as principal of the academic department and now for many years professor and dean of the faculty he has seen the enroll- ment grow from less than a hundred to almost three hundred, and expand from its cramped quarters at Fourth and Walnut Sts. to its large and beautiful campus on the present site. Doctor Ettinger is the custodian of the big book, by the signing of which we be- came bona fide students of Muhlenberg. In “The Dean” are personified those traditions which mean so much to Muhlenberg and the development of college spirit. He is a good friend to every Muhlenberg man and will do anything for us except allow us to escape taking his “Lat-teen.” Rev. John A. Bauman, Ph.D., D.D. Professor of Mathematics Born at Easton Pa., September 21, 1847. A. B. (Valedictorian) Muhlenberg 1873. A. M. Muhlenberg 1876. Ordained a Minister of the Lutheran Church 1876. Professor of Latin, German and English Gustavus Adolphus College, 1881-85. Asa Packer Professor of Natural and Applied Science Muhlenberg 1885-97. Ph. D. Muhlenberg 1894. Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy since 1897. D. D. Muhl- enberg 1920. Dr. Bauman is now the oldest man on the Muhlenberg faculty both in point of years and service. Sitting at his chair and hand- ing us our marks on folded pieces of paper, Doctor Bauman personifies the accurate- ness which he tries to instill in the usually wandering minds of the college student. Doctor Bauman has had a varied exper- ience in the teaching profession. He has taught a great number of subjects since he was elected to the Muhlenberg faculty. His courses have ranged from the classics to the sciences but in later years he was con- fined himself to mathematics. We can imagine no finer enjoyment for Dr. Bauman than will come to him as the plans for a Greater Muhlenberg become realized. A bigger, finer school is only pos- sible for us because the seeds of greatness have been sown by men of devotion and un- selfishness. We count Dr. Bauman as one of the little band of illustrious pioneers which has made a greater Alma Mater pos- sible. Page Fifteen