Ohio Wesleyan University - Le Bijou Yearbook (Delaware, OH)

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llwl.l - Sam Jones.Chaney, '09, President Gooding College, Gooding, Idaho. The followlng is a list of Ohio Wesleyan graduates who have served as college presidents. Some of these are now deceased. Others have turned to other fields of endeavor. Wllllam Fletcher King, President Emeritus Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Joseph E. Stubbs, '73, President University of Nevada. Wilbur P. Thirkield, '76, President Howard College and Gammon Theological Seminary, New Orleans, La. Albert B. Piker, '79, President of Mt. Union College, Parkersburg, W. Va. William F. McDowell, '79, President of Denver University, Chicago, Ill. Francis J. McConnell, '94, President of DePauw University, Denver, Colorado. Edwin H. Hughes, '89, President DePauw University, San Francisco, Cal. Robert P. Smith, '95, President of Kansas University, Salina, Kans. On the faculty of some of the leading colleges can be found Ohio Wesleyan men the men- tion of whose names means authority in their particular departments of instruction. John Williams White, now emeritus Professor of Greek in Harvard University, has for years been known as a leading authority on Greek language and literature, while Eugene Wambaugh has held a similar reputation in the department of international law at Harvard. Professor Edwin Grant Conklin heads the department of Zoology at Princeton University and Professor L. C. Marchall is Dean of the College of Business Administration of the University of Chicago. The list of Ohio Wesleyan men in educational work must be limited here. The University has recently published a booklet devoted entirely to this subject. But not alone in these fields have Ohio Wesleyan men been achieving reputations. In politics a few years ago we were represented by Charles W. Fairbanks, as vice president of the United States, by ohn M. Pattison and Myron T. Herrick as Governors of Ohio, by Con- gressman Willam R. Warnock of Ohio, and Washington Gardner of Michigan. After eleven years of service Judge George W. Atkinson resigned last March from the bench of the federal court of claims, to which he was elected at the close of a successful administration as chief executive of the state of West Virginia. Mr. Andrew O. Fleming is State Representative from Mahoning County, while C. C. Dill of Spokane is Congressman from Washington. The forth- coming elections have attracted the aspiration of four Ohio Wesleyan alumni. Among the candidates for the Presidency, Charles Warren Fairbanks is favored by a number of republicans and is being heartily supported by the citizens of the Hoosier State. For the Ohio senatorshrp race in the primaries of August, Judge D. D. Woodmansee of Cincinnati, and former Ambassa- dor, Myron T. Herrick have announced their candidacy, while Cyrus Locher, prosecuting attorney of Cuyhoga County is being mentioned for governor of Ohio on the Democratic ticket. A number of Ohio Wesleyan men are en aged in the practice of law, among whom are George B. Harris, Assistant Attorney General of Ohio, and William W. Gurley, who stands out as one of the leaders of the Illinois Bar. In banking, there is William Van Zandt Cox, nephew of the eminent Sunset Cox of New York, president of the Second National Bank of Washington, D. C., who is also prominent in the Democratic party, having been treasurer of the Wilson Inaugural Committee, and Clifford Bailey Wright, son of the founder of the Wright Professorship of Greek language and literature, who is president of the Union Savings Bank and Trust Company of Cincinnati. No small group of alumni have chosen the field of insurance, and some already have risen to prominence, among whom are Jesse R. Clark, presi- dent of the Union Central Life Insturance Company of Cincinnati, and George L. Williams, secretary of the company, and Willis O. Robb, Manager of the New York Fire Insurance Com- pany, who is regarded as the leading authority on fire insurance in the country according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a statement made after he had addressed the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, last December. It is interesting to note that the traction lines of two of our metropolitan cities are headed by Ohio Wesleyan alumni, with Leonard A. Busby as president of the Chicago Surface Lines and Walter A. Draper vice-president of the Cincinnati Traction Company. In the literary and journalistic field, the University is represented by Edward J. Wheeler, Editor of Current Opinion, William F. Bigelow, Editor of Good Housekeeping, John B. Willis, Editor of the Christian Science Journal, Stella Virginia Roderick, Associate Editor of Every- body's Magazine, and by Patience Bevier Cole as writer of note and contributor to several of the leading monthly publications. Mr. Edward Keen is European Manager of the United Press ssociation. Ohio Wesleyan has always stood for the development of the highest ideals in all of its students and it does not seem strange that this spirit of idealism should pervade the work of Amelia Bingham, one of the foremost interpreters of the drama on the modern stage.. And that Miss Ella Robb should be found as the General Secretary of the Civic Club .of Philadel- phia, an organization of women which has been influential in creating a greater civic lnterest 14

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Qlilwlii ' Our Hall of Fame S. RAYMOND THORNBURG, Alumni Secretarty 7? X FTER all a college is judged, not by the beauty of its campus, not by the impressive- Ilt7A Nik ness of its buildings, not by the success of its teams, it is judged by the results it i7'5if'hj produces, in other words, by the type of men it turns out, and by their success in the world. The true mission of the college is to develop men and women of strong character, of personality, of ideals, of broad vision, men and women who can take a leading part in the world about them. There is an intellectual and cultural benefit derived from a college course that cannot be reckonedg there is also a relatively lower consideration, which is capable of easy evaluation. That a college does fit those who enjoy its benefits for a more successful life is evidenced by the statistics given in the latest volume of Who's Who in America, in which appear the names of 17,546 of the leading men and women of the United States. Of these more than 71'1, are college trained. It follows then that the community, the county and particularly the prospective student, if he be a thinking individual, will judge the institution in part at least, by the type of alumni that it has turned out. Ohio Wesleyan is as yet young in years as compared with some of the other eastern insti- tutions, and the majority of her alumni are just now coming into that period of their lives when they assume positions of prominence and rise to leadership. A large number have already achieved the highest places in their field. Among her sons and daughters are found presidents of colleges, government officials, including a vice president of the United States, diplomats, federal judges, two governors of Ohio, two attorneys general, eight bishops of the Methodist Church, a large number of preachers, lawyers and missionaries and enough college professors, school superintendents and literary men to enlighten the world or darken the counsels of mankind. Their influence has gone out to every corner of the world. But the alumni, in whom we are most interested are those that are today most active, and whose example may prove an inspiration to us. In order that we may more easily note the activities of our alumni, let us divide them into three classes 3 those interested in religious work, those in the educational field and those engaged in general business activities. The first, on the whole, we are more familiar with than any others. Among the leaders in the church, Ohio Wesleyan men stand high. Although only one among more than fifty Methodist colleges in the country, we number among our alumni one-fourth of the bishops of the Methodist Church. What Ohio Wesleyan alumnus is not familiar with, and proud of the names of McDowell, Luccock, Anderson, Thirkield, Hughes and McConnel?l Then we should not forget the name of Elijah Hoss of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In addition to the members of the Episcopacy, there are a great number of prominent ministers of the Methodist Church too numerous to mention here, who are Ohio Wesleyan alumni. But the Methodist Church cannot claim all Ohio Wesleyan men in their service, a number having reached exceptional pastorates in other churches. Two of these occupy important places in metropolitan pulpitsg in New York is Dr. Charles E. Jefferson who is one of the prominent pacifists of the day, and a leader in the American Society for International Conciliation, while in Chicago we boast of Dr. Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus of Central Church, by some styled, the greatest living American preacher. In the Y. M. C. A. work, Ohio Wesleyan is repre- sented on the Inter-National Committee by Harrison Elliott, while Miss Mabel Cratty is secretary of the National Board of the Y. W. C. A. Dr. Louis Oliver Hartman is secretary of the Foreign Department of the Board of Sunday Schools of the Methodist Church. Turning now to another field of altruistic work we find that Ohio Wesleyan is particularly well represented in college administration by the following college presidents: Hiram H. Lowry, '67, President of Peking University, Peking, China. Edward Fairchild, '72, President of New Hampshire College, Durham, N. H. Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, '75, President of Armour Institute, Chicago, Ill. Edwin E. Sparks, ex'84, President Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. Guy Potter Benton, ex'85, President University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. John I. Cassidy, '85, President of National Park Seminary, Forest Glen, Md. Albert F. Smith, '87, President of Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio. J. Grant Cragbe, '89, President East Kentucky State Normal, Richmond, Ky. Wilbur Nesbitt Mason, '90, President of Baker University, Baldwin, Kans. Frank R. McVey, '93, President of North Dakota University, University, N. D. Everett McCaskill, '93, President Wisconsin State Normal, Superlor, Wls. George R. Grose, '94, President DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind. Ryland M. Black, '95, President of North Dakota State Normal and Industrial School, Wahpeton, N. D. 13

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---illllll in Philadelphia, laying special emphasis on charities and corrections, public health, industrial conditions, fine arts municipal art, and good citlzenship. To give a general idea of our alumni, a hasty survey such as this will sutiiceg but there is always this injustice, that there are many men who have made just as conspicuous a success, whose 'achievements are ust as marked, and yet whose names have not occured to the writer. On the other hand, were a 1 the names mentioned that are worth mentioning, more space would be required than is here allotted. However, we confine ourselves to this small group, realizing that Ohio Wesleyan has a much larger group of men who are entitled to a place in any Who's Who in Ohio Wesleyan.