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

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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.

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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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1-i'l.EfEljtlU I B I E -- -- Zin illlrxnnriazn Joseph Cullen Messick, Professor of Latin, was born in Mechanicsburg, May 1, 1876, and departed this life at his home in Delaware February 3, 1916. Although young, both in years and in his profession, his ability as a teacher had already attained recognition from many institutions throughout the country. His early death cuts short a career that promised much, and creates a vacancy in our Faculty that will indeed be hard to fill. None knew him but to love him. He taught more than declensions and conjugationsg he instilled in those who sat in his classes a love of the finer things in life and at all times he set before them the example of a truly Christian gentleman. The following resolutions, adopted by the Student Body, tell of the esteem and affection with which both students and faculty regarded him: Whereas, Almighty God, in His infinite wisdom, has seen fit to call from us our esteemed professor, Joseph Cullen Messick, and Whereas, We realize that the University has lost a loyal and diligent servant whose life among us has been one of inspiration and devotion, be it Resolved, That we, the students of the Ohio Wesleyan University, bear testimony to his many virtues and offer our deepest sympathy to his bereaved family. 16