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

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occstiHOS, 8uiic)iHC anc) ouc)aets ALLEN CONGER , . , registrar . . . uses sta- tistics of present and past records to predict future performance of stude nts . . believes firmly that the nut tests are a real index to ability , . . admits he was only fair in college . . . only made Phi Bete , , threatens to flunk any students who say Zoo-ology . , . second in ferocity is his abomination for people who can ' t pronounce data, status, and apparatus - - . ex- pects his students to read texts for themselves . . . gives the most comprehensive exams of any professor in school . . . efficient and cheerful . . . with a knowing smile guards the mass of knowledge he has about each student. JOHN J HICKSON . , superintendent of build- ings and grounds . , . tall, grey-haired, tanned, mild-mannered, energetic . . . likes engineering . . . hobby is motoring ... his department is only department at Wesleyan that works twelve months . . chief worry is that pa|ama paraders will do damage to girls ' dorms . . , pet gripe: professors who continually leave windows open and the heat on — trying to heat the outside, says Mr, Hickson DONALD B WATKINS - . assistant treasurer - . . acting treasurer this past year . , . black haired, rnustached, dignified, with several gold teeth . . . graduated from Wesleyan with class of 1919 , . . prominent in football, basketball, and baseball while at 0. W. U. hobbies are reading and athletics . . . especially interested in volleyball and handball now , , . hopes to beat Big Bill in handball sometime , , , prefers not to be quoted on the present financial condition of Wesleyan. OFFICE FORCE . , . Never ending patience . . . continually pestered with questions . . . swamped with work, at time of registration and when grades come out. ' Left to right): Stump, Morns, V ald. Top row (left to right): Griffith, Lane. Second row: Hinkle, Foster, Denny, V. Lambert, C. Lambert. Boftorvr row: Gardner. Cruickshank, Palmer, Vogt, Kishler. GRAY CHAPEL [26:

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DEAN SHERIDAN DEAN W HlfNEY DEAN SOMERVILLE JOSEPH SOMERVILLE ... man of international affairs . . . has spent the last twenty years dash- ing around Europe as an interpreter, Y. M C A, secretary, and government official in charge of exchange of prisoners . . . decorated by three nations for his service . . . modest withal . . . forced to flee from Russia after fall of Duma . . , always reads before going to bed . . scorns fiction . . . pursues current events avidly , . . received M, A, in International Affairs from Columbia . . . collects stamps but never mounts them . . . has two young daughters who spoke Czech before English HAROLD SHERIDAN , . . dean of college . . . small, square-shooter . . . shock of gray hair . . . dismisses chapel with benedictory lift of his hands ... for further details see page eighty-two FLORENCE N WHITNEY . . . lends dignity to the most hectic of Monnett fire drills in spite of hair net and cold cream . . . poised assurance that quiets the most frantic of freshmen girls . . . exceedingly dry brand of humor almost rival- ing that of Coolidge . . . jokes, which are many, seem to run to the slips that pass in the night variety from church calendars . . . uses good psychology, never saying don ' t, always let ' s . . . likes two cups of demitasse to keep awake reads poetry well at dinner . . . wonders what there could be to do in Delaware after eleven o ' clock at night . . . one of the few chaperones who looks as if she really enjoys dancing . . . maybe that accounts in part for her popularity as a chaperone , . . climaxed all this year ' s engagements and marriages by becoming Mrs. Vv ' hitney on February 1. [25] CRAY CHAPEL

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U . Clm j ' s eoen-kooi Sock S ' f Top row (left to rigliti. Ivlanypenny. Miner, Baker, Newconib, Jones, Andrews. Second row: Sandmeyer, Johnson, McGregor, Logeman. Bottom row: Manley, Neff, Weisel!, Rmgwald, Meridith. ENGLISH WRITERS ' CLUB , . . exclusive group of selected composers . . , plans to edit book of original writings on Wesleyan life . . organized for constructive criticism EARNEST F. AMY . . . fatherly smile . . , charm- ing speaking voice . , . precise pronunciation , , , attitude of teaching for pleasure rather than because of necessity , , , golf and rare editions his chief hobbies, RUTH E. FICKEL , prefers class discussions to lecturing . , , dotes on browsing about Ye Olde Booke Shoppes . has bumped into such celebrities as Jean Hersholt while thus meander- ing , has travelled in Europe MARIE DRENNAN . . dynamic personality . . , master of the English language . . . employs subtle humor and sarcasm in lectures . . , likes to chant poetry and does dialect to perfection RUTH DAVIES . . Wesleyan graduate , , Phi Bete . . . born in Mexico , , , couldn ' t speak English when she came to the States . . hobbies: collecting daggers, crafts, palmistry, music BENJAMIN T. SPENCER . . . tall . . . slender . , , expressive brown eyes . . , lectures carefully indexed on cards . . , always ready with sarcastic remarks for his favorites . . . likes conferences . . . gives helpful criticism RICHARD M, KAIN . . . known as schoolboy professor . , . admits passion for the primitive- ness of Hemmingway and modern novelists . . . possesses laudable habit of not taking roll E. C. MATHEWS . , . smooth-spoken . . . mus- tached . . . calm, frail . , . hobbies: reading mod- ern languages, contract bridge , , . eight hours in Porto Rican hiirricane most exciting time in his life. [27] CRAY CHAPEL