Randolph Macon College - Helianthus Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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gjarultg. ' QQQQQ PETER MCVICAR, A. M., D. D., President. Q15 Professor of Psychology. JOSEPH T. Loviswau., P11. D., Q25 Projifssor of Physics and Ckemzktrjf. Professor Lovewell is a native of Vermont-was fitted for college in Newburg Seminary, Vt., and graduated from Yale in 1857. His subse- quent years have been spent almost wholly in teaching-First in the High School of Madison, Wis., where he was also Superintendent of city schools, then in a college at Prairie du Chien, and afterward for Eve years Professor of Mathematics in the State Normal School at White- water, Wis. This was succeeded by a return to Yale University in 1873, where after two years study he received the degree of Ph. D., and was appointed instructor in Physics in the Sheffield Scientific School. He left that position to take the chair of Physics and Chemistry in Pennsyl- vania State College. Professor Lovewell came to Kansas in 1878, and entered the field of duty in which he is at present engaged. LUTHER D. WH1'1 rEMoRE, A. M., Q35 Projiusor of Ike Lalin Lzzngufzge and Litemlure. - . Professor Whittemore was born at Oxford, N. H., in 1858. He grad7 uated from Barre Academy, Barre, Vt., in 1876, entered Amherst Col- lege and graduated with the class of '80, latertaking the degree of A. M. from the same college. He was assistant principal of Barre Academy the year after his graduation-from college, and in ISSI accepted the po- sition of Superintendent and Principal of the city schools of Hiawatha, Kas., which position he held till he was elected to the chair of Latin Language and Literature in Washburn in 1884. 13

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FREDERICK W. ELLIS, A. B., Q45 Professor of ilze Greela Language and Liieraiare. Professor Ellis was born at Ansonia, Conn. After graduating at Yale University in 1889, he spent the next year at the same institution, in graduate work, giving special attention to the Semitic Languages and Biblical Literature. The year 1891-'92 he was Professor of Greek and Latin at Davis Military College, Winston, N. C. It was during this year that he was elected to the chair he now holds. Professor Ellis is a mem- ber of the American Philological Association. MAUD FULKERSON, A. M., Q65 Insiruetor in French ana' German. Miss Fulkerson graduated from De Pahw University in 1890, and after graduation she spent two years in France and Germany in the study of the languages and literatures of those countries. Miss Fulkerson re- ceived her Master's degree from her Alma Mater in 1893. She was called to her present position as instructor in Modern Languages at Washburn College in 1892. ROBERT S. WooDwoRTH, A. B., QIS5 Inslructor in Matlzematics. Professor Woodworth is by birth a Massachusetts man. I-Ie attended high school at Newton, Mass., and Boston, and college at Amherst, grad- uating in 1891. He was awarded the mathematics prize in conic sections and calculus and at graduation received summa cum Zaudia on his diploma, an honor which had not been granted by Amherst since 1887. After graduation, Watertown, N. Y., was the scene of his labors, where he was for two years instructor in Physics and Mathematics in the high school of that city. For two years Professor Woodworth has been instructor in Mathematics at Washburn, and his hearty sympathy with the students has been shown by his interest in the athletics of the college, and in the management of the Glee Club, which has been under his directorship. . I4