Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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REED COLLEGE ANWUJAL 1915 1311 Bessie Catherine Owens has been a major student in the Department of Education. She is interested in her subject chiefly from the sociological standpoint, and supplementary courses which she has elected hav been in the Departments of Sociology and Psycology. Miss Owens had an article, Fighting Unemployment and Destitzttion in- Portland, publisht in the Sur- t'cy for April seventeenth, 1915. For her senior thesis she has workt on a study for mesuring ability in spelling fonetic and non-fonetic words, both studied and unstudied, based on a text given to the ninth grades of thirty-four Portland grammar scools. Miss Owensl extra-curricular activities hav been numerus. In her freshman and senior years she was secretary of her Clas, and as a junior she held the same 0th in the Current Events Club. She has also belongd to the Consumer's Leag and the Drama Club. Possessing a strong contralto voice, Miss Owens has taken part in college musical activities. She has sung with the corus, the Antigone corus and the college quartet. In 1913 she servd on the staf of the '? E Quest. 1n social activities, she has been activ in promoting hiking and skating parties. Miss Owens has taken a very activ part in athletic affairs. She was on the clas basketball team, and was captain in 1914. She is also a good tennis, hand- ball and baseball player. For the past year she has servd as viceepresident of the Athletic Council. After teaching for a few years, Miss Owens expects to do graduate work at Columbia University and later to enter admin- istrativ educational work. As president of the Student Council and student body dur- ing the last two of his three years at Reed, Arthur Andrew Hauck has been intimately connected with the development of student government here. Tact and cheerfulness hav helpt to make him the Choice of the students. Debating and public speaking hav receivd a considerable share of Mr. Haucks attention in his college career. In his freshman year at the University of California he was president of his clas debating club. At Reed he has been vice-president of the John Adams Debating Society and a member of the debate team which defeated the University of Washington at Portland. He has also seen servis in political and social cam- pains in the city, and as reader in Reed Extension Course XI, The Voter and the City of Portland.

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1301 REED COLLEGE ANNUAL -t- 1915 associate editor during the first year of its existence, and assist- ant editor in 1913. She is now vice-president of the senior clas. Miss Fatland has been identih tied with numerus college activ- ities. She was president of the Bibleestudy clas in 1913-1914 and has been sergeant-at-arms of the Current Events Club since its beginning. She has also belongd to the Deutsche Verein, the Biol- ogy Club, and the Psycology Club, and has been prominent in athletics, especially basketball. She made the womenls all-star team in 1914. Tho she is a filosofy major, Miss Fatland has also done important work in the Department of Psycology, conducting a series of mental tests upon delinquent girls at the Police Court last year and assisting in further mental tests given by the department this semester. Her major thesis is a compar- ativ study of Bergson's and Royce's conceptions of time. A; Robert Lincoln Sabin, Junior, is tresurer of the senior Clas. He has demonstrated his executiv ability by the successful work he has done as the chairman of several important committees, among which wer the High- Scool Day committee of last year, the committee entrusted with the task of drawing up the Annual charter, and this years senior Clas-day committee. Mr. Sabin has been activ in debating, beginning his interest in this direction by his member- ship in the John Adams Debating He has debated on his He has distinguisht himself Society. clas team for the last two years. in several lines of athletics, especially tennis, baseball and foot- ball. for three years, and was baseball captain in 1913. He has playd on his clas team in the latter two sports He also rankt recond in the first menis tennis turnament and, paird with Donald Lancelield, won the interclas series of 1914. Mr. Sabin is doing his major work in economics. His the- sis is to be on the Industrial Revolution. Jana. 47.::'-r .,-....l.;:s...,. .V. .

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1321 REED In preparation for work as an educational administrator Mr. Hauck has majord in the Department of Education. His special interest in this department has culminated in a thesis on the servis of Reed College to Portland, particularly with re- spect to the college extension work, As president of the Deutsche Verein and assistant in the department for the year 1913-1914 he has made German an important part of his college course. In the summer and fall of 1914 Mr. Hauck was employd by the Committee of One Hun- dred for Oregon Dry, in an exec- utiv capacity. Mr. Hauck has prominent in athletics. his clas teams in football, basketball and track. also been He made w James Marvin Howes has been a prominent member of the college Christian Association and has shown an interest in the moral life of the institution. In student affairs, besides his connection with the Chris- tian Association, Mr. Howes is distinguisht for having been a COLLEGE ANNUAL 4- 1915 member of the first Student Council, of the Deutsche Verein and of the Biology Club. He was president of the John Adams De- bating Society in 1913, a member of the River day committee in 1912 and business manager of the Quest in 1913-1914. He playd football his fresh- man, sofomore and senior years and baseball in 1912. His par- ticipation in the musical activ- ities of the college has consisted of singing in the corus and the glee club, and in doing some work with the quartet. Mr. Howes' major subject is sociology and his bacheloris thesis is A Comparatiz' Study of Political Views of Roosevelt, Taft and VVz'Ison. He took part in unemployment investigations conducted in 1913-1914. In the biology department he has workt especially on industrial diseases. Mr. Howes interests lie mainly in social servis and in morals. He has been connected with boys clubs and Bible- study clubs in Portland and has done playground work. He interprets his courses practically and in all lines considers things in the light of their bearing on life. .e-m. ;r?;:-.r ., 7......7 7