Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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REED COLLEGE ANNUAL l 9 1 5 I331 Soon after she came to college Alma Voleta Bufton became prominent in student affairs. She was elected secretary of the first Student Council and servd diligently in that capacity until 1913. She was also on the com- mittee which Chose the college color. Miss Buftonls principal col- lege work has been done in German literature. She has taken Faust as the subject of hef major thesis and wil consider the sec- ond part of the drama particu- larly, with reference to Goethe,s classical tendencies. Thru her interest in German, Miss Bufton became a charter member of the Deutsche Verein, and has re- maind activ in that organiza- tion. She has also been a loyal participant in the meetings of the Current Events Club, and has servd at varins times as its president, sergeant-at-arms, and editor. Miss anton,s athletic interest centers in baseball and she has been captain of her clas team during the past year. Clara Louise Wuest had the distinction of being the first person to register as a student in Reed College. Miss Wuest has done her major work in the Department of Germanic Lan- guages. She has also shown special interest in the activity of the Department of Education. In this connection her work has resulted in two notable papers on local educational problems. Miss Wuestls part in the musical life of the college is note- worthy. During the past year she has been a college soloist for the Sunday vesper servises, and in 1913-1914 sang contralto in the college quire of four mem- bers. She has also taken part in numerus college musical events, and is a member of the corus. Her activities as a singer in the city include work as soloist for the Portland Oratorio Society and as a member of the quire of the Centenary M. E. Church. She is especially interested in lyrical interpretation. Miss Wuestls activity in athletic affairs has been chiefly in connection with the May-dances. She was leader of the sofomore May-pole dancers in 1913 and a member of the May-

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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

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1341 REED dance committee in 1914. Miss VVuest is a member of the Drama Club, and 0f the Deutsche Verein. She has held the ofhs of sergeant-at-arms in the Clas of 1915 for three years. Miss VVuest plans to teach after graduation. She is also preparing to continue her training and activity as a singer. m Lizzie Margaret Ross has been one of the first of the stu- dents of Reed College to go out from the institution to the prac- tical business of life. Having en- terd from the University of Ore- gon with advanst standing, she was able to gain the required amount of credits for gradua- tion by the summer of 1914. She left Portland the folloing winter to take up the work of teaching history in the high scool at Brownsville, Oregon, where she is also assisting in other depart- ments. She wil return in June to be given her degree. Miss Ross has done her major work in history, correlating it with education in an investiga- tion upon the teaching of history in secondary scools. She . :2;-.;f-' COLLEGE ANNUAL .I- 1915 also studied the methods of instruction in mathematics in the loer grades and taut arithmetic in the scool conducted for the children of the faculty. As a leader in the musical life of the college, Howard Dunham Barlow has been particularly conspicuus. Upon his arrival at Reed he was put in charge of the corms, with which he has done remarkably success- ful work. developing it from a group of untrained singers, to one of the best drild organiza- tions of its kind in the city. He has directed numerus college concerts, besides doing some solo work himself, and in addi- tion, he has had charge of one of the Portland church quires. His recent appointment to a graduate scolarship at Columbia is a signal recognition of his ability in music. Mr. Barlow has been a prom- inent figure in college dramatics. He took leading parts in The Traveling Alan by Lady Gregory, and in Galsworthyls Pigeon. He also playd the Pool in the