Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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REED COLLEGE ADHQUAl German drama, Beth and the F001, produced by the German department. His major work was done in the Department of English, with special attention to the drama. His thesis for graduation is on the American social drama. LA Agnes Isabel Winchell has ritten several rather noteworthy papers in connection with her work in the Department of Biol- ogy. One of these is The Rela- tion Between the Form and Function of an Organ, and ana other, The Origin of the Blood Vascular System. Miss Winchell has paid considerable attention to scientific subjects and has been especially interested in the fysio- logical and hygienic aspects of biology in connection with girls. She does not plan to continue her research work in biology after graduation, however, but wil dee vote her attention to the study of music. Miss Wlinchell has taken an activ interest in civic affairs and was president of the Current Events Club for two years. , .Lvn, t 1915 B$ She is now an efficient worker in that department of the Amanda Reed Association. She is also a member of the Biol- ogy Club. In athletics her principal activity has been in basketball. She playd on the senior team this year and was also a member of the track team. She is one of the most enthusiastic cros- euntry walkers in the clas, and was a charter member of the Hikersl Club. a: Lowell Clarence Bradford is one of the Reed students who hav alredy applied their college lore to practical affairs. Altho his major subject is sociology he has always been interested in political science, and has workt in two political campains in Portland. Last fall he spoke on the twenty-nine mesures sub- mitted to the voters, and the previus year he was activ in the campain for commission government. He has also workt in the Oregon Civic Leag. In college, honors wer early offerd Mr. Bradford, and he was elected president of his clas in its freshman year. For the past year he has been an advisory member of the Student Coun- cil. He has sung with the corus for the last two years. He is also a member of the Christian Association. As for particular student activities, debating has claimd most of Mr. Bradfordls attention. He was manager of the inter-clas debates for 1914, and was a member of his clas team.

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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

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lumbia. He managed the inter-eollegiate debates with the University of Washington last winter, and was a member of the afhrmativ team. He has also taken an enthusiastic interest in ches, hav- ing founded the Ches Club, and servd as secretary and president. Mr. Bradford is completing the usual course in three years. In the field of sociology, social servis particularly attracts him; and he is strongly interested in the relation of religion and mor- als to sociology. His seminar thesis is a study of the relation of the family and the state. Courses in English literature hav also formd a large part of his elections, and he has been tutor in English for the past year. After graduation Mr. Bradford expects to teach and to do graduate work in sociology at C0- Elsa Francesca Gill has been an efficient member of the col- lege community with varied interests in student activity, in- REED COLLEGE ANNUAL -1- 1915 eluding dramatics, social servis, student government, athletics and student journalism. In her senior year she has been hon- ord with the offis of vice-president of the Student Council. Miss Gill was leader of her clas May-dance in 1914, and helpt design the Maypole dance given by the clas the year be- fore. She was elected associate editor of the Quest for the first semester Of 1913-1914, was the first associate editor under the Quest charter, and has been a contributing editor since that time. She has also been a mem- ber of this yearis Annual staf. The corus, the Drama Club and the French Club ar organiza- tions in which she has member- ship. Miss Gillis interest in social servis centers around the recre- ation problem; she is working with Margaret Creeeh on a rece reational survey of Portland; and is connected with the recently organized committee on municipal dances and dance-hall reg- ulation. In athletics Miss Gill has playd basketball, and has been a member of her clas track team. Ir