Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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REED COLLEGE APHWUAL s 1915 MN Helen Louise Walton has done her most intensiv work in the Departments of French and English. Her major subject is English and her seminar thesis is a study of the modern English short story. Miscellaneus courses which she has elected haV been chiefly in the natural and social sciences. In extra-Curricular activities Miss Walton has held sev- Thc claimd her eral responsible positions. Drama Club has greatest interest. Here she has done efficient executiv work as president, as business manager of the presentation of The Pig- eon, and as a member of im- portant committees. She was secretary of her Clas in its junior year and a member of the Prom committee. For the past year she has been president of the dormitory women. She has also done valuable work in the Cone sumer's Leag. . Miss 1Va1ton intends to teach for a time and later enter training for a Yung VVomen s Chris- tian Association secretaryship. ngLvn, a ..'. .z....:..w Claude Milton Newlin prepard for college at the high scool at Newberg, Oregon, and took his bachelors degree at Pacific College, at Newberg, in 1911. After this for a year he was instructor in English literature, German and Latin in the academic department of Coeur dhAlene College at Coeur diAlene, Idaho, and then came to Reed, where he spent one year com- pleting his work for the degree in 1914. At Reed Mr. Newlin was an assistant in the English depart- ment, in which he did his major work. His bacheloris thesis at Reed was The Drama of the Celtic Renaissance. His interests ar wide, but comparativ litera- ture and filosofy may be said to dominate. He intends to do graduate work in the former. His view point is intellectual; widely red and a leader in discussion. his intense interest in change and in new move- ments mark him as a tru radical. Since leaving Reed Mr. Newlin has been instructor in English literature, French and German at the Aberdeen High Scool, in Aberdeen, Washington. ....;.:.sg...:xx;-.- - . -'-'.'1--'.' '--. ..........

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only woman in the clas to do her major work under Dr. Griffin. Besides assisting in the mathematics department, Miss Piggott has been making a study of mathematiCS courses in the hrst year of high scool with emfasis upon the substitu- tion of general instruction in the place of algebra. She is planning to teach her major subject. Miss Piggott is an enthusiastic basketball and tennis player and acted as captain of the upperclas basketball team in 1913. She also servd on the Athletic Coun- cil in 1913-1914, being besides an assistant in the Department of Fysical Education during that i ber of the Deutsche Verein, in which she holds 0st as editor. She is also a member of the Drama Club. REED COLLEGE ANNUAL + 1915 Katharine Piggott enterd the first clas with the contingent William Forrest Jenne prepard for college at Port- from Washington High Scool. She became interested in land Academy. During his course at Reed he has playd foot- mathematics during her first year and has done her principal ball and baseball for four years and basketball for one. He work in that department, having the distinction of being the made all-star teams in football and baseball, was captain of his clas baseball team, and twice cap- tain of the day-dodger baseball team. In student affairs Mr. Jenne has been a member of the Ath- letic Council for the current year, servd on the River Day and Junior Prom committees in 1914, and is chairman of the gradua- tion committee. Mr. Jenneys major subject is sociology and his bachelors thesis is on inventions, their rela- tion to culture, and their sig- nificance for society. He is also taking up the question of the year hereditary nature of inventiv ability. Altho Mr. Jennes inter- . . 1. . . o- . . r She has done consmlerable Ssts 1e. priiimpally 31911:, mecamcal lines, he takes. the xxord work 111 the German department and has been a faithful mem- inventions to mean ideas as W61 as mecamcal apphances. Mr. Jenne intends to enter upon a business career of some kind after leaving college.

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I441 Jean Carmeta VVolverton was one of the most enthusiastic freshmen who went thru the joys and discomforts 0f the first year on Jefferson Street. She was elected vice-president of the clas at the first clas election and servd as secretary the follo- ing year. During her junior year she was a member of the Student Council, and performd the strenuus duties of both sec- retary and tresurer 0f the stu- dent body. Miss VVOlverton is majoring in education, with the intention of becoming a teacher in the primary grades. She has alredy had some experience in this direction, having assisted in teaching the faculty childrenls i scool for two years. She has fM , also made a study of the outside use of the scool plant in Port- land, and, for her senior work, is taking up the problem of the exceptionally bright children in the city scools. She playd basketball on her Clas teams and danst in both of the Clas May-dances. In addition to her college work, Miss lNolverton has de- voted much attention to outside activities, especially in connec- REED COLLEGE ANNUAL 4- 1915 tion with religius work, and she is at present the junior city superintendent of the Christian Endevor Society. 13.; Edward Milton Runyan is one of the very few Reed graduates who intend to go into religius work. His major subject is sociology, and he considers it more from the prac- tical than from the theoretical side. The title of his bachelor's thesis is Wil Coopcrafziv Industry 5012! 0117' Industrial Problems? His interests at in religion, Hlos- ofy, social servis and coopera- tion. Cooperation is dominant. Mr. Runyan has a genuin int petus toward social betterment and emfasizes cooperation as a means to this end. He has be- longd to the Biology Club for several years and collaborated in the working up of a paper, Regu- lation and Vorticelli, publisht in the Biological Bulletin. 111 athletics Mr. Runyan has been prominent. He has playd football in all except his senior year and baseball and basketball during his entire course. He was captain of the senior