St Xavier College - Xaverian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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DR. WILLIAM HENRY WENNING, A.M.J MiD., M.St THE OLDEST LIVING ALUMNUS Still hale and hearty, DL William Henry Wenning is now nearing the completion of the seventy-fourth year in his life and the fifty-sixth anniversary of his college graduation He is a member of the class of 1868 and the oldest living alumnus of St. Xavier College. Until last year he was the second Oldest living alumnus, but in the spring of 1923, the grim reaper took John McMahon, Iast surviving member of the class of 18-1-9. The latter was a prominent Dayton, Ohio, lawyer and for many years dean of the Ohio bar. William Henry Wenning was born June 27, 1850. He attended St. Joseph Par- ochial School and upon completion of the course of studies there entered the- pre- paratory dcpartmcnt of St. Xavier College, in September, 1862. As the college and high school courses were combined in those days he was able to finish his pre- paratory and college studies in six years. He graduated from the College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in June, 1368. Two years later he rcccived the degree Fag: Sew-uty-mze

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PRESIDENTS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The presidents of The Alumni Association since 1889 have been: 1 1889, Francis E. Cloud, 163 1890, Francis H. Cloud, '63 1891, Dr, William H. Wenning, 168 1892, F, J. McCabe, 17S 1893, William A, Byrne, ,75 1894, Dr. Thomas P. Hart, 186 1895, Dr. Thomas P. Hart, 186 1896,'VVil1iam C. Wolking, 383 1897, William C.W01king, '83 1898, Adam B. Wilson 1899, Henry A. Barnhom 1900, William F. Fox, :85 1901, Anthony B. Dunlap, ,90 1902, J J. Carberry, 166 1903, Edward P. Moulinier, 187 1904, Joseph B, Verkamp 1905, Denis F, Cash, 187 1906, F. E. Makkentepe, Sr., 186 1907, Alphonse S. Wetterer, 188 1908, Thomas F. Maher, 197 1909, jamcs A. Sebastiani, 173 1910, B. C. Fox, 197 1911, W. A. Geoghegan, 199 1912, Dr. J. H. Huschart, 107 1913, Edward Heilker 1914, W. S. Schmidt, 105 1915, Joseph B. Verkamp 1916, J. P. Murphy 1917, NIichael A. Garrigan, 174 1918, W. E. Fox, 196 1919, W. E. Fox, 196 1920, Louis Comm, 104 1921, A. W. Leibold, ,05 1922, Thomas M. Geoghegan, '02 1923,J.D.Cloud,103 1924, John A. Hoban, ,03 Page 8512171131

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of Master of Arts. After the reception of his Bachelofs degree, finding himself inclined to the medical profession, he entered the Miami Medical College. He was graduated in medicine in March, 1871, and appointed House Physician at St. Marys Hospital, April, 1871. He served on the staE of this institution for over fifty years and celebrated his Golden Jubilee April 21, 1921. His Alma Mater conferred the degre: of Master of Science upon him at the Golden Jubilee of St. Xavier College in ISEO. Dr. Wenning was the second president 0 the St. Xavier College Alumni Associa- tion, serving immediately after Francis H. Cloud of the claSS of 1863, who was the first president. Prominent in medical circles of the city of Cincinnati during his active career, Dr. Wenning holds membership in the leading medical associations of the country. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. Shortly after the American Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology was organized he became a member of this society. He is the author of a number of papers on obstetrics and gynecology, subjects on which he is an authority. He became secretary of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati in 1878, and served in that capacity for six years. He was elected president of the Academy at the close of his sectetaryship, In addition to his position at St. Mary Hospital, Dr. Warming has served on the staff of various medical colleges in Cincinnati. He was appointed professor of O bstetrics at the Womarfs Medicai College, which position he held for seven years, until the institution was merged with the Laura Memorial Medical College. He was then appointed professor of Gynecology in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and held this position until the College was united with the Miami Medical College, when he took the professorship of Clinical Gynecology at the latter school. He served in that capacity until the Ohio-Miami Medical College became the Medical department of the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Wenning is married. His son, Theodore Wenning, also a member of the medical profession, graduated from St. Xavier College in 1904-. Dr. Wenning lives at Cornell Place, Cincinnati. Ad multos annos! Page Seventy-twa