Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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COLUMN 1. Lydia Baer Avery Blake German Physical Education Virginia N. Brown Marcel J. Bru.v French Physical Education COLUMN 2. Column 4. Beatrice Beach Josephine Adams English Fine Arts Heinrich Brinkmann Mathematics Robert Enders Zoology Troyer Anderson History George A. Bourdelais Engineering column 3. Nora R. Booth Mary Albertson Assistant to the History Dean of Women 10

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jNewport Palmer Phillips bCOTT Rath SWANN Wilcox Thatcher Wright HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS CLARA P. NEWPORT Mrs. Newport received her A.B. degree from Swarthmore in 1903, her Ph.D. from the Univer- sity of Wisconsin in 1908, and studied German and French at the University of Berlin, the Sor- bonne. College de France, and the University of Munich. Instructor in Latin at Swarthmore in 1908 and 1909, and the following year acting assistant professor of German, she left to be German instructor at the University of Kansas, but returned to Swarthmore in 1912. SAMUEL PALMER Receiving his A.B. from Swarthmore in 1895, Dr. Palmer taught at Swarthmore Preparatory School until 1907. when he took his M.A. In 1909 he became an acting professor of biology and geology, but left to obtain an M.A. and, in 1912, a Ph.D. at Harvard. Returning to Swarth- more, he taught and also became graduate man- ager of athletics. EDlTfl PHILIPS Miss Philips was graduated from Goucher with an A.B. in 191.3. She received her Doc- tureate from L ' Lniversiti de Paris in 1923. From 1928 to 1929 she was a Guggenheim fellow in French, after which she came to Swarthmore. In 19.30 she was made assistant professor, and soon after a full professor. VIRGINIA RATH Miss Rath hails from the sunny South. She took her A.B. at Hollins College, taught two years at the University of Texas, two years at Virginia State Teachers ' College, and one year at her Alma Mater after receiving her M.A. in Education at Columbia. She has been an instruc- tor of physical education at Swarthmore since 1931 and this year was made assistant professor. WALTER J. SCOTT Dr. Scott received his A.B. from Lafayette College in 1917. and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1925 and ' 31. After serving as instructor of zoology and physi- ology at the University of Tennessee Medical School from 1922 to ' 24 and assistant instructor in the Medical School at Penn in 1924. he came to Swarthmore in 1927. ALFRED J. SWANN Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, educated at Oxford, manager of children ' s colonies in Siberia for the American Red Cross following the Rus- sian Revolution. Professor Swann is now head of the .Swarthmore and Haverford Music depart- ments. Professor .Swann has written books on .Scriabin and Modern Music, contributed to musical journals, composed music, and edited the Swarthmore Choral Series. CHARLES G. THATCHER Mr. Thatcher has run the whole gamut of Swarthmore honors as student, instructor, assis- tant professor, associate professor, and chairman of the Division of Engineering. He did once abandon our campus fair for Cayuga ' s waters, receiving the degree, M.E., at Cornell in 1916, but this intermission was ended in 1918 when he returned to Swarthmore. CLAIR WILCOX Doctor Wilcox, B.S., M.A., Ph.D., spent eight years as instructor at Lafayette, University of Pennsylvania, and Ohio State University. In 1927 he came to Swarthmore where in 1931 he received a full professorship in economics. He has held also numerous public offices and is the author of several books on economic sub- jects. WINTHROP WRIGHT Dr. Wright, Morris L. Clothier professor of physics, received his A.B. degree from the Llni- versity of Michigan in 1909. From 1909 to 1912 he was instructor at the Georgia School of Tech- nology. In 1912 he became an assistant in physics at Columbia, where from 1913 to 1915 he was Tyndall fellow. In 1915 he went to Michigan and received his Ph.D. there in 1917. In 1919 he came to Swarthmore as an assistant professor after being assistant physicist at the Bureau of Standards. In 1929 he became a full professor.

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FACULTY COLUMN 1. Duncan G. Foster Chemistry Milan W. Garrett Physics John Russell Hayes Librarian Philip M. Hicks English COLUMN 2. Jesse H. Holmes Philosophy William I. Hull History J. W. Hoot Economics column 3. Everett L. Hunt English Howard M. Jenkins Electrical Engineering Ruth McClung Jones Botany and Zoology Column 4. NoRRis Jones Botany Mercedes Iribas Spanish