Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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admission he tried them all on every testing device known to the profession, disciplined them when they failed, encouraged them when they succeeded, and wrote hundreds of recommendations for them when they needed jobs or professional training. He has interested himself especially in premedical and medical education and has published several studies leading to their improvement. As Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Vice President of the col¬ lege he concerned himself with curriculum planning and learned more and more about the intricate details of college administra¬ tion, building plans, associated schools, and financial matters. He even became inter¬ ested in community affairs in Medford and has recently proposed the organization of a joint committee of town and gown to make Medford a better place for Tufts College and Tufts College a greater boon to Med¬ ford. So he has become a Tufts man and it seems the most natural thing in the world that he is our President. The news of his election was first an¬ nounced at the annual dinner provided each October by the Trustees for themselves and the faculty. The announcement was re¬ ceived with the most spontaneous and thunderous applause ever heard at this friendly family gathering. Somehow the students had the news before the faculty and had a special edition of the Tufts Weekly ready for distribution at the end of the dinner. This event was soon followed by another and more significant one at the Cousens Gymnasium. The faculty paraded in and the new President was proffered the keys of the college and his official papers by the President of the Board of Trustees. It was strictly a family affair — no distin¬ guished delegations from other colleges no fanfare. Every vantage point in the gymnasium was occupied by some friend of Tufts who wanted to see another young man get a good job, and to hear Nils Wes- sell talk in his frank, friendly fashion about his college and the things he wants it to be. After it was over, all went back to work with all doubts brushed away, assured that Tufts is in good hands. Dr. Wessell’s official academic record reveals further that in 194 8-49 he was chairman of the advisory committee of the Veterans Administration Center, then at Harvard, now at Tufts. He was chairman of the schools and colleges group of the United War Fund in 1945 and of its institu¬ tions division in 1946. His memberships in¬ clude the education commission of the Con¬ ference of Christians and Jews, the board ofgovernors of the Swedish - American Council of Boston and of the Middlesex County National Bank. He is also a member of the Society of the Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, the American Psy¬ chological Association, the American Asso¬ ciation for the Advancement of Science, the American College Personnel Association, and the Massachusetts Schoolmasters Club. He was for four years the chairman of the committee on institutions of higher educa¬ tion of the New England association of Col¬ leges and Secondary Schools and is on the research committee of the College Entrance Examination Board and the executive com¬ mittee of the Eastern Association of College Deans. The Wessells have occupied the presi¬ dential mansion since February. The new first lady was the former Miss Marian Sigler of Kansas City, Missouri. They were mar¬ ried on September 15, 1938. Mrs. Wessell was an honor graduate of Wellesley College and met him at Brown where they were do¬ ing graduate work in psychology. There are two delightful children, Roberta Sue, 13 and Nils Hartley, 11. Centered in this household are all of our hopes for a better Tufts College. Wessells all, we salute you!! — Dr. Paul Warren

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Seniors T ♦ SENIOR EDITOR George Perry