University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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W ' BLUE HEN-afa ' Charles Andrew McCue Professor of Horticulture Dean McCue was born in 1879, near Caro City, Michigan. In 1901 he received the degree of S. B. from Michigan Agricultural College. He did graduate work at the same institution from 1903 to 1904, and in 1904 he was elected In.structor in Horticulture which position he held until 1907. He resigned in 1907 to become Professor of Horticulture at Dela- ware College and Horticulturist of the Delaware College Experimental Station. He pursued graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in Biology from 1913 to 1915. Dean McCue was president of the American Society for Horticultural Science in 1918. He is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Pomological Society, the American Genetic Association, ancl the Phi Kappa Phi I ' ratei-nity. 5 Thirteen

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,a§)ai. BLUE HEN Edward Laurence SxMITh Dean Smith was born on March 19. 1877, at Newark, Delaware. He entered Delaware College in 1892 and received the B. A. degree in June, 1896. During the next two years he took post-graduate work at Delaware and a course at a business school in Wilmington. In the scholastic year of 1898-99 he held a University Scholarship in Romance Languages at Columbia L ' niversity, New York. In 1899-1900 he held a L ' niversity Fellowship at Columbia in the Romance and Germanic Languages. The degree of ' SI. A. was conferred upon him by Delaware College in June. 1899. In 1900-1901 Dean Smith studied at Universite de Paris, Le College de France, and L ' Ecole des Hautes Etudes, at Paris. He returned to America and taught modern languages at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. In 1902 he was elected Instructor in Modern Languages at Delaware College, and in 1904 was advanced to the rank of Professor of Modern Languages. In 1915 he was elected Dean of the College, and in 1916 Seci-etary of the Faculty. Dean Smith is a member of the Kappa Alpha and the Phi Kappa Phi Fraternities, the Modern Language Association of America, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars, the Executive Committee of the liddle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Association, and the Athletic Council of Delaware College. As Dean of the College he is always active in student life and student affairs. To Dean Smith we go daily for advice in this matter or that matter, always sure of his advice being the counsel of a scholar, a gentleman and a friend. Twelve

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,afM, BLUE HEN-»f a, Merrill Van Giesen Smith Professor of Mechanical Engineering Professor Smith was born in 1871 at Montclair, New Jersey, where he received his early education in the pubhc schools. After being gradu- ated from the Stevens High School he entered the Stevens Institute of Technology from which he was graduated in 1896 with the degree of M. E. After leaving college he was a member of the Editorial Staff of the Rail- way Gazette for several years. He then became Instructor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1902 he was called to Delaware to temporarily fill the position of Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He then went to the Thomas S. Clarkson School of Tech- nology at Potsdam, N. Y. In 1904 Professor Smith was called to Delaware College again to head the Department of Mechanical Engineering which he has held to the pres- ent time. During the present year Professor Smith, as senior professor, has been acting chairman of the Engineering School and chairman of the Engineering Faculty. He is a m ember of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Engineers ' Club of Philadelphia and the Phi Kappa Phi Fraternity. Fourteen