University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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,'jdIlilOl'S JOHN I. QUAN, College of Law and Library Hall JAMES H. RIDER, Science Hall. 1 JOHN JONES, Agricultural Hall. JOHN DOESCHER, Astronomical Observatory. JOHN CONOHAN, Machine Shop-. HENRY SCHOFIELD, North Hall. SANDERS A. THOMPSON, Chemical Laboratory. WILLIS MORSE, University Hall. XVILLIAM POST, Chaclbourne Hall. JOHN HICKEY, Gymnasium. FR AN K LAVI N, Gymnasium . JOHN BABCOCK, Engineering Building. 31

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' Hqtwkm - -I -JJ .-z-.fig .111 .f ff, ,g:.:., -in.-,I .Mf.,.. . 1, 1. ,,,,:. - , if ff.. Other Otncers ,, PS 1 EDXVARD F. RILEY, ' Secretary of the Board of Regents. ,g1g::z:. - Egfifge' A f I F. Riley WILLIAM DIXON HIESTAND, University Registrar and Presidentts Secretary. LESLIE BURD, Chief Clerk, Office of Board of Regents. GEORGE B. MERRICK, Accountant, Oilice of the Board of Regents. CYNTHIA YV. COMLY, Matron, Chadbourne Hall. LESLIE H. ADAMS, ' Farm Superintendent. JOHN THOMPSON WILSON IENNINGS, B.S., C.E , Superintencling Architect of Buildings and Grounds. IRVING J. MUTCHLER, Chief Carpenter. IESSIE UPFIELD, Stenographer, President's Office. FANNIE G SANFORD, Stenographer, Dean's Office. ZANA KATE MILLER, Stenographer, Oflice of Board of Regents. IVIABEL RANDOLPH, Assistant Stenographer of the Director of the School of Coninierce. IDA HERFURTH, Clerk and Stenographer, Agricultural Experiment Station HARRIET V. STOUT, Clerk and Stenographer, Farmers' Institutes. ESTER M. CLOSE, Librarian and Stenograplier, College of Agriculture. MARY ALICE GLENN, Clerk and Stenographer, School of Education and University Extension Department. FLORENCE JANET DAGGETT, Stenographer, College of Mechanics and Engineering. WILI4IAM A. CAIVIPMAN, Secretary of the Deans of the College of Law. 30

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William Henry Rosenstengel IN MLMORIAM :,'? 1M-2? ILLIAM HENRY ROSENSTENGEL was born September IO, lS42, in the if 'Eff 5 village of Barmen, Prussia. An invalid as a child, he was carried to and from the village school by his father, and there the passion for k11owl- edge first took possession of him. His 'education was finished at the awww :J Barmen Realschule, where his close personal connections with the director gave him an extraordinary opportunity for development. At this time he had entirely recovered his health and was known for his great personal beauty as well as for his mental ability. Aftergraduating, and while still in Germany, he taught at Ellesfeld and Rade-vorm-wald. In the year 1865 he and his wife, formerly Miss Lena 'XYirth, came to America and settled in St. Louis. Here he became instructor in German in the Central High School of that city, which position, with several promotions, he held for twelve years. In 1379 he was called by President Bascom to the head of the German department in the University of 'Wisconsin, and for twenty-one years he occupied that position with faithfulness and ability. , Professor Rosenstengel was known not only in university circles. but in various parts of the United States, where he delivered lectures on subjects connected with the German language, peoples and literature. Besides this, he did a great deal of literary work in connection with German newspapers and magazines, and was the author of many text-books and books of general literary value. Professor Rosenstengel was active i11 philanthropic and educational matters, and his loss as a friend a11d citizen has been greatly felt in Madison. Professor Rosenslengel's character and personality has been designated as, in the highest sense, of the military type. It is interesting to know that, much against his will, he was known in St. Louis as 'L General Rosenstengel. Loyalty, industry and accuracy were his cardinal virtues, His philosophy was the philosophy of work and discipline. He demanded of those under him the same untiring labor, the same care for details, the same devotion to duty that were exemplified in himself, yet he lacked no sympathy or helpfulness toward his students. A man of high culture and lllfle- pendent thought, he felt nothing of worth too small for his attention, and whatever he undertook was sure of being done well in its largest and its smallest details. He died, as a soldier should, in the performance of his duty. His death took place in faculty meeting, November 12, IQOO. His wife and live children still survive him. Some granite column, type of his own indomitable self, shall hold his name in the memory of man, but when the years shall have effaced the record, and the Granite itself have crumbled to dust, he will still live in the life of the b University he served so well. 32