University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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1 J T v,e V f Officers of the Alumni Association Acting President ...Ross B. MoUDY, 1900 First Vice President VerNER ROWLAND, 1913 Secretary W. A. HiTCHCOCK, 1912 Treasurer R. G. FiTCH, 1 900 Representative on the Board of Associated Students Frank Holliday, 1910

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ty W T y Dr. v er JHE best tribute that can be paid the memory of Dr. Agnes Mathilde Wergeland is a brief outline of her life, a life so full of accomplish- ment that any attempt to describe it in its entirety seems futile. She was born at Christiana, Norway, May 9th, 1 857, the last of a famous line of Norwegian patriots, artists, and writers. Her early life was spent in Norway in studying, at a good academy, then under private tutors, and finally in the University Library at Christiana. For her advanced work, she went to Germany, where in Munich from 1 884 to 1 886 she was a pupil of G. Konrad von Maurer. Thence she went to the University of Zurich, Switzerland, from which she received the Ph. D. degree in 1 890, being the first Norwegian woman to receive a Doctor ' s degree. A fellowship, won in competition at Zurich, brought her to Bryn Mawr in 1 890, where from 1891-1893 she was Reader in the History of Art. From 1895-1896 she was Lecturer in the Histor y of Art at the University of Illinois, and from 1896-1902 Decent in History at the University of Chicago. In 1 900 she returned to Europe, where she studied in Berlin for a time. Dr. Wergeland came to the University of Wyoming in 1902, teaching History and French until 1 909 and History and Spanish since that date. She taught Political Economy in 1902 and 1903, and in 1907 conducted a much valued seminar course in modern Norwegian and French drama. From 1897 to 1909 she was a non-resident Instructor in the Extension Division of the University of Chicago. She died at the age of fifty-six years, on Friday, March 6, 1914, after an illness of five weeks, at the Doctors ' Inn, the beautiful home which she and Dr. Hebard had built together and in which they had lived for the last eight years. Dr. Wergeland was universally regarded as a most able woman. She was a wonder- ful musician, having been a pupil of Grieg, and an especially fine linguist, having a thorough knowledge of ten languages. Her brother, Oskar Wergeland, who died four years ago, was an artist of international fame. She herself had great artistic ability, making many fine sketches in both ink and color. As a Professor of History, she was held in high regard. Ever since the appearance of her treatise on Slavery in Germanic Society During the Middle Ages, she has been regarded as an authority on slavery and serfdom. For many years she was reviewer and critic for The Dial, The Journal of Political Economy, and The American Historical Revierv. She also wrote for The Woman s Journal, The North American RevieJV, Poet Lore, The Theological Revierv, The American Architect and Builder, and was a con- tributor to the leading Norwegian periodicals published in both this country and Norway. As a poet. Dr. Wergeland ranked with the leading modern Norwegian poets. She had published one volume of Norwegian poems, entitled, Greater America, and at the time of her death had a second volume of poetry almost completed. Many of these poems have as their theme the scenery and beauty of Wyoming and the Western country. Her life was filled with accomplishment, a life lived simply, nobly, and truly. u

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7 T h.f W%f u Working for Advanced Degrees Jesse Menander Mann. Mr. Mann received his B. A. degree from the University of Wyoming with the class of 1912. Since that time he has been an instructor in the Department of Botany, during both semesters of the year 1913. During 1913-1914 he has been working for his Master ' s degree on the study of Botanical Microtechnique, the subject on which he will present his thesis.