University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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(left) Dad and Warrior — photo by Donald (right) Lehrer Julian checks exams in office

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ETTS STATE COLLEGE MASSACHUSETTS

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RTHUR N. Julia N DEDICATION A DIGNIFIED, professorial figure dismounts from an old wheel, stands it in a rack, and enters the Chapel. Then, his classroom filled with expectant undergraduate faces, he leans or sits on a table and mixes German verbs with stories of his days in Illinois or in the Dentschland of a generation ago. Arthur Nelson Julian ' s immediate forebears were Eng- lish — his mother a Midwestern teacher, his father a Cornish- man who migrated to Canada and then to Plato Center, Illinois, where Arthur was born November 22, 1885. Because most Plato Center citizens were German immigrants, he per- force spoke German. At nearby Elgin, a Scottish community, Arthur found his intellectual father, the Principal of Elgin Academy and a teacher of the classics. Should I major in Greek or German? he asked himself at Northwestern University. Deciding on German, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was graduated in 1907. After teaching German at Elgin Academy for two years, he trav- elled and studied in Germany for a year and a half. Returning to America in 1911, he became German instructor at State. In 1913 Arthur Julian married Helen Gaskill. At his home on the northern edge of campus he has lived a close family life with his four daughters and two sons, spending his spare time on his hobbies — photography and gardening. Then came World War I. Since the chemistry department lost men and German courses were cut short. Professor Julian was transferred to chemistry. From 1920, however, he has devoted full time to German. On campus he has also worked in both college honorary societies. As a teacher, Professor Julian is an enthusiast; as a human being, a friend to students; as a part of college life, a swell prof. Unhurried by the turmoil of modern living, he repre- sents one of the old guard; and his wheel— as he rides it home in the afternoon — symbolizes a cultured gentleman ' s peaceful way of life in a world gone mad.