Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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RICHARD ELWELL BANTA Mrs. C. A. KLINGER Acting Librarian Ist row: Gladys Otto, Jean Jennings. 2nd row: Robert Milton, Mary Schlemmer, Iris Klinger, Margaret Huston, Philip Ball. Page Twelve

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ALBERT REIFF BECHTEL, Ph.D. Rose Professor of Botany A.B., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Cornell Uni- versity. Taught at Penn State and Cornell University before coming to Wabash in 1920. Member of the Bo- tanical Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Mycological Society of America, Indiana Academy of Science. Author: “An Introduction to Plant Science” and “Keys to the Spring Flora of Cen- tral Indiana.” Married, three children. ALVIN D. BOSTON, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry A.B., Illinois College; M.S., Tulane University; Ph.D.., Ohio State University. Instructor, Tulane University, 1927-29; Head of the science department of Rio Grande College, 1929-35; Graduate Assistant in chemistry, Ohio State University, 1935-36; Associate Professor of Chemis- try, Otterbein College, 1936-37; Associate Personnel Di- rector, Antioch College, 1937-38; Head of Chemistry De- partment at Ilinois College 1938-43; Director of Chem- ical Research, Western Cartridge Company 1943-44. Came to Wabash in 1944. Member of Sigma Xi, American Chemical Society. Married, one child. ROBERT W. BRUCE, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology A.B., Wabash; A.M., Ph.D., University of Chicago. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Kappa, Sigma Xi, The American Psychological Association. Served in U. S. Marine Corps, 1917-18. At Wabash since 1923. Married, two children. WILLIAM NorwoopD BRIGANCE, Ph.D. Professor of Speech A.B., University of South Dakota; A.M., University of Nebraska; Ph.D., University of Iowa. Head of Speech Department of University of Hawaii, 1936-38. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Lambda Chi Alpha, Speech Association of America. Author of twelve texts on speech; editor, “The Quarterly Journal of Speech,” 1942-45. President of the Speech Association of America, 1946. Lieutenant, 32nd Division A. E. F. 1917-18. Married. one child.