Washington University Saint Louis - Hatchet Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Dr. Arthur L. Hughes is head of the Physics Department, and has made significant contributions to the success of the atomic bomb... Dr. Frank W. Bubb, head of the Applied Mathematics Department. has charge of Washington's cyclotron . . . Friend of Secretary of Com- merce Wallace, Dr. Edgar Anderson hc-ids the Botany Department and keeps his advanced botany students busy studying sunflowers. Professor Harry G. Hake, head of th? Electrical Engineering Depart- ment. is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and the American Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers. Outside of school he spends most of his time hunting and fishing. Dr. Bateman Edwards, head of the Romance Languages Depart- ment, plays the piano in his spare time for the St. Louis Film Society movies in Brown Hall.,.Dr. Lewis F. Thomas heads the newly- created Geography Department and acts as adviser to the Student Senate. ,JQQULGQU me 6Llf'flflfLQlfLf5 f P Dr. Arthur L. Hughes Dr. Edgar Anderson Dr. Frank W. Bubb Professor Harry G. Hake Dr. Bateman Edwards Dr. Lewis F. Thomas

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.jofminid fra Liam Thomas E. Blackwell Thomas Blackwell is a good man to know. He's the one who controls the money on campus- he's been Treasurer and Secretary to the Corpora- tion since l9-l2. XV. U. could not have picked a better man in whom to place their trust since Blackwell's specialty is the study of trusts. That's a joke, son. Your school schedules are even more of a worry and a problem to busy Registrar George VV. Lamke than they are to you. The Registrar has had much experience in handling registration problems, hav- ing taken his present position in l9l5. Before that he had served XV. U. as instructor in Electrical Engineering. Education, as it easily might, plays a dominating role in Dr. Frank Lee VVright's life. He is head of the YV. U. education department and director of summer school. Dr. VVright's special Fields of study center on teacher training and school board prob- lems. Active in community and national education affairs, he is president of the VVebster Groves School Board and is on the Citizens' Committee for Rural Education Study. VVashburne Denning Shipton plays Santa Claus twice a year when as chairman of the scholarship committee he gives away scholarships. Dean Ship- ton's special field of research centers on geology in particular and science in general. He has served as president and secretary of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. George W. Lamke Dr. Frank Lee Wright Washburne Denning Shipton

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fy up-5. Dr Iohn P Nafe Dr Viktor Hamburger Dr. Carl Tolman Dr. George E. Mylonas Dr. Iohn P. Nafe, the Psychology Departments head and a member of Town and Gown. is avidly interested in physiological psychology as a hobby. If you have formulated a good theory of color vision, Dr. Nafe could use you. Photography and fishing in Colorado take up his spare time. X Dr. Viktor Hamburger, who heads the Department of Zoology, misses his favorite hobbies. hiking and skiing in the Alps, in St. Louis. Here, he spends his free hours with students, these being another of his main interests. Occupied with teaching embryology at Woodshole Marine Biological Laboratories in the summer, Dr. Hamburger finds little time to write for the Iournal Morphology which he helps edit. Dr. Carl Tolman, who has been on leave since 19-il with the Foreign Economic Administra- tion in Washington as principal mineral specialist. returned this year to take up his duties as head of the university's new Department of Geology. Dr. Tolman has led several geological surveys in British Columbia, Quebec, Ontario and Labrador. Dr. George E. Mylonas, head of the Department of Archaeology. makes his avocation his vocation or vice versa. Since he has not been able to work his excavating in Greece. he has taken to dig ing in a garden. Captured by the Turks in the first World War and by the freshmen in Art and Arch in this war, Dr. Mylonas worked tirelessly for Greek War Rclief. Professor Lawrence Hill, Chairman of the School of Architecture, is active in architectural projects of civic interest, holding offices in the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architecture. the joint Engineering and Architectural Regional Planning Commission. and Educational Commission of the American Institute. Dr. William H. Roever, head of the Department of Mathematics, claims he is a rover by name and nature and would like nothing better than to be one in practice. too. Member of international mathematics organizations. Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, he finds relaxation in travel and mountain climbing. Dr. Fred O. Nolte, who heads the German Department. is leisurely spending his sabbatical year writing. A widely read literary critic, Dr. Nolte is also interested in music and has a fine record collection of German, French and Italian operas. He does most of his critical thinking while fishing in Rhode Island. Dr. Stuart A. Queen, of the Sociology Department. acted as librarian during the war. In Student Lifes Sultana contest, he took the part of the retiring queen. portraying the role vividly. Dr, Queen likes to hike and climb mountains, hiking about 400 miles each summer and climbing from I5 to 20 peaks. 2 Q? fel' -dx Professor Lawrence Hill Dr William H. Roever Dr. Fred O. Nolte Dr. Stuart A. Queen