Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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rw, ' . DMINISTR TIG Wesleyan has always prided itself as a place where the natural gulf between student and faculty is practically non-exis- tant. It is a rare professor who will not respond to an undergraduate greeting, and, more than that, it is a rare student who does not count as personal friends one or .nore members of the faculty. Contact comes in many ways--on the tennis, squash, or handball courts, in vari- ous curricula clubs, fraternities, professors' homes at tea or meal time, at the Honors College. Many of the instructors make it a point to hold open house several times av year. The late beloved William Hewitt had a standing invitation out to every stu- dent and kept the door open to all. Many fraternities hold annual faculty parties, and all have professors and their wives as frequent guests.

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. . .. . . nga -..-..-.-.-.-.,V,-gg. to 1-tea'-4.:a.z' -' ' ...14.....-1 -, - ,::f.'-.. .- '-.-..-L.-1-1 .,. ,.,. Mm... . During the past four years, ever since he took over the office of Dean, LEROY ALBERT HOWLAND has probably listened to more far-fetched excuses for over-cut classes than any other person on campus. Few varieties of the local type of alibi get by Dr. Howland, however, because Wesle- yan and all its undergraduate tricks are old and familiar stories to him, inasmuch as he is one of the few men on the faculty who regard this college as their Alma Ma- ter. Graduating from here at the turn of the century, the Dean was a Psi U., Sigma Xi and 'LPhi Beten man. Continuing his studies, he went on to Harvard where he received his M. A. in 19044. The following year he was appointed an Instructor in Mathematics at Wesleyan, but in his vaca- tion periods, Germany was his next place of call, the result being that in 1908 he was awarded a Ph.D. from the famed University of Munich. He was immediate- ly promoted to an Associate-Professorship here. Selected as Vice-President of Wesle- yan in 1921, he ultimately became acting President, a position which he held for two years before Dr. McConaughy's arrival, --,,',. ,:.,','..'4...' 1-s..-g-rm: ffm 1-.-1-.,'.4,:..:.g,.-.t.-,V -A-'A' U61 When JAMES LUKENS MCCONAUGHY, then a comparative youngster who was rapidly making a name for himself in the field of education, left the presidency of Knox College, Illinois, in 1925 to accept a similar post at Wesleyan, he started the latter institution on one of its most pros- perous periods. Last year, Prexy, always an active Republican, enjoyed the unique distinction of being elected Connecticut's Lieutenant-Governor and remaining as ac- tive head at this school. But politics and college administration are only two fields in which Dr. Mcflonaughy has been out- standing. He has long been recognized as one of the most prominent authorities on marriage problems and a number of his articles have appeared in national maga- zines as well as in book form. ln view of the imposing array of all his other achieve- ments, it is easy to overlook the fact that he was President of the all-powerful American Association of Colleges in 1938. Today, Dr. McConaughy has enough degree-letters after his name to make alphabet soup. Prexy started his degree collecting as a Phi Beta Kappa member of the class of 1909 at Yale, where he was a Beta. 1' S!-' 351553- - KHEO-3-' .iQs5i55f!I!f!15i!2.'.'. -.ma-.3 H i: t 25.g:gEr5l32:g1,-r,,V115:,1qx5:5:5:gurg:gg5rv,xg45,.,--, gg 4,5,,yg5,- 5,-,,,,.',,:.,v,,, ,,,,,,,,, A 1 l M D , 1 ,