Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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GERMAN Beneath the genial smile of and countless stories of PAUL HOLROYD CURTS hides the dictator of the Publications Board and guardian angel of the Ger- man Club. Holder of several Yale degrees Wes- leyan awarded him an M. A. fad eundemj in 1920. lack of all trades in the academic world, twenty- nine years at this college have seen him rise through the ranks to his present position of Marcus L. Taft Professor of German. JOHN CHARLES BLANKENAGEL, Professor of German, has been away this past year travelling in the wilds of Germany, in an effort to find out just what the situation is and report it to his interested colleagues back here in the States. When at home his pleasures are divided between his conversational German course and the Wesleyan Deutsche Verein. Professor Blankenagel received his early educa- tion at Wisconsin, where he earned a B. A. in 1908 and a Ph.D. in 1915. A member of the Wesleyan community since 1934, he was honored by the college in 1936 with an M. A. fad eundemj. LAWRENCE EDWIN GEMEINHARDT, graduated from Brown in 1929 and came to Wesleyan two years later. Since that time he has been an Instructor in German. His elementary classes are always amazed to find fto their sorrowj that his hour writtens are taken verbatim from the review sheets he hands out a week or so before the exam, yet, let it be hastily added, this is far from meaning honor grades for alll A hamburger with the German Club at Curtsas cabin is one of his joys while his pet abomination is a student unprepared for class. VERN WADE ROBINSON, the newest addition to the German De- partment, stepped readily into the position of Chief Cook and Bottlewasher of the Deutsche Verein. He knows how to make coffee almost as well as he knows the words to the German Lieder which are sung at meetings, and attends and enjoys all the Ausflugen. Mr. Robinson prepared at two Mid-West schools. He received his B. A. at De Pauw University in 1929 and then continued activities at the University of Illinois, where he received an M. A. in 1931 and a Ph.D. in 1937. He became an lnstructor in German at Wesleyan in 1936. E271

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ETHICS - RELIGION It is a rare undergraduate who has not er1jOYCd the Thursday afternoon teas or Sunday dinners at which WILLIAM GEORGE CHANTER is host. A-Wes ey- an alumnus of 1914, member of Eclectic, Pro- fessor of Ethics and Pastor of the College Church- Dr. Chanter came here to teach in 1919, and seryed as Dean from 1930-35. His Bachelor of Theological Science degree came from lioston University, his M. A. from Harvard and a D. D. from Lawrence At Wesleyan, DELTON LEWIS SCUDDER is known for his keen in- terest in the Christian Association and the religious side of college life. A leader in the spaghetti and meat-ball sessions of the fresh- man cabinet, a sponsor of all types of deputations, an enthusiast for religious and vocational guidance groups, he has been instru- mental in making the C.A. an active campus organization. A 1927 graduate of Wesleyan and a member of Sigma Chi, he returned to his Alma Mater in 1932 as Instructor in Ethics. Besides serving as Associate Pastor of the College Church, he is working for his M. A. at Yale. GEOLOGY I OE WEBB PEoPLEs, a 1928 alumnus of Vander- bilt, served at Lehigh and as geologist and strip- ping engineer for an anthracite coal company until he came to Wesleyan in 1935 as Assistant Professor and head of the Geology department. Last year he was made Associate Professor. Summers have found him on field trips in the western states from which he returns to lead his classes into the Wilds of Peabody Museum and realms of fossil fish. the 2232 KEPPEL graduated from'Columb1a In 1932, and Joined ing his MWA ipinftglgllt as a Teaching Fellow in 1937 after receiv- be found 'On -thn Omg some field work. Almost any time he may Scope lookin af Second floor of Judd Hall, bending over a micro- he will rea l ad1'0Qk sectlon to determine its character. Although no doubt in any af gilt his d1SE1kO for correcting papers, there 1S in on time 01? E ld1S students minds that they must get their work d- t bl' b 6 IHPS Mr. Keppel is at his best despite the un- pre 1ca e reakdowns of his ' , , CO ' ll of transportation. nvertlble' the departments agen 1261

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GOVERNMENT Our City Councilman, ELMER ERIC SCIIATT- SCHNEIDER tells his favorite class PoliticalcPart1es, HWS all in knowing the right people. Without the organization, I could never have won, 1S his modest reply to the cheers of his students. Schooled at the University of Wisconsin, where he received a B. A. in 1915, a M. A. from Pittsburgh in 1927, and in 1936, a Columbia Ph.D., he came here in 1930. Since then he has.become John E. Andrus Professor of Government. of the Fratres in Urben at the present time HISTORY GEORGE NIATTHEW DUTCHER, Hedding Professor of History, holds the record of longest service of all active faculty members. He received both his B. A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell and from this college his M. A. 1918-1921 saw. him as Wes- leyanis Vice-President. On alumni week-ends his classes are full of old gradsg his list of term paper topics is inexhaustableg and his annual talk on George Washington is classic. Hg 1S chief pleasures. i231 A graduate of our own alma mater is RALPH FREDERIC BISCHOFF who received his B. S. in 1927. From Harvard University he was awarded an LLB. in 1930, M. A. in 1931 and PhD In 1937 During '33-'34 Mr. Bischoff studied at the Hochschule fur PolIt1k in Berlin. After that he was an Instructor in Government at Wesleyan until 1938 when he was appointed an Assistant Professor While an undergraduate, he was a member of Phi Nu Theta and since then he has taken an active part in the alumni organization being head HERBERT CLIFIPORD FRANCIS BELL has absorbed History at To 1i?onto,hPennlsylvan1a, Paris, and Freiburg, pursued lt In Br1t1sh and fine are 1Vlf1S5 given It out at Wisconsin Bowdoin Wesleyan an ltefnP0jfa1'1lYl at Yale, Pennsylvania and Cornell His proudest ?n0Si:-iilellgtis thefdegree of LItt.D., conferred by Bowdoin 1n 1937 Solemn ig eEc?51ic01 Pas Lord Palmerston. He contributes to var1ou or less 1 d 3 S- ere and In Englandg and belongs to many mor earne societies In the two countries. He left the Episcopa Church. to become a Catholic in 19341. Now In his thirteenth yea here - . d , fldmg horses, ishlngi Camplng, and arguing for Wilsoman 1 emocracy are amo 11' '