Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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ADOLPH FREDERICK PAULI, Assistant Professor of Classics. . .University of Illinois '16. . .has taught at Michigan, Dartmouth, Lehigh. . .his hobby is photographing early Connecticut churches. . .an- other faculty member with son at Wesleyan... bibliographical advisor in Olin Library .... RALPH DrXRLING PENDLETON, I rzslruclor in English . . .Wesleyan '31 . . .Sigma Chi. . .director of campus dramatics. . .playwright of Transient Breath . . . last summer acted with Buck Hill players. . .ghost writer of Cardinal Network mystery serial: Grand- , mother's Tales .... l JOE WEBB PEoPLEs, Associate Professor of Geology . . .Vanderbilt University, 1928. . .taught at alma mater, Northwestern, Princeton, Lehigh. . .spends summers in Montana's Bear Tooth Mountains. . . studying chromite deposits. . .became a father this year. . .Chairman of Geology Department. . . . PAUL ARTHUR REYNOLDS, A.ssislarif Professor of Philosophy. . .VVeslcyan '25. . .Beta Theta Pi. . . Secretary. Commission of Foreign Study. . .Presi- dent of lVIiddletown Consumers, Cooperative. . . drives in from his home in the country on a bicycle . . .President of the C.A. while an undergraduate. , . FREMON1' RIDER, Librarian. . .studied at New York Library School after graduating from Syracuse University in 1905. . .author of guide books to American cities and foreign countries. . .has de- veloped Olin Library into largest college library in country, universities excepted .... ELMER ERIC SCHATTSCHNEIDER, Arulrus Professor of Government. . .University of Wisconsin, '15, . . politician in theory and practice. . .resigned as city councilman last spring. .expert on pressure politics. . .native of midwest. .chairman of his department. . . EDwARD CHRISTIAN SCHNEIDER, Ayres Professor of Biology. . .came to Wesleyan from Colorado. . .one of foremost physiologists in the country. . .has worked at Mitchell Field studying effects of altitude on aviators. . .served overseas during war. . ,chair- man of Biology Department .... DELTON LEwxs SCUDDER, Assistant Professor of Ethics and Religion. . .Wlesleyan '27 . . .Ph.D. from Yale this past year. . .as undergraduate was Glee Club manager. . .belonged to Sigma Chi when it was the Commons Club. . .recently published trea- tise on F. R. Tennantis philosophical theology. . . BENNO HUGII SELCKE, JR., Instructor in German. . . graduate of Northwestern University in 1935. . . studied in Germany 193751938 on exchange scholar- ship at the University of Leipzig. . .received Ph.D. from his Alma Mater in 1939. . .track star in col- lege .... WVALTER CLEVELAND SHIPLEY, V 'isifing Lecturer in Psychology. . .as Michigan undergraduate was on Gargoyle staH', campus humor magazine. . .is now associated with famed' Hartford Retreat. . .thinks student I.Q. here only slightly higher than that of 500 defectives he has encountered. . .has worked in ' three mental hospitals .... lQ3l .,..

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HUGH GRAHAM MCCURDY, Assistant Professor of Physical Education. . .Bowdoin College, class of '22 . . .coach of varsity swimming, tennis, soccer teams . . .in college was letterman in virtually every sport except ones he is coaching here at present .... DAX'ID RICE NICKEE, Assistant Professor of Ro- mance Languages. . .graduate of Princeton, 1924. . . Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins. . .fond of beer. . .goes skiing in Massachusetts with his French students. . . has traveled extensively in France in recent years. . . deserted Faculty Club this spring to get married .... ALBERT NIANN, Hollis Professor of Romance Lan- guages . . . Wesleyan 1906 . . . Psi Upsilon . . . has taught at Hotchkiss and Boston Country Day. .. associate editor of the French Revue . . .in winter his hobby is painting, while in summer swimming and sailing occupy most of his time .... JOHN FREDERICK l.VIARTIN, Associate Professor of Physical Education. . .Oberlin '20. . .Varsity track coach. . .the Mr. Chips of the Phys Ed depart- ment. . .in 1934 was awarded an lVI.A. from Colum- bia. . .in college was football guard, basketball player, as well as track hurdler, sprinter .... FRED BENJAMIN NIILLETT, Professor of English .... Amherst, 1912. . .formerly taught at Chicago under Hutchins, . .came to Wesleyan in ,38. . .his UCon- temporary American Authors was published this past spring. . .a chain smoker. . .his column is regular feature of University of Chicago Alumni magazine .... GEORGE TUFFORD MOODY, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages. . ,Wesleyan '29. . .Sigma Chi . . .recently threw away his crutches after suffering from a broken leg. , .photography as a hobby. .. brother of the undergraduate Moody twins. . . has French reader in preparation .... SIGMUND N EUMANN, Associate Professor of Govern- ment and Social Science. . .taught courses in three departments this year. . .graduated from Univer- sity of Leipzig. . .is writing one book and reviewing numerous others. . .formerly professor at famed H ochschute F ur Politik in Berlin .... JAMES ANASTASIOS N OTOPOULOS., Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics. . .Amherst '28. . .commutes from Trinity. . .studied at Oxford. . .engaged in the motion picture industry for four years. . .writing a book on Plato's influence upon Shelley's poetry and thought .... JAMES JOHN O'LEixRY, I nstructor in Economics and Social Sciences. . .Wesleyan '36. . .while under- graduate, was an Olin Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, letterman in football, baseball, basketball. . .spent two years at Duke working for his Ph.D.. . .Alpha Chi Rho .... JAMES M,ARSHALL OSBORN, Visiting Lectarerin Eng- lish. . .Wesleyan ,28. . .Psi Upsilon. . .studied at Oxford for four years. . .author of Work in Progress . . .was commended for latter work in the English House of Lords. . .teaches at Yale. . . . i221

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