Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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Topped by a prexy who is renowned for his r p ogres- sivism, the Faculty and Administration of Wesleyan well fill the primary requisite of a secure college cur- riculum. The college has long prided itself upon the fact that it can boost one faculty man to every nine students. 7?

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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES GEORGE WILLETS DAVISON President HENRY INGRAHAM HARRILIAN Vice-President JOHN STEPHENSON PULLMAN Secretary HENRY ANDREWS INGRAHAM Treasurer Tllll PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY Qex-ojicioj Clarence Everett Bacon Raymond Earl Baldwin Darrell Sully Boyd NVilliam Patterson Calder John Spencer Camp David Jacobs Carlough John Cheesman Clark Frederick Morgan Davenport Earl DeWill Deremer James Alyward Develin Elliott Minton Eldredge Raymond Laylor Forman Addison Loomis Green Clarence Eugene Hancock Stewart Freeman Hancock Harrison Claude Hardy Charles Stuart Hedden Winfred Byron Holton, Jr. Harold Wardwell Hoyt Elijah Kent Hubbard Ernest Alexander Inglis George Seney Ingraham Albert Wheeler Johnston William Adelbert Jones -'lI6l John Sibbit Keir Edwin Walter Kemmerer Robert Irving Laggren Albert Ernest Legg Olin Foss McCormick Horace Augustus Moses William Gordon Murphy Robert Brewer Newell Parker Newhall Clarence Lucian Newton George Luther Peck George Greenwood Reynolds William Thayer Rich James Loren Richards Frank Harder Ryder Harrison Monell Sayre Arthur Eugene Sutherland, J Edward Lee Thorndike Harold Gilbert Travis Francis Bourne Upham, Jr. Arthur T. Vanderbilt Herbert Welch James Isaac Wendell John Edwin Wing I'

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Aiurzs l.111c1cNs Mui loNA11o11Y PRESIDENT Coxnxo from Knox College in Illinois, James Lukens MeConaughy took over the presideney of Wlesleyan i11 1925. Since that time this institution has seen some of its most prosperous years, constantly expanding and improving. lVith fifteen rich years of experience gained at Bowdoin, Dartmouth, and Knox, he became iNes- leyanis te11th president. Recipient, from more than ten different colleges, of degrees ineluding M.A., Ph.D., LL.D., and L.H.D., Dr. McConaughy started on his eareer by graduating from Yale in IQOQ as a 'fPhi Brite and a member of Beta 'l'heta Pi. Three years ago, Prexy, always an active Repub- lican, added one more position to his long and bril- liant line, that of Lieutenant Governor of the state of Connecticut. Last fall, as elections rolled around once again, straw votes indicated another two years for Dr. McConaughy, but when the ballots were all tallied, a defeat by his opponent at the coattails of F. D. R was registered. Politics and college administration are only two of the many fields, however, in which Dr. lXIC'ClOIl21Llglly is proficient. Long recognized as one of the most prom- inent authorities on problems relating to marriage, he has had articles published in various nation-wide periodicals as well as in book form. In View of the imposing array of other ollices, it is easy to overlook the fact that in 1938 he was president of the all- powerful Ameriean Association of College Presidents. At present he is vice-chairman of the State Highway Safety Commission, chairman of the Middlesex County Finnish Relief Fund, and a member ex-ollieio of the Yale Corporation. Last month Dr. MeConaughy was eleeted to the Board of Trustees of both Vassar College and the Northheld Schools.