Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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DEAN IN his thirty years at Wesleyan, Leroy Albert Howland has served his Alma Matern in almost every faculty capacity. As Dean of the University he is thc Hnal arbiter of college regulations. While here as an under- graduate, he was a Phi Beteu and a Psi U. Graduat- ing in 1900, he went on to Harvard to receive an M.A., and to Munich for a Ph.D. He returned here i11 1905 as Instructor in Mathematics. Three years later he was promoted to an Associate-Professorship. When the local chapter of Sigma Xi was established, he became a member. Selected as Vice-President in 1921, he became Acting-President during the two years be- fore the arrival of Dr. lVIcConaughy. For the past year and a half the Dean has been occupied in editing a new issue of the Alumni Record, a periodical which appears every decade. DEAN OF FRESHMEN FOR six years Victor Lloyd Butterfield has been Director of Admissions and Dean of Freshmen. Next year he will assume a new role as Associate Dean of the College. A graduate of Cornell in 1927 he taught prep school for three years and then spent a year as an instructor at Lawrence at the time that Brown's Henry B. Wriston was President. After attending Harvard Graduate School, he came to Wfesleyan in 1935 to take over the roll of Director of Admissions. In 1938 he was made Dean of Freshmen, and this spring he was appointed to his new position. He is distinctive among the faculty as having designed and built his own house. Another unusual trait is his reputed ability to call a very large part of the student body by the first names. For the past two years he has been studying the educational systems of other col- leges on a grant by the Carnegie Corporation. The degrees which he now holds are an lNI.A. from Cornell, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. 41 9? LEROY .ALBERT HfJX'N'I.ANl7 VICT'0R LLOYD BUTTERFIELD

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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.

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HITCIICOCK VON GROSCHWITZ SLOCUM SITTERLY STEARNS 2 ART DURING the past year the Wesleyan Art department, com- posed of Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Gustave von Grosch- witz, Curator of Prints, sponsored numerous exhibitions in the Library Art Room. Recently the Town and Gown art class, formerly known as The Daubers, was reorganized by Mr. von Ggoschwitz and is now sponsored by the Art de- partment in cooperation with Mr. Mann of the Romance Language department. Henry-Russell Hitchcock, with a B.A. and an M.A. from Harvard, is an authority on American architecture and a follower of Frank Lloyd Wright. Recently he has been appointed a member of the editorial board of the Art Builderf' Not long ago he published the revised editions of two of his books. Articles by him lately appeared in California Arts and Architecturef, In April Mr. Hitch- cock was promoted to the associate professorship in his department. YVith a B.A. from Columbia in 1927, Gustave von Groschwitz came to Wesleyan from New York, where he headed a division of the Federal Arts Project. He has served as a member of the jury of award for the annual exhibition of the Meriden Arts and Crafts Association. A specialist on prints, von Groschwitzis latest published articles include forewards to a number of print catalogues. ASTIRONOMY HOUSED in Van Vleck Observatory, one of the finest in the country, is Wesleyanis Astronomy department. In addi- tion to class-room teaching, the astronomy staff of Slocum, Sitterly, and Stearns, is engaged in stellar parallax research. Throughout the year the trio maintain an all-night schedule of observing and recording. Many thousands of photographs have been taken for computing parallaxes, and the Observa- tory frequently publishes the results of its findings. In this research work, the staff uses Wesleyan's 20-inch refractor. Frederick Slocum, who has been Director of Van Vleck Observatory since its founding in 1916, is one of the best known authorities on stellar parallaxes in the country. A Wesleyan faculty man for twenty-one years, he is a former Vice-President of the American Astronomical Society. Bancroft Walker Sitterly, holding a B.A., M.A., and a Ph.D., all from Princeton, has occupied himself chiefly with the antics of the asteroid Eros. His return from a year's absence means more hard examinations for beginners in astronomy. One of the few living men to have a comet bearing his name, Carl Leo Stearns, is a Research Associate in the department. A Wesleyan graduate, he teaches a course at Trinity in addition to his research work. Of