Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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BIOLOGY THE Biology department at Wesleyan has long been recog- nized as one of the outstanding in its field. Shanklin Labora- tory is equipped with the latest improvements for conduct- ing experiments in almost all biological lines, including physiology and bacteriology. The department is under the able management of Professors Schneider and Goodrich, Assistant Professor Hunter and Dr. Gortner. Dr. Edward Christian Schneider started his work in Colorado and did research there in physiology before com- ing to Wesleyan. Called to serve overseas during the World War, he continued here his work on the effects of high altitudes on the human body. Today he is rated as one of the foremost physiologists of the world. Dr. Hubert Baker Goodrich, department chairman, came to us from Amherst. He spends his summers at Woods Hole Biological Station, and has been vice-president of the Amer- ican Society of Zoologists. Professor George William Hunter, a Knox College grad- uate, came to Wesleyan in 1929 and is now engaged in research work on the reactions of the host to the parasite, and is preparing a general biological book for publication in 1942. Dr. Ross Aiken Gortner graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1933. Being an instructor in biochemistry, he ties up the chemistry and biology departments. CHEMISTRY THE Wesleyan Chemistry department has long been one of the most famous on campus due to its reputation early established by Professor Atwater and others. The American Chemical Society has named Wesleyan as an accredited university, it was among the first of its type to be so honored. Of the members of the department, Charles Ruglas Hoover, Nye Professor of Chemistry, a graduate of Penn College, Harvard, and Haverford, is one of the most famous. During his undergraduate days he was star baseball and basketball player. He is a research consultant on the Com- mittee for National Defense. In charge of the draft registration at Wesleyan last fall, George Albert Hill, Chemistry Professor, was graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in ,I3. He spent last summer revising his textbook. Assistant Professor in the department, Mortimer Gilbert Burford is a Wesleyan man, class of '3Q. He has spent sum- mers climbing and taking pictures in the Grand Teuton Mountains. Richard Guthrie Clarke, Alpha Sigma at Allegheny Col- lege, came to Wesleyan in ,3Q. He taught this year from his own textbook. -1121? SCHNEIDER GOODRICH HUNTER GORTNER HILL IIOOVER BURFORD CLARKE

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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

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S PAETH PAU LI PUSEY WILLIAMSON VVARE o'1.EARY FISHER LONG CLASSICS TIIE Classics department, hard-hit by the successive losses of renowned Professors Hewitt, Harrington, Nicolson, and Heidel, and the general trend away from the traditional classical education, has taken definite steps back to its former position, including the resumption of the study of elementary Latin. A Haverford man, class of 1917, John William Spaeth joined Wesleyan's faculty in 1930. He holds the degree of Ph.D. from Princeton, and has also pursued advanced studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Council of the American Classical Association, and secre- tary-treasurer of the New England Classical Society, he has published numerous articles on the classics during the past year, as well as kept up with his growing family. Adolph Frederick Pauli graduated from Illinois in 1916, and received his Ph.D. from there in 1921. He is associate editor of the Classical Journal and also bibliographical adviser in Olin Library. His hobby is the history and photo- graphing of early Connecticut churches. Nathan Marsh Pusey joined the faculty this year as an assistant professor, coming to Wesleyan from Scripps Col- lege in California. He graduated from Harvard in 1928 and has since received his M.A. and Ph.D. there. During 1934-35 he pursued advanced studies in Athens, Greece. ECONOMICS I-FIIE Economics department, one of the largest on campus, has curtailed its quota of majors from nearly fifty to eighteen this past year by stiffening its comp, Kossuth Mayer Williamson graduated from the Uni- versity of Alabama in 1913 and received a Ph.D. from Harvard. He is an expert on taxes. Last fall at a meeting of the National Tax Association in N. Y. C. he discussed papers on federal Hscal policy in relation to recovery and defense. Receiving a Duke B.A. in 191 1, Clyde Olin Fisher is a public utilities authority. During the past year he has served as chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. Labor expert Norman Joseph Ware received a B.A. from McMaster in 1908. A specialist for the Social Security Board, he served in the Canadian Army from 1914 to 1918. Clarence Dickinson Long, Jr., with a Ph.D. from Prince- ton, has just published his book on the business cycle theory. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a history of unemployment. James John O'Leary graduated from Wesleyan in 1936. While here he was an Olin Scholar, a Phi Bete,', and a three-sport athlete. 'f22l t