Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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SCUDDER KEPPEL CIIANTER PEOPLES ETHICS THE Ethics and Religion department under the tutelage of Professors Chanter and Scudder, guiding lights of the Chris- tian Association, is one of the smallest on campus. William George Chanter, whose resignation takes effect this June, is Pastor of the College Church, and a former Dean of Wesleyan. He graduated from here in 1914, Presi- dent of his class, a member of Phi Nu Theta, with one of the highest scholastic records ever attained at Wesleyan. He holds a theological degree from Boston University and is famous for his stock of big-league baseball lore. Delton Lewis Scudder, Assistant Professor, Reader of the Benediction, graduated from Wesleyan in 1927 and received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1939. As an undergraduate he was a member of the Commons Club, which is now Sigma Chi, and manager of the Glee Club. The scope of the department is fairlybbroad, running from an intensive study of the Bible to a course on the problems of war, the latter being taught by members of the History, Economics, and Government departments. Both men naturally devote a large part of their time to the Christian Association and the pastorate of the College Church. These organizations, with their widespread mem- bership, conduct the most varied and time-consuming program of all Wesleyan extra-curricular activities. GEOLOGY WESl.EYAN,S Geology department is housed in Judd Hall, the oldest scientific college building in the country. The department has recently acquired a grinding outfit, in part from the income of the Wise Fund. The two professors have this year conducted a short course in meteorology for stu- dents who are taking the civil aeronautics training. Head of the department is Joe Webb Peoples, who was a Sigma Chi at Vanderbilt in 1928. Recently he was ap- pointed to the committee on geographical education of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Before coming to Wesleyan, he taught at Vanderbilt, North- western, Lehigh, and Princeton. The Associate Professor of Geology has spent past summers looking for chromite deposits in the Bear Tooth Mountains of Montana. During the year his hobby is taking countless pictures of his year- old son. A member of the lightweight crew and cross-country team while at Columbia University, David Keppel grad- uated in 1932 and became a Teaching Fellow in the Geology department at Wesleyan five years later. A son of the presi- dent of the Carnegie Corporation, he is now an Instructor. Dr. Keppel received the degree of Ph.D. from Columbia University in June 1940. 4241'-

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ENGLISH BY way of passing judgment on the English department, more Wesleyan students elect English 13-14 than any other course in college. Chairman of the English department is Professor Homer Edwards Woodbridge, who has been teaching here for the past twenty years. He is one of those barnstorming Crusaders who wander about the land teach- ing at various summer schools, including in his experiences, Colorado, Northwestern, Michigan, Maine, Harvard, Oregon, Indiana, and New Hampshire. Professor Carey Herbert Conley has also been at Wes- leyan for many years, twenty-eight to be exact. He is well known, at least in name, to all English 1-2 students, for they are required to use his textbook. The poet of the class is Professor Wilbert Snow, who was in the class of ,O7 at Bowdoin. This year his sixth volume of poetry, Maine Tides, was received very com- mendably by the critics as well as the public. Dr. Fred Benjamin Millett has been at Wesleyan for three years, and it looks as though he will have the op- portunity to be here for many more. His book, Contem- porary American Authors, published last year, has received favorable criticisms. - - Associate Professor Roland Mitchell Smith is a Wesleyan man, class of '18, Just before war broke out in Europe, he spent a summer studying in England and Ireland. Assistant Professor Alexander Cowie is the man with the distinctive mustache. His school days were spent at the University of Minnesota. In 1930 he received his Ph.D. from Yale University. It was there that he married Wes- leyan Dean Nicolsonls daughter, getting more from college than just an education. Assistant Professor Theodore Howard Banks is engaged in the study of Milton of whom he is considered an expert. He spent two years in the U. S. Navy during the World War and later commanded a gunboat on the Yangtze River. Assistant Professor Joseph Morgan Stokes is the public- speaking man at Wesleyan. His experiences come from the Presbyterian College of South Carolina, post-graduate work at Yale, and a night club in New Haven where he was a host. Mr. Ralph Darlington Pendleton is the dramatist of the group. First gaining distinction in this field in the Paint and Powder Club here, he has continued to even greater triumphs. His recent appearance as Polonius in Hamlet was received with gusto by Hartford and New York critics. -I2 3 WOODBRIDGE CONLEY SNOW MILLETT l SINIITH COWIE BANKS STOKES PENDLETON

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GERMAN THE only modern foreign language to boast a separate departmental organization is German. The department's curriculum cuts a broad swath through German culture, including a scientific course in addition to the usual offer- ings. Professor Paul Holroyd Curts, department head, as an undergraduate at Yale headed for engineering. With the coming of the World War he branched out and acted as a censor for the Government, taught German, map-making, and physics, and was an instructor in the R. O. T. C. at Wesleyan. The University of Wisconsin claims Professor John Charles Blankenagel as an alumnus. He was the mile record holder on the track team but was unable to take advantage of his berth on the 1908 Olympic team. World War I saw him a top sergeant at Verdun. The German students have a great friend in Professor Laurence Edwin Gemeinhardt, the humorist of third floor Fisk. He is a Brown f'29j graduate and has a Ph.D. from Columbia. Whether in a class or in the cage taking a work-out, Dr. Benno Hugh Selcke is a typical good guyf' He went to Northwestern University and later to the University of Leipzig as an exchange student. GOVERNMENT AN outgrowth of the History department, the Government department is one of the youngest and most popular at Wesleyan. At its head is Elmer Eric Schattschneider, who was born in Minnesota and graduated from the University of Wis- consin in 191 5. As a practical politician, he has served on the City Council of Middletown. He is a member of the Election Laws Commission of Connecticut and is an expert on pressure politics. Ralph Frederic Bischoff graduated from Wesleyan in 1927. While in college, he served as editor of the Olla Podrida and was Secretary-Treasurer of the College Body. Since then, married to Doctor F auver's daughter, he has become Secretary of the Committee on Admissions as well as Assistant Professor of Government. Sigmund Neumann, a graduate of the University of Leipzig, was formerly a professor at the famous Hochs- chule Fil? Politik in Berlin. He has written a book and re- viewed several others in the past year, and is now an Associate Professor of Government and Social Science. Paul Bennett Taylor graduated from Doane College, after which he did graduate work at Columbia University. -l25l- CURTS BLANKENAGEL GEMEINHARDT SELCKE SCHATTSCHNEIDER NEUMA-NN Brsonorr A TAYLOR