Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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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

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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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BELL DUTCHER THOMSON BROCKUNIER CAMP FOSTER ARNOLD HISTORY HISTORY, as Professor Bell puts it, is not a dead subject, but rather a subject which pictures the present in the past. The History department may be depicted in the same man- ner. The training of such men as Professors Dutcher and Bell, Brockunier and Thomson, has enabled them to bring to Wesleyan's History department courses with a varied view of the past and present. Professor Herbert Clifford Francis Bell, who graduated from the University of Toronto in 1903 and served during the World War as a Captain in the Intelligence Division of the Canadian Forces, has become a leading figure in the Aid to the Allies Club and has interested many a Wesleyan student in British-American affairs. The man who has seen the most years of service on the Wesleyan faculty is Professor George Matthew Dutcher. At one time he served as Vice-President of the University, he has lectured in many parts of the world. Associate Professor Alexander Thomson, who graduated from Bowdoin in 1921, came here after winning a Rhodes scholarship and studying at Cornell. Assistant Professor Samuel Hugh Brockunier holds up the liberal end of the History department. Graduating from Harvard in '26, he soon became an outstanding authority on Rhode Island's famed Roger Williams. MATHEMATICS ALTHOUGH a small group, the mathematics department is nevertheless closely knit and organized. Not so much is heard from this section of the curriculum, but it remains efficient and turns out some top students at a steady rate. Guiding lights of mathematics are four professors who jus- tify the reputation of their department: Burton Howard Camp, Leroy Albert Howland, Malcolm Cecil Foster, and Herbert Eli Arnold. A graduate from Wesleyan, Professor Camp received his degree in 1901. He attended Yale where he received his Ph.D. in 1910. From IQ37'39 he served as Vice-President of the American Statistical Association. Graduated from Acadia College, Nova Scotia, in 1914, Professor Foster found himself immediately called for over- seas action. In 1927, he came to Wesleyan as an Associate Professor. In the way of a hobby, he has become quite pro- ficient in making violins since 1931. He is an expert guide, spending his summers in the Canadian woods. He spent his last summer, however, teaching at his alma mater. Professor Arnold is another graduate of Wesleyan. As an undergraduate he was a D.U. and worked his way through college. He served during the World War, and received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1929. -f26lr