Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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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

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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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MUSIC rf!-IE Music department is one which is steadily gaining in popularity. The equipment has recently been increased by a Steinway piano, the gift of Spencer Camp '78, and further augmented by the acquisition of several hundred dollars' worth of new records for the record library. Famed for his impeccable dress and clipped English ac- cent, Joseph S. Daltry came to Wesleyan in 1929. Born in England and educated in Australia and at the University of Munich, he served in the Australian Expeditionary Force during the War. He spent a considerable portion of his leave of absence during the first semester this year presenting Gilbert and Sullivan to Broadway audiences. Born in Vienna and educated at Cambridge and the University of Vienna, Instructor Frederick William Stern- feld completes his first year at Wesleyan this June. His course on the history of music is being presented here for the first time. On wintry afternoons he may be seen head- ing north with skis slung over his shoulder. Charles R. Nicholls first came to Wesleyan in 1936 for a three years' stay after having been educated at the East- ern School of Music in the University of Rochester. He returned this year to replace Mr. Daltry as director of the choir and glee club during the latteris semester leave of absence. PHILOSOPHY EVERYONE at some time in his life imagines himself a phil- osopher. It may be from this pipe dream that much of the Philosophy departmentis great popularity stems. Cornelius Kruse, a Yale graduate of 1915, came to Wesleyan in 1923 where he is now chairman of the Phil- osophy department. Discrimination is the hall mark of an educated man is a favorite saying of his, and the campus recognizes in him a man whose ability to discriminate is unsurpassed. Professor Kruse has been working on his favorite theme nPessimism,,' for several years. He is the Secretary of the Directory Board of the American Phil- osophy Association. President of the Christian Association while an under- graduate at Wesleyan, Paul Arthur Reynolds graduated from here in 1925 and received his Ph.D. at Cornell five years later. He then returned to his Alma Mater in the capacity of Instructor of Philosophy and remained so until 1932, when he became an Assistant Professor in the de- partment, a position which he now holds. A member of Beta Theta Pi, he took an active part in debating as an under- graduate and is now on frequent call as judge or chairman for intercollegiate forensics. 4427? DALTRY STERNFELD REYNOLDS NICHOLLS KRUSE