Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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JOHN W. SPAETH, JR. KOSSUTH M. WILLIAMSON Classics Economics and Social Science FRED B. MILLETT RALPH E. DIGMAN English Geology Page thirteen

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ADOLPH FREDERICK PAULI studied at the University of Illinois, where he got his Ph. D. degree in 1921. An Assistant Professor. he taught at Michigan. Dartmouth. and Lehigh before coming to Wesleyan in 1929. Dr. Pauli. Mm has delved into hislory as :1 hubby. has an extensive collection of pictures of Connecticut churches. NORMAN 0. BROWN. newly appointed Assistant Professor of Classics. was graduated from Clifton College. Bristol, England. Later Dr. Brown received degrees from Bulliul College, Oxford and from the University of Chivalgo and the University of XVisronsin. During the war Professor Brown xuls in lhe 0. S. 5. us an zlnuiyst of French Politics. ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES . . . KOSSUTH MAYER WILLIAMSON received his Bacheloris degree from Alabama in 1913. and his dm-tomte from Harvard in 1920. He taught at M. I. T. hefure coming to Wesleyan in 1920. The Chester D. Hubbard Professor amd head of the department. Professor Williamson is an expert on taxes. CLYDE OLIN FISHER studied at Duke, Columbia. and Cornell. where he taught before coming to W'esleyan in 1920. Professor Fisher is u publir utilities authority and is past chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. SICMUND NEUMANN, a graduate of the University of Leipzig, was Professor at the famous Hochschuie Fur Politik in Berlin. He mme t0 Wesleyan in 1935; mm he is :1 full professor. Noted for his enormous amount of energy and iiComes ze revolution , Professor Neumann did secret work for 0. S. S. and O. W. I. psychological iuu'fare department. along with his teaching duties. during the war. VICTOR HEATH WHITNEY received his three degrees from the University of North Carolina. Mr. Whitney has contributed to iiSot-iety Under Analysisw and Patterns of Village Lifeii among others. He has travelled throughout the States su extensively that he seems to know even L'tm path hamlets iscoldaz His many invocations inrlude trurk driVing and norking in lumber camps. BURTON CROSBY HALLOWELL returned 10 Wesleyan last March after being on leave for war work. He aided the O.P.A. and isrote iilnternulionul Propagations of Business Fluctuations? He is at Wesleyan alumnus. LYLE L. FITCH came to Wesleyan from Columbia. Previously, Mr. Fitch taught at Kansas State College, Brooklyn College, and C. C. N. Y. Having received his M. A. degree from Nebraska, Mr. Fitch is finishing work for his doctoris degree. Mr. Fitch was principal of the Hastings Business School in Nebraska, us well as being in the Freight Traffic Department in Kansas City. ENGLISH . . . FRED BENJAMIN MILLETT, present chairman of the department, came to Wesleyan in 1938. He received his B. A. from Amherst and his Ph. D. from Chicago, where he later taught. Dr. Milletl is one of the originators of the Humanities course. for which he has just reason to be proud. Professor Millelt, who iu'ites prose when he gets the time. made :I study of liberal arts institutions during the War. iEThe Rehirlh of Liberal Education is the candid result of the study. CAREY HERBERT CONLEY has been at Wesleyan since 1913. having previously taught at Grand Island College. Purdue. and Michigan. his Alma Mater. Professor Conley received his Ph. D. at Yale in 1922. His iiPattems of Reading and Writing is used by English 2 students. During the war he taught ill am Amerivam G. I. University in Bavaria. He is a member of Sigma Chi. WILBERT SNOW, Lieuleuaut-Covernor 0f Connectirut, came to Wesleyan in 1921. after teach- ing at N. Y. U.. Bowdoin. where he was graduated in 1907. Williams. Utah. Indiana. mid Reed. His poetry. of which there ure close to ten volumes. is regarded as semml only to Robert Frost's in New England. Professor Snow is a member of Beta Theta Pi. HOMER EDWARDS WOODBRIDGE taught at Colorado, Harvard. where he rereived his Ph. D. in 1919,111inois, and Indiana. before coming to Wesleyan in l920. Dr. Woudbridge. who is, indeed. a true scholar. is an authority on Shakespeare. His two-wheeled van gels him to vluss just as the hell rings. THEODORE HOWARD BANKS. JR.. came to Wesleyan in 1928 after lem'hing ut Yule. his Alma Mater. An expert on Milton, Associate Professor Banks serVeti 0n the Yangtze River us 11 gunhmit captain at the time of the first World War. ALEXANDER COWIE did undergraduate work at Minnesota, where he was visiting Professor last summer. He taught at Illinois and his Alma Mater hefm'e coming to Wesleyan in 1924. Associate Professor Cowie. who married Dean Nicis daughter, is renowied for his Sherlock Holmes appearance, as well as for his sparkling witlicisms. Page twelve

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JOHN C. BLANKENAGEL ELMER E. SCHATTSCHNEIDER Germ an Government S. HIVGH BROCKUNIEH BURTON H. CAMP Hislon Mathematics Page fourteen