Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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RALPH DARLING PENDLETON is a Wesmun through and through. having received his B. A. and M. A. degrees hele in 1931 and 1933. respectively. Assot'izlte Professor Pendleton is famous for his superb directing 0f the 92 Theater group. recently reactivated. He is a Sigma Chi. JOSEPH MORGAN STOKES. Wresicyzmis public speaking mun. mm on leave. spent his school days all Presbyterian College of South Carolina, after which he received the Ph. D. degree in 1935. He taught all the University 01 South Carolina and the Eli Srhuul hefore coming to Wes- leyan in 1935. STEWART CONCER WILCOX. W'esleyun ulumnus. rereived his Ph. D. degree from Johns Hopkins. An Et'lel'tit'. Assistant Professor Wilcox holds the College record for the 100 yard uml the 220 yard dashes. He is tinted for the perpetual pipe and Dtmney House 11111111 sessions, u source of enjoyment for many students. GEOLOGY . . . JOE WEBB PEOPLES mime t0 Wesleyan in 1935. after halving taught at Vanderbilt. his Alma Mater. Northwestern. Lehigh, and Princeton. where he received his Ph. D. degree. Professor Peoples. nmx doing government work in Washington. has served on the geographical education rommittee 0f the American Institute 01' Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. He is :1 Sigma Chi. RALPH ERNEST DICMAN. :u-ting head 01 the department. mine to Wesleyan in 1914. itht'n the College nu: still engaged in Naval training. A graduate 01 Lawrence and Yule. nhere he rereived the M. 5. degree. Mr. Digniun is giving am :unuzing number of geology Pourses to meet the popular demands of the student hotly. The Digmuns. revently blessed with :1 daughter. Susan Jean. are excellent house party vhaperoncs. GERMAN . . . JOHN CHARLES BLANKENACEL. present head 01 the German Department. rel'eived his B. A. and Ph. D. degrees from the University 01 Wisconsin. where he captained the track team. He iuls chosen as u miler fur the 1908 Olympics. Professor Blunkemlgel. him is sometimes called the 111mm Major . is knoun for his love of the Outdours. PAUL HOLVROYD CURTS. the Murt'lls L. Taft Professor German. received his B. A.. M. A. and Ph. D. degrees from Yule. Ih'ol'essm' Curls. iihn has lice at Wesleyan since 1909. is lxmm '1 for his hook on scientilir German und especially for his Basic Cermung, publication. which is used in many colleges throughout the country. Like his t-ollcalgue. Professor Bhinkenugel. Dr. Curts is :1 liner of the outdoors. LAURENCE EDWIN CEMEINHARDT rumpieIEs the list of distinguished German Professors. Dr. Cemeinhurdt is a more rerent addition to the I'Ollege ful'llity. He was graduated from Brtmn in 1929. where he met und Inter murried u Pembroke girl. Professor Gemeinhurdt is u fumed rau-onteur 01 Ruhehiisiun humor. GOVERNMENT . . . ELMER ERIC SCHATTSCHNEIDER. Andrus Professor of Government :IIId head 01 that depart- ment. came to W'esh'yun in 1930. A gruduutc of the University 01 Wist'onsin. Dr. Srhuttst-hneider is tlll expert on pressure politics. He is knmsn by his genial smile. KLAN B. OVERSTREET joined the Wesleyan faculty in 191-1. rX l'niversiu of California graduate. who has rereiied his Musteris degree from Harvard, Mr. Overstreet is using. us his thesis for his l'h. D. degree. E1The Growth of Nationalism in Chinuii. HISTORY . . . SAMUEL HUGH BROCKIVNIER. present head 01 the History Department. is u Huri'urd mun through mid through. having received his undergraduate untl graduate degrees from that lini- versity. Professor Brot'kunier is am outstanding zlulhurity on Rhode Ishmd,s fumed Roger Wiiliums. HERBERT CLIFFORD FRANCIS BELL has been Professor of History at Wiesieyun since 1926. ,X graduate 01 the University nf annnto and holder of several honorary degrees. Dr. Bell is am authority on English History. ALEXANDER THOMSON is 41 graduate 01 Bms doin. from iihere he item to Oxford as u Rhodes Srilohir. While alt college he itus :1 crack football end ziml the tnu'k ruptuin. us well :Is' :1 member of Deke. GEORGE MATTHEW DUTCHER. ixurld-iside lecturer. came to Wesleyan in 1901. He has taught 2t1s0 ill Curneli. his Alma Mater. Columbia. Pennsylvania. California. Michigan. Harvard. and Yale. Professor Dutrher. Helding Professor of History. served as Vice-president 01 the College from 1918-21. He has resumed his jaunts to Florida since the end of the war. Page fifteen

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EUGENE O. GOLOB rereived three degrees, including his Ph. D. degree. from Columbia, where he taught for several years. He is u iery energetic teacher. with plenty of information at his tonguels edge. An Assistant Professor. Dr. Goloh knows his European history, among other things. WILLARD M. WALLACE. Wesleyan 934,, returned to his Alma Mater to become am Assistant Professor of History. Before the War. Dr. Wallace taught at Lehigh. His Ph.D. degree Mus received from the University of Pennsylvania. MATHEMATICS . . . BURTON H. CAMP was graduated from Wesleyan in 1901, where he returned to tearh in 1909. A member of Phi Nu Theta. Dr. Camp is author of h'The Mathematical Part of Elementary Slatistirsll. MALCOLM CECIL FOSTER received his Ph. D. at Yale in 1921. Before coming to Wesleyan in 1927. he taught at Yale and Williams. Professor Foster has a large collection of moustache cups. but is better known as a violin-maker. HERBERT E. ARNOLD was graduated from Wesleyan. where he was a member of Delta Upsilon, in 1920. He received his Ph. D. degree from Yule in 1928. Professor Arnold liel'ame an Associate Professor in 1936. MUSIC . . . JOSEPH SAMUEL DALTRY. head of the music department at W'esleyan since 1929. was an associate of the Royal College of Organists and a fellow of the American Guild of Organists. He is the author of the hiMunuel of Sight Singing7 and uElementary Harmonyii PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS . . . CORNELIUS KRUSE. the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy. is the head 01 the De- partment. He has been at Wesleyan sinve 1923, during which time he has distinguished himself as a scholar of the first rank. Dr. Kruse is Secretary of the Directory Board of American Philom- phical Association; he is. also. a very prominent man in the Friends organization. PAUL ARTHUR REYNOLDS was graduated from Wesleyan in 1925. While an undergraduate Dr. Reynolds was President of the C. A. and a member of Beta Theta Pi. He is active in civic life; he is also President of the Middletown Consumers, Cooperative. EMILE CAILLIET has an Litt. D. degree from Montpellier and a Ph. D. degree from Strasbourg. Internationally known as an authority on Pascal. Dr. Cuilliet fills an important place on the faculty as a Professor of Philosophy. Professor Cailliet is also a Professor of French Literature. PHYSICAL EDUCATION . . . J. FREDERICK iiFRlTZi, MARTIN received his B. A. degree at Oberlin in 1920. his M. A. at Columbia in 1934. Since his arrival at Wesleyan in 1920, Martin has been head coach of cross country and track. and was head coach in football for five years. Mr. Martin was recently made head of the Physical Education Department. HUGH G. MCCURDY is an Associate Professor of Physical Education at Wesleyan. where he is head coach of soccer. swimming. and tennis. Mr. Ml'Clll'lly has been at Wesleyan since 1922, shortly after his graduation from Bowdoin. From Wesleyan Coach Mt-Curtly ret'eived his M. A. degree in 1938. NORMAN J. DANIELS. Assistant Professor of Physical Education. is head coach of football. basketball. and baseball at Wesleyan. Daniels. who came to Wesleyan in 1934-. was graduated in 1932 from the University of Michigan. where he was a nine letter man. JOHN L. WOOD is :1 teaching fellow in Physit'al Education. Wood was graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1937. In college Wood played in the barkfield of the football team with Marshall Goldberg. Johnny came to W'esleyan in 1941. FRANK R. MAZE. who was graduated from Syracuse in 19-12. is an instrurtor in Physical Edut-u. tion at Wesleyan. He will serve as line rual'h in football. head wrestling roach. and will assist in t'oat'hing track. PHYSICS . . . KARL SKILLMAN VAN DYKE. Charlotte Augusta Ayres Professor of Physics. was graduated from Wesleyan in 1916. Dr. Van Dyke. head of the Physits Department. has been on the faculty for twenty-four years. A member of Phi Nu Them. his hobbies include color photography and sound-recording. WALTER GUYTON CADY, a very distinguished member of the science department. has been at Wesleyan 4-4 years. He holds degrees from the University of Berlin and Brown. Professor Cady. an Alpha Delt, invented a submarine detector for war use and his research on electrical properties of quartz crystals hastened the advent of radio broadcasting. He still, however. finds time for bird-banding. Page sixteen