Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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Administration Heading up the administration is President Victor Lloyd Butterfield. whn Iit'st came to 1Vesleyan as Director of Admissions in 193:3, became Dean of Fresh- men in 1938. and President 01 the University in 1943. He is a graduate 01 Cor- nell 01' the class 01 1927, where he was a member 01 Beta Theta Pi. He received his MA. at Cornell and Harvard. and his PhD. at Harvard. He has come to know most 01 the student body by name and has done sinte his inaugural much to improve and widen the curriculum. Dean Leroy Albert Huwland is a XVesleian graduate 01' the class of 1900. and was a member 011 Psi Upsilon. Since his graduation he has served his Alma Mater in almost every ttapacity. from instructor to the position he now holds. He began teaching in the Mathematics Dept. in 1905, and became Dean in 1935. His degrees were received at Harvard and the University of Munich. He is a member of Sigma Xi. After service with 0-2 of 055. Associate Dean Sterling A. Callisen came to 1Vesleyan to occupy his present post. He had previously taught at Harvard and Rochester, and now teaches with the Art Dept. He is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard. Donald Eldridge is Director of Admissions, a post he assumed last year. He is a Wesleyan graduate 01' the class of 1931. and a member of Alpha Chi Rho. He travels much in connection with the Manpower Committee and is handling an increasedly difficult job. Frank B. Cawlcy was appointed Associate Director of Admissions last year, since which time he has been touring the country in connection with the Man- power Drive. He is a XVesleyan graduate of the class of 1914. a Psi U. During the war he was in charge of XVesleyans Navy Mess.

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Trustees The XYt-slcizm lruxlccahip wzn rczllllx formed in 1827. Iliuugh the College did not begin l'm'mally until I831. The original limit on membership was form. but :11 u later date that numlm was extended to Iil'l'x-livc. .Xl present. liol'li-liw til the trustees hau- bccn clcrlul bi 11w lruslcc lmzml: lhc nlhcr Icn. known as alumni trustees. have been clu'lcd In the alumni lhcmsclwx 'l'iuxlccx arc clu'lcd lim' :1 pcriud ol Inc wars. and clulinns 21H- gcncmlh held awry lwu txcziix. 'lihc lumlimi ml the lruslccx ix. nl unnw. m xulcguzn'tl llu- interests nli H'Cslcyan. and their impliiil pmlmw ix m mixc lhc nvi'c-sszu'i funds by H'ilii'h iVi-slciim may be porlx'tuzncd as an institution ol iczu'ning. XViIh lbw cxwplions. Ihc lrustccx arc lizlslcrncrs, Ncw Ym'k liming lhtf largest I'cprcxcntzuiun. iliwcmi-nnc oi thcm zuc cn- gugcd in pmlmsionul work: lcn zn'c il! imlusliy: eighteen arc in business: and lhui arc in Imliliu. One ix a minister. and mic is u Icat'hci. President ul' lhc Board 01 ilirmtecs is Ai'lliui 'l'. Vamlcrhill: Henry lngrahzun Harriman ix Vii'cprcsidcm: iVilliam Gordon Murphi is scn'ctarlx: and President Buttcrlicld is a member cx- UH'iKiO.

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Chairman ol the Art DCIMI'IIIICIH in Henry Russell Hitt'ht'ot'k. an authority on Antct'itian atit'hitcrture. who returned to campus this fall 141101 study in ling- land. He ret'civcd his degrees h'om Hanartl. Russell 1. Butt'h Limbach. who tame to Xx'cslcyan in 1941 having studied in Paris and Vienna and taught in Cleveland. George H. Cole. who TCt'CiVCd his degrees from Yale and Columbia. taught at Columbia and 11'attit-, and was appointed instructor in art in 1946. and Norman B. Boothhy, who graduated h'om Temple in 1942 and has taught in New Orleans and Middletown. and came here as instruttor in art this year. are thc other members of tht- Art Department. Joseph St Daltrt'. the mainstay oi the Musit Dcpartnwnt. is a musitiian with pcrliu't pitt'h. an excellent director of Glee Club and other singing groups. was born in Yorkshire. England. and has been an assot'iatc of the Royal College of Organism. He has been head of the department since 1929. Assisting him this year has been George McManus. visiting lirom Yale. who has given mam line recitals to the tommunity. Also with the Musit Dept. is Ellis B. Kohs. a graduate of the Institute of Musitial Art and the University of Chicago. He also studied at California, .lulliatd Graduate School. and Harvard. He has served frequently as a guest t'omhu'tor with leading orchestras. intihuling the San Fran- t'isco Symphony