Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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Astronomy Biology Carl L. Stearns, at Wesleyan graduate of 1917, subsequently a graduate of Yale, started teaching here in the Astronomy Dept. in 1925. Prof. Steams has a comet named after him. Working with Prof. Steams in the Astronomy Dept. is John W. Abrams. a graduate of the University of California, who took his grad- uate study at Harvard, the University of Tartu, Estonia, and the University of Leiden. He was assistant professor of physics at the University of Manitoba be- fore coming to XVesleyan last fall. In the Biology Department is Hubert B. Goodrich. an Amherst graduate who subsequently studied at Columbia. He is a member of Beta Theta Pi fra- ternity. Professor Goodrich came to Wesleyan in 1916 alter teaching at Union College. and is 21 Daniel Ayres professor. He summers at Woods Hole Biological Station, where he lives up to his reputation as an outdoor man. Ernest W. Caspari is an associate professor of Biology. He received his PhD. from the University of Gottingen in 1933 and since has been assistant in Zoology at Got- tingen, assistant in microbiology at the Unix'ersity of Istanbul School of Medi- cine, a John and Mary Markle Foundation fellow at Lafayette College. becom- ing assistant in Biology there. He was Assistant Professor of Zoology at the Uni- versity of Rochester. and just before he came to XVesleyan was a research asso- ciate on the Manhattan Project ROss A. Gortner graduated from Minnesota in 1933, and then studied biochemistry at the Michigan graduate school. He has studied the effect of loco weed on live stock. and is noted also as the first man to be married in Downey House. Randall XV. Reyer is the other member of the Biology Dept.. a Cornell graduate who came here last fall as a part-time instruc- tor while studying for his PhD. at Yale. 19

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Beliginn Philusuphy John XV. Darr. pastor of the College Church, came to Wesleyan in 1942. He is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan. and he studied also at Columbia and Union Theological Seminary. Dr. Darr worked under Norman Thomas for three years; his hobbies are golf and photography. W'ith Dr. Darts in the Religion Dept. is XVilliam A. Spurrier, a graduate of Williams in 1939, and Of Union in 1942. He taught at Amherst from 1942 to 1944. served as a Chaplain from 1944 to 1946, and was appointed instructor of religion here this year. John R. Everett is Assistant Professor of Religion. He graduated from Park College in 1942, re- ceived his M.A. from Columbia. and in the following year his B.D. from Union Theological Seminary. Recently elected president 01 the American Pltilosnphical Association, Cor- nelius Kruse' had formerly held the position 01 secretary of the Directory Board of the Association. He came to Wesleyan to join the Philosophy Dept. in 1923, formerly having studied at Yale. Elmhurst. and the Sorbonne. Another widely known philosopher in the department is Emile Cailliet. who, possessing degrees from many 01 the leading European and American universities, is an internation- ally recognized authority on Pascal. He has written a large number of books. Robert C. Baldwin received his BA. from XVesleyan in '29, and his MA. in ,30. He received his PhD. from Yale in '32. Before coming to XVesleyan he had taught at the University of Connecticut as associate professor of philosophy. Paul A. Reynolds is a XVesleyan man of the class of 1925, a Beta. After graduate study at Cornell, he returned here to teach. He is president of the Middletown Consumer's Cooperative. 18

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Chemistry Geology In the Chemistry Department is Dr. G. Albert Hill. one 01 the most distin- guished chemists in the country. a graduate of Worcester Tech in 1913. who took his graduate study at Harvard. He has done outstanding work on the natural color pigments of plants. A XVesleyan man of the tlass of 1932 is M. Gilbert Burford 11, also of the Chemistry Dept: as an undergraduate he was a member of Sigma Chi. He did his graduate work at Princeton. Besides his teaching dut- ies he now handles the financial end of the College publications. Jose Gt'mler lbdfiez studied in Spain. and later at Oberlin and Cornell, teaching at the latter till he came to Xt'esleyan in 1943. He is a member 01' the Ameritan Chemical Society. Richard H. Coe and John W. Sease hoth started teaching here last fall. The former is a XVesleyan man of the dams of 1941. a Sigma Chi. who took grad- uate training at Stamford. The latter is a Princeton man. class of 1941. who t'et'eivcd his l'h.D. at the California Institute of 'Jiechnologt'. Joe XVebb Peoples heads the Geology Dept. He is a graduate of Vander- bilt University. and he later taught there. He has also taught at Northwestern. Princeton. and Lehigh. coming to XVesleyan in 1935. He has served on the geo- graphical education committee of the American Institute of Mining and Metal- lurgical Engineers. Ralph E. Digman works with him. He came to Wesleyan in 1944 and holds degrees from Iiawrem'e and Yale. 20