Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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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

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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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Mathematics Physics Of the members 01' the Mathematics Department the only one who is not :1 ii'eslcsall graduate is Malt'olm C. Foster. Prof. Foster graduated from Acadia College. Nova Smtia. and tame to W'cslcyan in 1927 after teaching at XVilliams and Yale. At the lattm he received his PhD. degree. He is another outdoor man. spending his summers in the Canadian woods. As hobbies he makes violins and collects mustache cups. Herbert E. Arnold is a W'esleyan graduate. a member of Delta Upsilon. and has been on the faculty ever sinus his gradua- tion in 1921. He received his PhD. at Yale. and was recently elevated to a full professorship. In his spare time he plays tennis and dabblcs in oil painting. Burtun H. Camp is also a graduate of Wesleyan. 01 the class 01' 1901, an liclcctit. who started teaching here in 1909 after receiving his graduate degrees at Yale. He is cx-vice-prcsidcnt 01' the Ameritan Statistical Association and author 01 The Malhmnnfiml Purl 01 Iilmm'nlumy Slalisiizzv. Karl S. Van Dykc is a 1Vcslcyan Edutit, of the class 01' 1916. He studied subsequently at Chicago. mining to XVcslcsan to join the Physics Dept. in 1922. His hobbies illdlldc calms photography and sound-recording. Vcrnct Ii. liamn's amazing shows which iil into his letiturcs have become an cxpcucd part 01' the repertoire of thc Physits Dept. Prof. Eaton is a graduate 01' Indiana 01 the class of 1921. mining to XVcslcyzm from XVilliams in 1927. XVith them is Henry E. Duckwnrth. Manitoba graduate. who tame t0 XVCslcyan last fall. He is a nuclear physicist. and was limimcrli a member 01' the staif of the National Research Cuun- Cil of Canada. 21