Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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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

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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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Psychology Economics In the Psychology Dept. David G. McClelland is the only veteran. A grad- uate 0f Wesleyan of the class of 1938. an Alpha Delt, he did his graduate work at Missouri. He was recently elected president of the Connecticut Valley Psychol- ogy Association. Robert H. Knapp came to Wesleyan last year, having studied at Oregon and Harvard, tutored at Radcliffe. and worked with 088 during the war. Alvin M. Liberman came here last fall. a graduate of Missouri who took his graduate study at Yale and taught at Yale from 1943-46. Kossuth M. XVillianison is one of the leading economists in the East. He came to Wesleyan in 1922. having studied at Alabama and Harvard. He is an expert on taxes. Clyde 0. Fisher, also of the Economics and Social Science Dept, studied at Duke, Columbia. and Cornell, and now besides his teaching load is chairman of the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission. The versatile Sig- mund Neumann, teaching economics, history, and government, studied at Leip- zig, and came to XVesleyan in 1935. He has written several books, his latest con sidered the best in the field. He worked in 058 and OWI during the war. C01- ston E. VVarne was a visiting professor from Amherst last spring and fall, an ex- pert on labor problems. Philip Taft was recently made a full professor at Brown. and has been visiting professor. teaching labor economics. this spring. Lyle C. Fitch, one of the many Columbia men who recently joined the faculty, had pre- viously taught at Kansas State, Brooklyn, and C. C. N. Y. Burton C. Hallowell is a graduate of XVesleyan of the class of 1936. a Sigma Chi. After graduate work at Princeton, he started teaching here in 1941. K. William Kapp studied at Berlin. Geneva. and Koenigsberg. where he received his PhD. in 1932. He taught at N. Y. U. and Columbia before coming to Wesleyan last fall. Joseph D. Phil- lips, .112, graduated from California University, and from 1937 to 1940 was teach; ing assistant in Economics at the University of California. Albert G. Sweetser came to Wesleyan from Boston University this fall, a Haward graduate. Philip W. Bishop, a graduate of the London School of Economics, is a research assistant at Yale, teaching part-time here. Also at Wesleyan on a part-time basis is John H. Reedy, who studied at the Universities of Illinois and Indiana, who started teaching here last fall. 22