Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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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

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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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In the Government Dept. is Elmer E. Schattschneider graduate of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin in 1915. He is noted for his boisterous laugh and more widely for his Party Gowernmrnl, a much used text. Victor Jones was graduated from Harvard in 1932 and he received his PhD. in 1940 from the University of Chicago. He taught at the Howard Cnllegc. Illinois Institute of 'Iiechnology. and the University 01 California before coming to XVcsleyan. Stephen K. Bailey is a graduate 01' Hiram College. Oxford University. and Harvard. He was 21 Rhodes stholar. He came to XVCslcyan last fall after working with the secret intelligence division 01' USS. A. Burr Overslreet is a graduate 01' the University 01' California and Harvard. He came to XVCslcyan in 1941. Head of the History Dept this spring was S. Hugh Bmckunier. a Harvard Yankee, who came to XVesleyan in 1930. He is an expert on American History, and his special hobby is the study Of Roger XVilliams. Alexander Thomson is another Rhodes scholar, a Bowdoin graduate, who later studied at Cornell. Formerly he was Dean of freshmen. Eugene O. Golob came here in 1946 teach- ing at Columbia. where he took undergraduate and graduate study. Carl Schorske began to teach here this fall, having graduated from Columbia in 136 and having receiVed his M.A. from Harvard. Willard M. Wallace graduated from XVesleyan in 1934; as an undergraduate he was an Olin Scholar and a football star. He assisted in coaching the freshmen football team this fall. He did his graduate work at Pennsylvania. He is now Dean of Freshmen. Daniel Allen is another Wesleyan graduate, class of '40. He receiVed his PhD. from the University of Pennsylvania. Albert E. Van Dusen graduated from XVesleyan in 1938. Before coming here to teach, he taught at the University of Pennsyl- Vania and at Duke. Government History 23