Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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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

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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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Head oi the English Dept is Homer E. 1Voodbridgc. a 1Villiams graduate who came to Wesleyan in 1920. He is an authority on Shakespeare. Carey H. Conley came to XVesleyan in 1913, a Michigan graduate. He taught at the GI school in Bavaria in 1945. He is retiring this June. Fred B. Millctt is an Amherst man who came to H'esleyan in 1938. He is the 1ounder of the invaluable Hu- manities course. His Rtebirlh of Liberal Education has receiVed wide acclaim. XVilberl Snow is ex-Lieutenant-Govemor of Connecticut. and unsuccessful canv ilidatc for the governorship last fall. He has taught at schools from Alaska down through the South. A Bowdoin graduate, he came to W'eslcyan in 1921, His poetry ranks with the best of the contemporary American. Richard A. Rice. XVilliams. Harvard graduate. having taught at U. S. Naval Academy Harvard. University 01' Indiana, and Smith, has been at XVeslemn as a visiting professor this tear. He is a Professor Emeritus. Robert XVithington. professor of English at Smith. sewed as Visiting professor here last fall. '11heodore H. Banks. 21 Yale man. came to XVesleyan in 1928. He is one time Connecticul amateur tennis thampion. Alexander tlowie. having studied at Minnesota and Yale. came to XVeslcyan in 193-1. Ralph D. Pcntllcton '31. director of the famous .92 Theatre Group, produced Murlu'lh here lhis year with resounding suu'css. Max C. Fuller. another new addilion this fall, graduated from Battle Creek College in 1934. He studied afterwards at Michigan. Meredith Thompson is a graduate oi 'lioronto. and has reteix'ed degrees from McMaster. Oxlord, Univ. of Breslau. He taught at United College and at Manitoba bclorc coming to Xt'eslcyan. George Ni Conklin is 3 Cornell graduate who attended Columbia graduate school. Edward M. Fritz taught at Amherst before coming here this fall: he is a Dartmouth man. as is John Parke. of the class of 1939. who also started teach- ing here this past fall; Thomas G. chncy is an Oberlin graduate who taught at the University of Rothcster before routing to 1Vesleyan. 1n the Classits Dept. is john XV. Spaelh. a graduate of Haveriord in 1917. who did graduate work at Harvard and Princeton, He taught at Brown before coming to XVcsleyan in 1930. Norman 0. Brown came to XVesleyan in the spring 01 1941i. havingl served as an analyst of French polities duringI the war with USS. He studied in England and al the Universities of Chicago and 1Visconsin. He also learhes Roman and Greek history. Adolph F. Pauli studied at Illinois, and laughl at Mit'higan. Dartmouth. and Lehigh before coming here in 1929. HC is hihliographit'al adviser to 01in Library English Classics 24