Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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First row: Butterfield. Bailey. Spurrier, Fisher. Second row: Jones. Golob, Kruse, Third row: Hallowell, Holmes. Neumlum. Mungoue. Fourth Brm-kunier. Reynolds. row: Dielz. Gallagher. Wvullm'e. Williamson. W'ugerx. Social Sciences PAUL XV. BERNSTEIN . . . Massachusetts . . . embryology and cancer research . . . Boy Scout committeeman . . . likes swimming, hiking, tennis, and is faculty ping-pong champ. Chemistry M. GILBERT BURFORD II . . . Wesleyan . . . Ph.D. Princeton . . . Sigma Chi . . . pub. board financial adviser . . . chemi- cal analysis and physical chemistry . . . Consultant and Supervisor of Connecti- cut State Water Commission and New England Waste Pollution Project . . . likes mountain climbing and photog- raphy. G. ALBERT HILL . . . Ph.D. Harvard . . . has worked recently with paint pigment: . . always wants exact Illeunings of words . . . qjest dressed in science de- partments . . . Connecticut State Road Commissioner. JOSE GOMEZ IBANEZ . . . Madrid . . . Ph.D. Cornell . . . a physical chemist by pro- fession . . . Sigma Xi . . . member of a Spanish honorary society whose name he cannot remember . . . likes reading, photography. JOHN W. SEASE . . . Ph.D. Cal. Tech . . . professional interests in organic chem- istry, chromatrography, alcohol content in humans by new specific method . . . likes model railroads, radio, woodwork, tennis, squash. GEORGE MATSUYAMA . . . Ph.D. Minne- sota . . . analytical and physical chem- istry . research in Aluminum and metals in biology . . . polargraphic meth- ods, diffusion coeificients.

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Astronomy CARL LEO STEARNS . . . Wesleyan . . . Ph.D. Yale . . . co-author with Slocum and Sidley of Volume One of the Publi- cations of the Van Vlet'k Observatory . . . only livin;.r man after whom a comet has been named . . . has done noted work on stellar parallax . . . dignified, but with sense of humor . . . likes music and photography. ROBERT THOMAS MATHEWS . . .Wesleyan . . . California . . . was Junior Astrono- mer at the Naval Observatory and 0b- servatory Assistant at Lick Observatory. Biology . HUBERT BAKER GOODRICH . . . Amherst . . . Ph.D. Columbia . . . preparing a re- port with the Committee on Education of Scientists of which he is Chairman . . . has worked summers at Woods Hole and Bermuda . . . his specialty is fish . . . interested in photography . . . likes mountain climbing, tennis. 11 Ross AIKEN GORTNER, JR. . . . Minnesota Ph.D. Michigan . . . collaborated with his brother on Outline of Biochemistry . . . brother also noted in the field . . . con- servative . . . likes golf and hshing. ERNEST WOLFGANG CASPARI . . . Pll.D. Gottingen . . . working on papers in genetics . . . doesnit believe in exercise . . used to be a good chess player . . . likes music, but work is his hobby. VINCENT W. COCHRANE . . . Pll.D. Cor- nell . . . studies plant disease . . . recent- ly wrote Biochemistry of Micro-organ- isms . . . worked on Penicillin program during war . . . amateur historian . . . mountain climber . . . likes music. DAVID P. MCALLESTER . . . Harvard . . . Pll.D. Columbia . . . specialist in anthro- pology, he also teaches social psy- chology . . . likes music . . . wrote Peyote Songs . . . once a professional singer.

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Geology JOE WEBB PEOPLES . . . Ph.D. Prince- ton . . . taught at Lehigh, Vanderbilt, Princeton and Northwestern . . . never gets mad . . . loves the iihig skies,7 of Montana. REUBEN J. Ross, JR. . . . Ph.D. Yale . . . studies fossils, especially of marine life . . . enthusiastically active. M athematics HERBERT E. ARNOLD . . Ph.D. Yale . . . statistics . . . likes music and painting. . Wesleyan . . . research into phases of MALCOLM C. FOSTER . . . Ph.D. Yale . . . diH'erential geometry . . . 3 Nova Scotian . . . has made eight violins, and is now trying a viola . . . collects left-handed mustache cups . . . turns woodsman on his trips to back country of Canada. ARTHUR S. DAY . . . Ph.D. Yale . . . a Wesleyan man . . . taught at Yale, then was with the Naval Electronic Technicians Program constructs cross-word puzzles . . . likes railroads., model and otherwise Physical Education FREDERICK J. MARTIN . . . Oberlin, Co- lumbia . . . i6Fred t0 the faculty, ieFritzi, to undergrads has coached and played nearly every sport . . . now coaches cross-country and track . . . likes woodworking and fruit trees. NORMAN J. DANIELS . . . nine-letter man at Michigan . . . football, squash, and baseball coach guided football through record 23-game winning streak . . . worshipped by his football players. HUGH G. MCCURDY . . crack athlete . . . Bowdoin . . . . now coaches soccer, swimming and golf . . . iiall right, for- wards, get OR the dimer JOHN L. WOOD . . . a member of Pitts- hurghas iidream hackfieldh . . . varsity basketball coach, football backfield coach . . . likes pizza. FRANK R. MAZE . . . Syracuse . . coaches wrestling.r and football line, weightmen in track . . . coached at Cor- nell and in the Navy . . . likes to paint in oils and water colors. DANIEL P. WEITEKAMP . . . Holy Cross . . . Coaches Frosh football, basketball, and baseball . . . Brooklyn . . . working for Masteris at Columbia. MAURICE GRASSON . . . was intercollegiate foil champion, where iiPapaW Grasson coaches . . . coaches Frosh soccer and tennis, Varsity fencing . . . enthusiasm draws large fencing squads. Physics KARL S. VANDYKE . . . Wesleyan . . . PILD. Chicago . . . has continued Wes- leyanas original work on piezoelectric crystals . . . likes color photography. VERNET E. EATON . . . PII.D. Indiana . . . taught at Williams . . . has developed teaching methods in introductory phys- ics . . . prepared laboratory manual . . . arranges demonstrations as a hobby . . . a real showman in the lecture room.