Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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PURSUING GRADUATE studies at Harvard and Princeton after his grad- uation from Harvard in 1917, Professor Spaeth came to ersleyan in 1930 from Brown University. As Dean of the Faculty, he is chairman of the Curricu- lum Committee and a member of the Advisory and Administration Commit- tee. Chairman of the Classics Depart- ment, Dean Spaeth oHered two Latin courses this year. He was President of the Classical Association of New Eng- land, and has been a member of the council of the American Classical As- sociation. Dean of Students DONALD A. ELDRIDGE Dean offaculty J OHN W. SPAETH, JR. DONALD A. ELDRIDGE became Wesleyanis Director of Admissions in 194-5. He is a member of Wesleyanis Class of 1931. This year the position of Dean of Students has been added to his position as Dean of Admissions. In these capacities he is vitally concerned with the undergraduate body. As Admissions director he is responsible for the quality of each incoming class, and as Dean of Students he is concerned with the adjust- ment of the student to his college en- vironment.

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o u c . s . c . . s . 't a 0 c o a o c a c o e . a o : . a actttltntctht-llli . President itVic9? became Wesleyanis Director Of Admissions in 1935 after eight years experience in prep school and college teaching. After serving as Wesleyangs Dean of Freshmen and Associate Dean, he became her President in 1943. President Butterfield graduated from Cornell in 1927, and later earned his Ph.D. at Harvard. He has served as a member of the Commission on Liberal Education of the Association of American Colleges, a trustee of the Cornell Alumni Association, and Chairman of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee for Connecti- cut. President Butterfield distinguishes himself among his stu- dents by his deep concern for the spirit and health of the com- munity and each of its individuals. It is with great sense of responsibility and conscience that he coordinates the activities of the students, faculty, and trustees of the university. 6

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First row: Henney, Frost, Canklin, Dultry, Bunnell, Farley, Limbarh, Curts, Craw- ford. Second row: Cemeinhurdl. Mann, Burkhardt. Hmlon, Roura, Ryder, Banks. Third row: Briggs, Tenney, Pauli, Freimarck. Spaeth. Fourth row: Weining, Dickin- son, Woodbridge, Cowie, Snow, Benjamin. A rts and Literature Art SAMUEL MACEE GREEN, II . . . Ph.D. Har- vard . . . modern art and etching . . . likes to swim in Fayerweather with his kids . . . claims to have won his wife by reading T. S. Eliot. RUSSELL T. LIMBACH . . . Cleveland Insti- tue of Art . Vienna . . . graphic arts . . . likes cats, circuses, . . has studied in Paris and clowns . . . doing a book on prints . . . tree is a tree is a tree. NORMAN B. BOOTHBY . . . M.F.A. Temple . sculpture . . . designs furniture, mobiles . . . building his farm into a studio . . . re- cently exhibited in 3rd Sculpture Inter- national. ADOLF W. PAULI . . . Ph.D. Illinois . . . American Philological Association . . . Classi- cal Association of New England . . . taught at Michigan, Dartmouth, Lehigh, but has been at Wesleyan twenty years. GEORGE NEWTON CONKLIN . . . P11. D. Columbia . . . Oxford, Union Theological Seminary, Cornell, Columbia, Beirut . . . trav- eled Africa and the Near East with Univer- sity of Denmark expedition . . . linguist, philologist . . . iiBiblical Critism 011 Henry In Miltonii . . . likes pistol shooting . . . interested in witchcraft. English HOMER EDWARDS WOODBRIDGE . . . Ph. D. Harvard . . . Shakespeare authority . . . 28 years at Wesleyan . . . claims to he retiring this year . . . has taught Summers at Harvard, Northwestern, Oregon 0! ul . . . never without his old brown briefcase. WILBERT SNOW . . . LL.D. Wesleyan . . . Beta Theta Pi at Bowdoin . . . ex-governor of Connecticut . . . many hooks of poetry; Maine Tides, Before The Wind, and a forthcoming volume of childrenis verse . . . Chairman of Middletown school board . . . slouch hat and bow tie. FRED B. MILLETT . . . PII.D. Chicago . . . the Honors College director . . . teaches popu-