Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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O SIGMUND NEUMANN: Professor in the So- cial Sciences . . . Williets favorite professor . . . emphatic spectacles . . . intense admirer of Ivan Kuramuzov . . interdepartmental mzln . . . pro- foundly perceptive, if not comprehensible, theo- ries 0 JOHN THAYER OGILVIE: Inslructor in English . . . Alpha Delt at Wesleyan . . . the rebirth of Henry David Thoreau . . . Hupmobilr; knoxtn throughout Vermont . . . poet laureate, 0f the Cardinal O RICHARD MILTON WHAN- LON: Instructor in Physical Education . . . reads anything from Jack Woodfm'd to John WcaiPy . . ttDontt fence me in . . . agile rager . . . l'ill's of brief existent'e O THOMAS FRANCIS PARKINSON: Visiting Assistant Professor of Eng- lish . . . ttThe well-rounded man is u fit-tion . . W. B. Yeats, Self-Critic . . . distrust of poetic vision . . . contributor to Horizons O ADOLPH FREDERICK PAULI: Assislun! Professor 0! Classics . . . old world gentleman . . . authority on architecture of Connecticut cllurrhes . . . ac- tive in Boy Scout and Sunday School work 0 RALPH DARLING PENDLETON: Associule Pro- fessor of English. Dirertor o! Drumalics Sigma Chi at Wesleyan . . . flying clipboard. ill rehearsals . . . $tNow about the plumbinga' . relaxes ut the State Hospital . . . smokes . . . Joe Webb Peoples Stanley Clifford Plagenho Wilhelm Felix Pfeifer John F. Reicllurd Sigmund Neumann Thomas Francis Parkinson John Thayer Ogilvie Adolph Frederick Pauli Richard Milton OtHanlon Ralph Darling Pendleton 0 JOE WEBB PEOPLES: Seney Professor of Geology . . . rasied dinosaur . . . for ttSkin of our Teeth . . . a rock is a rock is a rock . . Tennessee drawl O WILHELM FELIX PFEIFER: Visiting Lecturer in Government . . . visiting professor from Germany . . . collector of Vatican City stamps . . . Bavarian vacations first hand studies of Renaissance art 0 STANLEY CLIFFORD PLACENHOEF: Instructor of Physical Education . . . intellectual athlete . . . Wesleyants Sidney Bechet . . . aspiring lin- guist . . . cheap restringing jobs . . . dreams of hosteling tour of Europe 0 JOHN F. REICHARD: Inslrm-tur in Humanities and Eng- lish . . . Sigma Nu at Wesleyan . . . Christopher Fry expert . . . Srotlandas too cold, but Scotch is fine . . . the return of the native . . . 14

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0 DAVID PARK MCALLESTER: Assistant Pro- fessor of Anthropology . . . aspires to he a Nav- aho blood brother . . . number one vocalist on Peyote Hit Parade . . . passion for blue shirts 0 DAVID CLARENCE MCCLELLAND: As- sociate Professor of Psychology . . . Alpha Delt at Wesleyan . . . five ohclook shadow . . . supports Willie and several other children . . ectomorph . . . endorses healthy tnuisyt parties 0 HUGH GRAHAM MCCURDY: As- sociate Prolessor of Physical Education . . . skep- tical of the two-plutoon system and white shirts still trying to beat someone on the golf team . . . hGet off the dimeV I GEORGE STEWART MCMANUS: Professor of Music . . . infallible . . . opera in translation . . . ttTry that on your sewing machine someday! . . . misplac- ed manuscripts . . . ttPlense doxft tell the dean on me. . . . Albert Mann George letsuyamu John Frederirk Marlin Fred Benjamin Millelt Robert Thomas Mathews Charles Samuel Muscatine David Park MrAllester Hugh Graham McCurdy David Clarence McClelland George Stewart McManus O ALBERT MANN: Hollis Professor of Romnm'e Languages . . . Psi U at Wesleyan . . . comp at home . . . systematic approach . . . Giraudoux . . last yearhs edition out of print 0 JOHN FREDERICK MARTIN: Professor of Physical Education . . . Fayerweather friend . . . czar 0f Wesleyan s athletic program . . . fruit tree cupid . . . trying to steal hot athletes from Argus Cup competition 0 ROBERT THOMAS MAT- HEWS: Instructor of Astronomy and Mathemat- ics . . Sigma Chi at Wesleyan . . . amateur Stradivari . . . still a bachelor . . . photoelectric photometer . . . self-made-man . . . husmnnk holi- day in California 0 GEORGE MATSUYAMA: Assistant Professor of Chemistry . . . collects dinosaur tracks from unknown sources . . . rul- tivating taste for Hopalong to develop rapport with son . . aThe reaction goes like so.W O FRED BENJAMIN MILLETT: Professor of Eng- lish, Director of Honors College . . . wary of athletes, Olla Pod interviews, and twentieth cent- ury society . . . innocuous psychologist . discovered Dostoyevski . . . mimeographed sheets by F. B. M. 0 CHARLES SAMUEL MUS- CATINE: Visiting Assistant Professor of English . . . reels rod in the high Sierras . . . victory garden still in existence . . . Chaucer authority; still after his Knighfs Tale . . . 13

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0 PAUL ARTHUR REYNOLDS: Associate Pro- fessor of Philosophy . . . Beta at Wesleyan . . . one of the Maine boys . . . HThe global point of view . . . conducting South College polls . country squire O CALVIN DWIGHT ROLL- INS: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Hu- manities . . . the return of Larry Holmes . immigrant from Oxford . . . tobacco auctioneer . . . qusl call me Cal 0 REUBEN JAMES ROSS. JR.: Assistant Professor of Geology . . spet-iulizies in t-oprolites . . . ex-fly boy ' skivies expert . . . mucous children disturb pence-loving fraternities . . . bought wife a new snow shovel O JUAN ROURA: Leclurer in Romance Lan- guages . . . sherry parties for his students . . . hMeeslerr, . . . . the liberal arts personified . . . La Tertullia mediator . . . even more umi- uble than Willie . . . Elmer Erir Schatlschneider Frederirk Augustus Sp'ear Hayden Arthur Scott William Atwell Spurner John William Sense Carl Leo Slearns Paul Arthur Reynolds Reuben James Ross. Jr. Calvin Dwight Rollins Juan Roura O ELMER ERIC SCHATTSCHNEIDER: Andrus Professor of Government . . . The Great White Father of American Politics . . . knee-deep in alligators . . . shaggy dog . . . director of Long Lane School . HAYDEN ARTHUR SCOTT: Instructor in Ar! 11an Humanilies . . . interest- ing contributions lo the Cardinal . . . Ivy League haherdasllery . . . research for ORDWES . . . for rent: one Vets9 Village apartment 0 JOHN WILLIAM SEASE: Assistant Professor of Chem- istry . . . fireman of Fnrulty Lionel Line . . . Cortnerqs fishing prolefgt; . . . interested in alco- hols and their effects . . . C. Albert Hill's suc- cessor O FREDERICK AUGUSTUS SPEAK: Instructor in Romance Languages . . . summers occupied with doctorate study at Columbia . . . Beethoven and Brahms . . . conspicuous absence of dislikes 0 WILLIAM ATWELL SPURRIER: Associate Professor of Religion. Associate Pastor . . . would mach zl Wesleyan hockey team . . A Guide to Christian Faith . . . notorious plaid- lined jacket 0 CARL LEO STEARNS: Fisk Professor of Astronomy . . . Stearnhs comet . . . study of stellar parallax . . . inhabitant of the Van Vleck Cloister . . . hWehll try again at one tomorrow nighW .