West Chester University - Serpentine Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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HE SERPENTINE Prof. Greenwald is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Chemical Society, the meetings of which lie attends very regularly- Of pure Teutonic parentage, Prof. Greenwald possesses all the char- acteristics of the race which, for a hundred years, has led the world ' s ad- vance socially, educationally and .scientifically. All who come into closest relationship and contact with him appreciate him as a man of great possibilities, with great, full heart, strong mind, and strong de - termination to win in life ' s race at any cost of hardship or sacrifice. Our most earnest hope is that success may crown his endeavo. ' s in every line he may enter. J. Fr. nk Newman. Page 11

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CLASS NINETEEN SIXTEEN 1 een paid, he passed into the Sophomore class without conditions, and had l)een al)le to save some of his eaniing s toward his second year ' s ex- penses. We venture to say that this is an example of thrift not fre- quently met at Rutger ' s or any other American school. In college Mr. Cjrcenwald took full advantage of e ery form of oi portunity. He won the English prize for the best essay on The Life of Abraham Lincoln, and also a prize in Logic, offered for the most scholarly dissertation on Kant ' s Critique on Pure Reason. Since the completion of his colleg ' e course Professor Greenwald has taught science and mathematics in the High School at Roselle Park, Xew Jersey, and in a Xight School at Newark, Xew Jersey. He spent one year in residence at the Graduate School of the University of Pennsyh ' ania in the Department of Chem- istry. He became head of the Department of Chemistry at the West Chester Xornial School in the Spring term of iQi.v Professor Greenwald is a man of strong physique, a hard worker and a dilig ' ent scholar. Whenever his duties as a teacher leave any time for diversion, he may be found at his desk with lexicon, engaged in reading some German work on the physical side of chemistry, which he. as an un- dergradute at Rutger ' s, selected as a field for iiis life ' s work: or, it may be, in fretting over the innate cussedness of inanimate matter, when his test-tubes go wrong. In mind and temperament he is essentiallv mathematical and scien- tific. His science is a source of real soul-satisfaction to him. The dirt and drudge of the laboratory are merely incidental to the great aim — the acquisition of deeper insight into the more secret operations of na- ture. Prof. Greenwald is a man of virile, aggressive personality. Con- troversy and disputation are the very breath of life to him. and a friendly argument is more pleasant than his after-dinner cigar. As a teacher he is conscientious and thorough. Though austere of exterior, he has a warm, true heart which is easilv hurt. In his class room he tries never to lose sight of the goal at which he aims — the turn- ing of each pupil toward true scholarship as he sees it. He possesses an interesting method of presentation as well as an interesting personality, and olrtains a good response from all who are scientifically minded. Probably unqualified advocates of the present-dav tendency in education to make all instruction practical first, and scientific afterward, will style him a fogy formalist. He has very scant patience with this type of view, and denounces many of the more recent text-books in science violently. He believes that all education mu.st have its foundation in clearlv demon- strated and thoroughly understood principles, definitions and laws as its first phase; as its second phase there is the application of these to human needs. Page 10

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CLASS NINETEEN SIXTEEN Snap Shots of Prof. Greenwald Page 12