Whitman College - Waiilatpu Yearbook (Walla Walla, WA)

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. F' .7 f .-'-' :' -. e I .gl ' 'Sl qw f P X l - 1- - th fi ll .fl! l! ., f XX XS dthiw-4.-Tau 'Z 1' - r ' tl' , ' ' 1 nll itfllllll i if I v il X if + Q t f'?'6:'i X llllll fill? ill mlllws' 1 M f f PHILOSOPHY . Stephen B. L. Penrose Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1865. He received his preparatory work at Penns Charter School, Philadelphia, and then entered Williams College where he graduated in 1885. During the next few years he was an instructor, first at Hills School, for boys, at Pottstown, Pa., and then at VVilliams. In 1888 he began his Theological Course, taking one year at Princeton and one at Yale Theological Seminary where he graduated in 1890. In the fall of the same year he entered upon his duties as a minister at Dayton, Wash- ington. In 1894 he was called to the Presidency of Whitman College, which position he has occu- pied ever since. He found the college struggling for its very existence and his first task was to put it upon a solid foundation. He began at once to raise money. For years he worked unceasingly and the results of his work are shown by the Whit- man College of today. But his work did not end here. His was the task to reveal to the institution greater hopes and prospects, to raise its standards and courses, and above all to instill into it a greater purpose and higher ideals. Many a student has been inspired to better and nobler things by his kindly advice and ready assistance. He has been president, teacher and gentle shepherd. If VVhitman, the martyr in remembrance of whom the college is named, and Eells, its founder, could arise from their graves, with truth they could say of him, VVell done, thou good and faithful servant. 20

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1112 Zlktrnltg Our Faculty 'igwe speah the name with lo-ve And refverence. Those who through the steady toil S trifue earnestly and .yet unweariedly, Nor lose their patience. Oh content to sow Seeds of strong character whose fruit, perhaps, They will not see. Though oft misunderstood They efuer seeh to hroaden out our lifves, To nzahe our eyes more clear hy showing us The worth of common men, the majesty Of life. They cheer us onward hy their words, And give us hope of hetter things to come. They smile our failures down, forget their own In helping us. 'Tis not mere hoohs, they say, T hat are important,-see the soul behind ' They gifue our worh encouragement 5-our play They smile at and eryoy. In efuery phase N Of college life they hafve their honored place As those to whonz we looh for help-examples true Of what we would he-what we strifve to he. 19

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C.. , 4 ' - , c . . C 2 i s 0 . a , E' Z 3 ,,.---- ' 5 ,----- P ,F- U I . a 45.'l iv- . 7 M 'o wifi, . 4 fa, 7'fld-1 lil 3 W, I 'VUL I Professor Walter Andrew Bratton min aj 67 L' Professor Bratton, head of the Matlie- '64-0 tis r A-xr-1.6-,sis 'U-V'L,u,.f,a..g I 7: ' 72- -'f1, -64+ -1-r--HJ '7 C'5f'72.l I' 7.1-L, Kea. .P-.,LQ'f4 h-wvv-.fn.f--- 01104-14112-. matics Department, graduated from Williams College in 1895. The following year he was an instructor in VVl1itman College and fr0IH 1896 to 1903 he was Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. In 1903-04 he took post- graduate work in the University of Berlin. since which time he has been head of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy here. He has a keen and logical mind, a peculiar faculty for explaining hard prob- lems, and an enthusiastic personality. He sees things clearly and makes the students see them clearly. He has a broad general knowledge of the college and its require- ments. He understands college life and college students perfectly. He is a big, broad, and competent man in love with his profession. Professor O. T. Geckeler Graduating from the University of Indiana in 1894, Professor Geckeler became a graduate student in the University of Chicago in 1,894-95, and during the summers of '95 and '96 and '03. He was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in 1908-09, and is at present completing a thesis which will secure for him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He was superintendent of schools, Lowell, Mississippi, 1900-01, principal Opelika High School, Alabama, 1901-03, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Georgia School of Technology r9o3-06, and head of the department for the next three years. This is Professor Geckeler's first year here, and. our opinions of him are not definitely formed: At first we were inclined to regard him as a cruel tyrant, for he was the absolute master of Mathematics, and we had to have our lessonsg there was no way of putting up a bluff, But we have gradually found out that he is human. He is not a mere mathematical textg there are other ideas in his head than trigonometry and calculus. Intolerant of laziness, he has a soft spot in his heart for all workers, and sympathy for all their troubles. And so the boys name their football dummy after him, or give his name to a nigger baby at the carnival with their other most popular teachers. The girls liken him to the Old Man of the Mountains, and we all like him. 21