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Vol. XI. OCTOBER 1937 No. 2.

FROM THE DEAN TO THE ALUMNI:

To be a new Dean at an old college is indeed a thrilling experi­ ence. He receives charity from all, malice from none, and is com­ pared favorably with great men of history. The prophesy is that as soon as he opens officially his desk on the day of the official opening, "things will happen". The old will be made · new, the crooked will be made straight, and the rough places plain. Manna will fall, and as the barren rock is struck with his magic staff, water will gush forth . . He is Moses, and the promised land is just around the corner.

As a new Dean at Old Otterbein, I have had the generous ,vel­ come usually accorded under such circumstances. From the Presi­ dent to the janitors, I have been made to feel at home at the College. From off the campus too I have had words of well-wishing: letters, telephone calls or telegrams from many places-even Vermont and California. This is cheering, and is deeply appreciated.

Otterbei_n is really a delightful place-otherwise I should not be here. The problems, however, are perplexing, and the chief request that I make is that Moses be not too harshly censured if copious streams do not gush forth the first time he strikes the rock.

Dennis De vVitt Brane.

Published bv Otterbein College. \Vesterville. Ohio. in the interest oi Aiumr11 and Friends: Entered a~ ~econd . class matt-er at post office in Westerville. Cl.. 11nder act of Aug. 24. 1912: 'J\ vo ·'ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NEWS Three

ALUMNI NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST WEDDINGS WEDDINGS OTT E RB EIN COLLEGE Mr. and M rs. 0. H. Cha rles ('07- M url C. Houseman, '26, and M iss M iss, Bonne Gillespie, ex-'39 and \ VEST E H. \T JLL E , O H _IO '0 l ) a re taking work in the post­ O pal _T. Snyder, •of Medina, Ohio, Mr. Roger McDan nald, ex-'40, were g1·a clu ate department of the H artford were united in ma rriage in the First married in the vVest erville United 1' 11 1,l islied bv the College in t\J e In ter­ School of M issions. I n a letter to Congregat:ona l Church, M edina, Sep­ B rethren Church, Sunday, ,·, t o f her A!tmrni a nd Friends. t he A lumni Secreta ry she w rites : " I t tember 2. M url has been director of by P resident W. G. Clipinger. T he is very d elightful to be here in this physical educat-ion in Colorado Springs couple are r esiding on a farm on the I{ . I{. E llJU I J\ RT, Editor in ter-national a tmosphere with -others public schools for t he past n ine year s. Sun b ury Road. w ho have spent years in foreign ser­ They w ill make their horn~ a,t 610 N. vice from a ll parts -of the w orld." Cascade Ave., Co!,orado Springs, Col. l\,f iss Es•ther Hursh, '35 a nd M r. lss11c d 11lC.111t hly except J 11 ly a ntl Miss Mary McKen zie, '28, returned Paul D ipert, Vanlue, O h io, were J\ 11 g 11 s t. m issionary from A fri ca is a lso taking Miss Chi Kwong L eung, '34, was united in m arriage, Saturday, Sept em­ work t here. married in Sha ng hai, J uly 31 to Mr. ber 25, by the bride's uncle, P •rofessor Y. T. T'aam. Mr. T'aam studied a t E. M. Hursh at t he bride's home in H OMECOMING Miss Hortense PoMs, ' 13, D ean of O h io State a nd a lso a t M ich igan. Mansfi eld, O h io. The couple w ill r e­ \iV om en, vVestminster Choir School Their address is care of T rue Lig ht side 111 Vanlue w here M r. Dipert l 'lans a re well under way fo r a w rites : "Our school op ens a t the M iddle Sch ool, Can ton, China. operat es a general s tore w ith his l, igger a nd better Hom ecoming. vVestminster Choir School with a father. Mary Ellen K!l'an er, P ickeringt10 n, subst antial increase of enrollment, 111 M:ss Helen V an Sickle, '34, was was elected Queen on t he second fact with an enroll ment as large as united 111 marriage to M r . Robert M iss Sally R oby, '35 and Mr. Mel­ ballot. She a nd V irginia Brown were our present equipment enables us Slack (ex-'33) at the Van Sickle home v in M,oody, '36, were m a rried o n t ie cl for the honor on t he fi r st vote. con veniently to take car e of. " D r. in F isher, Illinois- on June 15 . T hey J une S in New , O h io at T he program of t he clay, u nder t he J ohn F inl ey vVi lliams·on, ' 11 , is presi­ will r esid e at Bellefontaine, Ohio, the home of the bride. They are now supervision of the S tudent Council dent of the Westm inster Choir School. w her e Mr. Slack s m anager ,of an A t­ attending Bonebrake Theological will get started ait 9 :00 a. m . w ith the lantic a nd Pacific T ea Co. Stu re. Seminary, D aytu i1 , 0. F reshmen and Sophomores p utting M r. B ertram W . Saul, '09, 1s on some stunts in the chapel ; a t the teach ing in the J ohn H arris H igh Announcement has been r eceived of Mr. Ethan L eslie, class of 1939 and close of this prog ram the Queen wi ll School a t Harrisburg, Penna. and is the m arriage of Miss Evely n Richer , M iss Darline Bowm an were m arried be p resen.ted and crow ned. treasurer of the Jo hn H a rris Athl etic '33 to M r. Paul S. Pontius of P eru, J une 19 and ar e n ow living a t North At 2 :00 in the af,ternoon the Cards Association. H is a ddress is Camp Indiana. T h e wedding was perform­ East, Penna,. They expect to r eturn w ill battle Marietta on the football Hill, P enna. ed in the Garfi eld Park, Evangelical t o Otterbein for work the second fie ld. Church, India napoli s, Indiana, J a nu­ semest er . . T he alumni and student body w ill Mr. Gw;y nne McConaughy, '27, a ry 3. T hey are r esiding in Ar cadia, be together for the a ll-campus ban­ director of the Educatio nal Depa rt­ Indiana. PERSONALS quet w hich w ill be held in t he church ment of the. Y. M. C. A., _D ayton, for a·t 6 :00 p. 111 . the past ten years. was g ra nted an M r. D on Warner; '37 and M-iss M r. R. E. Offenhauer, 'OS , Sup er-­ T he Q ueen and her ret: n ue ,vi·! be eight m onths' leave of absence from T helma Grace J ohnson, ex-'39, were in tendent of L ima Schools for tht; enter tained a t 8:15 in the evening his posi·ti-on at the "Y" to study the hurried September 6 m Dayt on. past ten years. is the new P r exy of w ith t he play, " Children uf t he Moon" needs of Dayton industry and the ad­ The cerem ony was performed by Bowling G reen University. Again presented by t he Junior class under visabil ity of enlarging facili t-ies of Dean C. E. Ashcraf,t of B10 nebrake Otterbein leadership in the fi eld of the direction of Prof. J. F. Smith. Parker Cooperative high school. Mc­ Semin a ry and took place at the dean's E ducati10n is recognized and Mr. Off­ Conaug hy will make m o nthly reports residence. T hey are attending Bone- enba uer's many friends w ish h im much Mr. Donald J. Henry, '33, received to the boaid on a survey w hich will 1-' rake T heolog'ical Semjnary. success in this new venture. h is master's degr ee at the September continue throug h June 30, 1938. convocation ·of the O hio S tate U ni­ Mr. F red Cheek, ex-'34 and M iss Richard Ca ulker, '33, r eceived hi~ versity. He has accepted a position M iss Irene Taylor, '35, is teaching ·M ary S usan vVeekly, ex-' 36, wer e M . A. degr ee at Oberlin Theological on the tech nical staff in the R _esearch her second year in the F ort Ashby united in marriage S unday, May 24, Semina ry t h i-s yea r. In Octobe·r he Division of ·the General Motor s Cor­ Junior H igh School, Fort Ashby, 1936 in the Centennial U nited B reth­ returned t o his hom e in Sierre L eone, porat ion, D etroit, M ichigan. West V irgin ia. She did g ra dua te \·en Church in F r ederick, Maryla nd. West Africa. work in Eng lish in West V irg inia ·i\fr. Cheek is a Civil E ng ineer em­ M r . F rancis, P. Bu ndy, '31, r eceived U niversity last summer. ployed by the U n ited Stat es Bureau Misses Marian Snavely, '26, a nd the degree of doctor of p hilosophy at . . of Agri cultural E ng ineerin g and is V i•rg inia Sn avely, '23, spent two weeks. t he en cl of the summer ter m at Ohio HOMECOMING OCTOBER 30 9tation ed at E lyria, O h io, w here they on a n A tlantic Ocean cruise this State Univer sity. MARIETTA VS. CARDS will m ake their hom e. summ er. ALUMNI NEWS

DEATHS DEATHS

Dr. J. P. Landis, '69, died in Day­ Miss Sarah Mauger, '95, died '\Ve cl ­ ton, Ohi-o, Sunday, . Dr. nesday, Sep,tember 29 at the home of her sister, Mrs. Stephen C. Markley, Landis was born , 1843 and '95, Richmond, Ind. F uneral services would have been 94 years old had he were held in the United Brethren lived t en days l,onger. He received Church at Richmond and burial was his A.B. from Otterbein in 1869; in the Otterbein cemetery, vVester­ A.M. in 1872; D.D. in 1882 and Ph.D. ville, Friday, . (cum laude) from Wooster in 1889. BIRTHS He served in the Union Army from 1862 to 1865. Dr. Landis was an or­ Mr. and Mrs. James Edwin Mc­ dained minister and spent a number Neer (Dorothy Grabill, '35) announce of years in the pastmate and in 1880 the birth of a son, J am es Edwin, Jr., became connected with Bonebrake Saturday, at Radium Hos­ Theolog,ical Seminary as Professor ,of pital, Columbus. Mr. · McN eer is a Hebrew exegesis and ·Old T estament fruit farmer and their address 1s Theology. He was known as a He­ R. R. No. 1, Jackson, 0. brew scholar, a writer of note and a 'Mr. and M,rs. Clifford Wertz, '28, great churchman. He was the oldes t '26, Cleveland, announce the birth of living alumnus and has had possession a daughter, Judith Ann, Wednesday, of the Alumni Cane for the past five in W est ei"n Reserve Hos­ years. Aimong the many honors con­ pital, Cleveland. Mrs. Wertz is the fered upon him during his lifetime twin ·sister of Miss F rances Harris. was his r ecogni tii on in Who's Who in Mr. W ertz is a teacher in the Bay America (1936-37). Thousands -of Village high school. people have lost a friend, the Semi­ nary has J. ost a beloved professor, the Dr. and Mrs. Ruth Owens Rhodes, College has lost a noble alumnus and ('35), announce the birth o f a son, 1the United Brethren denomination has William (Bi'ily) Keet, born July 13, lost a great churchman. Truly Dr. 1937. Dr. Rhodes is city veterinarian Landis lived a great life. in Kansas City, Missouri. ALUMNI NEWS FLASH To the Editor: Here is an item for the Alumni News.

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