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The BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN Winter Issue, 1943 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN 1942 - 1943 BELOIT COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS President-Philip T. Sprague '16, Castle-Abri, Long Beach, Michigan City, Ind. Vice-Pres.-Elmer Macklem '21, 831 Park Avenue, Beloit. MEMBERS OF ALUMNI COUNCIL For the Period Previous to 1885 Rev. Frank D. Jackson '84, 189 Janesville Street, Milton, Wis. 1886-1890 *Louis W. Crow, '86, 9106 Lamon, Skokie, 111. 1891-1895 Edgar L. Shippee '92, 1619-60th Street, Kenosha, Wis. 1896-1900 John R. Houliston '99, 704 Gary Avenue, Wheaton, 111. 1901-1905 Wirt Wright '01, 65 East Huron Street, Chicago 1906-1910 Harold G. Townsend '07, Trust Co. of Chicago, 104 S. La Salle St., Chicago 1911-1915 Harold E. Wolcott '12, 912 Ridgewood Road, Rockford, Ill. 1916-1920 Philip T. Sprague '16, Castle-Abri, Long Beach, Michigan City, Ind. 1921-1925 C. Elmer Macklem '21, 831 Park Avenue, Beloit 1926-1930 Howard W. Rose '27, The Buchen Company, 400 W. Madison Street, Chicago 1931-1935 Constance Fulkerson '31, High School, Belvidere, Ill. 1936-1940 Mrs. Arthur R. Curtis '37, 1747 East 69th St., Chicago Academy Arthur W. Chapman, 6445 North Washtenaw Avenue, Chicago *Passed away Dec. 26, 1942 2 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN The Alumnus Vol. XLI January, 1943 No. 2 PAUL NESBITT '26, Editor Published at Beloit, Wisconsin, by Beloit College, seven times a year, in October, January, February, March, April, June, and August. Entered u srcood class mail matter at the Post Office at Beloit, Wi•consio, April 2', 1922, under Act of Cooar- of August a4, 191a. HE office of the Secretary for New Stu- be surprised to find out how grateful they are. dents is shouting for help from the col- Besides, you will discover that many of them Tlege's alumni group for the year 1943-44. will be influenced by your testimony of a really With Jim Gage in the Army, a shortage of great college. manpower in the department, Beloit believes Send the names of these prospects to the you should give of your time and energy to office of the Secretary for New Students, or help build up a fine group of prospects for the to the Chicago Office at 400 West Madison June and September terms. Street, The Daily News Building. The chief aim of any local alumni group I should like to take this opportunity to should be to build a greater Beloit. One of thank the active Beloit workers who have been the ways in which you can do this is to assist making their contribution to this office for the college in enrolling young men and women years. from your own city. You have a friend, a neighbor, who has a daughter, a son, ready for John B. Laing, college. Tell them about Beloit. You will Acting Secretary for New Students 3 BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN COLLEGE LOSES THREE LEADERS R. K. Rockwell H. H. Foster M. 0. Moua/ H. H. Foster, Education During his period as an educator, he wrote three college textbooks, which reflect his prin- Leader, Dies ciples. They are entitled "Principles of Edu- ELOIT College students and faculty cation," " High School Administration," and B members are mourning the death of Dr. "High School Supervision." Herbert Hamilton Foster, professor emeritus One of his chief accomplishments during and former head of the education department, his tenure at Beloit was the organization and who died December 1st. He was 67 years of direction of the Burr Training school which age. he instituted 12 years ago to give prospective After an imposing ca reer in the fi eld of teachers practical experience toward attain- education, Prof. Foster retired due to illness ment of degrees. as head of the education department here at Among the organizations of which he was a the close of the 1939-40 term, but taught part member were the National Education asso- time during the past summer session. Until ciation, National Society for the Study of shortly before his death, he had been teaching Education, College Teachers of Education, a class at South Beloit Community high school. National Association of Secondary School Dr. Foster served as head of the depart- Principals, National Society of Supervisors ment after coming to Beloit in 1923. Pre- and Directors of Instruction, Phi Delta Kappa viously he was professor of education at the and Pi Gamma Mu honorary fraternities. He University of Ottawa (Kan.) from 1907- also was former president of the Rock River 1915; head of the education department at Schoolmasters' club and the Beloit Rotary the University of Arizona from 1915 to 1920; club. head of the education department at the Uni- versity of Vermont from 1920 to 1921. H e also taught summer school at the University Roy K. Rockwell of Illinois, the University of Pennsylvania, Roy K. Rockwell, for 20 ye ars a member of the and the University of Tennessee. college's board of trustees and since 1942 treasurer Born in Huron, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1875, Dr. of Beloit College died J anuary 12 at his home on Foster was married on Jan. 2, 1912, to Sherwood Drive in Beloi t. Death was the resu lt Florence Robinson, who survives. of a he art condition which had kept him at home several weeks. His sudden death was a great shock After graduation from Cornell university to the business community, to Beloit College and in 1900, he received his Ph.D. ~ t the U ni ver- to many scores of associates and friends. Mr. sity of Jena in Germany in 1906. Rockwell is survived by his wife and one son, BELOIT COLLEGE BULLETIN Harold H. Rockwell, of Washington, D. C., a re- Acting President Bradley T yrrell represented the gional coordinator in the rubber conservation di- college as one of the pallbearers at the funeral vision; and by a sister, Miss Helen E. Rockwell, held in Janesville. In addition, a floral tribute and a brother, Lynn Rockwell, both living in Oak was arranged for Mr. Mouat by the trustees and Park, Illinois. faculty of the college. He was born in Lake Geneva in 18'74 and in 1890 He served on the Board of Trustees for 10 years transferred to Beloit College Academy from ' the and for the last three vears has held the office schools of Oak Park. After completing his academy of chairman of the board. Upon his resignation course he spent a year in Beloit College. as a mem- last fall, Justice John Wickhem succeeded him in ber of the class of 1896. After a brief term as a this office. reporter on the Chicago Daily News he returned In a letter to the trustees, Mr. T yrrell paid the to Beloit where he became associated with Mrs. fo11owing tribute to Mr. Mouat, '"Mac' Mouat was Rockwell's father, in the L. C. Hyde & Brittan one of Beloit's most loyal alumni and trustees. He banking institution. Mr. Rockwell became cashier made the statement in hi s letter of resignation that of the bank, later its vice-president and upon the he considered his election to the board and his serv- death of Mr. Brittan he became its president. In ice to the board one of the great honors of his life. 1931 the bank became consolidated with the Beloit He gave unsparingly of his time and money for State bank and Mr. Rockwell served as vice-presi- the good of hi s a lma mater. Beloit College has dent of the merged institution. lost a staunch friend." Mr. Mouat was 70 yea rs of age at the time of Mr. Rockwell was for many years closely con- his death. nected with alumni and college affairs. In his undergraduate days he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and he continued an active interest in the fraternity as an alumnus. He was elected a member of the college's boa rd of trustees in 1923, In Memoriam and he served the board and the college in many important capacities. He was for several years Herbert Hamilton Foster chairman of the board's building committee and more recently he was chairman or its investment By R. K . Richardson committee. At their May, 1942, meeting the trustees elected him treasurer of the college. Professors of Education, or, as we used to call them, Professors of Pedagogy, were, in general, not More recently he had given much tiA1e to di- popular in college faculties of the 1920's-the decade recting the sale of War Bonds and Stamps as in which our friend came to Beloit. Their task, as chairman of the Beloit War Bond and Stamp com- their colleagues were apt to see things, was less con- mittee, and under his leadership the community nected with genuine grasp of a field of knowledge made an outstanding record for oversubscription than with a methodology of teaching boys and girls; of its assigned quotas. and there was a wide-spread impression in circles of Liberal Arts, not only that Pedagogy was illib- eral, vocational, and forced upon unwilling institu- tions by ignorant and be-lobbied legislatures, but M. 0. Mouat, Trustee of College that those who professed it sophistically taught their students, implicitly if not explicitly, that information (By John Palmer-reprint from on the part of teachers was relatively unimportant Round Table) and that correct method might suffice for instruc- tion in all branches. Malcolm Mouat, active alumnus of Beloit Col- v\Thatever color of truth there · may have been in lege and chairman of th·e Board of Trustees until this attitude, Herbert Hamilton Foster conquered last October, died January 3 at his home.