Bmce Fink, PH.D. Prof. Alfred Horatio Upham, AM Prof. Fred Campbell Whitcomb, R C. Mr;. Carr;R Putnam Herndon, Ph.M
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Pro!' Bmce Fink, PH.D. Prof. Alfred Horatio Upham, A.M. Prof. Fred Campbell Whitcomb, R c. Mr;. Carr;r Putnam Herndon, Ph.M. Prof. Raymond Hugh Burkr, B.Se. lJ THE MIAMI S T E). ~. :E N·T OCTOBER, 19Q6. CHANGES IN THE FACULTY. Every year the University draws nearer The Greater Miami. In no way is the growth more marked than in the addition of new men to the faculty; and this is as it should be, for a university is its faculty. The erection of new chairs and the increased number of teachers will enable Miami to do. a greater work than ever before. Professor Hoke is in Europe on leave of absence for the year. He will travel in Europe and Asia, st.udying geograp~y and kindred subjects. at first hand, and at the universities. D'uring his absence his department will be in charge of Professor Raymond Burke. At the beginning of the second term the department will be divided and part of t4e work will be under the direction of Professor Benjamin M. Davis, who will come to Miami from Chico, California. Professor Parker is also absent on leave. He is doing work in the Department of Education at Columbia University. Professor Warren Darst will carry forward the work of Professor Parkyr during the present school year. Director Davis of the Normal training classes has resigned, and his work will be taken up by Professor Fred C. W~itcomb. • Professor Lee Ora Lantis, Principal of the Academy, has resigr~erl, and Professor Fred L. Hadsel has been appointed to succeed him. Other new members of the faculty are: Bruce Fink, Ph.D. , Pro· fessor of Botany and Bacteriology ; Raymond V. Phelan, Ph.D., Assist ant Professor of Economics and Sociology ; 0 ven Konn Boring, Inst(tlc· tor in Spanish ; Mrs. Carrie H erndon, P h.M., Instructor in Normal HIs tory; William F. Luebke, A . M., Assistant Professor of German; VVill iam Henry Whitcomb, M .S., Assistant · Professor of Chemistry: and Alfred Horatio Upham, A.M., Associate P rofessor of English. In this issue and in succeeding issues, will appear sketches of the' new members of the faculty , and some account of the new c,ourses now offered . THE NEW MEMBERS OF OUR FACULTY. PROFESSOR BRUCE FINK, PH.D. This year a new chair, Botany and Bacteriology, has been erected at Miami, and Professor Bruce Fink has been called from Iowa College to inaugurate the work in the new department. Professor Fink. w a<) born in Kane County, Illinois, and spent his youth in this and De Kalb counties. He received his early education in the country and city schools of these counties, and then entererl the University of Illinois, 3 from which he graduated in 1887 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He received his Master's degree in science from the same institution in 1894. During 1894-5 Professor Fink did graduate work at Harvard University, and was appointed to the Townsend graduate scholarship. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard in 1896. Pro fessor Fink was given his Ph.D degree for work at the University of Minnesota from 1896 to 1899. After spending several years in public school work he was called to the Professorship in Biology at Upper Iowa University where he continued from 1892 to 1903, being absent on leave part of the time for graduate work at Harvard. From 1903 to 1906 he was Professor of Botany at Iowa College . In 1897 he was appointe:i lichenist to the Minnesota botanical survey, in which capacity he is still serving. Professor Fink has published a large number of papers in the botanical journals, in various other scientific journals, and in the pro ceedings of different scientific societies. Some of the paRers deal with plant embryology, pollination and taxonomy of fungi and flowering plants, but the larger part of his work has been in lichenology, the articles treating various features of this subject comprising about five hundred pages. He has now in preparation a book on lichenology, deal ing fully with the subject and finely illustrated. Professor Fink is recog nized as an authority on this group of plants. He has named a number ' of new species of lichens. The value of his work has been acknowledged by European botanists by giving the specific name of Finkii to several species. Professor Fink has distributed a large number of herbarium specimens in American and European universities, and his own collec tion of lichens is very likely the best private collection in America, and Harvard is probably the only institution which has a collection that is better. His library on the subjett is second only to that of Amherst College, and it is very doubtful if any person or institution has both an herbarium and a library equal to Professor Fink's. The library consists of 400 volumes, besides separates, and 450 photographs. There are 10,000 specim~ns in the herbarium and a great quantity of unmounted duplicates. Professor Fink is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the Botanical Society of America, member of the Central Society of Naturalists, and member of the Myco logical Society of America. He was president of the Iowa Academy of Sciences in 1903. Miami is indeed fortunate to have at the head or her new depart ment a man of such strength, and with such standing in the scientific world, as Professor Fink. PROFESSOR ALFRED H ORATIO UPHAM, A.M. Professor Alfred Horatio Upham, A.M., Associate Professor of English adds one more to the list of Miami alumni who have been recalled to positions on the faculty of the University. Having prepared for college at the Eaton, Ohio High School, he was four years a. student at Miami, being graduated as honor man in the class of '97. He remained 4 in the institution the year following, having charge· of the Latin depart ment during the absence of Prof. Longsdorf. Private work in English Literature, carried on during the same winter, fulfilled the requirements for the Master's degree, which was granted him in 1898. Until 1900, Mr. Upham was employed as instructor in Latin and Greek in the Miami Preparatory School, and then entered the Harvard Graduate School where he did special work in English for two years under Professor . KittJ:edge, receiving the Harvard A.1!. in 1901. In 1902 he became Pro fessor of En.glish in the Agricultural College of Utah, serving in that capacity until last year, when he accepted an appointment as Columbia University Fellow in Comparative Literature. His year's work in Columbia, under the direction of Professors Fletcher and Spingarn, was chiefly given to the partial completion of a dissertation on The French Influence in English Literature from the Accession of Elizabeth to the Restoration. PROFESSOR FRED CAMPBELL WHITCOMB, B.Sc. Profess.or Fred Campbell Whitcomb, B.Sc., Director of Arts and Crafts and Professor of Manual Training, is a native of Indiana. He was prepared for college in the public schools of the state and graduated from Franklin College in 1900 with the. degree of B.Sc. He did one year's graduate work in the Indiana State University and one year in Columbia, graduating from the latter in 1904, pursuing the special prep aration for Manual Training in Teachers' College. While at Columbia University he held a graduate scholarship and pursued later special courses in Mechanical Drawing at Pratt Institute. His experience as a public school teacher and superintendent guar antees for his work a complete understanding of the problems and needs of the public schools. From 1890 to 1891 he taught in the district schools, and from 1893 to 1895 in the graded schools of I~diana. He was principal of the high schools at Delphi and Tipto'n froni 1900 to 1903, and he was superintendent of the Bluffton public schools. For the year of 1904-5 he was Director of Arts and Crafts and Professor of Man ual Training in Howard University, Washington, D. C. Charles N. Richards, Director of Manual Training Department, Teachers' College, Columbia University, writes regarding him: "His record was a most exceptionally high one, and he impressed, all of his instructors as a man of ~xceptional ability and character." Professor Whitcomb comes to Ohio to work out for the teachers of the state the new problem of manual training in the public schools. MRS. CARRIE PUTNAM HERNDON, Ph.M. Mrs. Carrie Putnam Herndon, A.B., Ph.M., comes into the Normal faculty as In~tructor of History. Mrs. Herndon is a native of Illinois, and her early education was received in the elementary and secondary schools of that state, having graduated from the Rossville High School. The various types of institutions in which she received her collegiate education especially adapt her for the work to which she is called. In 1891 she graduated with the honors of her class from the Illi?ois State onnal University, one of the first and most thoroughly organIzed normal schools of the West, having been established in 1857. In 1901 she received from the University of Chicago the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy with honorable mention. In 1906 she received from the University of Chicago the degree of Master of P hilosophy. She has had a successful experience in teaching, both in the public schools and in a college. She taught six years in the grades of the public schools. She was, for two years, superintendent of Morgan Park Schools one of the best suburbs of Chicago.