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REv. H. T . DEWOLFE, D.o., LL.D. Septembe r 14 , 1867-Sep tember 10, 1947

The Reverend Henry Todd DeWolfe D. D , LL. D.

Centuries ago a writer among the ing of Dr. H . T. DeWolfe, one of ancients compared the passing of a .great Acadia's most distinguished alumnus, and man of his day to the falling of a mighty for so many years inseparably connected 'oak which crashing to earth Ie ft a lone with the life of the institution as Principal some ?lace against' the sky line. That of the Seminary and Professor of New must have been how many a graduate of Testament. A great oak, staunch and the Acadia Ladies' Seminary and of the true, has fallen. There is a lonesome University received the news of the pass place against Acadia's skyline. ACADIA BULLETIN

Dr. DeWolfe was born at St. Stephen, Horton Academy of Acadia University. N. B., September 14, 1867, the son of the From this time until his retirement, [H. late Benjamin DeWolfe and Adelaide DeWolfe devoted his full time to the Vickery DeWolfe. Had he lived four teaching of New Testament in the Uni days longer he would have reached the versity. This was by no means a new milestone of four score years. On July venture on his part, for he had been Pro 12, 1893, he was married to Harriet Eaton fessor of New Testament Language and who survives him. Although Dr. De Literature since 1910, and for three years Wolfe had been retired from active ser before that date, Instructor in New Tes vice at Acadia University since 1936, he tament Greek. As -an educator, Dr. De continued to exercise a most useful and Wolfe had a sane approach to the prob helpful ministry by supplying pulpits and lems of education combining the more giving series of religious addresses on constructive elements of the older systems numerous occasions. He preached for with reforms necessitated by the needs of the last time in the spring of 1946. Fol a rapidly changing social and economic lowing a lengthy illness subsequent to this order. In 1909 his alma mater conferred time, he recovered and was able to be upon him the degree of Doctor of Divin about again for some months. On one ity, honoris causa, and in 1925 the honor or two occasions he read papers before ary Doctorate in Laws. At the Centen local organizations and societies. Late nial of the University in 1938, he re in July of this year he was stricken with ceived an address from the "Sems" and the illness that proved fatal. was told that a Henry Todd DeWolfe Dr. DeWolfe received his early educa Scholarship had been founded in his tion in the sch"ols of his native town, then honor. came to Acadia University, receiving his Students of other years will recall Bachelor's degree in 1889. He studied how thoroughly he entered into the at Newton Thelogical Seminary from life of the institutions on the hill. A 1890 to 1893. The next two years he football player of note in his college days, divided between acting as Instructor in he retained his interest in sports in the New Testament at Newton and pursuing after years and was often seen refereeing further studies in Berlin, Germany. He a game on the local campus. Significant continued to read and study theological ly enough, the last article Dr. DeWolfe literature in the German language until wrote for publication appeared in the the end of his teaching career and even July-August issue of the Acadia Bulletin afterward. From 1895 to 1901, Dr. De· over tht: initials E.D.Y., initials he often Wolfe was pastor of the Baptist Church used when he wished the identity of the at Foxboro, Mass., and during the sum writer to remain unknown. mers of 1899 and 1900 lectured at the So many of our mortal kind live dull, Summer School of the University of negative kind of lives. Not so, Dr. H. T. Chicago. DeWolfe. Life for him, despite whatever In 1901, Dr. DeWolfe returned to cares, sorrows, and mysteries pressed in Wolfville to become principal of Acadia upon him, was a pulsating, stimulating Ladies' Seminary. He retained this posi kind of venture. He lived vigorously and tion until 1925 when a rearrangement of well. Life was no dull, craven kind 0'£ the schools affiliated with Acadia Univer pilgrimage from the cradle to the grave. sity brought about an amalgamation of He was as sure as are those whose faith the Seminary with the Academy to form is grounded in the eternal verities of the 2 ACADIA BULLETIN

Unchanging Word, that man was created HENRY TODD DEWOLFE for a high destiny. He loved simple things. His humor, always so much a A Tribute fr om the President of the part of him, flashed and soared as did his A. A. A. U. thoughts on so many themes. All these I first knew Dr. DeWolfe in the fall of made him the man he was to thousands 1914 when he Was Principal of the Ladies' of students who affectionately called him Seminary and I was a lowly 'Cad. At "Toddy" behind his back, but took no that time, and under those circumstances liberties with him when they addressed the knowledge was formal and remote' him to his face-the revered teacher the and I doubt if he was aware of my exist: eloquent preacher whose words ~ame ence but Toddy was a part of the estab pouring forth in a torrent as a cascade of lished Acadia legends. I came to know rushing waters, the kindly friend whose Rim somewhat more intimately in the rebuke led to sobering reflection, and summer of 1917 when he supplied the whose words of encouragement "helped church at Canso during his vacation and to keep men on their feet." I had just been invalided home from Besides his widow, the fonner Harriet overseas. His own son, Burton, had been Eaton, Dr. DeWolfe is survived by one killed at Vimy Ridge that spring and I son, Edgar (Acadia '24), of Wolfville, was impressed by the way he measured up N.S.; tWO daughters, Mrs. Helen Bishop to that heavy loss. His religion was no of Long Island, and Mrs. Francis Kent of academic thing; it was adequate for the Quincy, Mass.; a sister, Miss H. Elizabeth harsh experiences of life. I came to DeWolfe of St. Stephen, and a brother, Acadia that fall as a Freshman and came Rev. H. E. DeWolfe of Fairvale, N. B. to know Dr. DeWolfe as teacher and His oldest son, Burton, was killed in ac friend and there established a friendship tion in the First World War. It was in that lasted until his death. his memory that Dr. and Mrs. DeWolfe Temperamentally, Dr. DeWolfe was along with friends from the A. L. S. founded the Henry Burton DeWolfe ~ncli~ed to strong prejudices and sweep Ing Judgment but these tendencies were Bursary in Biology. checked by a truly Christian spirit of love Funeral services for Dr. DeWolfe were and kindness and the rigid discipline of a conducted Saturday afternoon, September scholarly mind determined to be fair and 13, at the United Baptist Church, Wolf honest with the data. This made for a ville. Dr. F. H . Eaton, recently retired remarkable combination and tended to pastor of the church, conducted the ser produce a warmth and passion in his re vice, assisted by Dr. F. W. Patterson, ligious life too often absent in those who President of the University. The choir have long been subject to the discipline led in singing, "Unto the Hills Around" of exact scholarship. A great teacher, and "Rock of Ages." Pallbearers were who in his more advanced classes en five members of the Faculty, Professors couraged and developed independence and Roy Ross, Evan M. Whidden, R. Mac initiative in his students, he succeeded to Gregor Fraser, Ronald S. Longley and a marked degree in developing men of in· Clarence B. Lumsden, and Dr. E. S. dependent mind, trained in the habits of Mason, retired Superintendent of Home objective research. But Toddy the schol. Missions. Interment was in Willow as was always more or less hid by Toddy Bank Cemetery. :he man: His wit, his joy of living, his The Bulletin extends deepest sympathy. Interest In student activities, the youthful. 3 ACADIA BULLETIN

ness of his approach to life, all appealed with a quick step entered, and silence fell. to the undergraduate and made him an The girls before him studied his face to ob ject of affectionate respect to genera see if L111 were well! ... tions <)f Acadia students. "Once a Sem. always a Sem."-a col In 1936 I succeeded Dr. DeWolfe as lege classmate once said in a moment of the teacher of New Testament at Acadia impatlt:!1ce. The phrase remained in and also became his near neighbor on the memory for its inherent truth. The man Hill. The friendship which had begun who made it true has but recently left our almost twenty years before continued and midst. It has been my good fortune to grew in these new relationships. Always sit under several great teachers, but none kind, always anxiolls to help with books more revered than Henry Todd DeWolfe. and counsel, he was an ideal neighbor and Many pens and many voices will be lifted staunch friend. Failing eyesight made in tribute to his work as a stalwart of reading difficult during the latter years Acadia and of the denomination-but the but his interest in life never waned. Years voice of "the Sem" should not be silent. had not dulled his interest in sport or his In that kingdom he ruled supreme for competitive spirit and to the end he keenly many years, and in spite of minor vexa en joyed his chess and his croquet. tions, was apparently a very happy ab During these years he also was a faith solute monarch. In retrospect it would ful and valued member of the Acadia be easy to deify his greatness, but it is by Study group and could be depended on the human traits that he i~ endeared in for careful and exhaustive preparation of memory. any ta3k assigned to him. His interest in The teaching of "Toddy," even in the church, in University and community was Seminary, is inseparably linked In mem maintained to the very end, and his going ory with "Toddy's Bible": has left a very real gap in the community. "They'v~ gone out from Toddy's Bible. , , But we all rejoice that so vivid and dy Safe now in the wide, wide world" namic a spirit was spared the frustration of a long period of sickness. A mature ran the old college song. Whatever he soul with a fresh and vigorous mind, death may have taught to the college students, for him was but a passing incident. With certainly in the Seminary he taught us affection and respect we salute the mem the fear of the Lord, and to many of us ory of Henry Todd DeWolfe who in life it was ~he beginning of wisdom. Toddy's made a great and continuing contribution God seemed to us a somewhat stern both to Acadia and to many generations Being; but he also shared with his students of her students. his reverence for human greamess as we -long before H. V. Morton's study-trod -c. B. LUMSDEN, '21. with him in the steps of St. P;lUI. (The yearly alternation of Bible courses be HENRY TODD DEWOLFE rween studies in the life of St. Paul and A Tribute from One of The "Sems" of Christ led to many Sem. debates, in the privacy of rooms, as to which was "Let me put all my heart into my sowing, really greater in the kingdom, St. Paul or And walk in faith Thy radiant chosen way ," His Master, viewed through our Prin The headline in the newspaper rolled cipal's eyes!) Long after I had left the back the years, and I sat once mOre in the classroom, there came an opportunity to old Sem. chapel. A stout little figure Sit for a week under his daily instruction.

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In public mInistry during that Week of Wolfe is

DR. W. H. THOMPSON RETIRES ACADIA SUMMER SCHOOL AS DEAN HOLDS CONVOCATION President Patterson announced recently The Acadia Summer School held at that Dr. W. H. Thompson had tendered Wolfville from July 3rd to August 13th his resignation as Dean of the Faculty of attracted a large number of students from the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec, New foundland: and the United States. At the Summer School Convocation held on August 13th the following de grees and' certificates were awarded: Degree of Bachelor in A rlf Robert Morine Armstrong, Brooklyn, N, S . John Edmund Bethune, Berwick, N. S. Margaret Ruth Canning, Springhill, N. S. Robert Wilson Harris, Grand Pre, N. S. Allister Miles Macmillan, Canning, N . S. Byron March, St. John's, NRd. Frederick Joseph Morris, Saint John, N. B. M~ry Lou ise MacDonald, Glace Bay, N . S. William Eric Potter, Lunenburg, N. S. Nicholas Robert MacDougall Sutcliff-Hatfield, Wolfville, N. S. Amy Adelaide Wi1liams, New Glasgow, N . S. Degree of Bachelor in Science Charles Gera.ld Bruce, Stellarton, N. S. Hugh Christie Campbell, Pictou, N. S. Robert Shipley WiUiams, New Glasgow, N. S. Degree of Mafln in Arlf (English) Eileen Frances Best, Parrsboro, N. S . DR- W. H. THOMPSON Degree of Masler in Science (Chnnirlry) Arts and Science to the August meeting Burton St. Clair Schaffelburg, Lunenburg, N. S. of the Board of Governors and that the Cerlificale in Applied Scirnce Charles Gerald Bruce, Stellarton, N. S. resignation had been accepted regretfully. John Raymond Fiske, Bridgetown, N . S. Dr. Thompson had served first as Daniel George Ross Maitland, Wolfville, N. S. William Weston Piggott, Bridgetown, N. S. Junior Dean and later as Dean of Arts Sidney Alexander Reeves, Sydney, N. S. and Scitnce since 1926. During that time Harold Eugene Ryan, Truro, N. S. Leonard Freeman Small, Tiverton, N. S. his kindly spirit and wise council had won William Thomas Windeler, Hazel Hill, N. S. for him a large place in the affection of Diploma in Sarelarial Science suq:essive generations of students. Joyce Stronach, New York, N. Y.

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Annual Founders' Day Observance Saturday, November 15th, 1947

I I a. m.-Public Service

CLAUDE S. RICHARDSON, M.A., LL.B.,

Montreal. Guest Speaker

Evening-Reception by Associated Alumni of Acadia University.

(The Press will carry further notice of this function.)

Acadia Benefited by Will of the late G. O. Forsyth, '79

The late George O. Forsyth, '79, has courses at Horton Academy he attended left a legacy of approximately $5,000.00 Acadia University graduating with the to Acadia University, $550.00 of which is class Jf 1879 of which he was the last to create the George Ormond Forsyth surviving member. For some years fol. '79 Alumni Memorial Endowment, the lowing his graduation, Mr. Forsyth income to be placed annually to the credit taught school at Canning, Port Hawkes of the class of '79 and to be us-ed for bury, dnd Kentville. He then attended University Maintenance; the balance of Law School at Dalhousie University and the bequest is to be used as the Governors received his degree in 1889. He immedi of the University may direcr. ately established himself in law practice There is also a contingent bequest of at Port Haw'kesbury where he remained approximately $10,000.00 which comes to until his death, and continued his practice the University if certain purposes for UP to within three weeks of the date he which the amount is primarily designated died. The late Mr. Forsyth was Re are not realized within one year of the corder of that town 1900 and after, donor'" death. Crown Prosecutor for the County of In The late Mr. Forsythe was born at verness from 1912, and Recorder for the Greenwich, Kings County, N. S., No Town of Mulgrave since January 1924. vember 28, 1854. After oreparatory He was appointed K. C. in 1916.

7 ACADIA BULLETIN Dr. O. C. S. Wallace Passes Away at Baltimore, Md.

Another of the sons of Acadia who has tist Young People's Union of America. 'added great lustre to her name has passed His later works included, What Baptists away in the person of the Rev. Otes Believe, Looking T award the Heights, Charles Symonds Wallace of the Class Clover, Brier and Tansy, As Thorns of 1883, who· died at Baltimore, Md., on Thrust Forth, and Pastor and People. the 29th of August, 1947. Richly endowed by nature in personal The late Dr. Wallace was born at Can appearance, Dr. Wallace was one to com- aan, Kings County, N. S., November 28, 1856. His earlier education was received at Worcester Academy, Mass., and later he att

With a registration keeping pace with world of his own and it is up to ourselves the highest total reached even during the to make that world what it should be. immediately post-,war years, the Acadia Other people may help in opening new ·campus again teems with life. "It doesn't worlds to us as when a teacher aids a look much like it did when I was here," student in discovering a new world in said one studen t of former years who has science, medicine or art. There is then returned for his first visit since the post a new creatIon. However, the most im war influx began. While a classification portant new creation is when we have a of the student registration is not complete new world opened to us through the meso it may confidently be expected that the sage and spirit of Jesus Christ. There is total of first year students will run close then a new creation in the heart of the to three hundred. Already classes have individual, and he possesses those qual· been under way for more than a week. ities which are the most necessary to Practically every student oliganization has worthwhile living.

launched upon its program of activities, ~! ;:: * * and the new students garbed in the tradi THE FIRST FINE ARTS EVENT tional green and placards are already finding their places in the Ii fe of the The first of an interesting series of .campus. events sponsored by the Acadia University Fine Arts Course was the appearance of * * * the dePaur Infantry Chorus. Seldom, FIRST UNIVERSITY S. C M. if ever has a chorus evoked more hearty SERVICE and enthusiastic response from an audi The first Sunday S.CM. service of the ence at Acadia than that called forth by college year was held in University Hall Leonard dePaur and the thirty-five negro Sunday evening, September 28th with the veterans of his now justly famous In congregations of the Baptist and United fantry Chorus. The Chorus, which is Churches of the town uniting with the now in its first civilian tour after three students for this occasion. Richey Love, years' travel during which time it has the president of the S.CM., led the wor visited all the United States A~my Posts ship. Others taking part with him were throughout the world, has been hailed as Mr. Einslee Embree, Secretary of the S. one of the greatest attractions to come CM., Dalhousie University, and Rev. from the Second World War. George MacLean, pastor of the United The director of the chorus is a master Church in Wolfville. A University in the art of conducting. Without a Choir was in attendance and special music musical score to guide him he directed his was rendered by a male quartet. company of singers through a widely var Dr. F. W. Patterson, President of the ied and at times very intricate programme University, was the special speaker. In which included a set of songs by con his introductory remarks Dr. Patterson temporary composers, a group of folk said, "There are as many worlds as there sonQ'~ ~rom Latin America, songs of the are people." In enlarging upon this Air Force and the French Underground, statement, he said that although we live the stirring song of the Plains, and the in one universe, each one of us lives in a Infantry's triumphant "Roger Young"; a

9 ACADIA BULLETIN group of ~egro spirituals and work songs, per cent-Frederick Bentley Fisher, Mid concluding with several religious numbers dleton, N. S. sung in English, Latin and Russian. With A University Scholarship of $200.00 voices ranging in tone from high soprano awarded to that entrant from N ova to the deepest bass, the chorus was a per Scotia who, having complete U niversity fected blended whole. Some of its mem bers were introduced as soloists gifted with matriculation (C 0 m m 0 n Examining rich and appealing voices. From the Board Grade XI) is registered for a standpoint of technique the entire presen course leading to a degree, and who has. tation was as nearly perfect as practice the highest standing among entrants pro could make possible. vided the average standing is not less than eighty per cent-Ann Douglas Wood Coming E'Vents in the Fine Arts Course worth, Kentville, Nova Scotia. includes: A University Scholarship of $200.0(} October 9-Westminster Choir. awarded to that entrant from New October 23-Carol Brice, Contralto. Brunswick who has complete matricula December 4-Earle Spicer, Tenor. tion, is registered for a course leading to December 9 - Dr. Henry Goddard a degree, and who has the highest stand Leach, Lecturer. ing on senior matriculation with an av February 13-The Troubadors. erage not lower than eighty per cent April 6--Dr. Seagrave, Lecturer. Phyllis Hazel Brown, Fairville, N. B. April 12- Todd Duncan, Baritone. April 19-Joseph Szigeti, Violinist. The Alan M. Wilson Sch.olarship of $150.00 to the second highest entrant * * * from New Brunswick who has complete ENTRANCE SCHOLARSHIP University matriculation, is registered for AWARDS a course leading to a degree, and who has an average not lower than 75 per cent The Alfred T. Fuller scholarship of on the subjects required for senior matric $200.00 awarded to that entrant from ulation - Joseph Matthew Richardson,. Nova Scotia who has full junior matricu Saint John, N. B. lation and is registered for a course lead ing to a degree, and who has the highest The F. J. Humphrey Scholarship of average on at least four credit subjects of $200.00 awarded to the highest entrant Grade XII (Common Examining Board), from the Province of New Brunswick provided the average is not less than who has complete University matricula eighty per cent - Claire Killam, Yar tion with an average not lower than eighty mouth, Nova Scotia. per cent and is registered for a course leading to a degree-Beth Elaine Brin The Burnett W. and Bessie C. Ralston ton, Woodstock. N. B. Scholarship of $150.00 awarded to that entrant from Nova Scotia who has com A University Scholarship of $150.00 plete junior matriculation, is registered awarded to that entrant from the Prov for a course leading to a degree, and who ince of New Brunswick who has the has the second highest standing on at second highest standing on the subjects of least four credit subjects of Grade XII full University matriculation, who is reg (Common Examining Board), provided istered for a course leading to a deg ree, the average is not lower than seventy-five and whose average is not lower than

10 ACADIA BULLETIN seventy-five per cent - Laura Catherine Behaviour in Catalpa hybrida," and "Cy Stiles, Elgin, N. B. tology and Speciation 1ll the genus A University Scholarship of $150.00 Poplllu.s." to be awarded to that entrant from the KALMAN DALE ARCHIBA LD, B.A (Den fourth year ,Prince of Wales College ison Univ.), M.A (Ohio State Univ.), whose average is not lower than seventy BD. (Colgate-Rochester Divinity School) five per cent and is registered for a course is the newly appointed Associate Pro leading to a degree-Arnett Stanley Den fessor of Zoology. Mr. Archibald was nis, Port Hill, P. E. 1. head of the Department of Biology for A Scholarship of $150.00 to a high eight years at Ouachita Baptist College in candidate from the Maritime Provinces the Middle Western states. He was a and Newfoundland for an Engineering scholar at the Stone Biological Laboratory of Ohio State University in the field of Certificate who has complete Engineering Ichthyology where he spent four years matriculation and who has an average not working towards the Ph.D. He has lower than seventy-five per cent on all served also as Instructor in Zoology at matriculation subjects (Common Exam Ohio State University and at Keuka Col ining Board) or Provincial Examina lege, N.Y. Mr. Archibald is also an or tions) -Russell Boyd Turner, Moncton, N. B. dained Baptist minister, having served for four years as pastor of a Baptist All of these scholarships will be con church near Rochester, N. Y. He was tinued to graduation provided the work born in Massachusetts, but descends from of the reCipients continues to be of high an old Nova Scotia family, the son of an grade. Acadia graduate, Dr. A C Archibald, :i: * and the nephew of Dr. W. L. Archibald, NEW APPOINTMENTS AT retired Registrar. ACADIA C J. BISHOP, B.Sc. (Acadia '41) , PhD. (Harvard), is Associate Professor of Biology Genetics. Dr. Bishop, who is employed E. CHALMERS SMITH, B.Sc. (Acadiay by the Department of Agriculture in re '36), PhD. (Harvard, '42), Associate search on breeding of disease·resistant Profes30r of Botany, was born at Hills fruits will t~ach a course in Genetics hav borough, Cape Breton. After his gradu ing at his disposal the Acadia Labora ation he returned to Acadia for a year as tories and other science facili ties for re Graduate Assistant in Biology, then for search work. five years worked on a Cabot Fellowship in Genetics at Harvard where he received English Bible both his Master's and Doctor's degrees. GEORGE E. LEVY, B.A, BD. (Acadia, He served as Operational Research Officer '27 and '32), ThD. (U.T.C, '40), for with the R.CAF., 1943 and 1944, in five y.:ars Editor and Manager of The Canada, Newfoundland and the United Maritime Baptist, and well-known to Kingdom. From 1944 to this year, Dr. Acadia students of recent years, returns Smith was Professor of Biology at Memor to his Alma Mater as Lecturer in English ial University College, St. John's, New Bible, and this year is teaching Biblical foundland. He is the author of "Species Literature A and Economics and Sociol Hybrids in Forest Trees," "Chromosome ogy 8b. Dr. Levy has held pastoral

11 ACADIA BULLETIN charges in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, tired as the Head of the Department of and Montreal. He served for one year Physics of the University of Cincinnati, as Initructor in Philosophy at Sir George has accepted an appoinnnent as Professor Williams College, Montreal. of Physics at Acadia for one year. Dr. Allan has had an outstanding record as a History and Economics physicist. A native of Nova Scotia he A. HARRY MACLEAN, B.A., M.A. is returning to his native province. (Acadia, '39, '40), Ph.D. (Cambridge, '47), has been appointed to the post of R. W. HIBBARD, B.Se. (Acadia, '42) Assistant Professor In History. Dr. has joined the Department of Physics as Maclean enlisted during the early part Instructor. Previous to coming to Acadia of the war and was wounded in action. Mr. Hibbard was associated with the Vet· He subsequently was awarded a British erans' Training School at Pictou. Overseas Fellowship and completed the Household Science and Music work for his Doctor's degree at Cambridge University, where he had an outstanding MISS OLIVE HIBBARD joins the Faculty academic record. as Instructor in Piano and MRS. W. H. THOMPSON as Instructor in Violin. Mrs. WILLIAM B. CUNNINGHAM, B.A. (Aca. Thompson is a fotmer teacher in the De dia, '47), the Life President of his Class parnnent of Music. has returned to the University as In· structor in Economics. MISS CHARLOTIE WADE, M.A. (Col umbia), has been appointed Assistant Mathematics and Engineering Professor of Textiles, while MISS ELIZ K. DAVID C. HALEY, B.A. (Acadia, ABETH MAGEE, B.Sc. (H.Ec.) of Acadia '38), M.A. (Stanford, '47), returns to becomes Instructor in the Deparnnent of Acadia as Assistant Professor in Mathe· Home Economics. matics. Mr. Haley, who is a native of Saint John, has spent the last seven years Physical Education in the United States: 1940 to '41, as High GEORGE F. GEARY, B.P.E., of Toronto, School teacher in California; from 1941 and a graduate in Physical Education of to 1946 in the U. S. Army and during the University of Toronto, has been ap the 1946·47 college year as Instructor at pointed Assistant Professor in Physical Stanford University. Education. A native of Moncton, Mr. D. O. SNOW, B.Sc., M.A. (Acadia, '43, Geary spent four years with the R.C.A.F. '46), has taught at Acadia in the Depart. ment of Mathematics before, so returns MISS MARGARET MACKINNON, a re to take up his former duties. He has also cent graduate in Physical Education at taught at Mt. Allison and in a number McGill University, joins the department of High Schools in Nova Scotia. as Instructor. EDGAR L. DEWOLFE, B.A. (Acadia, Romance Languages '24), B.E. (N. S. Technical College), E. Ross PAYZANT, B.A. (Acadia, '40), well known on the Acadia campus for his is another graduate of the university who tutorial work, now becomes Instructor in comes back to a teaching post. He will Engineering: serve as Instructor ~n French. Mr. Pay. Physics zant has been on the staff of the Veterans' PROF.. S. J. ALLAN, Ph.D., recently re Training School at Pictou. 12 ACADIA BULLETIN PERSONALS

1879 them there: Dr. Francis M. Archibald, '19, of Eliz· The B,,//etIn regrets to report the passing of abeth, ~ ].; Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Robinson, '24, of Montreal; Prof. Harold F. Archibald, '27, of G eorge Ormand Forsyth, B.A., LL.B., K.C., or hi. Keuka Park, N. Y., and Mrs. Jeanne M. Fillmore, home in Porr Hawkesbury, August 25. A fulle r '34, of Digby, N. S. notc ccncerning Mr. Forsyth appears elsewhere In this issue of the Bulletin. 1896 1883 The Bulletin regrets to reporr the death of Prof. Alfred H . Armstrong at Pamona, California on The Blllletin regrets to report the passing of Dr. August 2 1. After graduarron from Acadia, Prof. Otes Charles Symonds Wallace, at his home in Armstrcng taugh t school for several years before Baltimore, August 29. A fuller nc te concernin)': pursuing g wduate srudies at Columbia University. Dr. Wallace appears ehewhere in this issue of the Again he returned to his reachinp, prof •., sion and B"lIrtin. for some years tau ght ar a boy> school in New 1892 Jersey and from 1910 on itt St. Christopher's Home The Bldlrtin extends congratulations to Dr. ar.d all the Hudson. Once m~re he returned to co l· Mrs. W. L. Archibald on the observance of their lege and completed the work for a Law degree, Golden \'V'eddill)': at Milton, N. S., on the 21st which he received from the New York L,W Sch'oOl of September, where they were martied half a cen in 1927. He is survived by aile son, a sister and tury ago. All their children have recenely vi sited ,wo brerh"rs. To these the Bulletin extends sym pathy. 1897 Dr. William fn glis Morse received the degree of THE ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF Doctor of Divinity from King's Coilege, Halifax, at ACADIA UNIVERSITY its School for Clergy late in August. Dr. Morse has also been similarly honoured by Acadia Uni· President. Clarence B_ Lumsden, '21. versity and Dalhousie. V icc-Pre .,ident for N.B .. Rev. F. S. Cross 1900 man, '26. Dr. S. S. Poole, Pastor Emeritus of Germain Vice·President for P.E.!.. Mrs. ]. D. Davison, Srreet Baptist, Saint John, N. B., was elected one '38. of the two vice· presidents of the Baptist Federation Sr<'Trtary. Treasurer, Ernest S. Mason, '05. of Canada at its first Assembly, Wolfville, N . S., in August. Other Members of Executive: 1905 R. L. DeV. Chipman, '03. The Bulletin extends congratulations to Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Peck, '41. Mrs. A ]. Clark (nee Edith Belle Sterns) on their Ronald S. Longley, '21. rerent marriage at Charlottetown, P. E. I. Dr. Harcourt L. Cameron, '37. Clark, the retired Supervisor of the Dominion Ex· Mrs. Stewart Murray, '27. perimental Farm of the same city, is a member of Carmita Robinson, '43. the Senate of Acadia University and Mrs. Clark a Mrs. Wm. ]. Noble, '36. graduate or the Class 'of 1905. Gerdon Wheelock, '36. The Bulletin extends sympathy to Mr. P. L. THE ACADIA BULLETIN, Fash, retired manager of the Kentville branch of Official Organ of the AA of AA the Royal Bank of Canada in ,he loss sustained by (PlIbli,/,,'d Eight Times Per Ye(Jr.) ,he unexpected passing of Mrs. Fash on Seprember Editor: George E. Levy, '27. 11. 1909 Dr. Miles F. McCutcheon, minister of the First Baprist Church, Montreal, was elected President of Dr. O. C S. Wallace [he Baptist Federation of Canada at its First As· .embly hel d in Wolfville, August 23 to 26, 1947. (Continued from page 8) 1911 Dr. Wallace is survived by his wife, The Rev . Ivan Murray Rose, Minister of the First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, and his sons, Rev. Helen Mloore of Baltimore and Folkstone, Roberr of Cleveland, and Murray of Phoenix, Ari· England; a daughter, Miss Rachael L. of . ona, recently prese nted a new lighring sysrem to the B"ptist Church at Lake George, N. S., in memory Baltimore, and a son, O. C. s. Wallace, of Mrs. Rose who passed away last March. Jr., of Montreal. To all these the Bulle· 1912 tin extends sympathy. Walter DeW. Barss, of Dartmouth, N. S., was

13 ACADIA BULLETIN appointed provincial vice-president of the Canadian The Bulletin extends congratulations to Rev. a>cd Ear Association during the annual convention of this Mrs. Raymond Whimey, Wolfville, N. 5., on ·the crganization at Ottawa. birth of a daughter, Sharon Muriel, at East Kings Memorial Hospital, September 25. 1913 Senator John A. McDonald has reeently been Rev. John Scott has received hiJ diocharge frOll'l appointed a member of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Navy in which he served for four years as a chaplain, and now with Mrs. Scott and Acadia University. their daughter,· Ruth Jean, has left for Scotland 1915 where he will study at Edinburgh Universiry for the Evelyn E. S. Goodwin of Phoenix, Arizona, has next two years. recently written in high appreciation of conferences 1931 she has attended at The Northern Baptist As Lawrence T. Hancock, at present with the Pro :sembly, ·Green Lake, Wisconsin. vincial Department of Welfare, has been appointed 1917 Acting Principal of the Nova Scotia School fot The Hon. Milton F. Gregg, V .c., (Ex. '17) frorn Boys. This institution is the former Industrial 1944 to recently the President of the Universiry of School of Halifax, and now having been taken 'over New Brunswick, has been sworn in as Minister of by the Provincial Government has been renamed and Fisheries in the Cabinet of the Federal Government is being reorganized. at Ottawa. 1919 Dr. Lewis R. Morse has recenely opened an office at 151 King Street East, Saint John, New Bruns The Hon. J. H. MacQuarri., Attorney-General wick, with a practice limited to Urology. Dr. tlf Nova Scotia, has been appointed a Judge of the Morse received his medical degree from the Uni Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. The announce versiry of Toronto in 1936. After interning at the ment was recently made by the Right Hon. J. L. Vancouver General Hospical for cwo years, he did Ilsley, '13, Minister of Justice. general practice in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, for 1921 three years. From there he went to the Royal Vic toria Hospital in Monereal to further his urological ]. Mcleod Boyer, formerly Trade Commissioner ttaining. Af.ter cwo years there, he entered the at Chicago, has been app'ointed Trade Commissioner Royal Canadian Navy in which he served for cwo at Cairo, Egypt, and has taken up his residenc! and a half years. While in the Navy, in addition ~here . His daughter, Harriett, in the first year at to his sea time, he was Consultant in Urology at Acadia 1946-47, has transferred to one of the Sydney and Halifax. Immediately following his American Universities at Cairo. discharge in December 1945, Dr. Morse was ap 1924 pointed Instructor in Urology at Yale Universiry and was resident in Urology at the New Haven The Bulletin extends sympathy to Edgar De Hospital under Dr. Clyde L. Deming. Wolfe and the members of his family on the pass ing of his father, Dr. H. T. DeWolfe, recently. A Dr. Morse was certified as a Specialist in Urology sketch of the life of the late Dr. DeWolfe accom by the Royal College in October, 1946, and recently panied by tributes from former students appears was appointed a member of the New England Sec .. lsewhere in this issue of the Bulletin. t,on of rhe American Urological Association. He 1926 has been Consultant in Urology at Lancaster (D. Alton P. Morton, formerly of the Actuarial De V.A.) Hospital, Saint John, since November 1946. He is the s'on of Dr. and Mrs. L. Morse, Law partment of the Manufacturers Life Insurance Co. R. rencetown, Nova Scotia. of Canada, has accepted a position as Assistant Actuary with the Prudential Life, with beadquarters 1932 in New Jersey. Egbert G. Perry has been appointed Supervisor 1927 of Vocational Guidance of the Department of Edu· c8tion of the Province of Nova Scot;a. Dr. George E. Levy, since September 1942, the Editor and Manager of the Mdritime Bdptist, has John W. Spurr, Chief Librarian at McMaster received an appointment as Lecturer in English University, Hamilton, Ont., left recently on the Bible and Sociology at Acadia Universiry. Queen Elizabeth for a period of study at the Insti tute of Historical Research University of London. 1929 He has been granted leave of absence for cwo Miss Frances Aileen Ross is the author of a book, years. During the war he was with the Canadjan The lAnd dnd the People 0/ Candda, which has Military Historical section overseas, arriving home in been published by ]. B. Lippincott Company as the February 1946. Mr. Spurr was I.O.D.E. overseas first of a series entitled Pmtrdilf 0/ the Nationr. scholar for Nova Scotia in 1939. Miss Ross is Instructor in History at Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Connecticut. 1933 R. Cliffor~ Levy, Barrister at Chester, N . S., waS 1930 elected Pres,dent of the Union of Nova Scotia Rev. Lewis A. Hennigar has been appointed Vis Municipalities at the concluding session of the 42nd iting Lecturer in Pastoral Psych'ology at Andover· annual convention of the organization held at Ches Newton Theological Seminary. ter in early September.

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W, Darrell Mill. has been appointed Supervisor and Mrs. Murray Manzer on August 20, 1947. Mr. cf rhe recently.established division of Vocational Manzer is a member of rhe Class of 1943 and Mrs. Education of the Province of Nova Scotia. member of the Class of 1942, U .N .B. Congraru lations hem the Bul/ftin. 1934 Dr, Douglas R, Angus has been appointed As· The Bulletin extends congratulations to Mr. and sociate Professor of English at SI. Lawrence Uni Mrs, Murray Eaton Cooke (nee Alyce Clair Avery) versity, Canton, New York. He assumed his on their marriage, September 24th, at juniper, N.B. duties at the commencement of the fall semester, Mr. Cooke, a member of rhe Class of 1943, is a son September 24. Dr. Angus served previously as a of Rev. C. W . Cooke ('16) and Mrs, Cooke of member of the faculty of Case Institute in Cleve· Quebec City, p, Q. land and as head of the English Department at the Eng. '43, Gordon Osborne Taylor of Truro, was University of Tampa. married on August 2nd to Miss Reta josephine Frances Wallace who has been teaching biology Burnett of Fredericton junction, N . B, The at The Study, a private school in Montreal, for the Bulletin extends good wishes. past ten years, left recently for England to teach the same subject at the Workingham County School 1944 for Girls near Reodin!:, England. Miss Wallace will Earle V, Hawkesworth has accepted a position be exchange teacher for a year. with the Student Christian Movement at the Uni versity of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Joseph Steadman has entered upon his duties as Principal of the Yarmouth Academy. Formerly he Francis Gilbert Mouzer, '44, was married an 'was teaching in New Glasgow. August 12 to Phyllis Blanche Eaton at Canning, N.5, Mr, Mouzer, a native of Liverpool, N.5" is 1936 principal of the Canning High School and Mrs. The Bulletin extends congratulations to Dr, and Mouzer is a graduate of the Kings (N.5,) County Mrs. Gordon Wheelack on the birth of a son, Academy. Good wishes from the Bullttin. September 8, at the East Kings Memorial Hospital, Wolfville, N, S, 1945 William Scott was ordained at Wolfville, N.5" 1937 August 29 at the sessions of the Maritime United The Bulletin extends congratulations to Walter E, Baptist Convention. He is at present completing H, Corbett, '37, and Mrs. Corbett (nee Mary A, his studies for the B.D. degree ar Acadia. Balcolm) on their marriage at Granville Centre, August 6, Mr, Corbett is a member of the teach· Bernice Irene Duncanson (Secretarial Science ing staff of Kings County (N,S.) Academy, where graduate, "45) and James Edmund Muggah, a Mrs. Corbett was also teaching previous to her mar· graduate in Mechanical Engineering from the N. S. riage. Technical College, Halifax, '47, former student of Engineering at Acadia, were married at Gaspereau, 1939 August 30th, The B"I/{tin extends good wishes to Dr. W , j. Chute, Associate Professor of Chern· the young couple who will reside at Shawinigan istry at Dalhousie University, has recently been Falls, where the groom has a position with the Con elected to the Fellowship of the Chemical Institute solidated Paper Corporation, Limited. of Canada, Harry Millard Wnghr (Ex. '45) and Miss V ir· The Bullttin extends congratulations to Francis ginia Margeson Eaton of Milton, Mass., were mar· B. Gibson, of Fredericton, N, B" '39, and Mrs. ried at the latter place August 23rd, Mr. Wtight, Gibson (nee Madeline Gertrude Cheney of Grand who has been serving for some time with the United Harbour, Grand Manan) on their marriage, August States Army, will now enter Montana School of 20, Mines to study mining engineering, Good wishes The Bullttin extends congratulations to Principal from the Bulletin. Lorraine and Mrs, Trites (nee jocelyn Patterson, 1946 '39) on the birth of a son at the East Kings Mem· orial Hospital, Wolfville, N. S" September 8. Kathryn Machum of Wolfville ('46) and Gordon Gillespie of Carleton, P. E. I., were married at 1942 Wolfville, on September 17 . They will be living Miss Kathryn Theabton of Truro, was married in !(jngston, Ontario, where Mr. Gillespie is at ) on August 4th to Ellis Davis of Truro, N, S, The tending Queen's University. The some good wishes Bul/ttin extends good wishes, as to others from the Bulletin .

Dorothy McWiIliam (Acadia '42) and Emerson Paul Col.lins, son of Dean and Mrs. Collins of Howard of Amherst, were married recendy at Ox Wolfville, N. S., has received a renewal of his ford, N, S., where Mrs, Howard had been a mem Fellowship at the Juilliard School of Music, and ber of the teaching staff of the High SchooL The has left for New York to enter upon his third yea.r Bullttin extends good wishes. The young couple of studies there, will reside at Amherst, Allister Roy Clarke, of Pictou, has "ccepted a 1943 teaching position with the Kings County (N.S.) A daughter, Marilyn Louise, was born to Mr. Academy. His subjecrs will be French and History. ACADIA BULLETIN

1947 Phyllis Burbidge has a secretarial position in, The Bulletin extends sympathy to Malcolm Dodge Wolfville. and members of his family, of Port Williams on the Shirley MacCallum is attending the Provincial death of his father, George A. Dodge, Labour Day, Normal College, at Truro, N. S. 1947. Anna May MacKay is teaching in New Glasgow, Hinson MacLeod was ordained at Sable River N. S. United Baptist Church recently. He has returned Elma Layton is teaching in Three Rivers, P. Q. to Acadia for further studies. Madelille Hoyt is teaching in Lunenburg, N . S. Weddings reported to date from the Glass of '47 are: Duncan Wallace, Ronald Crosby, Robert Gu ~st. Charles MacVicar, Leo Durling, Mary MacDonald, Claudia McCain of Florenceville, N . B., to W illinm Leila Graves, William Cunningham, Gordon Poole, T . Westway of eW W aterford, N .S. They are Anne M cRae and Merle Vidito are among those living at Aldershot. who have returned to Acadia for fu rther srudy. D avid Moore and Elizabeth Ward, R.N ., were (For this list of personals, the Bulletin is indebted married recently at Kennetcook, N .5 . They are to the Athttn,u um.) living at Wolfville, where Me. Moore is doing post graduate work at Acadia. 1949 Joyce Stronach of Bronx, N . Y. , and Russell King Ex_ '49-Miss Beatrice Sharpe of Hampton, N. of Sydney were married in August. They also are B., has entered the New Brunswick Law School at living in Wolfville where Mr. King is attending Saint John, N. B. Acadia. Patricia Anne Churchill was married to CLinton MISCELLANEOUS Reagh Wetmore ('45\ at Honolulu, Hawaii, August_ 15. Both bride and groom are teacbing at Honolulu. Geerge Alleyne Brown, a former student at Acarua To all these the Bulletin extends the usual good University, has recently been appointed Acting wishes_ Trade Commissioner to Paki,tan. Previously he Other brief persona ls from the last graduating had a similar appointment at Bombay, India. Mr_ class are as follows: Brown se rved with the Royal Canadian Anillery during the war and won the D.S.O.; also was men Frances George-Ann Fleming is studying Library tioned in dispatches. He is Canada's first official Science at Simmons College in Boston. representative to one of the latest self-governing Margaret Maxwell is studying Library Science at nations within the British Commonwealth. McGill University. Anna Muggah and Pauline Bournes are at the ACADIA LADIES' SEMINARY Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal. May Donovan is taking work in Social Service Mrs. Emma ]. Foshay, the oldest living graduate at Dalhousie University. of tbe A .L.S ., passed away on September 28, at the Fred Amos is working toward his Ph.D. at Purdue home of her daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Kitchen at University. Fredericton, N. B. Mrs. Foshay (nee Emma Wick Eric Potter is at the Dalhousie Law School. wire), who was in her 94th year, was the widow of John Fiske, Les Williams, William and Gavin the late Rev. ]. H . Foshay, who passed away fifty Windler are at the Nova Scotia Technical College. years ago. The Bulletin extends sympathy to the Parricia Andrews is teachi ng in Onea.rio. members of her family. Cecile Meldrum is teaching music in St. Stephen, Mrs . Charles MacFarland (the former Annie N . B. Margeson) of Wollaston, Mass., passed away, Tues Shirley Moore is working for the Imperia l Oil in day, September 30. Mrs. MacFarland was a grad Halifax, N. S. uate of the A .L.S., '89. Her two sons, Arthur and Evelyn DeWitt is teaching at Sweet Briar College Lester, are graduates of the Department of Engin in Virginia. eering at Acadia University, and her daughter Sheila Dauphine is working with the Royal Bank Evelyn, Mrs. VanDeCarr, was for a time a student of Canada in Halifax. at the Unive rsity. The Bulletin extends sympathy to those who mourn her passing. Stewart Trask IS working for the Sun Life in MonereaL The Bulletin also regrets to report the passing on Gwen GU\OU IS attending Carleton College, Thursday, September II, of Mrs. Nelson Smith, of Toronto. Toronto, a former student of Acadia Ladies' Sem inary. Mrs. Smith was a sister of the lace S. P. Jean Wood is at MacDonald College as an as Dumaresq, '99, and a daughter of ]. C. D umar~sq. sistant ~ nd is also taking classes. the architect who designed the College Hall which Mildred Snyder is working In Bridgewater, N .S. was burned in 1920. She was also the widow of Jean MacKay and Louise Dunphy are steno Nelson Smith, for many years a member of the graphers in Halifax. Board of Governors. Pauline Wood is teaching in Kentville. The daily press recently reported the death of Betty Schafheitlin is tsking a course in ruetetics Mrs. Cora Pierce Richmond, widely-known music in New York. teacher of the state of Maine and a teacher of voice Kingston Ganong and Arthur Deckman are at as well. Mrs. Ric hmond wa. at one time a teacher Dalhousie University. at the Acadia Ladies' Seminary.