.Mill', /,, Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2009 witii funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/recordofclass1931have DEDICATION TO JOHN ALEXANDER KELLY WHO HAS EVER BEEN A FRIEND OF HAVERFORD, AND OF THE CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE IN PARTICULAR, WE DEDICATE THIS BOOK, IN GRATEFUL APPRECIATION OF HIS TOLERANCE AND FRIENDSHIP. I FOREWORD /I^EING strong believers in tradition and fj what-not, the present editors felt that the 1931 Record should have a Foreword, since all other Records have had fore- words. But after the space had been left and the rest of the copy was ready to go in we found that we had no definite editorial policy about which to write a foreword, for we had forgotten to think up a creed last September—and had been working eight months with no ideal whatsoever. The nearest approach we have been able to make to a definite stand on the vital question as to whether a yearbook should be enthusias- tically collegiate or disillusionedly cynical is to fall deftly and neatly between the two posi- tions. The articles have been written according to the tastes of the individuals who wrote them. Hence, instead of judging the book as a whole, the reader will be compelled to make separate judgments on each part. We feel, in accordance with this cowardly compromise, that, although in the years to follow we probably shall forget each other, we may as well have our fun now and believe for the time being that ours was one of the great classes in the first hundred years of Haverford. CONTENTS CAMPUS VIEWS 9 THE FACULTY 15 SENIORS 23 EX-MEMBERS 85 OTHER CLASSES 89 ACTIVITIES 97 ATHLETICS Ill FEATURES 129 CLASS HISTORY 141 i^y msm Top Row—Maier, Golding, Pennypacker, Speakman, Crawford. Middle Row—Wilson, Amerman, Clements Appasamy, Butler, Jarratt. Bottom Row—Reisner, Hiatt, Burns, Shane, Teller, Rice THE RECORD BOARD Editor Harris Palmer Shane Associate Editors Bhaskar Appasamy John T. Golding Donald L. Clements LocKHART Amerman Alfred R. Crawford Evan M. Wilson Art Editors Sports Editors Herbert W. Reisner Henry G. Barnhurst, Jr. Robert Owen Rice Lauman Martin Photographic Editors Benjamin C. Hiatt Richard L. Masland Business Manager Thomas Edward Burns, Jr. Adi'ertismg Manager Accountant Walter M. Teller J. George Butler Assistant Managers Robert B. Jarratt, Jr. Charles S. Pennypacker William M. Maier Edwin A. Speakman i93i 1' 1 CAMPUS VIEWS FACULTY WILLIAM WISTAR COMFORT President A.B., Haverford College; A.B., A.M. ,ind Ph.D., Harvard University; Litt.D., University of Pennsylvania; LL.D., Uni- versity of Maryland and Lake Forest College. i93i RUFUS MATTHEW JONES Professor of Philosophy A.B. and A.M., Haverford College; A.M. and D.D., Harvard University; Litt.D., Penn College; LL.D., Haverford College and Swarthmore College; D. Theol., University of Marburg. DON CARLOS BARRETT Professor of Economics A.B. and A.M., Earlham College; A.M. and Ph.D., Harvard University. LEGH WILBER REID Professor of Mathematics S.B., Virginia Military Institute; A.B., Johns Hopkins Uni- versity; S.M., Princeton University; Ph.D., University of Got- tmgen. FREDERIC PALMER, JR. Professor of Physics A.B., A.M. and Ph.D., Harvard University. i93i WILLIAM EDWARD LUNT Walter D. and Edith M. L. ScuU Professor of EngUsh Const\tuti07\a] History A3, and H. L. D. Bowdoin College; A.M. and Ph.D., Harvard University. ELIHU GRANT Professor of Biblical Literature A.B., A.M., Ph.D. and S.T.B., Boston University. RAYNER WICKERSHAM KELSEY Professor of History and Curator of ^ua\er Collections Ph.B., Earlham College: M.L. and Ph.D., University of Cali- fornia. LEON HAWLEY RITTENHOUSE Professor of Engineering M. E., Stevens Institute of Technology. i93i FRANK DEKKER WATSON Professor of Sociology and Social Wor}{ S. B. in Economics and Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. DEAN PUTNAM LOCKWOOD Librarian and Professor of Latin A.B., A.M. and Ph.D., Harvard University. WILLIAM BUELL MELDRUM John Farnum Professor of Chemistry B.A. and M.Sc., McGill University; Ph.D., Harvard Univer' sity. ALBERT HARRIS WILSON Associate Professor of Mathematics S.B. and S.M., Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., University of Chicago. i93i EDWARD DOUGLAS SNYDER Associate Professor of English A.B., Yale University; A.M. and Ph.D., Harvard University. JOHN ALEXANDER KELLY Associate Professor of German A.B., Emory and Henry College; A.M., and Ph.D., Columbia University. JAMES McFADDEN CARPENTER, Jr. Associate Professor of Romance Languages A.B. and A.M., Haverford College; Ph.D., Cornell University. LEVI ARNOLD POST Associate Professor of Greel{ A.B. and A.M., Haverford College; A.M., Harvard Univer' sity; B.A. and M.A., Oxford University. i93i EMMETT REID DUNN Associate Professor of Biology A.B. and A.M., Haverford College; Ph.D., Harvard Univer- sity. OSCAR MARSHALL CHASE Registrar S.B. and S.M., Haverford College. WILLIAM ATTICH REITZEL Assistant Professor of English S.B., Haverford College; B.A., Oxford University. DOUGLAS VAN STEERE Assistant Professor of Philosophy S.B., Michigan State College; A.M., Harvard University; B.A., Oxford University. i93i JOHN GOODWIN HERNDON, Jr. Assistant Professor of Economics and Government A3, and A.M., Washington and Lee University. ALFRED JULIUS SWAN Assistant Professor of Music HENRY VOLKMAR GUMMERE Lecturer m Astronomy A.B. and A.M., Haverford College; A.M., Harvard Univer- sity. HENRY TATNALL BROWN, Jr. Dean; Director of Physical Education S.B., Haverford College. ^i93i JOHN WILLIAM FLIGHT Assistant Professor of Biblical Literature B.A., Hope College; M.A., Yale University; B.D. and Ph.D., Hartford Theological Seminary HARRY WILLIAM PFUND Assistant Professor of German A.B., Haverford College; A.M., Harvard University THOMAS FRANKLIN BRANSON Lecturer in Hygiene A.B., Haverford College; M.D., University of Pennsylvania CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Lecturer in English A.B., Haverford College; B.A., Oxford University ARLINGTON EVANS Instructor in Physical Training B.P.E., Normal College A.G.U.; M.S., Temple University HERBERT WILLIAM TAYLOR Physician in Charge A.B., Haverford College; M.D., University of Pennsylvania EARL WILLIAM FLOSDORF Instructor in Chemistry B.S. and M.A., Wesleyan University; A.M. and Ph.D., Princeton University JOHN LEWIS HELLER Instructor in Latin A.B., Haverford College; M.A., Princeton University ALEXANDER JARDINE WILLIAMSON Instructor in Romance Languages A.B., Haverford College; M.A. Princeton University GEORGE MONTGOMERY Instructor m Public Speaking A.B., Haverford College; A.M., Harvard University ALFRED WILLIAM HADDLETON Instructor in Light Athletics HOWARD KNICKERBOCKER HENRY Instructor in Botany B. S., University of Pennsylvania CLAYTON WILLIAM HOLMES Instructor in Engineering B.S., University of New Hampshire i93i SENIORS PERMANENT CLASS OFFICERS i93i i93i CLASS OFFICERS FRESHMAN YEAR First Half Second Half Robert O. Rice President Samuel H. Conn Samuel H. Conn . Vice-President K. Ray Katz Charles S. Cameron, Jr... , . .Secretary . .Eugene F.Hogenauer John W. Blyth . .Treasurer , . ,E. Allen Schilpp SOPHOMORE YEAR James M. Houston President K. Ray Katz E. Allen Schilpp . Vice-President W. Winfield Ray Evan M. Wilson . .Secretary . .William E. Cadbury, Jr. Herbert W. Reisner Treasurer Robert B. Jarratt, Jr. JUNIOR YEAR John W. Blyth President Herbert W. Reisner Charles S. Pennypacker Vice-President George C. Wilt Harris P. Shane Secretary Robert B. Jarratt Eugene F. Hogenauer Treasurer Robert O. Rice SENIOR YEAR—FIRST HALF George C. Wilt President Thomas E. Burns, Jr Vice-President Ignatius M. Weiringer Secretary Edwin A. Speakman Treasurer PERMANENT CLASS OFFICERS (J^ew elections may be held after five years) K. Ray Katz President James M. Houston Vice-President Richard L. Masland Secretary Robert O. Rice Treasurer i93i LOCKHART AMERMAN 412 West End Avenue NEW YORK, N. Y. Born 1911 Entered from Collegiate School, N. Y., in 1927 Cricket Team (1, 2, 3, 4); Manager (4); Cap and Bells (2, 3, 4); Play (1, 2); Play Committee (4); Glee Club (2, 3); English Club (3, 4); Play (3, 4); Director (3, 4); Classical Club (1, 2, 3, 4); Play (1, 3); Haverfordian Board (3, 4), Editor (3, 4); Fouo' ders' Club (4); Record Board. 1st and 2nd Verse Prices (3). EXTRACTS from an unpublished drama of college life: "... Enter, with mincing steps and scholarly stoop, L. Amerman. He typihes the New Yorker gone British. (God save the King!) He is dressed in silk top hat, cutaway coat, wing collar, bow tie, and white flannels. Obviously, he has just been watching a cricket match. (Candor compels to confess, however, that the hat is Wilson's, the tie Golding's, the collar a legacy from Austin K. Gray, while the cutaway has been "borrowed" from the butler of the Amermans' exclusive Park Avenue residence. Although the trousers are so disreputable as to disclaim all ownership, they possibly were once Coach Godsell's.) "Amerman has the high forehead of the thinker, the laughing eye of the bon vwant, the brain of a genius, the arms of a woman, the hands of a virtuoso, the stomach of an ox, the air of an aesthete, the morals of a college man, and the reputation of a One-Eye Connolly. Removing one of his special cigarettes from his monogrammed case, he remarks, " "I say, that match was jolly good! That great old game of cricket heats up my old ancestral blood each time I take a wicket. You know, we Lockharts used to play with other dukes and lords : we were well known, in our great day, among the Norfolk Broads . The life here bores me, with its rules concerning over- cuts; give me our fine old public schools where Registrars aren't nuts! "You've cut Greek seven times this week," said Oscar Chase to me.