1959 B.S. West Virginia Wesleyan College (Home Economics)
1960 M.A. West Virginia University (Home Economics: Thesis was Occupational Status of the Female Home Economics Graduates of West Virginia Wesleyan College from 1939-1959.)
Taught:
Home Economics 1960-1986
Human Ecology 1986-1992
Professor of Human Ecology, Emerita 1992-current
New Faculty: MARGARET A. WALLS, instructor in home economics, was born in Ivanhoe, West Virginia. She received her B.S. degree (1959) in home economics at
Wesleyan and her M.A. (1960) from West Virginia University. For her the sis, she chose a study of the occupational status of the female home economics graduates of West Virginia Wesleyan College from 1939 to 1959. (Sundial, 1960-09, p.12)
Instrumental in the establishment of the psychology club. (Murmurmontis 1961)
STEPHEN J. THOMSEN, instructor in psychology comes from Queens Village,
New York. Mr. Thomsen received his B.A. degree (1959) at Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York. He has completed work on his M.S. degree (1960)at Long Island University. His field is clinical psychology. (Sundial, 1960-09, p.12)
M.Ed. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvantia State University
Taught:
Professor of Sociology 1960-1971
Notes:
HENRY H. SHISSLER, professor of sociology, comes from Misenheimer, North
Carolina. Dr. Shissler holds a B.S. (1942) from Millersville State Teachers
College, Pa., a S.T.B. degree (1945) from the Wesley Theological Seminary,
Washington, D.C. and his M.Ed. and Ph.D degrees from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Shissler is the author of three publications. He edited also “Good
Minister of the Kingdom,” a book by professors of town and country work at Methodist colleges. (Sundial 1960-09)
William James Ryland, the son of William and Sarah Jane
McGenniss Ryland, was born June 14, 1880, at Amsterdam, New
York. He prepared for college at the Amsterdam High School,
Amsterdam, New York, and entered Trinity in 1904 with the
class of 1908.
He was class historian in 1908, and graduated that year with
a B.A. degree and honors in history. He received his M.A. from
Yale the next year, and then returned for his Ph.D. degree which
he was awarded in 1930.
Dr. Ryland taught history and political science at West Vir-
ginia Wesleyan, Buckhannon, West Virginia, from 1909 to 1917.
After a year’s study at Yale he became assistant professor at Middle-
bury College, Middlebury, Vermont, until 1920, and then went
to Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota, as professor in charge
of the political science department.
In 1930 Dr. Ryland accepted the position of Professor of the
Social Sciences at Beaver College, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. He
founded this department and was head of it at the time of his
death on November 16, 1946, in Jenkintown. The student body held
him in high regard, and have started a scholarship fund in his mem-
ory.
Dr. Ryland was the author of The Constitution Lives on, Alexan-
der Ramsay-A Study of a Frontier Politician, and had just com-
pleted Political Parties in the United States, which his widow hopes
to publish.
On June 29, 1911, at Albany, New York, Dr. Ryland married
Miss Clara Maggoner Carr. There were two children, Margaret
Eleanor and William James, Jr., who died on February 24, 1931. (Trinity College Bulletin, July 1947, Necrology, p.19)
Studied under Mr. J.H. Kowalski of Chicago and Mme. Johanna Hessburr of Chicago and New York.
Taught:
Assistant Professor of Voice and History, 1909-1910
Notes:
Miss Owen, our new teacher of voice taught for the three years just past in the Alabama Conference Female College. Prvious to that time she taught in the Louisiana Industrial Institute (a school similar our own), in Belhaven College, at Jacksson, Miss., and in Hamilton College, at Lexington, Ky. She has taken voice culture under J. H. Kawalski, of Chicago, [Mr. Bush Iy], of Cincinnati, and Mme. Hessburr, formerly of Chicago; and has taken piano under Victor Garwood and Emil Lieblin. Miss Owen is widely experienced an unusally well prepared in her line of work. Her students are already persuaded that she is an enthusiastic believer in thoroughness and all are looking forward to a year of practical and telling work. [Note: parts of the text was cut off in the margins]. (The Pharos, 1909-10, p.15)
In addition to her work in teaching, Mrs. Paulsen has spent four seasons in doing Chautauqua work and in many sections of the coountry is a great favorite at the Chautauquas.
Spoke at the 27th Annual Convention of the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations at Louisville, Kentucky. Her speech was “Young Folks and Old Rhymes” Educational Review, June 1923, p.56
To Lecture at City Hall Friday, March 2, 7:45 pm. Mrs. Helen Bradford Paulsen, “The Mother Goose Lady”. Coming to Durant under auspices of the local Parent-Teacher Association. Front page of : (The Durant News, Durant, Mississippi, February 24, 1928)
Resigned to take up permanent work in connection with the Junior Chautauqua, with headquarters in Chicago. (Pharos, 1912-06, p.34)
