Tag: Faculty

Bio – Shattuck, Ralph Lavery

Murmurmontis 1961

Born: 1904-10-16

Died: 1982-12-27

Education:

1928 A.B. Emerson College, Boston

1945 M.Ed. University of Buffalo

Taught:

Associate Professor of Education 1960-1969

Associate Professor of Education, Emeritus 1969-1982

Notes:

New York Man to Join Faculty: Ralph L. Shattuck, superintendent of schoois for the past 11 years in Middletown, N. Y., has accepted a teaching position at Wesleyan starting next September. He will join the college faculty as associate
professor of education. Shattuck received his A, B. degree from Emerson college
in Boston and his M. Ed. from the University of Buffalo. He is working toward his doctor of philosophy degree. According to the MIDDLETOWN RECORD, Shattuck
will teach philosophy and history of education, and be responsible for student teachers. (Pharos 1960-04-05, p.1)

New Faculty in 1960 RALPH L. SHATTUCK, associate professor of education, received his A.B. degree at Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1928. He was awarded a M.Ed. degree at the University of Buffalo in 1945. Mr. Shattuck had been a superintendent of schools for 11 years. Prior to going to Middletown, N. Y. in 1949, he had been with the Lockport, New York school system as teacher of English and later as principal. (Sundial, 1960-09, p.12)

Bio, Walls Margaret A. Ireland

Education:

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)

Bio – Thomsen, Stephen John

Murmurmontis 1961

Education:

1959 B.A. Hartwick College

1960 M.S. Long Island University

Taught:

Instructor in Psychology 1960-1961

Notes:

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)

Bio – Shissler, Henry Harrison

Born: 1918-08-19 (Lititz, PA)

Died: 2011-08-01 (Philippi, WV)

Education:

1942 B.S. Millersville State Teachers College

1945 S.T.B. Wesley Theological Seminary

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)

Memoir in the Western Pennsylvania Journal , 2011

Bio – Ryland, William James

Murmurmontis 1918

Born: 1880-06-14 (Amsterdam, New York)

Died: 1946-11-16 (Jenkintown, PA)

Education:

Amsterdam, New York High School

1908 Trinity College, B. A.

1909 Yale University, M.A.

Taught:

Professor of History and Economics 1909-1917

Notes:

New Faculty (The Pharos 1909-10, p.160)

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)

Bio – Owen, Olive Dhu

Murmurmontis 1910

Born: 1867 in Illinois

Died: 1943

Education:

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)

Taught at Winthrop College for many years.

Bio – Paulsen, Helen Bradford

Murmurmontis 1910
Murmurmontis 1911

Born:

Died:

Education:

  • Dakota Wesleyan
  • Phoebe Kindergarten Trainin School of Chicago
  • Graduate work at the Iowa State Normal School
  • Graduate work at Columbia University

Professor of Pedagogy, Training Teacher 1909-1912

Notes:

  • 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
  • A great article about her educational theories and work can be found here:(Michigan Educational Journal, September 1924, pp/234-235)
  • 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)