The Tan and Cardinal I UBU HED L
VOL. I.
WESTERVILLE, OHIO , JANUARY 14, 1918.
BECOMES HEAD I OF DEPARTMENT SERVIC E Arthur Ray Spessard Selected to Suc ceed Professor Bendinger as Director of Voice. VIOLIN INSTRUCTOR CHOSEN
Mr. Earl Hopkins of Columbus Will Assume V ac ancy Left By Professor Spessa rd. Announcement wa made at th e la regular cha pe l en· icc before th e Ch ri tmas recess th at I'rofes or Ar thur Ray Spessard. prese nt in tructor in \'Oice here ha s heen appointed to fi ll th e "acan cy caused by the r es igna tio n of Professor J o hn A. Bcndinger as Director of th · \'oca l D partm en t of th e Otterbein Schoo l of M u ic. 1-.lr. pes. ard is a grad uat of th e department of mu ic of Lebano n Val ley Co ll ege at Annvi lle. Pa. ln add ition to hi s und er -graduate wo1·k the re he had th e priv ilege of st ud y in g voice for a year with George R us e ll trau in Phi lade lphia. Lat e1· he spent one year with George 1-.I. Gree ne in N cw York City and a s u m me r with parks in London, E n g land. \\'it h uch com pl ete pr<'para tion he acce pted· a position as director of mu ic and tea h r of vo ice in th e Moody chool at Mt. H ermon, Ma s. Then aft er a peri od of tw o yea r s spent in teachin g voice a nd tringed in s tru me nts in Southern in stituti o n s, th e profc sor was offe r ed a po ition in the sam lin e of work in o ur own school. This is 1Ir. Spessard's fifth year at Otterbein and during that time, in addition to hi s regu lar work, he has give n considerab le attention to th e dir ec tin g of chora l societies and variou s o ther musical organ iza tions about the chool. Th newl y el cted in tructor to fill Mr. Spe sa rd' s pla ce is Mr. Earl 'vV. Hopkin of Co lu mbus, 0. Mr. Hop (Contin ued on page two .) Supt. Francis Has N ew Honor. upt. J ohn H. Francis has received notice of his appointment on a com mi ttee on publicity, by the department of supe rintendence of the National Ed uca tional association. The commit tee, which is composed of 10 public school superintendents in differ ent sections of the nation, is asked to bring to the attention of the com munities for which they have been nam ed the best types of organization in American schools, rul es of various boards of education, school charters, tate school laws, schoo l budget sys tems and other matters of in te r est r e lating to school administration. up crintend cnt Francis' bailiwick in cludes the states of Ohio, Pennsyl vania, \V est irginia and Kentucky.
THE lNTERE. T OF OTTERBEIN COLLEGE
No. 14.
OUR HONOR ROLL FLAG J;)EDICATED TO
MEN WHO ARE IN SERVICE.
a co ntinu o u s r emind er of th e patriotic sp irit of the men of O tte r bt.:in. a ser\' ice flag now hang in the co ll ege chap e l. This flag which is ix feet long and four feet wide, was made and presented to the school by the wives of t wo of th e professors, 11'- . A. P. Ro selot and :-frs. C. A . .<\ltm an. lt is mad e large eno ugh tohold 13 1 star , about 65 of which ar a lready in p lace. The list of m en rc1Hesented is give n below. \ Ve do not hav t h e add r l'sses of a ll o n th e roll and any one knowing th e whereabo uts of the <.: men or ot h ers will do a great k indn ess by sending th em to this pap ,·. A
IN FRANCE Ro llin Durrant , H. Q. Co., 166 . S. Infant1·y, 42nd Ame r ican Exped . Forces. care of P. L, Tew Yor k City. Russel l Gilbert, H. Q. Co., 166 U. ·s. Infantry, 42nd American Exped. Forces, care of P. M., Te w York City. Richard eneff, American Expel. Forces, A. S. S. e w Yo r k City. Ha1·o ld Rowland (add ress not know n ), American Forces.
Div., 83 Brig. Div., 83 Brig. E. R. C. via Expeditionary
CAMP SHERMAN, Chillicothe, O hio. C ci l Bennett, 324th H. F. A. Band Hqrs. e rgeant Charles Campbe ll , 324th Regiment, H. F. A. Supply Co. Corp. A. \V. Elliott, Battery A. H eavy F . A. Corp. A. \ V. Nea lly , Battery A., 324 th H. F. A., Sect. S. Se rg,·a nt G I 11 l<eam. Hdqts. 158th F. A. Bridage. Franci Recob. Battery A., 324th H. F . A. ·ergcant Frank L. Schwecheimer, Supply Co. 324th Reg. H. F. A. \ Va tt er ch ut z, Ba e Hosp ital, 324 th Regiment. Cv, 1;. ri. rk \'.' c:i , ~, B:::t·ery _<\., . F _A__ Walter Whetzal, S uppl y ompany, 324th H. F. A. . W. Wood, Co. C, 308 Fie ld S ig. Bat. Harlie \ Vatter , Co. C., 308 Battery, Signal Corps. CAMP SHERIDAN, Montgomery, Ala. Herbert Hall , 2nd Ohio Field Hospital. R. W. ch ear. 2nd Ohio Fie ld Hospital. W. A. Snarf, 2nd O hi o Fie ld Hospita l. Corp. C. K. Young, H ead quarters troop, 37th Ohio Div ision. FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga. Herbert Meyers, Bat te r y D ., 23rd Cavalry F . A. \V end e ll herrick, Camp Green leaf, M. 0 . T. C. Evacuation Hos p ital , No. 4, Ambu lance Co rp . H. R. Stead, First Evacuation Hospital. FORT BENJAMIN HARRISON, Ind. H. H. Geiger Motor Truck Co. 316, train 404. ob le Smith, U. S. port, R. I.
U.S. NAVY aval Tra ini ng Sta., Hospital School,
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OTHERS IN CAMP . Bale, Aux. Remount Depot, Camp Dodge,
e rgea nt \ Valter Des Moines, la. E. H. Barnhart, 1 t F. A., H. Q. Co. Band, Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. \\T. G. Beck, 13 F. A ., Battery A, Fort Bliss, Texas. Benjamin Carl on, Engineer's Corps, American University, vVash ington, D. C. John Garver, Flying Cadet, Camp Taliferro, No. 2, 42 Wing, Fort Worth, Texas. Corp. Roy Peden, 18 F. A. Battery C., Ft. Bliss, Texas. (On fur lough at John stown, Pa.) C. E. Van 11ason, 128th Co., 7th Regiment Marine, San Juan Hill, San.tiago, Cuba. Lieut. J. J . Mundhenk, 408 Motor Truck, Supply Train :Battalion, 368th Co., tentatively, Camp Merritt, N. J. Harry Cook, 408 Motor Truck Supply Train Battalion, 368th Co., tentatively, Camp Merritt, . J. Gusta 1Ieyer, 303 Co., ew Orleans, La. 0. Vv. 1Iourer, Band, Columbus Barracks. (Continued on Page Two.)
NOTED ALUMNUS DIES SUDDENL Judge Shauck of Class of '66, Suc cumbs in Mt. Carmel Hospital After Short Ill ness. WAS SUPREME COURT JUDGE Had Reti red from Bench and W as: Prac ticing Law in Columbus W ith E. L. V-leinland. Judg e John A ll 11 Slla uck, aged 76, for severa l years a rt' id ent of Wes tervi ll e and former judge of th e su preme court of Ohio, <lied at Mt. Car mel hospital, Columbus, Thursday morni ng from an illness of two weeks whi ch resu lted in u raemic pois oning. Jud ge hauck became ac quainted in this vicinity whi le attend ing Otterbein , gradnating in 1866. He wa one of th few old gradua tc • wh occasionally pay th eir A lma Mater a vi it. Soon aft er his graduatio n from Ot t erbein he atte nded and graduated fr om the law school .of the niver sity of M ichigan. As most of his life was spent in Co lu mbus after leaving Westerville he ha ince that tum: he ld a wid e acquaintances hip in this v1c1111ty. His daughter occasionally took part in college affa irs he re. He nt ered upon the gene ra l prac tice of law in Dayt n, continuin g until 1884, when he was lect ed to th e sec~ on e! circuit court bench o n th e Repub lican ticket and was re-e lec ted five years later. In the fall of 1894 he was nominated by th e Rep ublican state conve nti on for elect ion as judge of the upreme court, ancl was s uccessful at the pol ls, taking his seat on that bench fo r the first time F ebruary 9.. 1895. His first coll eagues there were judges William T . Spear, J . P. Brad bury, Marshall J. Williams, J acobs F. (Continued on page two.)
Prexy Goes West. President Clippinger left Thursday evening for Chicago where he attend ed the annual meeting of the Asso ciation of American Col leges which co n ve ned th ere on Friday and Satur day. From Ch ica go the president wil l start on a tour of the west touch.- ing such piaces as Omaha, Portfand,. cattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles•. Phoenix and E I Paso. In Los An geles he will attend a great Ottcchd111 banquet which is being planned by workers there who are interested i11 the College. The main purpose of the trip is, of course, in the interest of the campaign and it is understood that Dr. Clipping r will visit scverat of th e trustees of the school. He is. not expected to return before the last. of the month, pro bab ly not before th twenty-seventh.