ALUMNI NEWS OTTERBEIN COLLEGE Vol. XI. .
APRIL
ALUMN US IN GEOLOG Y Dr. Geo rge vV. \,Vhite, '21, head of tl1e department of geo logy, Un iversity of New Hampshire, spent the past s umm er stu d ying th e geology of Russia, 011 the occas ion of the Seventee11th Inte rnational Geo logical Congress at Moscow . For three weeks before the Congress sessio ns Dr. White, under the gu id a nce of Russian geo logists, studied t he geo logy of th e Caucasus Mountain s, Georgia, Azerbaij:111 , Armen ia, and Abbhasia, r eachi ng Mt. A r arat on the Pe rsian and Turkis h borders. During the ten days of the Cong ress sessio n s in Moscow an d Leningrad, Dr. White was a member of the Council of the Congress, being the New England representative. Co un cil members were tendered special co urtes ies, banqu ets, receptions, a nd function s. After the Congress sessions Dr. ¡w h ite took part in a four weeks excursion to the Arctic, making 12 landings o n and sailing completely aroun d the arctic islands of N ovaya Zem lya, the n o rth ern one of wh ich is cove r ed by an ice cap . T h e party reached latitude 77 degr ee.s, 08 feet, 740 miles from the North Pole.
1938
No. 8.
IN
MEMORIAM
Otterbein College mourns the death of Dr. George Scott, F lickinge r professor emeritus of cla ssical languages and literature. Dr. Scott passed away on .'\pri l 1 at the age of 89 years, and was buried from th e Westerville Un ited B r ethren Church on Ap ril 3. Profe sso r Scott was born in New York sta te on May 10, 1849. He r eceived hi s A.B. degr ee from A lfred U ni ve r.sity in 1877 a nd tau ght classical languages rn that in stitution from 1878 to 1888 . In the autumn of the latter year he first came to \,Vesterville as a member of the faculty, and he devoted his life during the halfce ntury which followed to the interests of Otterbein College. H e sec ured a leave of abse nc e to study at Yale U niversity w her e h e was awarded th e degree of Doctor of P hilosophy in 1890. He t r ave led 111 Europe in co nnection with his studie s in• that year, stud yin g Gr eek at the University of Athens, and in 1910 he studi ed Latin at t he University of Rome. From 19-0 1 to 1904 he was president of Otterbein College, and up t o the year of his r etireme nt in 1931, he was th e F li ckin ger professor of classical lan g uages and literatures.
On the return from the U. S. S. R. three days were spent in studying the g eology of southern F inla nd with Dr. Arne Laitakari, director of th e Geological Survey of Finland. After . graduating from Otterbein, Dr. White studied at Ohio State for his doctor 's deg ree. After teachin g
Dr. Scott was a n authority on classical lang uages. He was th e author of " Prepositio n in H orace" and wrote num erou s articles for classical and other journals. He was a member of the National In stitute of Efficiency, several classical clubs and so-
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