ALUMNI NEWS OTTERBEIN COLLEGE Vol. XI. _
APRIL
ALUMN US IN GEOLOG Y
1938
No. 8.
IN
MEMORIAM
Dr. Geo rge vV. vVhite, '21, head of tl1e department of geo logy, Un iversity of New Hampshire, spent the past summ 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. Ara rat on the Pe rsian and Turkish borders. During the ten day s of the Cong r ess ses,io n s in Moscow an d Leningrad, Dr. White was a member of the Council of the Congress, being the New England r ep rese nta ti ve. Cou n cil m embers we re tendered s pecial co urtes ies, banqu ets, r ecept io n s, and functions . After the Co ng r ess sessions Dr. ¡w hite took part in a four weeks excursion to the A rcti c, making 12 landings on and sailing completely aroun d the arctic islands of N ovaya Zem lya, the northern one of wh ich is cove red by an ice cap. The par ty reached latitude 77 deg ree.s, 08 feet, 740 m iles from the No rth Pole. On the return from the U. S. S. R. three days were spent in st udying th e geology of southern Finland with Dr. Arne Laitaka ri , 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
He sec ured a leave of abse nce to study at Ya le U niversity w her e h e was awarded th e degre e of Doctor of P hilosop hy in 1890. He trave led in E urop e in connection with hi s st udies in• that year, studying Greek at t he University of Athens, and in 1910 he studi ed Latin at th e Un ivers ity of R ome. From 19-0 1 to 1904 he was president of Otterbein College, and up to the year of his r eti r ement in 1931, h e was the Flickinger professor of classical languages and literatures. Dr. Sco tt was a n authority on classical languages. He was th e author of "Preposition in H orace" and wrote numerou s articl es for classical and oth er journals. He was a member of the National Insti tute of Efficien cy, several classical clubs and so-
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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 nive r.sity in 1877 a nd tau g ht classical languages 111 that institution from 1878 to 1888. In the autumn of the latter year he first came to vVesterville as a member of the faculty, and he devoted his life durin g the halfce nt ury which followed to the interests of O tt erbein College.
Published by Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, in the interest of Alumni and Friends. Entered as second class matter at post office in Westerville, 0., under act of Aug. 24, 1912.