Harpur College 1951 Yearbook (Endicott, NY) - Full Access

Gene S. Welborn DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS The Colonial went forth to do battle in ix var ity arena thi year. They carried the Green and White onto the hardwood, across the hill– ock , out on the diamond, down the cinder traightaway, onto the base– lined a phalt and over the fairway . The 'i elborn warrior hear their ignal for attack in the drawl of the Hoo ier tate--the coach is a native Indianian. He got his M.. in education at that tate' Univer– sity after a ojourn among the Illini for the baccalaureus and a three year tour of avy duty as a chief pharmaci t's mate. He came here in 1947. Benjamin Hopkins Moses REGISTRAR AND DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS ow marking his tenth year as a higher educator in the Triple Cities, Mr. Mo es might be called advance guardian for the college. He ar– rived in Endicott in 1941 to direct the yracu e Exten ion chool, ha been here since. A crantonian, he took hi A.B. at yracu e in 1934, stayed on at "Piety Hill" a a ist– ant dean of men and received his M.A. there in 1939. A for his dutie- well, college means lots of things, but more than anything el e it mean tudie , cour e , curricu– lum. Getting the student in, keep– ing him in and getting him out on chedule is Mr. Mo es' job-when the chips are down, he' your man. Herbert l. Leet LIBRARIAN La t fall a convoy of truck rumbled northward, carrying back to Syracu e all the book from our library. Herbert Leer urveyed the empty tacks, drew a quick mental picture of the lot of us lowly dis– appearing in the aby of illiteracy, and went to work. The library now ha nearly 20,000 volumes. This gentleman who ha caved off the extinction of intelligence in our milieu came to us in 1947 with an A.B. and B.L. . from yracu e after service in the libraries of a number of public chool in the state. He now operates from higher-ceilinged headquarters in Harpur' newest campu acquisition-the ex-public library. 15 Samuel P. Douglass BUSINESS MANAGER Tho e of you who do not pay tuition, attend Harpur' brighte t social function , have a ta te for the harpe t in Ivy League tog , or know anything of life at our college may not be familiar with the keeper of the college treasury, am Doug– lass. Otherwise, you know him as the young man who n:n our phy– ical plant and complex monetary machinery. He took over Ia t urn– mer after a year's good service teaching finance to Harpur' future captains of indu try. He got his B.S. and M.B.A. from Syracu e-– navigated a B-17 during the war . admits to having been a econd lieutenant.