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CLASS OF '50'I'heoda Lee Kompanek, Married: ex-'50 andJohn Hohing dur-ing- the past summer.Manied: Catherine Helen Swift and BernardRaymond Ridgell on October 1, at the Cctaedt'alin Baltimore, The Rirlgella" are residing at2211 Chelsea Terrace, Baltimore.NECROLOGYMary E, Coughlin, Class of 1904, passedaway September 25, following a long illness.Miss Coughlin had been a teacher at variousschools during her lifetime including Onancock,Va. Delmar, Elkton, and Indian Head.The death of Agnes Atkinson Harris onNovember 3, in Washington, came as a shockto friends and alumni of western Mar-yland.Mrs. Harris, a graduate of the Class of 1924was a native of Cumberland.Char-lea R. Miller, Class of 1881 and a memberthe Board of Trustees of westernof Maryland College since 1938 passed away inhis home on December 7. .Franklin Elsworth Rathbun, 1905,Class offormer- newspaperman and Superintendent ofGarrett County schools for 36 years, passeduway his home in Oakland, Md. on Novemberin7. During his long career in GarrettCounty he was responsible for the consolidationof more than one hundred one and tworoom school houses. At the time of his retirementlast year he was the oldest county superintendantin Mar-yla nrl.FACULTY ITEMSWith the present college year, Pr-ofessorDean W. Hendr-ickson rounds [Jut a quartercentury of service to western Maryland. Ageneration of students has passed through hisclassroom; and of recent year's, children of hisearly students are being told their parents,by"Be' sure you take a course from Hendrickson."Gifted with a phenomenal Pro-Jessot- Hendrickson is gencrullypossess a larger store of both useful uselessinformafion than uie Encyclopedia Brittanica.The terrifying ordeal of his testsfr-equentlyfour legal size sheets requestingprecise answers-c-is somewhat modified by hispainstaking care preparing his students.inDespite the deluge of historical. biographieal,and critical 'facts that are the substance of hiscourses, each of his students feel the warmthof his radiant love fOI' Chaucer, Shakespeare,and his other- literary idols.In composition work, he is the implacablefoe of the comma splice, the grammatical er-1'01', the dangling participles, and H thousutulother; offenders, pursuing them relentlesslywith his trusty red pencil. Each theme is aduel with the enemy; the grading process inevitablyterminates with the professor tr-iumphantand the enemy cut to pieces with everymargin running red. In truth, ProfessorHendrickson has the scholar's love for detailand the scholar's hatred for inaccuracy; hismajor traits, however, arc freindly gentleness,personal warmth and sympathetic understanding.Because scholarship is tempered withkindliness, his classroom is always crowded.Of a well-known Pi-ederick family, ProfessorHendrickson was tr-ained at the Universityof Virginia and at Johns Hopkins. After preliminaryservice at several ether institutions,he came to western in 1925. Mrs.Hendrickson was the Miss MaryHumphreys of Charlottesville. Theil' threefrom WesternTwenty-five years may have slowed Mr.Hendrickson's short, quick step. 1£ anything,however, his mind is more extensively stockedand his spit-it mer-e kindly as he turns to anothergeneration of western Mar-ylander-s.Dr. Theodore M. Whitfield, professor ofHistory, recently completed the first volumeof his book entitled "Whitfield, Bryan, Smith,and related families." This, the first of twovolumes containing the genealogical history ofthe Whitfield family, is attt-acttvely illustratedwith photographs and reproductions of portraits,The second volume, now in progress ofediting is expected to be ready in the earlypal'tof1950.Dr. Kauhr-yn Hildebran, professor of Mod,ern Languages on the Hill, was re-elected Secretaty-T'reasur'et'of the Association of ModernLanguage Teachers of the Middle States.Dr. Hildebran is a graduate of Oberlin Collegeand received her Ph.D. from Universityof Chicago.WARD ARCH TRAYThc college bookstore is olFeringa large metal tray decorated a handpaintedphotographic reproduction of Our ownWard Memorial Arch in its natural beauty,Also available-the same scene on a metalwaste basket, The tray is supplied with ahook for use as >I wall decoration. The traysand baskets will be shipped on request for apacking charge of 25 cents plus postage.Trays: $4.00.Baskets: $3,75 state tax included.