1930–31 Volume 55 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETA October, 1930Doctor Hinsey's research work hasbeen devoted to problems associatedwith the anatomy and physiology ofthe central nervous system. His workon the innervation and physiology ofskeletal muscle and blood vessels hasattracted international attention andhe is recognized as an authority in thisfield, having written a chapter pertainingto it in a volume on the sympatheticnervous system, edited by theAmerican Association for Researchin Nervous and Mental Diseases. Atthe present time he has been interestedin work pursued in collaboration withProfessor Ranson on the neurologicalmechanisms involved in standing,walking and progression.Brother Hinsey is a member of theN S N medical fraternity, having beeninitiated at Washington UniversityMedical School in 1927. He is a fellowof the American Association forthe Advancement of Science, a memberof the American Association ofAnatomists, and of the AmericanPhysiological Society. He is also amember of various Ivlasonic bodies includingthe Knights Templar. In 1926he married Miss Sarah Callen, H B *,whom he met during his freshmanyear at Iowa Wesleyan College. Theyhave a two and one-half-year-olddaughter, Sara Elaine. After October1 they will make their home in PaloAlto, California.'VERNOR M. DAVIDSON, Iowa, '20Edwin B. George, Pittsburgh, '17,has been appointed chief of a new divisionof the United States Departmentof Commerce in Washington, D.C.,leaving Philadelphia September 6 toassume his new duties. The divisionover which Brother George will be incharge has to do with domestic tradeand commerce and is a developmentinvolving intensive research for theassistance and betterment of ourAmerican trade and manufacturers inour domestic markets.Brother George has been districtmanager in Philadelphia for the United[48]States Bureau of Foreign and DomesticCommerce for nearly four years.Since his graduation from the Universityof Pittsburgh in 1917 he has representedthe commerce department inmany foreign trade centers includingour outlying island possessions. Hehas been very active in alumni mattersin Philadelphia and was made presidentof the Phi Delta Theta AlumniClub of Philadelphia at its annualmeeting last March. In leaving Philadelphiato take up his new duties inWashington he does so with the bestwishes of a host of friends and brotherPhis.General Cyrus S. Radford, Sewanee,'84, and HoUis Wolstenholme, Pennsylvania,'09, are directors of a recentmerger of banks in Philadelphia underthe title of the Bankers Trust Companyof Philadelphia. Brother Radfordwas a Director of the formerBankers Trust Company, while BrotherWolstenholme was a Director ofThe Bank of Philadelphia and TrustCompany. The merged bank becomesa very important link in the financialinstitutions of Philadelphia.Brother Radford has been prominentin Philadelphia for many years inconnection with the United StatesMarine Corps. Before his retirementhe was in charge of the Depot of Suppliesof the Marine Corps and developedthis branch of the work to a highstate of efficiency. He is a most loyalPhi and attends alumni gatheringswhenever possible.Brother Wolstenholme became Presidentof Alfred Wolstenholme andSon, Incorporated, upon the death ofhis father last June. Since his graduationfrom Pennsylvania, BrotherWolstenholme has been engaged in themanufacture of yarns for the extensivetextile trade in and around Philadelphia.He has also been active ineducational and financial circles inconnection with Temple Universityand as a Director of The Bank ofPhiladelphia and Trust Company. He