Dr. Winans Retires

DR. JAMES ALBERT WINANS, Evans Professor of Public Speaking, brought a distinguished teaching career to a close at the College's commencement exercises on Sunday, May 10. Professor Winans, who reached his 70th birthday last February 8, has taught public speaking at Dartmouth since 1920 and for two decades prior to that was a member of the same department at Cornell. At their .commencement meeting the Dartmouth Trustees elected him Professor Emeritus.

Dr. Winans' volume on Public Speaking, published in 1915, was one of the earliest authoritative texts in the field, and his later works on Argumentation and SpeechMaking are also standard volumes with numberless teachers and students. In 1914 when teachers of public speaking were but a small section of the National Council of Teachers of English, he was one of a little group of secessionists who formed the independent National Association of Teachers of Speech, of which he is past president.

Professor Winans was graduated from Hamilton College in 1897, received his Master's degree there in 1900, and last year was honored by his alma mater with the honorary Doctorate of More Humane Letters. He also holds a law degree from Cornell, where he first taught in 1899 and rose to the rank of full professor in 1914. Aside from one year at the University of California, 1902-03, he taught continuously at Cornell before coming to Dartmouth as full professor.

VICTORY SKIERS Dartmouth men at Camp Roberts, Calif.,all meynbers of the Byth Infantry (Mountain Regiment) at Fort Lewis. Left to right:Ed Schechter '40, Jim Cooney '38, Ed Hastings '32, Larry Lougee '29, Bill Spinney '41,Karl Blume '41, Alex Jones '38, and BudRaymond '40.