Leonard Fletcher Parker was a professor of Greek and Latin at Grinnell College from 1860-70 and of History from 1888-98. In the interim he taught at the University of Iowa. Parker was involved with the public schools, with the Underground Railroad, and with many aspects of life in the Grinnell area. He died in 1911 after the publication of his last book, History of Poweshiek County.
Curtis Bradford was Oakes Ames Professor of English Literature at Grinnell College where he served on the faculty from 1946 until his death in 1969. He was a scholar of the work of William Butler Yeats.
Yeats was an Irish poet and is considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.
1910 Born in Greece
1922 Moved to New York City
Columbia University. BA, MA in mathematics. Pulitzer Scholar
University of Chicago. Studies philosophy
Laval University (Quebec). Lic. En Phil.
1942 Harvard University. MA, Ph.D.
1942 West Virginia Wesleyan College. Taught mathematics and physics
1943-35 University of Rochester
1945-47 Amherst College. Taught mathematics and philosophy
1947-48 University of Chicago. Taught philosophy of Science
1948-78 Grinnell College. Professor of Mathematics
1961 Myra Steele Professor of Mathematics
1960,1969 Visits to Greece
1978 Retirement
Mary Jane Harrell (Class of 1938) was an admiring bystander of the Men’s Glee Club because her father, David Peck, had been director of the club for many years.
William C. Oelke was born in 1906, graduated from Grinnell College in 1928, received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, and was a member of the Chemistry faculty at Grinnelll College from 1931 until his retirement in 1977. He died in 1988.
Paul Emmanuel Nilson graduated from Beloit College in 1911, after which he upheld the long tradition of teaching in Tarsus, Turkey, that the college had established. Harriet Fischer Nilson graduated from Wheaton College in 1912, spent a year teaching in California, and then felt called to work in the mission field; in 1913, she was assigned to teach at the Adana girl's school. Paul and Harriet met through the education and missionary system; shortly before Paul returned to the United States to enter the seminary, he proposed to Harriet, who accepted. They were married after the end of World War I. Both continued to teach in Turkey in the cities of Tarsus, Talas, Diyarbakir, and Mardin. The Nilsons retired in 1957 and returned to the United States.
(Information from Stories from the Vineyard by Dorothy Nilson Fyfe)
Foster, Charles H. (Charles Howell)