A HISTORY OF THE VILLANOVA

CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS

FROM 1847 to 1962

Rev. Edward F. Jenkins, OSA

Fall, 1970

[We invite readers to add to this work, especially in continuing the history beyond 1962, when Fr Jenkins moved to the Astronomy Department. Please write to the Chemistry Department, Villanova University, Villanova PA, 19085.]

In 1806 Mr. John Rudolph, a Catholic gentleman and merchant of Philadelphia, bought about 250 acres of land in Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; about ten miles west of Philadelphia, on the Lancaster Turnpike and built a fine house for himself on the property, together with all the other necessary buildings, such as barns, stables, etc. He named the estate Belle Air, spelled this way, after his father's old home in Bel Air, Maryland which is spelled that way. He was a generous man who liked to entertain his friends, and he always offered the hospitality of his home to visiting priests who were invited to celebrate Mass in his large parlor, which was no doubt built large just for that purpose, as was customary in Maryland in colonial days. When a priest said Mass in the parlor of Belle Air the members of the Rudolph household, the farm employees and Catholic neighbors were invited in. In 1838 Mr. Rudolph died and three years later about 200 acres of the property (50 had been sold separately) were offered for sale.

The Belle Air estate was advertised as being in Radnor Township, Delaware County, "about 10 miles west of the city, on the Lancaster Turnpike and the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad". It was described as consisting of about 200 acres of "first rate Land, about 40 acres of which are wood of superior quality of oak and hickory. The improvements are a two-story stone Mansion 46 feet front by 36 feet 6 inches deep, and two-story stone kitchen (back) 38 feet by 21 feet 6 inches, with piazzas, - 5 rooms on the first floor, with a spacious hall, 7 rooms on the second floor, and 3 large garrets; a large stone Barn, 69 feet by 46 feet, with stabling for 40 head of cattle and 15 horses, with spacious garners, a stone Coach House, with stabling for 6 horses; a small Farm House, and stone Barn sufficient to stable 20 head of cattle; a stone Spring House and spring of excellent water; a large stone Smoke House and Poultry House, under which is a commodious Hog House, also a double corn crib. The farm is divided into fields of convenient size enclosed with good fencing. There is a fine apple orchard of choice fruit. Both of the above-mentioned roads pass through the premises. The above farm will be sold together or in parts to suit the purchasers".

On October 13, 1841 the entire farm was bought by the Rev. Thomas Kyle, OSA, of St. Augustine’s Church, Philadelphia, and the Rev. Dr. Patrick Moriarity, OSA, the superior of the American Province, in the name of the "Brothers of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine" for $18.000. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Rudolph sold them the house furniture and farming utensils for $3,400. Within five years all but $2,000 had been paid.

At first Villanova was an academy for young boys, plus a college in which courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts or Sciences could be taken, as well as advanced courses leading to the degree of Master of Arts. The first classes were held on September 17, 1843. Most of the boys must have been quite young because it was not until the spring of 1848 that the Fathers petitioned the state legislature for a charter to grant degrees. On March 10 of that year the Governor, Francis R. Shunk, signed "An Act to incorporate the Augustinian College of Villanova in the County of Delaware, in the State of Pennsylvania", granting it very wide powers to give "all the degrees usually given by colleges and universities, with the usual diplomas and certificates". The seven gentlemen designated as incorporators held their first formal meeting on May 1, 1848, at which they elected officers of their board of trustees, and at the same time chose the officers and instructors of the college for the coming year. The Rev. John P. O'Dwyer, OSA, a very capable young man of 29, was elected President, while Brother Ambrose A. Mullen, OSA, was chosen Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. The other names can be found on page 31 of Father Middleton's Historical Sketch of Villanova, published in 1893 on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the college.

Brother Ambrose Mullen was born, either in Brooklyn, New York or on a ship at sea between Ireland and Brooklyn on April 12, 1827. He and his brother Edward and another young man, Patrick Stanton, were sent to Rome by the Augustinian superior in America in 1842 to study for the priesthood. In 1847 on account of troubled political conditions in Italy they arrived back at St. Augustine's in Philadelphia and were sent to Villanova to complete their theological training. At this time and for at least 50 years afterward professed clerics of the Order were called Brothers. Ambrose Mullen was most likely our first chemistry teacher. He was 21 years old when he was appointed to the Villanova faculty and was 23 in 1850 when he was ordained to the priesthood in Philadelphia by Bishop Gartland of Savannah, Georgia. He was still the Professor of Chemistry in 1857 when the college was temporarily closed. In the meantime, however, Villanova had granted its first two bachelor's' degrees in 1855.

The fathers decided to close the college for a while in 1857 because they felt they could not properly operate it and at the same time take care of their missions in Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill, Atlantic City, Saint Denis and Villanova: they were only 10 in number. They intended to open it as soon as they could get enough priests but in the meantime the Civil War came along, which caused the reopening to be postponed until the fall of 1865. The new course of studies was practically the same as of old; Father Ambrose Mullen was appointed Prior of the Monastery and President of the College. (The Monastery then consisted of the old Rudolph mansion.) Father Mullen probably continued to teach chemistry; at least nobody else is mentioned as having been appointed to that position. In 1869 he was transferred to Andover, Massachusetts, being succeeded at Villanova by Father Patrick Stanton, OSA, under whose leadership the college made great progress. It is not stated who taught chemistry for the next two years; perhaps it was Father Stanton, but we do know that in 1871 Charles Stockton Gauntt, M. D., joined the Villanova faculty as Professor of Chemistry and Physics, a position he held for 21 years.

Father Ambrose Mullen, our first chemistry professor, did not live long; he died in Andover, Massachusetts on July 7, 1876, at the age of 49. Father O'Dwyer, our first President, also died young, Father Middleton says probably from overwork, in 1850 at the age of 36.

The first Villanova College Catalogue - they were always spelled that way - was issued in the summer of 1871 when Father Patrick Stanton, OSA, was President. It was called the Catalogue for 1870 - 1871. This year, 1970 - 1971, is the 100th year since the first catalogue was issued, and during the past century there have been only two years during which catalogues were not published: the years 1943-1944 and 1946-1947. These two catalogues are missing from the Falvey Library collection, and I do not think they were ever published. For the other 98 years of the past century, 95 annual Catalogues and three "Supplementary" Catalogues have been published, which are all in the Falvey Library collection. The "Supplementary" Catalogues, short lists of courses, prices and dates to take the place of unpublished catalogues, were issued for the years 1947-1948, 1950-1951 and 1951-1952. The "Supplementary" Catalogues give no faculty lists. There is no Catalogue dated 1905-1906, but it was not omitted. It was published in the summer of 1906, as usual, but was called the Catalogue for 1906-1907. Since then all the catalogues have been dated for the year following their publication, but usually list the faculty for the year previous to their publication, who frequently were not there the following year.

Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy, formerly called Natural Philosophy, were always taught as part of the liberal arts course at Villanova. Father Middleton's Golden Jubilee Book of 1892, and the College Catalogues show that chemistry was always taught, together with laboratory work and demonstrations. The Golden Jubilee Catalogue of 1892-1893, tells us that Dr. Gauntt was still Professor of Chemistry. In the following pages I will describe the progress of Chemistry at Villanova during the next 70 years.

Charles Stockton Gauntt, M. D., joined the Villanova College faculty in 1871 as Professor of Chemistry and Physics. He was with us until June 1893. According to the catalogs of 1891 and 1892, he was using Porter as a text. This must have been John Addison Porter's Principles of Chemistry, whose 20th edition, improved, was published in 1868! This is the last time this book was revised, and a copy of this 20^th edition is in the Villanova Library (the Falvey Library). It is very archaic, with no mention of the Periodic Table. I think Dr. Gauntt must have been using the same book for twenty-one years!

1894 - 1895

Brother Coar is again the Professor of Latin, Chemistry, Physics and Physiology. They seem to have found somebody else to teach English Grammar. Father Laurence Augustine Delurey, D. D., OSA, became President of the College this year, a position he held unti11910. Villanova grew and improved both physically and scholastically under his leadership. He and Father Fedigan, the Provincial both felt that Villanova should become a much larger college than it was. It was under their leadership that a much larger building was started in 1899. In 1904 Father Delurey started our Engineering School. The first students in Civil and Electrical Engineering were accepted that year and the first class graduated in 1908.

1895 - 1896

Father Waiter A. Coar, OSA, is again Professor of Latin, Chemistry, Physics and Physiology. On May 27, 1895 he had been ordained priest in the Cathedral, Philadelphia, by Archbishop Ryan. As of last year, the Juniors alone took chemistry, and used "Steele". I don't see how this could be anything but Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry, by Joel Dorman Steele (1836-1886), the revised edition of 1873. They seem to have had a penchant for using old books.

1896 - 1897

Father Coar, besides being Professor of Logic, Chemistry, Physics and Physiology, is now also Vice President, Prefect of Studies and Prefect of Discipline. I am glad to see they have given him a helper, Joseph F. X. Harold, Ph.D., who is named as the Assistant Professor of Chemistry. The curriculum is the same as last year.

1897 - 1898

Father Coar is Professor of Chemistry again, and he also has all the other jobs. He also seems to have lost his assistant. The courses and the curriculum are the same as last year: the Juniors take chemistry and use "Steele". The Catalog says "Lectures and Laboratory work by Professor and students".

1898 - 1899

The year opened in September 1898 with Mr. Thomas D. J. Gallagher, A. B., as Professor of Chemistry and Physics. Both the Sophomores and Juniors seem to have studied Chemistry this year, under the direction of Mr. Gallagher. It is the only year he appears on the Villanova faculty. This year Father Walter Coar, OSA, met a tragic death. While crossing the tracks at the Pennsylvania Railroad station at Villanova on the night of January 25, 1899, he was run over by a train. His body, cut in two, was found on the tracks about ten-thirty P.M. The late Father John Barthousky, who was a young college student at the time, never forgot this dreadful night and told me about it fifty years later. He said Father Coar had returned, alone, from the city a few minutes earlier and, it was believed, fell while crossing the tracks and lay unconscious in the dark until a train ran over him. He was only 31 years old. He was a talented man and a capable and willing worker. His death was a great loss to Villanova. He was the last person to be buried in the old community cemetery which was northwest of the Chapel, where part of the Monastery now is. On March 27, 1899, ground was broken for the new monastery (burned down in 1932), Mass was offered for the deceased brethren and their remains were all removed to the new cemetery to the east of the chapel.

OBITUARY. It is our sad duty to chronicle the death of Rev. Walter A. Coar, a beloved member of our community at Villanova. In the prime of life, he was snatched away from us leaving a void that no other personality can fill. His death was peculiarly sad, owing to its tragic character. While crossing the tracks at Villanova he was struck by a train and so severely injured that death ensued a few moments later. The funeral took place at Villanova on Saturday the 28th, in the presence of a large concourse of people. The clergy, both secular and religious, attended in a body and chanted the Office of the Dead with great solemnity, presided over by Bishop Prendergast. A Solemn High Mass of Requiem was sung by Father J. B. Leonard, OSA assisted by the Rev. T. J. Sullivan as deacon and the Rev. J. F. Sweeny as sub-deacon. The two later were ordained with Father Coar. Rev. J. F. Medina, OSA, directed the choir and presided at the organ. The Benedictus was touchingly rendered by the Rev. Joseph O'Keefe of the Cathedral. The absolution of the body, was given by Archbishop Ryan and a funeral oration delivered by Father, J. J. O'Brien, OSA after which the remains were consigned to the little monastic cemetery in the rear of the church. May God, whose ways are inscrutable, yet always for the best, grant him everlasting rest and teach us to be ever in readiness for the dread summons which "cometh as a thief in the night". Our Lady of Good Counsel Magazine, February 1899, p. 486 There was also an Ode from the "Student's Tribune”, in Memory, of Father Coar.

1899 - 1900

In this final year of the Nineteenth Century, Mr. James A. McDonald, O. S.A., taught chemistry at Villanova, and the Sophomores and Juniors studied it. According to the catalogs, James A. McDonald taught chemistry at Villanova for four years: two years before his ordination and two years after. He was twenty-two years old when he began teaching chemistry in 1899, and twenty- four when he was ordained in 1901. Father McDonald passed most of his life in parish work, was a Chaplain in the First World War, and died at the age of 64 on January 13, 1941.

1900 - 1901

Mr. James A. McDonald, O.S.A., was Professor of Chemistry and the following courses were taught: For the Sophomores - Inorganic Chemistry, lectures and laboratory work. For the Juniors - Qualitative Analysis, lectures and laboratory work. The Freshmen and Seniors had no chemistry. The Seniors, however, all studied philosophy, and once a week they had an “Academy", i.e., a formal scholastic disputation. The Catalog does not say whether it was in English or Latin.

1901 - 1902

Father McDonald is again Professor of Chemistry and, the Catalog says, Herr Jan Koert is Professor of Violin. Mr. John M. Reiner makes his first appearance on the faculty this year. He was a very influential man: Father Delurey had a high opinion of him and sought his advice on many things. The same chemistry courses are offered as last year. In this year's catalog the Belle Air Dormitory is advertised, with a picture and a caption which says "Fifty comfortable rooms for students, two large parlors, two billiard rooms and every modern comfort for the use of the students”. The picture shows it was the much-enlarged Rudolph Mansion, long used as a monastery and later, under the name of St. Rita's Hall, as a House of Postulants. It burned down in 1912, and was replaced by the present St. Rita's Hall, on the same site. The Belle Air Dormitory reminds us that the new Monastery, which burned down in 1932, had been finished and the Fathers were living in it. This is also the first year the new college building was used. It was approaching completion during the summer of 1901 and in September the dormitories, class-rooms and dining room were used by the returning students. This building, which was later called College Hall, burned down late in January, 1928, and was restored as Mendel Hall. Since 1961 it has been called Tolentine Hall. It is also announced in this catalog that the student can get the degree of Bachelor of Science instead of Bachelor of Arts by substituting sciences instead of Latin and/or Greek.

1902 - 1903

Father McDonald is still the Professor of Chemistry, Physiology and Latin, and the same chemistry courses are being taught. 1903 - 1904 Michael Caboni, a Doctor of Science of the Royal University of Rome, is now Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Physiology, Zoology and Botany. The same chemistry courses are offered for Sophomores and Juniors, plus an elective course in Inorganic and Organic analysis for Seniors. Dr. Caboni must have had quite a schedule. We read in this catalog: The Villanova campus is the delight of the students and the admiration of all visitors.

1904-1905

Rev. Laurence A. Delurey, D. D., OSA, President and Prefect of Studies, Professor of Elocution and Oratory.

Caboni, Michael. D. S. (Royal University of Rome), Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Physiology, Geology and Botany.

Reiner, John M. Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Civics. History and History of Philosophy.

Tadd. J. Liberty, Miss Alice S. Hunter and Mr. B. Uble, Professors of Drawing, Carving and Clay Modeling.

This catalog announces for the first time courses in Civil and Electrical Engineering. All four years of Civil Engineering are to be offered immediately, along with the first two of Electrical Engineering, the last two of Electrical Engineering will be offered as needed. A very extensive list of chemistry courses is offered for the first time: 1. Inorganic Chemistry (lectures) 2. Experimental Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis 3. Organic Chemistry 4. Quantitative Analysis 5. Organic Experimental Chemistry and Organic Qualitative Analysis . Hollman's Laboratory Manual and Noyes and Mulliken's Class Reactions and Identifications of Organic Compounds used as texts. 6. Metallurgy, principally for engineers, no laboratory work but plant trips. 7. Quantitative Analysis for Engineers

Optional Courses for Seniors: 1. Industrial Chemistry 2. Advanced Quantitative Analysis. 3. Advanced Organic Chemistry - laboratory work: analyses and preparations 4. Special Methods in Quantitative Analysis 5. Physical Chemistry 6. Technical Inorganic Analysis 7. Technical Organic Analysis.

1905-1906

The catalog for this year is missing (not really). Since I wrote the last line, several months ago, I have discovered that the 1905-1906, Catalog is not really missing. It only seems to be, because they skipped the year number, 1905-1906, and called it the calendar for 1906-1907, which it really was, since it was published after the 1906 commencement, and was intended, as at present, to advertise the coming year, i.e., the ensuing year, On account of this though, the future catalogs are usually the catalogs of the year before. Being made up in the spring of the year, they often list teachers who will not be present, and neglect to list some who are present.

1906 - 1907

No professor of chemistry is named in this year’s catalog but the same courses are listed as in 1904-05, and since in 1906 the Engineering Course was beginning its third year, somebody must have been teaching chemistry. It might have been Dr. Caboni. The 1906-1907 catalog does say that Bradbury was being used as the text in General Chemistry. This must have been Elementary Chemistry by Robert Hart Bradbury, Appleton, 1903, Text and Laboratory Manual. This year’s catalog also says that 1% of a student's grade will be deducted for each unexcused absence, and that after ten unexcused absences he will be dropped from the course.

1907-08. 1908-09, 1909-10

The catalogs for these three years list the same extensive chemistry courses as for the year 1904-05, and list Mr. John Frederick Gross Hicks, B. S., M.A., as the teacher. A biographical sketch of Dr. Hicks can be found in the 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th editions of American Men of Science. He was, I think, with the possible exception of Dr. Caboni, the first professionally-trained chemist to be employed as a teacher by Villanova College. This is typical of the way in which Fr. Delurey did things. Born in Philadelphia in 1884, Mr. Hicks graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1906 with the degree of B. S. in Chemistry. (He probably received the M. A. degree from Villanova in 1907). During the year 1906-07 he was Instructor in Chemistry at the Medico-Chiurgical College of Philadelphia. He says in his biography (in A. M. S.) that from 1907 to 1910 he taught chemistry at Villanova College as Instructor, Assistant Professor and Professor, respectively. Mr. Hicks left us in 1910 to accept a position with the Barrett Chemical Company of Philadelphia. After a few years he left them to continue his education at the University of Illinois, where he obtained the Master’s degree in 1916, and the Doctorate in 1918. In 1927 he was a college professor and research chemist, and was living in Seattle, Washington.

One of the members of Dr. Hicks' chemistry class in 1909 or 1910, John F. Sweeney, CE(1912), Assistant and Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Villanova from 1913 to 1930, mentions Dr. Hicks in a memoir of his college days he wrote many years later: In the fall of 1907 there was added to the faculty Professor J. F. G. Hicks, A. M., B.S., in charge of chemistry…. Professor Hicks will be remembered as the man who always enjoyed a good joke - on someone else. But now and then an alert student turned the joke on him. It was his custom just before closing up for the night to fill his pipe and place it beside his hat, all ready to catch the 5 o'clock train. One of the future chemists learned that KClO₃ and Flowers of Sulfur would explode under certain conditions, so a dose of such mixture was carefully concealed in his pipe charge. The outcome was left to our imagination, for we never heard of it again".

Professor Sweeney later goes on to say: In 1911 upon the resignation of Professor Hicks, the Chemistry Department was under the direction of Professor Williams (Boston U.) He remained but one year, after which time he was succeeded by Professor John F. Mockaitis, (Villanova and Medico Chi.) who remained until 1916. From 1916 to date he has been employed by the Standard Oil Company, as a research chemist.

Dr. Hicks seems to have died before 1933. About this time his son, Dr. John Frederick Gross Hicks, Jr., appears in American Men of Science and, I believe, is still in it. Dr. Hicks, Jr., was born in Philadelphia while his father was teaching chemistry at Villanova. His specialty is ceramics. Professor Sweeney's autobiographical memoir of his student days at Villanova in the time of Father Delurey is very interesting and also important as the only composition of its kind I have ever come across. He describes in detail the foundation of the Engineering School, its: first faculty, its early laboratories and the life of a resident college student during the first decade of the twentieth century. The references are: The Engineering School - A Retrospection: Musings of an Old Grad - Laboratories and Class Rooms, The Owl, Vol. II, No.5, 6 and 7 (1927) Ibid. Vol. V, No.3 and 4 (1930)

A revision: From the 1910 catalog: Juniors and Seniors are required to wear their caps and gowns at all times when in class or when walking around the grounds. Lay professors are also obliged by this rule, and should also, on solemn occasions, wear the hood characteristic of their degree, if they have any.

1910 - 1911

Mr. Hicks is listed in the 1910-1911 catalog as Professor of Chemistry, but I think the catalog must have been printed in advance. In his biography in American Men of Science, written years later, he says he taught at Villanova College from 1907 to 1910 and then spent the next year at Barrett’s, in Philadelphia. I don't know who taught chemistry at Villanova this year. Maybe Mr. Hicks did teach it, part-time, or maybe Mr. Williams taught it. (See next year). According to the catalog, the same courses were offered as last year. In the Commencement exercise of June 14, 1911, Mr. Victor Herbert of New York is listed as the recipient of the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. I heard that he was so pleased that he offered to write the music of an alma mater song for us, gratis, if someone would write some suitable lyrics. But nobody ever wrote the necessary lyrics, and we lost our chance to get an alma mater song by Victor Herbert.

1911 - 1912

This year the same chemistry courses are listed again, with Mr. H. Earnest Williams, A. B. (Boston University) as the professor.

1912-1913

This year the same extensive list of chemistry courses are again offered, with Mr. John S. Mockaitis, B. S., Ph. G., as instructor. Ph. G. stands for Graduate Pharmacist. The 1912 Commencement Program shows that Mr. Mockaitis was in that year given the degree of B. S. in Chemistry by Villanova College. He was, however, never a Villanova College student, at least not a full-time undergraduate, and I don't think they had any other kind then. A list of all full-time undergraduates was printed in every catalog, and his name does not appear in any of them. Mr. William A. Slavin, for many years professor of Electrical Engineering at Villanova, graduated from our engineering school in 1913 and knew John Mockaitis well. Mr. Slavin told me, in 1950, that Mockaitis was given the degree of B. S. in Chemistry by Villanova on the strength of work done at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (or Medico-Chi?) and at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught chemistry at Villanova from 1912 to 1916, and then left us to go into chemical industry. He was employed by the Standard Oil Company in their laboratory at Bayonne, New Jersey. He died in 1959.

1913 - 1914

The same extensive list of chemistry courses is offered again, with John ' Mockaitis as Professor. About this time Fr. Edward Doban, OSA, President of the College, instituted the practice of sending some of our seminarians to neighboring universities to be trained in subjects they could teach at Villanova. One of the first seminarians to be educated under this system was Mr. Ruellan P. Fink, OSA, who was sent to the University of Pennsylvania to study chemistry during the summer of 1913. This was the summer after his freshman year in college, during which he had taken a chemistry course under Mr. Mockaitis. Mr. John O'Leary also studied chemistry at Villanova and at the University of Pennsylvania, but I don't know how much.

1914 - 1915

Mr. John Mockaitis, B. S., is listed as Professor of Chemistry and Physics. In the Engineering School (the School of Technology) he taught only chemistry. Again the 1904-1905 chemistry courses are offered.

1915 - 1916

Mr. John Mockaitis is again listed as Professor of Chemistry and Physics, and the 1904-1905 chemistry courses are, offered.

1916 - 1917

Dennehy, Mr. Cornelius J., Sc. B. –17- Sc. B., University of Dublin, Ireland

Fink, Mr. Ruellan P. J OSA, AB -16- A. B., Villanova, 1916

O'Leary. Mr. John S., OSA, A. B. –16- A. B. Villanova, 1916

[Here Father starts using the notation –yy- to indicate the year someone first joins the faculty.]

The above men are the chemistry faculty for this year. Mr. Dennehy came some time after the year had started. The 1916-1917 Catalogue, which was probably printed in the spring of 1916 names John Mockaitis as Professor of Chemistry, but The Villanovan for November 1916 (Vol. 1. #l), says he left last June to take an important position in the Laboratory of the Standard Oil Company at Bayonne, NJ. The same article goes on to say that he has been succeeded by two young men of the class of 1916 who are well qualified to succeed him because they have both taken extensive courses in chemistry. The Villanovan will be very helpful from now on in tracing the development of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Villanova. In the issue of April 1917 we read that Mr. Cornelius J. Dennehy. B. Sc., College of Science, University of Dublin, has been added to the faculty as an instructor in the Department of Chemistry to assist Mr. Fink in the work of his department. The 1916-1917 Catalogue does not tell us how the various courses were divided among the three instructors. I may be overly sentimental, but it is touching to notice how the Villanovan Staff at this time always tried to help the College by making things look good for us even, or especially, when they weren't. Their old teacher had accepted "an important position", and was succeeded by two young men who were "well qualified to succeed him because they have both taken extensive courses in chemistry". We have certainly changed. Their old teacher had left because we could not afford to give him a raise. We had gone through a financial crisis a few years before and had still not recovered from it. What he wanted was reasonable enough but we could not afford to pay it. If it had not been for the two young Augustinian clerics we would have been in trouble. The Messrs. Fink and O'Leary had just graduated from college and were still three years from ordination. They were well trained in chemistry, at least Ruellan Fink was, and they did a good job of teaching their classes. It was hard to take over the chemistry department and study theology at the same time but they did it. This is especially true when one considers the large wartime classes and the great variety of courses they gave.

1917 - 1918

Dennehy. Mr. Cornelius J., Sc. B. -17- Professor of General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis

Fink, Mr. Ruellan P., OSA, A.B. -16- Professor of Physiological Chemistry and Assaying

O'Leary, Mr. John S., OSA, A. B. -16- Professor of Organic Chemistry and Quantitative Analysis

In addition, the School of Technology announces that Mr. Dennehy will teach General Chemistry, Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis to the Mechanical Engineers while Mr. Fink teaches them Gas Analysis, Assaying and Blow Pipe Analysis. All I can say is that they must have been as busy as bees. The Villanovan for November, 1917, tells us that during the summer of 1917 Fr. Edward Dohan resigned as President on account of ill health and has been succeeded by Rev. James J. Dean, M. S., S.T.B., OSA, "who for many years has been Prefect of Studies and Dean of the Engineering School". In the 1917-1918 Catalog the Department of Biology is introduced for the first time, under the direction of Dr. Edward A. Mallon, M. D., of the Class of 1898, for many years the College Physician, assisted by Mr. Michael Hopkins, OSA, and Mr. Sylvester Martin, OSA, who had been studying at the University of Pennsylvania. It was also announced that the Department of Biology would offer a two-year Pre-Medical course. This is all that was required to get into Medical School in those days. It was later expanded into a four-year course. On April 6, 1917 the United States declared war on Germany. During the next few months selective service was adopted, registration and the first draft took place and many young men enlisted. Villanova would have been practically deserted in the fall of 1917 if the War Department had not sent us a group of several hundred young men for officer training. Consequently, instead of being deserted we had more students than ever before. This unit was called The Students' Army Training Corps, the SATC. We had the SATC unit from about September 1917 until December 1918, when it was disbanded. Most of these men took chemistry. On page 3 of my section on the Chemistry laboratories I have described how the Messrs. Fink and O'Leary handled their large classes.

1918 - 1919

Fink, Mr. Ruellan P., OSA, A. B. -16- Professor of Organic Chemistry, Advanced Organic Chemistry, Physiological Chemistry, Gas Analysis, Assaying, Geology and Mineralogy

O'Leary, Mr. John S., OSA, A. B. -16- Professor of General Chemistry, Qualitative and Quantitative Inorganic Analysis, and Quantitative Organic Analysis.

Quite an ambitious schedule for two young men who were also studying theology. They taught all those courses, too. Mr. Dennehy is not mentioned this year. He must have departed. The Villanova College S. A. T. C. Unit was· disbanded on December 11, 1918. Most of the trainees, who had not been regular college students but men sent here by the Army to be trained, left Villanova after the unit was disbanded. This was the year of the great Influenza epidemic, one of the three greatest pestilences of recorded history, the other two being the Black Death of 1350 and the Great Plague of 1666. It completely disrupted classes during the month of October, 1918. Unless you lived through it, it is hard to imagine how bad it was. The Villanovan for November, 1918 says: "We got off better than most colleges in the Flu Epidemic: 173 cases and 5 deaths". This was, indeed, a small number of deaths for 173 cases, but considering the size of the college in 1918 it must have meant that nearly everybody had it. It was as though we would now have 4000 cases and 100 deaths within one month. Edward Jenkins, a twelve-year old boy of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, had the Flu in October, 1918, and he thinks it must have been very much like the Black Death, because he remembers his body covered with dark blue spots that were close together and must have looked quite alarming. They had a big INFLUENZA sign on the front door, and very few visitors.

1919 - 1920

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P., OSA, M. A. -16- Professor of Chemistry; Metallurgy and Mineralogy, M. A.; Villanova College, 1919

O'Leary, Rev. John S., OSA; M. A. -16- Professor of Chemistry M. A., Villanova College; 1919 Fitzgerald; Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chairman of the Department A. B., Royal University, Dublin, Ireland, 1893, B. S. 1913 Ph. D., University of Wurtzburg, Germany, 1913 M. S., National University, Ireland, 1915

Fathers Fink and O'Leary had been ordained to the priesthood in June 1919 and had also been awarded M.A. degrees by Villanova at the same time. In the 1919-1920 catalog we find the first announcement that two new courses, leading to the degrees of B. S. in Chemical Engineering and B.S. in Chemistry would be offered in the Fall of 1919 by the School of Technology. These new courses were organized by and under the direction of Father Robert Fitzgerald, OSA. In the February, 1919; issue of The Villanovan the following announcement of the new courses appears: With the opening of school after the demobilization of the SATC a new course was added to the courses in the School of Technology, that of Chemical Engineering, thus considerably enlarging the facilities which the college offers for the study of engineering, and meeting the special demands for a course of this kind, which the great development in chemistry that has been so noticeable in this country during the past four years has made necessary. The College is to be congratulated in having secured for the Department of Chemistry the services of the Rev. Robert J. Fitzgerald, OSA; M.Sc., Ph. D. Dr. Fitzgerald studied chemistry for a number of years at the University of Wurtzburg, in Germany; where he secured his doctorate in Philosophy in 1913, majoring in Chemistry, Physics and Botany. In 1915 Dr. Fitzgerald received the degree of Master of Science from the Royal University of Ireland for special research work in photoelectricity. Dr. Fitzgerald will conduct the classes in Organic Chemistry, and as soon as conditions warrant, will introduce a special class in the Chemistry of Dyes".

1920 - 1921

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P., O.S.A., M.A. -16- Professor of Chemistry, Metallurgy and Mineralogy

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and

Chemical Engineering, Chairman of the Department

O'Leary, Rev. John S., OSA, M. A. -16- Professor of Chemistry*

*Father Grelis says (1968) that Father O'Leary hated chemistry and got out of it as soon as possible.

1921 - 1922

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P, OSA, M.A. -16- Dean of the Pre-Medical School,

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Metallurgy

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and

Chemical Engineering, Chairman of the Department

Martel, Rev. Alphonse, OSA, Ch. E. -21- Associate Professor of Biology and Chemistry

Father Howard Grelis, who knew him well, said Father Martel was a popular teacher, very volatile. In the summer of 1922 he was transferred to our school in San Diego, California. Several years later he left our Order to become a priest of the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana. He became a Pastor and a Right Reverend Monsignor in charge of building operations. He died in retirement at Quebec, P. Q., Canada, on November 7. 1959.

1922 - 1923

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P., OSA, M. S. -16- Dean of the Pre-Medical School, Professor of Mineralogy, Metallurgy and Geology and Organic Chemistry , M. S., Villanova College, 1922

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph.D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chairman of the Department

Burke, Edward A. - Student Assistant. Taught the Preparatory Chemistry course. Helped Father Fitzgerald with the college courses. (Personal communication, 1968)

1923 - 1924

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P., OSA, M. S. -16- Professor of Mineralogy, Metallurgy, Geology and Organic Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - Chairman of the Department

Huntsinger, Herbert A., B. S., -23- Instructor in Chemistry

Blodgett, Williard A., B. S. -23- Instructor in Chemistry University of New Hampshire

Burke, Edward A., B. S. -23- Chemistry Laboratory Assistant B. S., Villanova College, 1923

Kenny, Alfred D. J B. S. -23- Chemistry Laboratory Assistant B. S. Villanova College, 1923

Kunzenbacher, August A., -23- Chemistry Laboratory Assistant

1924 - 1925

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P., O. S.A., M. S. -16- Professor of Mineralogy, Metallurgy, Geology and Organic Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - Chairman of the Department

Blodgett, Willard A., B. S. -23-Instructor in Chemistry

Kunzenbacher, August A., -23- Chemistry Laboratory Assistant

1925 - 1926

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P., OSA, M. S. -16- Professor of Mineralogy, Metallurgy, Geology and Organic Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - Chairman of, the Department

Blodgett, Willard A., B. S. -23- Instructor in Chemistry

Kunzenbacher, August A., -23- Chemistry Laboratory Assistant

1926 - 1927

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P., OSA, M. S. -16- Professor of Mineralogy, Metallurgy, Geology and Organic Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chairman of the Department

Duncomb, Eli, M. S. -26- Associate Professor of Chemistry B. S., Purdue University

M. S., University of Nebraska

Grelis, Edwin, A.B., -26- Instructor in Chemistry A. B., Villanova College

Venuto, Joseph A., B. S. -26- Instructor in Chemistry, B. S., University of Pennsylvania

Kunzenbacher, August A., -23- Chemistry Laboratory Assistant

In this year's catalog we read: "The School of Technology offers courses in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and Sanitary Engineering and a course in General Chemistry”, (p. 54). A similar statement is also in the 1925-1926 and 1924-1925 catalogs.

1927 - 1928

Duncomb, Eli, M. S. -26- Associate Professor of Chemistry

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P., O.S.A., M.S. -16- Prefect of Discipline Professor of Organic Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chairman of the Department

Venuto, Joseph A., B. S. -26- Instructor in Chemistry

Kunzenbacher, August A., -23- Chemistry Laboratory Assistant

1928 - 1929

Duncomb, Eli, M. S. -26- Associate Professor of Biology and Chemistry

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P., OSA, M. S. -16- Prefect of Discipline Professor of Organic Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - Chairman of the Department

O'Leary, Rev. John S., O.S.A., M.S. -17- Professor of Mathematics and Chemistry. The 1929 Belle Air says he taught chemistry that year in St. Mary's Hall.

Venuto, Joseph A., B. S. -26- Instructor in Chemistry

Kunzenbacher, August A., -23- Chemistry Laboratory Assistant

Ford, John J., B. S. -28- Instructor in Chemistry B. S., Villanova, 1924

The Belle Air says he taught chemistry in “The Sisters' School" which means Summer School or the Saturday Extension School. The 1929 Belle Air also says that Miss Helen Heffernan has been appointed Registrar - a position she held with distinction for five years.

1929 - 1930

Duncomb, Eli, M. S. -26- Professor of Chemistry

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P., OSA, M. S. -16- Prefect of Discipline Professor of Organic Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chairman of the Department

Venuto, Joseph A., B. S., M. S. -26- Professor of Chemistry M. S., Villanova College; 1929

Kunzenbacher, August A., -23- Chemistry Laboratory Assistant

1930 - 1931

Duncomb, Eli, M. S. -26- Professor of Chemistry

Grezenski, John I., B.S.-30- Associate Professor of Chemistry B.S.., Villanova College, 1927

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P., OSA, M. S. -16- Vice President, Prefect of Discipline, Professor of Organic Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chairman of the Department

Kunzenbacher, August A. -23- Chemistry Laboratory Assistant

Venuto, Joseph A., M.8. -26- Professor of Chemistry

1931 - 1932

Duncomb, Eli, M. S. -26- Professor of Chemistry.

Fink, Rev. Ruellan P., OSA, -16- Vice-President, Prefect of Discipline Professor of Organic Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering - Chairman of the Department

* Grezenski, John I., A. M. -30- Associate Professor of Chemistry A. M., Villanova College, 1931

Kunzenbacher, August A., A. B. -23- Instructor in Chemistry A. B., Villanova, College, 1931

Venuto, Joseph A., M. S. -26- Professor of Chemistry

Wierman, Rev. Harry A., OSA ,A. M. -31- Associate Professor of Chemistry A. B., Villanova College, 1927; A. M. 193].

* Ignatius Reginald John Gryczenski was born in Poland and brought to America as a child. Home: Jersey City, N. J. Education: Don Bosco H. S., Ramsay. N. J. 1922 and Villanova College, B. S. in Biol. 1927 and M. A. 1931. Instructor in Chem., Villanova 1929-1931.Changed name twice: 1^st, about 1928, to John I. Grezenski, and 2^nd, 6/15/1931, in Philadelphia, to Reginald John Grayson. M. D., Creighton U., Omaha. Neb., 1935; Medical Staff of Eastern Penitentiary, Philadelphia, until 1950. Now (1968) retired and living in Florida.

Father Fink left us this year to become Principal of St. Rita's High School in Chicago, Illinois, where he is still living (February 1968). Father Fink is now (August 1970) the Prior of our school at Holland, Michigan, across the lake from Chicago. This is a prep school for boys intending to join our Order, in the Chicago Province.

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1932 - 1933

d'Ouville, Edmond L., B. S. -32- Instructor in Electrical and Physical Chemistry B. S. in Ch. E., Villanova College, 1932

Duncomb, Eli, M. S. -26- Professor of Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - Chairman of the Department

Kunzenbacher, August A., A. M. -23- Associate Professor of Chemistry A. M., Villanova College, 1932

Panepinto, Francis W., M. S. -32- Professor of Chemistry B. Ch. E., Villanova College, 1925; M. S., 1927

1933 - 1934

d'Ouville, Edmond L., B. S. -32- Instructor in Electrical and' Physical Chemistry

Duncomb, Eli, M. S. -26- Professor of Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Chairman of the Department

Kunzenbacher, August A., A.M. -23- Associate Professor of Chemistry

Panepinto, Francis W., M. S. -32- Professor of Chemistry

1934 - 1935

d'Ouville, Edmond L., M. S. -32- Instructor in Electrical and Physical Chemistry M. S., University of Pennsylvania, 1934

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering- Chairman of the Department

Junzenbacher, August A., A. M. -23- Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Panepinto, Francis W., M. S. -32- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

1935 - 1936

d'Ouville, Edmond L., M. S. -32- Instructor in Electrical and Physical Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - Chairman of the Department

Hammond, Rev. John F., OSA, M. A. -35-: Professor of Mathematics and Physics (sic) A. B., Villanova College, 1917, M. A., 1919. He taught organic chemistry to the Biology Majors (mostly pre-medical students) for the next eleven years, i.e., unti1 his death.

Jenkins, Rev. Edward F., OSA, M.S. -35- Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering A. B., Villanova College, 1927, M. S., Catholic University of America, 1933

Kunzenbacher, August A., A. M. -23- Instructor in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Panepinto, Francis W., M. S. -32- Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Mr. Panepinto left us in 1936 to devote all his time to his research at the University of Pennsylvania. He received the degree of Ph. D. in Chemistry there in 1937 and accepted a position with a leather company in Philadelphia.

John Francis Hammond, OSA

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 12, 1895, John Hammond was a student at Villanova for about ten years before he graduated from the college with the degree of A. B. in 1917. Due to the early death of his parents, he was sent to the Tolentine Academy about 1907 and was here continuously as an Academy, Prep and College boy until his graduation. He was received into the Novitiate in 1913, was professed in 1914, and was ordained in 1920. From then until 1935 he was stationed at St. Rita's High School, in Chicago where he taught Chemistry (and short-hand!) and studied at the University of Chicago. At Chicago he completed all the courses for a Ph. D. in Chemistry and also a research project under M. S. Karasch, the discoverer of the Peroxide Effect. It was while he was studying at the University of Chicago that he came to know Edward L. Haenisch, whom he later persuaded to join our staff. Father Hammond came to Villanova as Professor of Chemistry in the fall of 1935. He taught Organic Chemistry to the Pre-meds for eleven years, until his sudden death from a heart attack on September 4, 1946. Before coming to Villanova full-time he taught here in several summer schools.

Edward Felix Jenkins, OSA

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 17, 1906, Edward Jenkins was educated at the Wilkes-Barre Academy (the old Harry Hillman Academy) and the Coughlin High School of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. At Villanova College he studied Pre-Med for two years and Arts for two years, getting the AB degree in 1927. He was received into the Augustinian Novitiate in 1927, professed in 1928 and ordained in 1931. In the fall of 1931 he was sent to the Catholic University of America, in Washington, to take anything he wanted, provided he could get a master's degree in one year. He took Chemistry, because he had always liked it, and because he felt that no matter what he took he would probably wind up teaching Chemistry, so he might as well know something about it. It took a year and a summer school to complete the work for the master's degree, which was received the following June. During the summer of 1932 the Prior Provincial told him he could continue for the doctorate. By the summer of 1935 the work was finished, except for the dissertation and final oral examination. A problem was assigned and permission granted to do the research at Villanova, under the direction of Dr. Henry P. Ward, Professor of Organic Chemistry at C.U. It was completed in 1938, the Oral Examination was passed in January, 1939 (on the stage of an auditorium, with an audience), and the degree was received in June of that year. After 35 years at Villanova, 26 in the Chemistry Department and 9 in the Astronomy Department, he is still working for his Alma Mater.

Edward Lauth Haenisch

Born at Chicago, Illinois, August 11, 1911, Edward Haenisch received the degree of B. S. in 1930 and Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1935 from the University of Chicago, where he was also an Instructor in Chemistry from 1932 to 1934. From 1934 to 1936 he was an Instructor in Chemistry at Montana State College. He came to Villanova in 1936, where he was Assistant Professor from 1936 to 1938, Associate Professor 1938 to 1943, and Professor and Head of the Department from 1943 to 1949. He then went to Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, as Professor of Chemistry and Department Head, a position he still holds (1970). He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Franklin Institute, the AAAS, the American Institute of Chemists, the Electrochemical Society, and a Fellow and past president of the Indiana Academy of Sciences. (Am. Men of Science, 11th ed., 1967) He was the Director of the Institutes Section of the National Science Foundation, in Washington, D. C. from 1958 to 1959; the recipient of the American Chemical Society's Chemical Education Award in 1963, and of the 1967 James F. Norris Award. This award is given annually by the Northeast Section of the American Chemical Society in recognition of outstanding achievement in the teaching of Chemistry. An article in the Journal of Chemical Education, after reviewing his distinguished career, concludes with these words: In addition to these and numerous other examples of his concern for the education of chemists. Professor Haenisch is one of the finest classroom teachers active today. J. Chem. Ed. 44. 723 (1967).

1936 - 1937

d'Ouville, Edmond L., M. S. -32- Instructor in Electrical and Physical Chemistry

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - Chairman of the Department

Haenisch, Edward L., Ph. D. –36- Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

B. S., University of Chicago, 1930; Ph. D. 1935

Hammond, Rev. John F., OSA J -35- Professor of Mathematics and Physics (sic) See 1935-1936

Jenkins, Rev. Edward F., OSA, M. S. -35- Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Paquette, Rev. Joseph W., OSA, M. A. -36- Instructor in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering A. B., Villanova College, 1920 M. A.; Catholic University of America: 1924

In the fall of 1936 the Villanova Chemical Engineering students formed a club which was promptly made a student affiliate of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The members were both chemists and chemical engineers. Joseph J. Duffy, a senior chemical engineer, was elected the first president. Dr. Haenisch was the moderator.

Edmond d'Ouville received the degree of Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in June, 1937 and left us to accept a position with the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, in Chicago, Illinois. He had been a part-time member of our staff for five years.

Dr. Haenisch came to us after two years at Montana State College (now Montana State University), at Bozeman, Montana. The Villanova Engineer published a biographical sketch of Dr. Haenisch, with his picture, in the issue of October, 1936, page 5.

1937 - 1938

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chairman of the Department

Haenisch, Edward L., Ph. D. -36- Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Haltenberger, William Jr., M. S. -37 - Instructor in Chemical Engineering, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, 1927-28 B. S. in Ch. E., University of Michigan 1933, M. S., 1937

Hammond, Rev. John F., O. S. À., M. A. -35- Professor of Mathematics and Physics (sic) See 1935-1936

Jenkins, Rev. Edward F., OSA, M. S. -35- Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Paquette, Rev. Joseph W., OSA, M. A., -36- Instructor in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

William Haltenberger, Jr., born 1910, a native of Budapest, Hungary, was our first full-time teacher of Chemical Engineering. He was also, I believe, the author of the first research paper to be published in one of the major American chemical journals from Villanova College: Enthalpy Concentration Charts from Vapor Pressure Data, Ind. Eng. Chem., 31 783-6 (1939). Modest and talented, he was a very agreeable young man, a hard worker and a good teacher. I remember he was very fond of skiing. After two years at Villanova he left us in June, 1939 to resume his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan. He died a year or two later, by suicide. The Villanova Engineer published a biographical article on Haltenberger in the issue of October, 1937. His picture is on the title page, and his biography on page 7.

1938 - 1939

Barr, Eugene A., M. S. -38- Instructor in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering B. S. in Ch. E., Villanova College, 1937 M. S. in Ch. E., University of Pennsylvania) 1938

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - Chairman of the Department

Haenisch, Edward L., Ph. D. -36- Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Haltenberger, William, Jr., M. S. -37- Instructor in Chemical Engineering

Hammond, Rev. John F., OSA, M. A. -35- Professor of Mathematics and Physics (sic) See 1935-1936

Jenkins, Rev. Edward F., OSA, M. S. -35- Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Paquette, Rev. Joseph W., OSA, M. A. -36- Instructor in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.

1939 - 1940

Barr, Eugene A., M. S. -38- Instructor in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - Chairman of the Department

Haenisch, Edward L., Ph. D. -36- Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Hammond, Rev. John F., OSA, M. A. -35- Associate Professor of Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering.

Jenkins, Rev. Edward F., O. S.A., Ph. D. -35- Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ph. D., Catholic University of America, 1939

Limacher, Francis J., M. S. -39- Instructor in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering B. S., Oregon State University, 1933, M. S., University of Michigan, 1937. His degrees were in Chemical Engineering; he replaced Mr. Haltenberger.

Paquette, Rev. Joseph W., OSA, M. A. -36- Instructor m Chemistry and Chemical Engineering On leave of absence.

Father Fitzgerald's health had been failing and early in November, 1939, he suffered a slight stroke. On Saturday, November 11, he asked me to come to his room, where he gave me his roll and book and told me to go on with his course. I started teaching Organic Chemistry to the Chemistry Majors and Chemical Engineers on Monday, November13, 1939, with a lecture on Polynuclear Hydrocarbons, based on Chapter 7 of Desha's Organic Chemistry, first edition. I taught the course for 22 years. This year Father Paquette was given Leave of Absence to study chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded the Master's degree there on December 19, 1941, and was received into the Sigma Xi. While at MIT he studied inorganic chemistry. He was invited to continue for the Doctorate but did not do so. He taught Chemistry and mathematics for many years at Villanova. In 1964 he retired on account of ill health. He died Monday April 29, 1968, three months short of his 73^rd birthday and the 45^th anniversary of his ordination. He was buried in the St. Mary's Hall Cemetery, at Villanova.

1940 - 1941

Fitzgerald, Rev. Robert J., OSA, Ph. D. -19- Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Haenisch, Edward L., Ph. D. -36- Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - Chairman of the Department

Hammond, Rev. John F., OSA, M. A. -35- Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering