Milford chronicle., 1920-10-15
INAUGURATION OF OLD
DEL'S new PRESIDENT
DR.. WALTER HULLIHEN, NEW PRESIDENT
OF DELAWARE COLLEGE, WILL Be
INAUGURATED SATURDAY.
in FRONT OF OLD COLLEGE
DR.. HULLIHEN COMES TO DELAWARE
PECULIARLY PREPARED FOR THE
POSITION RENDERED HIM.

The Inauguration of DR.. Walter HUI
/ linen. recently chosen President OF
Delaware College and The WOmen's
/ College of Delaware. will take place
with appropriate exercises in front OF
Old College, Newark, on Saturday, Oc-
| tOber 16, at twelve o'clock, noon. A
cordial invitation to attend the exer-
cises is extended by the Board OF
Trustees to the public. A few formal
invitations will be sent out, but eY-
cry one is urged to be present. espec-
tally those men and women who are
directly interested in the educational
affairs of our state.
DR.. Hullihen comes TO Delaware Pc
culiarly prepared for the position OF
head of our two institutions of high
er learning. He was born in May
1875, at StauntOn, Virginia. the son
of the Reverend w. L. Hullihen, rec
tor of Trinity Episcopal Church. AT
ter his graduation from Staunton Mil
itary Academy in 1898, he attended
the University of Virginia, from which
institution he was graduated in 1896
with the degree of A. B. and A. NJ.
During the year 1S96-1S97 he was Lii
centiate Instructor in Latin and Math-
ematics at his Alma Mater. The de-
gree of Phi. d. was conferred upon
him by John Hopkins University in
1900. after he had completed three
years of graduate work. At John
Hopkins he was University Fellow,
1S99-1900, and Fellow of Courtesy,
1900-1902.
AS a teacher and executive DR.. HUI
linen has had wide experience.
In college and secondary school
athletics, DR.. Hullihen has been
prominent for several years. He
coached the football team of Marston
University School and was faculty di-
rector of athletics at Chattanooga I'm
iversity and at the University of the
South. For a number of years he
served as a member of the executive
committee of the Southern Athletic
Association. and was for some time
member of the executive committee
of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association.
During the late war DR.. Hullihen
served his country in various posi-
tions of trust and responsibility. In
1917 he entered the Officers Train
ing Camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Geor-
gia, where he was commissioned a
Captain of Infantry. The next year
he was an instructor in the Officers
Training Camp of the S1st Division,
at Columbia, South Carolina; Adju-
tant of the 5th Replacement Regiment
at Camp Gordon, Georgia; School of
Small Arms Firing, Camp Perry, o. In
August, 1918, he was commissioned
Major of Infantry. Later he was made
Adjutant of the 29th Brigade and As
sistant Chief of Operations and Train
ing of the General Staff of the 18th
Division at Camp Logan. Texas. He
was discharged in February, 1919. In
March. 1919, he was commissioned
Major of Infantry, Officers Reserve /
Corps, United States Army.
DR.. Hullihen is not only scholar
md executive. but an enthusiast in
regard to outdoor life of all kinds. I.
While he was a student at the Uni
,ersity of Virginia, he won the tennis .
of the university. One .
-ear he won the amateur trap shoot
ng championship of Maryland. He has .
or several years ranked as expert .
'ifieman. Recently he said:
Il count myself sportsman. | am
in all forms of outdoor
ife. / have hunted nearly all kinds
# big game in this country, and also
n that part of Canada which lies
outh Of the Arctic Circle"