Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-27


Washington avenue. Whittier, Cal
ifornia, sends the following inter
esting clipping from recent issue
Of the Whittier Daily Herald:
Whittier people recently enter
tanned a world famous man, who
came to the city unanHouneed, Wis
tied formed Wisconsin friends, and
silently went away, unheralded and
unknown except to the group of
friends who entertained him.
The man was Rollin Clark Null
lenix. who is listed in who's Who
in America" as zoologist.
His first claim to tame came
when he received the Bowdoin
prize and bronze medal from HaF-
ward University in 1909 for an es-
say, 1.-The History of the Present
Status of the Neurone Theory" He
achieved considerable recognition
by his work on Peripheral Termina-
tions Of Eighth Cranial Nerve in
Vertebrates
The following description Of the
man and his visit is embodied in
he paper, Joseph is Made known
His Brethren by Lydia M.
1ammack:
The Baraboo, Wisconsin, News,
asst year printed the account of
he Baraboo Valley picnic in Cen
cal Park, Whittier, and its readers
7ere glad to hear from its wander
lg tribe, and a request was sent
Or write-up Of this years Goings,
AS our gathering was postponed
n account of the sickness and
cath of one of its members, we
pprised the Baraboo News of the
anne, mentioning the names of all
he Wisconsin people who should
ave been invited had we had the
icnic.
We sent the letter in the o'clock
nail. That evening the phone
ang, and a voice from the Valley
lot heard for 40 years said, "Do
you remember Rolly Mullenix?"
Indeed / do" was the answer. The
voice said, Il called in Whittier to.
see if could find your brother Will
Williams, my school chum. In,
stead, / found myself at the home
Of William Williams on South
Painter. They tell me that you
and a lot of others of the Little
Baraboo Valley are here. | am
giving lectures at the U. S. c. sum
mer school in Los Angeles. This
IS my third year of lectures there.
but | did not know you folks were
here. ! will see you soon, as |
leave August 6 for Wisconsin"
Visiting a few days later at
Compton with Charles and Ella
c. Veeder, we related this Incl.
dent. Before we started home
Mrs. Veeder received through the
mail a paper and card from Rollin
q. Mullenix. The card said, II
remember you with much appre-
citation and affection as being my
first teacher"
Later letter came saying he
and his wife would visit his niece.
Gregory avenue, youngest daughter
Of Howard Wickersham, our HON
and the Stephen HORNE home Sun
day, August 2.
We sent out messages and
rhone calls to the brethren that
"Rolley is coming" and that his
niece, whose parents we all knew
so WELL had been discovered, and
that we would greet them in Cen
trail Park Sunday at $3.50 p. m.
The following responded: Mr..
md Mrs. Manlef Williams, Mr..
md Mrs. Linford Williams and
Crank Williams, and a few of their
riends, of Ontario; Fred Corycll
ma wife, of Los Angeles; Charles
Hamburg, Tom Page and his sister,
Mrs. Loomis, of East Whittier; Mr.
and Mrs. f. nj. Groat, Mrs. Frank
Butman, Mrs. McGee, Miss Matte
Cammack, Mrs. Stephen HORNE,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Cammack,
the two Gilbert families, relatives
Of the Williams, Mrs. Hazel w
Richard, Mrs. Bunting, the niece of
the guests of honor, and Dir. and
Mrs. Rollin Clark Mullenix, the
guests of honor.
After greetings we sang together
Praise God From Whom All Bless.
ings Flow" then read late letters
from others of the Valley and a
long descriptive letter of the Valley
as it now is; sang Down by Yon.
der Valley" childhood song of
so years ago.
Prof. Mullenix, the little boy.
grown to Sc years and $50 pounds,
now professor of zoology in Law
renee College, Appleton. Wis. and
dean of freshmen, with many let
tiers and degrees, scholarship pri2--