Evening star., 1938-08-24
GRADUATE SCHOOL
FACULTY BOOSTED
Georgetown U. Adds Five,
Including Department of
Physics Head.

Five new appointments to the faculty
Of the Graduate School of Georgetown
University, in preparation for the
1889 academic year, were announced
today by DR.. Wilfrid Parsons, S. j.,
dean OF graduate studies.
Heading the list is the Rev. Thomas
j. Love, S. j., of Baltimore, who is
to be professor of physics and chair
man of the department. He was
formerly head of the physics depart
ment at Loyola College
Father Love is a graduate of Wood
stock College and pursued studies at
Johns Hopkins University in 1872.
He began teaching physics at Loyola
In 1916 and from 1890 was an
Instructor at Georgetown College Since
then he served as professor Of physics
at Canisius College, Buffalo, N. Y.
and rejoined the Loyola faculty in
1924.
Has Noteworthy Career.
He had noteworthy career as head
OF the physics department at Loyola,
which he reorganized and advanced
At Georgetown he succeeds the Rev.
Emeran Kolkmeyer, S. j.. who was a
member of the universitys astro-
nomical expeditions that observed the
sun eclipse at Fryeburg, Me-. and later
in Siberia. After a number of years
as head of the physics department in
the~college and grade school, Father
kolkmeyer has been transferred to
Canisius College.
His successor is active in various
scieStiflc groups, such as the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, the American Association of
Physics Teachers, the Association of
American Jesuit Scientists and the
American Mathematics Association.
Four Other Appointments.
There were three other appoint
ments in physics and mathematics and
one in history. DR.. Archie I. Mahan,
who has just obtained Phi. D. degree
from Johns Hopkins University. IS 10
be an instructor in physics. He is a
graduate of Friends University and
also took special studies at the Uni
versity of Kansas. He is member of
Gamma Alpha, Sigma Psi and Phi
Beta Kappa Fraternities.
DR.. Henry Miles O'Bryan, who is
now in England, will join the faculty
as an associate professor of physics.
He is a graduate of Clark and North
western Universities and has taught
physics at Johns Hopkins, the MaSsa-
chusetts Institute of Technology and
at Harvard University. In 1884 he did
special research work at Cornell Uni
versity and formerly held the Ward
fellowship in biophysics at North
western.
From 1927 to 1923 he served as an
associate professor at Georgetown
College. During the past year Dr.
OBryan has been at Bristol Univer-
sity, in England, on research fellow
ship. He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa. Sigma Xi and Gamma Alpha
Fraternities.
DIR. Mooney Joins Faculty.
Dr. Robert L. Mooney former in
structor in physics at Furman Uni
versity. joins the graduate faculty as
an instructor in mathematics. DR..
Mooney is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa and graduated from Furman
and Syracuse Universities and OBJ
tained his Phi. D. from Brown.
In the history department Dr. Paul
r. Doolin, formerly of Harvard Uni
versity, will be an assistant professor
Graduating from Harvard in 1920 and
obtaining his Phi. D. degree there in
1884, DR.. Doolin first taught at Rad
cliffe College. He joined the Harvard
faculty as an assistant in history in
1922. After pursuing studies for a
number of years he rejoined the
Harvard faculty in 1926 as instructor
and later as assistant in history and
literature. He is the author of several
books and member also of Phi
beta Kappa
Registration at the graduate school
opens September 10.