This Contact Sheet of three photographs are part of a series of photographs of Seth Arsenian, a Springfield College faculty member and the school's first Professor of Humanics. Dr. Arsenian is depicted sitting reading in his office surrounded by books. In the first two top photographs Dr. Arsenian is pictured wearing a white shirt without his jacket.
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Dr. Seth Arsenian was born in 1902 in Vaspurakan, the capital of the kingdom of Urartu in Armenia. He became an American citizen in 1940, after which Springfield College hired him as a psychology professor. During World War II, he took a leave of absence from to work in Washington, D.C., first with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and then with the Office of War Information, where he was in charge of propaganda for the Middle East. When he returned to Springfield College, he was hired as acting dean, director of admissions, and eventually the director of the graduate program. He retired in 1969 and moved to San Diego.
