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Urband '13 Downs Enemy Plane; Meissner '18 Becomes Ace Nine More Deaths in Service Bring Total to Forty-two Four Cornell Men Wounded, Two Missing, Two Captured

The University Likely to Become A Military Camp

Professor Crane Describes the Wason Chinese Collection

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The number of fessor Davidsen and Instructor Zin- assistant professor in public speaking at women this summer was of course pro- necker and the fact that the department Cornell. portionally larger than heretofore. The would hereafter be conducted by a com- total registration of about 1,230 shows mittee of the professors and assistant A BEQUEST of $5,000 was made to but a slight decrease from the 1,233 of professors, four in number, Professor the University by Dr. William M. Polk, a year ago. The classes most largely at- Faust's term of office as head of the de- dean of the Medical College, who died tended were those in music and in partment having expired. Recently, by on June 23. His purpose in making it French. Under University auspices Bas- action of the Board of Trustees, the Dean was to continue the John Metcalfe Polk tile Day was observed by a large meet- of the College of Arts and Sciences, Pro- scholarship in medicine. The remainder ing at which French compositions were fessor Frank Thilly, was added to the of the estate, except $3,000 to the widow, played by Professor Quarles and "The committee, with a vote. The committee Marie Drehon Polk, goes to the son, Marseillaise" sung by R. W. Steel '21, has organized by electing Professor Paul Frank L. Polk, counsellor for the State the Glee Club's baritone soloist, and at R. Pope chairman and Assistant Pro- Department in Washington. which Professor Samuel P. Orth made a fessor A. L. Andrews secretary. THE VACANCY in the deanship of the stirring address on "France Paramount." TAU BETA PI, the honorary engineer- Medical College has been filled tem- A later address by Professor Orth dealt ing society, announces the election of porarily by the appointment of Walter with 'Our War." There were the usual nine members of the senior class in Sibley Lindsay Niles, M.D., 1902, who will act organ recitals and concerts by the College. All the new members are now as dean through the summer. Further faculty of music; and a large, almost a attending the summer term of the college. action will be taken by the Trustees in record, audience crowded Bailey Hall to They are L. V. Farnham, Owego; F. H. the autumn. hear Sousa's band, with two vocalists, McBerty, Ithaca; F. W. McConnell, on August 10. The summer session, the THE FIRST GROUP OF DRAFTED men to New York; C. E. Norton, Byron; G. R. third term in Sibley and in agriculture, have vocational training in Sibley Col- Rebmann, jr., Philadelphia; E. C. Rice, the schools of aeronautics and photog- lege completed their eight weeks' course Baltimore; R. G. Skinner, Lakewood; raphy, and the trade school of drafted on Wednesday, August 13. These men, J. L. Sprague, Minneapolis; and S. B. men, by their total of nearly three thou- numbering 471, were ordered at once to Wright, Baltimore. sand workers, have made the campus various posts throughout the East, more than usually a place of activity RAILROAD FARES to New York from most of them going to Washington during the summer months. Ithaca have been raised under the recent Barracks, D. C, to Camp Joseph Federal order, but the mileage on both Johnston, Florida, and to Camp Gordon, PROFESSOR HERMAN DIEDERICΉS of roads has been arbitrarily equalized, so Georgia. A second contingent of about Sibley College is district administrative that the fare is not so high as might have 370 began a similar course on August 15. engineer in the national organization for been expected. The former rates were Besides the regular instruction in trades the conservation of fuel in manufacturing $6.91 one way, and $12.42 for the round necessary for the expeditionary forces, plants. His district comprises the coun- trip, tax included. The present fare is these men have military training and ties of Tompkins, Seneca, Schuyler, $8, day coach, with $1.34 added for in separate sections hear lectures once a Chemung, and Tioga. A committee of Pullman privilege. The round trip re- week on various aspects of the war. assistants will be appointed for each duction is abolished. The Pullman and These lectures, a feature of their work county, that for Tompkins having as chair car rates remain as before. which the men greatly appreciate, are members Professors Victor R. Gage, given on request of the Government by Joseph F. Putnam, W. M. Sawdon, and THE CASCADILLA SCHOOL Association Professor Charles L. Durham. Whether George B. Upton, all of Sibley. Pro- has bought the equipment and good will or not other groups will be sent to the fessor Dederichs will continue to serve of the Sturgis Tutoring School. Cony University after the second has finished on the domestic fuel committee organ- Sturgis, who organized the school twelve its work, is not yet decided. ized a year ago and directed by Acting years ago and who has been proprietor President Kimball. and director ever since, will devote his THREE MORE TEACHERS have leave of time to the increasing work of the Uni- absence for the coming year. Professor THE CLINTON HOUSE property, versity's department of Spanish, in Charles K. Burdick, law, and Professor through petition of several creditors, is which he is an assistant professor. Cas- George A. Everett, extension teaching, now in bankruptcy, and is being man- cadilla School will carry on the work of will work under Y. M. C. A. direction in aged by receivers. The proceedings are the Sturgis School, offering full summer France; and Professor Horace L. Jones, altogether friendly. An effort will be courses in all preparatory subjects as Greek, will, it is reported, do Y. M. C. A. made to dispose of the property in such well as special tutoring for entrance ex- welfare work in this country. Leave a way as to insure the continuance of aminations, and during the next aca- has also been granted to Professor Sam- the hotel, one of the oldest in this part demic year will continue the tutoring uel N. Spring, forestry, for the second of the state. department under a separate staff of semester. 462 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Cornell's Training Camp desires to express its very sincere appre- the Clinton House bar for the same The University's Plans Unsettled Pend- ciation of the excellent service rendered reason, and the revoking of the license ing Enactment of Legislation by Cornell University in the maintenance of the Oriental. In compliance with the request of the of both this school and the Photographic Government, the University will amplify School. MILITARY NOTES its plan for military instruction this fall "2. All requests of the air service Meissner '18 Becomes An Ace by establishing a unit of the Students' have been most cheerfully complied with Lieutenant James A. Meissner '18, Army Training Corps. The creation of at all times by the university and the who was recently decorated with a instruction furnished has always been this body will make it possible for stu- French war cross with a palm, became regarded as of a high quality and thor- dents and prospective students to con- an ace early in July when his destruction oughly satisfactory. The services of Pro- tinue their educational work while at the of two more enemy airplanes was con- fessor W. N. Barnard, president of the same time they are preparing in the most. firmed. In the NEWS for July his third academic board, have been particularly effective way for military service. It is aerial victory was reported. efficient. expected, therefore, that a considerable On the morning of July 7, northwest number of students will avail themselves "3. The discontinuance of the School of Chateau Thierry, two American ob- of Military Aeronautics at Cornell Uni- of this privilege this fall. servation planes were photographing versity was due to no lack of efficient sup- At the time of writing it is too early to German works under protection of a port and cooperation on the part of the forecast the effects of this legislation, or patrol of ten machines standing by at university. of the proposed new draft law, upon the high altitude. A large number of the University. That these new plans will "By direction of Major General Kenly. bring about considerable modifications in "MILTON F. DAVIS, the life of the students, and possibly even "Colonel, Signal Corps, in the University curriculum, seems not "Chief of Training." at all improbable. It is most gratifying CITY TICKET OFFICES GONE that the University is now to be put in Economies have been effected under the way of contributing more directly Federal control of the railroads by the than ever before to the victorious result elimination of the city ticket offices of of the war. both roads and the Lackawanna station. A circular has been issued by the Secre- All trains on both the Lackawanna and tary of the University in which is des- the Lehigh, with the exception of the cribed the facilities Cornell will provide East Ithaca branch, leave from the Le- during the coming year for turning out high Valley Station. All tickets are men of the sort needed by the Govern- sold there. Lackawanna trains switch ment in its present business. Secretaries to the Lehigh tracks south of the station. of Cornell Clubs have been asked to dis- The Lackawanna station is to be used tribute these circulars as widely as possi- only during periods of unusual traffic. ble among men who expect to go to col- The Auburn Short Line, which has only lege t,his fall. Other persons who desire recently been federalized, is expected to assist in performing this service for the ultimately to switch into the Lehigh University are requested to write to the station over the Auburn and Ithaca Secretary, Cornell University, Ithaca, Branch tracks, but no move has yet N. Y., mentioning the number of cir- been made to effect this change. culars they can thus use. ZINCK'S CLOSED AVIATION SCHOOL DISCONTINUED Anticipating the drought that is due The United States Army School of in Ithaca on October 1 because of the Military Aeronautics at Cornell will be spring local option election, the College discontinued as soon as students now Inn, which has occupied the location of crack German flyers of the Richthofen here have completed the course, probably "Zinckie's" on Aurora Street for the Circus, in chasse planes, went after the some five or six weeks hence. The reason past five years, voluntarily surrendered observation planes, flying in their new given for this action by the War Depart- its license at the end of the fiscal year double-decked close formation. ment is the inability of the Government terminating on June 30. We quote from The observation planes, instead of to produce equipment as fast as it is the Journal: "Dating back over a running to safety, mixed into the fight training men. The school at the Mas- period of forty-five years, the saloon along with the combat planes, and after sachusetts Institute of Technology will has been linked inseparably with Uni- a wild aerial battle lasting fifteen min- also be closed; those at Princeton, versity traditions, as the scene of many utes, three enemy planes were brought Illinois, Texas, and California will be class jubilees, rushes, and other gather- down, two of which go to the credit of continued. With reference to the work ings." Without entering into a discus- Lieutenant Meissner, bringing his total at Cornell, Acting President Kimball sion as to what constitutes a tradition, up to the five necessary to make him an has received the following letter: we may say that the place was well American ace. "1. In discontinuing the School of patronized and the original proprietor, Meissner's method of fighting is said Military Aeronautics, Cornell Univer- Theodore Zinck, was widely known and to be both picturesque and dangerous. sity, Ithaca, New York, in compliance unique in his profession. The place was It has been used as a model by Eddie with the directions of the General Staff, a landmark, and its closing means much Rickenbacker, his team mate, with the the Department of Military Aeronautics more than the simultaneous closing of result that the squadron has been CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 463

christened the First Aerial Ramming his ground school training in Ithaca and inside the German front at an altitude Squadron. Meissner has on several oc- reached France in January. In a letter of 4200 meters when the battle began. casions collided with enemy planes, do- to Woodford Patterson, secretary of the It continued twenty minutes, the ma- ing considerable damage to his own University, he thus describes his en- chines dropping two thousand meters wings but putting the enemy perma- counter with the enemy: during the fighting. nently out of repair. On a recent oc- 'On Thursday, July 11, I had my first No American losses were reported in casion, after Meissner had set fire to the combat with Fritz. While we were alone' this fight, but in a later battle there be- gasoline tank of a German* machine, the on a surveillance spotting batteries in tween nine American airmen and nine two collided, locked, and fell, both action, two monoplane Albatross came Germans, three enemy planes were helpless, with the flames spreading. The maneuvering behind and under us. We driven down and two Americans failed German was underneath. Meissner's were over "Bochie," well within their to return. It is thought that Thompson plane was finally released and the burn- lines, so that when their anti-aircraft may have been brought down behind ing German plane fell to earth. Both bursts ceased suddenly it was an omi- the German lines, and may now be a Meissner's wings were ripped but he was nous warning that something was up. I prisoner. able to land beyond the trenches, where discovered that the craft had crosses on Lieutenant Thompson enlisted on his machine fell over on him. Infantry- their wings when my pilot yelled "Boche!" June 15, 1917. He took his ground men dragged him out uninjured, and the The fight was on for fifteen minutes. It school work in Ithaca and his flying machine, its propeller unbroken, was was one lively time over the clouds, training at Mt. Clemens, embarking for easily repaired. through a hole, and below, until Fritz France in November. The whole army is proud of the spirit turned toward "Bochie" and the other of the young American aviators, who followed after. Breckenridge '20, Captured never refuse to meet the enemy, and 'One of Fritz's eight bullets that en- Lieutenant Wilder Breckenridge '20, who usually compel the Germans to tered our Spad, after cutting the lead who was reported missing on June 9, is stay above their own lines. ejection pipe of the Vickers, pierced a now reported by the British Air Force motor support and landed in the motor Ministry to be wounded and a prisoner Hurley '07 Leads Across the Ourcq casing but did not pierce it. of war in Germany. No details have Captain John Patrick Hurley Ό7, "Yesterday I took photographs. Some been received regarding his injuries, or who was wounded on April 9, as reported of those anti-aircraft boys belonging to his present location. It is believed that in the NEWS of April 18, appears to have Hohenzollern have already heard from he fell behind the German lines in an completely recovered. Captain Hurley, us." encounter with a German plane. The of the old Fighting 69th, led the first Lieutenant Urband, who is attached to ALUMNI NEWS for July gave a brief ac- American troops across the River Ourcq the French Flying Corps, and is the only count of his history. He is a grandson on Sunday, July 28, in General Foch's American officer in his squadron, was of Professor Burt G. Wilder, and a son attack in the Soisson-Rheims salient. cited by the commandant of the Avia- of the late R. M. Brechenridge '92. The crossing was made in face of a tion Service in the Order of the Day of Cahill '03 Prisoner in Rastatt murderous machine gun fire. Twice July 21 for the victory. Hurley led his men across the river and In the ALUMNI NEWS for July, hope twice they were forced back by the C. V. Herbert '15 Cited was entertained that the report that German counter-attack. On the third Lieutenant Clifford V. Herbert '15 Captain Francis J. Cahill '03 had been crossing they established themselves so has recently been cited for gallantry in captured was erroneous. The cause of that the crack Prussian guards and action on the west front and has been this uncertainty was the appearance of Bavarians were unable to dislodge them. recommended for promotion to a cap- his name on the registration list of the The men of his company were enthu- taincy. Lieutenant Herbert was com- Cornell Bureau after the date of his siastic in praise of Captain Hurley's missioned in the ordnance department capture. Word from Captain Cahill's conduct during the attack, telling the and assigned to the 55th Company of brother, Dr. John T. Cahill, informs us press correspondents that he was always Coast Artillery. He has been in France that he was captured by the Germans in the thick of the fighting at their head for five months. He is the son of Victor before St. Quentin on March 21. Cahill and had stripped off his coat and belt in Herbert, the composer, and is a member wrote a postcard to his brother on March order "to do more business." One of of Delta Tau Delta. 30 from Limburg, and a letter on April the men said: "We reached where we 9 from Rastatt, Baden. Word has also thought we were going, but the Captain S. P. Thompson '17 Missing come from the American Red Cross at said 'Come on, boys!' and we just kept Lieutenant Sidney P. Thompson '17 Berne. Captain Cahill is now a prisoner going. Don't forget to say a good word of Ithaca is reported missing in action on of war at Rastatt. for the captain; he's a regular guy." July 5 in the casualty lists of July 31. Thompson was an aviator in the same R. C. Beach '13 Wounded Urband '13 Downs Enemy Plane squadron as Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt, Private Roy C. Beach '13, of Ithaca, First Lieutenant Edward M. Urband the second flying squadron of the Ameri- was wounded in France on the evening '13, of Ithaca, shot down one German can Army to go to the front. of July 4, a piece of shrapnel lodging in Albatros plane in flames and put an- Lieutenant Thompson took part in an his jaw. His wounds were dressed at a other to flight in a combat over the air battle northwest of Chateau Thierry dressing station, and the fragments of German lines on July 11. He has re- on July 5, in which four American avia- shrapnel were later removed at a field ceived official credit for his victory. tors engaged six enemy planes, shooting hospital. He was sent to a base hospital Urband graduated from the College down one German machine and driving on the French coast' to recuperate. of Architecture in 1913 and instructed in off the others. The Americans were Beach left with the draft contingent from the college for three years. He received patrolling the lines five or six kilometers Continued oπ page 472 464 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS The Wason Chinese Library By Professor Emeritus T. Frederick Crane One Sunday afternoon at the close of After the fragrant tea had been the and his intelligent interest in the sub- February of last year, Mr. Charles W. rounds, Mr. Wason was asked to tell ject. So when the collection came to Wason of Cleveland invited the Cornell something about the library and how Cornell and was placed upon the shelves Alumni of that city and a few personal he came to collect it. Those who heard of the library it would be not only a friends to drink a cup of tea with him him will never forget his nobly expressed precious addition to its treasures, but and his wife in the Chinese Library of desire to bring China and the United an enduring monument to the memory his residence on Euclid Avenue. A few States into closer intellectual relations. of a loyal Cornellian and a devoted days before the annual Cornell alumni The great outlay of wealth in bringing friend of China. banquet had been held at the University together the library was not to gratify Shortly after that gathering, Mr. Club and although in delicate health, a collector's hobby, but to make China Wason sent the writer a sketch of the when the slightest exertion was painful, better known by every book in English inception of the library and a descrip- Mr. Wason was present as the guest of relating to it. Then at the close of his tion of the beautiful room in which it honor and received a splendid tribute of remarks he announced his intention of was housed at Cleveland. That sketch affection and admiration from his fellow bequeathing the collection to Cornell follows and will find its place, I am sure, alumni. University with an ample endowment in the catalogue which will some day On the afternoon to which I refer he for its care and increase in the future. be printed. The view of the library is was carried to the library which the One of Mr. Wason's oldest friends, looking to the north. I have added a few artistic taste of his wife had made one who had known and loved him since statistics furnished by Mr. A. H. Clark, of the most beautiful and striking rooms the first day he entered Cornell Univer- the devoted friend of Mr. Wason and in this country. The crimson lacquered sity forty-five years before, tried to ex- his invaluable aid in the collection of woodwork, the carved furniture, and press the gratitude of the University the library. Some day I trust I can have the Chinese porcelains transported the for the magnificent gift which Mr. space enough to give at length Mr. guests to the Orient, of which the host Wason proposed to make to his Alma Clark's resume of the contents of the was so fond and which he hoped by his Mater. He said among other things collection. Meanwhile all Cornellians priceless collection of books to make that a great collection like that before will rejoice that the memory of a be- better understood by the United States. them was not a mere mass of printed loved friend and loyal alumnus will be Around the room were ranged on the matter, but was the incarnation of the perpetuated when those who knew him shelves a library of works in English whole purpose of the donor to promote personally shall in their turn have be- relating to China such as had never be- the friendly relations of two great come fading memories. fore been collected in an American city, countries. No amount of money could T. F. CRANE. and which had few rivals, and, in its have gathered such a collection without Mr. Wason's Own Description of the peculiar scope, no superior in the world. the personal inspiration of the donor Library About 1900, knowing that my physical condition was likely to prevent further active business, at the suggestion of Mrs. Wason I commenced to collect books on China and the Chinese. I was quite at a loss just how to commence. Fort- unately I met a young Chinese medical student who introduced to me The Chinese Student's Monthly, a periodical published by the Chinese students in this country. The first book I acquired was "Letters from Pekin," by Mrs. Conger. I next secured "Court Life in China," by Dr. Isaac Headland, which got me fairly well started. Catalogues of bookhandlers, in this country and Europe, came to me almost daily and it was a puzzle what to purchase and what not to. I commenced a card index by subject and author. The number of volumes grew to such an extent that I found it would be impossible properly to take care of them and I solicited the aid of the Arthur H. Clark Company of this city. I then had about two thou- sand volumes and they suggested that, as I intended to make an exhaustive col- THE WASON CHINESE LIBRARY lection, the index should be revised ac- The library of Chinese literature shown here is described in this issue by Professor Emeritus T. F. Crane. It is the gift of the late Charles William Wason '76 to Cornell University cording to modern methods. I acted CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 465

upon their suggestion and finally put tirely on one subject, China, they are which in most cases are not available in the buying entirely in their hands, as arranged on the shelves according to printed volumes, between 75 and 100. I found I was physically unable to con- their height, without reference to author- (7) Maps, from early times to recent, tinue the work it entailed. Mr. Clark ship. Each bookcase section is lettered showing the cartographical develop- has been of invaluable assistance to me, and each shelf is numbered. In order to ment and changes, about 150. securing many unique and rare volumes, find a book it is necessary to know either (8) Engraved plates of views, archi- and the collection has grown to number the subject or the author; then, by con- tecture, costumes, manners and customs, over four thousand. At the time Mr. sulting the index cards, one can readily industries, etc., including many rare Clark took over the buying it was evi- find the shelf upon which the book is plates and many colored beautifully, dent that some place would have to be located. In the south alcove, behind about 500. provided to take care of the books, as locked doors, are kept the more valuable (9) Chinese newspapers printed in they were overrunning the household. volumes of the Library, also the flat the English language, files and partial We decided to have our third floor, books. The door at the end of the book files of thirty-seven different newspapers. which was one large room about 45 shelves on the southeast opens into an THE N. E. A. MEETING feet square, used for dancing, made into electric kitchenet; on the southwest a At the fifty-sixth annual meeting of a suitable room for our Chinese Collec- like door opens into a book storeroom. the National Education Association, held tion. As now arranged the Library will hold in Pittsburgh on July 1-5, Earl Barnes about five thousand books. By placing We called into service Mead,& Hamil- addressed the Department of Child Hy- cases back to back, in the east and west ton, architects, who planned with us a giene on "Some New Phases of Child alcove, about one thousand more can be library, making a large full window at Study" and the Department of Ele- accommodated. the north with an alcove on the other mentary Education on "Spoken English three sides of the room. The sill of the One of the unique features of the as a Factor in Americanization"; Lee F. upper windows determined the height Library is the treatment of periodicals. Hanmer ΌO spoke before the Depart- of tjie book-cases. As we wished to have A complete set to the present is secured; ment of Music Education on "Music i,p the decoration entirely Chinese, we con- all of the articles on China and the the U. S. Navy and Army Camps"; sulted a portfolio of pictures taken by Chinese are taken and bound into Mrs. Margaret Schallenberger Mc- the Japanese Government of the For- volumes about an inch thick; and the Naught, Ph.D. '02, spoke before the bidden City in Pekin, immediately after contents of each of these volumes is Department of School Patrons on "Con- the Boxer trouble of Nineteen Hundred. typewritten and bound into the book. serving the Healtji of School Children," From these pictures Mrs. Wason, with Thus many valuable articles, that would and Mrs. Ella Adams Moore, '93-94 G., Mr. Brooks, of the Rorheimer-Brooks otherwise be lost, are made easily ac- spoke at the same meeting on "The Company, worked out the scheme of cessible to the student. There are over Working Child and the War," and later decoration. A chimney was run up one hundred and fifty periodicals being participated in a symposium on "Vo- and a grate made in the northeast cor- so treated. Numerous pamphlets have cational Supervision." Professor George ner, all carried on the floor construction. been bound into volumes all having A. Works, speaking before the Depart- There being no grates in China, Mrs. typewritten indexes of the contents. ment of Rural and Agricultural Educa- Wason designed one after a gate in the There are now over four thousand of tion, discussed "The Relationship be- city wall of Pekin. The fire-place is these.* tween Teacher-training Departments made of white tile and on either side List of the Collection under the Provisions of the Smith- and above are panels of black marble. At the present time the collection Hughes Act and State Supervision of The mantel is capped by a wood mantel- comprises the following: Agriculture for the State Boards for piece in which are carved Chinese sym- (1) Printed bound volumes, 4,302. Vocational Education." Dr. Carol bols. Two Foo Lions keep watch on (2) Pamphlets, about 750. Aronovici '05, of St. Paul, participated the hearth stone. (3) Separate articles extracted from in a joint report on "Community Center The wood work was treated so as to the periodical literature of the world, Progress in War Service." Professor represent gold antique red lacquer, giv- over 62,000. Martha Van Rensselaer '09 spoke before ing the room a very warm and Chinese' (4) Manuscripts, 55 bound volumes; the American Home Economics Associa- atmosphere. The lighting is indirect, but as these bound volumes in many tion on "Food Conservation." the fixtures being black lacquer bowls, cases comprise a collection of separate At the community conferences organ- one in the center of the room and one manuscripts, the total number of manu- ized by the National Community Center in each of the four alcoves. scripts runs to over 500. Association in connection with the The rug was made in Punjab, India, (5) Volumes of paintings by Chinese N. E. A. meeting, Dr. Aronovici spoke on the looms of Sloan & Company of artists, 21 bound volumes. on "Developing Competition between New York. It is a light yellow, carrying (6) Portraits of celebrated persons Neighborhoods," "Social Organization or a very common Chinese fret as back- connected with China, including natives, Social Work," and "Social Work in the ground, similar to that used in the cove Center"; Dean Albert R. Mann '04 *It was in 1903 that Mr. and Mrs. Wason visited ceiling, with a border of pomegranate. Japan and China, but it was not until 1910 that his spoke on "An Undeveloped Field—a Numerous Chinese symbols and medal- interest was revived by a birthday present of Mrs. Challenge to the Community Center Conger's "Letters from Pekin." A little later the lions are woven in the body of the rug. Headland books, in one of which was a bibliogra- Movement"; Scott H. Perky '07 took In the northeast corner, near the fire- phy, fell into his possession and at his wife's sug- part in a discussion of/The Community gestion he began the systematic collection of books place, is the card index, in the drawers on China. Her share in the decoration of the Center and Economic Cooperation"; of which are now over 23,000 cards. beautiful room at Cleveland is described by Mr. and Mrs. Gertrude S. Martin, Ph.D. ΌO, Wason, and from the beginning she was the sym- spoke on "The Supply of Women for The entrance to the Library is at the pathetic and intelligent aid of her husband in northwest. As the books are all en- everything pertaining to the collection.—T. F. C. Community Service and Leadership." 466 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

OBITUARY and was a member of the Societe Geo- University of Michigan, where he was logique de la France, the Geological admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. After Henry'S. Williams Society of America, and the American leaving Cornell, he taught for a time at Professor Henry Shaler Williams, Association for the Advancement of the University of Texas and then en- emeritus professor of geology, died in Science, and was one of the founders of tered the J. L. Hudson Company of a hospital in Havana, Cuba, of pleurisy, Sigma Xi. He was an associate editor Detroit as assistant superintendent. He on Tuesday, July 30, while on a visit to of The American Journal of Science and enlisted in May, 1917, as a private. He his son Arthur. He had been in Cuba The Journal of Geology and was the passed the examinations for admission since August, 1916. author of "Geological Biology" (1895), to the R.O.T.C, but went to France Professor Williams was born in Ithaca "Correlation Papers, Devonian and Car- with the Harper Hospital Unit as the on March 6, 1847 and was the son of boniferous" (1891), "The Correlation of quickest way to the front. He had been Josiah B. and Mary H. Hardy Williams. Geological Faunas" (1903), "The Fauna promoted to be sergeant and assistant He received his preparatory training in of the Chapman Sandstone of Maine" quartermaster. the Ithaca Academy and entered Yale (1916), and numerous papers on De- College with the Class of 1868, becoming vonian geology and paleontology. John T. Waters '72 He was married in 1871 to Miss Har- John Thompson Waters, artist, died riet H. Wilcox. He is survived by his at his home in Oneonta, N. Y., on June widow, two sons, Roger Henry Williams 11, after a long and painful illness. He '95 and Arthur Shaler Williams '04, two was born in the town of Franklin, N. Y., daughters, Charlotte and Clifford, a on June 21, 1849, and was the son of brother, and several sisters. William and Elizabeth Waters. He The funeral was held at the family studied at the Delaware Literary In- residence on Cayuga Heights on August stitute, Franklin, and was afterward 11. The Rev. John A. Mclntosh, of the instructor in art there for many years. First Presbyterian Church, officiated, He entered Cornell in 1868 in an op- assisted by the Rev. M. W. Stryker, tional course, remaining one year. Later formerly president of Hamilton College he studied with eminent artists in New and a former minister of the Presby- York. On August 31, 1870 he married terian Church. Sarah L. Treadwell, at Treadwell, N. Y. From the resolutions adopted by the When the Institute at Franklin was Board of Trustees, we quote the follow- closed, in 1905, he removed to Oneonta. ing: He is survived by his widow, a son, "As a teacher he was very conscien- Chester T., three daughters, Mrs. C. C. tious; he was especially strong as a Maler, Mrs. F. M. Smith, and Miss teacher in his laboratory, where his close Annie Elizabeth Waters, and eight personal attention and his constructive grandchildren, all of Oneonta. criticism gave his students a training of incalculable value. Richard Rathbun '75 "As an investigator he attained a very Dr. Richard Rathbun, assistant secre- a member of Psi Upsilon. After gradua- high rank. His studies of Devonian tary of the Smithsonian Institution in tion he studied at Yale for the degree of paleontology, of the geological history Washington, died on July 16, aged Ph.D., which he received in 1871, acting of organisms, and of the evolution and sixty-six years. meanwhile as assistant in paleontology. geographical and geological modification Dr. Rathbun was a student in the From 1871 to 1872 he was professor of of fossil faunas stand out as important natural history course from 1871 to 1873. natural science at the University of contributions to the literature of these After leaving Cornell, he went to the Kentucky. In 1879 he became assistant susbects. He was honored by election University of Indiana, where he began professor of geology in Cornell. In 1880 to the more important American and • his work as a naturalist, and in 1874 be- his title was changed to assistant pro- foreign geological societies. came assistant in zoology in the Boston fessor of paleontology. In 1884 he was "Although his devotion to his students Society of Natural History. From 1875 promoted to a full professorship, which and his attainments as an investigator to 1878 he was geologist of the Geo- in 1886 was changed to include geology. gave him eminence, yet to those of us graphical Commission of Brazil, and in In 1887-8 he was dean of the Faculty. associated with him he will be remem- 1889-90 was assistant in zoloogy at In 1892 he was recalled to Yale as bered especially because of his personal- Yale. In 1890, he became curator of the Silliman professor of geology, remaining ity. His sweetness and gentleness of National Museum, and in 1899 was twelve years. Returning to Cornell in character and his thoughtfulness of placed in charge of the museum. He 1904, he resumed his work as professor others won him the love of all who were had held his post with the Smithsonian of geology and director of the Geological so happy as to know him." Institution since 1897. Museum, retiring in 1912. He was the author of a number of Dr. Williams was a geologist of inter- if John H. Townley standard books and several pamphlets national reputation. He was for a time Sergeant John Hurlbut Townley, on paleontology, marine invertebrate in charge of the Devonian Laboratory instructor in English here in 1913-15, zoology, and fisheries. of the United States Geological Survey, died of heart disease in France on April was an American commissioner to the 29. He was born on July 17, 1887, and Daniel Upton '90 International Congress of Geology and a was a graduate of the Jackson, Mich., Daniel Upton, a graduate of Sibley fellow of the London Geological Society, High School and of the class of 1913^ College in the class of 1890, died on CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 467

July 27 at Buffalo. The cause of his died at his home in Candor, N. Y., on by Governor Clark of Alaska to make death was apoplexy. July 10. He was a student in agriculture recommendations for the revision of the He was born at Lawrence, Michigan, here in 1888-9 and afterward entered the Alaska code, and the report was read at on January 25, 1864, a son of John B. Columbia Law School, where he grad- the first legislature of Alaska. and Jutya A. Sherman Upton. After uated. After practicing law in New At the time of his death, he was federal graduating from Sibley College he took York for a time, he returned to Candor. food administrator for Alaska. He was the degree of Doctor of Pedagogy from He leaves his wife and two brothers, a member of the American Bar Associa- the New York State Nor^nal College. Charles L. Gridley of West Candor and tion, and had been president of the He was successively in charge of trade Samuel L. Gridley of Candor. Juneau Chamber of Commerce. He schools at the New York State Reforma- also belonged to the Masons (33d degree), tory in Elmira, supervisor of industrial Royal A. Gunnison '96 the Elks, the Arctic Club of Seattle, and education of the public schools of Buf- Royal Arch Gunnison died of apoplexy the Rocky Mountain Club of New York. falo, and, after 1909, principal of the at his home in Juneau, Alaska, on Buffalo State Normal School. He mar- He is survived by his widow, Mrs. June 15. Lena M. Cobb Gunnison, and one son, ried Miss Sara C. Chatham of Elmira Gunnison was born at Binghamton, in 1894. Royal Arch Gunnison, jr., aged nine N. Y., on June 24, 1873, the son of years. Upton was the captain of the Cornell Christopher B. and Juliette Turner football team of 1889, which defeated Gunnison. He entered Cornell in 1894 The Alaska Daily Empire editorially Bucknell, Lafayette, Rochester, Stevens in the course in law, and graduated in comments thus on the death of Judge Institute, Michigan, and Columbia, scor- 1896. He was a member of Delta Up- Gunnison: ing 354 points to its opponents' 132, and silon and Delta Theta Phi. "The death of Judge Gunnison has of those 132 Yale in two games scored Two years after his graduation he been a severe blow to Juneau. He passed 128. It was the third season of Cornell was appointed referee in bankruptcy for away at the very prime of his life, at the football. The team included Osgood, Broome, Chenango, and Delaware Coun- time when under the usual course his Yawger, Dunn, Galbreath, Carolan, best and most useful years should be just Ehle, Colnon, McDowell, B. M. Harris, ahead of him. He was a man of a lot and A. J. Baldwin. Upton rowed at more than average ability, an optimist, number seven on the varsity eight in and one who sought to see the best in 1890 in races with Bowdoin and Penn- his fellow men and his surroundings. He sylvania. He was a member of the was an enthusiastic Alaskan and patri- Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, an editor otic American, a good husband, father, of The Crank, and a captain in the Cadet and citizen. His death caused a pro- Corps. found shock to the community, and his memory will live as long as life exists Frances Flint Dean '92 among those who have known him. The Mrs. Philip R. Dean, of New York, sorrowing widow and the little son have died of tuberculosis at her summer the sympathy of the entire community home at Woodstock, Conn., on June 13. which shares their grief." Before her marriage she was Frances Elizabeth Holeman Flint, and was born •Elliot P. Hinds '96 on July 28, 1870, the daughter of Wilbur The death of Captain Elliot Prindle and Florence Varney Flint. She was Hinds, A.S., S.R.C., is reported in the prepared for college at the Rochester casualty list published July 8. His Free Academy. She entered Cornell death resulted from injuries received in with the class of '92 and became a mem- an accident while flying over the French ber of Delta Gamma and Phi Beta lines,, in the performance of his duty, on Kappa. She held one of the Sage Schol- June 24. arships for women and was one of the ties, New York, and held this position ablest students of her class, graduating until December 3, 1904, when he was ap- Hinds received the degree of M.E. in as class essayist. After a successful pointed district judge for the District 1896. He was one of the best tennis career as a teacher, she was married on Court of Alaska by President Roosevelt, players in western New York, having August 17, 1901, in Geneva, Switzer- and assigned to the first division of the held the championship of the city of land, to Philip R. Dean, Harvard '96, at court. He served as judge of the Dis- Niagara Falls. He was president of the present head of the department of math- trict Court until 1909, when he began Hinds Paper Box Company of that city. ematics in the Evander Childs High the private practice of law in Juneau, Soon after the outbreak of the war, School, and for some years a member of as a member of the firm of Gunnison and he entered the aviation service, training the Cornell Summer School Faculty. Robertson. at Memphis,, Tenn., and Rantoul, 111. She is survived by her husband and two He was secretary-treasurer of the He sailed for France on December 3, children, Florence, born February 8, National Association of U. S. Referees 1917, and had established a notable 1903, and Benjamin Palmer, born Oc- in Bankruptcy from 1900 to 1905, and record as an aviator. He was reported, tober 10, 1907. from 1902 to 1908 was a lecturer on the unofficially, to have brought down sev- law of bankruptcy in the Cornell Law eral German planes. John T. Gridley '92 School. Captain Hinds leaves a son and a John Thomas Gridley, one of the most Judge Gunnison was one of a com- daughter, both of Niagara Falls. He prominent lawyers of Tioga County, mission of two men appointed in 1913 was forty-four years old... 468 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Irving C. Lewis '99 ir James A. McKenna '07 He attended the First Officers' Train- Irving Chauncey Lewis died at the Major James Augustine McKenna, jr., ing Camp at Austin, Texas, completing Blossburg Hospital on June 21, at the who was a special student in the College his training at an American aviation age of forty-two years. The cause of of Agriculture in 1903-04, has been killed camp in Italy, and was commissioned his death was tubercular sarcoma. in action. last August. He attended the Normal School at After leaving Cornell, he took a special Lieutenant Mason was engaged to Man ίield, Pa., and entered Cornell in course at Harvard, and later took a marry Miss Dorothy G. Swetland, of 1895, graduating in 1899, with the degree course in law at Fordham. Prior to his Montclair, N. J. He is survived also of M.E. enlistment in the Rainbow Division, he by his parents, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. L. Mr. Lewis was at one time manager was a practicing lawyer in New York Walter Mason, of Pittsburgh. of the Red Clover Poultry Farm, Seneca City. He was formerly a member of the •Sidney T. Cole '14 Falls, N. Y., and in the fall of 1909 went Seventh New York Regiment, and was Second Lieutenant Sidney Townsend to West Lynn, Mass., where he was em- in service on the Mexican border for Cole was killed in action on July 19. ployed in the turbine department of the nine months. He sailed for France with Cole was born February 22, 1892. He General Electric Company. the ''Fighting Sixty-ninth," as a captain, attended the Hill School at Pottstown, He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. and was later promoted to major. He Pa., and entered Cornell in 1910, receiv- Lewis, of Ulysses, Pa. had been at the front since November, ing the degree of A.B. in 1914. He was Ralph E. Sheldon '04 his company having been the first to a member of Kappa Alpha, and of Beth Dr. Ralph Edward Sheldon died sud- enter the trenches. He was buried at LΆmed and the Hill School Club. denly at Pittsburgh on July 10. Chateau Thierry, near the spot where He left Corning in 1916 to become He was born at Lisle, N. Y., on March he fell. associated with Harris, Forbes & Com- 28, 1883, and was the only son of Mr. Major McKenna was thirty-four years pany, of New York. He attended the and Mrs. Herbert Clayton Sheldon, old. He is survived by his parents, Mr. First Officers' Training Camp at Platts- later of Ithaca. He received his A.B. and Mrs. James A. McKenna, of New burg, and received a commission as degree from Cornell in 1904, and the fol- York, one sister, and two brothers, one second lieutenant of infantry. In Sep- lowing year took his master's degree. of whom is in action in France. tember he was sent to France for a He then took a course at Harvard, grad- special course of training, and at its uating in 1907 with the degree of S.M., Sidney W. Shattuck '09 completion was assigned to an infantry and in 1908 received the degree of Ph.D. Sidney Winters Shattuck, organizer regiment of regulars with which he had at the University of Chicago. and chemical manager of the S. W. Shat- been in trench service since January. He was on the staff of the department tuck Company, of Denver, dropped dead Lieutenant Cole was the son of Chester of anatomy in the University of Chicago on June 24, on his way from his chemical Glen Cole, B.L. '82, and Mrs. Cole, of in 1908-9, and resigned this position to plant. Corning, N. Y. His brother, Lieutenant become assistant professor of anatomy Glen W. Cole '18, is on active duty in in the Medical School of the University Shattuck was born in Dundee, N. Y., France. of Pittsburgh. In 1912 he was made on August 11, 1886. He graduated from the Dundee schools, and received his associate professor of anatomy. He •Harold A. Mossman '14 A.B. degree from Cornell in 1909. For spent the summer of 1910 making in- Captain Harold Alexander Mossman some time following his graduation, he vestigations for the United States Bu- was killed by machine gun fire about was chemist for the Federal Agricultural reau of Fisheries. April 25, while leading his company in a Experimental Stations at Geneva and Dr. Sheldon was regarded as one of counter-attack on the village of Billers- Ithaca, and in 1912 went to Flint, Mich- the distinguished neurologists of the Brettonneux, and was buried approx- igan, as metallurgist for the General country, and had been engaged for imately where he fell. Motors Company. He married Miss several years on a text-book on neu- Mossman was born on March 29, 1891, Margaret George, of Flint, on June 17, rology, which is now in press. In addi- and prepared for college at the Boys' 1916, and soon afterward they went to tion to his routine duties during the High School, Brooklyn, N. Y. He en- Denver. present summer, he had been engaged tered the College of Civil Engineering in in Government service in the depart- The body was taken to Flint, where 1910 with a State scholarship, and also ment of neurology. burial was made in Grace Lawn Ceme- won a University scholarship, receiving He was Goldwin Smith Fellow in Neu- tery. Besides his wife, he leaves his his degree in 1914. rology at Cornell in 1905-06, and in parents, Mr. and Mrs. George S. Shat- He played on the lacrosse team in his 1906-07 he held the Edward Austin Fel- tuck, and one brother, Wendell, of sophomore and junior years, and was lowship at Harvard. He was a member Dundee, N. Y. captain of the 1914 team which won the of Gamma Alpha and Sigma Xi, and of northern championship. He was a many learned societies. ^Joseph J. Mason '13 member of Omega Delta, and was presi- On August 13, 1908 he married Miss Lieutenant Joseph John Mason, of dent of the Association of Civil Engineers. Emily A, Evans, A.M. '06, who survives the U. S. Air Service, has been killed in After his graduation, he was employed him, with two small children, Evan action. It is believed that he was killed in the efficiency department of the Re- Herbert and Bert Temple Sheldon. He while fighting in the second battle of the public Me^alware Company, of Buffalo, leaves also his parents and two sisters, Marne. and was later promoted to employment Dr. Pearl Sheldon '08, of the Depart- Mason was born February 26, 1891. superintendent. He left this company ment of Geology at Cornell, and Dr. He attended the Pittsburgh schools, and in the spring of 1916 and enlisted as a Maud Sheldon McElroy ΊO, of the de- entered Cornell in 1909, in the course in private in the University of Toronto partment of Greek in the University of arts, remaining two years. He was a Overseas Training Company. Upon Virginia. member of Seal and Serpent. the completion of his course, he was CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 469 commissioned a second lieutenant, and survives him. He also leaves his mother, attacks. A part of the crossing was ae- in April, 1917, was assigned to the 6th Mrs. Carrie S. Scoville, one sister, and complished by wading through water Royal Berkshire Regiment, British Ex- one brother. four feet deep, at some places under peditionary Forces. On July 31, of the direct fire from machine guns on the same year, he won the Military Cross for •William de C. Ravenel '18 heights north of the river. conspicuous bravery during the opera- Lieutenant William de Chastignier Embree left college at the end of his tions at Ypres. He was transferred to Ravenel, jr., was killed and his body freshman year to enlist in the Seventh the 2d Royal Berkshire tRegiment on badly charred in an airplane accident at Regiment. He was later transferred to February 6, 1918, with the rank of cap- Taliaferro Field, Texas, on June 30. The the Sixty-ninth, and had been in France tain, and after taking part in the opera- mechanic, Corporal R. L. Danning, of since October. He was one of the five tions in the north, went through the Cresco, Iowa, was also killed. men from his company who were not great retirement commencing March 23. Ravenel was the son of Mr. and Mrs. forced to go to the hospital as a result of Captain Mossman was the son of Mr. W. de C. Ravenel, of Washington, D. C. a German gas attack on the' 165th last and Mrs. A. Mossman, of Brooklyn. He prepared for college at the Western March. In writing of Mossman's death, Lieu- High School, Washington, and entered He was the son of John C. Embree, tenant William M. Reck '14, C.E., says: Sibley College with the class of 1918. chairman of the College Point, N. Y., " 'Mossie' was a rather retiring man, He was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He chapter of the American Red Cross, and sincere in his every endeavor, and very was twenty-one years old. was twenty-one years old. He was a popular with all who came to know him. Lieutenant Ravenel received his pre- member of Theta Delta Chi. He was a thorough Cornellian, of whom liminary training at the ground school at his Alma Mater may indeed feel proud." Princeton, and was later sent to Talia- •Robert Y. Snyder '20 The adjutant of his battalion summed ferro Field, where he was giving dual in- up his military career by saying: "He struction at the time of the accident. Lieutenant Robert Yarnell Snyder, a was a gallant soldier, and one of the There was no flying program for Sunday, member of the class of 1920 in the Col- coolest men I have seen in action." however, and the officer and mechanic lege of Law, was killed on July 21 while were out on a pleasure flight. Whether flying near Benbrook Field, Fort Worth, M. Marguerite Osborn '14 the machine took fire before or after the Texas. He was flying with Lieutenant crash is not known. Olaf J. Tanner when their machine Miss Mary Marguerite Osborn, daugh- dropped one thousand feet in a tail ter of R. C. Osborn, of Ithaca, died at • John H. Embree '20 spin. Both were killed. the Homeopathic Hospital in Buffalo on Sergeant John Harold Embree, a mem- Snyder was born on May 5, 1896, and June 29, twenty-four hours after the ber of the class of 1920 in Sibley College, prepared .for college at the Elmira Free death of her mother. has been killed in action. He was a Academy, entering Cornell in 1916, and Miss Osborn had always lived in member of Company K of the 165th had an excellent record as a student. He Ithaca. She was a graduate of the Ithaca Regiment, the old "Fighting Sixty- was graduated from the ground school of High School, and of Wellesley College. ninth," which Captain J. P. Hurley Ό7 aviation at Cornell on December 22, She entered Cornell in 1912, taking a led across the Ourcq at the head of the 1917, after a course of eight weeks, and special course in arts, but remained only Allied forces on July 29, and it is be- had been flying in Texas since January. one year. Before her illness she was lieved that he fell in that battle. The He received his commission a short time industrial secretary in the Young Wom- company broke up the German machine ago at Kelly Field. en's Christian Association in Youngs- gun nests and held the northern bank of His mother, Mrs. George M. Snyder, town, Ohio. She was twenty-five years the river, in spite of repeated counter lives in Elmira. old. She leaves, besides her father, a sister, Miss Lois C. Osborn, B.S. '16, and a brother, Robert S. Osborn, both of Ithaca.

Ralph I. Scoville '14 Ralph Irving Scoville died suddenly on July 22 at Cornwell, Conn., where he had gone to attend the funeral of his grandmother. He was born on August 6, 1889, and entered Cornell in 1913, from the Con- necticut Agricultural College, receiving the degree of B.S. in 1914, and M.S.A. in 1916. During his course at Cornell, he was an assistant in the Department of Dairy Industry at the College of Agri- culture, and since graduation had been connected with the Department of Ag- riculture in Washington. Scoville was married on June 2, 1917, THE SWIMMING HOLE Photograph by N. C. Mason '07 to Miss Frances Bigelow, of Ithaca, who The sport of swimming in Fall Creek was in its infancy when this picture was taken in 1907. Since then more elaborate facilities and costumes have become necessary. 470 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

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Kenneth Hugh Nash '12 VOLUNTEER DRILL was organized for Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Albert Augustus Porter '19 Company, Incorporated: John L. Senior, President, the Summer Session by Commandant R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; F. H. Wingert, Assistant Lieut. William de Chastignier Ravenel, Barton, consisting of practical infantry Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Secretary. Office, jr., '18 training supplemented by outdoor rifle 220 East State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. Sec. Lieut. Jesse Morse Robinson '16 practice and camping. Drill hours were Printed at the shop of The Cayuga Press Lieut. Robert Yarnell Snyder '20 5:15 to 6 p. m. on Mondays, Wednes- Philip Comfort Starr '13 Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. days, and Fridays. The following cadet Lieut. Bert Brenette Stroud '91 officers were assigned to the company: ITHACA, NEW YORK, AUGUST 1918 Sergt. John Hulburt Townley, Fac. Major T. B. Heustis '19, commanding; Lieut. Jefferson Davis Vincent '10 First Lieuts. P. S. Wilson '19 and H. G. VOLUME TWENTY Winfield George Wheadrick '19 Schmidt '19; and Assistant First Ser- This issue concludes our twentieth geant William Dorr, U. S. A., retired. DURAND '93 TO MINNESOTA year of publication. The next issue will PROFESSOR WILDER D. BANCROFT, of be the regular weekly number of Sep- Professor Elias J. Durand, of the Uni- the Department of Chemistry, who has tember 26. versity of Missouri, has been appointed to a professorship of botany in the been engaged in Government work since INDEX TO THE CURRENT VOLUME University of Minnesota, and will as- our entry into the War, has been com- With the publication of this number sume his chair at once. Dr. Durand missioned a lieutenant colonel in the the present volume of the NEWS is com- holds two degrees from Cornell (A.B. '93 Chemical Warfare Service. and D.Sc. '95) and taught botany here pleted. An index of the volume will be CAPT. SAMUEL A. MUNFORD, formerly as assistant and instructor from 1895 ready for distribution soon. A copy of University medical adviser and lately of till 1910. Then he went to Missouri as the index, with a title page for binding, the medical staff of the School of Aero- assistant professor of botany, and in the will be sent free of charge to any reader nautics, on June 10 assumed charge of following year was made an associate who requests it. an aviation examining unit at Harper professor. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Hospital, Detroit, Michigan. DR. ANDREW D. WHITE and his fam- Quill and Dagger, the Botanical Society ily are making a tour of New England by of America, and the American Phyto- THE NEW YORK STATE VETERINARY automobile. They will be absent from pathological Society, and a fellow of the Medical Society held its twenty-eighth Ithaca for more than a month. American Association for the Advance- annual convention at the Veterinary Col- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 471 lege on July 24-26. More than a hun- finally completed. The tablet was de- wedge for the final establishment of a dred members were in attendance. Among signed and executed by Professor Hiram full-fledged alumni side to the fraterni- the officers for the ensuing year are Pro- S. Gutsell. ties, when the undergraduate element fessor Charles E. Hay den, reelected sec- A circular letter with a detailed state- would be eventually no longer, as it is retary and treasurer, and Professor ment of the expenditure of the fund will now, practically the beginning and the Howard J. Milks, librarian. The new be sent to subscribers at some later end of the fraternity house, but would president is Dr. G. A. Knapp, of Dutchess time. At present the treasurer, Professor become, as in the English colleges, a County. Frank Carney, is engaged in geological secondary and subordinate part of a field work in the West, away from access fine university settlement, so to speak, R. S. Tarr Memorial to his accounts. The inscription on the where the alumni would be the dominant Bronze Tablet Placed on Boulder Seat bronze reads: and directing force, as should be the By His Students RALPH STOCKMAN TARR case, if our fraternities are ever going It will be remembered that shortly 1864—1912 to amount to anything worth while. after Professor Tarr's untimely death SCIENTIST—WRITER—TEACHER You seem to question the utility and in 1912 a committee of his former stu- This BOULDER—a relic of the Ice even the possibility of this beginning, dents undertook to secure subscriptions Age—Symbolic of his Research in Glacial of the introduction as I suggest of the to provide a suitable campus memorial Geology and of the Enduring Value of two alumni resident members. But I in recognition of Professor Tarr's work his Works is PLACED here as a memo- feel that you are mistaken about this. as an investigator and teacher and of rial of their Friend and Adviser BY When it would be known not only among tjieir regard for him as a valued friend. HIS STUDENTS. the undergraduates and alumni of the Some seventy-five of his former students interested chapter, but among the under- responded, and in addition there were THE CORNELL FRATERNITIES graduates and alumni of all the chapters several generous, unsolicited contribu- To the Editor of THE ALUMNI NEWS: of the fraternity in question, that there tions from others who wished to help. In your issue of January 31st, you were practically two life scholarships Altogether some $350 were collected. refer editorially to my article in the for them at Cornell, this would event- The memorial decided upon was the Christmas number of the Era^ on " Schol- ually come about as at Oxford and boulder seat shown in the accompanying arship at Cornell," taking up my first Cambridge where there are scores of photograph. The boulder itself was point, that concerning the debilitating such and similar benefices—you would donated by the farmer, Mr. William influence of the fraternities on mental find candidates for these posts not only Hart, on whose land it was found. After growth at the University. But you among the graduating seniors of the some delay in securing adequate trans- rather lead one to get a wrong impression fraternity at home and at large, but portation (it weighs between ten and of my thesis as a whole by intimating s among the alumni body of the whole twelve tons), the boulder was placed on that my sole remedy for the evil i fraternity. In this respect, by the way, the campus at the southwest corner of "that every fraternity shall be required our American fraternities are superior McGraw Hall and a seat cut in it. to have at least two alumni living in the to the English colleges, which are local Within the past month the bronze house." But this proposal, as my article only. All this scholarship matter has tablet has been set and the memorial shows, is intended simply as an entering been admirably worked out, with the years, in England, and cannot be dis- missed off-hand, as you seem to do in your editorial, as a dreamy impractica- bility. Anyway, having two resident alumni in each house, as a starter in a more wide-reaching reform, couldn't make the Cornell fraternities any worse than they are—and heaven knows that they are bad enough when soberly viewed, at close range, during a lengthy period, by a full-grown man—and might help towards their improvement. My recent sojourn on the Campus, covering a period of over a year and a half, during which time I associated in- timately with the undergraduate body and frequently visited the fraternity houses, not only strengthened my con- clusions based on two earlier but shorter visits, that the Cornell fraternities as they exist to-day are not only wholly un- worthy of their great possibilities, but that the University authorities are really shirking a responsibility.that they ought long ago to have assumed, by not put- MEMORIAL BOULDER AND TABLET TO PROFESSOR R. S. TARR ting a period to this scandalum magna- Photograph by O. D. von Engeln '08 tum, one almost might say; not, how- 472 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

ever, by suppressing them, as has been a month he has now recovered and is "I have met a few more Cornellians done in despair in some institutions, but again flying. He had been flying in here in Blighty, and the U. is certainly by requiring the alumni to accept and France since March. well represented in all the branches of carry through the necessary reforms and the service. W. M. RECK, Ί4" innovations leading to better things, by Parr Hooper '13 Missing which all parties would be the gainers,— First Lieutenant Parr Hooper '13, Nazel '13 Saved by Heroic Act the undergraduates by being lifted out A.S., S.R.C., is reported as missing in In a memorial to Sherman L. Conklin, of their present unconscious inadequacy, the casualty list given out on July 5. a member of the American Field Service the alumni by finding at their old col- He entered the School of Military Aero- who was killed in line of duty on June 12, lege-day home, with all its pleasant nautics at Ohio State University in June, The American Field Service Bulletin tells memories, something really responding 1917, and sailed for France in March. how Conklin received the French War to the demands of a full-grown man, and Soon after his arrival here, he received a Cross for heroism in saving the life of the University by having affiliated with commission as second lieutenant, on J. M. (Nip) Nazel '13 last January. it not a lot of bothersome boy-organ- recommendation of General Pershing, "An explosion of gasoline set fire to izations, but a strong body of adult- and was later promoted to first lieu- Nazel's clothing and he was enveloped managed associations, with a properly tenant. in flames. Disregarding the danger to proportioned admixture of puerility. himself, Conklin, who was very large, Then and not till then will our college H. A. Tilden'15 Injured took Nazel, who is very small, in his fraternities cease to be what they are Second Lieutenant Henry A. Tilden'15 arms, and literally tried to smother the to-day, little else than parasites on our received a broken leg about April 3, while flames. It was due to his efforts that Alma Mater. THEODORE STANTON '74. serving at the front with a field artillery Nazel's life was saved, but both were regiment. He was sent to a hospital and badly burned and for two months were MILITARY NOTES is making a good recovery. He attended in the hospital." the First Officers' Training Camp at Nazel, who also wears the French Continued from page 463 Madison Barracks, and received his com- War Cross, was reported at the time to Ithaca on April 29. Two months after mission as second lieutenant of field have been burned by the explosion of a he left Ithaca he was selected with three artillery. gas shell, but the coincidence in dates other members of his company to make makes it likely that this was the accident up an intelligence squad for service in Schurman Meets Son in France recorded. the front line trenches. President Schurman, who arrived in Instructors at Plattsburg England about the middle of July, was T. P. Knapp '17 Wounded Several Cornell men have been de- Lieutenant Thomas P. Knapp '17, of on a visit to a section of the British front with Y. M. C. A. officials the first week tailed as instructors in the camp for col- Waverly, N. Y., in the battle for Chateau lege men of non-military age at Platts- Thierry in June, received a bullet under in August, and unexpectedly met his son, Captain J. G. Schurman, jr., '17, who is burg. On the instructing staff are: W. his right ear which came out beside his T. Mallery '21, J. L. L. Frank '20, O. M. left eye. Knapp was in command of his in the Regimental Intelligence Depart- ment of the 309th Infantry. President Buerger '20, E. H. Cornish '22, C. L. machine gun company when wounded. Kilborne '20, and J. S. McGraw '21. He was second lieutenant and his first Schurman was presumably inspecting lieutenant had been killed. They were Y. M. C. A. work with the British forces At Nurses' Training School fighting in the woods, with forty men when he discovered the presence of his Mary E. Wright '14, Magna C. Til- and two machine guns opposing four son. lotson '17, Dorothy A. White '17, and hundred Germans. Snipers in trees Reck '14 Meets Cornell Men Esther Grimes '18 are attending the were picking off his men, and he crawled A letter received recently from Second Training School for Nurses at Vassar out to reconnoiter when he was wounded. Lieutenant William M. Reck, A.S., College. Eye specialists have been able to save S.R.C., who is a member of the 478th At Plattsburg Barracks Camp his sight, but he will be badly scarred for Aero Squadron, U. S. Air Service, on Colonel Frank A. Barton, command- life. Knapp is expected in Waverly, duty overseas, gives more news of Cor- shortly, on a two-month furlough, and ant, designated fourteen men from the nellians "over there." A part of his undergraduate R.O.T.C., and one mem- hopes to get back into the fight after his letter follows: recovery is complete. ber from the Faculty, to represent Cor- "Met 'Dave' [David L.] Taber, LL.B. nell at the Plattsburg Barracks Camp Houck '17, Injured, Recovers '16, about two weeks ago. He is in the commencing July 18. The camp is for Lieut. Harvey Houck '17, of Elmira, Royal Air Force and expects to fly to intensive training for undergraduates who graduated from the School of Mili- France very soon. and faculty members who expect to re- tary Aeronautics in Ithaca, was injured "D. D. Merrill, B.Arch. '12, and J. N. turn to college in the fall. The camp May 20, when his gasoline supply failed Tilton, B.Arch. '13, are stationed here continues until September 16. Certifi- him while flying at an altitude of twelve with me on a construction job in England. cates of qualification as instructors, thousand feet on scout duty over the They are both second lieutenants in the rather than commissions, will be issued. enemy's lines. He had guided his plane Aviation Section, Signal Reserve Corps, Those designated are: safely down to three hundred feet when and we all hope to cross the channel to I. R. A. Mordoff, instructor in mete- he was caught in a reverse air current. France before many months. Merrill orology, Ithaca. His machine was overturned and crashed is in the 471st Aero Squadron, and Tilton Felix L. Alcus '20, Cambridge. to the ground. Houck suffered a broken is in the First Construction Bricklaying Henry R. Ashton '21, Trenton. nose and a severed muscle above the Company of the Aviation Section, Signal Isadore H. Boarstein '20, Bayonne. eye. After being in a field hospital for Corps. G. Graydon Curtis '20, Rochester. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 473

Mark E. Cymrot '20, Brooklyn. issued. In this way it is hoped that more Edwin F. Cadiz '20, Brooklyn. ATHLETICS tickets may be sold, and the problem of Wilson S. Dodge '21, Cleveland. financing the teams made somewhat DeWitt Dodson '20, Buffalo. The Athletic Situation 1918-19 easier. William H. Grigson '20, Westfield, Pa. Intercollegiate athletics will be main- Present plans call for the opening of Raymond J. Radin '21, Hartford. tained at Cornell during the next college football practice late in September. Dr. Henry R. York '21, Kenwood, N. Y. year, at least as far as major sports are Albert H. Sharpe, who is spending the Jesse D. Stark '21, Buffalo. concerned, in the opinion of persons in- summer in Y. M. C. A. work at Camp Howard T. Saperston '21, Buffalo. terested in these activities. Of course Merritt, will return to take charge of the W. Raymond Thomas '21, Washington the athletic situation is uncertain, pend- team. He will be assisted as usual by ing the passage by Congress of the new Ray Van Orman '08. man-power act, and the promulgation of Manager Lansingh Leaves Union regulations for its administration by the Ivan C. Dresser '19 of Ithaca, the two- The American University Union is War Department. No one can estimate miler and cross country runner, was doing considerable business at present, how many students will return this fall, elected captain of the track team for in spite of the unusual military situa- and whether the number will be large 1919 at a meeting of the team held im- tion. As high as one hundred registra- enough to furnish material for the varsity mediately after the Intercollegiates. tions during one day have been received. teams and financial support to meet the This mass of work has had to be handled necessary expenses. In all probability A Midsummer Reunion by a staff that has been further depleted the Athletic Association will be unable to Cornell Women Hold Informal Get- by the return to America of its business determine definitely upon its program for Together in Ithaca manager, Van Rensselaer Lansingh. the year until after all prospective stu- On Tuesday evening, July 23, an A. D. Weil '86, Cornell's representa- dents have registered. The problem in endeavor was made to have an informal tive, writes, under date of June 22, of a athletics is one of undergraduate interest, reunion of all the Cornell women in farewell dinner to Mr. Lansingh: and undergraduate support. Ithaca, in Summer School and out, "Last Tuesday, the staff of the Union At present, however, it is proposed to graduates and undergraduates. The had a little 'family' affair at dinner to go ahead and develop teams for football, attempt was successful beyond the bid au reυoir to our popular and active cross country, track, and baseball. In fondest hopes of the committee. About business manager, Van Rensselaer Lan- view of the lack of undergraduate inter- one hundred twenty-five women, from singh, member of the executive com- est in rowing last year it is regarded as the classes of '82 to '20, gathered on the mittee and director of the Tech Bureau. doubtful if an effort should be made to steps of Bailey Hall at six o'clock, and Mr. Lansingh had previously organized carry out any sort of intercollegiate row- then proceeded to the "Domikon" for a the 'Tech' Club in Paris, which was ing schedule this year. cafeteria supper. One end of the dining merged into the Union as the 'Tech' A gratifying interest in track and cross room had been reserved for them, and Bureau. He is returning home on ac- country, and fairly good support of base- the 1918 and 1919 girls sang all the old count of his family and business inter- ball and football last year, leads friends stunt songs and a few new ones learned ests, having given all of his time to the of athletics to think it well worth while since they have been working as farmer- Union since its foundation. The Cornell to try to maintain those sports again. ettes at Coy's Glen, while the long line Bureau is indebted to Mr. Lansingh for The two minor sports in which Cornell was waiting to be served. After supper, valuable and sympathetic aid in its or- participated last year will not fare so the reunion adjourned to Risley Recrea- ganization from the start. I was glad well. It is the judgment of men sympa- tion Room, where each class from '20 of this opportunity to thank him pub- thetically interested in basketball that it back to '16 gave a stunt. The last stunt licly in this reunion of the staff. will be impossible to finance an intercol- was given by a group of "Ancient and "The affair was a quiet one, in keeping legiate team this year. The increased Honorables" from '02 to '15. The fol- with the delicate military situation, at- cost of transportation presents a financial fowing women signed the roll: tended only by the staff, but was cheer- problem that seems insurmountable. It Mary Fowler '82; Ina Genung '91; ful, enthusiastic as to the progress and would cost a good deal more money to Cecelia Law, Julia Melotte '92: Emma future of the Union. Confidence was send a team out to meet such a schedule Bowers, Nannie Burke Herrick '97; felt in the success of our troops in con- as the intercollegiate league provides than Helen Townley Brooks, Emily West- nection with those of the Allies, and the Athletic Association could hope to wood Lewis '98; Kathryn E. C. Carri- acknowledgment was expressed of the raise from the sport and to support a gan, Ellen Dole '02; Kate G. Eells, great service rendered to the Union by basketball team at the cost of a consid- Edith M. Wolfe, Eva Humphreys '03; Mr. Lansingh. erable deficit seems unwise. Basketball Caroline McFerran, Maude Cipperly "The following were present: Van at Cornell next winter, therefore, is most Wiegand, Mary Judd Mann, Delia Rensselaer Lansingh, M. I. T.; Paul likely to be an intercollege sport. What Stone '04; Mabel Wood, Frances Wick Van Dyke, Princeton; George H. Net- 'will happen to intercollegiate wrestling '05; Alice Flatter, Bessie Speed '06; tleton, Yale; Charles B. Vibbert, Mich- can not now be determined, but it would Bertha Smiley McCargo, Florence Cur- igan; William S. Coffin, Y. M. C. A.; cause no surprise if activities in that tis '08; Mary True, Ethel Davis, Anna Gordon G. Sikes, Princeton; L. W. W. branch of sport, too, would be suspended Allen Wright, Magda Kretschmar '09. Dodd, Yale; W. W. Irwίn, Pennsylvania; for the duration of the war. Mary Stone Johnson ΊO; Anna Em- C. W. Mendell, Yale; H. S. Krans, Co- It is proposed by the Athletic Associa- ley, Mabel Tillotson, Emma Speed, lumbia; John G. Cole, Harvard; W. tion to put out a football season ticket Pearl Jenks Tappan, Margaret Craig, Vinton, Michigan; David M. Davis, that will cost considerably less than the Elizabeth Genung Ίl; Ella Agard, Harvard; George C. Gibbs, M. I. T.; usual major sports ticket. In the spring Hattie Barnes, Marian Darville '12; and A. D. Weil, Cornell. a baseball and track ticket would be Dorothy Bustard, Dora Earl, Etta Koch 474 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Reed, Elma Merrick, Jane McKelway '95—Colonel James Brady Mitchell, Urquhart, Rebecca Harris '13; Lyda ALUMNI NOTES of the Inspector General's Department, M. Degener, Clara Howard '14; Frances is now on overseas duty. His address is Edwards Smith,' Margaret Trevor '15; '71 AB—James O'Neill is judge of Belgrave Mansions Hotel, Grosvenor Ruth Brace Knapp, Cornelia Zeller, the circuit court of the Seventeenth Square, London, S. W. 1, England. Judicial District of Wisconsin, and lives Julia Moesel, Helen Carmalt, Margaret '95 ME—Lieut. Colonel Frederick W, McClanahan, Leah Harvey Tree, Jean at Neillsville, Wis. He has been on the circuit bench for twenty years. Phisterer, of the Coast Artillery Corps, Dalziel Holmes '16. and his regiment have been ordered to Alice Blinn, Juanita Bates, Geraldine '81—At its annual commencement in France. June, Trinity College conferred upon Willis, Maude Van Natta, Edna Sutton, '95 ME—Bernhard Hoffmann is a con- George Shiras 3d (LL.B. Yale '83) the Frances Jansen, Margarett Wolcott '17; sulting engineer working with the U. S. honorary degree of Doctor of Science. Dagmar Schmidt, Vi Graham, Elizabeth Food Administration in connection with Cady, Clara Starrett, Sophie Harvith, Dr. Shiras is a former congressman, the Department of Transportation and Helen Waters Slimm, Florence Lumsden, having been elected to the 58th Con- Distribution for the State of New York. Elsie Church, Anna Slack, Ruth Peter- gress in 1903-04, and is at present prac- His address is 103 Park Avenue, New son, Grace Gifford, Dorcas Ball, Jose- ticing law in Washington. York. phine Lueder, Marion White, Cora '83 BS, '15 MF—Benson Howard '95 PhB—Roger H. Williams is a Gratrick, Katharine Cockcroft, Jay Paul was married on June 29 to Miss Traver, Mathilde Rosenbluth, Gertrude member of the law firm of Williams, May Greene, daughter of Mrs. William Glover & Washburn, 70 Fifth Avenue, Deans, Mildred Stevens, Mary Barstow, E. Greene, of Albany, N. Y. The bride New York. He is a member of the Evelyn Hieber '18. is a graduate of the Emma Willard Finance Committee of the National War Madolin Dewitt, Alice Street, Grace School, Wellesley College, and the New Work Council, Y. M. C. A., and is Griswold, Ellen Marx, Irene Frank, York State Library School. Paul is chairman of Legal Advisory Board No. Louise Baker, Elizabeth Allis, Carrie connected with the State Conservation 153 under the Selective Service Act. Luce, Marion Fisher, Laura Brown, Commission. They will make their Gladys Kitchin, Ina Cornish, Valerie home at the Knickerbocker Apartments, '96 ME—Alfred M. Rodelheim is a Frosch, Edith Messinger, Margaret Jen- Albany. Government inspector of ordnance. He nings, Lily Hawley '19; Haidee Carll, is still living at the Cornell Club in '90 AB—Major Thomas B. Spence is New York. Dorothy Johnston, Mary Hoyt, Louise chief surgeon in the Base Hospital at '96 ME—Arcalous W. Wyckoff, presi- Roux, Sadie Klein, Bernice Reynolds, Camp Lee, Va. Pearl Champlin, Frances Ottley, Ethel dent of the Wyckoff Motor Sales Com- Hausman, Thera Emerson, Helen '91-'92 G—Professor Vernon L. Kel- pany, of Pittsburgh, has recently been Acomb, Silence Rowlee, Ruth Wolcott, logg has lately been made a Chevalier of commissioned a major in the Chemical Dorothy Hieber, Dorrice Richards '20. the French Legion of Honor. He is now Warfare Service, National Army. He in California enjoying a well earned rest expects to sail for France very soon, THE ITHACA TRACTION CORPORATION from his labors for Belgian relief. and his headquarters will be in Paris, oh has asked permission of the Public '93 AB—Professor Arthur C. Howland the Army Purchasing Board, represent- Service Commission to increase the and family, of Philadelphia, are spending ing the Chemical War Service. trolley fare to ten cents. Since Decem- the summer at Kidder's on Cayuga Lake. ber 1, 1917, the fare in Ithaca has been '97 AB, '03 PhD—George M. Dutcher, six cents. As reasons for the further rise '93 BL, '95 ML, '02 PhD—Professor who has been for some time professor of the company urges greatly increased cost Arthur L. Andrews, head of the depart- history at Wesleyan University, Mid- of operation and decreased patronage ment of English in the College of Hawaii, dletown, Conn., has been elected vice- consequent upon a smaller number of was recently appointed a member of the president of the university. students. Resolutions against the higher Hawaiian Commission to Investigate '97 ME—Benjamin S. Cottrell has rate have been adopted by a public Feeblemindedness, and is also a member been assigned to the Quartermaster Gen- meeting of citizens and by the Ithaca of the Child Welfare Committee of the eral's Office, Clothing and Equipage Board of Commerce. The Public Service Council of National Defense. Department, Cotton Branch, Washing- Commission now has the matter under '93—Floyd K. Smith has sold his in- ton, D. C, as manager of cotton yarn consideration. terest in the Valley Mould and Iron production and inspection. His address Corporation, of Sharpsville, Pa., and THE TELEPHONE MERGER in Ithaca, is 1300 Columbia Road. which was announced last spring, will has acquired an interest in the Donner '97 PhB—Willard E. Hotchkiss, pro- not extend to the physical plant as yet. Steel Company, Inc., of Buffalo, of fessor of economics at the University Subscribers will have to retain both which he is first vice-president and treas- of Minnesota, has a leave of absence phones until the complicated situation urer. He may be addressed in care of from his university work to take in regard to labor and materials permits the company. up Government work. He is the official the installation of the new switchboards '94 LLB—Major General George Bell, representative of the shipbuilding in- and other apparatus. The local Bell jr., former professor of military science terests in the adjustment of matters con- manager estimates that this will require and tactics at Cornell, is in command of nected with the Government's Emer- until September 1, 1919. What effect an American Army division now fighting gency Fleet Corporation. He spent a Government control will produce in ad- on the British front in Flanders. day at Ithaca recently. vancing this date is the subject of spec- '95 PhD—The University of Arkansas '98 ME—William W. Macon has been ulation; it is thought that immediate at its recent commencement conferred made managing editor and a member of steps may be taken in order to eliminate the degree of LL.D. on President A. the board of directors of The Iron Age, waste. Ross Hill of the University of Missouri. New York. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 475

'98 LLB—Daniel A. Reed, secretary '03 ME—Edward D. Beals is now a laboratory and general technical depart- of the Flint, Mich., Chamber of Com- lieutenant in the U. S. Naval Reserve ment. merce, has announced his candidacy for Force, detailed to duty with the Navy '05 ME—Nelson G. Brayer is super- Congress on the Republican ticket in the Bureau of Ordnance, Washington. His intendent of the Sharon, Pa., works of 43d New York District, to succeed address is Apartment 202, 3420 Six- the National Malleable Castings Com- Congressman C. M. Hamilton, of Ripley, teenth St., Washington. pany, manufacturers of steel castings. N. Y., who will retire. '03—Frederick L. Sivyer has left the He resides at Sharpsville, Pa. '99 PhB—Dr. Royal S. Haynes is on North Western Malleable Iron Com- '06 ME—Edward H. Faile is an en- overseas duty with the American Red pany, of Milwaukee, and has gone to gineer on progress conditions, connected Cross. His address is 4 Place de la Washington, his stay there to last any- with the vice-president's office of the Concorde, Paris. where from three months until after Emergency Fleet Corporation. He lives '00 ME—G. Arthur Schieren is vice- the war. His address is in care of the at 120 Chestnut Avenue, Narberth, Pa. War Labor Policies Board, Sixteenth president of the Schieren Realty Com- '06 ME—S. Jay Teller was married and I Streets, Washington. pany, and of the Charles A. Schieren at Dunkirk, Md., on June 12, to Miss Company, of New York. His home is '03—Thomas R. Finucane is one of Lillie Carcaud Drury, daughter of Mr. at Great Neck, Long Island. the directors of the McKinley-Darragh- and Mrs. John H. Drury, of Chaney, ΌO CE—George I. Finley is in the Savage Mines of Cobalt, Ltd., Cobalt, Md. Their home is at 166 Sanford special plant of the Packard Motor Car Canada. He lives at 83 Hawthorn St., Avenue, Flushing, N. Y. Rochester, N. Y. Company, under French and British '06 AB—Roger Sherman Vail is with aviation experts, building and conduct- '04 AB, '06 LLB—Henry C. Frey is the American Red Cross, now located at ing experiments on special airplanes. At practicing law at Jamacia, N. Y. He Camp Custer, Mich. present they are working on all-steel is secretary of the Auxiliary Board of Ό6—Lindsay H. Wallace is district planes. the Borough of Queens, a branch of the officer in the Division of Steel Ship Con- Legal Advisory Board for the City of ΌO CE—Howard E. Hyde and Miss struction of the United States Shipping New York, which has charge of the legal Evangeline Irving Manatt, daughter of Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation, at advisory work incidental to the selective Mrs. M. Manatt and of the late Professor New Orleans. He is living at the Grune- service for the fifteen exemption districts J. Irving Manatt, of Brown University, wald Hotel. were married on June 22 at the Broad- in the Borough of Queens. '06 CE—First Lieut. Seth W. Webb, way Tabernacle, New York, by the Rev. '04 ME—First Lieut. Irving Warner, Engineer R. C, is serving as exchange Jerome McCaque. Hyde is now presi- Engineer R. C, has been assigned to officer and regimental supply officer with dent of Young & Hyde, Inc., engineers, the Cement Mill Detachment. His ad- the 3d Engineers, and is stationed at contractors, and exporters to the West dress is A. P. O. 702, American Expe- Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Indies. Mr. and Mrs. Hyde will make ditionary Forces. their home at 133 Wildwood Avenue, Ό4 AB, ΊO PhD—Dr. Floyd K. '06 ME—Ralph C. Turner is sales Montclair, N. J. Richtmyer, assistant professor of physics engineer for the Canadian Link Belt '01 LLB—William Metcalf, jr., has at Cornell, has left Ithaca to accept a Company. His address is 265 West sold his interest in the Braeburn Steel temporary civilian appointment as radio Wellington St., Toronto, Ontario. Company, of Pittsburgh, and has re- engineer in the Signal Corps of the '07 BSA, '16 AB—Miss Mary Bell signed from the presidency and director- United States Army at Washington. Churchyard and John Berdan Shepard ate. He has applied for a captain's The appointment was made as a result were married on June 25 at Buffalo, N. commission in the Gas Bureau of the of research work done by Professor Y. Mrs. Shepard is the daughter of the Army, and expects to be ordered to Richtmyer this summer. He plans to late Joseph J. Churchyard '74 and Mrs. France at any time. His address for the return to Ithaca before the University Churchyard, of Buffalo. The couple present is 205 Oliver Building, Pitts- reopens in October. will make their home in Ithaca. burgh. '04—Dr. William T. McCarty has '07 BArch—Robert Ή. Coit is office '01 LLB; '04 AB—James S. Havens, been appointed physical director of the manager in the Equipment Division of James Mann, William F. Strang '04, aviation unit at Mineola, N. Y., the the Bureau of Aircraft Production at the and Asher P. Whipple '01 have formed appointment carrying the rank of first Grand Rapids Airplane Company, Grand a partnership for the practice of law, lieutenant. He has been track coach of Rapids, Mich. with offices at 1015 Insurance Building, the University of Maine for several years. '07 ME—Mrs. Otto Ulbrich has an- Rochester, N. Y. The new firm suc- '05 ME—Robert A. Smith received a nounced the marriage of her daughter, ceeds Havens and Havens, one of the commission on May 18 as major in the Margaret, to Charles F. Magoffin, in leading law firms in Rochester. Ordnance Reserve Corps. He is sta- Buffalo, on June 25. Mr. and Mrs. Ό2 AB, Ό5 AB, '18 PhD—Paul F. tioned at the T. A. Gillespie Loading Magoffin will be at home after November Gaehr, who spent the last year in re- Company, South Amboy, N. J., as army 15 at 122 Bidwell Parkway, Buffalo. search work at Cornell, will next year inspector of ordnance. His home ad- '07 AB—The Rev. George P. Conger resume charge of the physics depart- dress remains the same, Mahwah, N. J. is minister of the Presbyterian Church at ment at Wells College. '05 AB—Arthur D. Camp has been Palisades Park, New Jersey, and also '02 PhD—Professor Henry L. Rietz, transferred from the Cleveland factory for the present summer has charge of the of the University of Illinois, has been of the National Carbon Company to the ministerial supply list at Union Theo- appointed head professor of mathematics American Ever Ready Works, Long logical Seminary. He is living at 120 at the University of Iowa. Island City, where he is to establish a Vermilyea Avenue, New York. 476 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

'07 AB—Professor Alfred H. Jones, of Y., have announced the engagement of Nathan A. Propp. Propp is a clothing the department of psychology in Brown their daughter, Miss Nomina Byrde and shoe merchant at Tupper Lake, N.Y. University, and Miss Bessie T. Cook Twining, and First Lieutenant James W. Ίl AB—Captain J. Eugene Bennett were married at the home of the bride's Cox, jr., of Albany. Miss Twining is a is attached to the 315th Ammunition parents at Whitney Point on Monday graduate of the Emma Willard School Train, 90th Division, American Expe- evening, July 15. Mrs. Jones was for and of Farmington Academy. Lieuten- ditionary Forces. some time a soloist in St. John's Church, ant Cox is in the Quartermaster Corps, Ίl LLB—Captain Henry J. Kimball Ithaca. Professor and Mrs. Jones are U. S. Army. and Miss Carola Spencer Craig, only living this summer at Newport, where '09 ME—Lieut. Alfred H. Hutchinson daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Clark Craig, he is engaged in Y. M. C. A. work. is commanding Company L, 3d Develop- of Philadelphia, were married on Sun- '07 AB—Louis W. Fehr was appointed ment Battalion, 152d Depot Brigade, day, July 28, in Calvary Episcopal on July 9 a captain in the Quarter- stationed at Camp Upton, N. Y. Church, New York. Kimball is still master Corps, National Army, and or- '09 CE—Upon the completion last stationed at Camp Dix. Captain and dered to Washington for duty. Fehr, October, of sanitation work at Paysandά, Mrs. Kimball will make their home in who had his law offices at 31 Nassau St., Uruguay, where he had been engaged Watertown, N. Y. New York, was secretary of the New since 1910, Albert Diamant resigned his Ίl AB—Harry F. Bigler is a corporal York City Park Board, under the ad- position as resident engineer, and is now in Company A, 306th Infantry, now in ministration of John, Purroy Mitchel. office engineer and superintendent in France. His mail address is 1716 Euclid St., charge of the construction of a 10,000 Ίl ME—Raymond P. Heath has re- N. W., Washington. k. w. addition to the present power plant signed his position as safety engineer in '07.ME—Edmund H. Eitel has been of the Chile Exploration Company of the Washington Navy Yard, and has assigned to the Naval Air Station, New York. The power is used for the enlisted in the Aviation Section of the Chatham, Mass. Mail for him addressed reduction of copper ore at the company's Navy. He expects to sail soon for in care of Henry Eitel, 1811 N. Meridian mine at Chuquicamata. His present France. St., Indianapolis, will be forwarded. address is Tocopilla, Chile. Ίl AB—James S. Elston, A. A. S., '07 ME—First Lieut. John A. Fergu- ΊO AB—Stanton Griffis, son of Dr. has been enrolled as a fellow of the son, Quartermaster Corps, N. A., is William Elliott Griffis, of Ithaca, has American Institute of Actuaries, having serving as Transport Quartermaster. been appointed a captain and has been passed a series of examinations covering His temporary address is 875 West 181st assigned to duty on the General Staff, the actuarial, financial, and legal sides St., New York. Washington, D. C. of life insurance, social insurance, and '08—Timothy S. Goodman was mar- ΊO AB, '13 LLB—Mr. and Mrs. Mi- pension funds. ried at New York City on November 5 norres Beebe Sheldon announce the Ίl ME—Sergeant Edward W. Ash- to Miss Lefreda Weir Darlington. He marriage of their daughter, Norwena, to mead is attached to Company A, 1st is a flying cadet in the Aviation Section James Cyril O'Brien, on Wednesday, Battalion, 37th Engineers, now on over- of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, sta- June 26, in New York City. seas duty. tioned at Souther Field, Americus, Ga. Ίl ME—Lieut. John W. Gavett has Ίl ME—Charles C. Trump has '08 PhD—Dr. Willard J. Fisher, hon- been relieved from duty with the 1st recently been appointed assistant ad- orary fellow in physics at Clark Uni- Regiment of Engineers, and is now an ministrative engineer, under the Federal versity, and lecturer in physics at instructor in the Army Engineer School. Fuel Administrator for New York State, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has His address is A. P. O. 714, American and the Bureau of Conservation of the gone to Manila as assistant professor in Expeditionary Forces., United States Fuel Administration, and plwsics at the University of the Philip- Ίl—Lieut. T. Rogers Taylor is in the is devoting full time to the work of fuel pines. 5th Casual Company at Camp Hills, conservation in the State. His address '08 ME—Ralph R. Lally has been Newport News, Va. is 206 East Genesee St., Syracuse, N. Y. transferred from the Purchase Section, Ίl AM, '15 PhD—James K. Plum- Ίl CE—Captain Octave De Carre Gun Division, to the Procurement Divi- mer, formerly associated with the North has been transferred to the Railway sion of the Ordnance Department, Carolina Experiment Station, has re- Artillery Reserve. His address is A. P. O. Washington. cently joined the staff of the Hercules 707, American Expeditionary Forces. '08 ME, '12 MME—Charles E. Tor- Powder Company, to engage in war Ί2 AB—Hamilton B. Bole is first vice- rance, jr., is now with the Fisk Rubber work. His address is Dover, N. J. president of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company, Chicopee Falls, Mass. Ίl DVM—Second Lieut. Arthur W. Company, Cleveland, which is engaged '09 ME—The address of Ensign Roy Combs, Veterinary O. R. C, has been solely on Government munitions con- H. Cunningham, U. S. N. R. F., is Re- transferred from the French Veterinary tracts. His home address is 8205 Euclid serve Officers' Quarters B (Engineers), Hospital to the 1st Reserve Supply Avenue. U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Train (Wagon). In a recent letter, he '12 AB—Jacob S. Fassett, jr., has '09 CE—B. Bertrand Weiss has been writes: "I am back with the American been promoted to sergeant and assigned commissioned an ensign in the U. S. N. Forces now and back of the front, just to the Intelligence Office, Headquarters, R. F., and assigned to the Bureau of now, some distance. We hope to move Camp Gordon, Ga. Ordnance of the Navy Department, 'up there' soon, as life is too quiet here— Ί2 LLB—Henry A. Carey has taken 6046 Interior Building, Washington. so quiet we can't sleep nights." over the business and good will of the '09 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Ίl LLB—A daughter, Beatrice Mag- Morse-Rankin Insurance Company, Inc., Twining, of Pawling Avenue, Troy, N. ner, was born on April 9 to Mr. and Mrs. which has for many years been in busi- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 477 ness at 222 East State St., Ithaca, and Oakland, Calif. This plant is owned by '13 PhD—Dr. Vern B. Stewart has has moved it to his offices in the Strand the Government and operated on an accepted an appointment in the Bureau Theater Building. Virgil D. Morse re- agency basis by the San Francisco Ship- of Plant Pathology at Washington, and tains an interest in the business, which building Company. Four shipbuilding is now engaged in work on the patho- will hereafter be conducted under Carey's ways are now under construction, and logical aspects of market inspection of name. eight reinforced concrete ships of 7500- vegetables. '12 ME—William C. Ballantyne is a ton capacity will be built in this yard. '13—Thomas Henry Latimer, jr., has private, first class, in the Searchlight Hynds' address is the Palace Hotel, received a commission as second lieuten- Investigation Section, 437th Engineer San Francisco. ant in the Signal Reserve Corps, Avia- Detachment, Washington, D. C. '13 CE—Lieut. Theodore L. Wrelles, tion Section. He is assistant engineer '12 AB—Miss Alma H. Hawkins has jr., is in France with Company B of the officer in charge of aero repair shops at sailed for France as an operator in the 318th Engineers. Wilbur Wright Field, Fairfield, Ohio. Telephone Unit of the Signal Reserve '13 CE—Mr. and Mrs. Dean G. Mar- '13 AB; '13 AB—Announcement is Corps. tin, of Honeoye Falls, N. Y., have an- made of the birth of a daughter, Dagny, '12 AB—First Lieut. Floyd R. New- nounced the engagement of their daugh- to Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Hoff, jr. (Agnes E. man, Quartermaster Corps, N. A., has ter, Carolyn Jane, to Captain Arthur Henderson Ί3), of Montclair, N. J. sailed for France for work in connection W. Beale, Q. M. C, N. G. Captain Hoff is attending the artillery school at with the reconditioning, storage, and Beale is attached to Company E, 102d Fort Monroe, Va. distribution of gasoline and oils. His Supply Train, 27th Division, which has '13 ME—Neill Houston has been pro- address is Quartermaster Corps, Ameri- recently been ordered to France. moted from first lieutenant to captain can Expeditionary Forces. '13 AB, '17 PhD—Harold S. Bennett in the Engineer Reserve Corps, and '12 ME—G. Steward Giles, of the is instructing in gas warfare at Camp sailed for France in May to take special U. S. N. R. F. C, is a student inspector Kearny, Calif. He is chief gas officer course in sapping and mining at a com- of aviation construction and materials in the 40th Division. manding officers' school. He is still a at the Curtis Plant, Buffalo, N. Y. He member of Company A, 307th Engineers. '13 ME—Milton Acker, who has been lives at 314 West Utica Street. manager of the Connecticut branch '14, CE—Mr. and Mrs. Thadford B. '12 BArch—A daughter, Margaret office of the National Workmen's Com- Dayton, of Willoughby, Ohio, announce Coffin Kerr, was born on July 9 to pensation Bureau since 1914, has re- the marriage of their daughter, Bernice,' Lieutenant and Mrs. Donald C. Kerr. cently been appointed assistant super- to Earle Winthrop Hall, on Friday, June Kerr is a first lieutenant in the Ordnance intendent of the rating and inspection 21, at the Morsemere Methodist Church, Department, stationed at Sandy Hook, department of the Bureau in its home Yonkers, N. Y. Hall is assistant en- N. J. He is a son of the late Walter C. office, 13 Park Row, New York. gineer at the Atha Works of the Crucible Kerr '79, a former Trustee of the Univer- Steel Company of America, Harrison, sity. Mrs. Kerr is a sister of Foster M. '13 ME—John H. Brodt is a sergeant N. J. The couple will make their home Coffin '12. in the Ordnance Detachment of the at 107 Linden Avenue, Arlington, N. J. 307th Field Artillery, 77th Division, '12 AB—Sergeant Frank A. Bond is which has recently sailed for France. '14 ME—Private Boudinot S. Loney in the 22d Company, 6th Battalion, 2d is attending the Ordnance Supply School Infantry Replacement Regiment, at '13 ME—Lieut. William R. M. Very at Camp Gordon, Ga. He has been as- Camp Gordon, Ga. He has completed has been transferred from the Ordnance signed to Provisional Company A. the course of training in the Third Engineers' Reserve Corps to the Tank Officers' Training Camp, and is known Corps, N. A. He is now in Company C, USED IN THE ARMIES AND NAVIES as an ''officer candidate." 326th Battalion, stationed at Camp Colt, '12 ME—Captain Edward Northup Gettysburg, Pa. He says that a num- Hay, son of Brigadier General William ber of Cornell men in the Tank Corps were H. Hay, has recently been transferred on board the President Lincoln when Your boy needs a from the Machine Gun and Small Arms she was torpedoed on her return trip Section to the Motor Equipment Sec- from abroad, but that none of them were tion in the Engineering Bureau of the injured. Ordnance Department. '13 AB—The Rev. and Mrs. Alfred '12 ME—LaFayette L. Porter has Kelley Bates have announced the mar- received a commission as ensign in the riage of their daughter, Naomi, to Lewis U. S. N. R. F., for submarine service, James Owen, at Nanking, China, on and is taking a four-months training June 6. course at Annapolis. He will later go to '13 ME—John H. Sherwin has left New London, Conn., for submarine the Colorado Power Company, and is work, after which he expects to go across. now with the Machine Gun Company '12 CE—First Lieut. Harold D. of the 35th Infantry, located on the Hynds, Aviation Section, Signal R. C, Mexican border, with headquarters at is on detached service on the Pacific Nogales, Ariz. Coast with the United States Shipping '13 ME—Carroll S. Dudley is a private PARKER INK Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation, as in the Casual Detachment of the 13th <- TABLETS -»• resident engineer in charge of the Gov- Service Company, on duty at Camp For a Soldier's "Kit" in ernment concrete shipbuilding plant at Alfred Vail, Little Silver, N. J. place of Fluid ink. 10c PER BOX 478 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

'14 ME—Lieutenant McRea Parker guages at Cornell, is attending the Field '15 BS—The address of Ensign Wil- is engaged in designing and equipping Artillery Officers' Training Camp at liam V. Couchman, jr., is changed from machine shops for the Motor Transport Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky. He is in U. S. S. Minnesota to U. S. S. Preston, Service. His address is M. T. S., Head- the 3d Battery. in care of the Postmaster, New York. quarters S. O. S., A. P. O. 717, American '14—Captain Ovid E. Roberts, jr., '15 ME—Miss Grace C. Biggs, A.N.C., Expeditionary Forces. Engineers, N. A., is commandant of the American Expeditionary Forces, an- '14 CE—Lieut. Harry J. Feehan has Army Gas School at Camp A. A. Humph- nounces the marriage of her sister, Leva, been transferred from Camp Upton to reys, Va. to W. Noyes Baker, of Glens Falls, on Camp Meade. He is now with Com- '14 BChem—Nathaniel J. Goldsmith June 15. Mr. and Mrs. Baker are living pany C, 304th Engineers. has moved from Bay Point, Calif., to at 238 Glen St., Glens Falls. Baker is '14 BS, '17 MF; '15 BS, '17 MF—A still with the International Paper Com- r Betteravia, Calif., where he is connected son, Frederick Newton Millen, was born with the Union Sugar Company. pany, Bureau of Tests. on June 26 to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick '15 BS, '16 MS—Victor H. Ries is a H. Millen (Mabel G. Beckley Ί5). Mr. '14 AB—Henri K. KirkPatrick, who first class private in Company D, 302d and Mrs. Millen live at 3711 Twenty- has been for the past year a professor of Ammunition Train, now in service in eighth St., Bryan, Texas. English in the Ewing Christian College, France. Allahabad, India, has been granted a '14 AB—Louis A. Salade has been pro- leave of absence to enable him to enlist '15 AB—First Lieut. Hugo Muench, moted from ensign to lieutenant (junior in war work. He is at present engaged jr., Medical R. C, is attending a Train- grade) in the U. S. N. R. F. His mailing in educational work among the Meso- ing Camp for Surgeons "somewhere in address is Apartment 507, Florence potamian soldiers in the furlough camps, France." His address is General Hos- Court, California St., Washington. and expects later to be transferred to pital No. 12, British Expeditionary '14 CE—Mr. and Mrs. Frank E Mesopotamia, where he says there is a Forces, France. Davis, of Los Angeles, Calif., announce great need for Y. M. C. A. workers. '15 AB, '17 ME—Louis Etshokin has the marriage of their daughter, Dorothy, been appointed an ensign (temporary) to Lieutenant Frederick Warren Conant, '14 AB; '15 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Wil- in the U. S. Navy, and is taking a course on June 29. liam Alexander Wilson announce the in the Submarine School, New London, marriage of their daughter, Miss Dorothy Conn. '14 CE—Thomas F. Danforth has left Gay Wilson '14, to Lieutenant Karl Newport, R. L, where he has been doing '15 BS—First Lieut. Charles M. War- Henry Mayer '15, Ordnance R. C, on ren is connected with Battery F, 62d Government construction work since Friday, June 28, at New York City. last fall, and is now a private in Com- Artillery, C. A. C. He has presumably pany F, 4th Training Regiment of En- '14 ME—Ensign Warren Packard has gone across. gineers, at Camp Humphreys, Va. been transferred temporarily to New '15 CE; '18—Lieut. Henry Gardner '14 AB, '14 AM—Merton J. Hubert, York to handle the shipment of aerial Lehrbach and Miss Henriette Prudence formerly an instructor in Romance Ian- material abroad. He hopes soon to get Ely, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Coral W. to France. His mail address is 121 Ely, of Poplar Ridge, N. Y., were mar- East Twenty-first Street, New York. ried on June 29 at the Episcopal Church '14 ME—Miss Sue Biggart and Walter in Aurora. Lieutenant Warren W. Lehr- E. Addicks were married on June 1, in bach '17 was best man and Miss Esther New York City. They are living at Ely '21 was maid of honor. Lieuteant 2505 University Avenue, New York. and Mrs. Lehrbach are at home at 182 Addicks is engaged in engineering in Tradd St., Charleston, S. C. of WEBSTER'S connection with Army and Navy estim- '15 ME—Walter K. Ashmead has ates and contracts at the New York recently been promoted to manager of NEW INTERNAΉONAL works of the Cutler-Hammer Manufac- the lubricating department of the Stand- DICTIONARIES are in use by business ard Oii Company, Bombay, India. men, engineers, bankers, judges, archi- turing Company. tects, physicians, farmers, teachers, li- 14 ME—John H. Mcllvaine, of Chi- '16 LLB—James N. Butler is attend- brarians, clergymen, by successful cago, has been promoted to major of ing the Central Officers' Training Camp men and women the world over, field artillery in the regular Army. He at Camp Gordon, Georgia. He is in ARE YOU EQUIPPED TO WIN? the 3d Company. The New International is an all-knowing is probably the youngest major in the teacher, a universal question answerer. service. He received his captain's com- '16—The New York Sun in its issue 400,000 Vocabulary Terms. 2700 Pages. 6000 mission at the First Officers' Training of June 23 published a picture of the Illustrations. Colored Plates. 30,000 Geograph- Camp at Fort Sheridan, and was placed first "brigade" of Americans to attend ical Subjects. 12,000 Biographical Entries. Regular and India-Paper Editions. in command of Company B, 333d Field the famous artillery school at Fon- Write for Spec- Artillery at Camp Grant. In March he tainebleau. The men, twenty-three in imen Pages, Il- completed a course in the School of number, enlisted as volunteers in the lustrations, etc. Free, a set of Fire for Field Artillery at Fort Sill, and French Foreign Legion and were trans- Pocket Maps if you name this was retained at that post as an instructor ferred to the artillery. Among then are paper. in artillery fire and instructor on ma- Arthur L. Partridge '16, of St. Louis, G.&C. terial. He hμs been ordered to Camp and Willaim W. Cortelyou '16, son of MERRIAM Lewis, Washington. George B. Cortelyou, of New York. CO., '15—Lieut. Wilder J. Bowers is at- '16 CE—George D. Barnhart is a Springfield, Mass. tached to the 411th Motor Supply computer in the Valuation Department Train, American Expeditionary Forces. of the New York Central Railroad, with CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 479

headquarters at the Grand Central '17 BS—A. David Da vies is county '17 AB; '18 AB—The marriage of Terminal, New York. His present mail agent for Lewis County. He lives at Miss Helen Louise Waters, daughter of address is Clayton, N. Y. Lowville, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Waters, of '16 BS—Earl H. Hodder was married '17 ME—Ensign Robert Hett Chap- Albany, N. Y., and First Lieut. John on June 26 to Miss Cecelia Peterson, of man, U. S. N. R. F., and Miss Sadie Bernard Slimm, Aviation Section, Sig- Gloversville, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Hod- Lipscomb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. nal R. C, of Cleveland, took place at der will reside in Malone, where Hodder Robert Stetson Lipscomb, were married the home of the bride on June 17. Lieu- is an instructor in agriculture in the on Saturday evening, June 29, at the tenant Slimm is an instructor in the Franklin Academy. During the sum- First Baptist Church of Gaffney, S. C. ground school at Cornell. The couple mer he has been assisting the Franklin live at 308 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca. County Farm Bureau and supervising '17 ME—Emanuel M. Cohen is on '17 ME—Victor P. Pennington is a junior project work. overseas duty with Company F, 25th flying cadet at Chanute Field, Rantoul, Engineers, Mail for him should be ad- 111. '16—Alan L. Brown has been trans- dressed to Army Post Office No. 735, '17 ME—Warren G. King, who has ferred from Camp Meade to the Medical American Expeditionary Forces. Supply Depot, New York, as a chemist been doing inspection work on seaplanes in the laboratory. His mail address is 95 '17—Paul L. Sullivan, son of John G. in Keyport, N. J., is now in charge of Ascension St., Passaic, N. J. Sullivan '88, has enlisted in the aviation the inspection of instruments at the service, and is now a cadet in the U. S. Moto Meter Company, Long Island City. '16 AB—Harlow Tuttle and Miss Army School of Military Aeronautics at His address is 239 Central Park, West, Mary Charlotte Slingerland (Vassar Ί7) the University of Illinois. New York. were married on July 2 at Pine Plains, N. Y. '16 DVM—Bernard C. Meade is at- tending the Veterinary Training School at Camp Lee, Va. He is in the 5th Company. '16 BArch—Lieut. Harold B. Burdick, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Miss Enola B. Foster, daughter of Mrs. F. M. Foster, of 315 North Albany St., Ithaca, were married on July 1, at the residence of the bride's mother, by the Rev. George R. Baker. They left at once for Fort Worth, Texas, where Burdick is located with the Signal Corps, Aviation Branch. Mrs. Burdick was graduated from the Ithaca Conservatory of Music in 1912, and since 1914 has taught the piano in the Conservatory faculty. '16 AB—Bayard Taylor is a private in the U. S. Marines, and is now in France. has given Baker-Vawter Company by ten times He is with the 6th Regiment, 74th Com- pany. the greatest fund of MACHINE BOOKKEEPING '16 AB; '17 AB—Mr. and Mrs: Ralph :|^ your installation. H. Tiebout, of Brooklyn, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Helen Tiebout '17, to Lieutenant J. Arthur Whitecotton '16. Lieutenant Whitecotton received his commission at the Second Officers' Training Camp at the Presidio of California, and is now stationed at Camp Fremont, Palo Alto, "We are glad indeed of the opportunity to express our Calif. approval of the satisfaction that the Baker-Vawter '16 ME—William R. Yorkey has en- Machine Bookkeeping System has Heed THE BIG MAJORITY. Con- listed in the Naval Reserve. His ad- given us," says The Hyde Park Lum- suit Baker-Vawter Company and in- dress is Barracks B, U. S. Naval Acad- ber Co., of Cincinnati, whose Baker- sure success for your installation. Vawter Binders are pictured beside emy, Annapolis, Md. Write DepU M> either factory: the Remington Accounting Machine, βenton Harbor, Mich. Holyoke, Mass. '16 AB—John W. Bateman, formerly When a ten times greater number 47 Sales Offices-Consult Phone Book. associated with the du Pont Company, of firms, after comparison, chooses Salesmen Everywhere 5113 Hope well, Va., has enlisted in the Naval one source of supply for equipment it proves the equipment and AD VICEf ur- BAKER-VAWTER COMPANY Aviation Corps, and is awaiting orders. iikhed are the BEST OBTAINABLE* Originators and Manufacturers His present address is Dividing Creek, LOOSE LEAF AND STEEL RUNG EQUIPMENT

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'17 BS—Robert S. M. Fraser is taking '17 AB—Robert U. Carr has been ap '18—Robert W. Hopkins has been a special course in gas engine instruction pointed a corporal in tfee Ordnance De- discharged from the service for disability with the Beloit College Training De- partment and transferred from the incurred in line of duty. His present tachment, Beloit, Wis. Rock Island Arsenal to the Ordnance address is 551 People's Gas Building, '17 AB—Lieutenant Henrick Antell Detachment, Aviation Branch, Morrison, Chicago, 111. and Miss Dorothy Van Horn, head of Va. '18—Private D. Joseph De Andrea is the domestic science department in the '17 CE—First Lieut. Alfred Mullikin, attending the School for Radio Elec- Ithaca High School, were married on Sanitary Corps, N. A., is sanitary in- tricians, of the U. S. Signal Corps, at June 27 at the home of the bride's spector at Kelly Field, San Antonio, the A. and M. College, College Station, parents in Elmira. First Lieut. Sidney Texas. Texas. P. Howell '17 was best man. Mrs. '17—lieutenant George Swiggart '18—Private Gerald A. O'Brian has Antell is a graduate of Elmira College, Miles and Miss Amy Angeline Brown, been assigned to the Medical Detach- class of 1915, and is a sister of Ralph C. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee ment, Base Hospital, Camp Upton, N. Y. Van Horn '18. Lieutenant Antell is Brown, were married on May 27 at '18 DVM—Dr. Harsey King Leonard, stationed with the 49th Infantry at Christ Episcopal Church, Macon, Ga. of Binghamton, and Miss Harriet Bea- Camp Merritt, N. Y., and expects soon Lieutenant and Mrs. Miles are at home trice Presher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. to be sent overseas. at 556 College Avenue, Macon, Ga. Franklyn E. Presher, of Ithaca, were '17 ME—Ivan Buys is now in France '17 BS—Henry Dietrich is now in married on June 28 by the Rev. George with the Field Detachment of the service. At Camp Dix he was first as- R. Baker. Dr. Harvey W. Myers '18, Meteorological Division, Signal Corps. signed to Battery A of the 309th Heavy of Kenoza Lake, N. Y., was best man. His address is A. P. O. 714. Field Artillery, but was later transferred They went for a wedding trip through the Ί7-Ί9 G—Frederick M. Smith is an with thirty-three others, to the Officers' Catskill Mountains. Dr. Leonard en- enrolling clerk at the U. S. Explosive Training Camp at Camp Meade. He is listed in the Medical Reserve Corps last Plant at Nitro, ten miles from Charles- in the First Battery. He writes to a December, but was granted a furlough ton, W. Va., where about eighteen thou- friend: "I like this place much better. to enable him to complete his course. sand men are employed. The country is more rolling and covered He left for camp on July 24, and is now '17 DVM—Daniel H. Mallan is with with vegetation, while Dix is one big a member of Company 1, at Camp Green- the 3d Field Artillery, 2d Battalion, at desert." leaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 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