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Donaldson '20 Brings Down Nine German Planes; Gets D. S. C. Allen '16 and Rummell '16 Win D. S. C.; Halley '14 a French Cross Thirteen More Die in Service; One Missing; One Wounded Maj. W. D. Straight Όl Makes Cor- nell a Beneficiary by His Will Alumni Clubs Begin to Renew Their Activities

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HE vacation which came to an end next week will resume his former duties to the Common Council; and that body on Monday, however it may have as permanent secretary of the Ithaca Y. has deferred action until its February Tbeen enjoyed by students, meant to M. C. A. A final dance for men in the meeting. Meantime a decision of Justice many of the Faculty little more than School of Photography was given-by the George McCann 786 may help toward a a cessation of classes, and even this War Camp Community Service in Ma- settlement of the question in Ithaca. period of rest was shorter than usual. sonic Hall on December 18. Judge McCann vacated an injunction Comparatively few professors found an restraining the police of Binghamton opportunity to attend tlι- » meetings of A BATTERY OF LIGHT ARTILLERY may be from closing the picture theaters on learned societies. Necessary readjust- an integral part of the restored Reserve Sunday. If, as is probable, the case is ments of the curriculum in all the col- Officers' Training Corps at Cornell. This taken to the Court of Appeals, and if leges entailed a great amount of work; new feature has been proposed to the that court sustains the decision on so that committees and administrative University authorities by Lieutenant Col- which Judge McCann ;s order is based, ? officers were as busy as in term-time. onel Eobert Earl Coulson 09, who for there will be no more Sunday movies in The added burden was in part the result three months past has been attached to the state unless the Legislature acts. of the division of the current year into the General Staff in Washington and ( FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, on the three terms. Only Christmas Day itself who visited Ithaca about the middle of evening of December 20, destroyed the was a genuine holiday. Moreover, en- December. No decision has been reached. old boiler house of the Ithaca Traction trance examinations, for which no other The principal requirement which the Uni- Corporation at Remington. Seven of the time seemed convenient or even possible, versity must meet is the stabling neces- nine boilers were rendered useless; there were held during five days of last week, sary for perhaps a hundred and fifty were no electric lights in the city until a kind of labor scarcly appropriate to a horses, the number depending upon the after midnight; and trolley service was vacation. As a whole the recess was number of guns. Colonel Coulson be- not resumed until the next morning. probably unique in the annals of the lieves that the mess halls put up for Cars have been running on a reduced University. cadets could be converted into stables without undue expense. The battery, if schedule ever since. Fortunately a new- THE WINTER COURSES in agriculture, organized, would be in command of a er boiler house, of brick, was unaffected. which began on November 6, run con- lieutenant colonel of artillery detailed Some accident at Eemington is coming to tinuously, except for Christmas Day, here by the Government. be an annual occurrence; fire two years through twelve weeks. The number of ago and a disastrous explosion a year the so-called '' short-horns'9 is this year, Louis AGASSIZ FUERTES '97, repre- ago seriously interrupted the supply of for reasons easily understood, much re- sented by Henry W. Sackett ?75, has light and power. Citizens, patient under duced, the enrollment being only eighty- won, with satisfactory damages, his suit afflictions, are earnestly hoping that three. Quite apart from these courses brought in 1917 against two publishing here is another case of three times and but likewise increasing the winter at- firms for the unauthorized use of his out. tendance, are two tractor schools which name and of reproductions of his paint- THE ITHACA ROTARY CLUB continued the college has planned for the ensuing ings of birds. These paintings Mr. this year its happy custom of a Christ- months, one from January 13 to Febru- Fuertes made several years ago to il- mas auction for local charities. Gifts ary 1, the other from February 17 to lustrate "The Birds of New York," issu- suitable for children are taken to the March 8. ed by the State Museum. The paintings regular luncheon and sold to the high- were not copyrighted. Later the repro- ENTERTAINMENT BY THE ARMY Y. M. est bidders for cash. Later the gifts ductions were published in other books C. A. for the members of the S. A. T. C. are distributed among children whose and were advertised as by Mr. Fuertes, were brought to a close by a farewell Christmas is not likely to be very merry; but without his knowledge or consent. social on the evening of December 16. those, for example, in the Open Air He accordingly brought suit under the During the late summer, the vocational School, the Tuberculosis Hospital, and Civil Bights Law; and his contention of section being already under way, and other homes; and the money is used for injury was sustained by the decision of through the autumn, after the academic relieving distress or providing some com- the court. The decision is important for section was organized, Barnes Hall, serv- forts among the poor. The sum raised artists because it takes the ground that ing as a ''hut," has been the common this year, $410, will be spent by a/com- even in the absence of copyright they gathering place for men in service; and mittee of the club for clothing for de- can protect their names and their work some special diversion or entertaining serving poor children in the city. from unauthorized exploitation. program has been provided on nearly PROFESSOR JAMES ,T. QUARLES, of the every Saturday night. The success of THE AUTOMATIC CLOSING of the Sun- Department' of Music, during the holi- the enterprise is owing to the ready co- day movies upon the withdrawal of the day recess gave several organ recitals in operation tioth of the soldiers themselves soldiers has led to some agitation for a cities near St. Louis. He^had a part in and of various women's organizations continuance of Sunday pictures. Peti- the program at the dedication of a large with the secretary, S. Bruce Wilson. tions both for and against further ex- organ in the First Christian Church of Wilson is now released from service and hibitions on Sunday have been presented St. Joseph, Missouri. 158 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

the enemy planes were destroyed and pierced Donaldson's right arm, but the ARMY; AND NAVY the remaining three retired.'' sentry was killed and Donaldson joined Eummell graduated from the Arts Coϊ- his friends. They reached a small D. S. C. for Allen '16 Jege in 1916. He is a member of the Phi Dutch village that night, and soon made The Distinguished Service Cross has Kappa Sigma Fraternity, and of the their way back to the American lines. been awarded to First Lieutenant Gard- Manuscript Club. He was a member of Lieutenant Donaldson is a son of ner Philip Allen '16, of Flint, Mich., the Cornell Era board in his sophomore, Colonel Thomas Q. Donaldson, of the "for extraordinary heroism in action becoming managing editor in his junior Inspector General's Department, U. λS. near Thiaucourt, France, on October 9, year, and editor-in-chief the following- Army. 1918. Lieutenant Allen, observer, with year. As a junior, he was assistant man- Halley '16 Wins French Cross ager of the wrestling team, becoming First Lieutenant Edward Eussell Moore, The Croix de Guerre has recently been manager the next year. pilot, took advantage of a short period awarded by the French Government to Before entering the service he was em- of fair weather during generally un- S. Eussell Halley '14, then a lieutenant, ployed in the advertising department of favorable atmospheric conditions to un- now a captain in the U. S. Air Service. the New York World. He was a mem- dertake a photographic mission behind His citation follows: ber of the first class to graduate from the German lines. Accompanied by two ίf During the bombardment of a bat- the Ground School of Military Aeronau- protecting planes, they, had just com- tlefield Second Lieutenant Bonfils, the tics, and received his flying training at menced their mission when they were at- observation officer, having been killed, Selfridge Field, Mt. Clemens, Mich. tacked by eight enemy planes, which fol- his pilot, Second Lieutenant Halley, an His home is in Newark, N. J. lowed them through their course, firing American, although himself severely at the photographic plane. Lieutenant D. S. C. for Donaldson wounded in the arm, succeeded in bring- Moore, pilot, with both flying wires cut Lieutenant John O. Donaldson '20, ing the body of his companion back into by bullets, a landing wire shot away, his who returned to this country on the the French lines. Halley brought down elevators riddled with bullets, and both Celtic, wears a Distinguished Service a German plane that day." wings punctured, continued on the pre- Halley is a graduate of Sibley College, Cross, which was awarded him for shoot- scribed course, although it made him an class of 1914, and is a member of the ing down nine German planes before easy target. Lieutenant Allen was thus Zodiac Society. He enlisted in the Air enabled in the midst of the attack to take he himself was captured. Service soon after the declaration of war, pictures of the exact territory assigned, On September 1 he \vas flying behind and received his ground school training and he made no attempt to protect the the German lines on the Verdun front at Champaign, 111., and his flying train- plane with his machine guns. Display- when he was captured and taken to the ing later in France. He went across with ing entire disregard for personal danger prison camp at Dϋsseldorf. A few days the first aviation officers, of whom Lieu- and steadfast devotion to duty, these two later, he crawled through a fence, tenant Quentin. Eoosevelt was one, and officers successfully accomplished their jumped into a German airplane, and of the forty-seven who went over, Cap- mission.'' took to the air. He was only twenty tain Halley and five others are all who Lieutenant Allen is the son of Mr. feet in the air when, with both wings remain alive. and Mrs. George G. Allen, of Flint, Mich. practically shot away, he was forced to During his sixteen months in France, He graduated from Marquette College laηd. He was transferred to another he has been an aviation instructor, and in 1914, with the degree of B. S. in C. E., camp. He had been there only a day has done a great deal of actual fighting and in 1915 entered the College of Civil when he, with Lieutenant Eobert A. An- with "the French and British airmen. He Engineering at Cornell, receiving the de- derson '16, and several other lieutenants, has done no flying with the American gree of C. E. in October, 1916. He en- planned another getaway. They got as forces. listed at Fort Sheridan, 111., on August far as the Dutch border when they were Captain Halley has returned to his 1, 1917, and was later assigned to Fort recaptured and sent to still another home in Eapid City, S. Dak. He is a Monroe, Va., where he was commissioned camp. Their next chance for attempting son of Mr. and Mrs. James Halley, raid a first lieutenant in the Coast Artillery an escape came about the middle of Octo- a brother of Lieutenant Walter F. Hal- Corps. He was attached to the 8th Aero ber, when by traveling by night and hid- ley '17, who is still in France, as an in- Squadron. ing by day, they finally succeeded in structor in aviation. again reaching the Dutch border. Here Rummell '16 Wins D. S. C. they encountered barbed wire fences high- Wygant '17 Wounded The Distinguished Service Cross has ly charged with electricity, and crawled First Lieutenant Laurance G. Wygant been awarded to First Lieutenant Leslie on their hands and knees for about '17 is in Eed Cross Military Hospital J. Eummell '16 "for extraordinary twenty miles before they found an open- No. 3, in Paris, recovering from wounds heroism in action in the region of Mosery ing. By diving into a small creek, all received on October 21 at Grand Pre, on September 29. Lieutenant Eummell, but Donaldson were able to get into while fighting for the possession of tho leading a patrol of three planes, sighted Dutch territory. He had been left on village, one end of which was held by an enemy biplane, which was protected the German side as a sentry, and was the Germans and one end by the Ameri- by seven machines (Fokker type). De- just about to follow his companions cans. Wygant had been in command of spite the tremendous odds, he led his when a sentry ordered him to throw up Company L, 312th Infantry, 78th Di- patrol to the attack and destroyed the his hands. Instead, he grabbed for the vision, but on account of the loss of of- Di Nash plane. By his superior ma- German's rifle. A struggle followed, ficers, was placed in command of Com- noeuvering and leadership for more of during which the German's bayonet pany K. He was wounded in the right CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 159 leg by two pieces of shell, the same shell a bullet in the radiator stopped the en- Class Secretaries Meet killing one and \vounding three more of gine and forced us to land. Every sta- Secretaries of Thirty Classes Discuss his company, and after having his wound bilizing Λvire in ,the tail was shot away Plans for Big Reunion. dressed, continued in command of tho and a tire splintered. company until October 29, when he was "We were treated very well by the Ways and means of interesting mem- sent back to the hospital. His father officers of the Eichtoffen bunch and bers of the forty-nine classes of Cornell has received a letter from him dated had lunch with them. Although the food in the Semi-Centennial Celebration June November 24, in which he states that one is poor we get American food through 20, 21, and 22 were discussed at great of the wounds has healed and that he is the Bed Cross. Never knew bully beef length at a meeting of the Cornell As- able to be about with the use of a cane. could taste so much like pie. It is hor- sociation of Class Secretaries Saturday Wygant is a graduate of the College rible to see four pairs of fellows you evening at the Cornell Club in New York of Agriculture, and is a member of Al- know double up at fifteen thousand feet City. Thirty of the classes were repre- pha Tau Omega. He attended the First and drop like rocks. Too much praise sented at the meeting, which followed a Officers' Camp at Madison Barracks, cannot be given to the Keel Cross—it is dinner at the club. where he was commissioned a second perfect. Nicholas H. Noyes '06, president of lieutenant of infantry, and assigned to 'ί I am unhurt, sound as a bell, as the Associate Alumni, and E. N. Sand- the 312th Infantry, which was stationed comfortable as can be expected. I am erson '87, president of the Cornell Club at Camp Dix, N. J., before going to warm, housed, clothed, and fed; so don't of New York and chairman of the Associ- France. He was promoted to the rank worry.'' ate Alumni committee on the Semi-Cen- of first lieutenant on August 17, 19,18. tennial, explained the tentative plans Irish '13 Missing for the celebration. Secretaries of the He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Lieutenant Eugene J. Irish '13 has. Wygant, of Hornell, N. Y. younger classes brought to the attention been missing in action since September of the meeting the difficulty of reaching Wiser Ί7 Out of Prison 27. members of their classes due *o the fact Mr. and Mrs. A. Wiser, of South Bend, Irish graduated from the Arts College that nearly all of them are now in the Ind., have received a cablegram stating in 1913. He was recommended by the service. This matter was referred to-the that their son, Lieutenant Guy Brown University to attend the Third Officers' officers of the association and the execu- (Bud) Wiser '17, of the Air Service, Training Camp at Camp Upton, and was tive committee for action. The secre- who was taken prisoner on September 26, commissioned a second lieutenant of in- taries were enthusiastic for the general was released on November 29, and was fantry and assigned to the Rainbow Di- alumni reunion in June. Those present returning to his company by way of vision last summer. He has seen much promised to do all in their power to se- Switzerland. active service. cure a large attendance from their The following letter received by his Lieutenant Irish is a son of Mr. and classes. parents recently tells of his experiences Mrs. S. Irish, of Auburn, N. Y., and is A list of those who attended the meet- as a prisoner: a brother of Lieutenant Harold E. Irish ing follows: Miller A. Smith '71,

DIED IN THE SERVICE a Bed Cross nurse, who was with him dur- C. Curtis Beakes '16 ing his short illness. He has received no Joseph A. Abrams '07 Charles Curtis Beakes died of pneu- official notice. monia in France on October 9. Lieut. Joseph Addison Abrams" died Charles P. Guessing '14 Beakes was born on March 21, 1894 at Camp Beauregard, La., on November Dr. Charles Paul Giessing died at and received his early education in Sid- 23, folloλving a mastoid operation. He Camp Dix 011 October 3 of pneumonia. ney Center, N. Y. After graduating was born in Philadelphia thirty-two He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. from the Sidney Center High School, he years ago and after graduating from the Charles D. Giessing, of 425 Grove St., attended Columbia University, and en- Episcopal Academy entered Cornell in Brooklyn, and was born on July 4, tered the College of Civil Engineering at 1903 in the course in Arts, remaining one 1892. After a course at the Boys' High Cornell in 1912, receiving his degree in year. He afterward took degrees at School he entered Cornell in 1910. He 1916. Pennsylvania in arts in 1907 and in law joined the Cosmopolitan Club and was Before entering the service he was in 1909. He practiced law in Philadel- president of the Deutscher Verein. Aft- employed by the Genesee Bridge Com- phia until August, 1917, when he went er taking the degrees of A. B. in 1914 pany, Eochester, N. Y. 7 to the Second Officers Training Camp and A. M. in 1915, he went to Wisconsin He enlisted on April 15, at Eochester, at Camp Oglethorpe, G a. First stationed as fellow in Germanic languages and in N. Y., and spent a short period of train- at Eagle Pass, Texas, he was later trans- 1917 received his doctor's degree. Then ing at the 34th Eecruit Squadron Avia- ferred to Beauregard in charge of re- he went to Princeton to continue his tion Camp at Waco, Tex. He was later clamation work. He was ordered over- studies in medieval history, as Proctor assigned to the Meterological Depart- seas, but was attacked by influenza, fol- Fellow. ment of the Signal Corps and sent to lowed by an abscess on the mastoid Shortly after America entered the College Station, Texas. He sailed for gland, which resulted in his death. Last war, Giessing applied for enlistment at France on September 21, a member of April he was married to Miss Margaret a recruiting station in Madison, but was Company 32, Meteorological Detachment, T. O'Hara, who survives him. rejected because of defective eyesight. Signal Corps. Theodore K. Buslinell '07 Last summer he offered his services to Beakes was married on August 27 t.o the American Library Association and Miss Emily Lewis '18, who survives him. Lieutenant Theodore Kingsley Bush- served as assistant in the library at He leaves also his father, Charles H. nell is dead in France. The date and Camp Dix. In September he was final- Beakes of New York, and a sister, Mrs. cause of his death are not known. ly accepted for limited service and as- C. B. Dibble, of Sidney Center, N. Y. Bushnell was born at Denver, Colo., signed to duty in the Headquarters Com- Daly B. Gass '16 on March 25, 1886, and was the only son pany at Camp Dix. With his death of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Bushnell. there passed a promising scholar. Major Daly Eado Gass died of bron- He entered Cornell from the University chial pneumonia at Camp Pike, Little of Denver in 1905, receiving the degree Arthur F. 0. Toussaint '14 Eock, Ark., on December 15. of A. B. in 1907. First Lieutenant Arthur Frederick Gass Λvas born on June 8, 1891, and In 1910, he became teller of the First Cleveland Toussaint died of pneumonia prepared for college at the Central High National Bank of Denver, resigning this on October 6 in a base hospital at Vittel School, Pittsburgh, Pa. He entered the position the following year, when he was in the Vosges. Law School in 1912, but left before his made secretary of the Ellis National Toussaint was born on November 8, course was finished. He was a member Electric Sign Company. He held this 1892, and attended the College of the of Kappa Sigma and of the freshman position until 1913, when he was ap- City of New York previously to entering football team. In his sophomore year, he pointed teller of the Commerce State Cornell in 1910. He received the degree played on his college basketball team. and Savings Bank. At the time of his of Mechanical Engineer in 1914. He was During his residence in Ithaca he played enlistment he was associated with the a member of Alpha Delta Phi (Manhat- in a number of pictures made by Whar- McPhee & McGinnity Company, dealers tan Chapter). ton, Inc. in lumber, of which company his father In the fall of 1914 he became associat- He entered the First Officers' Training is vice-president. ed with the Hall Switch and Signal Com- Camp at Madison Barracks in May, He enlisted in the Officers7 Reserve pany of New York, and was later en- 1917, "and in August received a commis- Corps on May 10, 1917, and was assigned gaged in engineering work with the New sion as captain of infantry, and was as- to Fort Eiley, Kans. He received a York Central Eailroad. signed to Camp Dix, N. J. Later he commission on August 14 as second lieu- He attended the First Officers' Train- served at Camp Hancock, Ga., Camp tenant of infantry, was discharged from ing Camp at Madison Barracks, where he Jackson, S. C., and Camp Beauregard, the camp, and on the same day enlisted received his commission as first lieuten- La. At the last camp, he was regi- in the National Army. He arrived in ant in the Ordnance Department. He mental intelligence and operation officer France on September 23, and was or- had been in France since October, 1917, of the 156th Infantry. Last September dered to the First School of Military In- with the Machine Gun and Small Arms he was promoted to the rank of major struction, being assigned later to Com- Division of the Ordnance Department. and assigned to Camp Pike, Ark. pany B, 2d Machine Gun Corps, Regu- Lieutenant Toussaint leaves his par- Major Gass was one of the youngest lar Army. He was in some of the hot- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Toussaint, majors in the United States Army. He test fighting in France, 'having taken 2966 Briggs Avenue, New York, and a leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. part in the battle of Soissons. brother, Lieutenant Eiehard Philip E. Gass, of Pittsburgh, and a brother, The news of Lieutenant Bushnell's Toussaint '19, who is stationed at Camp Lieutenant Karl W. Gass '12, of the death came to his father in a letter from Shelby, Miss. U. S. Air Service. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 161

Harding F. Ήorton '16 was born at Lattimer, Pa., on July 7, School, Elizabeth, N. J. He entered the Second Lieutenant Harding Fred Hor- 1895. After attending the local schools, Arts College in 1915, but left before ton was killed in action in France on. lie went to the Hill School, Pottstown, finishing his course to enlist in the Navy. October 10. Pa., graduating in 1914. In the fall of He was a member of Theta Delta Chi. Horton was born on November 15, 1914 he entered the College of Civil He is survived by his parents, Mr. and 1893. He prepared for cdllege at the Engineering at Cornell, but later trans- Mrs. W. B. Pratt, of Perth Amboy, N. J. .Moiiticello High School, and entered the ferred to the course in architecture. Alvin W. Splane '21 College of Agriculture in 1913, receiv- He left college to enter the First Of- Second Lieutenant Alvin William ing the degree of B. S. in October, 1916. ficers ' Training Camp at Madison Bar- Splane was killed in an airplane acci- He was a member of the Rifle Club. racks, where he received a commission as τ dent at Payne Field, West Point, Miss., He was recommended by the Univer- second lieutenant of infantry, and w as on December 16. sity to attend the Third Officers' Train- assigned to Company C, 311th Infantry, Splane was born at Oil City, Pa., on ing Camp at Camp Upton, and received stationed at Camp Dix, N. J. On May April 29, 1898. He attended the Oil. .a commission as second lieutenant of in- 8, 1918, he went overseas with the In- City public schools, and later went to fantry. He went to France last March telligence Branch of the 311th Infantry, the Salisbury School, Salisbury, Conn., with the 33d Division. In a letter writ- and in August was promoted to the grade graduating in 1917. In the summer of ten on October 1, he stated that he had of first lieutenant. that year he took a course at the Curtiss spent the month of September-iii an Of- Lieutenant Drake had taken part in School of Aviation, and in the fall en- ϋcers' Training School in Paris, and some of the thickest of the fighting with tered Cornell in the course in mechanical that he expected soon to return to the the American Army. engineering. He left on December 11, front. He had been in two engagements Thomas G. Knudson '18 1917, to enter the Ground School of Avia- at the front but had escaped uninjured. Thomas Graham EJnudson died of tion at Cornell, and on completing his It is believed that Lieutenant Harding pneumonia at his home in Brooklyn, N. course was sent first to the School of met his death in the Argonne region, as Y., on October 10. Military Aeronautics at Austin, Texas, the 33d Division was fighting in this Knudson was born on October 25, and later to Camp Dick, Dallas, Texas, section early in October. 1895, a son of Mr. and Mrs. James F. going from there to Wilbur Wright He leaves his mother, Mrs. Jennie S. Knudson, of Brooklyn, N. Y. He pre- Field, Fairfielcl, Ohio, where he was * Horton, of Forest Home, N. Y. pared for college at the Boys' High commissioned a second lieutenant and Harold W. Burns '18 School, Brooklyn, and entered the College made an instructor in aviation. Follow- ing his training at Wright Field, he First Lieutenant Harold Walton Burns of Agriculture in 1914. He left college went to Brooks Field, San Antonio, >died in a French hospital on November 011 March 27, 1918, to enlist in the U. S. Texas, and then to Chanute Field, Ean- •2 from exhaustion and exposure follow- Naval Reserve Force, and at the time toul, 111. He had been an instructor of ing an engagement on October 23. of his death had been attending the Of- cadets at Payne Field since November Burns was born at London, Canada, ficers' Training School at Pelham Bay, 16. 011 March 13, 1896. He had lived in N. Y. Lieutenant Splane was an expert flier, Crary, Ind., since 1909, and after grad- Alfred B. Patterson, Jr., '18 and had taken part in a number of pa- uating from the Gary High School, en- First Lieutenant Alfred Bryan Pat- triotic demonstrations. ' On Thanksgiv- tered the College of Architecture at Cor- terson, jr., was killed in action on Octo- ing Day he participated in the aerial pro- nell in 1914. In his junior year he λvas ber 27 while flying over the Argonne gram at Payne Field, having charge of •assistant manager of The Cornell Archi- Forest. one of the planes which, decorated with tect. In May, 1917, he secured a leave Patterson was born 011 November 20, electric lights, spelled the word "Vic- of absence, and entered the service at 1895, and entered Cornell from the Wίl- tory." During the Liberty Loan cam- Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. He went kinsburg, Pennsylvania, High School, in paign, he flew over the city of Chicago, from there to Fortress Monroe, Va., 1914, in the course of agriculture. He and dropped more than twenty thousand where he was commissioned a second was a member of Kappa Sigma and of circulars. lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. the freshman track team. He had recently applied for a release He sailed for France on August 1, 1917, He was flight commander of the 93d from active service in order that he .and soon after his arrival, was made an Pursuit Squadron, and an accredited ace, might return to Cornell to finish his instructor in coast artillery and trench having been decorated by the French course. He was a member of Theta Del- mortar tactics. He was later promoted with the Croix de Guerre, and by the ta Chi. to the grade of first lieutenant and as- American Army with the Distinguished Lieutenant Splane is survived by his signed to the 308th Battery, Trench Ar- Service Cross. He had been recom- parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Splane, of tillery. mended for a captaincy. Oil City, one brother, Howard S. Splane, Lieutenant Burns was the only son ι,ΐ Lieutenant Patterson's parents, Mr. Mrs. L. P. Godwin, of Gary, Ind. and two sisters, Mrs. Charles E. Gal- and Mrs. Alfred B. Patterson, live at brath, jr., and Mrs. Blinn S. Page, wife Frederick L. DraKe '18 Wilkiiisburg, Pa. of Lieutenant Blinn S. Page '13. TΓirst Lieutenant Frederick Lewis Everett N. Pratt '19 Drake died on November 10 at Base Hos- Everett Norton Pratt died of pneu- SIX THOUSAND MEMBERSHIPS in Tomp- pital No. 115, Vichy, France, of wounds monia at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Hos- kins County are reported as a result of received in action on November 4. pital on December 21. the Christmas roll-call of the Eed Cross. Drake was the only child of Mr. and Pratt was born on January 26, 1897, The tin-foil collected by junior members Mrs. A. W. Drake, of Hazleton, Pa. He and prepared for college at the Pingry amounts to about a thousand pounds. 162 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

EDITORIAL COMMENT The students are on the whole better Friday, June 20, is to be the day for housed and nourished than they were general celebration. It is on this day REVISED SCHEDULE twenty years ago but conditions relat- that nationally prominent speakers will In order better to accommodate our ing to housing and food can and will be address the entire body of returning publication schedule to the unusual con- somewhat improved, with the extension alumni. A meeting in honor of Cornell's, ditions of the academic year, we havo of the dormitory system and the discov- men in service will also probably be 011 omitted the issue that would have been ery of some place or places where stu- this day. Meetings of the various de- published on December 26, and shall dents can really dine instead of merely partments and colleges will be held, with omit the issue of March 27, which comes eat, as they must now do in the cafe- discussions by their alumni and Faculty during the spring vacation, issuing in- tarias. of their educational needs. Possibly stead an additional number in June, on As for study, it has been said that meetings of the Class Secretaries, the the 26th, which will be the Thursday aft- conditions are less favorable now than Council, and similar small groups will be er both the Semi-Centennial Celebration formerly, since the life here has grown held on that day. Saturday will be in and Commencement. Other issues, both more complex. This is open to question. charge of the Associate Alumni, and will weekly and monthly, will appear accord- The number of student organizations be largely recreational except that tile- ing to the original schedule. has not increased, relatively, and with meeting of the Associate Alumni in . INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Ithaca dry the attractiveness of the morning will discuss some important University and alumni problems. On . The University Faculty is to meet on down-town resorts has vanished. Mov- ing pictures have come in, but the per- Sunday the Baccalaureate sermon by January 6 to discuss certain features and John R. Mott '88 and the unveiling of recommendations of the president's an- formances are only an hour and a half in length.- The class athletic teams have the Cornell statue will form the frame- nual report. Among the topics to re- work of the last day of the celebration. ceive consideration is the recommenda- been replaced by inter-college teams. On what we may call the spiritual side, Commencement will be on Monday. tion that intercollegiate athletics be The general outline of the celebration t( displaced'' by an attractive system of using the word in its large sense, 'while Λve perceive no deterioration, we are not as given above omits many features of intercollege or intra-mural sports. interest and of recreation and gives a Before attempting to reach any defi- unaware of the need of continued up- ward striving. There is probably less rather inadequate idea of the scope of nite conclusions on a subject of such the occasion. There is sufficient time on vital interest, not only to the undergrad- social intercourse now between students and teachers than in Straight's time. the program to permit the holding of uate body but also to thousands of grad- many meetings, dinners, class functions, uates as well, we suggest that the Facul- Alumni who remember the pleasant iii- formad gatherings in the homes of Pro- and other desirable features. We shall ty may obtain a good deal of useful in- be able to give a more extended pros- formation from alumni who have them- fessors Morse Stephens, Tarr, Catterall, and others, will regret to learn that there pectus of the occasion in an early issue selves taken part in athletics. In par are none to take the places of these royal of the ALUMNI NEWS. ticular we suggest that an effort to obtain the views of alumni in the Army or entertainers. The truth is that the mem- DEAN BAILEY'S WHO'S WHO bers of the Faculty are not now in a Navy on intercollegiate athletics might Many Cornellίans will be interested in position to spend time and money in so- be profitable. a volume recently compiled and pub- cial intercourse as they could when they lished by Professor L. II. Bailey under A MORE HUMAN PLACE were less busy eking out their meager ί the title : ' Rus: Rural Uplook Service The terms of Major Straight's be- salaries with outside work. A true -uni- a Preliminary Attempt to Register the quest give food for thought. Conditions versity is made up of a group of teach- Rural Leadership in the United States. which existed here in 1898 may or may ers and students who, without neglecting and Canada." It is a handsome volume not have been quite different from those the just claims of the body, give their of 313 pages and contains records of of to-day. undivided energies to the nourishment o" 2746 persons. This is less than three- The Faculty has largely changed in mind and spirit. sevenths of the number solicited for in- personnel; whether for better or worse SEMI-CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE clusion in the volume (7061) it is there- will be a matter of opinion on which fore highly probable that future editions very few persons are competent to pass, At a joint meeting on Saturday of the will be much enlarged. The compiler It is probable that the present Faculty is Class Secretaries and the semi-centennial has aimed to include persons regularly made up, on the average, of younger committees of the Associate Alumni and and prominently engaged in rural work men than was the Faculty of twenty the University Trustees in New York, as farmers, teachers, investigators, lec- years ago. general plans for the Semi-Centennial turers, authors, etc., if they have become The curriculum has on the whole rath- Celebration in June were considered and public characters. All Officers in colleges er improved, since there is now in force the program for Friday, Saturday, and of agriculture above the grade of in- a system of Faculty advisers and there Sunday, June 20, 21, and 22, was de- structor are* included if engaged in agri- is also some restriction of election. In finitely agreed upon. After the joint culture or rural work. some departments there are courses of meeting the Trustees' coinmittee met and As Dr. Bailey remarks, 'ί we should' study open, perhaps, to criticism as to adopted the principles agreed upon at the have as good record of the rural range' administration and management; and earlier meeting, with the result that the as of the urban range. Eus and uτl)S there is some lack of proper coordination Λvork of the committee from now on will together make up the public welfare.'' with the high schools, which results in consist of the working out of .details in The volume may be procured from the freshman unhappiness. the general plan. compiler at Ithaca. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 163

Tribute to Major Straight thousands of young men for effective ry out the couple's common wishes as to service in the war by Mr. Straight's gen- the support of the paper. Board of Trustees Express Sorrow over erous gift for its better equipment in Straight's sister, Mrs. James F. San- Death of One of Their Members. 1915. And when the country was drawn born, received $100,000, which is to go- The Board of Trustees on December into the conflict he gave himself to its after her death to her children. 14, adopted the following resolution: service without reserve, even to the sac- FACULTY APPOINTMENTS The Board of Trustees of Cornell Uni- rifice of his life. Frank Wm. McDoiiell \vas appointed versity records with sorrow the death of The Trustees beg Mrs. Straight to ac- assistant in machine design for the Willard Dickermΐan Straight. Mr. cept from thqm the assurance of their heartfelt sympathy. quarter ending December 21. The leave Straight came to this Board three years of absence (without salary) for the ago as one of the ten Trustees who are MAJOR STRAIGHT'S WILL present academic year of H. L. Reed, chosen by the Alumni of the University. Cornell is a beneficiary in the estate Asst. Prof, of Economics, was canceled The election of a person to one of these of the late Willard D. Straight '01, in from the end of the present quarter. Trusteeships is an emphatic expression what way or to what extent, it is dif- The following appointments were by his fellow alumni of confidence in his ficult to say. The will, offered for pro- made from the beginning of the second quarter of the present academic year to integrity, trust in his judgment, and bate at Miiieola, L. I., on December 17, Commencement in June: Tudor S. Long faith in his loyalty. It is a tribute that bequeaths most of the estate, estimated and Frederick Manning Smith, Instruc- has scarcely ever in the University's at half a million dollars, to the widow, tors in English. L. W. Currier, Instruc- history been paid to so young a man as Mrs. Dorothy Whitney Straight. The tor in economic geography (vice Asst. Mr. Straight was when he took his seat clause referring to Cornell directs Mrs. Prof. Somers, resigned). L. M. Maxson, at this Board at the age of thirty-five. Straight "to do such thing or things for reappointed Assistant in English His- The high place that Willard Straight Cornell University as she may think most tory. B. Er. Burlage, reappointed In- won in the trust and affection of his fitting and useful to make the same a structor in Physiology to provide for the countrymen was, to us who had watched more human place." This clause is said repeating of courses in this subject in the growth of his character, a natural to have been retained notwithstanding the 2nd and 3rd quarters. Fred W. consequence of the rare qualities we had the objections of the attorneys, who Stewart, Instructor in Anatomy, effective observed in him from the time when he thought the meaning vague. It is be- December 1 (vice II. K. Davis, deceased). became a student here. It was not sur- lieved, therefore, and another mention In the Department of Physics the fol- prising to us, who had felt the attraction of "mutual agreements" strengthens lowing actions were taken: The leave of of his personality since his early youth, thebelίef, that Mrs. Straight fully un- absence of Professor E. Blaker was that he made so wide a circle of friends derstands her husband's intentions with extended to cover March 31. The leave among the men who were brought into reference to the University, that she was of absence of Assistant Professor C. C. association with him in the transaction in complete accord with him as to -the Bidwell was canceled at the end of the of large affairs. ends to be attained, and tlίat she will present quarter. Great as were his practical powers, It carry out those intentions in a manner . The leave of absence of Instructor P. is Willard Straight's radiant warmth of that would meet his entire approval. Mertz was canceled as of Nov. 18. The heart that will be longest remembered. The contention that the vague phras- temporary appointment of Acting Pro- Cornell is fortunate in possessing, in tho ing of the will implies an adverse crit- fessor Paul Gaehr was canceled at the Memorial to Henry Schoellkopf, a last- icism of the University, or a condemna- end of the present quarter. Instructor ing symbol of that element of his char- tion of its essential policies and ideals, Mildred Severance was granted a leave acter. The two men had become close seems to those who knew Straight wholly of absence, from December 21 to the 1 "friends while they were students here, unjustified; and that contention is in fact end of the academic year, to enable her and the building which the one erected belied by his active interest in Univer- to go into canteen service in France. to the memory of the other will signify sity affairs and by his earlier gifts to Austin Bailey was appointed instructor to generations of Cornellians the per- worthy University enterprises. from the beginning of the 2nd quarter manence of those friendships which are Another object for which Mrs. Straight to Commencement in June. W. M. Pierce formed by young men drawn together in is to use the necessary funds is "to do and A. Schmidt were appointed assis- a common love of high ideals. such thing or things for the American- tants from the beginning of the 2nd When Europe became involved in war ization of emigrants to the United States quarter to Commencement in June. in 1914, Mr. Straight was among the as in her judgment will educate or tend first in America to recognize this coun- to educate them to understand the re try's peril from Prussian ambition and sponsibility of American citizenship." CHARLES E. TREMAN '89, a Trustee of he was a leader in the movement to pre- For The New Eepublic, which he and the University, received as a Christmas pare the United States for defense. The his wife were instrumental in founding present from his associates in the Food success of the Plattsburg training system several years ago, Major Straight pro- Administration, a large silver punch which helped to win the war for human vided a trust fund of $300,000 to keep bowl, bearing this inscription: "An ap- freedom, is a debtor to his ardent pa- the magazine alive ten years, if it did preciation of our chief, the Honorable triotism and his practical foresight. The not sooner become self-supporting. This Charles E. Treman, Federal Food Ad- Cornell Department of Military Science clause was to be effective only if Mrs. ministrator for the State fcf New York, and Tactics was powerfully stimulated Straight died before her husband. The from his staff, the County ^Food Admin- and helped in its work of preparing will, however, requests the widow to car- istrators—1918." 164 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Available Civil Engineers ranged by classes. This is divided into ident, 716 N. Gilmor Street, and L. M. two main groups labeled " Satisfied " and Brooks, secretary and treasurer, 261 Rob- The Civil Engineers Open Employment 1 (Not Satisfied.'; Unemployed men are ert Street, Baltimore. Gorrell has been Bureau for Cornell Men. filed in the latter group until employed, secretary for the past year. [THE ALUMNI NEWS is indebted to when their cards are transferred to the ; ENGINEERS TO DINE JANUARY 17 Charles S. Rindsfoos 06 for a careful "Satisfied" group. Should a man be- description of the New York Begistra- come dissatisfied with his employment, "A Victory Dinner of Cornell Engi- tion Bureau of the Cornell Society of his card is transferred from one group to neers" will be held at some appointed Civil Engineers, which we condense as the other without disarranging the reg- place in New York on January 17, ac- follows: ] ular files. cording to an announcement sent out by In view of the large number of engi- Each of the two main groups is sub- the chairman, J. W. Taussig. All Cornell men are welcome although the party is neers in the Military and Naval service divided by salaries. Each salary group primarily for engineers and the main ob- of the United States who will soon be is further sub-divided by symbols which ject of the meeting is to thoroughly ex- candidates for positions in civil life, and indicate whether a ίnan is a candidate 7 plain and discuss the proposed combi- in view of the awakening interest that is for an "Executive/ "Administrative," nation of Sibley and Civil Engineering. being manifested by various organiza- " Engineering/' "Sales," "Clerical," tions in the scientific placing of men in "Commercial," etc., position. The card Men who have just returned from the positions which they are, by training and is so ruled that the symbol and salary fighting front will be present and Cor- nell men who happen to be in New York temperament, qualified to fill, the methods may be changed from time to time so of the Cornell Society of Civil Engineers that without even knowing what the sym- at the time are welcomed. Mr. Taussig's address is in care of the Raymond Con- may be of considerable interest. bol means the card can be placed in the crete Pile Company, 140 Cedar Street, The first step in the plan of the So- right slot with a maximum of speed and New York. ciety was to catalogue every man who accuracy. had ever attended the college whether ho Every effort is made to serve the em- CORNELL DANCE IN WASHINGTON ployer, by sending only (' logical'' can- was satisfactorily employed or not, The Cornell \vomen in Washington, D. didates. If no man seems available, the whether he was a beginner or a man of C., will be hostesses at a dance on inquiry is referred to one of the other high attainments. A questionnaire was Founder's Day, January 11, at 2400 Six- college bureaus, who reciprocate in like sent to every Cornell civil engineer, two teenth Street. Tickets admitting two thousand in number. The idea in cata- manner. are $1.50, and may be obtained from the loging all the men was first, that in no Many other forms and devices for fol- president of the Cornell Women's Club, low-up purposes, for obtaining inquiries other way could it be determined how Miss Margaret Connor, 3149 Mount many were desirous of a change: second, from employers, and to save dictation in Pleasant Street, or from any member of correspondence, are used; but it is that any man at any time might become the committee, which consists of Miss a candidate for a new position; third, thought the part here explained gives the Dorothy Ashley, Miss Winifred Skin- that every man, practically speaking, will gist of such features as are novel. The ner, and Miss Alice Du Breuil, and can consider a change if offered sufficient in- plan was evolved after a careful study be reached by telephone at Columbia ducement either in salary, responsibility, of many other systems and it is believed 2407. Cornell men or women resident in or chance for service; and fourth, that that by combining good points from sev- Washington, or who can be there on the sympathy and help of the satisfied eral with ideas of our own, a good work- Saturday, January 11, are cordially in- men was necessary to the bureau and able system has resulted. vited. that they would support a bureau more BALTIMORE CLUB ACTIVITIES readily if they were a part of it and re- FOUNDERS' DAY IN BOSTON ceived the various notices sent out from The Cornell Association of Maryland "An Old Fashioned Zinckie Beefsteak time to time. announces that it still holds its regular Dinner" is announced by the Cornell These questionnaires are filed by num- weekly luncheons on Monday at 12.30 Club of New England for Founder's ber. All correspondence with reference at the City Club of Baltimore. In ad- Day, January 11. The dinner will be at to a record received subsequently is filed dition regular meetings of the associa- the Lenox Hotel, Boston, and will begin with the questionnaire, which thus be- tion are held on the third Thursday of promptly at 6:30 p. m. The annual comes a folder with complete data im- each month at 8.30 p. m. at Hotel Alta- election of officers will take place at mediately available. Follow-up cards mont. this time. Cornell men in New Eng- are sent from time to time to keep the On February 20, a special meeting will land, and others who can be present are records up to date and these also go into be held, probably at the City Club, when cordially invited. The price of the din- the questionnaire folder. ner is $2.50 per plate. Those intending A card index (size 3x5) going with the association hopes to be able to show to come should notify the secretary, the questionnaires is arranged alphabet- motion pictures of University scenes. Creed W. Fulton, 58 Pearl Street, Bos- ically, each card containing the name of The occasion will be a luncheon, at which ton. the man and his number. By means of some business will be transacted, and this index, given a man's name, his num- perhaps some speakers will give short ber can be immediately determined and talks. Details will be arranged at the A SECOND CONCRETE BARGE, the " U. S. from the number his questionnaire is lo- January meeting. 115," was launched on December 21 at cated. Officers have been elected for the com- the yards of the Cummings Structural Another card index (size 3x5) is ar- ing year, as follows: J. S. Gorrell, pres- Concrete Company. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 165

OBITUARY did not graduate. Later he entered the found inside some plants were r?αi!v College of Agriculture and received the independent organisms causing disease Charles J. Handler '97 degree of B. S. in 1915. He was a mem- rather than resulting from it. In the Charles Jacob Mandler died on De- ber of Delta Upsilon, Cerberus, Sphinx Modern Era (1850-1906), Pasteur over- cember 8 at Toledo, Ohio, at the age of Head, and Gemel Kharm. In his fresh- threw the theory of spontaneous genera- forty-four. man and sophomore years he was a mem- tion; Kϋcheiimeister's work on parasites Mandler was a son of the late Jacob ber of his class crews, and in'his junior (1855). revolutionized the theories of an- Mandler and Mrs. Mandler, of Toledo, year was a member of the junior varsity imal parasitism; DeBary "so complete- and entered Cornell in 1893, receiving and varsity crews. ly established the independent nature of the degree of Bachelor of Letters in Since his graduation he had been soil entophytic fungi [those working within 1897, and that of Bachelor of Laws in surveyor in the College of Agriculture. the plant] that the theory of their met- 1898. After completing his work at Cor- He leaves his widow, Mrs. Maude amorphosis from the sap of diseased nell, he spent two years in study abroad. Bromley, his mother, Mrs. A. C. Wai- plants was no longer tenable.'' Upon his return to this country, he worth, of Plattsburg, and a sister, Mrs, men, with others, completely demon- became associated with the Allen Filter D. A. Collins, of Flemington, N. J. strated that these fungi, found associated Company, and also carried on research λvith disease lesions, are the causers of and inventive work along the line of LITERARY REVIEW plant troubles. In the latter part of filter construction, which resulted in the A Book on Plant Diseases this era came the discovery of Bordeaux perfecting of the Mandler Diatomate- mixture (1883) and the great develop- An Outline of the History of Phyto ceous Serum Filter. A number of these ment of methods of disease control. filters have been furnished the Govern- pathology. By Herbert Hice Whetzel, Among Cornellians prominent in this ment since the beginning of the war for Ό2-4 Grad. Philadelphia. . W. B. Saun- history are George F. Atkinson '85, use in hospitals. ders Company. 1918. 12mo, pp. 130, 22 Former Dean Galloway, Joseph C. At the time of his death, Mr. Mandler portraits. Price, $1.75, net. Arthur, D. Sc. '86, Fred C. Stewart, was president of the Allen Filter Com- This is a handsome volume, well '97-8 G., Mason Thomas '90, Professor pany, and of the Infusorial Products printed on extra fine paper. The illus- Herbert J. Webber, and others. The first Company, of Toledo, a member of the trations come out extremely well. distinct department of plant pathology American Ceramic Society, and of the Professor Whetzel is an enthusiastic was established at Cornell in 1907, anl Masonic Order. student and teacher of the science of others \vere soon organized elsewhere. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Bessie plant diseases and has well told the Since 1906 rapid progress has been Mandler, a daughter, Mary Alice, and story of this highly important science, made by workers in this field, who now his mother, Mrs. Alice Mandler. which has already saved the world mil- have a national organization and maga- Dr. Warren A. Munsell ΊO lions of dollars and of lives. zine. They have done much also to m ake Dr. Warren Adsίtt Munsell died of in- It may be of interest to recapitulate the public aware of the importance of fluenza at Green. Cove Springs, Fla., on with our author this advance in human these labors and of the need of protec- October 24. thought. In the Ancient Era, down to tion of plants and crops from disease. 476, most plant diseases were laid to the Munsell was born on July 27, 1876. He Books and Magazine Articles had lived in Florida for many years, and wrath of the gods. It is interesting to Professor Paul F. Gaehr '02, of Wells was a graduate of the University of find Theophrastus the author of the College, contributes to Science for De- Florida. He entered the Veterinary Col- '' Characters,'' writing also on scab in ί cember 6 a short article 011 ' Demon- lege at Cornell in 1907, receiving his de- figs, and on mildew and wheat rust. strations of Visual Phenomena,'' and gree in 1911. He was a member of the The ancients were not blind to the influence of drought, freezing, and winds. Professor George A. Miller, of the Uni- Acacia Fraternity, the Cornell Masonic versity of Illinois, formerly of Cornell, Club, and the Society of Comparative In the Dark Era (476-1600) there was no advance; the statements of the an- contributes the leading article, an ad- Medicine. dress on " Means for the Scientific De- He began the practice of his profes- cients were blindly repeated. An excep- tion was Ibn-al-Awam, an Arabian gen- velopment of Mathematics Teachers,'' sion at New Paltz, N. Y., soon after his prepared for the meeting of the Missouri graduation, and in 1913 returned to Flor- tleman of the tenth century who lived at Seville, and who independently observed Mathematics Teachers which was to ida to become assistant state veterinar- have been held on November 8. ian, holding this position until his death. tree and vine diseases. In the Premod- Ίn The American Journal of Science Dr. Munsell's services to the Live ern Era (1600-1850) the first books on for December, Wesley E. Coe writes 011 Stock Sanitary Board of Florida have plant diseases were written. Lauremberg "Biehard Kathbun ['75] and his Con- been of great value. He was a leader in in his "Horticultura" (1631) could still tributions to Zoology," adding biblio- all things for the betterment of the com- assert that the influence of Orion, the graphical notes. munity, and was one of the leading vet- Pleiades, and other stars brought about erinarians of the state. rust, carbuncle, and mildew; but men Louis A. Fuertes '97 furnishes a beau- soon found in the plant itself, or in con- tiful page of "American and Yellow- John H. Bromley '15 ditions surrounding it, some explanation billed Magpies" as the frontispiece to John Hallock Bromley died on Decem- of its trouble. Disease came to be re- the November-December number of ber 20 at Ithaca, of pneumonia following garded as largely the result of spontane- Bird-Lore. Professor Arthur A. Allen '07 influenza. ous generation. But there was a growing writes a serial on "When the North Bromley entered Sibley College from school of students of fungi who became Wind Blows," illustrating his article the Plattsburg High School in 1904, but convinced that the fungous parasites with six photographs, including pictures 166 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS of the chickadee, Lapland longspur, the governorship January first, Governor prairie horned) lark, shrike, tree sparrow, ALUMNI NOTES Charles S. Whitman associated himself with Supreme Court Justice ,Nathan Ot-~ and downey and hairy woodpeckers. Tli3 '87 PhB—-William J. Eomer, who was tiiiger and Ex-Justice William L. Ran- number includes a' report of the activ- formerly associated with the First Na- som, recently chief counsel of the Public ities of the Cayuga Bird Club, of which tional Bank of Ithaca, sailed on Novem- Service Commission for the First Dis- Fuertes is president and Allen secretary. ber 11 to do Eed Cross work in France. The Educational Review for December His application had been in for over a trict, in the general practice of the law comments favorably on "The World year, and had his appointment come and in counsel work in trial and appel- Book: Organized Knowledge in Story sooner, his work would have been largely late courts, under the firm name of Whit- and Picture,'' which has just been com- in No Man's Land, locating relatives, man, Ottinger & Ransom, with offices in pleted in eight volumes (6528 pages) writing letters, etc., for wounded men. the Equitable Building, 120 Broadway,. under the general editorship of Profes- '90 AB—Major Thomas B. Spence New York City. Ransom has been coun- sor Michael V. O'Shea '92, of the Uni- has been transferred from Camp Lee, sel to the Public Service Commission for versity of Wisconsin. In the same num- ΛΓa., to Camp Fremont, Calif., where he the past year and a half, and has con- ber there is also an appreciation of Dr. is chief of the Surgical Service. His ducted with unvarying success the great White. address is U. S. Army Base Hospital, quantity of legal work which has arisen Tlie History Teacher's Magazine has Camp Fremont, Calif. His home address in connection wit hthe Commission's di- been rechristened The Historical Out- is 541 Third St., Brooklyn, N. Y. versified functions. During the period look. The number for December in- that he has been the Commission's lagal '90 BS; '17 CE '18 AB—Dr. Newton cludes an article on "The New Birth of adviser, no action or determination of D. Chapman '90 and Mrs. Chapman, of Islam" by Professor Albert T. Olm the Commission has been set aside or Port Richmond, N. Y., announce the stead '02, of the University of Illinois, modified by any court 011 review, and marriage of their daughter, Margaret a review of the second edition of Ramsay 7 the Commission has won all its applica- Lyon Chapman 18, to Lieutenant muir's "The Expansion of Europe, the tions to the various courts. He has had. Charles Allan Hoffman '17, Signal Culmination of Modern History," a pub- a wide experience in all branches of pub- Corps, U. S. A., on July 18. Mrs. Hoff- lication of the Houghton Mifliin Com- lic ultility litigation and financing, and man is with her husband at Gerst ner pany, by Professor George M. Dutclier Field, Lake Charles, La. his opinions as to matters in this field '97, of Wesleyan, and a review of Ed- have- been extensively quoted and fol- '90 CE—John F. Skinner is a captain ward D. Collins's "History of Ver- lowed. in the Quartermaster Corps, Construc- mont" (Ginn) by Archibald Freeman, ?05f '06 LLB; '16 AB—Lieutenants A. M. '90, of Phillips Andover Academy. tion Division of the Army, with headquarters in Washington, D. C. John M. Gauntlett, Morris S. Halliday, In The Yale Eeview for January Pro- and Alden C. Buttrick are stationed at '93 BS, '94 ME, '95 MME—Lieut. fessor Wilbur C. Abbott, '92-5 Grad., the Air Service School, St. Paul, Minn. Commander E. Vail Stebbins is executive writes an article entitled "That This Gauntlett is adjutant of the school. officer at U. S. Naval Base 27. His ad- Nation May Endure." It is a soundly Halliday and Buttrick live at the Uni- reasoned presentation of the thesis that dress is in care of the Postmaster, New York. versity Club, St. Paul. "we must still endeavor to maintain' th* '06—Robert H. Coit is production balance of order and liberty; through '02 AB—Major Jesse E. Harris, Medi- manager for the Chicago district of the self-control, intelligence, self-govern- cal Corps, U. S. A., has been promoted Bureau of Aircraft Production, at the ment we must remain a disciplined democ- to the grade of lieutenant colonel. plant of the Grand Eapids Airplane Com- racy. " Miss Frances A. Kellor '97 '02 AB—A leave of absence has been pany, where the wood parts for the writes on "What is Americanization?" granted to Miss Jessie Treat Eay, a Handley-Page bombing planes are being Miss Marjorie L. Barstow '12 contrib- teacher in the West High School, Roch- made. utes some very readable "Sketches of ester, N. Y., and she is now in France, Carranza's Mexico." Finally, Professor in charge of a Foyer du Soldat, under '07 ME—Ensign Frederick A. Fenger Tucker Brooke, of Yale, formerly of the American Y. M. C. A. In. addition is stationed at Naval Base No. 7, and Cornell, reviews Professor Joseph Q. -to her usual canteen duties, she has may be addressed in care of the Post- Adams's '' Shakesperean Playhouses '' classes in English for the French sol- master, N. Y. and "The Dramatic Eecords of Sir diers. '07—Henry S. Otto has been promoted Henry Herbert." '02 AB, '04 LLB—George H. Hooker from captain to major on the General Professor Earϊe D. Eoss, A. M. '09, is with the American Eed Cross at 3 Euo Staff, American Expeditionary Forces, contributes to The South Atlantic Quar- Labrielle, Paris. and his address is A. P. O. 705. He has terly for October, lately received, an '05 CE—Major James C. F. Shafer re- been overseas for fourteen months. article on "The History Teacher as an turned from France the last of Novem- '09 MD—Lieut. William Goldstein, the Image Breaker." ber. He was battery commander during first medical man to enlist from the Professor Albert T. Olmstead '02, of the drive which started at St. Mihiel and Bronx, New York, is located at Evacua- the University of Illinois, writes in the extended through the Argoiine, and re- tion Hospital No. 16, American Expedi- Journal of the American Oriental So- ceived his promotion from captain to tionary Forces. He is in charge of the ciety for October 011 "The Calculated major in the Coast Artillery Corps early. pathological laboratory connected with Frightfulness of Ashur Nasir Apal," an . in November. He is stationed at Fort the hospital. Assyrian Hun who held the reins of Monroe, Va., for the present. '09 ME—Captain Alexander C. Sulli- government from 885 to 860 B. C. '05 LLB—Upon his retirement from van has been promoted to be a major in CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 167 the Coast Artilllery Corps. His new ad- York Bureau of Aircraft, and has been signed to Base Hospital No. 8. Some dress is U. S. A. P. O. 707, American recommended for a commission. His ad- time ago he was ordered to return to this Expeditionary Forces. dress is 828 St. Nicholas Avenue, Ne\v country, and was assigned to the 5th Casual Company at Camp Hill, Newport '09 AB—Hiehard H. Cobb is director York. News, Va. He expects soon to return of the Cannon and Ammunition Section '12 ME—Eobert J. Kehl is a first lieu- to France to rejoin his unit. of the Cleveland District Ordnance Of- tenant in the Ordnance Department, and fice. His address is 1905 East 93d St., may be addressed in care of the Chief '14 LLB—Walter B. J. Mitchell re- Cleveland. Ordnance Officer, American Expedition- signed as commissioner of public safe- '09 ME—Earl A. Emerson has been ary Forces. ty of the City of Yonkers last May to attending the Officers7 Training School '13—John J. D. McCormick enlisted in enlist in the Naval Eeserve Force. He of the Motor Transport Corps at Camp the Naval Eeserve Flying Corps last attended the Officers' Training School at Joseph E. Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla., February, and in August was trans- Pelham Bay, N. Y., and has received a since October 25. He is a member of ferred to the Navy. He is now attending commission as ensign. His address for Motor Company 2. Before entering the the Ensign School at Cambridge, Mass. mail is 78 Lamartine Avenue, Yonkers. Army, he was export manager of the '13 CE—Corporal Eussell D. Welsh is '14 AB—Lieut. H. Wallace Peters is American Boiling Mill Company, Middle- attending the Engineer Candidates' flying instructor at the Issouduii flying town, Ohio. School in France. His address is A. P. field in France. His address is American '09 ME—Lieut. James W. Cox, jr., is O. 714, American Expeditionary Forces. Air Service, A. P. O. 724, American Ex- engineer in the office of the Chief Pur- peditionary Forces. '13—First Lieut. Eossiter M. Mc- chasing Officer, Quartermaster Corps, Crone, Engineers, is stationed at Camp '15 CE—Lieut. Percy N. Daniels has American Expeditionary Forces, with Humphreys, Va. been promoted to captain in the Sani- headquarters in Paris. tary Corps, with rank from NΌveraber 5. '13—Ensign William Glenn Ebersole, 11 BArch—Vance W. Torbert is a His address is 8521 One Hundred Sixth U. S. N. E. F., is on duty in the Bureau lieutenant in the Construction Division, St., Eichmond Hill, N. Y. of Steam Engineering, Washington, D. C. Quartermaster Corps, and' is on duty at '15 BChem; '16 AB, '17 BChem; '18 the Commonwealth Armory, Boston, '13 ME—Charles S. Thayer resigned —Sergeant Mendel E. Freudenheim, and Mass. his position as electrical superintendent privates William E. C. Alley, Howard of the Massena, N. Y., plant of the '11 ME-—Mr. Herbert F. Gillingham, W. Hock, and Julian S. Cohen arc in the Aluminum Company of America to enter of'Orelaiid, Pa., has announced the en- Gas Defense Division of the Chemical the U. S. Signal Corps Eadio School at gagement of his daughter, Miss Helen Warfare Service at Astoria, L. I. Yale University, New Haven, Conn. D. Gillingham, to Captain Dwight Foster '15 ME—G. Gilson Terriberry is at- His address is 550 Riverside Drive, New Morss, of Syracuse. Morss is on duty at tending the Field Artillery Officers' York. the Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Training Camp at Camp Zachary Tay- ' '13—Lieut. Thomson Douglas is sta- Pa. lor, Ky. He is in the 12th Training tioned at the 3d Aviation Instruction Ίl LLB—Lawrence M. Mintz, of the Battery. Center, American Expeditionary Forces. 108th Infantry, graduated on November '15 BS—Lieut. Charles M. Warren is 1 from the Army Candidates7 School in '13 BChem—Walter A. Bridgeman is- serving as mechanical officer with the 3d France, receiving a commission as sec- chemist and purchasing agent for the Battalion, 62d Artillery, C. A. C., a ond lieutenant of infantry. He is a son Teagle Company, Cleveland, Ohio, manu- regiment of seacoast guns on field of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Mintz, of Ithaca. facturers of magnetos for tractors. He mounts, motorized with the largest Holt lives at 2670 Hampshire Eoad, Cleve- '11 ME—Lieutenant and Mrs. W. caterpillar tractors made. land. Fairfield Peterson announce the birth of '15 BS—Lieut. Arthur W. Wilson, a son, Walker Fairfield, jr., on November '13 ME—Ernest J. J. Kluge was pro- who went to France last April with the 11. Lieutenant Peterson is with Com- moted on August 4 to be a first lieuten- 129th Field Artillery, was one of the pany 4, Officers' Training Battalion, at ant. He is attached to the 101st En- first ten officers of the regiment ordered Camp Kendrick, Lakehurst, N. J. gineers, American Expeditionary Forces. to return to this country, being promoted '12 BArch—Lieut. Carl V. Burger has '13 ME—Francis H. Lockwood is a to first lieutenant on his return. Since been promoted to the rank of captain, sergeant in the Chemical Battalion at October 1 he has been in command of and is at present operations and intelli- the Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Md. D Battery, 66th Field Artillery, at Camp gence officer with the 344th Infantry, His home address is 147 N. .Washington Kearney, Calif. American Expeditionary Forces. His St., Hinsdale, 111. '16 LLB—Second Lieut. James N. home address is Maryville, Tenn. '14 BS—Manuel J. Barrios, jr., is an Butler, Infantry, U. S. A., has been as- '12 ME—Donald C. Miller is attend- ensign in the U. S. Naval Eeserve Force. signed to the 60th Infantry at Camp ing the Eadio Officers' School at Colum- His address is 538 West 114th Street, Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C. He is bia University, New York. He is in ths New York. at present on special duty with the De- 295th Aero Squadron. '14 ME—Lieut. Charles K. Bassett's velopment Battalion. '12 BArch—Lieut. Paul Weigel is address is Engineering Division, in care '16 ME—First Lieut. Edward H. Her- with Battery B, 3d Eegiment, Field Ar- of the Chief Ordnance Officer, A. P. O. zer, Sanitary Corps, is an instructor in tillery, at Camp Jackson, S. C. 717, American Expeditionary Forces. electricity and x-ray physics at tho '32 BChem— George Hopp is in J14 AB—Albert E. Eenaud, jr., went School of Eoentgenology, Camp Green- charge of airplane dopes in the New to France in August, 1917, and was as- leaf, Ga. 168 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

'16 AB—Mr* and Mrs. Edwin A. Eis- '17 AB—Donald B. Vail is an ensign '17 BS—Stanley H. Sisson has been enbeis, 28 WAtsonia Boulevard, Pitts- in the U. S. Naval Flying Corps, and is promoted to the grade of lieutenant in burgh, Pa., announce the birth of a son acting as an instructor in aerial gunnery the U. S. Navy, and is now on board the on November 29. Since his graduation, at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, U. S. S. Wainwright, which is operating Eisenbeis has been with the Union Steel Fla. in foreign waters. Casting Company, of Pittsburgh, and for '17 CE—Ernst W. Kurz is stationed MS AB—Burton L. Swartz is assistant the past year has been chief inspector oί at the U. S. Navy Steam Engineering to the cost accountant of the Reming- Plant No. 1. School at the Pelham Bay Naval Train- ton Arms U. M. C. Company, Inc., Ilion, '16 BS—Frederic A. Jessen is an en- ing Station, Pelham Bay, N. Y., and af- N. Y. His home is at 248 Otsego St. sign in the U. S. N. R. F., and is at ter completing his preliminary training '18 AB—Edwin D. Friderici is a chem- present in command of a submarine will be transferred to the Stevens In- ist at the Old Hickory smokeless powder chaser. stitute, Hoboken, N. J., to complete the plant near Nashville, Tenn. He lives at course. His home address is 38 Main '17 CE—Richard T. Guilbert has been the Du Pont Hotel, Jacksonville, Tenn. St., Tarrytown, N. Y. promoted from ensign to lieutenant '18—Eugene B. Sullivan has been (junior grade) in the U. S. Navy, and '17 BS—Eobert A. Browning is a commissioned a first lieutenant of field is on duty at the Submarine Base, Phil- first lieutenant in the Motor Transport artillery, and is attached to Battery D, adelphia, Pa. Service. His address is American Mis- 73d Field Artillery, at Camp Jackson, sion, Motor Transport Service, Eeserve S. C. '17 BS—First Lieut. L. Vere Wind- Mallet, Par B. C. 'M., American Expe- nagle writes Coach "Jack" Moakley '18 ME—Lieut. Howard A. McDonell ditionary Forces. that he raced at the Stadium in Rome is with the 32d Company, 8th Battalion, and defeated Italy's best distance run- '17 BS—Lewis E. Walker was mar- 152d Depot Brigade, at Camp Upton, ner, Lunghi, of Olympic fame. For win- ried on August 12 to Miss Mary Cum- N. Y. ning, he received a very valuable watch, mings, of Sayre, Pa. He is operating the '18—Harold P. Bentley is production which he says he prizes far more as a home farm near Waverly, N. Y. engineer in the steel yard of the G. M. trophy and for what it stands for than '17 DVM—First Lieut. Charles E. Standifer Construction Corporation, for its monetary value. He is stationed Fanslau, V. C., is on duty with the 1st shipbuilders. His address is 411 W. at the 8th Aviation Instruction Center, Squadron, 14th Cavalry, at Fort Clark, Thirteenth St., Vancouver, Wash. American Expeditionary Forces, Italy. Tex. '18—Sergeant Louis Meinhold is in France with the 57th Artillery-. '18 BS—Miss Miriam C. 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