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Nearly Eighty Per Cent of S. A. T. C. Intend to Remain

Regular Academic Work to be Resumed December 30

Corporal A. L. Eggers '19 Wins D. S. C. for Heroism in Action

Three Wounded, One Missing, Ten Dead in Service

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USTERING-OUT of the Stu- American delegates. The most impor- hoped, accordinly, that an adequate me- dents7 Armjr Training Corps goes tant topic of discussion was "The 'Ef- morial building may be dedicated in M011 apace. Physical examination fect of the War on Education.'' The 1921, the one hundredth anniversary of of the men, begun in the vocational sec- discussion was opened by one of the the incorporation of Ithaca as a village. tion on December 4, continues rapidly British delegates, who was followed by Incidentally, this permanent memorial is throughout the corps; and a few mem- President Schurman. but the crown of the effort Ithaca will bers, having permanent discharge from DAVID F. HOY, registrar of the Uni- make in welcoming her soldiers home. the Army, are leaving every day. The versity, has been elected, for 1919, cap- Some immediate mark of appreciation completion of this task is set for De- tain of the Protective Police, which is and ample provision for securing posi- cember 21. company eight of the Ithaca Fire De- tions will be in the hands of a repre- partment. sentative committee now being formed MOST OF THE SOLDIEES in the academic by Mayor Davis from the official and PROFESSOR LAURENCE PUMPELLY, who section, however, will either remain at fraternal orders of the city. the University or, taking a vacation now, has been in France several months in the will return at the beginning of the sec- service of the Bed Cross, has been ap- GIORGIO DE GRASSI, of the University ond term, December 30. From figures pointed secretary and interpreter to the Library staff, has been doing Y. M. C. A. obtained by the commanding officers, it commission which is to visit nearly all work in France since last winter. lα. August he received a commission in the appears that the number thus proposing the belligerent countries, ascertaining to continue as students is about three- U. S. Army, and has since been doing their present needs and providing as- fourths of the total enrolment: 931 out liaison work with an American contin- sistance for the civilian population. The of 1,196 in the S. A. T. C., and 261 out gent. Before leaving Paris, Lieut, de commission starts this week for Italy, of 361 in the Naval unit. These 1,192 Grassi gave a, farewell dinner to some of going thence to Serbia and possibly to men alone, if all carry out their present his Cornell friends, among whom were Bulgaria, to Greece and Palestine, later plans, will make, next term, a registra- Theodore Stanton '74 and Professors to Switzerland, Belgium, and England, tion equaling almost a third of the total Shepherd Stevens and Laurence Pum- and, if circumstances permit, to Russia. registration last year. There is as yet, pelly, '02-04 Grad. Throughout the itinerary Dr. Pumpelly of course, no indication of the distri- will have charge of transportation, pass- THE INLET PLANT of the Thomas- bution of these men among the colleges. ports, hotel accommodations, payments, Morse Aircraft Corporation is closed. IN THE MATTER OF ACADEMIC WORK and etc., for a party of six, in addition to The equipment necessary for work dur- credit the colleges are taking measures his duties as secretary. Despite the hard ing the winter has been moved to the for carrying into effect the general plans work which the position entails, Dr. newer plant on' South Hill; and there and provisions announced by the Univer- Pumpelly looks forward to an enjoy- the company, with the men who were not sity authorities last week. Thus in Arts able and useful trip. His earlier visits discharged when production was reduced and Sciences students who remain through, to France and his experience there dur- after the signing of the armistice, will out the present term will get credit in ing the war, as well as his wide knowl- continue work on airplanes for the Gov- residence and credit in hours for courses edge of modern languages, render him ernment until the remaining' contracts actually passed. In the professional col- abundantly qualified. The head of the are filled. leges students will have credit who have commission is Homer Folks, formerly CHARLES A. BREWER, city chamberlain passed courses in the curriculum pre- New York State commissioner of chari- during the last five years, has been ap- scribed for the technical degree and ties. pointed auditor in the office of the Uni- other courses permissible as electives. A NEW CITY' HALL has been proposed versity Comptroller. And in all colleges courses will be so as a memorial to Ithaca's soldiers in the arranged-that students who have earned THE SAGE CHAPEL PREACHER for next great war. The proposal, made in some credit this term may go ahead and that Sunday is the Rev. Tertius Van Dyke, detail, at a recent meeting of the Ro- those who have not earned credit may of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, tary Club, by City Clerk William Ogden begin. ? New York. There will be special pro- Kerr 77, has met with pretty general grams of Christmas music. THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNI- approval. Plans for a new civic build- VERSITIES held its annual meeting last ing were drawn some years ago, but THE RETAIL MERCHANTS of Ithaca, by Wednesday and Thursday, December 3 were held in abeyance because of more agreement through a central committee, and 4, at Harvard University. Cornell pressing demands on the city funds: will give ten per cent of their cash was represented by President Schurman Now7 Mr. Kerr's complete analysis of sales on Saturday, December 14, to the and Dean Creightoii of the Graduate the finances shows that the project, in- Tompkins County War Chest. By wide- School. The members of the British volving an estimated expenditure of advertising of their offer, the trades- Educational Mission now visiting this $300,000, is entirely feasible. Prompt men hope to attract numerous buyers, country were present, and at both fore- and energetic action seems assured. especially those doing their Christmas noon and afternoon sessions on Wednes . Pride in the city and the services of her shopping, who in this way may make day they spoke alternately with the sons should stimulate endeavor. It is their money do a double duty. 134 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

personal jurisdiction one hundred and ing from wounds received some time be- ARMY AND NAVY five civilian inspectors and six enlisted fore, but that he had recovered sufficient- -——— 1 men. He was unusually successful in ly to walk around on crutches, and could Eggers '19 Wins D. S. C. dealing, with men of all classes, and as even walk a little without them. The Distinguished Service Cross has evidence of their genuine affection for He is a graduate of the Arts College, been awarded to Corporal Alan Louis him, and in appreciation of his courteous class of 1915, and is the son of Mr. aiil Eggers '49, of the Machine Gun Com- and kind treatment of those with whom Mrs. Charles J. Kolpien, of Eipley, N. pany, 107th Infantry, "for extraordi- he came into contact, his co-workers Y. He is attached to the 28th Infantry, nary heroism in action near Venduille on presented him, on Thanksgiving Day, a which has been in France since October, September 29. Corporal Eggers, with gold Λvatch and a leather bag. 1917. Sergeant John C. Latham, responded to It is expected that when Lieutenant Rogers '16 Missing a call for help from an American tank Page is discharged from the hospital he The ALUMNI NEWS has received a let- which was disabled in an open field will return to the Buffalo district of the ter from Leslie Brown '16 stating that swept by machine-gun and shell fire. Ordnance Department for duty. Newton C. Eogers '16, of the 96th Aero With great gallantry and disregard for Squadron, is reported missing in action. personal safety, they carried out a Morse '16 in Argonne Battle Captain Daniel P. Morse, jr., '15 was Eogers is a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. wounded officer and two soldiers to a commander of the squadron which Eogers, of Canandaigua, N. Y., and was shell hole near by, after which they re- dropped supplies to the ''Lost Bat- graduated from the College of Agricul- turned to the tank, dismounted a Hotch- talion " in the Argonne Forest, flying so ture in 1916. Before enlisting in the kiss gun, and carried it with them to the low that many of them had close calls, Signal Corps, he was an instructor in shell hole, where they kept the enemy at and a number were killed. agricultural chemistry at the Schoharie bay until night, when they 'returned to Morse received his lieutenancy at Min School of Agriculture, Cobleskill, N. Y. our lines, bringing in the three wounded eola in the summer of 1917, and went to men and the gun." France in July, 1917, one of a party of Cornell Bureau's Reunion 'Corporal Eggers is a son of Mr. and ten lieutenants who were the first Army A pleasant meeting of the Cornell Mrs. John H. Eggers of Summit, N. J., aviators to cross. Two of these pioneers, Bureau of the American University Un- and at the time of his enlistment, in Quentin Eoosevelt and Blair Thaw, were ion was held on November 1. Those April, 1917, was a sophomore in the Law killed. Last summer Morse was promot- who attended were Major Henry C. Nel- School. e'd to captain and placed in command of son '92, Captain Eoss P. Anderson '08, Beach '13 Wounded Again the 50th Aero Squadron. He had several Lieut. Harold Flack '12, Lieut. H. Wal- lace Peters '14, Lieut. Emerson Hinch- Eoy C. Beach '13 was wounded a sec- narrow escapes during the Argonne For- liff '14, Lieut. Charles F. Merz '12, ond time on October 21, several bones est action—on one occasion, a shell went and A. D. Weil '86. The small atten- in his right hand being broken, and he through the wings of his plane and dance is due to the fact that the leaves is now at the base hospital where there failed only by an inch to cut the main of the few men \vho are allowed to go are about two thousand wounded Ameri- spar. to Paris are too short, most of them be- cans. He was hit in the jaw with a piece Captain Morse is a son of Mr. and ing only twenty-four-hour passes. How- of shrapnel on July 4, but recovered Mrs. Daniel P. Morse, of Northport, N. ever, Mr. Weil believes that these week- from his wounds and returned .to the Y., and is a brother of Henry N. Morse ly meetings will grow in favor and that front. '05 and Eaymond P. Morse '03, both of they are desirable in working up to the Beach is the son of Mrs. Ellen A. whom are connected with the Morse & next big Overseas Varsity Reunion, Beach of Syracuse. After grduating Burt Company, Brooklyn, N. Y. which they hope to hold sometime near from the College of Agriculture in 1913, Main '16 'Wounded Christmas. Concerning affairs in general, he remained in Ithaca, and was assistant Albert H. Main '16 is at Base Hospi- we 'quote a part of Mr. Weil's letter to manager of the Tompkins County Farm tal No. 26 in France, convalescing from the ALUMNI NEWS, dated November 2: Bureau, and head of the Ithaca Sales a machine-gun wound in the thigh. He li There is general rejoicing over the and Pedigree Company. He left Ithaca is a member of Company E, 309th In- favorable. course of present events, with a draft contingent on April 20, fantry. Almost every hour brings us now some and was stationed at Camp Dix for Main is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. great news having a momentous bearing about two weeks before going overseas. Main, of New York, and is a graduate on our victorious termination of the He is attached to Company G, 311th of the New York State College of Agri- war. It would be idle to attempt to Infantry. culture at Cornell. He was a member write you details which you receive in of the varsity cross country team, and Page '13 in Hospital the daily cable dispatches, and ere you of his college track team, becoming cap- First Lieutenant Blinn S. Page '13 receive this such further great strides tain of the latter in his senior year. has been confined to the Bloomingdale may have been made that peace may be Hospital, White Plains, N. Y., since Kolpien '15 Severely Wounded still nearer in sight. On several points November 14, owing to a nervous break- Lieutenant Kenneth H. Kolpien '15 the situation remains complicated so down caused by over-work. is reported as severely wounded in the that even at this close contact it is im- Before his illness, Lieutenant Page casualty list published on December 3. possible to s'ay yet whether it is now was an Army inspector of ordnance at This is evidently the second time Lieu- only a question of weeks or of months. twenty-five plants holding Government tenant Kolpien has been wounded; for At all events our troops are making a contracts in Buffalo, Tor/awanda, and in a letter dated July 16, he stated that name for themselves of which we may be Niagara Falls, N. Y., and. bad under his he was in a Red Cross hospital recover- justly proud and their achievements are CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 135

meeting with the most enthusiastic grat- and later a missionary to Japan. His can bankers, consisting of J. P. Morgan itude on the part of the French Nation mother, Emma Dickerman Straight, after & Co., the National City Bank of New as well as of the Allies." her husband's death taught school in York, and Kuhn, Loeb & Co., had been Japan, and later also died there. Re- formed to undertake railroad and other DIED IN THE SERVICE turning to America, Willard Straight enterprises in China and Manchuria, John F. Murtaugh '98 prepared for college at Bordentown Mil- and in June, 1909, Straight became its Major John Francis Murtaugh, whose itary Institute and then entered Cornell, representative in the East. During the death was chronicled in the ALUMNI graduating in 1901. He joined Delta next two years the Kukuang Railways NEWS last week, was born in Elmira on Tau Delta, Sphinx Head, Aleph Samach, and the Currency Loan Agreement were February 6, 1874, and was the son of Mr. Bench and Board, and tjie Savage Club; negotiated. and Mrs. Michael Murtaugh. After he was senior president, an editor of Upon his return to the United States, graduating from the Elmira Free Acad- The Widow and The Cornellian, and he became associated with J. P. Morgan emy in 1890 and from St. Bonaven- editor-in-chief of the Era. & Co. He remained here for some years ture's College at Allegany in 1896 he and then retired, in 1915, with the in- entered the Law School, where he spent tention of studying international law at three years, taking the degree of LL. B. Columbia. But he was soon prevailed in 1898 and remaining for another year upon by Frank A. Vanderlip to become as a graduate student. He was a mem- vice -president and active executive of ber of Quill and Dagger. He played on the American International Corporation, the varsity football team and was cap- which was interested in the development tain of the 1899 varsity baseball team. of railroads in China. He served also Admitted to the bar in 1899,, he served as chairman of the committee on for- as a supervisor in Elmira for four eign commerce and the revenue laws years, and the same length of time as of the New York Chamber of Com- corporation counsel. In 1908 he was merce. elected as a Democrat to the State Sen- On September 7, 1911, in Geneva, ate from the 41st District, which was Switzerland, he married Miss Dorothy- normally Republican by 4000, and which Payne Whitney, daughter of the late in 1912 he carried by over 4,800 votes, William C. Whitney. She survives him the largest majority ever given a sena- Λvith three children, Whitney Willard, torial candidate. He served as chairman aged six, Beatrice, aged four, and of the Judiciary Committee and as Dem- Michael, aged two. eratic leader. He returned in 1915 to He was a loyal Cornellian, a membei the practice of law, in which he was most of the Cornell Club of New York, and successful. an alumni Trustee of the University, He was known also for special studies having been elected in 1915 for five in Civil War history, on which he had years. written and lectured. Straight was a Fellow of the Royal In 1900 he married Miss Nellie O'Dea, In 1902 he was appointed to Sir Rob- Geographical Society of London and a Four children were born to them. Mrs. ert Hart's Chinese Imperial Customs member of the. following other clubs: Murtaugh died suddenly on May 22, Service and served at Nanking and Pe- the Century, Knickerbocker, Players, 1915. Murtaugh is survived by his chil- king for two years, extending his al- Meadow Brook, The Brook, India House, dren, his mother, two sisters, and a ready wide knowledge of the Japanese The Links, University, Piping Rock, brother. and Chinese languages and customs. Metropolitan, and Recess of New York, He was a member of the Elks, the During the Russo-Japanese War he cor- the Metropolitan of Washington, and Knights of Columbus, and the Chemung responded for Renter's and the Associat- the St. James and Royal Thames Yacht County Bar Association. ed Press in Tokίo-, Seoul, and Manchuria, Club of London. Enlisting in the Army in May last, In 1905 he became vice-consul and sec- He was one of the leading spirits in he was on September 10 commissioned a retary to the American minister at the Plattsburg manoeuvres in 1915, and major and attached to the Judge Ad- Seoul. Returning to America in 1906 in 1917 was made commanding major, vocate's Department, being located in he acted for a year as secretary to the Adjutant General's Department of the the Headquarters Division of the De- American minister at Havana and then United States Reserves. He was select- partment of the East at Governor's Is- resumed his life in the Orient as con- ed as adjutant general in charge of sol- land. sul-general at Mukden. Here he became diers' war insurance in Washington and prominent for his championship of at his own request was transferred to Willard D. Straight Όl American business interests against ap- France as supervisor of the overseas The death of Willard Dickerman parently unfair discrimination in favor branch. Straight came as a great shock to his of Japanese merchants. His work hav- A typical opinion of him was expressed friends, and abruptly ended a career of ing attracted the notice of the State De- by A. Barton Hepburn, wh<| said: "He great promise. partment, he was ordered to Washing- commanded universal confidence and re- Straight was the son of Professor ton, and for six months was in charge spect, and he had before hirn a brilliant Henry H. Straight, for many years a of Far Eastern affairs. future, not only as a financier and busi- teacher in the Oswego Normal School, In the meantime a group of Ameri- ness man, but as a good citizen." 136 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

The Newark Evening News, in an edi- listed in the Aviation Section of the went to France with the llth Infantry, torial appreciation published on Decem- Signal Corps, and was sent to Self ridge 56th Brigade, 28th Division. ber 4, spoke as follows: Field, Mount Clemens, Mich., for train- Andrew J. Lowndes '05 "Major Straight lived up to his name. ing. He was commissioned a first lieu- Captain Andrew Jackson Lowndes His career, lamentably cut short before tenant on October 5, 1917, and went to died in France recently, of pneumonia. he reached his prime, was of the sort that France ten days later. Lowndes was the son of Mr. and Mrs. one likes to refer to a s essentially Ameri- For about two months he was in train- v William C. Lowndes, of Baltimore. He can. This means not only that he had ing as a pilot of a bombing plane with prepared for college at the Baltimore initiative, judgment, resource in himself, the Royal Flying Corps at Waddίngton, Polytechnic Institute, and entered Sib- not only that his record was one of seiz- Lincolnshire, England, and was later or ley College in 1902, receiving the degree ing and using opportunity to definite and dered to London and assigned to duty 011 of M. E. in 1905. resultful ends. It means that he had the staff of the commander of the Amer- character, and that his character directed ican Air Forces in England. He was After his graduation he went to Wol- and dominated his work. Appreciation then sent back to Waddington for spe- cott, Kansas, as manager of the Kins- of his character runs through every cial instruction in the use of machine man Block System Company, manufac- tribute paid him today by men who guns in aerial fighting. Last September turers of block signals for steam and were brought into association with him. he went to the front with the llth Aero electric railways. In June, 1908, he re- "Major Straight leaves a memory of Squadron and was engaged in active turned to Baltimore, and went into bus- inspiration, even more than of results fighting as the pilot of a Liberty bomb- iness with Walter E. Mitchell '08, under and promise—the inspiration that comes ing plane from that time until October the firm name of the Lowndes-Mitchell from the story of eager devotion of tal- 16, when he contracted the disease whicn Engineering Company, engineering con- ents' and abilities to the cause of pa- caused his death. tractors, specializing in steam and hot triotism and world reconstruction 011 the A short time ago Lieutenant Waring water heating and power plant engine- lines of liberty and disinterested serv- participated in a remarkable bombing ering. Later, he was assistant superin- ice. " expedition in which eight American tendent of the rolling mill department planes were attacked by three German of the Pacific Hardware and Steel Com- William W. Waring '07 pany, at Portland, Ore., and in 1911, squadrons. Waring said it was the First Lieutenant William Wallace tightest fight that he and his observer became superintendent of the Pacific Waring died at Evacuation Hospital No. had seen, and that tliere were about thir- Coast Steel Company, South San Fran- 14 in France on October 30, of bronchial ty Germans attacking them at one time. cisco, Calif. pneumonia. In a letter to his cousin, written on He received his commission last March, Waring was the son of Mr. and Mrs. October 14, he said that he had thirty- as captain in the Quartermaster Corps, William Wilson Waring, of Franklin- one bullet holes in his machine and that National Army, and was sent to France ville, N. Y., and was born on February he had followed the example of the immediately as superintending engineer 17, 1887. He prepared for college at French pilots and nailed an iron cross of transports. Ten Broeck Academy, Franklinville, and over each bullet hole. He was married on December 1, 1909, entered Cornell in 1903, in the course in Lieutenant Waring is survived by his to Miss Anna B. Harris, a sister of arts, receiving the degree of A. B. in parents, Mr. and Mrs. William W. War- Richard G. Harris '07, who survives him. 1907. He was a member of Theta ing, of Franklinville, N. Y., one brother, Ralph R. Marrian '15 Lambda Phi (now Sigma Phi Epsilon) Thayer E. Waring, of Franklinville, and and of the Thurston Debate Club. First Lieutenant Ealph Eichardson three sisters, Miss Almira E. Waring, a Marrian died at Bohain, France, on In the fall of 1907 he began the study teacher in the Oyster Bay, N. Y., High October 17, from wounds received while of law with the firm of Norton, Penney School, Mrs. Marjorie Keppel, of Phil- leading his platoon through the town of & Sears, of Buffalo, and was admitted/to adelphia, and Mrs. Lucy Alys Garges, of Mo lain. the bar in March, 1909. In the fall of Bryan, Texas. 1910, he went to Aberdeen, South Da- Marrian was born on March 24, 1890, kota, was admitted to the bar of that W. Mynderse Rice '12 and entered the College of Civil En- state, and practiced his profession for Wilhelmus Mynderse Bice has died in gineering from Valparaiso University two years. In 1913 he returned to New France from wounds received in action in 1910, receiving the degree of Civil En- York State, and began the practice of on October 2. gineer in 1915. He was a member of law in Olean. He left Olean t\vo years Eice was born 011 April 10, 1887, the Scroll and Spade. later to take a position with Strebel, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Eice, of For some time after his graduation, Corey, Tubbs & Beals, of Buffalo, where Auburn, N. Y. Before entering Cornell Marrian was employed -in the electric di- he remained until the time of his enlist- in 1909 he attended Hobart College and vision of the New York Central Railroad ment. Williams College. He received the de- Company, in New York. He served on In 1916, while in Buffalo, he became gree of LL. B. in 1912. He was a mem- the Mexican Border with Company L, a member of the Second Aero Company, ber of Sigma Phi. 7th New York Infantry, and in the fall an organization of the New York Na- He served on the Mexican border in of 1917 entered the Engineer Training tional Guard, and after a short term 1916 with the 3d Infantry, New York Camp at Camp American University, of training at Mineola, L. I., he re- National Guard. He attended the First Washington, D. C. He was commissioned ceived a commission as second lieuten- Officers' Training Campp at Madison a second lieutenant in, the Engineer Ee- ant. In August, 1917, he resigned his Barracks, N. Y., and was commissioned serve Corps, and was transferred to commission in the National Guard, en- a second lieutenant of infantry. He Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C., where he CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 137

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THE STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS Photograph by J. P. Troy The entire corps is shown on the University Playground. The Naval Unit and the Marines are not included in the picture. was attached to Company B, 105th En- Besides his mother, he leaves four Corps at the University of Michigan, gineers. He went to France with this brothers, Private Levi Ginsburg '13 and died of pneumonia on October 18. regiment last September, and had recent- Private Samuel Ginsburg '13, both of Frederick W. A. Miller, Grad. ly been promoted to first lieutenant. whom are in France, Corporal Abram He was buried in the military ceme- Ginsburg '19, who is in an American Frederick William Addison Miller tery at Moiitbeliard, France, and his camp, and Herman Ginsburg, of Elmira died of pneumonia at the Verdun front on September 2'3. He \vas in a danger- men have erected a neat white fence Malcolm W. McAlpine '18 around his grave, and placed a large ous condition when taken into the field First Lieutenant Malcolm Wright Mc- white cross at its head. hospital, and died at a quarter past Alpine died of Spanish influenza, fol- midnight the following day. Harry Ginsburg '16 lowed by pneumonia, at Base Hospital Miller was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ginsburg died last month at the No. 15 in France, on October 22. Frederick John Miller, of Ivorytown, Homeopathic Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y., McAlpine was born on January 26, Conn., and was twenty-six years old. Be- following a brief illness of influenza. 1895, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. fore coming to Cornell, he attended Ginsburg was a son of Mrs. Belle R. McAlpine, of South Bend, Ind. He pre- Brown University, where he received the Ginsburg, of Elmira, N". Y. He was pared at the South Bend High School, degree of Ph. B. in 1915, and that of born; on March 24, 1893, and graduated and entered Sibley College in 1914. He M. A. in 1916. He entered Cornell in from the Elmira Free Academy in 1909. was a member of Beta Theta Pi. 1916 as a fellow in philosophy, and was He entered the Cornell Law School in He enlisted in the Aviation Service an admirer of the philosophy of Hegel. 1912, receiving the degree of LL. B., in on June 5, 1917, and received his He was attached to Company M, 313th 1916. ground training at Ithaca. He was sen!" Infantry. After his graduation he became as- to Italy on September 17, where he re- 623d ORGAN RECITAL sociated with the law7 firm of Moot, ceived his flying training, and last Bailey Hall, Wednesday, December 11. Sp rague, Brownell & Marcy, with offices February was sent to France for active in the Erie County Savings Bank service with the 213t h Aero Squadron. Professor JAMES T. QUARLES, ~ Organist Building, Buffalo. Lieutenant McAlpine is survived by Concert- Overture in C mfmor Hollίns Three weeks before his death, he en- his parents and one brother, Roderick, Prelude in C sharp imnoi--Rachmaninoff tered the Syracuse Recruiting Camp of South Bend, Ind, Another brother, Choral in A minor ± Franck and was acting sergeant αf the 100th Sergeant James McAlpine, who was a Evening Chimes Wheeldon Company, 24th Battalion. member of the Students' Army Training Marche Heroique Saint-Saens 138 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

time-honored conventions and prejudices. Andrew D. White A man of convictions, he thought that A Resolution of the Trustees, Written one was little worth who had not strength by Cuthbert W. Pound. and decision of character, but for narrow Published for the Associate Alumni "A long life devoted to truth, justice, obstinacy based on half truths he had of Cornell University by the Cornell national liberty, and right reason." scant regard. Alumni News Publishing Company, An enemy of untruth, injustice, and The members of the Board of Trustees Incorporated. .unreason, his was the will and power to- Published weekly during the college year of Cornell University come to this meet- mould an enlightened public opinion to- and monthly during the summer; forty issues ing with an abiding sense of sorrow up- annually. Issue No. 1 is published the last sustain liberty under the law by means Thursday of September. Weekly publica- on the death of their late associate of a sober faith in republican institution (numbered consecutively) continues Andrew D. White. Dear in memory as tions. through Commencement Week. The number the first President and constant friend Dr. White is dead. We have "fol- of monthly issues and of double numbers will depend somewhat on the University calendar, and benefactor of the University; rich lowed among the sad, in the procession which is likely to be irregular for the period in the just fame of honorable public of sorrow, his hearse." But the Uni- of the war. Issue No. 40 is published in versity that he helped 'to found, the col- August and is followed by an index of the service; crowned with the laurels of entire volume, which will be mailed on re- scholastic dignities; Dr, White died lections that he brought together, the quest. when his work was done and the measure volumes that he wrote, live after him anil Subscription price $8.60 a year, payable in ad- of his years was full. ^His life was "the light of his great example shines vance. Foreign 'postage 40 cents a year extra. on the lives of men.'' Domestic rates apply to addresses in-the Amer- precious not merely to Cornell but to all ican" Expeditionary Forces. Single copies twelve mankind. Its great events are a part of RESOLUTIONS ON DR. WHITE cents each. Double numbers twenty-four cents a the Nation's history and need no enco- copy. mium here to augment their proper conse- The ALUMNI NEWS is in receipt of the Should a subscriber desire to discontinue admirable resolutions adopted recently hie subscription, notice to that effect should quence. Its daily round of customary be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise cares .was traveled with dignity, pa- by the Cornell Club of Syracuse and it is assumed that a continuance of the sub- tience, gentleness, and kindness. by the Cornell Club of New England on scription is desired. the death of Dr. Andrew D. White. We Checks, drafts, and orders should be made Publicist, statesman, and diplomat, payable to Cornell Alumni News. uniting a rare and graceful general regret that we have space for only a few Correspondence should be addressed— knowledge with profound historical selected paragraphs. The following, Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca,, N. Y. scholarship, he stands unique in the from the Syracuse resolutions, is a fine Managing Editor: R. W. Sailor '07 breadth of his sympathies and the range summary of those aspects of Dr. White's Associate Editors: of his accomplishments. activity which Cornellians like best to Clark S. Northup '93 Woodford Patterson '95 think about. B. S. Monroe '96 H. G. Stutz '07 With Carlyle he believed that "great R. W. Kellogg '12 men, taken up in any way, are profitable "He achieved greatness in varied Business Manager: R. W. Sailor company.'; A wonderful power of ob- fields. As a statesman and a diplomat, Circulation Manager: G eo. Wm. Horton servation and narration, coupled with he has written his name in capitals in News Committee of the Associate Alumni: W. W. Macon '98, Chairman unusual intimate relationships with the the political history of his country. Tα N. H. Noyes '06 J. P. Dods '08 leaders of thought and action of his age, the scholar he will appear greatest for Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Pub- made him the most inspiring and least his vivid interpretations of history, which lishing Company, Incorporated: John L. under his enlightened method served as Senior, President; R. W. Sailor, Treasurer: didactic of teachers. F. H. Wingert, Assistant Treasurer; Wood- His unerring instinct for the discov- warning signs against modern intolerance ford Patterson, Secretary. Office 220 East ery and development of genius and learn- and heresies and as guide posts to solu- State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. ing opened the door of opportunity to the tions of political and social problems. Printed by The Ithacan ambitious student and his clear visuali- But to us he was most admirable, most zation of the historic past aroused even helpful, and most courageous as the Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y the sluggard to an understanding of the founder and protagonist of a new system Ithaca, N. Y., December 12, 1918 symbols of art and literature about him. of higher education, broader, sounder,, In the days of bitter antagonism be- more tolerant, more elective, and more RESUMPTION OF REGULAR WORK tween dogmatic theology and the scien- democratic than the old system of Alumni can do the University a real tific view of the universe he was a brave cramped and cultural collegiatism which service by circulating the news that soldier in the liberation war of human- before him claimed exclusive title to the what is virtually a new fall term will ity. Misunderstood and abused, he did name of higher education." begin on December 30 and that any per- not falter in maintaining his thesis that The New England resolutions include son who so desires can do a full year's there could be no conflict between un- the following: work between December 30 and the end • trammeled scientific investigation and "His achievements in diplomacy of the special summer term. true religion. Cornell's'noble buildings alone would have made him notable. In A circular setting forth the essential and equipment, its liberal and practical politics he went far and might have gone facts regarding the new calendar has principles, now generally adopted in much further. A master of exposition^ been issued from the Secretary's office, other institutions of learning to their he charmed and instructed a wide au^ and alumni can have as many copies great gain not only as regards morals dience with his voice and pen. As a as they wish by writting to Mr. Patter- but also as regards religion in its highest scholar he made full use of great op- son. The text of the circular appears and best sense, points to the triumph of portunities and led in various fields of elsewhere in this issue. ideas scarcely half a century old over historical research. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 139

"But to Cornell men he stood pre- anew on December 30 and accomplishing and spoke on conditions in the Uni- eminently for all that. Cornell Univer- a full year of regular college work by versity. Mr. Dods was en route for the- sity Λvas and is and yet shall be. As- means of a summer term to be held in meeting of the directors of the Asso- sociated from the beginning with Ezra 1919. ciate Alumni in Buffalo, and there made- Cornell and chosen by him to organize That opportunity may be enjoyed also the statement that it was as enthusi- and direct the University, he laii the in- by former students or prospective stu- astic a Cornell luncheon as he had ever tellectual and spiritual foundations of dents who have been in training camps attended, even before the war. that institution so wisely and firmly or in active service. A mailing card was sent out announc- that they have been wholly adequate for Any student \vho wishes to accomplish ing the luncheon. It was in the form of the wonderful structure that has been a full year of college work between now an acrostic whose initial letters spelt built upon them. and next September may do so at Cor- the words "TEEFY" CEANE. The "Andrew Dickson White built his life nell by entering th,e University on De- card also announced that "Victrola" into Cornell University. With the pass- cember 30 and doing the required work Bill Forbes '06 was back from France ing of his noble presence forever from according to the following calendar: and that there would be singing. the hill that he loved, his glowing spirit The second term begins Monday, De- will not cease to shine through Cor- cember 30, 1918, and ends Saturday, LITERARY REVIEW nell's halls and the memory of his life March 22, 1919. A Bookon Airplanes will be a lasting inspiration to every The third term begins Monday, March Airplane Characteristics: A System- Cornell man." 31, 1919, and ends Thursday, June 19, atic Introduction for Flyer and Student 1919. and for All Who are Interested in Avia- Resumption of Work The summer term begins on or about University Issues Circular Telling of tion. By Frederick Bedell, Ph. D. '92. July 1, 1919, and ends, in each college Beginning of Regular College Work Ithaca, N. Y. Taylor and Company. of the University, at such time as will 1918. 8vo, pp. xii, 123. Frontispiece The University has issued a circular best . satisfy the needs of students of and 50 figures. Price, $1.60 net; by mail describing the opportunities for students that college; in general the term is ex- $1.75. who wish to return for regular work with pected to occupy about eight weeks in The great importance of the subject the new year. The circular has gone to July and August. matter of this book has made it seem all undergraduates who are absent on Old students may re-enter the Uni- best to issue a temporary edition without leave. It is entitled ' Resumption of versity at once or at any time between delay, reserving for subsequent publica- Regular College Work." The text fol- now and December 21 (the end of the tion, it is hoped in 1919, certain chapters lows : first term) and take such instruction as which will deal with thrust, power, climb- Classes in Cornell University will be they may be prepared to take with ing, gliding, altitude, single and multi- reorganized and the University will be- profit to them; in such cases an -equitable ple planes, stability in general, and lon- gin what is to be virtually a new aca- adjustment of tuition charges will be gitudinal stability, and which are now in demic year on Monday, December 30, made. preparation. The five chapters here pre- 1918, for the particular benefit of stu- Old or new students may enter the sented deal with sustentation, relations dents who are returning to civil life University on December 30, 1918; on in flight, resistance, lateral stability, and after service in the Army or Navy. At March 31 1919; or at the beginning of directional stability. There is added a that time, it is expected, the University the summer term of 1919, about July 1. glossary of thirteen pages and three other will return to normal conditions of hous- Any student who is planning to re- appendices giving drawings illustrative ing. turn to the University should at onco of thrust and -power characteristics and There will be a summer term of in- write to the dean of Ms college and find of control. struction at Cornell in the summer of out at what time he can resume his The author has had in mind the needs 1919 to enable students to obtain credit work there with the greatest advantage not only of the flyer and the designer, for a full year of college work between to himself. for whom the book is chiefly intended, but January 1 and September 1, 1919. also students of physics and egnineerin^ T, F. CRANE AT CLEVELAND The Students' Army Training Corps who may have only a general interest in is to be demobilized and the men are to At the luncheon of the Cornell Club aviation. It has been his purpose "to be discharged from service by December of Cleveland held at Hotel Statler on present the principles of airplane susten- 21, 1918. A large number of these men December 5,, Professor T. F. Crane was tation and stability and the characterise will then resume at Cornell the courses the guest of honor and principal speaker. tics of an airplane in flight in a way which they left last October for one or Professor Crane spoke on Andrew D. that is direct and simple and at the another of the S. A. T. C. programs. White and Charles W. Wason and their same time reasonably precise, laying par- Some of these men had been regular relations to the University and on the ticular streps on that which is vital.'' In students here before they were inducted Wason Chinese Collection, recently pre- this we think he has succeeded admir- into the Army or the Navy; others sented to the University Library. ably. His style is lucid, and to make his of them came here this fall as new stu- There were -about seventy-five present, meaning clearer he has provided an dents and will begin the studies of the including fifteen Princeton men, invited abundance of drawings. The student who freshman year. So many of them have in honor of Professor Crane. Mr. A. H. masters this book in its complete form been unable, since the first of October, Clark, who collected the library for Mr. will have a good general understanding to make substantial progress in work Wason, was also a guest. J. P. Dods of this attractive and now highly impor- leading to a degree that the University '08, president of the Cornell Club of tant science. We predict for the volume will offer an opportunity of beginning Chicago, happened to be in Cleveland, a wide sale. 140 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Books and Magazine Articles OBITUARY He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willis H. Millard, of Dundee, N. Y., Professor Margaret F. Washburn's James T. Leary '80 his wife and four small children, one ''' Movement and Mental Imagery," a James Thomas Leary died at Balti- brother, and one sister. His wife and volume in the Vassar Semi-Centennial more, Md., on November 22. one child are now in the hospital with .Series, is reviewed by Harold E. Burtt Leary was born on September 17, 1858, the same disease that caused his death. •of Harvard in The Journal of Philos- at Ithaca, N. Y., and was a son of the Helen A. Vail '11 ophy, Psychology, and Speculative late Cornelius Leary. He entered the .Methods for November 21. University in 1876, receiving the de- Helen Augusta Vail died at her home in Dalton, Pa., on November 13, after a In The Physical Review for November gree of B. S. in Science and Letters Professor Edward L. Nichols '75, Horace in 1880. long illness. Miss Vail was born on October 25, L. Howes, Ph. D. '15, and Dr. David T. In June, 1882, he entered the employ Wilber ΊO collaborate in an article on of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, 1884, and prepared for college at the ''The Photoluminescence and Kathodo- as a clerk in the mechanical department Scranton High School. She entered Cor- luminescence of Calcite." Professor at Fort Wayne, Ind. In May, 1883, he nell in 1907, taking a special course in Paul F. Gaehr '02 writes on "The was promoted to the chief clerkship in arts, and received the degree of A. B. "Specific Heat of Tungsten at Incan- the office of the superintendent of motive in 1911. descent Temperatures.'' power of the company, and in November, After her graduation, she was an instructor in the International Correspon Dr. Eobert T. Morris '80, writes in 1899, was made chief clerk to the general Λ dence Schools at Scranton until forced by .American Forestry for October on "Fire superintendent of motive power of the ill health to give up her position. Danger in Feather Grass.'' To the same Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh, She is survived by her mother, Mrs. F. .number Professor Arthur A. Allen '07 with headquarters in that city. In 1901, T. Vail, one sister, Emma, and two broth- contributes an illustrated article on he left this company to become assistant ers, Howard and Burson. ''' Night-Hawks and Whip-poor-wills.'' to the general manager of the Balti- Euth H. Clark '20 In Scribner's Magazine for December more and Ohio Railroad, and in April, Professor Graham Lusk discusses 1902, was made general auditor. He held Ruth Hunting Clark died of pneu- this position until February, 1914, \vhen "Science and the World's Food." The monia at the Cornell Infirmary on No- article is largely a record of the author 's he was promoted to the position of comp- vember 18. personal experiences as a member of the troller of the company. Miss Clark was the daughter of Mr. Inter-Allied Scientific Food Commission, He leaves his wife, a brother, Frank and Mrs. Rollin W. Clark, of Belleville, and throws much light on food conditions M;, of Auburn, N. Y., and two sisters, , N. Y. She was born on March 31, 1890, in England and France in the past year. Mrs. W. J. Reilly and Mrs. Patrick Wall, and prepared for college at the Northern of Ithaca. Engineering and Contracting for July Business College, Watertoλvn, N. Y., en- 17 publishes an address on "Accident John F. Kingston '97 tering the College of Agriculture in' Prevention in Quarry Operation" deliv- John Francis Kingston died on De- 1916. ered before the National Safety Council cember 4 at Weedsport, N. Y. She had been a stenographer in the Col- l>y William H. Baker '01, now assistant He was born on November 27, 1873, lege of Agriculture for the past four general superintendent of the Atlas the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Kings- years. Portland Cement Company at Hannibal, ton, of Skaneateles, N. Y., and before Barton H. Williams '23 Missouri. entering Cornell, attended the Skane- Barton Nichol Williams, a member of ateles Academy. He received the degree In The American Naturalist for Au- the class of 1923 in Sibley College, died gust-September Professor Harry H. Lov<>, of LL. B. in 1897. at Ithaca, on October 29. He was the Ph. D. '09, and W. T. Craig write 011 Hugh B. Millard '11 son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Wiliams, of 1848 East 87th Street, Cleveland, "The Relation between Color and Other Hugh Robinson Millard died on No- Ohio, and was born in Cleveland on Sep- Characters in Certain A vena Crosses," vember 20 at Cheyenne, Wyoming, from tember 30, 1901. He was prepared for and Professor Vaughan Mac Caughey '08 pneumonia following influenza. college at the Cleveland East High presents "A Survey of the Hawaiian Millar d was born on December 27, School* Coral Reefs." In the same journal for 1886, and prepared for college at the October-November Professor Lee B. Wal- Dundee, N. Y., High School. He en- William I. McCarin, '16-18 Grad. ton '97 discusses '' Organic Evolution tered. Cornell in 1908, and received the William Irvine McCann, a graduate .and the Significance of Some New Evi- degree of D. V. M. in 1911. He was a student, diecL at the Cornell Infirmary dence Bearing on the Problem.'' member of Alpha Psi, and of the Society 011 November 18. The cause of his death - Professor Paul J. Kruse has just pub- of Comparative Medicine. was pneumonia. lished "The Overlapping of Attainments In 1912, he was made secretary-treas- McCann was born on June 27, 1888, the in Certain Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth urer of the Board of State Commission- son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville McCann, of Grades," a volume of ninety-one pages. ers of the State of Wyoming, with head- Frazeyburg, Ohio. He was graduated It forms No. 9^ of "Contributions to quarters at Cheyenne, a board which had from Ohio State University in 1914 with Education," published by Teachers Col- oversight of all the flocks of the state, the degree of B. S., and entered Cornell lege, Columbia University. and wτas charged with the duty of assist- as a graduate student in 1916. Professor Charles K. Burdick writes ing sheepmen to eradicate disease among For the past two years he had been an in The Southern Law Quarterly for Au- their flocks. He held this position until instructor in the Department of Pomol- { gust on ' Public Service and the War.'' the time of his death. ogy. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 141

were introduced; the record contains is judge advocate of the First Army ALUMNI NOTES nearly eight million words. The defend Corps in France. '77 BCΈ—Walter J. Sherman, of the ants who were convicted (numbering '98 ME—William W. Macon, manag- W. J. Sherman Company, consulting ninety-seven) composed the ring-leaders ing editor of The Iron Age, left, New engineers, Toledo, Ohio, has been assist- of the organization and included its gen- York the last of October for a trip to ing the Government in connection with eral officers, organizers, writers, and England and France, as a member of a the Air Nitrates Corporation at Toledo speakers. Judge Landis imposed penal- party of trade journalists, about four- and the U. S. Housing Corporation at ties ranging from one to twenty years. teen in number. They went on invita- Muskegon, Mich. The address of the The trial was not only of national, but tion and as guests of the British Gov- company is 613 The Nasby. of international importance. The I. W. ernment, and expect to return some time this month, loaded with views aβ to com- '99 LLB—Frank K. Nebeker was the W. was shown to be a revolutionary organization with a membership of from mercial economic conditions. Included special prosecutor for the Government, •two to three hundred thousand. It has in the party are Arthur J. Baldwin '92 whose efforts resulted in the conviction become so truculent that it seriously ham- and Herbert L. Aldrich '84. of W. D. Haywood and other leaders of pered the Government in its war prepara- '02 CE—Shirley C. Hulse is construc- the I. W. W. in the notable trial recent- tions during the year 1917. Its action superintendent of the Jarrett- ly concluded in the Federal Court in tivities were directed, in the main, Chambers Company, Inc., 30 E. Forty- Chicago. Mr. Nebeker was engaged in against lumber, copper, and food produc- second St., New York. His work at Hog the preparation and trial of the case for tion. The movement was gaining great Island was finished some time ago. more than a year. In September, 1917, momentum at the time Mr. NeBeker '05 AB—The new address of Miss all headquarters of the organization were took the matter in hand for the Govern- Adeline C. Kiep is 444 Walton Eoad, raided by Government agents under Mr. ment. Mr. Nebeker has now returned Maplewood, N. J. Nebeker's direction, and the papers and to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is en- '06 AB—Miss Abbie F. Potts is tak- documents then seized constituted a large gaged in the practice of law, being a ing graduate work in dramatics at the part of the evidence introduced at the member of the firm of Howat, Mashall, University. Her address is Risley Cot- trial. The work of getting this mass of Macmillan & Nebeker, with offices in tage, Ithaca, N. Y. documentary evidence in shape was prodi- the Judge Building. gious. The trial commenced on April 1 '06 AB, Ίl MD; '16—Dr. and Mrs. of this year, and continued until Au- '96 CE—De-Forest H. Dixon has W. Forrest Lee, of Ithaca, announce the gust 17. Upwards of three hundred wit changed his residence address to 71 birth of a son, William Forrest, jr., on nesses were examined in court; from Gates Avenue, Montclair, N. J. November 2. Before her marriage, Mrs. fifty to seventy-five thousand documents '97 LLB—Colonel Arthur W: Brown Lee Λvas Miss Ruth Jane McClelland '16.

The Troy Cornell Art Calendar For 1919

THE COVER DESIGN symbolizes the Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the University in a unique and artistic manner. THE PICTURES within are new, They tell the story of Cornell during the War, with empha- sis, of course, on the military side, THIS CALENDAR maintains the Troy Standard. It may be sent to any address as a Christmas gift with the giver's card enclosed, when such card is sent with the order.

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'06 CE—^-Wafter J. Ryan is a captain ΊO AB—Captain E. Templeton Smith is now commanding Company B, 17th of engineers, and has been stationed at has been promoted to the rank of major Engineers (Railway), American Expe- Port Douglass, Utah; since October 17. in the Gas Defense Division, Chemical ditionary Forces. '07 BSA—Harry H. Schutz is a mem- Warfare Service, U. S. Army, with rank '12 AB—Miss Kathleen M. Willis is ber of the 35th Machine Gun Company from November 1. His address is 285 now teaching English at Marysville, in the Officers' Training Camp at Camp Lincoln St., Flushing, N. Y. Calif. Her former address was Escon- Hancock, Ga. ΊO AB—Joseph C. Andrews has been ido, Calif. '07 ME—Herman Bartholomay's resi- promoted from lieutenant to captain, '12 ME—Alfred J. Doyle is an as- dence address is changed to 3633 Pine and transferred to the Watertown Arse- sistant electrical engineer with the Pub- Grove Avenue, Chicago. His business nal, Watertown, Mass. He may be ad- lic Service Commission of New York- address is 175 West Jackson Boulevard. dressed in care of the Boston Athletic His address is 749 East Thirty-second (Club, Exeter St., Boston, Mass. '07 CE—The address of Captain B. St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Menees Davis is 57th Engineers, A. P. O. Ίl BChem—Harry Eastwood is en '13 BS—Herman Coors is stationed 702, American Expeditionary Forces. gineer of tests, in charge of sub-con- at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky. Mrs. tracts in the Cleveland District Ord- '07 ME—Mr. and Mrs. S. William Coors and their son are living with her nance Office. His address is Ordnance Pox, jr., of Sparkill, N. Y., announce parents, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil D. Morse, Office, Plymouth Building, Cleveland, the birth of a son, William Edward, on of Ithaca. Ohio. November 20. Ί3 ME—William H. Chapman is a Ίl ME—Mr. and Mrs. William How- '08 AB—Seth W. Shoemaker has been first lieutenant in the Ordnance Depart- ard Brooks announce the marriage of for some time principal of the school ment, U. S. Army, and has been in over- their daughter, Alice Marguerite, to Ar- of agriculture formed by the Interna- seas service since last February. He is thur Wendell de Revere on November 16, tional Correspondence School of Scran- stationed at Aviation Headquarters, at Toms Eiver, N. J. ton, and in this connection has done A. P. O. 702, American Expeditionary much good work in food production. H^ Ίl CE—Claude M. Thiele is a major Forces. His home address is changed to- compiled a garden chart which in the in the Coast Artillery Corps, and is at 31 Shattuck St., Worcester, Mass. last tλvo years has had a circulation of present on duty in the Adjutant Gen- Ί3 AB—Lieut. William F. Simrall is well toward half a million copies. He eral's office, Washington, I). C. in charge of the photographic depart- also headed a committee which has done Ίl BChem—William J. O'Brien is re- ment at Ellington Field, Texas. much to increase the sale of certified search chemist for the Grassellί Chemi- Ί4 ME—Charles P. Bartgis is as- milk in Scran ton, New York, and else- cal Company, Cleveland, Ohio. sistant to the operating superintendent where. Ίl ME—George H. Zouck is an ap- ' of the Atlas Portland Cement Company, '08 CE—Major Eichard S. Dodson is paratus engineer with the Air Reduction Northampton, Pa. His address is 723 in France with the 303d Field Artillery. Company, 120 Broadway, New York. He Walnut St., Allentown, Pa. '08 BSA—Clarence Lotmsbury is a lives at 217 Lincoln Avenue, Orange, Ί4 AB, '16 LLB—Leon A. Plumb is member of the field force of the Bu- N. J. sergeant-major in the Judge Advocate's reau of Soils, working on the soil sur- Ίl CE—First Lieut. Victor A. Stί- office, 19tli Division, at Camp Dodge, vey. During the past summer, he bolt, Ordnance E. C., is stationed at the Iowa. worked on the soil survey of Wayne Rock Island Arsenal, Eock Island, 111. Ί4 CE—Lieut. Frederick W. Conant County, Iowa, and as a winter assistant Ίl ME—Mortimer Frankel was mar- has been promoted to the rank of cap- expects to be occupied with a similar ried on June 2 to Miss Virginia Iral- tain in the Corps of Engineers. His survey in Simpson County, Miss. son, of Chicago. He is still with the present address is Casualty Detachment, '08 AB—Miss Anna C. Stryke, for- Roller-Smith Company, 739-70 Monad- Service Battalion, Camp Humphreys, Va. merly an instructor in the Department of nock Block. Ί4 Chem; Ί5 BS—Byron S. Proper has, been with the Sanitary Corps for Biology at Cornell University, is con- Ίl CE—C. Hersey Lent is secretary nearly a year, and is now engaged in tributing her services as head of the of the firm of Brown, Lent & Pet t, Inc., water supply analysis for the United Pasadena, Calif., department of the manufacturing stationers, 90 William States Army in France. During his ab- American Eed Cross, engaged in train- St., New York. He lives at 465 Eastern sence, Mrs. Proper (Mina E. Shepard ing chapter students. Parkway, Brooklyn. '09 ME—James Monroe was volun- '15) is technical assistant in the pa- Ί2 AB—Mrs. Hannah Frisch has an- tarily inducted into the Chemical War- thological laboratory of the State Insti- nounced the marriage of her daughter, fare Service on October 23, to assist in tute for the Study of Malignant Dis- Janet Ray, to Joseph J. Klein on No- the operation of the 20,000-kilowat eases at Buffalo, N. Y. She lives at 15 vember 24, in New York. steam electric plant to be used at tho Sixteenth &. Edgewood Arsenal. For the past six Ί2 ME—Lieut. Alan E. Lockwood, Ί4 ME—Edwin S. Truesdell, jr., is a years, Monroe has ftp en. connected with A. S., who was formerly in command of lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Ser- the Link Belt Company, Nicetown, the 33d Aero Squadron, has been trans- vice. He was stationed at the Edge\vood Philadelphia, and since -his country en- ferred to the .90th Aero Squadron, Arsenal until October, when he was tered the war has handled many contracts American Expeditionary Forces. transferred to the 1st Gas Regiment, with the arsenals and Navy yards. His Ί2 CE—First Lieut. Robert L. Gas and Flame Section, at Camp Sher- address is in care of Major S. W. Green- James was promoted on October 10 to man, Ohio. band, Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Md. be a captain of engineers, U. S. A., and Ί5 CE—Melville W. Robinson is an CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 143

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,inspector of airplanes and airplane en- spector of engineering material, aero- football game between the aviators and gines for tlfe Bureau of Aircraft Pro- nautics, in the Brooklyn Aeronautic Dis- the Princeton University team. duction. His address is 783 Elmwood trict. His home address is Hastings-on- '17 CE—William Adams, jr., was com- Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. Hudson, N. Y. missioned a second lieutenant, Coast Ar- '15 CE—Charles, Lahr is a junior en- '16 AB—William A. Prescott, of La- tillery, on September 25, and has been gineer with the Public Service Commis- cona, N. Y., is a corporal in Company detailed to the Coast Artillery School sion of the First District of New York B, 105th U. S. Infantry, 27th Divi- at Fort Monroe, Va., as instructor in State. His address is 51 Chicago St., sion, which went to France last May. orientation. Elmhurst, N. Y. '16 BS; '17 BS—Lieut. Harold E. '18 BS—William V. Carver is in the >15—First Lieut. Ralph M. Cooper is Irish and Miss Araminta MlacDonald Chemical Warfare Service, at Washing- in France with the 52d Pioneer Infan- were married on March 22, and they are ton, D. C. His address is 1401 Thirty- try. Before the .armistice was signed, now living at 1417 Leeland Avenue, first St., N. W. his men were engaged in repairing roads Houston, Texas. Irish is an instructor '18 CE—Second Lieut. George H. S. to facilitate the rapid advance of the in the San Leon Aerial Gunnery School, McNair, Engineers, is on overseas duty American troops. Ellington Field, Houston, Texas. with the 210th Engineers. His mail ad- '15 CE—Charles F. Starr has been '16 ME—William L. Merry is employ- dress is Marsden House, Corona Avenue^ with the Geiiesee Bridge Company, Inc., ed in the fitting-out department of the Elmhurst, L. L, N. Y. Submarine Boat Corporation, Newark, of Rochester, N. Y., for nearly two years, '18 ME—Norman E. Elsas is a private N. J. He lives with Charles R. McCal- as structural designer, estimator, and en- in the U. S. Naval Air Service. gineer. He lives at 64 Rowley St., lum '18 at 35 Lincoln Park, Newark. '18 BS—Miss Mildred M. Stevens is.a Rochester. '17 AB—Miss Lillian V. Barber is chemist in the employ of the Hercules employed in the accounting department '15—Lieut, Walter G. Haeberle is sta- Powder Company, at U. S . Explosive tioned at Camp Lewis, American Lake, of the Welch Grape Juice Company, τ Plant C, Nitro, W. Va. Wash. W estfield, N. Y. She lives at 19 Wash- '18 ME—Cyrus W. Miller is a pri- >15 CE—Lieut. Alan F. (Al) Wil- ington St. vate in the Procurement Division of the liams was detached from his regiment, '17 CE; '18—Lieut. Charles Beverly Ordnance Department (Artillery Section), the 18th Engineers, on August 1, and Benson and Miss Katherine Liiidley and is also giving instruction in British was assigned to the Line School. After McMurry were married on Thanksgiving calisthenics. His address is 117 B St.,, finishing his course there, he was on leave Day at Yonkers, N. Y., and they are liv- N. E., Washington, D. C. for a short time, after which he was ing in Ithaca for the present. sent to the Army General Staff College, '17—Theodore B. Brumback is a mem- '18—Private Alan Dean. Warner was for training as staff officer. He reports ber of Section 4 (The Shock Unit), of married on June 12 to Miss Marian Wil- that Captain Elliott Van Deventer '08, the American Red Cross. He served in bur, of Fredonia, N. Y., and their ad- Albert C. Gieschke '11, Henry C. Stan- France for some time, and is now sta- dress is 80 West Fourth St., Dunkirk, wood '13, Isaac Levy '02, Laurens Ham- tioned iii Italy. > N. Y. Warner is at present in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, in the Production Divi- mond '16, and Nelson B. DeLavan '19 M7 CE—Samuel J. Leonard is a cap- sion of the Ordnance Department. went through the Line School, and are tain in the Corps of Engineers, and is now attending the Staff College; and now with the 4th Engineer Training '18 BS—Arthur L. Hoffman has been that Austin S: (Beans) Hart '14, was Regiment at Camp A. A. Humphreys, commissioned a second lieutenant of for seven months an instructor in Va. field artillery, and is in the 5th Regi- bridges at the Engineers' School, and '17 BArch—William W. Homer en- ment, Field Artillery Replacement De- was, at the time of his writing, at the pot, Camp Taylor, Ky. listed in the U. S. Navy in April, 1917, front, and is now an ensign in the Naval Air '18 AB—John Christenseii is a stu- '15 ME—Stewart Benedict is in the Service, on duty at the U. S. Naval Air dent in the Petty Officers' School at Pel- production department of the Sperry Station, Brest, France. His home ad- ham Bay, N. Y. ' Gyroscope Company, of Brooklyn, N. 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