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ADVISORY BOARD Terms expire in 1925 Terms expire in 1926 Terms expire in 19 ! 7 J. M. Rhey, ...•..•. '83, '96L E. M. Biddle, Jr '86 L. T. Apnold '82 Henry R. Isaacs '04 Morris E. Swartz '89 Merkel Landis '96 G. C. Curran '11 J. Banks Kurtz '93, '93L Lewis M. Bacon, Jr '02 S. W. Stauffer '12 W. C. Clarke '95 E. Foster Heller '04 Robert B. Kistler '15 J. W. Long '07 Philip S. Moyer '06

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF OF DICKINSON COLLEGE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW President Lemuel T. Appold President ..... Justice John W. Kephart Vice-President Henry R. Isaacs First Vice-President .. Rebert Hays Smith Secretary S. Walter Stauffer Second Vice-Pres Judge Fred B. Moser Treasurer ...... •.. John M. Rhey Secy-Treas Joseph P. McKeehan

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE Members will Receive Directories in May ...... 3 Come Back for Commencement . 4 / Government Tests College Freshmen . 6 To Open McCauley Room on Alumni Day q Form Club Amid Alumni Activity 10 Reminiscences of Dickinson . 13 Ten 1\1. E. Superintendents are Dickinsonians . 16 Editorial ...... 18 Athletics ...... 20 Pennsylvania's Leading Jurist a Dickinsonian 23 Arranging Details for Rousing '76-'86 Rally 28 Personals 35 Obituary ...... 39

Alumni dues $2.00 per year, including one year's subscription to the magazine. All communications should be addressed to The Dickinson Alumnus, Denny Hall, Carlisle, Pa. "Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1923, at the post office at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879."

~l~ THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS May, 1925

Members Will Receive Directories in May HE Catalogue of Living Alumni of Dickinson's colors could be raised on Tthe College, which has been in the the Pacific coast, where there are six• hands of the printer for about a month, teen alumni in Los Angeles, and seven will be ready for distribution in the pres• in San Francisco, There are eight alum• ent month and will be sent free to all the ni in Denver. alumni of the College who have paid With twenty-three alumni in Chicago, their dues of $2.00 in the General Alum• and six in Evanston,· there could be a ni Association for 1924-25. The vol• club in the Windy City. ume numbers 140 pages, lists the alum• ni by classes, geographically and alpha• The sixteen alumni in Atlantic City betically, and will be attractively bound. could be the nucleus for a club drawing The compilation of the geographical on the other alumni in South Jersey, lists shows that Dickinsonians are scat• and it ought to be possible to have a tered all over the world. Dickinson is Dickinson convention at that celebrated resort at any time. represented in every state in the Union and in twenty-two foreign countries. In There have been promises of the birth seven states there is only one Dickin• of a club in Trenton, for some time, and sonian, namely: Arkansas, Idaho, Louis• it ought to be possible to get under way iana, Montana, South Dakota, Vermont with seventeen alumni as a starter, and and Wyoming, while in five states, name• a number of Dickinsonians just a short ly :Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, distance from the New Jersey capital. South Carolina and Utah, two Dickin• A list of those in foreign countries sonians can gather together. indicates Dickinson's contribution to the The sections of the country where missionary field, though others are in alumni clubs have been active in the the government service or on personal past show the largest concentration of business. .Fifteen are in China, and four Dickinsonians. The Philadelphia dis• in Japan, while Dickinson is also repre• trict is the leader with Harrisburg, New sented in India, in several states of York, Baltimore, Scranton and Pitts• Africa, France, Norway, Belgium, Egypt, burgh following in the order named. Switzerland, Siam, Samoa, Cuba, Porto The directory will show large numbers Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii, Venezuela of Dickinsonians in other centers where and Canada. clubs could be formed. The class li ts show that one member Altoona with thirty-eight could well of the class of 1850 is alive, and it is have a club, for with the nine in Holli• William James Hiss of 342 Madison daysburg and the same number in Ty• Avenue, New York City, who could re• rone, in addition to the Law men, who turn to celebrate his seventy-fifth re• are not listed in this directory, there are union in June. There is one alumnus fifty-six Dickinsonians in the district. living of each of the classes of '51, '55, Williamsport with thirty-one alumni, and '58, while there are two in '54 and could be another headquarters for the '57, and four in '59 . .From the class of central part of the state, and there are 1860 on, with the exception of 1862, twenty-two alumni in Johnstown and which has but one living alumnus, every twenty-four in York, who are not mem• succeeding class has three or more who bers of any local club. are alive. 4 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

Come Back For Commencement COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM June 5-9, 1925 Reunion of Classes .50th Anniversary Group-'75 and all earlier Classes; '76-'86; '90; '95; '98; '00; 'OS; '10; '15; '20; '24.

SOCIAL DAY-FRIDAY, JUNE 5 3:00-12:00 P. M.-Fraternities "At Home"

ALUMNI DAY- SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Registration in Old West 9:00 A. M.-Meeting of ALUMNI lNTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL 9:00 A. M.--Preliminary Meeting of Phi Beta Kappa 10:00 A. M.-GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEETING Jl:OO A. M.-Concert on Campus by College Band ]1 :30 A. M. jClass Luncheons-Cafeteria on Campus. '76-'86 to L Lunch in Social Room and then Dedicate James ] :30 P. M. Andrew McCauley Room in Old West 1:30 P. M.-Alumni Parade Formation with Band at Old West ., 2:00 P. M.-ALUMNI PARADE-CLASS STUNTS AT BIDDLE FIELD 3:00 P. M.-Baseball-Dickinson vs. Gettysburg 3:30 to 6:00 P. M.-Reception at Home of President and Mrs. Morgan 5:30 P. M.-Fraternity Banquets 8:30 P. M.-COLLEGE PROM AND ALUMNI SING An evening on the Campus and Old Stone Steps Concert by the Carlisle Band

BACCALAUREATE DAY-SUNDAY, JUNE 7 11: 00 A. M.-Baccalaureate Service Sermon by Bishop Luther B. Wilson, '75. 6:00 P. M.-Vesper Service-Old Stone Steps CLASS DAY-MONDAY, JUNE 8 8:30 A. M.-College Chapel 9:30 A. M.-Senior Class Day Exercises ]2:00 M. -Alumni and 1925 Class Luncheon 2:30 P. M.-Annual Meeting of Phi Beta Kappa 2: 30 P. M.-Annual Meeting of College Trustees 8:00 P. M.-Commencement Play-Dramatic Club COMMENCEMENT DAY-TUESDAY, JUNE 9 10: 00 A. M.-Commencement Exercises- Address by Edgar Fahs Smith THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 5 Glowing Prospects Foretell Bright Commencement ARLY calculated and carefully exe• Ecuted plans of the Alumni Council, Register First the Alumni Day Committee, the College Immediately upon their arrival in officials, and the '76-'86, '00, '05 and Carlisle, all alumni are urged to reg• '15 Reunion Groups, as well as the ister at the Information Booth on the first floor of the Old West. A Com• shorter campaigns for attendance of mencement badge will be given upon other delegations, are all working with registration and as was the case last a remarkable smoothness and point to ) ear the Information Booth will be the the promise that the 1925 Commence• center for all activity. If you have a question ask it there. ment, June 5th to 9th, will be one of Yon will be directed to your class re• the best in the history of the College. union headquarters, and tickets will be The aim of the Alumni Day Com• a va ilabi e for all functions where tick• mittee for this year is to produce a real ets wi II be required. Make your reser• sample of a costumed Alumni Parade vations early for the Commencement Luncheon. on Alumni Day. It is already evident that this effort will prove successful as several classes have secured costumes and mediately following the meeting of the other equipment and orders are being General Alumni Association, which will placed by other classes. This feature be held at 10 o'clock. should be the distinguishing one from any The Cafeteria, operated by the Alum• other Commencement. The Parade will nae Club of Harrisburg and through the start at 2 o'clock and after a swing co-operation of Dean Josephine B. Mere• downtown will go to Biddle Field where dith, '01, will serve a luncheon on the each class will put on some high j inks. campus to alumni who are not attend• The committee, with Dean M. Hoff• ing class luncheons. This proved an man '02 as chairman, Philip S. Moyer, attractive innovation last year and the '06 ' and ' Frank E. l\llasland, J r., '18 , feature will be enlarged upon for the ha; held a number of meetings and coming Commencement. This luncheon made all detailed arrangements for all will consist of chicken noodle soup, cold the activities of Alumni Day. A glance ham, potato chips, pickles, buttered rolls, at the program indicates a day brimful ice cream and coffee and tickets will cost of action which the committee has plan• fifty cents. ned. The enthusiasm of the '76-'86 Rally Another departure will be that a Col• Committee makes it seem probable that lege Prom and Alumni Sing will be held a vanzuard of that group will arrive in on the campus on the evening of Alumni Carlisle at any moment. The lowest Day starting at 8 :30 o'clock. There prediction is that fifty will return and will be no concert bv the Glee Clubs of while the average prediction is seventy• the College and the evening will be five, "Zeb" Linville, '81, talks only in open for the events planned. The Glee hundreds! Clubs will have part in the program Rumor tells that two of the classes being arranged for the Alumni Sing, and will return in full force, bearing sub• the 1910 and 1915 Glee Clubs will stantial gifts, while '76-'86 will be in probably appear. Other "stunts" will the forefront while one of its members be staged on the Old Stone Steps, presents to the College the James An• while the College Orchestra furnishes drew McCauley Room, the gift of L. the music. During the Prom, the Car• T. Appold, '82. lisle Band will give a concert on the Another group reunion will be held campus. when '7 5 celebrating its Fiftieth Anni• In the morning of Alumni Day, the versary will be joined by all preceding College Band will give a concert an- classes, and will be headed by Bishop 6 THE DICKINSON ALUl\INUS

Luther B. Wilson, '7 5, who will de• Dr. Guy Carleton Lee, Amy Fisher liver the Baccalaureate Sermon. and William C. Clarke are rounding up Under the direction of its president, the 1895 classmates, while the campaigns Caleb E. Burchenal, aided by Boyd Lee are just opening to bring back '95, '20 Spahr, 1900 is under full steam for a and '24. Every arrangement will be real twenty-fifth reunion, while 1905 made for these classes by the Alumni with William W. Strong, as president, Day Committee and members of all re• Abram Bosler, as treasurer, and Edna union classes can count on plenty of Albert, as secretary, is leaving no stone doings and should plan to be on hand. unturned to secure a one hundred per Reunions of the 1910 and 1915 Glee cent attendance. Clubs are also under way and members If unusual tactics win, and it looks of these clubs are expected to partici• that way now, then David M. Wallace pate in the Alumni Sing. Rev. Frank with his big committee, is heading 1915 M. Steelman is planning the '10 Glee for a very hilarious, noisy tenth reunion, Club Reunion. The class of 1898, and G. Harold Baker with Lydia Good• which has held a reunion every year ing, Lena Hartzell and Blanche Dumm since graduation, will hold their twenty• as his Carlisle lieutenants, will give 1910 seventh annual reunion at Commence• something to write home about. ment. Government Tests College Freshmen BY DEAN MERVIN G. FILLER, '93 UCH brief preliminary statement as port" in the April number of the Edu• S can be made at this time of a test being cational Record. 109 colleges partici• carried on bv the American Council of pated, but this report compares the re• Education may be of interest to readers sults obtained in the following twenty• of the "Alumnus," particularly as it will five colleges, with 5816 students, where provide data for comparing the Fresh• the test had been given. men of the various colleges, and types It is to be remembered that these col• of colleges. As will be seen, the com• lege number less than one-fourth of all parative rating of Dickinson is very the participating colleges, and the Coun• creditable. cil promises early publication of the Last summer the Council asked "ac• norms for all. credited colleges and universities" to test When the results of the study for by uniform "Psychological Examina• 109 colleges become available it may be tion" their incoming Freshmen. The possible to draw interesting conclusions test had been compiled for the Council not merely by comparing individual col• by Prof. L. L. Thurstone, of the Uni• leges, but through a study of the varying versity of Chicago, Chairman of the ratings secured in different sections of Committee on Personnel Research, Na• the country and in different types of col• tional Research Council. It consisted of leges. nine separate carefully chosen tests re• Here at Dickinson every Freshman quiring two hours and five minutes. has already learned his score in each They included not only the usual psy• test. He can now compare his record chological tests for intelligence, but in not only with the average performance addition several subject-matter tests such here, but with the average for all the as tests in arithmetic, English grammar colleges. But more important than that and rhetoric, vocabulary and prose read• the colleges with the help of the Coun• ing. cil and the data it provides plan by The Council undertook the task uf comparing the later achievement of the tabulating and editing the results, and individual student with his score in has just made a "first preliminary re· these tests to arrive at some deterrnina- THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 7 tion of the value of such tests as aids in college students is their effectiveness in determining questions of admission. selecting the good and poor students." Lastly, the tests themselves will be tested, and those found to be unsafe The results of the completed study, guides will be eliminated, for the plan together with the degree of correlation contemplates a similar test of Fresh• found to exist between the scores of men every year. In the words of the these tests and the work of the student report, "The standard or criterion bv in college, will be given to the "Alum• which the tests are selected for use with nus" as rapidly as they become available. College lY o. Freshmen T e sted Hiram College ...... Amherst College ...... 200 Iowa State Teachers College .....•.... At! anta University ...... 54 Kansas State Teachers Colle re . Bucknell University 3++ Mt. St. Vincent College . Carthage College ...... 99 Ohio \Vesley an Univ . Case School of Applied Science 183 Ripon College . University of Chicago 6z7 Seton Hill College . University of Colorado +70 Sophie Newcomb Memorial College . Creighton University 153 Syracuse University . Dartmouth College ...... 675 St. Xavier College . Dickinson College 15+ Wells . Drury College 155 \Vilson · . Gettysburg College ...... 167 Chicago Y. M. C. A. College . The comparative rating of Dickinson's Freshmen for each test follows: Dickinson's Highest Dhki11son's Average for Lo-uiest Pl are Score Score 25 Coll. Score 1. Completion Test ...... r oth of 2+ 19.98 16.53 15.81 10.80 2. Arithmetic Test ...... 6th of 25 9 .02 6. 11: 5. 88 2. 15 3. Artificial Language .. .. 7th of 2+ 45.99 29.81 28.12 19 .32 4. Proverbs Test 12th of 2+ 8.11 7.03 7.1 4.80 5. Reading ...... r r th of 23 2+. 83 21. 3+ 21. 56 17.50 6. Opposites ...... roth of 2+ 11. 8+ 8. 12 7: 5 3.69 7. Grammar ...... roth of 24 75. 93 6+. 64 63. 63 54·35 8. Estimating ...... 7th of 23 55.44 62.24 66.96 IOI. c S (In this test the higher the score, the lower the rank) 9. Reasoning ...... 9th of~+ 11.70 9.03 6.38

To Become Instructor the student senates shortly before the Horace E. Rodgers, '24, will suc• beginning of the Spring vacation, the ceed Herbert L. Davis, '21, for the com• joint honor committee of the senates ing College year as instructor in chemis• definitely abandoned for this year the try and as instructor in physics labor• idea of placing an honor code before the atory. Rodgers this year is holding a student body for its approval. Accord• fellowship in the Lafayette U niversitv ing to the report, the action was taken chemistry department, and has been re• because of the little support given the ported as doing excellent research work proposition in a poll taken by the com• by the Lafayette authorities. While in mittee. College Rodgers did honor work in chemistry and was president of the Moh• ler Scientific Club. Rodgers is a mem• Lebanon Valley College at Annville ber of the Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa early in April cleared itself of all debt Sigma fraternities. by a final mortgage payment of $88,000. Mr. Davis will take up an advanced course at Cornell University. New York University is to get for her campus the famous tower and Di• Reject Honor System ana of Madison Square Garden, now In a report which was presented to being razed in New York City. JAMES ANDREW McCAULEY, D.D., LL.D. CLASS OF J847

PRESIDENT OF DICKINSON COLLEGE 1872-1888 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 9 To Open McCauley Room on Alumni Day ITH assurances that many of his ed to her Board of Trustees in 1869, W former students will be present in having previously declined one of the '76-'86 reunion group and in the her professorships, and for sixteen years '7 5 delegation, the memory of Dr. James was her president. Lafayette College, Andrew McCauley, president of the Col• in 1883, conferred upon him the degree lege from 1872 to 1888 will be re• of Doctor of Laws. vered in the dedication exercises to be Wilbur Fisk Spottswood, '73, in the held on Alumni Day, June 6, when the fore-word of a volume containing the James Andrew McCauley Room will Baccalaureate Addresses of Dr. McCau• be opened in Old West. The exercises ley published through the subscriptions will be held immediately following the of over a hundred students of his time, '76-'86 Luncheon which is scheduled for writes the following: noon in the Social Room of the same "It is only in the long retrospect that building. The James Andrew McCauley Room we can reckon the value of Dr. McCau• ley's service to the material interests of is the gift to the College of L. T. Ap• the College. Ten years after he as• pold, '82, of Baltimore, president of the sumed the presidency we find a stronger General Alumni Association and T rus• faculty, an improved curriculum, an in• tee of the College, and will be used a' creased endowment, a rejuvenated, vig• a recreation and study room. Experi• orous and liberal board of trustees, a enced workmen using the finest mate• fine grammar school, buildings remodel• rials, following the plans of William W. ed and repaired, and the alumni and Emmert, Baltimore architect, have made the room one of rare beauty and distin• friends of the institution for the most pa rt united, enthusiastic, and ready for guished charm, while the furnishings bear testimony to the donor's fine taste. the great forward movement which was The room, which is in the north-east happily inaugurated in 1883, the Cen• tennial of the College. This movement corner of the first floor of Old West, has been rebuilt. It was first damp• brought to the institution gifts in build• proofed and tested before work con• ings and money to a large amount, tinued. It has an inlaid tile floor with and distinctly marked a new era in its a marble baseboard, and a large brick history, an era which does not suffer open fireplace. A beamed ceiling and by comparison with the 'golden age' of two corner bookcases with shelves filled Durbin and McClintock. with volumes contemporary to Dr. Mc• "Dr. McCauley's presidency was ter• Cauley's time, chairs, tables, engravings minated by his resignation in 1888. and a memorial tablet with attractive Among the tangible achievements of his lighting fixtures are all striking. administration are the Jacob Tome Sci• Dr. McCauley was born in Cecil entific Building, the Bosler Memorial County, Maryland, October 7, 1822, Hall, the Gymnasium and a material in• and died when more than 74 years old crease in the endowment fund. No after a month's illness in Baltimore De• small part of these added resources was cember _12~ 1896. He was grad~ated in great measure, if not altogether, due from Dickinson College with the high• to Dr. McCauley's direct personal in• est honors in 184 7, and shortly after• fluence, and the remainder must be large• wards entered the ministry of the Meth• ly credited to his earnest thought for the odist Episcopal Church, joining the Bal• College, and to the character, capacity, timore Conference in 1850. He re• and liberality of the men whom his ceived the degree of Doctor of Divinity judgment and worth brought to his from his Alma Mater in 1867, was call- counsel and to his aid." 10 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Form Pittsburgh Club Amid Alumni A vtivity The most striking event in the alum• proved an efficient banquet committee ni activity in larger centers in the winter chairman, was elected president of the season was the formation of the Dickin• club. Two vice-presidents were chosen, son Club of Pittsburgh during the past Florence Rothermel, '02, and ]. Ken• month, when forty alumni gathered and nard Weaver, '20L, G. Alfred Kline, elected their local officers. The Smoky '07, was re-elected secretary-treasurer. City has long contained some of Dickin• son's most energetic and loyal alumni, and the organization of this new club Baltimore Opens Season bears promise of fine things. The clubs in Baltimore, Philadelphia, The Dickinson Club of Baltimore was Harrisburg, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton the first of the alumni clubs to hold its staged their annual parties, but no din• annual function, when the Dickinson• ner was held by the New York aggre• ians of Baltimore and Washington gath• gation. The geographical list which ered at the Emerson Hotel in lVIarch. will appear in the Catalogue of Living Dr. Wilbur F. Norcross '07 of the Alumni, now on the press, will show College faculty, and Gilbe~·t ~lalcolm, concentrations of alumni in other cen• Editor of THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS, ters where local clubs should be or• were the only speakers. ganized. Pittsburgh has shown a fine Carlyle R. Earp, '14, who has been example to these localities, and all of the active in Baltimore alumni affairs for clubs can tell of the advantages to the years, was elected President for the en• members and the College through these suing year. Other new officers are: local organizations. Thomas ]. Frailey, '19L, Washington, D. C. Vice-president; Homer M. Res• pess, '17, Baltimore, Secretary-Treas• Philadelphia Club Banquet urer. An advisory committee of twelve The annual banquet of the Philadel• members will be appointed by the Presi• phia Club was held amid fine surround• dent prior to the reunion next February. ings in the Elks' new building on March 21st with a large representative group of alumni present. Edwin A. Linville, '81, Dr. Reed Attends Banquet came over from New York, and headed With Dr. George Edward Reed as a '76-'86 group at one of the tables. the guest of honor in his first public Lester S. Hecht, '15, past president, appearance since his severe illness the introduced James H. Hughes, '11, of pickinson Club of Harrisburg celeb~ated Wilmington, who presided as toastmas• its annual banquet last month in Wil• ter. Judge E. W. Biddle, '70, presi• liam R. Graupner's Plaza Hotel with dent of the Board of Trustees, read a all the frills of a gala occasion while letter from President L. T. Appold, '82 60 Dickinsonians gathered abo,ut the of the General Alumni Association, and festive boards. there were but two set speeches. Pro• David R. Wallace '15 '17L retir• fessor Fred S. Reese, of the Law School ing president, acted a; toas'tmaste;. Fol• faculty, told of the Law School and lowing Dr. Reed who spoke with his Gilbert Malcolm, Editor of THE DICK• wonted grace, J. Harris Bell, '03, prom• INSON ALUMNUS, reviewed alumni ac• inent Harrisburg real estate operator and tivities and told of the College. Extem• former football star, demonstrated his poraneous speeches were made by Thom• forensic ability and said many worth• as S. Leonard, '04L, and R. 0. ("Pud") while things. Francis Ede, '17, one of Hall, '06, of Chester. Dickinson's sons in the Pennsylvania James P. Hopkins, '11, who had Legislature; Rev. Dr. Dorsey N. l\Iil- THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 11 ler, '01, and Gilbert ~lalcolm, were Form Club at Pittsburgh other speakers. REPORTED BY R. R. McWHINNEY, '15 C. Ross Willis, '17, who had capably For the first time in the history of served as chairman of the banquet com• Pittsburgh there was a gathering of mittee, was elected president of the Dickinsonians in the form of a luncheon Club with Robert W. Hankee, '12L, held on March 21, 1925 in a private vice-president and Carl B. Shelley, '17, dining room of Kaufmann's. '21 L, as secretary-treasurer. The Luncheon was presided over by A. T. Morgan of the Law Class of Luzerne Alumni Dine 1898. He made a very enthusiastic ad• REPORTED BY J. H. SUPER, JR., '09 dress, after which he called upon all The Dickinson Alumni of Northeast• those present to make a few remarks. ern Pennsylvania made merry at their The forty who attended responded in a annual dinner held Thursday, April the manner characteristic of the college they 2nd at the Hotel Sterling, Wilkes• represented and a most entertaining oc• Bar~e, Pennsylvania. Attorney Anthony casion resulted. After the Luncheon and T. Walsh, '03, of Pittston, was toast• speeches, an election was held and A. T. master and kept things moving in a Morgan was made President and R. R. lively manner from beginning to end i\IcWhinney, '15, made Secretary. with his witty remarks and comment . Their terms to run for a period of one Prof. W. H. Hitchler of the Law year. School gave an interesting talk on the The musical program which followed future of the Law School. Prof. F. was presented by Olive Nevin of Se• E. Craver, '99, of the College faculty. wickley and Dorothy Mulford Coolidge extended greetings from the College and of Coraopolis, both of whom are re• told of the progress being made there. nowned artists. E. C. Amerman, '04, of Scranton, talked A lis,t of those who attended the on "Football,-the Ideal College Sport," Luncheon follows: A. T. Morgan, and Joseph E. Fleitz, '04, spoke on '98L; Mrs. A. T. Morgan ; Jane Mor• forest conservation. A. T. Walsh arid gan, Olive Nevin; Dorothy Mulford W. B. Brubaker, '00 told of their ex• Coolidge, B. H. Hosler. '13, C. lVL perience in the South while they were Spangler, '13; Jos. J. Knappenberger at the training camp of the New York '02L; Vinnie E. Knappenberger; Wil• Giants. liam A. Jorgan, '97, '99L; Helen Horn The following officers were re-elected Jordan, '97; Marguerite Deatrick Mil• for the next term: President, Hon. E. ler, '12; C. F. Miller; Anna M. Galley, Foster Heller, '05; Secretary, W. B. '09; Julia W. McWhinney, '09; Edna: Brubaker; Treasurer, Frank P. Benja• P. Garman, '12; Blanche E. Galley, min, '04. Joseph E. Fleitz made the '11; Charles C. Dunning, '01; Debbie dinner arrangements. Gardner Dunning; Lynn H. Harris, '06; Robert R. McWhinney, '15; Dr. N. Y. Alumnae to Meet John D. Kistler, '08; Alvin Sherbine, The regular Spring luncheon of the '03L; Harriet W. Morgan, Roland ~I. Dickinson College Alumnae Club of Morgan, '23L; H. E. Markio, '9SL; New York City will be held Saturday, J. F. Hartman, '97; J. Olan Yarnall, May the 9th, at one o'clock P. M., on 'llL; Clarence Fry, '12, 'l+L; W. w the tenth floor of the Y. M. C. A. Seitz, '11; H. E. Brumbaugh, '14; R. Building, 610 Lexington Avenue. Of• C. McE!fish '14; Harry E. McWhin• ficers for next year will be elected at this ney, '08; Clark D. Read, '18; Joseph meeting. The price of the luncheon will Newman, '24L; Harry J. Rose, '23L; be seventy-five cents. Lawrence M. Sebring, 'OOL; Edna Tay• The winter meeting was held in lor Daugherty, '99; Leah K. Di~kinson, February, with a large number present. '20; and Harry Ellsworth Simmons, 12 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Second Mail Election for Council Under Way ALLOTS in the second a~nual ma'.l S. Walter Stauffer, '12, of York, Pa., B election for the Alumni Council who is secretary. Under the constitu• were mailed to 850 members of the Gen• tion of the association these officials are eral Alumni Association on the last day eligible for re-election. Thomas L. of April, and must be in the hands of the Jones, '01, of Altoona, Pa., and Robert Tellers of the election by May 21st. Y. Stuart, '03, Commissioner of the The ballot contains the names of ten Pennsylvania Department of Forests nominees, five of whom will be elected and Waters, were members of the first for three year terms as members of the Council for a short time, and their terms Alumni Council expiring in June, 1928. expired in June, 1924. Having been out of office one year, they may be re-nomi• Additional ballots will be mailed to nated. any alumni delinquent in paying their .Edwin H. Linville, '81, of New York dues to the General Alumni Association, City, the major-domo of the '76-'86 re• but who send in the requisite $2.00 to union group; William D. Boyer, '88, THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS. Any Scranton attorney and champion of alumnus or alumna who has not received strong athletic representation; Harry L. Cannon, '99, canner of Bridgeville, Del., a ballot may assume that according to and son of a member- of the Board of the office records, his or her 1924-1925 Trustees; H. Walter Gill '07 Arlan• dues have not been received, or that some :ic City attorney; Harry E. McWhinney, mistake has been made. As the Cata• '08, Pittsburgh lawyer and football logue of Living Alumni will soon be captain; and Murray H. Spahr, '12, Philadelphia attorney and brother of completed and claced in the mails to Boyd Lee Spahr, '00, former member tho e who have paid their dues, any who of the Council and a member of the desire to vote and to receive this valu• ~oard of Trustees, are the othe norn• able record free as well as paying for inees. the years issue of THE ALUMNUS, In its nominations, the Committee sought a .distribution both by classes and should pay the annual dues at once-or geographically while considering the

A few days after my election to the presidency of the Col• lege and some two weeks before assumption of the duties of the position, on the suggestion of a member of the Trus• tees, I visited each of the five "patronizing Conferences" of the College at their respective annual sessions, meeting several men of the Trustees and a considerable number of the Alumni, and receiving everywhere ai most cordial re• ception. Soon after this visitation, on April 17th, accompanied by the members of my family-Mrs. Reed, my son, and two sisters, I started on the long journey from New Haven to Carlisle, the date of my inauguration having been fixed for Dr. Geo. Edward Reed the evening of the following day. Arriving at the old Cumberland Valley Station, we were greeted by Dr. Charles F. Himes, the acting• president of the College and by Dr. William Birkhead Lindsay, of the Depart• ment of Chemistry who, by the way, was the son of Dr. John W. Lindsay under whose tutelage I had studied Hebrew and New Testament Greek, while a student in the theological school of what was soon to become the Boston University. As the future home of the President had been published "postponement on ac• was not fully ready for occupancy, Mrs, count of the weather" was impossible. Reed and myself accepted the courteous Accordingly, at 7 :30 P. M., escorted by invitation of Dr. and Mrs. Himes to the acting-President, I proceeded to the be their guests until the repairs and James W. Bosler Library Building in changes proposed should be effected. l\ly which the inauguration services were to sisters accepted a similar courtesy from be held, services for which as it appeared Dr. and Mrs. Lindsay. but scanty preparation had been made. The day of my arrival in Carlisle In the first place no music had been had been one of singular beauty, the provided, so that when the stately ( ?) valley full of sunshine, the air soft and procession entered the hall and moved balmy, and fragrant with the breath of forward up the: long aisle to the plat• springing flowers. During the night, form, no sound greeted the ear save however, a change came over the scene. the vociferous cheering of the under· The sky was blanketed by heavy and graduate body shouting the familiar threatening clouds, driven by a furious "Hip - Rah - Bus - Bis Dickinsoniensi , east wind, the forerunner of a violent Tiger!" for two generations the "col• storm of sleet which raged throughout lege yell" supplemented by the "yells" the day, and far into the night, cover- of the respective classes and of the ing the Campus with several inches of "Preps" who were present. The "cards a slushy compound which made walkinv of invitation" were mere handbills both difficult and dangerous. -=- printed on coarse, cheap paper, giving Surely a dismal night for an inaugu- notice of the meeting. ration but as the hour for the ceremony Of the large Board of Trustees but 14 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS two, General Clinton B. Fiske and the a purely figurative way, no key having Hon. W. F. Sadler, President-Judge of been provided. The new president then the Cumberland County Courts, graced made a brief address which was heartily the occasion with their presence, while received, at the conclusion of which he of the townspeople few had dared brave announced that the delivery of his for• the fury of the storm to attend the in• mal inauguration address would be post• auguration exercises. poned until the following commence• When the noise of the cheering had ment in June. Then with another out• subsided, a clergyman resident in the burst of "college yells," and the bene• town offered an earnest prayer for di• diction the meeting adjourned. vine guidance, which was followed by In my time it has been my fortune an address from Dr. Himes, chiefly eu• to be present at the inauguration of logistic of the college faculty, in the many college presidents, occasions mark• course of which he paid a just and well ed by pomp and parade, by the presence deserved tribute to the fidelity and zeal of military or civic bands of music, by with which the members of that bodv long lines of academicians clad in flow• had conducted the work of their respec• ing robes, with "mortar boards" upon tive departments. This address was their heads, with hoods upon their followed by words of welcome from shoulders flaming with the colors of the Mr. Charles W. Straw, of the senior rainbow, and by the scores of distin• class, in which, speaking for the under• guished visitors gathered to do honor to graduates of the college, he expressed the occasion, but never has it been my their gratification over the selection made fortune to attend one so primitive in by the trustees, and pledged the hearty character, so utterly devoid of ostenta• supoort and cooperation of the student tion, so free from pomp and pageantry, body. so democratic in its simplicity, as was my The eloquent address of Mr. Straw own on that dismal night of April, 1889. was followed by that of General Fiske It marked, however, the close of an old of the Board of Trustees in the course era in the history of the college, and the of which he depicted in his usual felici• dawn of a new era and better day. tous way the story of "His search for Before proceeding further with the a College President," closing with a story of my early experiences as presi• glowing prediction of the future of the dent, it may be fitting here to speak of old college, provided that the disputes the men associated with me in the con• and factional quarrels which for a long ducting of the affairs of the college, par• time had hindered the progress of the ticularly in the first year of my admin• institution be forgotten and all faces istration. be turned with hope and courage to the Foremost among these was Dr. future. The address of General Fiske, Charles F. Himes, acting-president dur• by its wit, humor and eloquence did ing the nine months following the resig• much to enliven the audience and dispel nation of President McCauley, and at the gloom which had thus far pre• the head of the department of physics, vailed. a man of long experience as an instruc• On the conclusion of his remarks, the tor, and of very considerable reputation acting-president presented the Hon. \V. in the scientific world-the author, also, F. Sadler, Judge of the Cumberland of a history of the college which though County Court who administered the small and incomplete, is, nevertheless, the "oath of office" customarv on such oc• best record of the annals of the college, casions and in a purely figurative way to the date of its publication, that has presented the new president with the as yet appeared, and which no one, to key of the college as a symbol of the my knowledge, has attempted to supple• authority now vested in him. This pre· ment. It is to be hoped that in the near sentation, as I have said, was made in future some historian will arise who THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 15 will give to the world a full and com• the Philadelphia Conference where he plete history of the college before its served with distinguished success. traditions and records shall have been In the chair of Romance Languages lost to sight. was Ovando B. Super, author of many Next to Dr. Himes stood Dr. Henrv text-books in use in various schools and M. Harman, professor of Greek and colleges-a scholarly and accomplished Hebrew, a man of gigantic stature, of man who will long be remembered by prodigious learning, an able preacher, the students of his day and generation. and marked by a certain child-like sim• Fletcher Durell, known among the plicity of manner, of which mischievous "boys" by his Princeton cognomen "Flip," young students were often tempted to was at the head of the department of take advantage, greatly to the annoyance Mathematics-a man of broad culture, of the good professor never seemingly who succeeded in making mathematics, able to detect the authors of the many generally the bugaboo of college stu• pranks of which his class room was so dents--vne of the most popular studies frequently the theatre. His proverbial of the college course. kindness of heart and keen interest in In the department of chemistry was the students, nevertheless endeared him William Birkhead Lindsay, a most cap• to all. Let any student be reported as able and efficient instructor. ill, the burly form of the good Doctor Another notable figure was Henry C. was sure to be seen carrying a pot of Whiting, for many years at the head the hot coffee for which his good wife, of the department of Latin, a position Hannah, was famous, to the bedside for which he was well qualified, but in of the sufferer. His admiration of the which he was handicapped by the fact Greek language was so marked that fre• that he was at the same time serving as quently he was heard to declare that college treasurer, and thereby compelled if any language of earth was fitted to to fritter away much valuable time in be the language of heaven it surely was the laborious efforts to collect the "col• Attic Greek. As an author, also, he lege bills" from reluctant students, and had won no inconsiderable renown, in the hopeless task, in the face of sadly "Harman's Introduction to the Holy inadequate endowment, to make one Scripture" still holding high place among dollar do the work of two. Dr. Whit• works of a similar character. ing, nevertheless, made a success of his Associated with Dr. Harman was department. James Henry Morgan, Associate-Pro• In the department of Physical Cul• fessor of Greek, now the capable and ture, as director, was Lyman J. Much• successful president of the College. more, an athlete of distinction, and a The department of English Litera• very capable man. ture and Rhetorio was in charge of Dr. In this connection, too, mention Aaron Rittenhouse, a man of fine char• should be made of William K. Dare, acter and genial disposition but who the able and accomplished headmaster prior to his coming to Dickinson had of the famous old "Grammar School" of had but little experience as a teacher. the college-an institution almost co• By reason of this handicap he was quite eval with the college itself-but which unable to preserve order and dis• closed its honorable history soon after cipline in his class-room, where my retirement from the presidency in he was frequently tormented by young 1911. "Conway Hall," now used as a rogues bent on making him the victim dormitory for Freshmen, was erected for of their ofttimes outrageous pranks, the the accommodation of the school, at perpetrators of which he could seldom that time at the height of its prosperity. discover. At the end of my first year Professor Dare was subsequently elected Dr. Rittenhouse retired from the college to a full professorship in the college in and resumed his work as a minister in which capacity he served with di tine- .. 16 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Ten M. E. Superintendents Are Dickinsonians With the appointment of five Dick• pastor of the Englewood, N. J. Church insonians as District Superintendents at for three years, became Superintendent the recent conferences of the Methodist of the Jersey City District. Episcopal Church, there are now ten Five of the ten Dickinsonians who had Dickinson District Superintendents, seen prior service as District Superin• whose photographs appear on the oppo• tendents in their respective Conferences site page. were reappointed this year. Three of the four District Superinten• Rev. John M. Arters, '99, entered dents appointed at the Philadelphia Con• upon his fifth year as Superintendent of ference are Dickinsonians, Rev. George the Portland District of the Maine Con• W. Babcock, D.D., '89, was named Su• ference, while Rev. James W. Colona, perintendent of the South District. He D.D., also '99, entered on his third had been pastor of the Llanerch Church year as Superintendent of the Wilming• for one year. Rev. William H. Ford, ton District of the Wilmington Confer• D.D., '94, for four years pastor of the ence. Rev. Albert E. Piper, D.D., '94, Logan M. E. Church, Philadelphia, was who had previously been pastor of the appointed Superintendent of the North• First Church, Cleveland, is serving his west District. Rev. Thomas H. Evans, second year as Superintendent of the '93, who had been pastor of the First Akron District of the North-East Ohio Church, Easton, for three years, became Conference. Rev. Francis R. Bayley, Superintendent of the North District. D.D., '00, is beginning his fourth year At the Central Pennsylvania Con• as District Superintendent of the Balti• ference, Rev. William E. Watkins, '05, more East District of the Baltimore Con• who had been pastor of the church at ference, and Rev. Herbert J. Belting, Mt. Carmel for seven years, was named '04, who had served two years as Super• Superintendent of the Williamsport Dis• intendent of the Bridgeton District of trict. the N. J. Conference, was appointed At the Newark Conference, Rev. El• Superintendent of the New Brunswick mer E. Pearce, D.D., '05, who had been District of the same Conference. tion until ill health compelled his re• Prepares Valuable City Record tirement-a retirement regretted by all The Bureau of Municipal Research who had experienced the charm of his of Philadelphia has published an index strong personality. These were the men with whom I of Philadelphia ordinances compiled by Clarence G. Shenton, '10, '16L. It is lived and labored during the first year of my life at Dickinson. Of other men a selection of material from a card in• who became members of the Faculty dex of about 10,000 cards each card containing from one to a dozen entries, during the twenty-two years and more of my stay at Dickinson, we shall have which is also the work of Mr. Shen• occasion to speak in subsequent articles. ton. The ordinances indexed run back Of the original group the majority• to 1789, the earliest year for whi.:h Himes, Harman, Lindsay, Whiting, Rit• printed copies of Philadelphia ordinances tenhouse and Dare-long ago passed on are available. to the great majority. Of the surviv• The introduction to the index ex• ors, Durell is in active service at Law• plains the difficulties of the task due to renceville, N. J.; Super is in honorable the fact that Philadelphia's ordinances retirement; while Morgan is now the have never had a comprehensive revis• able and successful president of the col• ion. Arguments are presented in favor lege to the furtherance of whose interests of a code of ordinances and a plan is the years of his life have been devoted. suggested for drawing it. r I

105 J.W. COLONA '99 W.EDWAR.D WATKlNS A.E.PIPE:R '94

193 TH.EVANS ELMER E.PEARCE 'os

100 104- FR.BAYLEY HERBERT J. BELTING Wi,t,. H.FOtW '94

199 159 JOH!>f M. A:Q.TERS GEO.W BABCOCK 18 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS EDITORIAL

COMMENCEMENT'S LURE RO}! an alumni standpoint, Dickinson this year faces its most ambitious F Commencement. The prospects are alluring. With full-throated and full• hearted cooperation by the alumni themselves, Saturday, June 6th-Alumni Day• will establish a high level. At the outset, the college administration virtually stepped aside that the alumni interests might take precedence. There has been coordination from first to last between the faculty and the Alumni Day committee of the graduate organiza• tion. Even the long-ordained glee club concert of Saturday night has been aban• doned that nothing might interfere in the slightest with the "alumni sings" on the steps of Old West. Effort and interest are concentrated on the costumed alumni pee-rade the afternoon of June 6th. If the germ of a successful parade in costume cannot be planted this year, it is doubtful if it ever can. A splendid nucleus exists. The '76-'86 group which reunes as a unit this year is ready with its equipment. The succeeding reunion classes of '95, '00, 'OS, '10, '15 and '20 gave assurances to the same effect. With such a prospect a highly-colored sr ectacle is not remote. More than that the plan is to muster every graduate in the parade, costumed or otherwise. Class banners will be available for every class delegation whether it number one or forty. In this way it is easily possible to have an unbroken line of class banners from '7 5 to '24. Other Alumni Day features ought to appeal to returning graduates. The old "junior prom" is to be restored to the college with its campus bathed in the soft glow of Oriental lanterns, its refreshment tables, its delightful informality of social intercourse and dominating all singing on the steps of "Old West." To graduates of any early day the evening of the Saturday of Commencement Week was of itself worth all the time and effort of travel. To urge a large attendance at Commencement this year is a reminder of a great satisfaction awaiting the graduate rather than of an obligation to alma mater. The Alumni Day program is designed to appeal to the Dickinsonians re• gardless of class or fraternity. The plan is to afford interest for the most fas• tidious, to make the visitor's stay pleasant and reminiscent of the most glorious period in life,-his college days,-to reweld the bond between Dickinson and her sons, to sink deeper into the heart a love for the old college and to coalesce into a mighty instrument of power and influence the alumni forces of the dearest mother save one of every Dickinson graduate. ANOTHER CLUB ORGANIZED

RGANIZATION of the Dickinson Club of Pittsburgh adds another to the 0 cluster of alumni groups. It is all the more creditable because Pittsburgh is somewhat outside the zone of alumni density. Consequently the new club re• flects spirit and loyalty of a very pronounced character, The Pittsburgh club took the plunge with a dinner. That is always an auspicious method of launching an alumni group. It is likewise an effective way of maintaining interest by the older clubs. The clubs in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Scranton held enthusiastic dinners during the winter. But there should be more Dickinson alumni clubs. Williamsport offers a fertile field as do Altoona and Johnstown. The Erie section is far from THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 19 hopeless. while the eastern shore of Maryland so rich in Dickinson traditions ought not permit another month to pass without organization. cago could serve the Middle West and Boston for New England. President Appold of the General Alumni Association is very eager that this club movement grow. The alumni group meeting once a year or oftener to revivify memories is a splendid stimulus for graduate interest and the greeting of old friends and the making of new ones fully compensates the effort at at• tendance.

CHARTING SCHOLARSHIP O the older generation the mere announcement that these days "The Dickin• T sonian" publishes one or twice a year the scholastic standing of the men and women by sex as well as by fraternity and non-fraternity groups is startling. It shows that times have changed. An examination of the scholastic statistics shows the same thing. In other days grade "E" was fatal. Today "E" does not represent the epitaph of scholar• ship. Grade "F" still prevails. According to the last reckoning the Freshmen led all in grades with the Seniors instead of the Sophomores-apparently less busy with class chores-trailing the list. Less surprising to the older generation than the fact that women lead the men in scholarship is the fact that of the 467 students in college last semester, 146 of them women, one co-ed for every little more than two men. Despite the higher general average held by women at 80.20 per cent to the men's 7 5.18 per cent, it happened that grade "A" was evenly distributed between the two sexes. Publication of the grade standings of the students cannot be other than help• ful to the primary purpose of college attendance. It establishes wholesome rivalry not only between the classes but between the fraternity groups more particularly and gives appropriate recognition to scholarship in the affairs of the student.

INCIDENTAL BUT EFFECTIVE HILE press-agenting an educational institution after the theatrical pattern W is practiced, its propriety is still questioned by many who respect the traditions. Despite their critics, the college and the university have not become the home of tragedy or comedy or even a "play-house" of any sort. An educational insti• tution mindful of its place in society will not sacrifice its poise and dignity by re• sorting to the "four-sheets" of the circus. on the ballyhoo of the carnival. There are, however, legitimate forms of publicity which only stupidity would prompt a college to ignore. And the most legitimate as well as the most effective is that publicity which is incidental. Such is the publicity which comes from the speeches before clubs, congregations and others by such member of the faculty as Dr. Leon C. Prince. It might surprise some graduates to know of the tremendous prestige_ which the college gains by having as its representative before groups of all kinds so eloquent and scholarly speaker as Dr. Prince. College teachers of the type of Dr. Prince are effective ambassadors for their institution, creating good will and favorable impressions in many courts of public opinion. Clean athletics, prominence of graduates, announcements of important re• sults in research all reflect honorably upon an educational institution. And rank• ing high among them is the college representative who without alluding to that fact brings by his eloquence and charm a favorable impression for his college in circles which count heavily. 20 THE DICKI SON ALUMNUS Harrisburg Alumnae Busy Philadelphia Alumnae Lunch The Harrisburg Alumnae Club of The Dickinson College Alumnae Dickinson College began the second Club of Philadelphia held a luncheon at year of its life with a business meeting the Hotel Bartram at noon on March at the home of Mrs. Wm. A. McCune, the 28th, the Saturday of Schoolmen's '18 20+ Reily Street, Harrisburg, on Week. Mrs. Josephine B. Meredith, Friday night, March the 13th. The the Dean of Women of the College, .officers elected for 1925 are: Agnes Al• was an honored guest, and spoke very bright '22, President; Elva Lippi, '18, enthusiastically about the possibilities of Vice-~resident; Ruth Fisher, '19, Sec• service for the Alumnae of the College. retary; Mary Wetzel, '22, Treasurer. Dr. G. Gailey Chambers, of the Math• Twenty-one members attended the ematics Department of the University meeting and discussed at length plans of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Chambers, for the activities at Commencement. were also guests of Miss Florence Roth• During the Easter vacation, the Club ermel, the President of the Club. gave a tea for the undergraduate women The Alumnae of the Class of 1907, 'Of Harrisburg and vicinity, and in April Miss Mary Rauck and Mrs. Ada Filler the monthly meeting of the Club was Kennedy, will entertain the Club at a held at the home of Mildred Kramer, tea given at the home of Mrs. Kennedy, '18. The organization is taking an ac• Llanerch, Pa., on Saturday afternoon, tive part in preparing to carry out many May the 9th, from two to five. It is of the Commencement details, and is hoped that as many Dickinsonians and holding frequent meetings to plan its friends of Dickinson as possible may be doings and social functions. president at this time .

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-Turkey Day Game in Carlisle Baseball Nine Wins One Announcement was recently made by After seven straight defeats, the base• ·fhe Athletic Committee that the foot• ball team broke into the winning col• ball game originally scheduled to be umn May 2 by defeating Delaware at played with Delaware in Wilmington Newark. "Bobby" Books pitched a mas• on Thanksgiving Day, would be played terful game, and none of the blow-ups on Biddle Field. Delaware experi• or lapses which had marked former con• enced difficulty in arranging for the flicts arose to spoil his performance. field in Wilmington and Dickinson made Coach MacAndrews has been having a an offer for the contest, which was ac• hectic time all season and has been cepted. Under the agreement, the g~mc handicapped by green 'material. Per• will be played in Wilmington in 1926. haps, he has the winning combination.

Coed Sextet Successful Four Years of Victory The girls basketball team closed the The basketball team closed the fourth season with five victories and but one consecutive year without a defeat on the defeat at the hands of East Stroudsburg Carlisle floor, in a sea on when eight Normal. Victories were scored over games were won and the same number Gettysburg, Moravian, Schuylkill, Beck• lost in a stiffer schedule than any of ley and Lebanon Valley. recent years. Two of the games, one THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 21 with Amherst and the other with U rsi• to coach the 1925 football team. "Sil• nus, were lost in extra periods. The Red ent_ ~ oe" went South this spring to the and White scored 440 points to their trairnng camp of the Reading Inter• opponent's total of 354 points. national League team, but his old in• jury to his throwing arm returned and he is regularly visiting Bonesetter Reese Track Team Showing Promise for treatments. Starting with but few veterans in a year when the track team faces a cru• cial test, Coach "Cap" Craver is en• Football Shows Profit deavoring to develop a squad which will Football showed a profit last season win permanent possession of the Central of $275.97, the first time in several sea• Pennsylvania Conference Cup. While sons that the sport managed to pay for the veteran Haverford team scored a itself, according to a report made re• victory by 85 to 41 points, several of cently to the athletics association by Pro• the track men showed unusual promise. fessor C. W. Prettyman, bursar of the In this meet Frank Bayley broke the association. The report follows: College record for two miles, running Net Income from Games $6707. +2 the distance in 10 minutes 2 and 2-5 Expenses seconds or two seconds faster than the Coach's Salary . $2500.00 record of Harry Mullen, '23. In the Scouting . 125.26 International two mile race at the Penn Pre-Season, Table . 71+· 50 Training Table . Athletic Carnival, he finished seventh 134.00 Equipment , 1175 .73 when the record for that meet was set Insurance of Games . 888.80 at 9 minutes 27 seconds, by Phelps of Rep~i~ing of Equipment . 113. 29 Iowa. Training . 79.84 Printing, Advertising, Postage . 207. 35 Much was not expected of the relay Telephone and Telegraph . 42.08 team at the Penn meet for since win• Hauling . 42.00 ning the championship in 1924, Coach Laundry . 7+-13 Craver lost all of the stars who made Drugs . 182.+7 that feat possible. However, with an Hospital . 60.00 entirely new team, "Cap" sprung a sur• Total $6431 .45 prise and almost won the race. Dick• Profit on Season $275.97 inson fini hed second, forcing Swarth• more to break the record by almost two seconds to win in 3 minutes 28 3-5 sec• F. & M. Starts Campaign onds. Haverford was third and Muh• Franklin & Marshall has started a lenberg fourth. The track team has dual meets sched• campaign for a $500,000 building fund, designed to double the physical capac• uled for May 6 with Bucknell at Lewis· ity of the college. The program in• burg and May 9 with Gettysburg at cludes two dormitories, a new audi• Biddle Field. On May 16, the Cen torium, gymnasium and heating plant. tral Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Meet will be held at Island Park, Harrisburg and on May 22 and 23, the Middle Atlantic Championships will be staged Drive for Gym at Haverford. Washington & Jefferson has completed a $1,000,000 increased endowment cam• paign. The General Education Board Re-elect Coach Joe Lightner cooperated to the extent of $200,000. Shortly after the last number of the As soon as this drive ended, a new one magazine appeared, Coach Joe Lightner was launched for $450,000 for a new was re-elected at an increase in salary gym and modern chemistry laboratories. CHIEF JUSTICE OF PENNSYLVANIA 1827 TO 1651 ['!'his picture was copied from a portrait, now hanging in the College Chapel, which was presented to the College by Boyd Lee Spahr, '00] THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 23 Pennsylvania's Leading Jurist a Dickinsonion By BOYD LEE SPAHR, '00 In what is known as the "Old Grave Frederick "'atts, 1819, Judge of the Ninth Yard," located at the southeastern cor• Pennsylvania District and United States ner of Carlisle, lies buried the most dis• Commissioner of Agriculture. tinguished citizen of the town, one of Henry l\filler 'Vatts, 1824, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Penn• the most illustrious sons of Dickinson sylvania and Minister to Austria. College, and the most eminent jurist Thomas 'Villiams, 1825, Member of Con• of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania gress and Manager on behalf of the House - John Bannister Gibson. of Representatives of the impeachment of In her long history of almost one President Johnson. hundred and fifty years, Dickinson has Jaines R. Graham, 1827, Judge of the Ninth Pennsylvania District and Professor produced an unusual number of lawyers of Law in the College. who have been distinguished at the Bar, John A. Inglis, 1829, Chancellor of South on the Bench and in public service-a Carolina, record, I believe, excelled by no Amer• Robert l\lcOlcllancl, 1829, Governor of ican college of its size, and equalled by Michigan and Secretary of the Interior. but few of the larger institutions. That Philip Francis Tl1omas, 1830, Governor this is no boastful statement is evident of Maryland and Secretary of the Treasury. from the following list: Andrew G. Curtin, 1837L, Governor of Pennsylvania and Mini ter to Russia. Charles Huston, 1789, Justice of the Su• Danfcl E. M. Bates, 1839, Chancellor of preme Court of Pennsylvania. Delaware. Nmtan Edwards, 1792, Chief Justice of Alexander Ramsey, 1840L, Governor of Kentucky, Governor of and United States and United States Senator from Minnesota Senator from Illinois. and Secretary of War. John Kennedy, 1795, Justice of the Su• 'Villard Saulsbury, 1842, Chancellor of preme Court of Pennsylvania. Delaware and United States Senator from Hoger Brooke Taney, 1795, Secretary of that State. the Treasury and Chief Justice of the Su• EH Saulsbury, 1843, United States Senator preme Court of the United States. from Delaware. Henry l\f. Ridgeley, 1797, United States John ~I. Robinson, 1847, Chief Justice of Senator from Delaware. Maryland. John Rannister Gibson, 1798, Chief J us• John A. J. Cresswell, 1848, United States tice of Pennsylvania. Senator from Maryland and Postmaster 'Villiam 'VHkins, 1802, United States General. Senator from Pennsylvania, Secretary of Charles B. Lore, 1852, Chief Justice of War, United States Judge for the Western Delaware. District of Pennsylvania. James B, Belford, 1859, Justice of the Su• John Recd, 1806, Judge of the Ninth Penn• preme Court of Colorado. sylvania District and Professor of Law in Rufus E. Shapley, 1860, Noted Philadel• the College. phia lawyer. James Bucfrarran , 1809, Secretary of State, George ,V. Car-uth, 1862, Justice of the Minister to Russia, Minister to Great Supreme Court of Arkansas and Minister Britain and President of the United States. to Portugal. James S. Green, 1811, United States At• Louis E. J\lcComas, 1866, United States torney for New Jersey and Professor of Law at Princeton. Senator from Maryland and Judge of the Court of Appeals of the District of Colum• Calvin Blythe, 1812, Attorney General of bia. Pennsylvania. Edwin A. Jaggard, 1879, Justice of the Hobert C. G1·ie1·, 1.812, Justice of the Su• Supreme Court of Minnesota. preme Court of the United States. And to refer for a moment to those now Hoss 'V1lkins, 1816, United States Judge living- for the District of Michigan. \Villimn Trickett, 1868, the beloved Dean Andrew Galbraith, 1819. United States of Dickinson School of Law for the past Judge for the District of Wisconsin. thirty years and legal writer of note. 24 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

Hammond Urner, :1890, Justice of the to college. In a lette~ written in 1851, Court of Appeals of Maryland. two years before his death, the Chief Sylvester B. Sadler, 1895, 1898L, Justice Justice said : of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. "We had from one to two hundred vol• John \V. Kephart., 1896L, Justice of the umes * * * and I read all of them so often Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. that they are as fresh in my memory today as if I had read them yesterday. My poor Beyond doubt, the three great out• mother struggled with poverty during the standing figures among the alumni of nineteen years she lived after my father's the College in the profession of the Law death and having fought up gallantly and in public service are Buchanan, against it, till she had placed me at the Bar-died. She was certainly a noble Taney and Gibson. Taney's long serv• soul." ice as Chief Justice of the United States included the four years of Buchanan's Gibson entered college during the administration, the only instance in the winter 1795-1796, and as far as can be history of the country where graduates gathered from the sketchy records of the of the same college occupied the two time, remained about three yars and left highest positions in the land contempo• without receiving a diploma. He im• raneously. Their record and fame is mediately began the study of law in the nation wide, while Gibson's was re• office of Thomas Duncan a Carlisle stricted to Pennsylvania, but from the lawyer, who subsequently' became his standpoint of professional distinction colleague on the Bench of the Supreme and of lasting contribution to the science Court of the State. In addition to the of the law, the fame of John Bannister teaching of Duncan he enjoyed the Gibson is pre-eminent among the sons friendship and guidance of Hugh . H. of Dickinson. Brackenridge, also a resident of Carlisle, He was born November 8, 1780, at and at the time a Justice of the Supreme Westover Mills, in what was then Cum• Court of the State. Judge Bracken• berland County, but what is now the ridge gave him the free use of his library, County of Perry, near the present village little thinking, no doubt, that eighteen of Shermansdale, on the northern side years later the young student would be• of the Kittatinny Mountains, about fif• come his successor on the bench. He ten miles north of Carlisle. He was was admitted to the Bar in Cumberland primarily of Scotch-Irish stock, with a County in 1803. Shortly thereafter, he Huguenot grandmother on his father's located at Beaver, Pennsylvania, whence side. His father, George Gibson, moved he removed to Hagerstown, Maryland, from the vicinity of Lancaster to the where he remained for several years, Mountains of Cumberland County in when he returned and again opened an 1770 and in 1772 married Anne West. office in Carlisle. From 1810 to 1812 The father appears to have had no per• he served in the State legislature as a manent occupation other than that of a Democrat or Anti-Federalist. As most frontiersman and soldier. At the out• of his career was spent upon the Bench, break of the Revolutionary War he he took no active part in politics, but recruited a company at Pittsburgh and consistently remained a member of the was commissioned a captain in the Vir• Democratic party, as opposed to its rival ginia line. He served throughout the party, the Whig. The sole remaining Revolution and afterwards as Lieuten• evidence of his legislative career is the ant Colonel in the expedition of General passage of the Act of March 31, 1812, Arthur St. Clair against the Indians, in which abolishes the common law rule of which he was killed in 1791. The survivorship as an incident of joint widowed mother held the family to• tenancy, which law is still on the stat• gether and accumulated sufficient money ute books and is frequently referred to to send the third son, John Bannister, by the courts. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 25

In 1813 Governor eight years of age and had erved appointed him at the early age of thirty• twenty-five years on the Bench. There three as President Judge of a new judi• ~as a general feeling that the applica• cial district, consisting of Tioga, Brad• tion of the new constitutional provision ford, Susquehanna and Luzerne Coun• would not only force the return of Gib• ties, and he accordingly took up his resi• son to the Bar at a time of life when he dence at Wilkes-Barre, the seat of was .unfit for active practice, but would Luzerne. On June 27, 1816 the same dep~ive the State of its greatest judicial Governor appointed him Associate Jus• luminary, so that by arrangement with tice of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl• ~he G~vernor, Gibson resigned and was vania to fill the vacancy caused by the immediately reappointed for the full death of Justice Brackenridge. At that term. While this act has been criticized time the Supreme Court consisted of it is cle~r that it proceeded from the pur~ but ~hree members-the other two being est motives and was of the highest benefit Chief Justice , and to the Commonwealth. Associate Justice . On May The opposition among the judges to 18 1827 he was appointed Chief Justice the constitutional changes in 1838 up1on th~ death of Tilghman and such doubtless had much to do with the con• he remained until the first Monday of tinued agitation for an elective judiciary December 1851, a tenure far surpassing and as a result the constitution was that of any other Chief Justice of Penn• again amended in 1850 so as to provide sylvania and equalled by but few in• that the judges of the Supreme Court stances in the nation. should be elected for a term of fifteen years instead of appointed by the Gover• At the time of his appointment to the nor as theretofore. The Court then Supreme Bench the judges were named consisted of five justices-Gibson, Chief by the Governor and held office during Justice, Rogers, Coulter, Bell and life or good behavior. In fac~ under Chambers. Of these, only Gibson was the Constitution of 1790 then in force nominated by the Democratic party. the Governor had almost unlimited Coulter, a Democrat, was taken up by power. In addition to appointing all the Whigs and in the election was the the judges he appointed all of the im• only successful candidate on the Whig portant officers of the various counties ticket. The new court consisted of and all justices of the peace, his power Gibson, Coulter, Black, Lewis and and patronage thus being directly ex• Lowrie. The law provided that one of tended into every part of the Common• the justices should retire every three wealth. The Constitution of 1838 was years, the one drawing the shortest term adopted largely to check the power of to be Chief Justice. They drew lots the Governor and its adoption as a re• and Jeremiah S. Black of Somerset, the form constitution was brought about youngest of the five, drew the short term only after a bitter political struggle. It and with it the office of Chief Justice. changed the provision in regard to the Gibson drew the nine year term and judges in providing for their appoint• thereupon became an associate on the ment by the Governor only with the Bench over which he had presided so consent of the Senate and in limiting many years, but Chief Justice Black their tenure to fifteen years. It was himself said: further provided that the senior judge of "When he was nominally superseded by the Supreme Court should retire at the another as the head of the court, his great end of the three years and the others learning, venerable character and over• according to seniority every three years shadowing reputation still made him the until all were retired. Under this pro• only chief whom the hearts of the people would know." vision Judge Gibson would have been the first to retire. He was then fifty- He died in Philadelphia, May 3, 1853, 26 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

in the seventy-third year of his age, Thomas Duncan, a resident of Carlisle having served forty years as a judge, and trustee of the College, became a thirty-seven of which were on the Su• member of the Supreme Court in 1817 preme Bench and twenty-four of these and served until his death in 1828. as Chief Justice. Charles Huston of the class of 1789 be• Upon the death of Justice Bushrod came a member of the court in 1826, so Washington of the Supreme Court of that for three years-1826-1828-the the United States in 1829, Gibson was majority of the court was composed of one of the three names, all of Pennsyl• Dickinsonians. Huston 'served until vania, seriously considered by President 1845. In 1830 John Kennedy of the Jackson for the vacancy, the other two Class of 1795 became a member of the being Horace Binney, at that time the court and served until 1846, so that leader of the Philadelphia Bar, and again, for the period from .1830 to 184-5, Henry Baldwin, who was a prominent a majority of the court was composed member of Congress of Pittsburgh. of Dickinsonians. Gibson's appointment was vigorously The decisions of Gibson are to be opposed by the Anti-Jackson party. found in sixty-nine volumes of reports, Both John Quincy Adams and Webster beginning with 2 Sergeant & Rawle, wrote private letters indicating the likeli• (1816) and concluding with 20 Pa. hood of his appointment and violently ( 1853) in all, over fifteen hundred opposing it, due to the fact that at that opinions, without counting many per time Gibson had expressed himself curiams of which he is probably the against the right of the judiciary to pass author. upon the constitutionality of statutes, a view which he subsequently aban• The law as practitioners and judges doned, but this was sufficient to make know it today has greatly expanded since his name anathema among the Federal• Gibson's time. The first steam railroad in ists. It would seem that the opposition Pennsylvania wa opened for operation in of Adams and Webster would have been 1834 between Philadelphia and Colum• sufficient to cause President Jackson to bia, the trip taking two days, and the sec• name Gibson to spite them, especially ond from Harrisburg to Chambersburg as there could be no question of the high in 1837. The first street railway was standard of his legal ability, but for not incorporated until some years reasons not appearing on the record, after Gibson's death and for many years the President eventually chose Baldwin, following, horses were the motive whose service on the Bench, while honor• power. With the exception of canals able, was without the distinction which and the early steam railroads, the entire undoubtedly would have accrued to Gib• class of corporations now called public son had he been selected. utility companies was unknown. Inter• state commerce scarcely figured in the Turning for a moment to his position law outside of the reference to it in the as a Dickinsonian, it is interesting to Constitution of the United States. note that what may be aptly termed the Business corporations, whose legal work Gibsonian Era was predominantly also nowadays required the greater part of a Dickinsonian Era. His predecessor, the time of many practitioners, if not Justice Brackenridge, who served on the of the jurist, were then almost un• Supreme Court from 1800 to 1816, known. Common law pleading, now while not a college man, was a trustee abolished practically everywhere, was of the College from 1803 until his death. then in the full bloom of its technicali• Gibson himself was a trustee of the Col• ties. Ancient writs, such as the assize lege from 1816 to 1829 and president of of nuisance, were still advanced. Never• the Board of Trustees during the last theless the period of Gibson will always five of those years. His old preceptor, remain a landmark in American juris- THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 27 prudence for its development of general medicine, dentistry and geology was un• commercial law and for its firm estab• usual. His residence, still standing, lishment in Pennsylvania of the great was on East High Street, immediately and broad sweeping laws of real prop• adjoining on the west the building oc• erty, domestic relations, sales, landlord cupied for many years by the Carlisle and tenant and decedent's estates, many Club. In recognition of his great ac• of the principles thereof then laid down complishments the degree of Doctor of by the court having since been enacted Laws was conferred on him by the Uni• and codified by the legislature. versity of Pennsylvania and by Harvard. Gibson's power of direct expression This article cannot be more aptly con• and his exactness in the choice of appro• cluded than by quoting the epitaph chis• priate words is noticeable throughout eled upon his tombstone in the words of all his decisions. For example :-could Chief Justice Black: anything be more striking than his open• "In the various knowledge which forms ing sentence in Warren v. Sennett, 4 Pa. the perfect scholar he had no superior. Independent, upright. and able, he had all 114 (1846)- the highest qualities of a great judge. In "This case has been so complicated with the difficult science of jurisprudence he unnecessary pleadings and so loaded with mastered every department, discussed al• superfluous details that, for the sake of most every question, and touched no sub• perspicuity, it is necessary to dear it of ject which he did not adorn. He won in them." early manhood and retained to the close of In Weiting v. Neissley, 13 Pa. 650 his life the affection of the brethren on the bench, the respect of the bar, and the con• (1850)- fidence of the people. His intimate friends "The record in this case, as in most forgot the fame of his judicial career in others has exceptions, like the pockets of a the more cherished recollections of his billiard table, to catch lucky chances from social character, and his bereaved family random strokes of the players; but as they dedicate this stone to the perpetual memory have caught nothing, in this instance, it of the affectionate husband and kind is unnecessary to enter into a particular father." investigation of them." The passage of seventy years since the His last printed decision is reported writing of those words has in no way in Bash u, Sommer, 20 Pa. 159, deliv• dimmed the luster of the legal reputa• ered January 6, 1853, an action for tion of the great Chief Justice. slander, in which his lifelong habit at striking at the root of the matter shows Builds Palatial Home no diminution. He said: "In Thompson v. Lush, 2 Watts 20, this Harrisburg's most palatial residence court infused a drop of common sense into and one of the most imposing homes in the law of slander; and it will do no harm that part of Pennsylvania is being erect• to infuse another." ed by Horace B. King, '05L. The King Physically Judge Gibson was a big home has been the subject of much local man, being six feet three inches in height newspaper attention, its cost being placed and well proportioned. His head was at upwards of $200,000. The home is large, being twenty-four inches in cir• about ready for occupancy after being cumference. His hair was dark brown; under construction nearly two years. his eyes dark blue; in early years he The residence is built of Indian lime• was quite florid. With a strong mouth stone with red tiled roof and large pi• and chin he looked every inch a judge. azzas. The interior follows the luxur• He was, however, very companionable ious character of the exterior, various and affectionate and throughout his life rooms being done in the period style of exercised a variety of accomplishments decoration. On the first floor will be which were really avocations. He was a large reception, dining, drawing room a skillful performer on the violin. He the library and a great hal I. On the sec• drew many pen and ink sketches of ond floor are seven bed rooms and three considerable merit. His knowledge of baths. 28 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Arranging All Details for Rousing '76-'86 Rally No stone is being left unturned to make the '76-'86 Rally to be held at Commencement the outstanding fea• Program '76-'86 Rally ture of that gala occasion and perhaps N. B.-This program is in addition to the brightest incident in the alumni his• the Commencement Program. tory of the College. Apart from the ALUMNI DAY-Sat., June 6th joy of reunion with former class-mates, 9 A. M.-Meet on Steps of Old and there is a promise that seventy or West. Rehearsal of more of the men of that generation will Songs and Cheers. IO A. M.-A. I um n i Association be present, the men of '76-'86 should Meeting. find a great appeal to come back for 12 M.-'76-'86 Luncheon in the memory of their president, Dr. Mc• Social Room of OJJ Cauley, is to be honored in the dedi• West, followed by ex• cation of a room bearing his name as ercises opening the James Andrew Mc• is described elsewhere in this issue. Cauley Room. Sufficient time had not passed before l :30 P. M.-Alumni Parade. this number was placed in the hands 5 :oo P. M.-President's Reception. of the printer to allow Dr. F. F. Bond, 5 :30 P. M.-Fraternity Banquets. 8 :30 P. M,-College Prom and Alum• secretary, to state exactly how many ni Sing on Old Stone would return. Only a few days had Steps. gone since he sent out his letter asking BACCALAUREATE DAY, this question, but he had received forty• Sun. June 7th six affirmative answers in the first day's IO :30 A. M.-A·ssemble in front of mail, and he stated that seventy would President's House to be a conservative estimate. "Zeb" Lin• attend Baccalaureate ville's lowest prediction is an even hun• Service in a body. 6:00 P. M.-Attend Vesper Service in dred, and he is willing .to bet a half a body. burned cigar left over from the last CLASS DA!Y-Mon. June 8th time he sang about the Canary Isles that he is right. II :oo A. M.-Meet on Old Stone Steps for Group Picture. With two programs arranged for Rehea rsa] of Songs Alumni Day, Saturday, June 6th, mem• and Cheers. bers of '76-'86 should prepare for the 12:00 M.-Alumni Luncheon in Gymnasium. activities of that day as they would for 4:30 P. M.-G a rd en Party by a a sea voyage, only substituting some Friend. Beef, Iron and Wine where the seasick remedies are usually taken. Warning is given that "Zeb" might try to get The members of '76-'86 are urged everyone up at 5 a. m. to attend market to come to Carlisle on Friday, June 5th, and see the glory of the campus reflect• and to register immediately upon their ing the rays of the rising sun for with arrival at the Information Booth in Old two programs to contend with a supply West. They will then be given the of reserve energy will be needed. From Group Insignia, programs, song sheets, 9 a. m. until the last song is sung at and a royal welcome. That full arrange• the Alumni Sing about 10 p. m., there ment may be made for everyone, the will not be a minute at which the mem• members of this Group are requested to bers of '76-'86 will not be supposed to write immediately to Dr. F. F. Bond, be some place very busy doing something. 3509 N. 18th Street, Philadelphia, Pa., Events follow one upon the other, and stating affirmatively or negatively no sleeping potions will be needed when whether they will be present. the day is done. The '76-'86 program covers the en- THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 29 tire Commencement from June 5th to was ordained in the M. E. ministry in 1878 9th. The Group will meet and go to and has been pastor of prominent churches the Baccalaureate Service in a body on in Wyoming, N. J. and N. Y. Conferences. From 1893 to 1900 he was dean of the Ocean Commencement Sunday and will also Grove Summer School and was one of the attend the Vesper Service in the evening. founders of the Epworth League. (At Penn• On Monday, a special table will be ington School where he was prof. of math• placed in the Gynasium at the annual ematics and vice-principal, I first met him and he was a cracker jack administrator and Commencement Luncheon for the dele• a teacher in the first class.-F. F. B.) gation and "Zeb" is preparing special cheers and songs for this event. 1877 A room in Old West will be used as REV. GEORGE C. BACON, D.D., after gradua• the '76-'86 Headquarters throughout tion entered the Baltimore M. E. Conference Commencement, and here the members and has remained a member of it ever ince. of this Group may rest at any time, or For six years, he was District Superinten• dent of the Frederick District. An outstand• gather for rehearsal or to chat about the ing achievement of his career was a pam• days of forty odd years ago. phlet in booklet form on the "Modification of In the February, 1925 number of our Polity." During his pastorates at two THE DICKINSON AUMNUS, twenty• churches, he acted as superintendent of the seven personals apeared telling something Baltimore City Missionary and Church Ex• tension Society. The College conferred the of the life work of the men of '76-'86. degree of D.D. upon him in 1900. Since his A deluge of material has reached the retirement in 1921, he has resided in Monkton, Editors from Dr. Bond and appears on Md. (Bacon did a fine work in greatly re• the following pages in accounts which ducing an oppressive debt on the church at Hagerstown, and also in carrying forward were necessarily condensed. Again, Dr. to completion the erection of the Douglass Bond has added a word of his own in Memorial Church in Washington.-F. F. B.) some instances and these appear in par• entheses when given. REV. CHARLES T. HOUSE left his father's farm in Frederick County, Md., and pre• 1876 pared for college at Baltimore City College. DR. C. B. RIDGAWAY prepared at Wyoming While a student, President McCauley recom• College and entered Dickinson in 1873. He mended him to fill a pulpit at Lutherville, received an A.M. in 1883 and Sc.D. in 191r. Md., and the following spring entered the He took post graduate work in mathematics Baltimore M. E. Conference, serving 38 and physics at Harvard and Cornell uni• years in the active ministry. In 1917, his versities. Has been assistant assayer of the health became impaired and he retired, mov• Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., Pueblo, Col.; pro• ing to California, where he underwent two fessor of math and physics, Atchison Normal critical surgical operations. His health was Institute, Kansas; vice-president and prof. largely restored and he recently wrote: "I of math and physics, Napa College, Calif., am in better health at 72 than I was ten and prof. of math, University of Wyoming. years ago." He has published certain articles of value and is a member of several associations. He is living in San Diego, Calif., having re• REV. JAMES C. NICHOLSON, D.D., taught a tired in 1920. year at Wilmington Conference Academy following his graduation and entered the Baltimore M. E. Conference in 1879. He has HENRY SHIRK, attorney of Baltimore, re• held appointments in Havre-de-Grace, Balti• ceived his LL.B. from Maryland University more, Cumberland, Washington and Frost• in 1878, then took a course in German, prac• burg. In 1906, he was appointed Presiding ticed law for years and traveled extensively Elder to the Baltimore District serving until abroad. He writes: "When a student at 1912. He was a General Conference dele• Dickinson I thought I w.as, perhaps, called to gate in 1904, 1908, 1912 and 19201 and a first preach the Gospel, but I had a direct call reserve delegate in 1924. He was a member that I was not called, and have never had of the Board of Education of the M'. E. occasion to doubt it since." Church from 1908 to 1924 and last November he was appointed to membership in the DR. J. EMBURY PRICE was valedictorian of newly organized Board of Education. J:Ie his class. Received from Syracuse Univer• was a member of the Board of Home Mis• sity Ph.D. and D.D. from Dickinson. He sions from 1908 to 1916, and was appointed 30 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

a member of the Maryland State Board of DR. J. \VARREN HARPER graduated from the Education by Governor Towndes in 1896, University of Pennsylvania Dental School in serving until 1900. He received his A.M. 1883, and resides in Hartford, Conn., when from the College in 1880 and his D.D. in he 'isn't traveling the globe. In 1903, he 1896. was president of the Hartford Dental Society. He is not known to Dickinsonians as a REV. S. \V. SmTH, after having received dentist, but as a poet and has written prolific his scholastic training at Dickinson, Wesleyan verse. Recently on the Pacific he wrote and and Drew, entered the Philadelphia M. E. read to hi felfow voyagers a poem, "Balto," Conference in 1880, and for forty-five years a tribute to the leader of the dog team in has fiiled without a break and acceptably the race with death to Nome carrying numerous pulpits in and out of Philadelphia. diptheria antitoxin. It was later published in He is stiII in the active ministry and resides the papers of Honolulu, and copied by the at Bryn Mawr, Pa. When he said recently, Carlisle Sentinel. The author of "The ''I got religion-a little of it, and what I Pilgrimage," read at the 192.J. Commence• have is my own which I enjoy," he spoke ment, will return to this country in time to characteristically. (Smith has a poise he be one of the '76-'86 reunionists in June. never loses and a sunnier spirit we never REV. E. V\T. MCDADE, D.D., for .J.5 years .a met. He expects to make the 1925 Com• minister in the Ml, E. Church in Iowa, JS mencement and will be an addition to the still active in his work, but finds special '76-'86 program.-F. F. B.) gratification in his two sons who are walk• ing in the ministerial footsteps of th;ir 1878 father. He was appointed District Superrn• DR. S. L. DIVEN after graduation taught tendent and served as a delegate to two school school two years in Minnesota and General Conferences. (McDade delights to Nebraska. Graduating in medicine at the think that while Dist. Supt., he started a University of Pennsylvania in 1884, he prac• bunch of young men who today hold tl;e ticed in Carlisle for twenty-seven years and stronger churches in the conference. He is then went to Fairhope, Ala., where he spent located at Ankeny, Ia., happy in his work five years developing an orange grove. Re• and occupying the best home and with a turning to the Cumberland Valley, he is now single exception, receiving the best support in operating a farm at Newville. ("Sam" was 45 years.-F. F. B.) a good sport in the best sense. Frank, genial, happy, he still pursues the even tenor of his way.-F. F. B.) CHARLES K. Zuc graduated from the Uni• versity of Pennsylvania Law School in 1882, 1879 and after spending a year in Denver, re• DR. MILTON MCKINSTRY NORRIS spent two turned to Philadelphia in 1883, where he years at Dickinson and graduated from the practiced law until 1891. Then in turn he University of Maryland Medical School in became Assistant Trust Officer of the Com• 1880. He settled at Union Bridge, Md., monwealth Title Insurance and Trust Co. where he practiced for about twenty-five of Philadelphia, Trust Officer in 1899 and years. after which he served two terms in Vice-President in 1917. Since 1902, he has the Maryland State Legislature. Since then been a Trustee of the College. His son, he has devoted himself to farming at New Richard, is now a member of the Freshman Windsor, Mel. Class. (Have known Zug in and out of College for more than four decades. He is 1880 the soul of loyalty and the core of proh!ty. LORENZO D. BULETTE taught school for two Clear headed, in judgment safe, and living years in Maryland following his graduation sanely he is what he is and where he JS and then began reading law in York, Pa. solely on merit.-F. F. B.) He moved to Philadelphia in 1883 and in 1884-86 was instructor in Latin and Greek at RICHARD C. PATTERSON landed in Omaha, the old Rugby Academy, Philadephia. He Neb., in 1883, practiced law three months and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in w.ent into the real estate business. He then 1886 and has practiced there ever since. He successfully promoted the cable railway of has done considerable literary work, w.r iting the city and next organized the Mechanics & for the American & English Encyclopedia of Traders Bank there, becoming its president. Law, the result of which was his appointment He prospected some real estate developments as a member of the editorial staff. For six in Ohaha and then became interested in gold years, he wa a monthly contributor to the mining in South Dakota and became prin• International Medical Magazine. (Serious cipal owner of the Gold Hill mine. He then illness alone prevented him from the 192.J. organized the Union Portland Cement Co. Rally. His health improves and he indulges and the Middle West Portland Cement Co., the hope of being present in 1925.-F. F. B.) respectively capitalized for $3,500,000 and THE DICKINSON ALU:\IN"CS 31

lished himself on an orange ranch but tiring Amen and A-Men! started teaching at Santa Inez and then after s~ven years went to the Hayward, Calif., Became E. H. Linville, '81, and L. high school where he is now teaching math• T. Appold, '82, are in the forefront of ematics. Dickinson's alumni and orh e r interests and think themselves sufficiently in th~ REv. JOHN A. 0.IKES, son of Henry E. limeEght, a padlock is placed on the Oakes, '51, after teaching for five ye ars pen of the '76-'86 organization secre• entered the New Jersey M. E. Conference in tary. 1887, and remained in active service until Out of deference to their wishes he his retirement in 1919, when he again be• therefore refrains, except to say, if came a principal of schools until 1923. He there are two alumni between the two resides at Pitman, N. J. seas more unselfishly devoted to Alma Mater he has yet to run across them. REV. HEl\RY R. ROBINSON, D.D., entered Heaven increase, for Dickinson, the the Phila. M. E. Conference upon graduation Lin vi lle-Appold breed among her sons. and was pastor of Philadelphia and Easton F. F. BOND. Churches until 1895, when he transferred to the New Jersey Conference, filling appoint• ments at Long Branch, Camden, Bridgeton, $2,500,000 and became president of each and Trenton, Millville, Salem, Red Bank and their principal stock and bond holder. Five Pitman, until 1917 when he took the super• years ago he retired from active business numerary relation. He is now residing in activity, though he has many wide interests Pitman, J\'. J. The College conferred the in the west and has traveled over the world D.D. degree upon him in 1909. ever since. 1882 1881 HORACE S. \VOLFE, who made an excellent REV. GEORGE M~ CLICKNER studied for student record at College, with indifferent orders in the Episcopal Church after his health a handicap all his life, spent several graduation and became assistant at Emman• years as a drug clerk and was then associated uel Church, Ba lrirno re, and then at Grace with the \Vilmington Electric Railway Co., Church, there. He later became rector in and later with a Lebanon, Pa., business enter- charge of the Church of the Advent, Balti• 1prise. He now finds increasing health and more, and then rector of St. Philip's Church, contentment as owner of a 100 acre farm Cincinnati. For 15 years, he ha been secre• near Annville, Pa. (He recently wrote: tary to the Bishop of the Diocese of Southern "If you get up this way let me know and I Ohio and for 1+ years, secretary of the Con• will meet you at Annville, drive you out to vention of the same Diocese, while serving my farm and entertain you in royal style." as Rector of Grace Church, College Hill, Wolf will do the same for any of the 'Bz-ers. Cincinnati. He has spent :thirty of h is Touch the button classmates, and "Lupus" forty ministerial years in two parishes. (To will do the rest.-F. F. B.) see Clickner walking about Zion as he used to would give the boys who knew him a PEYTON BROWN graduated from the Uni• thrill.-F. F. B.) versity of Maryland Law School in 188+, and went to Austin, Texas, to practice his profession. He purchased first an interest, REV. V AUGHAN COLLINS upon graduation s. then control of the "Austin Daily Statesman," became a member of the Wilmington M. E. and was editor for 15 year . Retiring from Conference. From 1898 to 1901 he was prin• journalism, he returned to Baltimore, but cipal of the Wilmington Conference Academy. after several years, went to El Paso, Texas. He was appointed a District Superintendent Six years ago, he became a field auditor for and elected to the General Conference. (In the Maryland Casualty Co., first in charge of all these positions he adorned his calling and Texas and for the last four years in charge honored Alma Mater. None were greeted of Virginia and neighboring states. (Brown more cordially than Collins at the 1924 re• proved to be a genial addition to the 192+ union. He is now pastor of the M. E. Church reunion, and he was charmed with all he at Cape Charles, Va.-F. F. B.) saw, but missed profoundly his chum the late , Dr. Harry Deale, '82.-F. F. B.) JoH R. HANLON after courses at Dickin• son, Wesleyan and Yale, graduating from PHILIP S. HILL was admitted to the bar the last named, and electing Pedagogy, of Cowley County, Kansas in 188+, and also taught at Pennington School, became vice• conducted a large loan business there. He principal and remained as such until the lure was County Attorney until 1909 when he re• of the \Vest called him in 1900. He estab- moved to \Villimantic, Conn. Here he was 32 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

one of the organizers of the Willimantic Trust had marked success. After filling the offices Co., and its treasurer for five years. He of City Solicitor and District Attorney, he now is engaged in the brokerage and real was tendered a Judgeship, which was his for estate business. When in the West, Hills the accepting, but which he declined. He took into his home a boy. This little fellow, has retired from political life and is devoting Wm. C. Mullendore, grown to manhood dur• all his time to his extensive practice. ing the World War, was one of Herbert Hoover's assistant attorneys, was for three ALEXANDER A. SHARP, Mi.D., graduated year's his private secretary. from the University of Penn ylvania in 18_86. In 1887 he went to Kansas as representative WALTER LEE KAUFFMAK, son of a Mechan• of the Mortgage Trust Company of Pa. and icsburg banker who was Collector of Revenue lived there until 1921 when he removed to under Lincoln, spent five years with the Chicago. For 18 years he was an officer in American Tube & Iron Co., Middletown, the National Guard of Kansas and served on Pa., and in 1886, moved to Youngstown, 0., the Mexican border in 1916. In 1917, he was where he continued in the iron and steel called into the federal service and served as business. Since 1909 he has been Credit Colonel of the 139th Infantry, 35th Division. Manager of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Just before the regiment sailed for France a Co., one of the largest steel manufacturing medical board ruled that he was unfitted for industries of the country. (Last June, he foreign service and he could not go over• motored with his sister all the way from seas. He has been presiding officer of all Youngstown to join the reunion. He always the Masonic Grand Bodies of Kansas and had that spirit! If it's in the wood '76-'86 has been actively interested in the affairs of can count on him for June, 1925.-F. F. B.) Sigma Chi Fraternity since graduation. S~n~e 1921, he has been in charge of the fraternity s 1883 general headquarters office in Chicago. REV. vVM. A. CARROLL spent two years after graduation in the Baltimore M. E. Confer• JAMES B. STRAWBRIDGE is regarded as a encle and then went to India as a missionary. pioneer in the successful establishment of the From 1895 to 1898 he was principal of the tin plate industry in the United States. After Calcutta Boys School, accomplishing many two years as a clerk in the Carlisle Deposit things for it, and because of impaired health Bank, under the advice of Dr. Himes, of the returned to this country and resumed his faculty, he studied metallurgy. Afrer spend• work in the Baltimore Conference of which ing several years at Virginia furnaces, he he is still a member. He is now in his ninth went to the Carnegie Steel Company and year as pastor at Relay, M1d. then with a friend started and managed the Pittsburgh Tin Plate Works which in seven WILBUR STACY GIBBS after graduation years was bought for over a million dollars taught in the Asbury Park High School, by the American Tin Plate Trust. In 1900 studied law and was admitted to the New he became superintendent and director of the Jersey bar. In 1889, he went to Tacoma, American Rolling M!il! Co., known as Wash., and became City Attorney. In 1896, "Armico," with a capital today of $21,500,000. he moved to San Francisco where he con· He also built, operated and became general tinned the practice of law. For a number of manager of a steel plant at Cumberland, Md., years he has made his home in Berkeley, and so managed the pl ant as to make the Calif. (Gibbs' mind was as good as they concern independent of the large steel pro• are made and he possessed the faculty of ducers. In 1911 he practically retired from getting the gettable in his studies with f acil• business and is now living in Duxbury, Mass. ity.-F. F. B.) 1884 'VM. C. MANN pent one year at Dickinson REV. A. A. ARTHUR, member of the Phila• and entered Syracuse where he graduated in delphia M. E. Conference since graduation, 1883, and received an A.M. in 1886. Upon has filled responsible pulpits in and about graduation he went west and for three Philadelphia. In 1897 on examination, he re• years was in the cattle business with George ceived his Ph.D. from the College having also B. Mumper, '8+. Until 1893, he was in the taken his A.M. in 1887. (Reticent, yet drug business in Kansas City, when he re• genial, modest as he is able, a thoroughbred turned to Philadelphia and resumed the drug gentleman, after forty years in the ministry, trade. He resides in Ridley Park, Pa. he continues his work. As preacher, pastor and administrator, he is high class and merits WM. B. NORRIS, brother of Dr. R. C. Norris, the esteem of clergy and laity alike.-F. F. '82, graduated from the law school of Col• B.) umbian University, Washington, D. C., in 1885, and went to St. Joseph, Mo., where he RUSSELL T. BOSWELL graduated from the has since resided and practiced law. He has University of Pennsylvania Law School in THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 33

1887 and is a practicing lawyer in Washing• and we count on him to be present in ton, D. C. Last January he completed 19 June.-F. F. B.) years service in the Indian office, having handled many contests over Indian allotments, M. GIBSON PORTER, M.D., graduated from wills and inheritances. (His fine earnestness the medical school of the University of Mary• and intelligent sincerity were as evident at land in 1886, practiced eighteen years in the the 1924Commencement as when he was an mining town of Lonaconing, Md., and underclassman. We shall greet Boswell with twenty-one years at his present office in pleasure at "Old West" in June.-F. F. B.) Roland Park, Baltimore. For some years he was U. S. examining surgeon of pensions A. J. HARl!AUGH left College at the end of and he served a term as mayor of Lonacon• his Junior year, taught school for 19 years, ing. He is a member of two hospital staffs mostly as principal or superintendent of and of the faculty of the University of Mary• schools, and for three years was dean of land Medical School. He is also a member U rsinus College. As a side-I ine he did of the Baltimore County Medical Society and engineering and surveying and in 1902 be a fellow of the American Medical Associa• quit teaching and went to Bellaire, 0., he tion. He recently wrote: "I expect to come opened an engineering office and practiced to Carlisle for Alumni Day and hear my until 1918, when he organized a bituminous neighbor Bishop L. B. \Vilson, '75, preach coal mining company. He became secretary the Baccalaureate sermon." and manager of this company, which posi• tions he now holds. Recently learning of the REV. R. D. POWELL now resides in Dela• presence of I. L. Wood, '84, in Ohio, he ware, 0., though for many years he was a hunted him up and they had a pleasant visit missionary in South America, and is one of together, the first they had seen each other in the champion "Pa's" of the '76-'86 delegation 41 years. (He writes I am much interested for he has ten children, five boys and five in the Rally. Good boy Harbaugh, come girls. He founded and for 15 years carried on an orphanage and industrial school at on !-F. F. B.) Santiago, Chile, making and spending a fortune in the enterprise. With a thirst for REV. E. E ILGENFRITz is now in his 42d year travel, he left Santiago with ten dollars in of effective service in the Des Moines M E. his pocket, and journeyed through Europe Conference and resides at Monroe, Iowa. He and the U. S. by way of the Canary Islands has been a trustee of Simpson College, and back again, a distance of 20,000 miles. served six years as superintendent of the Of this trip, he says that at Las Palmas, he Boone District and represented Des Moines went to the quarter deck and sang more in General Conference, while also pastor of earnestly even than on the old campus "'Twas some of the best charges in the Conference. off the blue Canary Isles, one glorious sum• For eight years, he was chairman of the Ex• mer day." He travels, preaches and lectures amining Board of the Conference, and is a on South America. (He was with us last member of the faculty of the Summer School June and certainly put it across in fine of Theology. style. The '76-'86 Rally couldn't very well go on without him.-F. F. B.) 'VILLIAM LEVERETT graduated from Har• vard in 1885, and after teaching two years in J. BARLOW LIPPINCO'IT, son of Dr. J. A. California, returned East and studied law Lippincott, Prof. of Math at Dickinson and being admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in later Chancellor at University of Kansas, 1889. He lived in Scranton and Wilkes• spent two years at Dickinson and graduated Barre until 1895, when he became associated at U. of K. in 1886. He has been a civil with R. G. Dun & Co. in Philadelphia where engineer with several railroads, topographer he has remained and resided ever since. and hydrographer for U. S. Geological Sur• His address is 4106 Baltimore Ave., Phi la., vey and asst. chief engineer for the Los Pa. (A bright, alert young fellow, son of Angeles Acqueduct. He has been consulting the Protestant Episcopal Rector at Carlisle in engineer for municipal water works in San our day. His classmates will be glad to Francisco, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and know his whereabouts.-F. F. B.) the Hawaiian Islands, and supervising engi• neer for the U. S. Housing Corp. He is a J. A. STRITE was a school principal for two member of various engineering associations years following his graduation and read law. and is the author of numerous papers and He is, a member of the Franklin County bar, reports on water supply and irrigation topics. with offices at Chambersburg where his sons, He was awarded the James R. Crowe medal Edwin D., '12, and Albert, '17, are following by the American Society C. E. in 19q. in the paternal footsteps. His brother, Abram Strite, deceased, w.as a member of '82. REV. ANTHONY A. THOMPON, Ardmore, (Strite participated in the reunion last year Pa., entered the Philadelphia M. E. Confer- 34 THE DICKI SON ALU:VINUS

ence in 188+, and continued in active service Commencement. With "Zeb" Linville on forty years, retiring in 1924 on account of hand, if Ames can be counted in the New poor health. At last reports, he was not York delegation will be hard to beat.-F. F. improving. (His ministry was faithful and B.) painstaking.-F. F. B.) REV. EDWARD DIXON, valedictorian of his 1885 class, after 32 years in the ministry of the FRANKLIN T. BAKER, Litt.D., professor of Philadelphia M. E. Conferenc~, retired in English at Teachers College, Columbia Uni• 1919 and is now living at Moores, Pa. Dur• versity, was the orator at the annual Found• ing his active life, he was in the midst of ers' Day Exercises held at the College May every fray and was a leader in the prohibi• 7th. He taught in various schools until 1893, tion movement. While in Stroudsburg he be• when he became professor at Teachers' Col• gan an evangelistic campaign which spread lege and he has been there ever since. Col• through the county and resulted in 1500 con• umbia University conferred an A.M. upon versions. He attended the Philadelphia him in 1900 and Alma Mater gave him Club's annual banquet recently and expects Litt.D. in 1908. He is the editor of a num• to be present at Commencement. ber of text books of English literature used in academic work. WILBUR. MORRIS STINE, Sc.D., Ph.D., served professorships in physics at Ohio University, REv. GEORGE J. BURNS, Ph.D., D.D., joined Armour Institute of Technology and Swarth• the Philadelphia 'JVll. E. Conference after more College, before retiring from collegiate graduation and became a great evangelistic teaching in 1908 to devote himself exclusively preacher. He was pastor of five of the to authorship and its activities. He has large churches in Philadelphia, then became written a number of excellent volumes in Area Evangelist. For seven years he science and literature and poetry. Copies of preached to the largest Methodist congrega• each of his books are in the College Library tion in Philadelphia, had the largest Metho• and are especially treasured. dist Sunday School in Pennsylvania, and the largest Christian Endeavor Society in the REV. MILTON M. FRANTz graduated from world. He received his Ph.D. from Taylor Syracuse University, having spent one year University in 1899J and his D.D. from at Dickinson. He went to Japan where he American University in 1900. (He's an taught in the Tokio Anglo-Japanese College evangelist of the true type. Pauline in his and returning to the U. S. taught at Ursinus preaching, moving along good, straight lines, College. After graduating from the Hart• without freakish methods, he gets worth• ford Theological Seminary he served Con• while and lasting results in all his churches.• gregational churches in Massachusetts and F. F. B.) New York. From 1901 to 1905 he was claim adjuster for an insurance company and in REV. CHARLES E. ECKLES is now in Siam 1906 went to Scotland and on his return be• and of whom Dr. Bond writes the following: came head of the educational department of ''A circular issued by the Presbytery asks the Funk & Wagnalls Co. for New England. "What is he? A: missionary appointed two He is now retired and lives in Evansburg, months before he graduated from Princeton Pa., preparing for the press "Odd-Moment Seminary in 1888. Where is he? He began Verses," "Clarified English," and "The h is career in Bangkok four months later; Career of a Careless Man." opened up work at two points between Bangkok an Singapore. From 1890 to 1900 W. W. SALMON upon graduation entered lie was at Petcha Line. While there he the employ of the Pennsylvania R. R. and has married Margaret Galt, and together they been in railroading or affiliated industry have worked earnestly and patiently.' ever since. He has held many important Through long years, Eckels has been a con• offices and since 1903 has been president of secrated missionary in a field wide and the General Railway Signal Company. For varied in various provinces of Siam, preach• three years, he was vice-president and repre• ing, teaching, erecting schools and superin• sented the Hall Signal Co. in Europe. He tending them. A life, a work, a record such is a Trustee of the College and a member of as this speaks for itself." the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, West• ern Society of Engineers, American Academy 1886 of Political and Social Science and various GEORGE CHRISTIAN AMES lives in Engle• clubs. (Salmon is one of the several sons of wood, N. ]., and is treasurer of the American Delaware who has made good. At Dickinson Brake Shoe and Foundry Company and its he was very much of a man and left with his subsidiaries, with offices at 30 Church Street, Alma Mater a record which was the earnest New York City. (Prof. Baker, and Col. of all that has happened in his life since.• Keefer, both '85, recently agreed to drive to F. F. B.) THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 35

PERSONALS

1857 read a paper on "Watershed Protection" be• Frank S. Findlay is living at Wythvil le. fore the national convention of the American Va., where be is station agent for the Norfolk W'ater Works Association in Louisville, Ky., and Western Railway Company. in April. 1863 1899 Howard K. Weber is President of the First Dr. J. Boone Winre rsteen is attached in a National Bank of Springfield, Ill. professional capacity to the United States 1872 Veterans' Bureau in Philadelphia. Dr. Rev. D. W. Hart, who resides in Los Wintersteen served through the War with Angeles, hopes to attend Commencement next a long assignment overseas. year. One of his sons graduates from the 1900 Universitv of California in June. He has a BY CALEB E. BURCHENAL daughter ·who is a sophomore in U. S. C. and The class of 1900 will have its twenty-fifth two sons in high school. reunion at commencement and the following Rev. Dr. Charles T. Dunning has moved members have signified that they will be from Los Angeles to the Y. M. C. A. rooms, present at that reunion: Rev. \Vm. L. Arm• Hollidaysburg, Pa., and plans to be present strong, Rev. Francis R. Bayley, Rev. J. Fred at Commencement. Bindenberger, Rev. James McC. Brennan, 1883 Caleb E. Burchenal, J. Milnor Dorey, Miss George M. Bilger, attorney of St. Peters• Cyrille Frank, Hoke Gottschall, Andrew burg, Fla., has just been appointed Municipal Kerr, Rev. George V. Metzel, Mrs. Anna Judge of that city, and is planning to be Himes Metzel, Mrs. Blanche Beitzel Rice, present at Commencement. Rev. Frank \V. Roher, Boyd Lee Spahr, Miss 1889 Olive Taylor, Rev. Ezra R. Stevenson, Mal• Rev. Dr. M. E. Swartz, member of the colm B. Sterret, Rev. Henry E. Wal hey, Alumni Council, and recently director of the Harry R. \Vallis, Rev. Howard S. Wilkinson, Speakers Bureau of the World Service Com• George S. \Villiams, Rev. Albert l\f. \Vitwer mission of the M. E. Church at Chicago, has and Walter \V. Hoover. This is over fifty been made editor and manager of the JVash• per cent of our living members. in gt on Christian Advocate and has removed 1901 to Washington. He succeeds the late Rev. John David Brooks received his Ph.D. in J. Frederick Heisse, '86. education from the University of Pennsyl• 1895 vania in February when he presented a Miss Amy Fisher, Carlisle, says that fifteen thesis on "The Financial Administration of members of '95 have al ready stated they will the Rural Elementary Schools of the United be present for the 30th Reunion of the class States as Determined by State Laws." He at CommenC'ement. Fine! A class luncheon took his A.M. degree from the same institu• will be held at noon on Alumni Day, and tion in I 906. several other class stunts are being planned. J. Perry Wood is judge of the Superior If anv member of the class wants more dope Court at Los Angeles, Calif. about the reunion, write and ask Amy Fisher Irvin E. Kline is teaching in the Senior for it, and then come back for Commence• High School, Atlantic City, N. J. ment! Leonard D. Emmert is the owner of The 1896 Globe, the influential newspaper of Hagers• Merkel Landis, president of the Carlisle town, Md. He also directs large real estate Trust Company, and member of the Alumni and agricultural interests. Council, w as recently elected chairman of 1902 L Group Five of the Pennsylvania Bankers' Leroy B. Delaney, who for many years has Association. Mr. Landis is the father of been practicing law in Paris and Nice, was virtually all Christmas savings clubs now married April the zd, to Mrs. Gladys Ballard, being operated all over the nation. formerly of Louisville, Ky., a niece of the Capt. Arthur J. Hepburn, U. S. N., is former American Ambassador to Russia, Chief of Staff, Battle Division of the Battle David R. Francis. The ceremony was per• Fleet now in Pacific waters, and is on duty formed in Paris, after which the newly-weds on the U. S. S. West Virginia. started for the Italian lakes for their honey• 1898 moon. A brilliant assembly of the nobility W. E. Keeler is now associated with the attended the marriage service. Mr. Delaney National Register Publishing Company, 15 was a first lieutenant in the air service dur• Moore Street, New York City. ing the war. After a brief visit to his home Howard E. Moses of the Pennsylvania De• in Harrisburg, after the armistice, he re• partment of Health, stationed at Harrisburg, turned to Paris and became a French citizen. 38 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

the 'live' ones in person, and the _others in ber of the class and the whole outfit will ap• 'spirit.' Negotiations for the services of a pear in costume in the parade with noise celebrated medium are being ca rried on." makers and all equipment. The Class Baker came to Carlisle May ath, for a meet• Luncheon wilJ be held on the campus where ing with Lydia Gooding, Lina Hartzell and the whole wide world can see-and there Blanche Dumm and all the details were will be plenty of frills, which are not to be settled. All the members of "re need do is to broaclcastecl. Early reports point to a full come back for Commencement! art end ance-s-so plan now to come back for 1911 Commencement! John L. Clarkson has become associated 1916 with the Indemnity Insurance Company of A. H. Allison is district agent for the North America and has been transferred Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Iowa with to the Chicago office. offices in the Apple Building, Lancaster, Pa. 1912 At the \Vilmington M. E. Conference Rev. Robert S. Hodgson was transferred from L. E. Bashore, one-time gridiron star, is Od issa, Del., to Sudlersville, Mel. an attorney with offices uo+-5 American Bank Building, Seattle, Wash. 1917 Roscoe Bonnisteel, another varsity footbalI Dr. F. David Weinberg is serving his player, graduated from the law school of the third year as a member of the staff of Johns University of Michigan, and is now prac• Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. . ticing law in Ann Arbor, Mich. Robert E. Wood ward became a teacher in Florence D. Townsend is Principal of the the Camden, N. J., high school at the e_nd of High School at Fairfield, Conn. the first semester. He and his wife (Mildred At the Philadelphia M. E. Conference, K. Weir, '20) now reside at 2824 Berkeley Rev. C. wt Kitto was transferred from Phila• St., Camden. delphia to Pottsville, Pa. His new address Joseph A. Hopkins is with the East Oregon is 401 Garfield Square. Lumber Company, Enterprise, 0. 1913 E. Olma Snyder graduated from Iowa State College last June, and is living at Rev. Edgar H. Rue is now financial secre• Boone, Ia. tary of Dickinson Seminary, \Villiamsport, Pa. Milton R. Priddis is teaching at Madison Junior High School, Rochester, N. Y. Milton Conover has recently been elected for a three-year term as Assistant Professor HHS / of Political Science in Yale University. Clark D. Read is superintendent of the Allen F. Bubeck is the Supervising Prin• Steam Service Department of the Allegheny cip al of the schools of Schuylkill Haven, Pa. County Steam Heating Company, which he_ats about forty per cent of the business section 1914 of Pittsburgh. He is just completing his At the Wilmington M. E. Conference Re\'. fourth year in the night school of Carnegie \Valter A·. Hearn was transferred fnn Clay• Tech where he is studying mechanical engi• mont, Del. to Middletown, Del. neering. Mr. and Mrs. Seymour R. \Villits an• 1914 L nounced the birth of a daughter, Joan Hoye, Eugene C. Shoecrafr, having resigned after on January 16, 1925. Willits is head of the ten years of service in the U. S. Diplomatic English Department and assistant principal Corps, opened an office last month for the in the high school at Babylon, N. Y. practice of law in Paris, 126 Rue de Provence. 1919 1915 Catherine Elizabeth Lobach received her G. Floyd Zimmerman is treasurer of A~• 1'1.M. degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania at the mid-year convocation lanta University, Atlanta, Ga. in February. William R. Mohr, who recently graduated from the law school of Fordam University, At the \Vilmington M, E. Conference Rev. has become associate counsel of the Actors Charles E. Davis was changed from the Equity Association, New York City. pastorate at Cheswold, Del., to an assign• J. 0. Small since March r st, has been hold• ment at Wesley Collegiate Institute. ing down his new position as an executi ve Esther A. B. Pope!, of Harrisburg, was in the Lacquer Department of Peaslee-Gau 1- married at her home on April the r r th, to bert Company, 1352 South First Street, Louis• William Andrew Shaw of Chicago, Ill. Mr. ville, Ky. Shaw is a graduate of the Philadelphia Dave \Vallace wants all members of 1915 College of Pharmacy, and served in the to be on hand for Alumni Dav. A full re• Canadian army during the World \Var. They union program will be mailed 'ro each meru- will reside in Chicago. where the bridegroom is employed as a chemist. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 39

Announcement of the marriage of Ethel 1921 Mae Ginter, of Carlisle, on March the 7th, Horace B. Hand is now principal of the to Benjamin F. Skillen, of Tarentum, Pa., Sewell Grammar School, Camden, N. J. was made recently. Mr. Skillen is a graduate Kathleen LeFevre is teaching Latin and of Penn State and is an instructor of chem• Spanish in the Hershey High School. istry in the Kane High School. Mary E. Phillips is teaching at Troy, Pa. 1922 1920 Beulah M. Fair is teaching Latin in the H. H. Suende r, class president, who is Bloomsburg, (Pa.) High School. manager of the Office Equipment Company Paul E. Shultz is a missionary in China, of Harrisburg, has appointed Jack Keene, of and is at the Christian and Missionary Al• Harrisburg, to handle the fifth reunion of liance Home at Wuchang, the class to be held Alumni Day, June 6th. 1923 Definite information will reach all the mem• Mary C. Carland received her A'.M. from bers within a very short time. the University of Michigan last June, and is Wilson DeLong is a member of the Penn• teaching Latin in Averett College, Danville, svlv a ni a State Constabulary and is stationed Va. it ~'yoming Barracks, Pittston, Pa. 1924 John B. Bratton, Jr., is manager of the 1920 L G. R. Kinney Shoe Company's store in J. Kennard Weaver is manager and third• Hornell, N. Y. baseman of the baseball team of the Penn David C. Ritzman is teaching at the Ox• Athletic Club of Philadelphia. This team is ford School for Boys, Hightstown, N. J. composed of men who formerly starred on Announcement has been made of the en• various college teams. gagement of Miss Dorothy E. Crooks to Ralph Umsted, Philadelphia attorney, was Samuel E. Templin. Miss Crooks is Teacher -: recently married to Helen India Patterson, the of Music al Wesley Collegiate Institute an

Obituary

'56-Rev. Leonard Marsden Gardner, when in his ninety-fourth year, died at his home in York Springs, February the 25th, 1925. He was recommended to preach at the October meeting of the Old Baltimore Conference at Gettysburg in 1851, and during a long ministry served in many prominent churches in the Baltimore Conference. He filled the pulpits of some of the leading M. E. Churches in and near Baltimore. He retired from the active ministry in 1890.

'65-Colonel George G. Green, one of the richest and most prominent men of South Jersey, died at his home in Woodbury, on February 21st. He was 83 years old and left an estate valued at $5,000,000. He was the head of the Green Labor• atory, which manufactured proprietary medicines on an extensive scale. He pre• pared for College at Pennington Seminary and spent one year at Dickinson leav• ing to enter the medical school of the Universitv of Pennsylvania from which he "·~s graduated in 1865. He served as assistant surgeon during the Civil War. After business ventures in Baltimore and Ohio following the war, he settled in Woodbury. He was active in politics and occupied many prominent positions in his communit~'· He is survived by his wife and four children: l\Irs. Lottie Grat• tan, Mrs. Charles P. Green, George G. Green, Jr., and Mrs, Robert Meustadt, of New York City.

'79-Joseph Newton Rboads, for many years a Carlisler, died at his home in Reading, February the 28th, 1925. He was sixty-nine years old. Upon his 40 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

graduation, he became official secretary for the Ninth Judicial District of Penn• sylvania, which he served until 1887. Thereafter he was court stenographer for Dauphin, Adams, Franklin and Berks counties. He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and the B. L. Society.

'95, '96L-Joseph Frey Gilroy died at his home in Philadelphia, March the 27th, 1925. He prepared for College in the Williamsport High School, and upon his graduation attended the Dickinson School of Law and practiced that pro• fession in Scranton until four years ago when he moved to Philadelphia. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the U. P. Society, and was a member of the baseball team. He also played on the baseball teams of Carlisle 'and Scranton. He is survived by his widow, who was formerly Miss Virginia Mcintyre of Carlisle, a son and a daughter. He was buried in Carlisle.

'03-Rev. Wilmer Lem Gray died in Philadelphia on March the 23rd, 1925. He was born in St. George's, Delaware, and grnduated from Pennington Seminary. Upon his graduation from College, he entered the Philadelphia M. E. Conference and served charges at ·Williams Grove, Reading, Philadelphia, Potts• town, Columbia, Pen Argyl and Brookline. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

NECROLOGY Mrs. John Frederick Heisse, the widow of the Rev. Dr. J. F. Heisse, '86, prominent Baltimore clergyman and trustee of the College, died at her home, 4406 Maine Avenue, West Forest Park, Baltimore, on April 10th, after having been an invalid for many years. Mrs. Heisse is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Allen Foster of Baltimore. Interment was made in Druid Ridge Cemeterv at Pikesville, Maryland, beside the grave of her husband. -

Dickinson circles were grieved at the recent death in Philadelphia of United States Judge Charles L. McKeehan, which occurred March 2nd. Judge McKee• han was the son of C. Watson McKeehan, a graduate of Dickinson. While the Judge was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, he frequently ex• pressed to intimates his own regret that he had not attended Dickinson as did his father.

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