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' ~ ~bt ~tcktnson arumnus Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor - Gilbert Malcolm, '15, '17L Associate Editor - Dean M. Hoffman, '02

ALUMNI COUNCIL Terms expire in 1980 Terms expire in 19S 1 Terms expire in 1932 E. M. Biddle, Jr., '' '86 Robert H. Conlyn, ...... • .'72 Harry B. Stock ...... •. '91 Harry L. Price, '' .'96 James Hope Caldwell, ....•. '80 J. Banks Kurtz '93, '93L Edgar R. H cckmcn, ''' '' '97 Frank R. Keefer, '85 George E. Lloyd '01 Boyd Lee Spahr, '''' ''00 S. Walter Stauffer, .'12 E. Foster Heller '04 Frank E. M.asland, Jr., ... '.'18 Charles E. Wagner, ...... • '14 Leon A. Mcintire .'07 Wilbur L. Arbegast, ...... '29

GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF OF DICKINSON COLLEGE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW Honorary President Lemuel T. Appold President .•...... Justice John W. Kephart President Boyd Lee Spahr Flrst Vice-President .•.. Robert Hays Smith Vice-President , .. Frank R. Keefer Second Vice-Pres ..•.. Judge Fred B. Moser Secretary S. Walter Stauffer Treasurer Harry B. Stock Sec'y-Treas .••...... Joseph P. McKeehan ~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~ TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page Association Members to Elect Alumni Trustees . 3 College to Receive Portrait of James Wilson . 7 Prof. Prince Painfully Hurt in Motor Accident . 9 Dr. George Edward Reed Dies at 83 ...... 11 Prof. ]. Fred Mohler Dies After Short Illness . 13 Football Team to Play Fewer Games in 1930 . 16 Editorial . 18 Youthful Preacher Becomes District Superintendent . 21 Set Aside Room in Old West for Dickinsoniana . 22 Poet Laureate of '76-'86 Dies Suddenly . 25 A Part of Valor in the Spanish-American War . 27 Personals 29 Obituary 34

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Life Membership $40. May be paid in two installments of $20 each, six months apart. 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." THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS February, 1930 Association Members to Elect Alumni Trustees PON the recommendation of the choice of desirable members of the Board U Alumni Council of the General of Trustees; would increase the interest Alumni Association the Board of Trust• of the alumni generally, and would re• ees will probably approve a new method sult in the election of trustees who for the election of alumni trustees at the would be more fully representative of mid-winter meeting on March 11th. the alumni of the College." Under the new plan the right to vote As the terms of the four alumni trus• for the alumni trustees will be vested tees have all expired, there will be an only in those who are members of the election this year of four trustees. But General Alumni Association, and only hereafter one trustee will be elected an• members will be eligible for nomination nually. A special meeting of the Alum• for office. ni Council will doubtless be held imme• For sometime the method in force has diately after the March meeting of the been to elect four trustees from four dif• Board of Trustees in order to select ferent districts. Cards were sent to all nominees for this year's election. Alum• of the alumni, asking them for nomina• ni are reminded again that to be a mem• tions in the district in which they resid• ber in good standing ·of the General ed, and after these nominations were re• Alumni Association, it is necessary to be ceived the election was held. either a life or an annual member. . A Under the new plan the nomination life member is one who has paid $40.00 for election of alumni trustees will be for life membership, while an annual made by the Alumni Council of the member is one who pays $2.00 dues an• General Alumni Association. In all nually, within the fiscal year of the As• probability in the future these nomina• sociation which extends from Commence• tions will be made by the Council at its ment to Commencement. Whenever an annual fall meeting. Twice the number alumnus who has previously paid his of nominees to the number of vacancies dues is in arrears, a slip is enclosed with will be named. Ballots containing the the next number of the magazine sent to nominations will then be sent to the him. If an alumnus sees such a slip in alumni who are members in good stand• his magazine and feels that he has paid ing of the General Alumni Association his dues, he should notify the Dickinson either as life or annual members. ALUMNUS so that the question may be At the fall meeting of the Council. settled. Otherwise he will not receive President Boyd Lee Spahr of the Gen• the ballot for the alumni trustees nor the eral Alumni Association appointed as the ballot for the annual election of mem• committee George E. Lloyd, '01, Dr. bers to the Alumni Council. In this Edgar R. Heckman, '97, and Judge E. present year he will not receive the issue M. Biddle, Jr., '86. This committee of the new alumni directory which will will recommend this new plan for the be printed in 1930 and sent only to those election of alumni trustees at the meet• who are members in good standing. In ing of the Board on March 11th. In its limiting the franchise for members of report the committee will say: "In the the Board of Trustees only to the mem• opinion of the Council the changes sug• bers of the General Alumni Association gested would widen the field for the another right will be added and another 4 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS chairman, Dean M. Hoffman, '02 and Frank E. Masland, Jr., '18. Honors Charles K. Zug, '80 The nominating committee will select L .. T. Appold, '82, Honorary the ten nominees to be voted on in the President of the General Alumni mail election, five of whom will be elect• Association and trustee of the Col• ed to the Alumni Council for the terms lege, who less than a year ago expiring in 1933. The ballots will be established the $5,000.00 William mailed to the members of the General K. Dare Honor Scholarship, has Alumni Association about the end of made another $5,000.00 gift to April. the College to perpetuate the memory of his intimate friend and At the Top in Masonry associate, the late Charles K. Zug '80. , HE highest chair in Masonry in The amount will be known as TPennsylvania is occupied by a Dick• "The Charles K. Zug Memorial insonian. William S. Snyder '94 of Fund," and the books of the Col• H arrrs. b urg, was invested with ' the o 'ffic e lege now bear this notation: "A of right worshipful master of the grand fund of $5,000.00 established Jan• lodge of Pennsylvania, December 27. uary 1930 in memory of Charles Six years ago this honor was assumed K. Zug of Philadelphia, Class of when he was elected grand junior ward• 1880, Phi Beta Kappa, a member en. of the Alumni Council and for Mr. Snyder began his Masonic career many years a faithful friend and in 1898 at Newport, a short distance trustee of the College. The in• from his birthplace in Millerstown. come from this fund and from ac• After passing the chairs of Robert Burns cretions thereto to be used at the lodge at Harrisburg, he was made a dis• discretion of the President in trict deputy in 1924 being reappointed granting scholarship aid to worthy over a period of ten years. young men students. The donor H~ served the chairs in Harrisburg of the fund is Lemuel T. Appold Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons and Class of 1882, of Baltimore th~ won the 33rd degree in 1913. He is also intimate friend of Charles K.' Zug a Shriner and a Knight Templar. ever since their College days." Mr. Snyder i~ one of the leading lawyers of Harrisburg, another Dick• insonian, George Ross Hull, being a law reason created for life membership or partner. Mr. Snyder is a member of paying annual dues regularly. the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. The present alumni trustees are Paul Appenzel!ar, ',95, New York City; Rob· ert F. Rich, 07, W oolrich, Pa. ; Ruby Alumnae Give to Gymnasium R. Vale, '96, Philadelphia. The fourth The Dickinson Alumnze Club of Har• was Henry T. Cannon, '70, who died risburg has made a pledge of $50.00 to during the past year. the gymnasium building fund. A check for one half the amount was received Names Nominating Committee by the Colle~e through its secretary, Boyd Lee Spahr, president of the D?rothy Louise Sponsler, in January General Alumni Association, recently with the promise of another check later appointed a nominating committee to in the year. elect the nominees for the annual mail This is the first alumni organization election to the Alumni Council. His to make a contribution to the gymnasi• appointments are John M. Rhey, '83, um fund. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 5 Washington Club Opens Banquet Season s IXTY Dickinsonians attended the annual dinner of the Dickinson Alumni Club Dinners Alumni Club of Washington which was held in the Cosmos Club at the national All of the alumni clubs in vari• capital on the evening of February 18. ous cities are planning annual din• It was the first function of the winter ners during the present season. The season of the alumni clubs and one of Washington Club stunt has been the best meetings ever held in Washing• held. ton. The Dickinson Club of Balti• more will gather at the Emerson . Brig.-General Frank R. Keefer pre• Hotel on March 14th at 6: 15 side~, and was unanimously re-elected o'clock. president of the Club. J. Fred Laise, the secretary and only other officer, was The Dickinson Club of New also re-elected. These two with Robert York and vicinity will dine in the Y. Stuart and Miss Maud E. Wil~on Hotel Pennsylvania Friday, March Comprised the committee on arrange• 21st at 7 o'clock. ments for the dinner. The Dickinson Club of Phila-. delphia has set Thursday, March Professor Leon C. Prince was the 27th as the date for the annual speak~r of the evening and he delighted dinner at the Penn Athletic Club. all his hearers. Following his address The Dickinson Clubs of Atlan• the college quartet directed by Mordeen tic City, Pittsburgh and North Pl.ough sang several numbers. After Eastern Pennsylvania have an• this Gilbert Malcolm showed movies of nounced that dinners will be held the inauguration of Dr. Filler and of in March though dates have not the last commencement. been selected. The former will While returning from the dinner in probably be Friday, March 28th. his automobile, Prof. Prince met with The Dickinson Club of Harris• an ~ccident ~n the road near Mt. Holly burg plans a bang-up party on Springs. His car was demolished and March 31st. he suffered severe injuries. The Washington Club again followed H. Keatley, Br.-Gen. F. R. Keefer, Mr. the practice it had maintained for sev• Charles F. Kramer, Miss Dorothy S. eral years in printing a dinner menu Kurtz, Mr. & Mrs. J. Fred Laise, Mr. with the dinner pages devoted to a di• & Mrs. P. H. Loose, Hon. & Mrs. F. rectory of the alumni living in and near W. Magrady, Rev. Dr. J. L. McLain, Washington. The alumni are listed al• Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Mohler, Miss phabetically with their classes and cor• Marion H. Park, Mr. Claude W. Park• rect addresses. er, Mr. Elmer Peffer, Mr. & Mrs. Merle Protzman, Mr. W. R. Schmuck• Those who attended the dinner were er, Mr. J. M. Selby, Mr. & Mrs. Her• as follows: Mr. & Mrs. C. 0. Apple• man J. Shuey, Mr. & Mrs. F. E. Sim• man, Mrs. John H. Bickley, Mr. & mons, Rev. Joseph C. Sinclair, Mr. & Mrs. R. T. Boswell, Miss E. Grace Mrs. W. M. Smith, Rev. Frank Steel• Brame, Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Cheesman, man, Mr. F. S. Stitt, Major R. Y. Mrs. J. M. Dorey, Dr. S. E. Foreman, Stuart, Mr. Thomas Troxell, Miss T. J. Frailey, Dr. R. W. Hall, Rev. Grace Vale, Mr. C. G. Warfield, Dr. Dr. F. B. Harris, Mr. H. E. Hoover, & Mrs. R. T. West, Miss Maude E. Dr. & Mrs. Earl S. Johnston, Mr. G. \Vi Ison. JAMES WILSON 1742-1798 Reproduction of Portrait to be Presented lo the College on March 11, 1930 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 7 College to Receive Portrait of James Wilson BY BOYD LEE SP AHR

HE College is fortunate in adding eluded the present counties of York and T to its collection of paintings of Adams. The Colonial records in the founders, presidents and distinguished Court House at Carlisle show that dur• graduates a very fine portrait of James ing these ten years, and especially, the Wilson, one of the founders, which will first six or seven, Wilson was engaged be formally presented to the College on on one side or the other of almost all the evening of March 11th. The por• litigation so that it is a fair deduction trait is the gift of a group of alumni that his practice was probably the largest who are members of the legal profession. in the Colony outside of Philadelphia. It is full length, the canvas being five In 177 5 he was chosen a delegate to by seven feet, portrays Wilson at the the First Continental Congress and sat height of his fame as one of the out• continually in that body throughout the standing figures in the Continental Con• Revolution. This of course necessitated gress and the Constitutional Convention. his spending a great deal of his time in It is the work of Horace T. Carpenter, Philadelphia, to which city he removed the well known Philadelphia artist, his residence in 1779. who also painted the portraits of John He was one of the Pennsylvania dele• Dickinson and President Nisbet now in gates who voted in favor of independ• Memorial Hall. At the presentation an ence, although Dickinson, who was also address on Wilson will be delivered by a delegate, felt that the declaration was Burton A. Konkle of Swarthmore Penn• premature and abstained from voting. sylvania. Mr. Konkle for man~ years It was, however, in the Constitutional has ?een engaged in historical writings, Convention which met in Philadelphia particularly on the part played by Penn• in 1787 that Wilson did his most out• sylvania and Pennsylvanians in the Rev• standing public work. Of this Dr. Mc• olution and the early days of the Re• Master says on page 421 of Volume 1 public and is the author, among other of his History of the People of the books, of a comprehensive life of Wilson, United States: which will soon be published by Scribner. "There, too, was James Wilson. James Wilson ranks with Franklin, Wilson was a Scotchman, had been John Adams, Jefferson and Madison as an inmate of the Universities of one of the outstanding figures of the Edinburgh, of Glasgow, and of St. Continental Congress and shared with Andrew's, and had come over to Madison the most prominent part in the America while still a lad. Of the Constitutional Convention. fifty-five delegates he was undoub• He was born in Scotland in 17 42, tedly the best prepared, by deep and educated at the University of Edinburgh systematic study of the history and and came to Pennsylvania in 1765. He science of government, for the work read law under John Dickinson in Phil• that lay before him. The Mar• adelphia and in 1769 settled in Carlisle quis de Chastellux, himself a no where he resided for the next ten years. mean student, had been struck with His home was at the southwest corner the wide range of his erudition, and of High and Pitt Streets, where the Ar• had spoken in high terms of his li• gonne Hotel now stands. At the time brary. There, said he, are 'all our of its creation in 1751 Cumberland best authors on law and jurispru• County embraced all of Pennsylvania dence. The works of President west of the Susquehanna River with the Montesquieu and of the Chancel• exception of York County, which in- lor d'Aguesseau hold the first rank 8 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

of 46 to 23, on December 12, 1787. The A Notable Occasion Federalists in Carlisle determined upon Alumni of the College are in• a celebration and on the last Wednesday vited to attend the presentation of of December in 1787 gathered in the the portrait of James Wilson in public square with a cannon and wood Memorial Hall at 7 :45 o'clock on for a bonfire. Scarcely had they as• the evening of March 11. The sembled when they were attacked by a exercises will be followed by an large number of Anti-Federalists who informal reception to the artist, drove off the Federalists, spiked the can• Horace T. Carpenter and Burton non and burned it, together with a copy A. Konkle, noted historical and of the Constitution. The next day, foremost living authority on James however, the Federalists in greater num• Wilson. bers returned to the square, armed with Many alumni of the College guns, and celebrated for two hours. The will doubtless return to be present Anti-Federalists did not attack them at this notable occasion. again, but assembled in a vacant lot, pro• duced two effigies labeled "Thomas McKean, Chief Justice," and "James among them, and he makes them Wilson, the Caledonian" and burned his daily study.' This learning them. Wilson had in times past turned to Three years later, Wilson sat in the excellent use, and he now became Convention which framed the first Con• one of the most active members of stitution of Pennsylvania. He thus had the convention. None, with the the distinction of being the only man in exception of Gouverneur Morris, the country who signed the Declaration was so often on his feet during the of Independence, the Constitution of the debates, or spoke more to the pur• United States and the Constitution of pose." his state. In a footnote Dr. McMaster says In 1789 he was appointed by Presi• that the Historical Magazine of J anu• dent Washington as one of the original ary 1861 contains an article setting forth Associate Justices of the United States that during the convention Gouverneur Supreme Court and he continued to hold Morris made 173 speeches; Wilson that position until his death. In those 168; and Madison 161. days the Supreme Court Justices sat on After the adoption of the Constitution circuit, obliging them to perform long by the Convention and its submission to and tedious journeys by coach over the the states for ratification, Wilson was miserable roads of the day. While en• the most prominent figure in Pennsyl• gaged on circuit work in North Caro• vania in favor of its approval. There was a strong anti-federalist feeling in lina, Mr. Justice Wilson became fatally Pennsylvania that the Constitution gave ill and died at the home of his colleague, too much power to the general govern• Mr. Justice Iredell, at Edenton, North ment and a determined effort was made Carolina, on August 28, 1798. He was to prevent ratification. As the outstand• buried at Edenton, but in 1906 his re• ing supporter of the Constitution, Wil• mains were disinterred and brought to son was the object of bitter attack by the Philadelphia on a United States cruiser Anti-Federalists, who commonly re• and laid beside those of his wife in the ferred to him as "James de Caledonia" south wall of Christ Church. on account of his Scotch origin. After As already stated, he was one of the a sharp contest, the Constitution was founders of the College and an original ratified in the state convention by a vote trustee. Paragraph 3 of Section 5 of THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 9 the charter of September 9, 1783, con• William Bingham, Esqs. and Dr. tains the list of the original trustees, be• Benjamin Rush of the City and ginning as follows: County of Philadelphia" "That the first trustees of the said followed by the names of the remaining College shall consist of the follow• trustees from other counties. He was ing persons, viz.: his Excellency also the first lecturer on law at the Uni• John Dickinson, Esq., President of versity of Pennsylvania, which institu• the Supreme Executive Council; tion conferred upon him the degree of Henry Hill, James Wilson and Doctor of Laws.

Prof. Prince Painfully Hurt in Motor Accident ROF. Leon C. Prince suffered a at the time of the accident, it was Pbroken hip, a slight fracture of his thought that he had only lost several jaw and lost several teeth when his car teeth. Sheetz was unhurt, while Mack• was demolished in an automobile acci• lem received several bruises in his head dent, in early morning of February and Plough was bruised across the fore• 19th, while returning from a dinner of head and cheek bone and hurt his back. the Dickinson Club of Washington Plough and Macklem started to walk where he had been the guest of honor. to Carlisle, as no other traffic was ap• The accident occurred in the Mt. Holly proaching, but were soon picked up. Be• Gap on the Gettysburg-Carlisle road. fore they secured aid, however, Gilbert It is Dr. Prince's practice to drive to Malcolm reached the scene of the acci• all of his speaking engagements in his dent in his car. He had also been at own car and he usually returns imme• the dinner and was returning with three diately after any function to his home. of the members of the College quartet. He left Washington after the dinner His passengers immediately alighted and on February 18th close to 11 o'clock for stood guard over the wrecked car, while the 120 mile drive to Carlisle. Ralph Malcolm took Prof. Prince to his home. A. Sheetz, a senior in College, who has Early examination failed to show that been the regular attendant for Prof. Prof. Prince was seriously hurt, but the Prince for sometime, was at the wheel following day he was taken to the Car• and Prof. Prince was sitting in the front lisle hospital for an X-ray examination, seat next to him. Mordeen Plough, di• which showed that he had suffered a rector of the College glee club, and Car• broken hip and a slightly fractured jaw. rol Macklem, '29, a member of the Col• He will remain as a patient in the hospi• lege quartet which had sung at the din• tal for at least a month. Many have ner, were the passengers in the rear seat. commented on the fact that following They had some tire trouble near Fred• the accident and since Prof. Prince has erick, Md. and at that time Sheetz com• shown that rare Spartan courage which plained of having a severe headache. he has so often himself highly extolled. While it is not known exactly how the Wreckers experienced considerable dif• accident happened, Sheetz apparently ficulty in bringing Prof. Prince's auto• lost control of the car or fell asleep. The mobile to Carlisle. Quite a scene was car crashed into a big guard rail at the caused when the car tumbled from the side of the road on a curve and then device on which it was being hauled bounded across the road. Two of the through the streets and traffic was tied wheels were broken off and the car was up for some time. The appearance ot practically demolished. the car certainly supports the fact that Prof. Prince was the only one in the it is remarkable that any of its occupants car who suffered severe injuries, though escaped from the accident alive. THE REV. DR. GEORGE EDWARD REED 1846-1930

Fifteenth President of Dickinson College, 1889-1911 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS I I Former President Dr. George Edward Reed Dies at 83 HE Rev. Dr. George Elward Reed, mills of that city. He spent the year Tfifteenth President of Dickinson and of I864 in New Bern, North Carolina, its executive from I889 to 191 I died in part of the time working on a "contra• the Polyclinic Hospital, Harrisburg, Pa., band" camp where 10,000 negro refugees February 7. He was 83 years old. were quartered. While Dr. Reed had been in failing Returning to Lowell he was persuaded health for several years, his death was by his pastor to advance his education. extremely sudden and followed his ad• He prepared for college at Wilbraham mission to the hospital by only a day. Academy in Massachusetts. To pass a He had been having trouble with an ab• 27 months' course in 6 he arose at 2 scess of the eye and had become a patient o'clock in the morning and retired at ten for observation. Fifteen minutes after in the evening. Later he entered Wes• he had conversed with his pastor and leyan University and was graduated four before the nurse could return to his side, years later with honors. To maintain Dr. Reed died. himself at college he preached every Sun• Funeral services were held in Grace day and for an entire year boarded him• Methodist Church February 10. Presi• self at the rate of ninety cents a week. dent Filler, Bishop James H. Darling• ton of the Protestant Episcopal Church, FROM LAW TO MINISTRY former President Morgan and Dr. Leon Following his graduation he took a C. Prince participated in the services, year in theology at Boston University, Dr. Prince reading a tribute written by the turning point in a career that before his father, Dr. Morris W. Prince, who, had been headed for the law. He served it was announced, had made a compact his first pastorate at Willimantic, Conn. with Dr. Reed that the survivor should While in this charge he was married to participate in the other's obsequies. The Ella Frances Leffingwell of Norwich, pallbearers were all Dickinsonians. In• June 20, I 870 with whom he lived for terment was in the Old Graveyard at 52 years, their golden wedding annivers• Carlisle. It was private. ary being celebrated in Harrisburg, June Dr. Reed's administration at Dickin• 20, 1920. son followed years of struggle for an After two years at Willimantic, Dr. education and marked success in the Reed went to Fall River, Mass., for Methodist ministry, principally in New York and New England. three years and thence to Hanson Place church, Brooklyn, the crest of his minis• ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN terial career. There his 'neighboring He was the son of the Rev. George pastors were T. DeWitt Talmage, and Ann Hellyer Reed and was born at Henry Ward Beecher, Richard S. Storrs Brownsville, Maine, March 28, I846. and other distinguished clerics. He was the tenth child in a family of After Dr. Reed was at Hanson Place eleven. His father's death when the lad church six years, a great testimonial was six years old broke up the home and meeting was arranged for him in sent the boy to reside with a cousin in a Brooklyn and affectionate and laudatory neighboring village. At the age of ten, resolutions were signed by his distin• he was sent to join his widowed mother guished neighbor pastors. He was in• at Lowell, Mass., remaining there until vited to return for a three-year term. he was I7. The "time limit," then prevalent in the He attended the public schools in church, resulted in his transfer to New Lowell in the winter and worked on Haven. After pastorates in Stamford nearby farms in the summer and later and again in Brooklyn, Dr. Reed re• as an errand or bobbin boy in the cotton turned to New Haven where he re- 12 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS ceived the call to the presidency of Dick• was a member of Euclid Lodge of Masons and the Scottish Rite of Harris• inson. Dr. Reed found the college faction burg. Until very recent years he was torn, buildings in rundown condition an active member of the Dickinson Club and the campus full of litter. His vigor• of Harrisburg. ous policy soon brought a change. Build• DR. REED'S ESTATE ings was renovated, an athletic field was George L. Reed, his son, was named acquired, old Denny Hall was built and executor of the estate of the late Dr. rebuilt after fire destroyed it. With George Edward Reed in the will filed Dean Trickett he founded the Dickinson at the court house at Harrisburg. The School of Law. During his administra• value of the estate was given as $6,500. tion Conway Hall was erected and the Bequests of $100 each weer made to Biddle Memorial Athletic Field added Delia S. Reed, Estelle Leffingwell and to the college plant. Both faculty and Arthur L. Briggs, all relatives. The re• student body were greatly increased in sidue was bequeathed to the son. The number. will was dated October 29, 1929. DECLINES Posr or HoNoR Writes Municipal Research Report During his presidency of the college, Clarence G. Shenton, '10, is the Dr. Reed was invited by President Mc• author of "History and Functions of the Kinley to become Librarian of Congress. Municipal Court of Philadelphia," pub• This invitation coupled with many to lished in the Philadelphia Municipal return to the ministry he declined. He Court Survey Series as a report by the did serve a term, however, as State Bureau of Municipal Research of Phila• Librarian of Pennsylvania, an office he delphia of a study made by him as agent carried in conjunction with the college of the Thomas Skelton Harrison Foun• presidency. dation. After twenty-two years in the presi• Mr. Shenton is director of the Thomas dency, Dr. Reed retired and moved to Skelton Harrison Foundation and its Harrisburg where his only child, secretary. He is also a director of the George L. Reed, is an attorney and Bureau of Municipal Research of Phila• member of the State Legislature. delphia. The Bureau of Municipal Re• Though retired, Dr. Reed many times search is a non-partisan agency of scien• filled the pulpits of Harrisburg churches tific inquiry, organized to increase the and for three and a half years occupied effectiveness of Philadelphia's govern• the pulpit of Grace Church, Wilming• ment by cooperating with officials and ton, Del. He also found time to conduct giving citizens unbiased information a large Bible class at the Colored "Y" about public affairs. The Thomas Skel• in Harrisburg. ton Harrison Foundation is an agency Mr. Reed was greatly shaken by the created by the will of Thomas Skelton death of his wife in Harrisburg in Harrison to promote good government August 1922. Thereafter he resided in Philadelphia. with his son. The book contains eight chapters with Dr. Reed had served as a delegate to an index, a table of cases and a table of the general conference of his church in statutes on constitutional provision. Fol• Cleveland and at the Baltimore con• lowing the introductory chapter there is vention in 1908 received a large vote a chapter on the establishment and or• for bishop. ganization of muncipal courts and then Wesleyan in 1885 invested him with six of the chapters deal with the juris• the degree of doctor of systematic diction of the courts, in civil, criminal, theology. Lafayette conferred on him juvenile desertion and non-support and the doctor of laws in 1889. Dr. Reed misdemeanant cases. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 13 Professor J. F. Mohler Dies After Short Illness NE of Dickinson's great scholars In 1897, Dr. Mohler published O and one of the most respected and . "Practical Physics" of which there were best beloved members of the faculty five editions and he was a frequent con• passed away when Professor J. Fred tributor to scientific magazines and was Mohler, head of the Department of the author of numerous works. He pub• Physics for the past 34 years, died from lished several articles on "Spectrum An• lobar pneumonia after an illness of two alysis" as a result of his own research weeks on Jan. 28th. He was 65 years work and also an article headed "Sur• old. . face Tension of Water Below the Zero Dr. Mohler was serving his last year Degree, Centigrade." He was a mem• as a member of the College faculty. He ber of the American Association for the had announced his intention to retire in Advancement of Science, of the Ameri• June, and he had been assisting Presi• can Physical Society and of Phi Beta dent Filler in the considerations of his Kappa Fraternity. probable successor. He was head of Dr. Mohler was considered the out• the Department of Physics from 1896 standing authority on the geology of when he returned to the College as a Cumberland County. He had planned member of the faculty until his death. tu prepare an address on this subject During his years on the faculty, Dr. which was to have been published by the Mohler was an active force in the lives Carlisle Kiwanis Club. Spending much of the students and was always vitally of his leisure in tramping about the interested in the welfare of the men of country-side, he was long a familiar fig• the College. For many years, he was ure. Few knew that he combined his a leading teacher in the Sunday School tramps with thoughtful reflection and of the Allison1 M. E. Church, and he research on the geology of the county. was always active in the work of the Dr. Mohler is survived by his widow, science clubs, and the Y. M. C. A. of Mrs. Sara Loomis Mohler; two sons the College and of the town. A native and a daughter. His sons who gradu• of Cumberland County, he was known ated from Dickinson in 1914, are Dr. throughout the country because of his Samuel L. Mohler, who is associate pro• association with Dickinson students his fessor of Latin in Franklin and Marshall publications and his affiliation in s~ien• College, Lancaster; and F. L. Mohler, tific organizations. who is with the U. S. Bureau of Stand• Born in Boiling Springs, the son of ards, Washington, D. C., His daughter, Samuel and Elizabeth Williams Moh• Miss Nora May Mohler is instructor in ler, Dr. Mohler attended the schools physics at Smith College, Northampton, there and entered Dickinson College in Mass. Mrs. Mohler is now making her 1883. He graduated with an A. B. de• home with her son, Dr. Samuel L. Moh• gree in 1887 and received his A. M. in ler, in Lancaster. Pa. 1890. Upon his graduation he became a In respect to the departed professor, teacher of science and mathematics in College closed the day of Dr. Mohler's the Wilmington Conference Academy, death and re-opened the day after the Dover. Del., and in 1890 he became a funeral. His death occurred in the midst member of the faculty of Wesleyan of Mid-year examinations and necessi• Academy, Wilbraham, Massachusetts, tated a rearrangement of the examina• remaining there until 1894 when he en• tion schedule. tered Johns Hopkins University as a Funeral services were held in the Al• student assistant in astronomy. He was lison M. E. Church while interment was a Fellow in Physics at John Hopkins made in Westminster Cemetery, Car• until he became professor of physics. lisle. Rev. Dr. E. R. Heckman oflici- J. FRED MOHLER, Ph.D. Professor of Physics, 1896-1930; Member of the Class of 1887 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 15 ated while President Filler and Dr. J. To Hold Big Banking Post H. Morgan assisted. President Filler in a brief address paid fitting tribute to George E. Lloyd, '01, member of the the memory of Dr. Mohler, while Dr. Alumni Council, who lives in Me• Morgan told the intimate story of his chanicsburg where he is vice-president of association with Dickinson. the First National Bank and Trust Company, and is a member of the Cumb• Prince a Contributing Editor erland County Bar, will become one of Prof. Leon D. Prince has been asked three trust officers of the largest bank by .Nlen Johnson, editor-in-chia] for in Pennsylvania, it was announced early this month. the American Council of Learned Socie• ties to assist in the preparation of "The Lloyd is at present trust officer of the Dictionary of American Biography" Colonial Trust Company of Philadel• which will contain from 18 to 20 thou• phia. Directors of this bank and of the sand biographies in 20 volumes and has Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on been made possible by the generosity of Lives and Granting Annuities have Adolph S. Och of the New York Times. voted to merge through an exchange of The American Council of Learned So• stock at a February meeting. cieties is the federation of twelve socie• The merger becomes effective as soon ties devoted to humanistic studies. as ratified by stockholders and Lloyd One of the greatest needs felt by the will be one of three trust officers of the various societies was a dictionary of gigantic institution, which will be the American biography which should be largest bank in the State. Its capital and surplus will total and based upon authentic material and writ• $45,130,000 deposits Trust funds of ten with liter.ary distinction. The only $166,812,045. the .inetiturion will total more than two available encyclopedias and dictionaries billion dollars. of American biography either were pub• lished many years ago and never fully revised, or were put together for com• Two Dickinsonian Authors mercial purposes and include both the The September issue of Independent living and the dead, frequently accept• Education contained two articles by ing without question the data furnished Dickinsonians. Chas. Lowe Swift, '02, by interested parties. The earlier works of the English department in the Hill gave chief prominence to clergymen, School, Pottstown, contributed an ar• military heroes and public officers; but ticle entitled "A Prophet's Honor" and within fifty years American life has pro• the other under the caption "Other Tri• duced striking personalities in many angles" was from the pen of C. A. Ew• fields of human endeaver; notably in ing, '98, of Tome School, Port Deposit, commerce, history and science, scholar• Md. ship and in the fine arts, all of which ought to be given full proportionate rec• ognition. It has been stated that the Mclntires Tour to Florida purpose of this new dictionary is to in• Before the severe winter weather be• clude only the biographies of men and gan Prof. and Mrs. B. 0. Mcinti.re left women no longer living and to give Carlisle in their car and drove leisurely adequate treatment to these varied per• to Florida. They spent some time in sonalities by securing specialists who will January at Vero Beach, Fla., and then contribute articles with their own signa• went on to Bradenton, Fla., where they ture'. To each article will be appended are staying at the Royal Palm Apart• a list of original sources and of previous ments. This will probably be their biographies upon which the contributor headquarters until their return to Car• has based his account. lisle in the spring of the year. 16 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Football Team to Play Fewer Games in 1930 HE 1930 football team will play Teight games, according to the sched• 1930 Football Schedule ule which has been arranged by the ath• Oct. 4 Juniata Away letic committee instead of ten games Oct. 11 U rsinus Home which were played in the past season. Oct. 18 Muhlenberg Home Upon the recommendation of the new Oct. 25 Geo. Washington Away football mentor, P. W. Griffith, the ath• Nov. 1 P. M. C. Away letic committee favors a shorter season. Nov. 8 Gettysburg Away All of the teams to be met this fall Nov. 15 F. & M. Home were played last year. The two absent Nov. 22 Swarthmore Home from the schedule are Army and Buck• nell. It will be the first season in some years in which there will be no Dickin• present being considered and one or son-Bucknell game. more of them will probably be named The annual fall home-coming is au• to help in the work on Biddle Field. tomatically set for the week-end of No• "ember 15. That will be the date of the game with Franklin and Marshall Basketball T'eam A Winner and also, as under the new agreement, the Gettysburg game will be played at . With two games remairung to be Gettysburg this fall. Four of the played in March, Dickinson's basketball games will be played at home and four team is enjoying another successful sea• of them on foreign fields. U rsinus, son having hung up ten victories against Muhlenberg, F. & M., and Swarthmore six defeats in the games played to date will be met on Biddle Feld, while the and the probability ahead of winning the team will make only short trips to play Eastern Athletic Conference Champion• Juniata, George Washington University, ship. It will be necessary to defeat P. M. C. and Gettysburg away from Gettysburg in the last game of the sea• home. son in the new gymnasium on March 5th Coach Griffith is already holding spe• to win the title. cial classes for the football squad and In the six defeats were three games plans an intensive spring training prac• against major opponents. The team lost tice this year. For sometime he has been to Penn in December, and then dropped giving attention to the men who formed a 26 to 25 decision to Princeton in Car• the freshman squad last fall and it ap• lisle on January 3rd, while C. C. N. Y. pears that the nucleus of the 1930 team had an easy time the next night in New will be composed of sophomores. They York and won 46 to 19. will have a battle on their hands, how• Great interest has been aroused in the ever, because the losses by graduation team coached by R. H. McAndrews and from the varsity squad will be few in the capacity of the Alumni Gymnasium number. Captain Angle will graduate has been taxed several times during the in June, as will Haberman, star tackle season. Many of the fans follow the last year, Kline, Hartshorn and Cole. team to the various conflicts. There is a probability that Coach The Athletic Committee is booking an Griffith will have more assistance in the ambitious schedule again for the 1931 handling of the 1930 squad than he had season. The high-light will probably last year. The names of several men be a game with Yale in Carlisle on Janu• who were prominent in the great grid• ary 2nd. The Penn game will be in iron battles of the past season are at Philadelphia in December. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 17 Fills Physics Post Made Vacant by Death A. PARLIN, Ph. D., assistant W • in physics at Johns Hopkins University, was called to the College upon the death of Prof. J. Fred Mohler, to fill the vacancy in the department of physics and to complete the present year. Looking forward to the retirement of Prof. Mohler in June, Dr. Parlin was being considered as his probable succes• sor. Before his death Prof. Mohler stated that he favored Dr. Parlin as his successor. When Prof. Mohler became seriously ill and it was apparent that he would probably be unable to continue his teaching this year, President Filler immediately arranged to have Dr. Par• lin come on to complete the year. Prof. Mohler died before Dr. Parlin arrived. For the balance of the present year Dr. Parlin will closely follow the work outlined by Prof. Mohler. The onlv alteration will be in the honor courses, in which he plans to encourage work in optics. The work in geology formeriy done by Prof. Mohler has been trans• ferred to Prof. M. W. Eddy and will W. A. PARLIN, Ph.D. likely remain in his hands. ceived his Ph. D. degree. He was as• Dr. Parlin was born in Des Moines. sistant in physics at Hopkins until he Iowa, January 19, 1899, the son of was called to the College, at the end of Charles Wellington and Alice B. Par• Januarv. lin. After attending the grade schools He is the author of two papers "The in Des Moines, he entered Simpson Col• Forces and Torques on Coils carrying lege, Iowa, where he received his A.B. Radio Frequency Currents" and "The degree in 1921. He then entered the Effect of Temperature on the Absorp• University of Iowa where he was a tion Bands of Fused Quartz in the In• Scholar in Physics the first year and a tra-Red." He is also the author of Fellow in Physics the second year and "Ratiometer" which is now in the hands where he received his M.S. degree in of the publishers. It is a paper dealing 1922. While a student at the U niver• with a device for measuring the ratio of sity of Iowa he was elected to Sigma Xi, the ordinates of any two curves. He is the honorary scientific fraternity. a member of the American Physical So• The following three years he was in• ciety and a former member of the Iowa structor of physics at Emory University Academy of Science. . in Georgia. He then entered Johns On August 27th, 1924 Dr. Parlin Hopkins University where he has been married Miss Ora Mae Gerling of Des for the past three and a half years, hold• Moines Iowa an alumna of Simpson ing scholarships and studying physics College'. The; will live in the house ad• there. In the spring of 1929 he was joining Conway Hall owned by the Col• elected to Phi Beta Kappa fraternity at lege which until recently has been occu• Johns Hopkins and in June 1929 re- pied by R. S. Schecter. 18 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS EDITORIAL

ALUMNI TRUSTEE REPRESENTATION o sound is the new plan for alumni representation in the college board of S trustees that its acceptance is all but a certainty. The present plan is scarcely worthy of that term. It is a haphazard method which more often than not is a gamble. It has only been good fortune that has given the alumni the distinguished representation they have had in the board. By the new plan, selection of alumni trustees will be restricted to members of the General Alumni Association, who alone will have the right of ballot. This is a proper recognition of the Alumni Association. Better still, it confines the whole process of nominating and electing alumni trustees to a group interested enough in the welfare of the institution to become members of the association. Inasmuch as the membership ranks of the association are open to all Dickinsonians, this bars none who care to qualify. The new plan ought to stimulate membership in the Alumni Association even though that is not the primary purpose of the proposal. The principal advantage of the suggestion is that it replaces a haphazard election system with an orderly one.

DEATH LANDS HEAVILY EATH has struck heavily on the doors of Dickinsonians since THE ALUMNUS D last appeared. Within a short space of time, it claimed a former president, a member of the faculty and several distinguished alumni. The deaths of "Dockie" Reed, fifteenth president of the institution, and of Dr. J. Fred Mohler, professor of Physics were severe shocks to the college community and to the rank and file of alumni. Both were well up in years, but their ends came surprisingly fast. As a tribute to them college sessions were suspended. In evaluating the lives of these two men, Dr. Mohler a Dickinsonian by blood and Dr. Reed by absorption, the risk is not in over but in under-estimating their services to the college. Quite apart from the personal attachments, they both made splendid contributions to alma mater each in his own way. One must be either an old alumnus or one very familiar with the facts to appreciate the tremendous revolution in college affairs, both scholastically and substantially, for which President Reed was responsible. In his span of twenty• two administrative years, he worked wonders at Carlisle. He virtually took a prostrate institution of superb history and traditions and stood it on its feet, a vigorous factor in the national field of higher education. But much as Dr. Reed accomplished in an administrative way, he is going to be remembered longest for personal characteristics that bred loyalty, devotion and affection among the students and his colleagues. This affection ripened with time. His appearance in his later years at alumni gatherings was sure to result in demonstrations of goodwill and affection that was impressive. Like all men, he had his limitations. Like all men. he could not please everybody but like few men he enjoyed all but universal respect and love from the boys who were his students. To these, were they young or old ones, his death THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 19 brought personal grief beyond measure, a grief that expressed itself when alumni from far and distant points journeyed to Harrisburg to attend his funeral. Dickinson was infinitely the better for having "Dockie" Reed as a president. He was so intensely human, so considerate of the other fellow, so generous in his impulses, so generally reasonable and fair in his discipline that liking him was the natural and easy thing to do. As a representative of the college no matter what the occasion, he was a tremendous asset. There is not the slighest doubt that by his grace, his eloquence, his social qualities he made many a friend for Dickinson and never lost its respect. To the very last he was as devoted to the college's interest as ever. His "Reminiscences" which appeared in THE ALUMNUS mark another legacy. They belong with those other priceless gifts of charm, guidance, leadership and adminis• trative capacity which of course, are beyond computation. Dr. Mahler's services to the college were less spectacular naturally though none the less genuine. He was a thorough going and beloved teacher. He gave to the Department of Physics a brilliant scholarship and leadership easily recognized far beyond campus limits. He, too, had a personality of charm. His students not only respected his learning but were touched by his large heart and his patience and consideration. To his post on the faculty and to his alma mater he was superlatively loyal, a good and able man whose influences in Carlisle will linger long. Dickinsonians grieve at the passing of such conspicuous men and still there is comfort in knowing that such men neither live nor die in vain.

A WORTHY ENTERPRISE 0 alumnus or friend of Dickinson can read Boyd Lee Spahr's outline of the Ne ffort to build up and house properly in Old West a collection of Dickinsoniana without being fascinated and lured into a full-hearted cooperation in the enterprise. Any person who reads the list of distinguished Dickinsonians of ante-bellum days, without a thrill of pride will be worth a psychoanalyst's attention. It is an imposing array of men of brilliance and achievement. To enrich and embellish tnat record with "pictures. engravings, prints and other documents relating to the early history of the College" is an enterprise worthy of every alumnus' attention. Not all the glory of Dickinson is in the distant past, but there is abundant glory and grandeur there. A fine service to history and to letters and to the college itself is rendered when efforts are made to add to the Dickinsoniana and house it in quarters worthy of the institution's eminence in the infant days of the nation.

DICKINSONIANS IN EDUCATION ENNSYLVANIA'S new Education Building in the Capitol group in Harr_is• Pburg will bear testimony to the achievements of Dickinson. On tl~e ~ormce of the Monumental structure will be engraved the names of four men myn;ately associated with the history of Dickinson. As announced they are J ~hn p1ckir:is~n, himself· Benjamin Rush, his colleague; Governor Andrew G. Curtin, 37, distin• guished 'alumnus, and Andrew Carnegie whose gift made possible Conway H:ill: No person can honestly dispute the propriety of such names on a building dedicated to education. And the fact that the selections include three bona _fide Dickinsonians and the benefactor, Carnegie, cannot help but bring lively emotions to graduates and friends of the college. . There are thirty-five men in the group, all of them Pennsylvanians and de- 20 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

ceased. They were chosen for their contributions to education. None is more entitled to that distinction than those with Dickinson connections. John Dickinson and Benjamin Rush are especially worthy of such recognition. At a time when higher education in this country was in its swaddlings, these men had the vision and courage to plant an institution in the wilderness beyond the Susquehanna, many hard miles from their Philadelphia homes. To such men higher education in America and in Pennsylvania owes much. Governor Curtin's support of education and his establishment of the Soldiers' Orphan School at Scotland qualify him, too, for the honor that has come to his memory. Carnegie, as a patron of education, needs no further explanation. It is possible, of course, that other Dickinsonians might appropriately have been added to this list, but it is a matter of pride that in this "hall of fame" so many Dickinsonians are represented.

Enroll Two More Lifers To Honor Leading- Scholars The names of two more alumni have Three members of the Class of 1930 been enrolled recently on the ever-grow• who have recently been elected to mem• ing list of Life Members in the General bership in Phi Beta Fraternity will be guests of honor at a dinner given by Alumni Association. They are Dr. the faculty of the College at the Molly Clyde Furst, '93, of New York City, B. Pitcher Hotel, on Saturday, March 1. who is Secretary of the Carnegie Found• Dr. Clark S. Northrup president of ation and R. B. Stauffer, '03, shirt united chapters of Phi Be'ta Kappa will manufacturer of Philipsburg, Pa. deliver the address. ' Life membership costs $40 and may be The three students who will be paid in two installments. It carries all honored are: Harold A. Kline, who has the rights and privileges of full mem• been a member of the football team for bership in the General Alumni Associa• the past three years; Vincent A. tion for life and a life-time subscription McCrossen and Willis W. Willard, Jr. to THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS. The fund thus subscribed will be a guarantee Honor Dickinsonian School Head for the continuation of alumni work in Albert M. Bean, '10, superintendent t.he days to come. of schools in Camden County, was given a reception early this month by the teachers of the Gloucester City, New Phi Beta Kappa Alumnae Meet J crsey schools, where he was formerly Three hundred twenty-five persons at• superintendent. tended the meeting of Phi Beta Kappa Mr. Bean was presented with a wrist Alumnre in New York on February watch by the teachers and a desk pen 18th in the ballroom of "The Pan-Hel• set by the members of the board of edu• lenic." Mrs. C. Grant Cleaver, '02, is cation. president of the body. New York Alumnae Party The speaker of the evening was Ellis Twenty-one members of the Dickinson Ames Ballard noted attorney of Phila• Alumnse Club of New York attended delphia who received the honorary de• the luncheon at Giolitos Roman Garden gree of LL.D. at the College last Com• on February 8th and the matinee at the mencement. He is a noted authority on Forest Theatre that afternoon. The Kipling and his subject was "Kipling mother of Joyce Kilmer was the speaker from a Collector's Standpoint." at the luncheon. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 21 Youthful Preacher Becomes District Superintendent HE Rev. Fred P. Corson, '17, was T appointed superintendent o f t h e Brooklyn South District of the New Yark East Conference of the M. E. Church in February. In introducing him to a group at the Council of Cities in Cleveland, the day after his appoint• ment, Bishop F. ]. McConnell presented the 33-year-old preacher "as the young• est superintendent of an important Dis• trict in Methodism." It seems significant that the Rev. Cor• son was pastor of Simpson M. E. Church which was the last pastorate held by Bishop E. G. Richardson, '96, before his election to the episcopacy. The appointment was made to suc• ceed the Rev. Dr. Robert M. Moore who died January 30. Obituary notices which appeared in various newspapers declared that Dr. Moore was a graduate or Dickinson College. According to the College record, however, he was never enrolled as a student, though it is thought he at one time attended the old REV. FRED P. CORSON, '17 Dickinson Preparatory School. Rev. Corson was born in Millville, ganized and built the church. He then N. ]. April 11, 1896, the son of Jere served a year in New Haven and the and Mary E. Payne Corson. He pre• following two years at Port Washing• pared for college in the schools there, ton N. Y. where he built a new parish graduating from the Millville High house. He then was appointed pastor School in 1913. Following his gradua• of Simpson Church, Brooklyn. He is tion from the College in 1917, he en• chairman of the Social Service Commis• tered Drew Theological Seminary and sion of the New York East Conference after his graduation there he entered the and vice-chairman of the Social Service New York East Conference. While an under-graduate at the College he was Commission of the Brooklyn Federation student office assistant to Dr. M. G. of Churches. His record in these con• Filler. then dean of the College, but he nections led as much as any other thing found time to be active in the work towards the feeling that he could handle of the Y. M. C. A. and the Belles Let• the South District. The South District tres Society. He is a member of Kappa covers 23 churches in Brooklyn and all Sigma Fraternity and while at College Methodist churches on the south shore was vice-president of the New Jersey of Long Island. Club and won the Patton prize in his Freshman year. In 1922 while he was pastor of the Jackson Heights Community M. He was ordained in 1919 and imme• E. diately entered upon his work in Jack• Church he was married to Miss Frances son Heights, Long Island, where he or- Beaman of Elmhurst, N. ]. 22 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Set Aside Room in Old West for Dickinsoniana

BY BOYD LEE SPAHR, '00 President of the General Alumni Association MONG the improvements made last early days. One of these is believed to A summer to the first and ground be an engraving of the original West floors of West College, the attention of College Building which was burned in the alumni is called to the setting aside of 1803. a large room on the first floor, immedi• There is a set of fifteen old engrav• ately to the west of Memorial Hall, as ings of Carlisle, England, showing the a museum for pictures, engravings, town surrounded by its walls and also. prints and other documents relating to various views of the castle, cathedral and the early history of the College and to abbey. distinguished faculty members and alum• ni· of the early days. For years the Col• As above stated, this room will also lege has had considerable material of be the depository of mementos of dis• this kind, including early catalogues and tinguished graduates of long ago. There commencement programs of over a hun• is appended to this article a list of such dred years ago, but it has never had a graduates from the beginning to 1862. suitable place for their display. With This list has been culled from the last these as a nucleus, it is hoped to build alumni record. It is by no means in• up a presentable collection of what may clusive and apologies are made for any be briefly termed "Dickinsoniana." unintentional omissions. It is published Among the articles already in the pos• in the hope that some of the alumni session of the College which will be dis• may know of descendants of these worth• played in this room may be mentioned ies from whom some souvenir can be ob• the original oil painting of President tained, such as an engraving, daguerreo• Nisbet, which he brought from Scotland type, correspondence, or some similar to Carlisle in 1784 and which is the relic. In some cases descendants may be basis of the two larger oils the College found who would be willing to present now has, as well as of all engravings of an oil painting of their ancestor to the /_• President Nisbet. This original has re• College. Similarly a list of some of the cently been placed in the custody of' the better known members of former facul• College by Mrs. Cassandra Lee Arnold ties is appended. No list is given of of Flushing, Long Island, the great• former presidents as their names and great-granddaughter of President Nis• record may be found in the Alumni bet, who has an authentic record of its Record and in the brochure by the Asso• having been in the family's possession ciation a few years ago. since President Nisber's death in 1804. In short the room is intended to be The painting is in the original frame, a receptacle of interesting personal ar• having a decorative design of the thistles ticles relating to the College and its fac• of Scotland. The picture was in bad ulty and alumni as above indicated. Ar• repair when turned over to the College, ticles not suitable for hanging on the but has been scientifically restored by walls will be placed in glass cases and Professor Pasquale Farina of Philadel• appropriate cards attached giving proper phia. recognition to the donors. Any alumnus Another interesting relic is a silhou• who is able to furnish any information ette of President Davidson done by concerning descendants of any of the Charles Willson Peale. There are a names on the list, will kindly communi• half a dozen or more engravings of both cate with President Filler, who will fol• West College and East College in their low up any information so obtained. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 23

PUBLIC OFFICIALS Willard Saulsbury, 1842, United Charles Huston, 1789, Justice of Su• States Senator, Delaware. preme Court of Pennsylvania. Eli Saulsbury, 1843, United States Ninian Edwards, 1792, Governor of Senator, Delaware. Illinois and United States Senator, Illi• John M. Robinson, 1847, Chief Jus• nois. tice of Court of Appeals of Maryland. John A. J. Cresswell, 1848, United Jesse Wharton, 1794, United States Senator, Tennessee. States Senator, Maryland; Postmaster General. John Kennedy, 1795, Justice of Su• James W. Marshall, 1848, Postmas• preme Court of Pennsylvania. ter General. ·:-..-- Roger B. Taney, 1795, Chief Justice, Charles B. Lore, 1852, Chief Justice ~ L- United States Supreme Court. of Delaware. Henry M. Ridgeley, 1797, United Adam C. Snyder, 1859, Chief Jus• States Senator, Delaware. tice of Supreme Court of West Virginia. John Bannister Gibson, 1798, Chief George W. Caruth, 1862, Minister to Justice Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Portugal. James Rice Black, 1802, Judge Su• EDUCATORS preme Court of Delaware. Robert G. Wilson, 1790, President of William Wilkins, 1802, United States Ohio University 1824-39. Senator, Pennsylvania; Secretary of Matthew Brown, 1794, President of War. Washington College and of Jefferson John Reed, 1806, County Judge and College, (now Washington and Jeffer• First Professor of Law in the College. son). James Buchanan, 1809, President of Henry Lyon Davis, 1794, President United States. of St. John's College 1820-24. Calvin Blythe, 1812, Attorney Gen• David McConaughy, 1795, President eral of Pennsylvania. of Washington (now Washington and Robert C. Grier, 1812, Justice, Su• Jefferson) College. preme Court of United States. David Elliott, 1808, President of Frederick Watts, 1819, United States Washington (now Washington and Jef• Commissioner of Agriculture. ferson) College. Henry M. Watts, 1824, Minister to J ererniath Chamberlain, 1814, Presi• Austria. dent of Centre College. Charles McClure, Secretary of State Howard Malcom, 1816, President of for Pa.-1843-45. Lewisburg (now Bucknell) University. Thomas Williams, 1825, noted Con• John C. Young, 1823, President of gressman, Pennsylvania. Centre College. John A. Inglis, 1829, Chancellor of John W. McCullough, 1825, Presi• South Carolina. dent of University of Tennessee. Robert McClelland, 1829, Governor Henry L. Baugher, 1826, President of Michigan; Secretary of Interior. of Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) Col• Philip Francis Thomas, 1830, Gov• lege. ernor of Maryland; Secretary of the William H. Campbell, 1828, Presi• Treasury. dent of Rutgers College. Andrew G. Curtin, 1837, Governor Robert Davidson, 1828 (son of Presi• of Pennsylvania. dent Davidson) President of Transyl• Daniel E. M. Bates, 1839, Chancel• vania University. Ylor of Delaware. Thomas Bowman, 1837, President of Alexander Ramsey, 1840, Governor DePauw University. of Minnesota; United States Senator; Robert A. Lamberton, 1843, Presi• Secretary of War. dent of Lehigh University. •

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Alexander S. Gibbons, 1846, Presi• CLERGY dent of University of the Pacific. John Winebrenner, 1818, founder of Nathaniel T. Lupton, 1849, President "Church of God." of University of Alabama. Samuel A. McCoskry, 1824, Protes• Henry B. Ridgaway, 1849, President tant Episcopal Bishop of Michigan. of Garrett Biblical Institute. Thomas Bowman, 1837, Bishop of Daniel Bonbright, 1850, President of Methodist Episcopal Church. Northwestern University. Thomas V. Moore, 1838, Moderator, John F. Hurst, 1854, President of General Assembly Presbyterian Church Drew Theological Seminary. (South). Joshua A. Lippincott, 1858, President Charles F. Deems, 1839, Pastor of of University of Kansas. Church of the Strangers, New York. George R. Crooks, 1840, Professor in ARMY AND NAVY Drew Seminary. Callender Irvine, 1794, Commissary George D. Cummings, 1841, Protes• General, United States Army. tant Episcopal Bishop of Kentucky ar.id Clement A. Finley, 1815, Surgeon Founder and Bishop of Reformed Epis• General, United States Army. copal Church. Ephraim Blaine, 1814, Assistant Sur• John Y. Scouller, 1841, Moderator, geon General United States Army. General Assembly United Presbyterian James C. Palmer, 1829, Surgeon Gen• Church. eral, United States Navy. Moncure D. Conway, 1849, Unitari- Richard L. T. Beale, 1838, Brigadier an Minister. General, Confederate States Army. Charles C. Tiffany, 1850, Protestant Robert M. Henderson, 1845, Briga• Episcopal Arch-Deacon of New York. dier General, United States Volunteers. John F. Hurst, 1854, Bishop of James F. Rusling, 1854, Brigadier Methodist Episcopal Church. General, United States Volunteers. Clay McCauley, 1862, Unitarian John Hays, 1857, Assistant Adjutant Minister. General, United States Volunteers. Horatio C. King, 1858, Colonel, FACULTY United States Volunteers, and Judge James Ross, Professor of Greek and Advocate General, New York. Latin, 1784-92. Joseph B. Parker, 1860, Rear Ad• Thomas Cooper, Professor of Chemis• miral, United States Navy. try, 1811-15. Benjamin P. Lamberton, 1862, Rear Alexander McClelland, Professor of Admiral, United States Navy. Rhetoric, Metaphysics and Ethics, 1821- 29. ARTS AND SCIENCE Henry Vethake, Professor of Mathe- Samuel S. Haldeman, 1831, Profes• matics, 1821-29. sor of Comparative Philology, U niver• William Henry Allen, Professor of sity of Pennsylvania. Natural Science, 1836-50. Spencer F. Baird, 1840, Secretary John McClintock, Professor of Smithsonian Institute. Mathematics, 1836-48. Richard A. F. Penrose, 1846, Pro• Otis H. Tiffany, Professor of Math• fessor of Obstetrics, University of Penn• ematics, 1848-57. sylvania. Charles Francis Himes. Professor of John P. Gray, 1846, Noted Alienist. Physics, 1865-96. Theodore G. Wormley, 1848; Pro• Henry M. Harman, Professor of fessor of Toxicology, University of Greek and Hebrew, 1870-96. Pennsylvania. Charles Joseph Little, Professor, Moncure D. Conway, 1849, Author. 1874-85. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 25 Poet Laureate of '76-'86 Dies Suddenly R. J. Warren Harper, '80, died D suddenly from a heart attack on January 7, 1930 in St. Francis' Hospital, Hartford, Conn. On the previous night he had spoken at a meeting of the Hart• ford Fish and Game Association, telling of his fishing experiences in many coun• tries, and he seemed in his usual health. He was returning from his office in a bus to his home, preparatory to filling a dinner engagement, when he was seized with a heart attack. Passengers on the bus assisted a policeman in carrying Dr. Harper into an office to await the arrival of an ambulance. He died while being carried to the hospital. He was 72 years old. He was born at East Hanover, Pa., September 3, 1857. The family later moved to Carlisle where his father, Thomas A. Harper, conducted a dry goods store for many years, at Harper's Corner, Hanover and Pomfret Sts., where the Pomfret apartments are now located. Dr. Harper attended the Car• DR. J. WARREN HARPER, '80 lisle schools and the old Dickinson Grammar School. He entered the Col• book was "An Alaskan Cathedral." lege in 1876 and received his A.B. in Both had appeared in Scribner's Maga• 1880. Upon his graduation he entered zine. In 1926 he published "The Story the University of Pennsylvania where in of a Rose." In 1915 he won first prize 1883 he received the degree of D.D.S. with a poem "To a Bluebird," submitted For a short time he practiced dentistrv to the Springfield Poetry Club. He was in Newport, Pa. and then located in a prominent member of the Hartford Hartford, Conn., where he remained the Poetry Club and frequently read ~!s balance of his life, bringing his father poems at club meetings and. ~ubl!c and step-mother to live with him. He gatherings. He wrote many Dickinson retired from active practice about ten poems and many poems for the '76-'86 years ago and devoted most of his time reunion group. to travel and fishing. He was a former In earlier years Dr. Harper took f.re• president of the Hartford Dental Soci• quent vacations for travel and fishing ety and in College was a member of Chi but it was not until 1921 that he gave Phi Fraternity and of the U. P. Society. the larger part of his time to his hobby. Dr. Harper was widely known as a That year he made a Mediterranean writer of verse. He published two vol• cruise ~nd visited the northern European umes which gained much favorable com• countries. Since then his travels on sight• ment. "An Old Fly-Book" published in seeing adventures took him to Italy, the 1912 was dedicated to his mother. The Riviera, Norway and Sweden, the land book included the "The Exile" which of the mid-night sun, to New Zealand, Dr. Harper regarded as the best poem to Florida California and Canada. He he ever wrote. Another poem in the spent summers in Maine and in Nova 26 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

Scotia and New Foundland and his recounted many of his piscatorial experi• winters in the southern states when he ences and told of his great ability as a was not abroad. In 1927 in addition to fisherman, as well as dwelling on his the other European countries he tra• ability as a poet. versed Siberia and Russia and in 1929, Dr. Harper never married and he had following the commencement exercises, no brothers nor sisters surviving him. he made a 21,000 mile journey to New Cousins alone remain. Zealand, stopping at the Fijis. Upon His body was brought to Carlisle his return from that trip the Carlisle where services were held in the Second Chamber of Commerce honored him as Presbyterian Church, where he had been a favorite native son of the town and baptised as a boy. These services were had him to speak at the annual meeting. conducted by Dr. Glenn Shafer and were On this occasion he showed views of his arranged by his colleague and close travels and told about them in an enter• friend, John M. Rhey, '83. Edwin H. taining manner. Linville, '81, who had spent a month Dr. Harper always took his fishing convalescing from his illness from pneu• rods with him. To comply with his ex• monia at the home of Dr. Harper, came pressed wishes, his favorite rod was on from New York and attended the placed in his casket and borne with him funeral. Many of the Carlisle Dickin• to his grave. He was regarded as one sonians and Dr. Harper's own friends of the leading experts of dry-fly fishing were present and went out with the body in this country. Newspaper obituary to Ashland Cemetery where interment notices, printed at the time of his death, was made.

Makes Bequest to College Heads Indian Relics Committee A bequest of $1,000 to Dickinson Col• Dr. Charles A. Hilhower, '09, of lege is contained in the will of the late Westfield, N. ]. has been made chair• Dr. J. Warren Harper, '80, of Hart• man of the New Jersey State Museum ford, Conn., which is an unusual lengthy Advisory Committee for Indian research document and was written in 1926. according to an announcement by th~ The direct bequests total about $100,000 New Jersey Department of Conserva• and includes relatives, churches, hospi• tion and Development. A Committe of tals and various societies and other indi• fourteen men, all experts in Indian his• viduals. He made two bequests to the tory, life and relics, has been formed to Second Presbyterian Church in Carlisle, act in an advisory capacity for the New one of $1,000 to be held as a permanent Jersey State Museum and will search fund in memory of his father and for authentic Indian relics and import• mother, and the other a bequest of $1,- ant data concerning the early Indian in• 000 to the Mite Society in memory of habitants of New Jersey. his step-mother. He also made a be• Chief among the functions of the quest of $2,500 to the Todd Hospital Committee will be proving the authen• of Carlisle as a permanent fund to be ticity of Indian relics to be placed in the known as the "]. Warren Harper museum. It will also make special ef• Fund." forts to obtain for the State museum im• Two of his bequests were to Dickin• portant and valuable collections of In• sonians, as he made gifts of $1,000 to dian pottery and other Indian objects, John M. Rhey, '83 and of $500.00 to to be found in New Jersey rather than Edwin H. Linville, '81. No estimate of to let them fall into the hands of pri• the value of his residuary estate has as vate collectors, or to find their way into yet been made. a museum outside of the State. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 27 A Part of Valor in the Spanish-American War N an article published in The A mer• to convey the same overseas. Our little I ican Legion Monthly recently tribute Regular Army of 25,000 officers and was paid to the present Brig.-General men was chiefly occupied in preparing Frank R. Keefer, '85, for an act of valor for the invasion of Cuba and only that he performed when an assistant Surgeon part which happened to be serving on during the Spanish-American War. The or near the West Coast was available Editor of THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS for the Philippine expedition. asked the General to tell the story and The emergency was met by a call on his modest but highly interesting ac• certain of the states for volunteer organ• count is published herewith. izations, which were promptly raised and General Keefer is a live-wire Dickin• assembled at' San Francisco. Major• sonian. He is President of the Dickin• General Wesley Merritt, a Regular son Club of Washington and he is a Army officer of exceptionally fine record, member of the Alumni Council. was detailed to command the force, Announcement has just been made which was named the Eighth Army that General Keefer is the newly elected Corps. chairman of the District Chapter of the As this country had but few vessels American Red Cross. He was a mem• on Pacific waters suitable for transport ber of the Medical Corps of the Army service, and as nobody had any experi• from 1890 until his recent retirement. ence in outfitting for war in far lands, He has had assignments as professor you can readily imagine that great dif• of military hygiene at the United States ficulties were encountered. However, Military Academy, 1910 to 1914, and as within the next sixty days three fleets commander of various military hospi• were assembled, and started on their tals. In 1918 he was chief of the medi• way to Manila, 7,000 miles distant, at cal division in the provost marshal gen• fifteen day intervals. I was a member eral's office in Washington. of the third force, comprising five ves• From 1920 to 1922 Gen. Keefer sels and 5,000 men, which sailed from served as chief surgeon of the American San Francisco June 30th and arrived forces in Germany and in the same ca• in Manila Bay July 31st. pacity for the 2nd Corps Area, New When we were about "Half seas York, until 1927. In that year he be• over," it was reported that the flagship came assistant surgeon general until his was "wigwagging" a message to our retirement from the Army. transport. Parenthetically it should be Gen. Keefer is a member of many remarked that, as this was many years medical organizations and was decorated before advent of wireless, military com• with the office of Legion of Honor by munications were at times sent by sys• France. tems of visual signalling, of which the A WARTIME EXPERIENCE simplest was by the manipulation of By Brig.-Gen. Frank R. Keefer, '85 small flags, (one of white with red cen• It will be recalled that Commodore ter, the other with these colors re• Dewey sank the Spanish fleet in the Bay versed), which were waved by hand. of Manila on the First Day of May, The message directed that the entire 1898 and then called for supporting fleet should stop and that Assistant Sur• troops, since he had no landing force geon Keefer should be sent to the flag• and therefore could not take Manila ship. As Asst. Surgeon Keefer was suf• City. fering considerably from ma! de mer, Our Government at once set about the trip, which involved a climb down the raising of an expeditionary force and the ship's side on a "Jacob's ladder," the development of a fleet of transports a bobbing journey of a mile in a small 28 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS boat, and a climb up another ladder, gutted and some damage done to the with a like combination of circumstances apartment upstairs, while the blaze also on the return, was not an enjoyable one. caused considerable damage in the show• The occasion of the unusual incident room of A. H. Murtoff & Son. Robert was the alarming illness of a young Z. Murtoff is a member of the class of Army officer aboard the "Indiana." 1912. Smoke caused some damage to Several enlisted men on that ship had the jewelry store adjoining, owned by been similarly attacked and two had Carl Gehring, '07, and for a time died. The disease was unfamiliar to the threatened the business section on South contract surgeons aboard and a consul• Hanover St. The fire happened on one tation was desirable. As it happened of the coldest nights of the year and was that I was the only medical officer of the fought with some little difficulty. Regular Army with the fleet, it was Workmen are erecting a chimes tower natural that I should be summoned. It on the First Reformed Church which was at once apparent to me that the case will house eleven McShane bell chimes, was one of cerebrospinal meningitis, and the gift of R. R. Todd, in memory of that the officer was moribund. his wife, Mrs. Phoebe E. Todd, the It has been only very recently that I mother of Charles R. Todd, '08, Glenn have learned that the soldier who wig• E. Todd, '12 and Roger Todd, '15. wagged the message from the flagship The chimes will be equipped with an is now the Chief Signal Officer of the automatic player and are being installed Army (Major General George S. at a cost of approximately $25,000. Gibbs). Also, that Mr. August Vollmer of Berkeley, Calif., one of the experts in Writes Text on Business Law criminology summoned recently by Presi• Bernard Forcey, Vice-principal of the dent Hoover to study the "Crime wave," Senior High School, Lebanon, Pa., is the was a volunteer soldier and fellow pass• author of a text book on business law enger on the "Ohio" with me. The now being printed and to be published three of us have enjoyed reminiscing by H. M. Rowe Company of Baltimore. over the experiences of those days, now Reviewers are predicting that this will nearly a third of a century ago. be a valuable text for the service in• tended. In the January number of The Bal• ance Sheet, a magazine for commercial In Old Bellaire teachers, an article on the Extension of "Law in the High School Curriculum" by Mr. Forcey is published with his pho• Dickinsonians were elected as officers tograph. of the Carlisle Y. M. C. A. when eighty In 1924, Mr. Forcey instituted a members of the Association attended the course in Business Law in the Lebanon annual banquet meeting in January. High School as an elective open to Urie D. Lutz, '19 was named president, senior commercial students only. An en• Frank E. Masland, Jr., '18, vice-presi• rollment equivalent to 3 % of the en• dent, and ]. Vance Thompson, '11, sec• tire student body ensued, In 1928-29 retary. C. R. Todd, '08, and Frank E. the course was made elective to seniors Masland, Jr., '18, were two of the six in all courses with a consequent increase elected to the board of trustees. in enrollment of 11 % of the student Another fire visited the business sec• body, and a total of 14% or approxi• tion when in January a blaze starting in mately 1 out of every 7 students en• Carter's Drug Store caused $35,000 rolled, and proving itself to be the most damage to the Murtoff apartments on popular elective branch in the entire cur• South Hanover St. The drug store was riculum of the school. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 29

PERSONALS

1870 and Judge Foster issued an injunction for• Judge Edward W. Biddle, president of the ev.er ba~ring Mrs. Fogarty from bringing Board of Trustees, was re-elected president suit against the former heavyweight boxing -of J. Herman Bosler Memorial Library of champion, on the alleged claim that he prom• Carlisle at the 30th annual meeting of the ised to marry her. Board in January. 1894L 1876 John M. Wilson is Judge of the Superior Rev. Wm. Dallam Morgan, dean of the Court of the State of Washington and Jives Convocation of Baltimore, was recently at 2205 Columbia St., Olympia, Washington. elected president of the Maryland Clericus. 1895 1878 Rev. F. C. Thomas learned on December Dr. J. H. Morgan is spending a great 8th that he had become a grandfather, when part of his time searching all authorities of he received a cablegram from Sholapur, In• the early history of the College. He has dia. His son, George Ross· Thomas, who is started work in preparing a complete history treasurer of the Marathi Mission of the of Dickinson C'ollege. American Board of Foreign Missions, is 1881 stationed there. Edwin H. Linville has completely recov• Having departed for Florida in J anuary, e red from the attack of bronchial pneumonia. Paul Appenzellar and his wife will remain He was able to come to Carlisle for the there until April 5th. They have a home funeral of his colleague, Dr. Warren at Daytona Beach, Fla., to which they go J. annually for the winter season. Harper. 1882 1896 Rev. George E. Kleinhenn is living retired John F. T. Wilcox of Salisbury, Md., was at no Carroll St., Reading, Pa., but is kept honored in the fall with the degree of busy helping the ministers of his city. Knight Commander of the Court of Honor Thos. Rawlins, of Seaford, Del., is spend• because of his interest and activities in ing the winter in Miami, Fla., where his Scottish Rite Masonry. address is 636 South Main Street. Rev. Dr. John R. Edwards, secretary of 1887 the Board of Foreign Missions of the M. E. Wm. M. Smith has kept his job for forty• Church in company with Mrs. Edwards is one years and lives at 1418 Allison St. . now on a tour of mission inspection in China, N. W., Washington, D. C., where he is a Japan and the Philippines and will be away clerk in the War Department. until the middle of June. Dr. W. Blair Stewart of Atlantic City is Merkel Landis, president of the Carlisle chairman of the nominating committee of the Trust Co., made a two-weeks' motor tour American College of Physicians which meets this month, going through the south to in Minneapolis this month. Florida and return. Kimber Cleaver, of Hawley, Pa., has been Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn is a an invalid for more than a year and a half, delegate representing the United States at helplessly and hopelessly so for the past six the London Na val Conference. months. For eleven years prior to. his break• 1898 down he was editor of the Hawley Times Harry I. Huber of Richmond Hill, N. Y. and for many years prior to that he was C. early in the year was named Assistant editor and proprietor of the Huntingdon Prosecutor of Queen's County, N. Y. He News, of Huntingdon, Pa. His wife was a has been out of politics for some years, mean• Carlisle girl, Lillian Spangler. while carrying on his law practice and also 1891 engaging in business as president of the Rev. Ralph W. Illingworth is pastor of the Dando-Schaff Printing and Publishing Co., Presbyterian Church at Gehanna, Ohio. Inc., of Philadelphia; treasurer of the Planta 1893 Electrica, Inc., and secretary of George C. Judge Carl Foster was very much in the Burnett & Son, Inc., hat manufacturers of limelight in December when he sat as judge Amherst, Mass. in the $500,000 breach of promise suit 1899L brought by Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty Robert P. Stuart is a special assistant dis• against James J. (Gene) Tunney. It will trict attorney of Los Angeles County, Cali• be recalled that the suit was finally dropped fornia. He was the prosecutor in the case 30 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

E. Garfield Gifford, of Newark, has com• pletely recovered from a critical illness of Balttmore Notes pneumonia and complications which kept him Carlyle R. Earp. Correspondent, from his office from early November to late February. 129 E. Redwood si., Baltimore, Md. Irene Childrey Hoch, wife of Dr. Horace The annual dinner of the Dickinson L. Hoch, directed the presentation of "A Club of Baltimore will be held in the Midsummer Night's Dream" at Modesto Emerson Hotel on Friday evening, Junior College, California, where both are March 14th at 6 :15 o'clock. President members of the faculty. and Mrs. Filler will be guests. The The wife of the Dr. Willis A. Lewis, died Glee Club quartet of the College will October 30, 1929, at their home in Eddy• sing and Gilbert Malcolm will sho~ stone, Pa. movies of the inauguration of Presi• The Rev. James Cunningham, of Frack• dent Filler and of the last Commence• ville, is back at his post after a two months' ment. illness. J. Henry Baker and Mrs. Lewis M. D. Walter Morton is in charge of the Ex• Bacon, Jr., attended the funeral ser'.'• tension School and Adult Education work ices of Dr. George Edward Reed m at Syracuse University. For four years he Harrisburg. A floral tribute was sent has been a resident of Penney Farms, Flor• bearing the card of the Dickinson ida. His Syracuse residence is 208 West• Club of Baltimore. minster avenue. C. M. Shepherd, '12, motored to Ivo V. Otto, in addition to long distance Carlisle for a campus visit this month. champion butter producer of Cumberland Henry B. Suter a member of the county, has been elected a director of the Junior Class of the College, the first Pennsylvania Federation of Holstein-Friesian recipient of the Dickinson Club of Clubs. Otto lives near Boiling Springs. Baltimore Scholarship, has just been elected Editor of The Dickinsonian. 1903 He maintains his "A" grade scholastic In a letter from George W. Peterson, '02, standing and ranks second in stand• from Torrington, Conn., he says: "The Rev. ing of all the students in the College Arthur Flandreau; Dickinson class of 1903, while maintaining his activities on came here last spring as pastor of the First the campus. M. E. Church. He came from Brooklyn, N. Y. He is the first Dickinson man as pas• tor of the church, and is doing very well; against Asa Keyes, former district attorney in fact, making a splendid record. of the county. Mr. Stuart is a former Attor• "It was a great pleasure to have him come ney General of South Dakota and a special into my office and introduce himself. He Assistant Attorney General of the United has a wife and two children. "I am still in the same job, publisher of States. the Torrington Register, a daily newspaper; 1900 have been for 20 years." Boyd Lee Spahr, president of the General Jacob Hertzler, prominent attorney of Alumni Association, sails for Bermuda on Erie, Pa., is president of the Kiwanis Club February aznd. He plans to make a short there for the present year. This club will stay in the south. be the host of the State convention of the Kiwanis Club of Pennsylvania in September. 1902 1904 Rev. Herbert Rhinesmith was appointed pastor of Trinity M. E. Church, Rahway, Anna C. Emrick is teaching English in the N. J., last April after having completed six Flushing High School, New York City. successful years as pastor of the 46th St. 1905 Church, Bayonne, N. J. His elder son., Her• bert. will receive his M. A. in June from Rev. A. L. Bixler is pastor of St. Paul's Wesleyan University and will continue his M. E. Church, State College, Pa. studies in chemistry at Harvard. He has 1906 been elected a member of the Phi Beta Myrl Stott Myers, formerly American Kappa fraternity. Another son1 Homer K., Consul at Mukden, China, has been pro• will graduate from Wesleyan in June and moted to the rank of American Consul Gen• will enter Columbia Medical College next eral at the same post, it was announced in fall. January. Mr. and Mrs. G. Arthur Bolte, of Vent• nor, N. J., announce the marriage of their 1906L daughter Dorothy Burgess to Mr. Paul Vin• Addison M. Bowman, Carlisle attorney cent Osborne, Feb. 14, 1930. and member of the law firm of Bowman THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 31

and Reese, has been notified of his re-ap• pointment as referee in bankruptcy of Cum• berland County by Federal Judge Albert New York Notes W. Johnson of Scranton. Mr. Bowman has served six consecutive terms in this posi• C. G. Cleaver, Correspondent. 8426 tion, the present one marking the beginning IIOth St., Richmond Hill, N. Y. of his thirteenth year as referee. Last year The annual banquet of the Dickin• he handled sixty-five cases in Lebanon so? Club of New York and vicinity County where at present there is no referee will b_e held at the Pennsylvania Hotel in bankruptcy. on Friday, March z rst at seven o'clock 1907 i'. was recently decided by the execu~ George Ross Hull, Harrisburg attorney trve committee. was one of the speakers at the annual con• Mrs. J. Cameron Frendlich '16 en• vention of the Pennsylvania State Chamber tertained the Dickinson Alum~ae Club of Commerce held in Harrisburg on Jan• of New York at luncheon at her home uary 15. in East Orange, N. J. on October 26th. George W. Peffer is principal of the Seventeen persons were present. The Junior High School, Irvington, N. J. officers of the Association are Mildred 1908 Conklin, '20, 1309 Putnam Ave., Plain• Warren ]. Frye who was formerly with field, N. J. and Mrs. Wm. T. Long, Detroit University School is now teaching '21, of Westfield. N. J. in the Eastern High School, Detroit. Mich. . G~orge W. Vannaman, '21, is teach• ing m the commercial department of 190!} the New Brunswick, N. J. high school. Mr. & Mrs. S. T. Massey (Edith Keiser, Charlotte V. Sheafe r, '22, is taking '09) and son, Robert Keiser, are again plan• a course in the school of library serv• ning to spend their Easter vacation in Ber• !ce at Columbia University and is liv• muda. Robert is a junior in the Worcester mg at Johnson Hal I. High School and their daughter, Phyllis Rev. Andrew B. Wood. '01, has Beecher, is attending the Bancroft School. moved with his family from Tennessee Rev. George Wi. Yard is district superin• to Brooklyn where he is preaching for tendent of the Trenton District of the M. E. the Federation of Churches. Church. Margaret Gruber, '09, made a trip 1910 to California in the fall. Benjamin Franklin Porter is with the H. J. Heinz Co. at Houston, Texas and is living at 4828 Cheneverc St., Houston. Charles M. Lodge who formerly taught In the recent hunt for alumni addresses at Reading, Pa. is now at Flemington, New Frank P. Mt. Pleasant has been located. For Jersey sometime his address was lost to the College 1912 records. He is now at 686 Sycamore St., David H. Biddle was elected president of Buffalo, N. Y. After leaving college, Hewlings Mumper the Mechanicsburg Chamber of Commerce graduated from New York Law School in at the annual meeting in January. 1912 and was admitted to the New York Romaine W. Singiser was married to Bar. He lived the next two years in Europe. Newton B. Wert of Carlisle at the parsonage In 1915 he settled in Los Angeles and is of the First Lutheran Church by Dr. A. R. now a member of the law firm of Meserve, Steck on February 6, 1930. Mr. Wert is Mumper, Hughes & Robertson. Besides the secretary and treasurer of the Beetem Lum• law practice he has been associated with ber and Mfg. Co. and until recently Mrs. both the motion picture and oil business. He Wert was employed as a stenographer at says "I am satisfied that to anyone who is the Army Post. She was formerly a teacher reasonably patient and does not expect to in the Carlisle High School. Following a get rich the first year, Los Angeles offers honeymoon trip to Florida they will reside the greatest opportunities of any section of at 532 So. Hanover St., Carlisle. Murray -H. Spahr, Jr., Philadelphia at• the country. 1911 torney, recently made a 'Nest Indies cruise on the Swedish-American liner, Kungsholm. Jane D. Shenton is secretary to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Temple Uni• l912L versity, Philadelphia. She is living at 544 A. L. Edwards of Osceola Mills, Pa. was E, Woodlawn Ave., Germantown, Pa. named deputy attorney general on December Leon H. Richmond is in military service 1, it was recently announced by the Pennsyl• with the rank of captain. His address is in vania State Attorney General, Cyrus Woods. care of the Adjutant-general of the Army, His salary will be $6500 a year. Mr. Washington. D. C. Edwards who is a former district attorney 32 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

of Springfield County has been assigned to Co. and his address is 1300 22nd Ave .• look after the legal practice of the health, Milwaukee, Wis. mine and state police departments of Penn• 1919 sylvania. Mr. & Mrs. R. W. Lins announce the birth. 1913 of a son, Richard W. Lins, Jr. on December P. E. West who is in the export division 5, 1929. Mrs. Lins was Ruth Booty of the of the General Motors Corp., located in class of 1923. South America, is now stationed in Uruguay Mrs. Esther Pope) Shaw is now living at and his address is c/o General Motors. R. D. 2, Ardwick, Landover,Md. She reports Uruguay, S. A., Miguelete 191Si, Monte• that she is managing a home, a husband and video, Uruguay. a three year old daughter. She teaches J. Cameron Frendlich who is connected French and Spanish in the Frances Junior with the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey High School in Washington, D. C. She is resides at 92 So. Arlington Ave., East also active in community work. Orange, N. J. Helen L. Witmer is connected with the Mrs. Annie M. Logan, mother of George school of social research at Smith College. Logan of Maplewood, N. J., died in her In January, C. Ross Wills was appointed home at Boiling Springs in her 73rd year manager of the Harrisburg branch office in on February z r st, George Logan teaches the Keystone Building of the Etna Compa• mathematics in one of the large high schools nies in central Pennsylvania. After hav• of Newark, N. J. . ing served the company for a number of Lieut. Fenimore S. Johnson is now stationed years in various capacities, he became act• at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. ing manager of the Harrisburg branch March 1, 1929. Because of his work sine; 1914 that time and the work of the branch office Rev. Charles C. Cole is secretary of Pro• he was made manager. motion and Publicity for the Federal Council 1920 of Churches of Christ in America, with offices at 105 E. zz nd St., New York City. Calvin E. Affierbach is now in his 7th year He is secretary of the Federal Council Asso• as rural supervisor of Delaware. He has ciates. 75 teach:rs under his charge. In George• Mabel Krall reentered college as a student town he is secretary of the Troop Committee the second semester early this month. She is of the Boy Scouts, Publicity and Service taking work in science and plans to continue Officer of the American Legion Sussex Post her education, entering Medical school later. No. 8 and he is also active in Masonic work 1915 being Grand Master, Third Veil, Grand Chapter of Delaware. Chester Watts who is chief chemist of the Mrs. Anna Pearson Brubaker has removed Bethlehem Mines Corp. has moved from from Laramie, Wyoming to 3 Johnson Place, Morganrown, W1. -Va. to j ohnsrown, P''a. Fort Dodge, 1owa. Her husband is a sales where he resides at 1417 Menoher Highway. manager for the Certainteed Products Cor• 1916 poration. Rev. Ralph L. Minker who has been pastor Mr. & Mrs. Reed G. Einstein of Johnstown of the M. E. Church at Concord, N. H. has announce the birth of a daughter on Saturday, accepted a call to the Springbrook M. E. December 28th. Reed is manager of the Church, Wilmington, Del. McCrory store in Johnstown. 1921 1917 Herbe;·t L. ~avis is Hecksher Research Jacob M. Goodyear, Carlisle attorney was ~ellow in chemistry at. Cornell University, married to Miss Alice L. Stephens of Potts• m Ithaca, N. Y., working on a variety of town on January 11, in the First M. E. Church problems on stero-chernistry. at Pottstown. The couple made a wedding In an effort to secure missing addresses trip to Florida and are now making their it has just been discovered that Mrs. Esthe; home at 271 So. Hanover St. . Carlisle, Pa. Bozarth Groth had died February 12, 1926. 1918 Kurtz Kauffman has been appointed a Merle I. Protzman is in the department of cou'.t co.mmissio~er of Los Angeles county, Romance Languages, George Washington ~ahforn~a: wor.kmg under the Superior Court University, Washington, D. C. m the mjuncuon and receivership depart• Nell Marvil is now living in Morristown, ment. N. J. where her street address is 4 Franklin 1922 Place. DeWitt D. Wise is assistant editor of the . W. J ac.ksor: Holtzinger is an engineer asso• School Press Review, the official publication ciated with the Maynard Electric Castings of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 33 of Columbia University. He recently moved Erma Port~us re~eive~ her M. A. degree to 347 Huguenot St., New Rochelle, N. Y. from Columbia University in December. At 1922L present she is teaching English in the high school, Berwick, Pa. George M. Stevens recently resigned as Mrs. Katherine Smith Carpenter was s~cr_etary of the Camden County Bar Asso• elected justice of the peace of Jersey Shore ciation, having served in that position since at the general election in November. Her 1923. He is Professor of Jurisprudence at husband is a member of the bar there. South Jersey Law School and is engaged in . Norman W. Lyon is studying for a Ph. D. practice with offices in Camden, N. J. in psychology at Columbia University. He 1923 was a student at Union Seminary last year Leighton J. Heller was sworn in on New and,~n January _16t~ lectured at the Seminary Yea~'s Day as mayor of 'Clementon, N. J. on The Contribution of Psychology Social He is the youngest mayor that this munici• Ethics". His address is Furnald Hall Columbia University, New York City. ' pality has ever had. Marjorie Mainssonat is now Mrs. J. Owens Mrs. M. J. McKeown (Mary Van Camp) and is living at 2555 Woodward Ave., Pitts• has moved to 21 W. Lincoln St., Verona, N. J. Wendell P. C. Morganthaler was married burgh, Pa. The ~ngagement of Donald H. Goodyear, on D~cember 26 to Miss Helene D. Burg of secretary and treasurer of the Goodyear Harrisburg, who taught in the Boas School Shoe Factory, Carlisle, Pa., to Miss Louise the~e: Mr. and Mrs. Merganthaler are now Dennit of Salem, Va. was announced in residing at 2825 No. Second St., Harrisburg. December. The wedding will take place John F. ("Fog") Smith was elected coach of football at Albright College in December. early this spring. Miss Dennit attended Roanoke College and the State Teachers' 1926 College, Farmville, Va. Flora W. Smiley is now doing post grad• 1924 uate work at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Albert M. Witwer is pastor of the Hancock Mass. · St. M. E. Church, Philadelphia. His address Flora W. Smiley is doing graduate work is 1227 N. Hancock St., Philadelphia. in Romance Languages toward the M. A. Monroe H. Hess is business manager of the degree at ·Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Baltimore Goodwill Industries, Inc. Mass. where she is living at 12 Concord C1air M. Eppley is in the loan department Avenue. of the Bankers Trust Co., 16 Wall Street, Donald S. MacKinnon is a senior in the New York City, and is living at 3.p West Stanford University Medical School, San &4th Street. Francisco, Cal. He is living at 22u Ocean Capt. Carlton E. Goodiel of the medical Blvd., Long Beach, Cal. corps U. S. Army leaves March r st for a Announcement was made this morning of three year appointment at Fort Davies, Canal the engagement of Margaret Gress to Henry Zone, Panama R. Tatnall of Wilmington, Del., a member N. E. Triebels is an adjuster of the Fidelity of the class of 1920 of Haverford, who is Deposit Co. of Maryland with offices at now in the real estate business. After a 1205 Mutual Building. Richmond, Va. year of study in France in 1927 Miss Gress J. S. Bender is an electrical engineer with returned to this country and is now teacher the Milwaukee Electric Railways & Light of French in the West Chester High School. Co. He is living at 533 33fd St., Milwaukee, The wedding will take place in the late Wis. On October 10, 1928 he married a summer or early fall. Milwaukee girl. . Ellsworth Keller of Dunmore, Pa. has Arthhur G. Logan has joined the law been appointed a deputy clerk of the U. S. firm of Marvel, Morford and Ward of Court. It was the first job at the disposal Wilmington, Del. Mr. Logan formerly prac• of Federal Judge Albert L. Watson, who was recently appointed to the bench. ticed in Baltimore. The engagement of Helen S. Lloyd of 1925 Mechanicsburg to Vincent T. Nast, an artist Announcement has been made of the en• with the Philadelphia Electric Co. was an• gagement of Rolland L. Adams to Miss nounced in December. The marriage will Pauline S. Rombach of Newport, Pa. Adams take place in March, and the couple will recently resigned as an examiner for the reside in Philadelphia. State Banking Department to accept a posi• 1927 tion as assistant to the president of the E. P. Wilbur Trust Co., Bethlehem, Pa. His The engagement of Miriam B. Faust to fiancee is a graduate of the Newport High Dr. James A. Muffiy was announced at a School and of Wilson College, Chambers• bridge luncheon in December. Dr. Muffiy burg, and is at present teaching Latin in the is a graduate of the University of Pennsyl• Connellsville High School. vania and is at present employed by the 34 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS

Walker-Gordon Co., Plainsboro, N. J. The 1928L wedding will take place next summer. John E. Barger opened law offices early Miss Louise Patterson is in charge of the in February at 125 Irving Street, Rahway, reference department of the library at Ohio N. J. Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Until 1929 recently she held a library position in Wash• Paul B. Myers is studying at the Boston ington, D. C. University School of Theology and is William H. Darr is supply sergeant of preaching at the Conwegational <;hurch at Troop E, 3rd cavalry at Fort Myer, Va. Mattapoisett, Mass. His address rs 72 Mt. He was recently elected and installed as Vernon St., Boston. Mass. patriarch of Columbian encampment No. r, Prof. & Mrs. John C. L. Grimm announce jurisdiction of District of Columbia, inde• the birth of a son on February z yth, pendent order of Odd Fellows. 1928 1929L Helen E. Hackman is a member of the David E. Kaufman, of Philadelphia, former faculty of the high school at Strasburg, United States minister to Bolivia, has been Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. endorsed by the Pennsylvania congressional Mary E. Hull is a member of the faculty delegation for appointment as minister to of the Strasburg High School, Strasburg. Pa. Poland, following the appointment of Alex• R. A. Lumley is teaching in the high school ander P. Moore, who died before he could at New Milford, Conn. accept his post.

OBITUARY

1870-0ne of the oldest alumni of the College died from injuries received in an automobile collision on Christmas Eve, when Scott Brown Mercier passed away in the Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, on December 26th. Many newspapers carried the story that the oldest alumnus of Dickinson had died, but this statement was not correct. There are several members of classes prior to 1870 living whose age is greater than that of Mr. Mercier's, He was in his 82nd year, having been May 15, 1840, in Ellicott, City, Md. Mr. Mercier entered College in 1866 and retired the following year. He became a lawyer and was also engaged as a farmer and ranchman and as clerk in the U. S. Treasury Department from 1891 to 1902. For more than twenty-five vears he was an officer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. · While visiting Philadelphia he was injured when the taxi-cab in which he was riding collided with a trolley car on Christmas Eve. His identity was not established until the day of his death.

1876-Wilbur Fisk Gordy, nationally known educator and author of history text books, died at his home in Hartford, Conn. December 23, 1929. He was fifty-five years old, having been born in Salisbury, Md. June 14, 1854. He at• tended Dickinson College for three years and then entered Wesleyan University where he received his A.B. degree in 1880, and A.M. in 1902. For thirty-five years Mr. Gordy was an educational leader in Hartford and those years were replete with service in behalf of school-children. He was a teacher and principal in the .schools of Connecticut until 1904 when he became superintendent of schools in Springfield, and he remained there until his retirement in 1911. Since his retirement he lived in Hartford and devoted his time to the writing of history text books. From 1913 to 1928 he was a member of the Hart• ford board of education, being president of the board throughout that period. Recognition of his leadership in education and of his prominence as a historian came to him in honorary degrees of Master of Arts from Marietta College and Doctor of Humane Letters from Wesleyan University. THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS 35

Among his text books are "A School History of the United States," "Amer• ican Leaders and Heroes," "Stories of American Explorers," "Elementary His• tory of the United States," "American Beginners in Europe,' "Abraham Lincoln," "Causes and Meaning of the Great War," "Leaders in Making America." Mr. Gordy was a director of the Connecticut Humane Society, a member of the American Historical Society, and a New England History Teachers' Associa• tion; Hartford Club, Hartford Golf Club, Twentieth Century Club, University Club of Hartford, Psi Upsilon fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. He was a member of the Center Congregational Church of Hartford. Besides his wife Mr. Gordy is survived by two brothers, E. Sheppard Gordy of Anstonia and Vaughn Gordy of Salisbury, Md.

1887-William Boyd Clendenning, former postmaster and life long resident of Bunker Hill, W. Va., died on January 1, 1930 after a long illness. He was sixty-eight years old, having been born July 31, 1861, the son of James· H. and Lydia Clendenning. He was a student of the old Dickinson Preparatory School and after entering the College in 1884 retired in 1886. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and the U. P. Society. He was engaged in the mercantile business, Berkeley County, W. Va., and he was a member of the bank board in Martinsburg, W. Va. For forty years he was a member of the official board of the Southern M. E. Church of Bunker Hill. Surviving him are three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Laise, Mrs. Robert Gold and Mrs. Earl F. Gardner, all of Bunker Hill and two brothers, Alvin C. of Bunker Hill and John of Philadelphia.

1895-Rev. J. Max Lantz, a member of the Central Pennsylvania Confer• ence of the M. E. Church and pastor of St. Paul's M. E. Church, Williamsport, Pa., died in the State Hospital on January 30, 1929. He had undergone an oper• ation for the correction of septic poisoning a few days previously. During an at• tack of grippe he sustained an injury to his knee from which an infection devel• oped. He was 57 years old. Born in Mechanicsburg, Pa., September 6, 1873, he prepared for college at Dickinson Seminary. At the end of his junior year he withdrew to become a clerk in the offices of the P. R. R. in Sunbury where he worked his way to be secretary to the superintendent of the Lewistown Division. In 1905 he heard the call for the ministry and entered the Berwick Conference. He ·was assigned to East Water• ford Circuit and later to the Penn's Valley charge where he served for six years. From there he was transferred to the Curwensville charge where he again served for six years. His next transfer was to Mt. Union and then to the Simpson Church at Altoona where he remained for five years. He became pastor of St. Paul's Church at Hazleton in 1925. In college days Rev. Lantz was a member of the football and baseball teams and maintained his interest in these sports throughout his life. He was an ardent lover of the out-of-doors and spent a great deal of time in hunting and fishing. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and he was a Mason. Funeral services were conducted at St. Paul's M. E. Church, Hazleton, by Rev. Dr. Morris Swartz, '89, district superintendent of the Sunbury District. He is survived by his widow, two sons and two daughters, Richard T. Lantz of Cur• wensville, Pa.; Wm. R. Lantz of Altoona, Pa.: Mrs. Laurence Hite of Altoona and Mrs. Harry Johnson of Williamsport. A brother H. 0. Lantz, an attorney of Lewistown and three grandchildren also survive. 36 THE DlCKINSON ALUMNUS

1922-Mrs. Alex. H. Prinz, nee Elizabeth Madeline O'Donnell, was taken sick during Christmas vacation with a severe case of intestinal grippe and after some recovery suffered a relapse which ended in her death while in her sleep on the morning of January 16th, 1930. She was born in New York City May 24, 1900, the daughter of Patrick S. and Elizabeth Henry O'Donnell. She prepared for Dickinson at the Julia Rich• man High School and Hunter College, New York. She entered Dickins?n i? her junior year and immediately became popular with her classmates and active in all student affairs, while also attaining such mark as a scholar that she became a mem• ber of Phi Beta Kappa. She was a member of the Phi Mu sorority, Harmon Literary Society, Y. W. C. A., the Philomel Club and she was secretary of the Greek Club. Since graduation she taught Latin and Spanish in Friends' Academy, Locust Valley, L. I., N. Y.; where with her husband she was a member of the faculty at the time of her death. She was married September 2, 1926'. Funeral services were held at her late home on January 18th. Besides her husband she is survived by her parents and a brother, William O'Donnell.

1923-Mary Etta Cohick who was a student in the school of nursing, Wil• liamsport Hospital, Williamsport, Pa., died at her home 934 Arch St., Sunbury, Pa., on December 28, 1929. She had been in poor health for some months, due to a heart condition. She was born in Trout Run, Pa., November 4, 1898 and prepared for college at the Williamsport High School. Her father, Harry Cohick, survives her. Her mother died some years ago.

1933-Frank August Maxwell, a most promising member of the Freshman Class, died in the Carlisle Hospital on December 11, 1929 from poisoning caused by a carbuncle on the back of his neck. He was 18 years old. Born in Omaho, Neb., August 21, 1911, he entered College from the Springfield, Missouri, high school though he had been educated both in this country and the Far East. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Truitt Maxwell. His father is at present State physical director for the Y. M. C. A., and during the lad's life he had been stationed in various cities of the west and in Japan and the Philippines. Two sisters, Margaret and Mary, also survive him. He was a pledge of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. Following services in Memorial Hall of Old West in which President Filler made an address and which were attended by the Freshman Class and Beta Theta Pi's active members, interment was made in a crypt of the mausoleum in West• minster Cemetery.

NECROLOGY

Mary Ann Shearer, widow of the late Wm. J. Shearer, Esq., of Carlisle, Pa., died in Chambersburg, Pa., November 15, 1929, in the 95th year of her age. She was the mother of three "sons of old Dickinson" and the mother-in-law of two more. They are Raymond E. Shearer, Carlisle, ··s2 (deceased); Dr. Wm. J. Shearer, Elizabeth N. J., '87 (deceased); Prof. Robert J. Shearer, Brooklyn, N. Y., '96; Rev. Dr. James B. Stein, Saxton, Pa., '87; and Rev. J. Wesley Glover, Ashland, Pa., '90. DIRECTORY OF ALUMNI CLUBS

Dickinson Club of Atlantic City H. Wal ter- Gill, '07 . President Dr. WJ5'ac~~a~ ~~~:'~l~r&a,··~iina Aves., Atlantic 8i~~:ett'.r~i.Treasurer Dickinson Club of Baltimore Foster H. F'a n seen, ·151~ ..... President Dr. Frank M Houck, ·10 Vice-President Monroe H. Hess, ·2.i Secretary-Treasurer 3440 Elmore AYe., Baltimore, Mel. Dickinson Club of Harrisburg .T. Paul Rupp, '25L . President Clyde \V. Hoover, ·02 Vice-P1·esident Harold \V. Suender, ·20 Secretary-Treasurer Office Equipment Co., Harrisburg, Pa. Dickinson Club of New York Leon A. Mcintire. ·07 ...... President Clinton De Wi t t VanSiclen, '14 .. Vice-President Wa.l te r V. Edwards. 'J 0 Secretary 1044 112th Street, Richmond Hill, N. Y.

Dickinson Alumni Association of Northeastern Pennsyl- vania Fr-anlc I-Jertzler, '98 .... Treasurer Judg·e E. Foster Heller, ···0·4···· Presirlent Joseph F'l ei tz, '04L Vice-President Clarence Balentine, '93 . Secretary 425 Miller Building, Scranton, Pa. Frank P. Benjamin, '04L Treasurer Dickinson Club of Philadelphia Murray H. Spahr, '12 ...... President Dr. Roy W. Mohler, '17 ...... Vic e-President Clair Filler, '18 ...... Vice-President .T. Frank Jones, '08 . . Secretary-Treasurer 63 24 Korth 21st Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Dickinson Club of Pittsburgh R R. Mc'Wh irm ev. '15 ..... President Helen Langfitt, ·u . .. Secretary 1620 Orchlee Sfre e t, X. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. Dickinson Club of Washington Br-ig. Gen. Frank R. Keef er-, '85 Pre ident J. Fred Laise . Sec1·etary-Treasurer Bunker F[ill, \Ye~t V'i rg in i a.

New York Alumnae Club Mildred Conklin Presicl nt Mrs. M'il dred Ma.son heimai- Lon g, '21 Secretary-Treasurer 527 Cumberland St., 'Westfield, ·i\;:·· J.

Philadelphia Alumnae Club Grace Filler, '10 President Do ro t h y Wilder, '25 Vice-President *Jessie W. Hargis Secretary-Treasurer

Harrisburg Alumnae Club T~i l l ia.n Kell ...... President Floxana Garn1an ...... Vice -President Dorothy Louise Snon s l er ... Secretary 2216 Penn Street, Hari-Isburg, Pa. Mrs. Ru s sel Prebles . .... Treasurer

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