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Dean Albert R. Mann >04 Chosen to Start Work of International Edu- cation Board in Europe More Class Representatives De- scribe Individual Celebrations at Recent Reunions Professor Emejitus "Teefy" Crane Celebrates Eightieth Birthday in Ithaca on July 12 Another Fakir Uses Knowledge of Cornell and Ithaca to Borrow Money in Chicago

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UMMER School registration this "The Next Step in American Cooperation" nell; the other two Cornellian Yellens are year, not allowing for duplications, by Dr. Edwin G. Nourse of the Institute Max M. Ί8 and Irving '22. A sixth S is 2,281. The final figure for last of Economics, Washington, D. C.; "Land brother is a sophomore at Yale. an Problems in Ireland" by Professor John year was 1,894, d it is thought that this RUSSELL D. BLACK Ί6 has been ap- T. Falconer, head of the Department of year's final count will considerably exceed pointed by the Ithaca planning and zoning that. Seventy-two are registered in the Farm Economics, Ohio State University; commission to map out a general plan of Summer Session in Law, 59^ in Agricul- and "The Pittsburgh-Plus Plan; and the improvement to carry out the provisions ture, and 1,612 in the general Summer General Theory of Markets," by Professor of the zoning law adopted last year. For Session. Frank A. Fetter, Ph.M. '92, of Princeton. six years Black has been engaged in city A FIRE at the cleaning establishment of THE SAGE CHAPEL Preacher for July planning in Akron, Ohio, Ventura, Venice, Holland Brothers on East Seneca Street 13 was the Rev. Dr. John A. Macintosh, and Palo Alto, California, and also with on June 21 cost the life of one employee of the McCormick Theological Seminary, the United States Reclamation Service in and did considerable damage to the plant. Chicago, formerly minister of the First building the model town of American A SEVERE wind storm struck Ithaca ear- Presbyterian Church of Ithaca. Falls, Idaho. ly in the morning of June 21, and another EARL E. ATKINSON, proprietor of the A NEW BUILDING has been started, just on June 28 blew down trees and wires, and Atkinson Press, which has printed many to the rear of Conservatory Hall off De- severely damaged several residences in the of the Cornell publications, has bought the Witt Park to house the admin stration city and surrounding country. building at 106 East State Street now offices of the Ithaca Conservatory of DEAN DEXTER S. KIMBALL has been occupied by The Parisian, a women's Music. Plans call for a three-story build- appointed receiver for the Ithaca Traction furnishing store, and will move his shop ing to cost approximately $50,000. Corporation and sole operating head of the to that location about September i. The BAPTISM on July 13 in the chapel of the line as the outcome a long struggle to put Parisian expects to go to the corner store George Junior Republic of Julia Tucker the company on its feet. In the course now occupied by the Ithaca Savings Kirkland, daughter of Joseph B. Kirkland of the events which led up to his appoint- Bank when the latter institution moves to Ί8 and Eleanor M. George Kirkland '20, ment the Ithaca Trust Company started its new building. and granddaughter of "Daddy'" George, action against the Corporation on a THE FAMILY of Herbert E. Banta '26, founder of the Republic, was the closing mortgage which it holds against the prop- who died as the result of an automobile ceremony of a three-day reunion of Re- erty, and Professor Robert F. Chamber- accident on L^niversity Avenue, have public alumni. Kirkland is the director of lain Ό8 of the School of Electrical Engi- brought suit against the City of Ithaca for the Republic. neering rendered a detailed report after $25,000. The car in which Banta was WALLACE HICKOCK, who has for the a thorough inspection of the property, in riding on November 7 went over the em- past thirteen years been physical director which he advocated replacement of rolling bankment at the west side of University of the Ithaca Y. M. C. A., has announced stock and extensive repairs to the lines. Avenue and he sustained a fractured spine, his resignation on Septen ber 1 to accept THREE CONVENTIONS met at the Uni- which caused his death after a long illness. a similar position at Eornell. versity simultaneously the last week-end A POLICEWOMAN, Miss Alice E. Ellis, JOHN QUINE, who for two years has in June. Two hundred delegates from a graduate of the University of California, been vocal director at the Ithaca Conserv- every part of the country were entertained has been added to Ithaca's police force, atory of Music, has announced his resig- at a conference on home economics ex- after special training on the police force nation at the close of the school's summer tension before going to Buffalo the next of New York. session to return to concert work in New week for the annual meeting of the Ameri- York, where he will also take a limited can Home Economics Association. At THE CORNELL Summer School players number of pupils. the same time more than a thousand opened their season on July n, presenting youngsters arrived at the College of Agri- in the Campus Theater "A Door Must be DR. BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER, formerly culture for their annual field days. They Either Open or Closed," by De Musset, of the Faculty and president emeritus of were quartered in the dormitories and translated from the French by Albert the University of California, was in Ithaca their program included a track meet and Graeser '21; "Riders to the Sea" by recently and addressed the local Rotary wiener roast as well as instruction by the Synge; and a slapstick comedy of married Club at its meeting on July 2. junior project specialists of the College. life by George Easton. The plays were THE CLINTON HOUSE, one of Ithaca's The New York State Federation of Horti- repeated on July 12. historic structures, dedicated by Governor cultural Societies and Floral Clubs also DELTA UPSILON is holding an "Alumni William H. Seward of New York in 1831, brought nearly a hundred delegates, in- House Party" at its house at 6 South Ave- and which for years ranked in all America cluding Fo R. Pierson of Tarrytown, nue for the Summer Session. The dining next to the Astor House in New York, is New York, originator of the Mrs. Calvin room is open and twenty-two alumni, receiving a new coat of paint, the first in Coolidge Rose. some with their families, are there for the twelve years. It is again to be yellow, Two ARMY OFFICERS, Second Lieuten- summer. Among other attractions is with white pillars in front of the balcony ants Theodore M. C. Osborne and Ralph listed the first and only fraternity veget- where as late as the sixties Ithaca bands A. Tudor, both of the Engineers' Corps able garden. gave Sunday night concerts. have been assigned by the War Depart- THE SEVENTH university degree to be MAJOR EDWIN C. KELTON, of the Engi- ment to Cornell for study under the pro- awarded to five brothers of the Yell en neers' Corps, United States Army, who visions of a new law enacted on June 7. family of Buffalo was awarded to Maurice has been on duty in connection with the LECTURES for the first week of the Sum- Yellen, Cornell '22, when he graduated R, O. T. C. at Cornell, has been ordered to mer Session include the following: "The from Columbia Law School last month. report to the Assistant Secretary of War Real Nature of Danish Cooperation" and Three of the seven; degrees are from Cor-, for- duty in his office at Washington, 494 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Mann '04 Gets Important Post General Education Board and the Inter- "Teefy" Celebrates Birthday national Education Board, who returned Appointed by International Education from Europe a few weeks ago, shows that Dean Crane Eighty Years Old on July 12 Board to Start World Exchange the European governments and institu- —Still Hale and Hearty He Sees in Europe tions are keenly interested and responsive. Little Change in Students Dean Albert R. Mann '04 of the College Institutions in America are to share of Agriculture has been chosen by the fully in this undertaking, on an equal basis. Dean Thomas F. Crane, whose life has International Education Board to go to When a field of knowledge in America can been associated with Cornell unremittingly Europe to organize an international ex- be made stronger by a study of European since the founding of the University, change for the promotion of agricultural experience, consideration will be given to celebrated his eightieth birthday in Ithaca science and education. He leaves late in arrangements for doing so. On the other on July 12. August to be gone for two years, and has hand, some of the abler men of Europe Professor Crane has aged gracefully been granted leave of absence by the Uni- will be aided in coming to American in- under his long years of scholastic industry, versity Trustees for this period. His head- stitutions to study, when it is evident that and students who sat in his class-room in quarters will be in either Rome or Paris. the American experience will be of sub- years past would find him still the same The International Education Board is stantial benefit to them. Also, American old "Teefy," for he is yet as young as ever created to carry on internationally work institutions may apply for the privilege of in spirit. He walks to and from his office similar to that of the General Education bringing to their institutions scientists daily—a distance of half a mile. As proof Board in this country. Its specific pur- from abroad who can make outstanding of his remarkable virility, he stayed up pose is to advance the basic interests of contributions to the work here in progress. away past his bed-time on the night of the the nations, severally and collectively, The International Education Board has All-Class reunion rally, and took the plat- by means of interchange of experience and not yet invited applications from American form at midnight to deliver a spirited ad- knowledge in two primary fields, general institutions, and the advance will issue dress which lasted forty minutes. He had science—especially chemistry, physics, from the Board itself, on the basis of previously spoken at two alumni gather- botany, zoology, mathematics, and related careful study. ings on the same evening, but the rally sciences—and agriculture. It is planned to organize the work first would not have been complete without In some countries there is great need in Europe and America, and the Inter- the "grand old man" of Cornell. national Education Board has chosen that the leaders in science and agriculture "Teefy" came to Cornell when the Uni- Dean Mann to undertake the European shall be trained and experienced at insti- versity was founded in 1868 as assistant organization for the agricultural phase in tutions outside the borders of their own professor of South European languages cooperation with American institutions. countries, but their institutions are with- after having graduated from Princeton During his two years in Europe he will out funds to make this possible. Europe at the age of twenty in 1864. He became establish contacts with all the govern- is undergoing an extensive agricultural professor of Italian and Spanish in 1873, ments and leading scientific institutions reconstruction, not to say revolution in and Professor of Romance Languages and and societies in the several states of some parts. Countries which have hither- Literature in 1881. In 1909 he was re- Europe, and will add to his staff in due to made meager provision for aid to agri- tired from active duty on the Faculty and course men to carry forward the work in culture by means of science and education made professor emeritus. Since that time Europe and to extend it to other parts of are creating institutions for these purposes he. has made his home in Ithaca and has the world on his return. Dean Mann's and are facing serious problems of quali- spent his winters in Florida, whither he family will spend the second year in Eu- fied personnel and facilities. In other expects to return next winter. rope with him. lands, with strong institutions and govern- Besides his instructing duties, Professor ment services, and with high development MORE ARTICLES IN CORNERSTONE Crane has acted at various times in an of scientific work, activities are in progress The list of articles placed in the corner- official capacity for the University. He which could be aided by a knowledge of stone of the new Cornell Union which was was dean of the College of Arts and Sci- the experience and methods of other gov- published in the ALUMNI NEWS of June 19, ences from 1896 to 1902, and dean of the ernments, institutions, or scientists. In 1924, has since been found to be incom- University faculty from 1902 until 1909. both these types of cases, the International plete. In addition to the articles then He has on two separate occasions served Education Board is prepared, at the re- listed, the following were also placed in the as acting President of the University— quest of the governments concerned, cornerstone: once in 1899, and again in 1912-13, during either to finance the sending of the ablest Copies of The Cornellίan Council Bulle- the temporary absence of President Jacob of the educational leaders in these coun- tin containing articles on the Cornell Gould Schurman. tries to such other lands or institutions as Union and the Baker Laboratory of Chem- He is a member of the Royal Academy may seem to promise the greatest advant- istry; a copy of the 1901 Class Book con- of Sciences and Arts of Palermo, and of age, or to send into these countries educa- taining a complete record of Willard the American Philosophical Society and tors or men of approved experience, whom Straight's activities at Cornell; a copy of the Century Club, and has recently re- they may desire to have come to them. the 1901 Cornellian of which Straight was ceived notification from Helsingfors of his The end sought is to strengthen the weak one of the editors; copies of the Widow election as a foreign member to the Finnish and to make the strong stronger. and Era published in 1900 and 1901, of Society of Letters. While at the outset emphasis will be which he was one of the editors; a copy Though Professor Crane has published placed on the migration of selected person- of the booklet containing photographs and a large number of works on Romance nel so as to bring about interchange of a description of the Baker Laboratory of literature, he has never realized any appre- experience and contributions to facilities Chemistry; a copy of the 1924 Cornellian ciable income from them, he says. Ho for important work, it is anticipated that which was dedicated to J. DuPratt While expects to publish this summer a "Col- it will lead naturally into larger under- '90; a Class Day program of 1901 from lection of Medieval Latin Stories," accom- takings. Willard Straight's scrap book; registra- panied by a complete bibliography of all Governments and the educational and tion card of Willard Straight when he his publications since 1868. Since his scientific institutions and societies will be first entered the University; a sketch by retirement in 1909 he has written eleven consulted as to how these purposes can be Straight of Morse-Stephens, made while separate volumes on folk-lore and Ro- accomplished, with the aid of the resourc- Straight was in college; and a copy of the mance languages. es of the International Education Board. 1924 Senior Week Sun containing a photo- Though concerned chiefly with scholarly A five-months' preliminary study by Dr. graph of the Union and the announcement pursuits, Dean Crane has nevertheless

WicklifTe Eose? president of both the of the plans for laying the cornerstone. observed much of the life of undergradu- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 495 ates, with whom he has always been a eighteen holes will be open in the spring popular character. There has been little SPORT STUFF with no increase in dues. The course is change in the type and temperament of beautiful, interesting, and adequate. Most students since the old days, he says, al- of the hazards were placed there by the though the growth and ever-broadening Mr. Walter Camp has been leading a glacier 'and Divine Providence—few by influence of the University has undoubted- plain spoken and effective crusade against wops. The Club's equity is something ly worked its change. But study and current tendencies in the construction and more than $75,000 in a place where $75,000 scholarship—they haven't changed a whit. reconstruction of golf courses. He points is a breath-taking figure and the annual Dean Crane was recently forced to out that the mad desire to make every dues for a family membership are $30. vacate the Campus home which he had course long enough and difficult enough As a result almost everyone can and does occupied since 1874, razed to give place and grotesque enough to break Hagen's play golf for the good of his soul and the to the University Union. With the house heart and keep Sarazen's niblick red hot happiness of the community. went another favorite tradition—the is utter folly. He says that it gives addi- R. B. Crane boulder, which stoodf for years in tional pleasure and opportunity to not the yard on Central Avenue. Legend has more than a very few members and that '84 SETS RECORD ascribed the presence of this large granitic it's making the cost of golf prohibitive The forty-year reunion of the Class of boulder to various classes and individuals, to a great many persons who ought to be '84 was best the Class has ever had, with but Professor Crane dispels all such fanci- playing the game. forty present, nearly half of the living ful tales by declaring that the rock was The Ithaca Country Club gives a membership. This figure compares with rolled into the yard at the instigation of wholesome example of the other attitude. three back for the five-year reunion, University authorities when he and Mrs. It was started nearly twenty-five years fifteen for the ten-year, twenty-two for the Crane first occupied their home in 1874. ago by men of wisdom who realized that fifteenth anniversary, and twenty-eight He now lives at 115 Eddy Street. to succeed in an academic community for the thirtieth. It was made possible golf must be kept inexpensive. A small through an intensive mail campaign start- ANOTHER PETTY GRAFTER farm situated in the line of the city's ed nearly a year ago and carried on largely A person giving the name of A. J. development was purchased for $8,000. through the initiative of Dr. Henry P. Walters, and asserting that he is manager A course was laid out in a manner to make de Forest, the secretary. Beside a Christ- of the furniture department of Treman, the most of the natural configuration of mas card and a "Valentine" calling atten- King and Company of Ithaca, has recently the ground. It was laid out—not built. tion to the coming reunion, each member appeared in Chicago and is reported as A simple little club-house was erected. of the Class received a photograph of the having borrowed a few dollars from Cor- Gradually as time went on seven or eight Thurston house taken last March when it nellians on the strength of his supposed acres would be sold off on the side toward was entirely deserted, with the caption acquaintance with Ithaca and Cornell. town and with the money realized double "Nobody Home." During reunion an- Treman, King and Company have no the acreage would be purchased on the far other picture was taken of the Class head- furniture department, and no employee side. This process was repeated more than quarters with every window and door named A. J. Walters. The only Ithacan once. As the course edged out little by and the porch filled with members of the named Walters is colored. There is no little the club-house would be put on Class. Ten members sent letters to all Cornellian named A. J. Walters. skids in the winter time and dragged to a their classmates urging them to be back The borrowed money was not returned. new site. Each time it moved a new wing for the reunion, and they came. would be added to it. Frugality was prac- The day before the reunion started Dr. WITH BKEEZE INN doing an excellent ticed and the advocates of heavy bond de Forest and Elmer G. Storey made a business on the State Road north of issues were suppressed. special trip to Newark, New York, to get Ithaca along the Lake, another dance As a result of this policy the members from Dr. Jared A. Reed '82 a photograph pavilion is being built south of the city of the Club have enjoyed good golf unin- of the University Faculty as it was in on Five-Mile Drive near Buttermilk Falls. terruptedly for twenty-five years. A new '84/3 sophomore year, and a prize was

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A RECENT PICTURE OF THE DORMITORY GROUP Photo by Troy 496 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS given to the one who could identify the and Mrs. Charles E. Treman at their home mates, but George Dyer said afterward largest number in the group. on Saturday afternoon, and for its banquet there was material in that room for one of The Class enjoyed itself in the Thurston that evening '89 filled the red dining room the most remarkable evenings of experi- house, its reunion headquarters, and many of Prudence Risley to overflowing. ence if we only could unbottle it. We had friendships of more than forty years stand- The Class decided to issue a classbook a bunch of experts there, all trying to ing were renewed there. A motor bus this coming winter, and appointed Pro- chuck a bluff that they were as simple as took the members to the class dinner at fessor Henry N. Ogden its editor. twenty-nine years ago. the Ithaca Hotel on Saturday night and The dinner on the second evening was afterward to the rally in Bailey Hall. '94'S THIRTIETH A GOOD ONE held with '94, '96, and '97, and we filled Seventy-eight members of the Class and The thirtieth reunion of the Class of to overflowing that beautiful and impres- their families and of the "Early Eighties" 1894 was certainly a success in itself, and sive dining hall at Prudence Risley. Presi- were at the dinner. The address of Dr. made more so by two outstanding plans dent Farrand dropped in on us and gave Farrand, who was literally, among his recently put into effect: a delightful and inspiring talk on the real classmates, was greatly enjoyed. He First, the Dix Plan which was particu- value of reunions both to graduates and attended the New York College of Physi- larly successful from out point of view. the University. cians and Surgeons in 1890 with Dr. de Second, the fact that we were provided Of course each hour of the three days Forest. Another distinguished guest was with comfortable quarters in Baker dorm- was filled to overflowing and I must not Archibald C. Weeks '72, member of the itory and practically all the men of the forget that '95 gave a tea. Think of it! first Cornell crew and one of the authors Class lived there. This was a great im- Shades of Mike Casey and Zinck! '95 of "Alma Mater" and other Cornell songs, provement over previous reunions where gave a pink tea in the Museum of Casts, copies of which he distributed among the the Class was largely split up. to which we invited '94, '96, and '97, and diners. One member of each of the classes The fact that '95, '96, and '97 were also they came and it was a delightful occasion. there was called on for a short talk. present gave many an opportunity of We had a chance to really visit with each The others present at the dinner were renewing friendships that had laid dor- other and we had excellent refreshments Herbert L. Aldrich and wife, Wilson M. mant for thirty years. While '94 had its and good music. George Coleman sup- Bering, C. Fred Boshart and wife, Charles own luncheon and smoker, yet the most plied the music. Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. A. Brewster and wife, William F. Cassedy, successful event was the combined dinner Kerr, and the other '95 Ithaca wives did Charles F. Chisholm, Franklin A. Coles, of the Classes of '94, '95, '96, and '97 held the work and presided. To them is the Lewis H. Cowles and wife, George T. Saturday evening at Prudence Risley credit for a great success. Then we had Curnow, Clarence B. Dann and son, Hall, and enlivened by the bagpipes of enough left over to give the Children's George B. Davidson, Delbert H. Decker, '95 and the balloons of '96. '94 being the Home a little ice cream and cake party. Henry P. de Forest, George F. Ditmars, seniors of thirty years ago had to maintain Now classmates, reunions are worth John H. Grotecloss, William T. Hamilton great dignity on this occasion, and '97 while and all you who didn't come missed and wife, Samuel E. Hillger, Frank P. being the former freshmen were properly a good time. Just get ready now for the Ingalls with his three grandchildren, modest: even Louis Fuertes told his stories next one. Charles S. Jones, Mrs. Lucretia Taber in a subdued and shrinking manner. W. F. A. Kellogg, Mrs. Ida Cornell Kerr, Edward A quadruple introduction of Prexy by Maguire, Daniel W. Mead and son, Mrs. each class president was a new stunt ap- ONE HIKER IS CORNEIXIAN Everett Fleet Morse and her two sons parently appreciated by all, including the Since the publication in our issue of Clarence F. Morse '14 and Everett Ralph recipient of the introductions. June 5, 1924, of the story of the two New Morse '15, Fred C. Olin, Henry J. Patten, The fact that this was the largest thirt- York girls, reputed to be Cornellians, who Clarence I. Robinson and wife, Hudson P. ieth reunion to date means satisfaction to were hiking from New York to Oregon, we Rose and wife and his niece, Mrs. Marcia '94, but nothing to later classes, who by have received the following letter from Spurr Russell, Frank G. Scofield and wife, sheer weight of number must exceed 94*8 Yellowstone Park from Miss Davis, one Herbert D. Sibley, Mrs. Emily Miller record made in June. of the girls mentioned: Stevenson and her husband George E. The success of this reunion was made "On my arrival here I found no less than Stevenson '83, Elmer G. Story, Charles possible by the hard working executive a dozen letters containing a clipping from M. Thorp and his wife, Jessie Boulton committee assisted by regional members the ALUMNI NEWS entitled Ήikers Not Thorp '83, Lewis H. Tuthill, Charles J. of the general committee living in various Cornellians/ Walch, Walter L. Webb, Oscar D. Weed, centers with definite districts assigned to "Naturally I felt most indignant, having his wife and three children, Nelson A. them. As usual, however, the real work spent four years at Cornell and getting my Welles, wife and daughter, Horton D. was done by our very efficient secretary, B.A. in 1919. However, I realize the error Wright, James N. Wyckoff and wife. Elmer E. Bogart, and the Class in a small you made is due to the fact that while at The "Early Eighties" were well repre- way recognized his efforts by presenting Cornell I was registered as Rebecca Davis sented by George L. Burr '81, Frederick him with a handsome watch and chain at and now am often called by my middle Lord Brown '82, Jared A. Reed '82, Saturday evening's dinner. name, Roberta. Herbert D. Schenck '82, James Fred Tut- E. S. S. "The newspaper clippings you refer to hill '82, Charles R. Browning '83 and wife, were mistaken concerning Miss Zeller- Mary R. Diefendorf '83, Harry N. Hoff- '95 GIVES A TEA mayer's university—evidently an error of the reporter." man '83, Charles E. Curtis '85, Luzerne '95 had a good time. I think we had Coville '86 and Veranus A. Moore '87. about fifty back with perhaps another WALTER, infant son of Dr. and Mrs. forty of wives and children. A lot of us Frank J. McCormick, died in the Ithaca '89 TO PRINT RECORD lived at Mrs. Rites's house on University hospital on July 5 of burns received sev- The Class of '89 had just fifty bona-fide Avenue and the rest in Baker Dormitory. eral days before. - members in Ithaca for its thirty-five-year On the first evening we dined at the reunion out of a possible one hundred and Johnny Parson Club and you old-timers FIRE swept the old Cortland County ninety living. The Class recorded itself, ought to see the Johnny Parson Club. It Court House in Cortland on June 27, however, as believing that this attendance is a beautiful building in a beautiful loca- twelve hours after it had been superseded can be increased somewhat for the fortieth, tion and they served us a good dinner as a court house by a new $100,000 build- and made plans to work it up. while the pipers that we brought from New ing. The old landmark, which had stood In addition to the events common to all York piped. It was a little hard to get since 1836 was almost totally destroyed 89 was entertained at tea by Mr. the real stories from our modest class- by flames of unknown origin. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 497

at the Paris Restaurant, Havana, on June CLUB ACTIVITIES 27. Roll call showed that one of these FACULTY NOTES came from Arts, two from Electrical Engi- neering, five from Civil Engineering, and New York six from Mechanical Engineering. Their HOWARD ~B. ORTNER' 18, basketball At the spring meeting of the Board of present occupations range from banking coach, and Mrs. Ortner narrowly escaped Governors of the Cornell Club of New and life insurance to engineering. serious injury when their new Dodge sedan York, officers for the ensuing year were A cablegram from President Farrand was completely demolished in a collision elected as follows: president, R. Harold carried his greetings to the Club, and the with another car on the road near LeRoy, Shreve '02; vice-presidents, Robert H. following new verse to the "Song of the New York, on June 21. The woman driv- Treman '78, E. N. Sanderson '87, J. Classes," written by Tomlinson C. Ul- ing the other car attempted to pass be- DuPratt White '90, Charles H. Blair '97, bricht Ό8 was sung with gusto: tween the Ortner car and a tractor. No S. Wiley Wakeman '99; secretary, J. "0 we are the old grads, who dream of the one was seriously injured. Dugald White Ίi; treasurer, Alexander DEAN FRANCKE H. BOSWORTH and Mrs. C. Clogher '04. The world we are fighting to conquer at Bosworth, accompanied by their two Delaware last. daughters, sailed on June 21 from Mon- We are saving our money and working treal for Europe. They expected to spend Thirty-seven alumni went to the farm like Hell July in England and August in France, of Roscoe C. Tindall '09 at Toughkena- To return for a visit to dear old Cornell." returning early in September. mon, Pennsylvania, for the annual Spring President Ulbricht outlined plans being Day of the Delaware Cornell Club. The PROFESSOR VLADIMIR KARAPETOFF is made by the University Club of Havana event of the afternoon was a nine-inning associated for the summer with the con- to have sections made up of graduates of baseball game between married men and sulting engineer at the Schenectady plant all foreign colleges, and Carlos Todd, single, which the husbands took by the of the General Electric Company. Columbia '13, urged Cornellians to join score of 8 to 6, avenging the defeat they PROFESSOR GEORGE C. EMBODY of the the University Club. suffered last year. College of Agriculture received the The Cornell Association reelected Ul- Garrett A. Taylor Ί8 won the highest honorary degree of Doctor of Science at bricht president for the ensuing year and the 1924 commencement of Colgate. number of points in all events with a score the following other officers: vice-president of one hundred. Taylor, Walter S. Car- Francisco Landa Ό6; secretary, William DR. JAMES EWING of the Medical Col- penter, Jr., Ίo, and Henry M. Taylor, E. Skilton '24; treasurer, Manuel F. lege in New York has denounced as unre- liable and deceiving newspaper reports Jr., '15 led the field in trapshooting. First Galdo Ίi. Other Cornellians present at that Dr. T. J. Glover of Toronto has dis- place in obstacle golf was tied for by Rob- the dinner were Frank L. Getman '99, covered a cure for cancer. ert P. Schoenijahn Ό6, Thomas L. Stirling Malcolm A. Rice '99, Horacio A. Taveira '25, Alfred D. Warner, Jr., Όo, and Gar- '03, George T. Street '03, Norman C. SUMMER SESSION concerts will be given rett A. Taylor. Chambers '05, Lawrence E. Gowling Ίi, on July 18 by Clarence Whitehill, noted Cuba David S. Wegg '12, Robert S. Torrance opera singer, and on August 8 by Sascha Fourteen attended the annual banquet Ί6, Vidal Ducasse '20, and Henry A. Jacobsen, violin virtuoso. Both concerts of the Cornell Association of Cuba held Roberts '23. will be given in Bailey Hall.

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San Francisco to jog your memory about practical income tax law. Finally, it is ϊtfSϊHlίβϊlίiS the reunion of the Class of 1912 at Ithaca the home of Senator La Follette, whose next June. I see by the ALUMNI NEWS progressive ideas it enthusiastically sup- that the Class of 1909 claims the world's ports. Mr. La Follette is making trouble Published for the alumni of Cornell high water mark with two hundred present for the reactionaries and will probably University by the Cornell Alumni News at its reunion early this month. Of course, make more. Mr. Platt may well be proud Publishing Company, Incorporated. those seniors never did anything 1912 of the State of his adoption. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. could not beat. So 1912 is going-to beat Issue No. i is published the last Thursday of Josslyn September. Weekly publication (numbered con- that record just as surely as you live in Josslyn. By Henry Justin Smith. secutively) ends the last week in June. Issue No. California while I live in New York. At 40 is published in August and is followed by an Chicago. The Covici-McGee Co. 1924. index of the entire volume, which will be mailed the same time to beat the record the Class on request. 19.5 cm., pp. iv, 252. Subscription price $4-00 a year, payable in ad- of 1912 will have to draw on her enthusias- A beautifully written story about an vance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single tic members all over the world. We expect copies twelve cents each. incorrigible idealist and dreamer, of essen- Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his you to come. subscription a notice to that effect should be sent in tially noble character, who becomes a before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that "My suggestion is, order a 1925 calendar newspaper man. There is doubtless some a continuance of the subscription is desired. pad now. When it comes, tear out the Checks, drafts and orders should be made pay- autobiography in the story; Mr. Smith able to Cornell Alumni News. sheets for June and throw them away. has been connected with The Chicago Correspondence should be addressed— Make a note at the end of May to start Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. Daily Neivs. It is the work of a poet, and for Ithaca. Then forget dates and put Editor-in-Chief and \ Kr> Ww bAILOCJATTΛR W »n>? often suggests the atmosphere of poetry. Business Manager } ' ' °? your trust in Providence and Fat Kellogg. Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 The plot, though of secondary interest, Circulation Manager GEO. WM. HORTON "Our best regards to you and to Mrs. is well worked out. It abounds in vivid Assistant Manager, L. B. JUNE '19 Yoakum. Associate Editors pictures of the seething life of a great CLARK S. NORTH UP '93 BRISTOW ADAMS "My final admonition is, when you pray, ROMEYN BERRY '04 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 Western metropolis. It is a good story, H. G. STUTZ '07 FLORENCE J. BAKER face the East and think of June, 1925. which we heartily recommend. BARRETT L. GRAND ALL '13 When you vote, vote the straight Repub- News Committee of the Associate Alumni lican ticket." Books and Magazine Articles W. W. Macon '98, Chairman In The Sibley Journal of Engineering for. N. H. Noyes Όό J. P. Dods Ό8 Officers of-the Cornell Alumni News Publishing June Professor Heinrich Hies writes on Company, Incorporated: John L. Senior, President; "The Testing of Molding Sands." Myron R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Sec- LITERARY REVIEW retary. Office, 123 West State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. E. Steczynskis '22 discusses "Require- Member of Alumni Magazines, Associated ments of a System of Limits." Professor A Progressive State Frank E. Eice, Ph.D. '13, describes Printed by the Cornell Publications Printing Co. What La Follette's State is Doing: Some "Problems in the Manufacture of Food Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. Battles Waged for More Freedom. By Products."William E. Mordoff '13 des- Ithaca, N Y., JULY 1924 Chester C. Platt, Sp.'86, State Manager, cribes the "Introductory Engineering Wisconsin Nonpartisan League. Batavia, Laboratory." Professor Earle H. Ken- A COMPLIMENT FOR CORNELL N. Y. Times Press. 1924. 22.6 cm., pp. nard, Ph.D., '13, of the Department of AEEYING into international fields xii, 292. Price, $2.50. Physics, reviews Professor Ehrenfest's C the sort of work now done in the The energetic author of this book will Lecture on the Theory of Probabilities. United States by the General Education be remembered by older Cornellians as a The frontispiece of The Dartmouth Board, the International Education Board druggist in Ithaca and later as editor suc- Alumni Magazine for June is a reproduc- has most effectively paid a compliment to cessively of The Ithaca Democrat and The tion of the painting of the late Dr. Ernest Corm 11 in drafting for two years' service Bataiia Times. For several years he has Fox Nichols '93 by Joseph De Camp, and Albert E. Mann '04, Dean of the State been living in Madison engaged in journal- there is an obituary by Professor Gordon College of Agriculture. istic and political work. Ferrie Hull. The selection of Dean Mann to head It is a most interesting story that he An important paper on "European the pioneer work and to establish the tells of Wisconsin's leadership in many Tariff Policies Since the War" by Henry Board on a permanent footing is no less lines of effort,, partly under the guidance Chalmers '14, chief of the Division of noteworthy from the fact that the scope of Senator La Follette. Wisconsin was Foreign Tariffs of the U. S. Department of of the work includes, in addition to agri- the first State to establish part-time Commerce, has been published as a sup- culture, general science, pure and applied. schools. It was the birthplace of both the plement to Commerce Reports for May 12. It need hardly be said that in accepting Eepublican and the Progressive Party. It makes a pamphlet of eighteen pages. the compliment both Dean Mann and the It is a stronghold of the Nonpartisan Professor Jacob G. Lipman, A.M. Όo, University are making sacrifices for the League, and in 1920 elected a governor Ph.D. '03, of Rutgers, collaborates with general good, but that the work of the in sympathy with this body. The Uni- A. W. B^air in an article on "The Utiliza- College of Agriculture is so well organized versity of Wisconsin was a pioneer in tion of Nitrogen in Soils and Fertilizers that the hardship, if any, will fall on in- organizing university extension; last as Affected by Lime" in the April Journal dividuals rather than on the College. year over 21,000 persons enrolled for this of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Otherwise the compliment would have work (incidentally William H. Lighty '94 been pointless. is secretary of the correspondence-study The Rotarian for July includes the pres- department). Wisconsin was the first ident's annual address by Guy Gundaker AIRPLANE MAIL SERVES '12 State to ratify the woman suffrage amend- '96, delivered at the Toronto Convention The Class of 1912 is making use of the * ment and the first to grant women full on June 17. most up-to-date methods to make sure civil and property rights. Milwaukee is In Science for June 20 Dr. David Starr that its reunion in 1925 will reestablish the the largest of cities controlled by Social- Jordan '72 writes a note on "The Bones high record that the Class set two years ists; beer no longer makes it famous, but of Rafinesque." In the issue for June 27 ago. The first through airplane mail from it has the lowest death rate among the appears Dr. Jordan's address on "Science New York to San Francisco carried the larger cities, and no slum or tenement dis- and Sciosophy" delivered by him as presi- following letter from James I. Clarke at trict. Wisconsin is the foremost State in dent before the Pacific Division of the the eastern end of the route to Finis E. cooperative enterprises. It was the first American Association for the Advance- Yoakum at the western: State to adopt a State-wide primary law ment of Science at Stanford on June 26. "I am sending you this letter by the (! 903) It has a live Women's Progressive Professor Vladimir Karapetoff prints his first aeroplane mail from New York to Association. It was the first to have a skit on "Universities and the Circus," CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 499

Edward J. Collins '98 OBITUARY Edward J. Collins, United States Com- ALUMNI NOTES missio*ner for the district in which New- burgh, N. Y., is located, died at his home '75 AB-^At the last commencement of Frank D. Lyon '79 in that city on June 9 after a brief illness Williams College, Judge Frank H. Hiscock Frank D. Lyon, superintendent of of pneumonia. of Syracuse, N. Y., was awarded the honor- streets in the city of Binghamton and He was born January 4, 1876, at Port ary degree of LL.D. prominent in highway work throughout Jervis, N. Y., the son of Timothy and Mary New York State, died suddenly on the Reardon Collins. He attended the public '89 BL—Charles E. Treman was named night of July 4, following an attack of schools in that city and graduated from president of the New York State Bankers' acute indigestion. the High School in 1893 with honors. The Association at their annual convention held in Montreal in June. Mr. Treman is He was born in Oxford, N. Y., on March next year he was a New York newspaper president of the Ithaca Trust Company 7, 1855, and obtained his early education correspondent and then in 1896 he entered and vice-president of Treman, King and there. In 1875 he entered Cornell as a Cornell. He was a member of Phi Delta Company. student of engineering and remained for Phi and Theta Nu Epsilon. one year. He was a member of Chi Phi. Soon after graduation he returned to '89—Leonard T. Beecher is secretary On September i, 1880, he married Newburgh and in 1900 was admitted to and treasurer of the Tennessee Coal, Iron Florence L. Lyon and they had two the bar. He became associated with and Railroad Company with offices in the children, one of whom is Walter J. Lyon, Justice A. H. F. Seeger and remained with Brown-Marx Building at Birmingham, managing editor of the The Morning Sun him until 1909, when he opened his "own Alabama. of Binghamton. offices. He was interested in civic, frater- '91 Sp—William B. Reid is with the In his native State he was called the al and social affairs and served one term Atlantic City Daily Press at Atlantic City, 1'Father of Good Roads" because of his as president of the City Council of New- New Jersey. efforts in getting on the statute books two burgh. He was member of the Powelton '92 CE—William G. Atwood has com- measures pertaining to improved highways. Club, the City Club, Newburgh Council pleted his work as director of the marine He served at one time in the State Engi- Knights of Columbus, and Newburgh piling investigation of the National Re- neer's office and later was a deputy high- Lodge B. P. O. Elks, which he served at search Council and the results of his work way commissioner. one time as Exalted Ruler. are contained in a 542-page book which Mr. Lyon helped to organize the first He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. has recently come from the press. The military company Binghamton ever had John MacDonald of Jamaica, N. Y. and book, which was written by Atwood and and later became an officer in the Twenti- Mrs. Herbert W. Beyea of Flushing, N. his assistant, is entitled "Marine Struc- eth Separate Company, now known as Y., besides three brothers, Frank Collins tures, Their Deterioration and Preserva- of Utica, N. Y., William Collins of Brook- Company H. He was also a member of tion." On September i he will open offices the Rifle Team, which won many trophies lyn, and John T. Collins, director general as consulting engineer in New York; his of the government railroads in San Dom- and championships. Besides these activi- present address is 129 East Seventeenth ties he was interested in fraternal affairs ingo. Street. and rose to be a thirty-second degree Dr. Harry P. Greene '07 '95 ME—Frederick J. Emeny is now Mason. Dr. Harry Paul Greene, one of the best president of the board of education in George P. Knox '92 known surgeons in Vermont, died on June Salem, Ohio; he is also vice-president of i of tuberculosis. the Deming Company, manufacturers of Dr. George Platt Knox, professor of He was born in Brattleboro, Vt., on Christian education at Denison Univer- pumps. His address is 459 Cleveland, June 10, 1883, the son of Louis Darwin sity, Granville, Ohio, and dean of Gran- Ohio. and Annie Spencer Greene. After getting ville College for Men, died on April n, '96—Willis H. DeWolfe is with the his early education there, he came to following an illness of less than a week, as Corbin Screw Corporation at Dayton, Cornell in 1903 and remained for two years. the result of an acute attack of angina Ohio. He was formerly located at New Later he went to University of Vermont, pectoris. Britain, Conn. from which he graduated as a physician '98 ME—Clarence E. Carpenter is still He was born at Ballston Springs, N. Y., and surgeon in 1917. on February 26, 1871, and secured his early with the Interborough Rapid Transit He was a member of the Windham Company of New York City, with which education there. In 1888 he entered Cor- County Medical Society, the Vermont nell and remained for two years. In 1892 he has been connected practically since State Medical Society, and the American graduation. For the last ten years he has he returned and in 1894 was given the Medical Association. degree of B.S. He also spent the years been maintenance of way engineer. He 1894-5 and 1897-8 in graduate work here. Edward E. Gentile '20 resides at 2 Birch Road, Yonkers, N. Y. Word has just been received of the In his undergraduate days he was mem- He is president of the Cornell Club, which death on September 17, 1921, in Brooklyn, ber of the Christian Association, Congress, has one hundred and fifty members. He of Edward Eugene Gentile. has a daughter JMartha, who is a junior the Baptist Circle, and the Glee Club. He was born on July 31, 1897 in New He was also active in military affairs and in the University. York, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. rose to be major of the Cadet Corps. '99 AB, '02 AM—Professor Georgianna Gentile. After graduating from the He had nearly completed two years at Conrow, of Vassar, is to be a member of Denison when he died. This wτork fol- Boys' High School he entered Cornell in the summer faculty of Bates College. lowed a long period spent in St. Louis 1916 as a student of civil engineering, '99 ME—Acting on a proposal of the remaining one year. Mo., where he administered thirty-three Chicago Association of Commerce, the schools and also was director of religious Chamber of Commerce of the United education for the International Sunday THE PROGRESS of the Union has been States named John W. O'Leary a director School Association. He was a member of delayed somewhat by a large amount of at its recent annual meeting in Cleveland, Center Star Lodge, F. and A. M., and of unexpected blasting found necessary for Ohio. He is credited with a long record Phi Gamma Delta. the theater floor. Practically all of this of service to the Chamber, the annual Besides his wife, Mrs. Eirrra Brown level had to be cut out of solid rock, but meetings of which he has attended every Knox, he is survived by one son,George it is expected that the structure will be year since 1913. 1 William Knox, and a brother, Frank Knox roofed by Christmas. The contract calls Όo PhB—Elsie M. Dutcher writes in of Albany, N. Y. for its completion next summer. to say that she is a high school teacher and 500 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS that her address is 15 Lake Street, Owego, address is Caisa de Correio 1452, Rio de Ί2 AB—After twelve years of experi- New York. Janeiro, Brazil. ence with three large publishing and ad- Όo—Henry S. Pyle is connected with '05 CE—William R. Johnston is with vertising firms in New York, Ernest R. the Pyΐe Leather Company in Wilmington, the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company at Strempel has become associated with the Del. 143 Liberty Street, New York. Matthews-Northrup Works of New York, Buffalo, and Cleveland, printers and en- Όo, Όi CE—Irving B. Brower recently 'c6 AB—Margaret L. Stecker has been gravers. resigned as city manager of Pontiac, Mich invited to join a group of American econ- but is still living in that city at 58 Oneida omists and statisticians to act as an ad- '12 CE—C. Henry Trask, who has been Road. visory committee to the Washington with the Du Pont Engineering Company Όi—George F. Merrell is at the head branch of the International Labor Office. at Wilmington, Del., is now in Pontiac, of the Wash-All Machine Corporation of It is expected that this committee will Mich., with the Oakland Motor Car Com- Utica, N. Y., manufacturers of a washing consult with the director of the Washing- pany. machine which makes use of water for ton branch in working out lines which Ί3 BS—Arthur M. Besemer, who was operating power. American participation will take, and in formerly located in Eureka, Calif., is now '02 AB—Kathryn E. C. Carrigan is now developing the scientific aspects of the in San Francisco with the Golden State head of the social science department of work. Milk Products Company at 425 Battery the Atlantic City, N. J., High School. '07 ME, '12 MME—Harry M. Parmley Street. '02 AB—A. Smith Petty is. a special is a mechanical engineer with the Public '13 ME—Harold M. Prest is another agent for the Northwestern Mutual Life Service Commission of Pennsylvania. He Cornellian associated with the flivver mag- Insurance Company and his address is is located at 2145 North Second Street, nate, being connected with the Ford 309 River Avenue, Patchogue, N. Y. He Harrisburg, Pa. Motor Company at Newark, N. J. was recently named by the Grand Master '07 ME—Joseph J. Wechsler is en- '13, '14 AB—Frank S. Bache is with G. of Masons of the State of New York as gaged in public practice as a certified pub- Richard Dairs and Company, Inc., in the Deputy Grand Master of the First Nassau- lic accountant at 291 Broadway, New Depot Plaza Building, White Plains, Suffolk District. York. About two years ago he installed New York. '02—Stephen H. Patterson is associated a system of cost accounting for the Ford '14—Sturgis M. Robinson is connected with the Good Brothers Leather Company Motor Company at Detroit. He was with the Roxbury Bird Store at 42 Lenox at 142 Frelinghuysen Avenue, Newark, married in 1915 and has two children. Street, Boston, Mass. New Jersey. His residence is at 8015 Bay Parkway, '14 BS, ΊS MS—Richard T. Cotton '03 ME—Harry G. Bartlett, who was Brooklyn, N. Y. was awarded a Ph.D. degree in June by formerly located in Washington, D. C., is '07 BArch—Blanchard M. Mackintosh George Washington University at Wash- now at Walker and Register Avenue, is associated with Cross and Cross at 385 ington, D. C. Baltimore, Md. Madison Avenue, New York. '15 BS—Elmer B. Fuller is now county '03.:.-AB—Charles L. Dibble recently Ό8, Ίo LLB—James R. Robinson, who club leader in Monroe County with head- acted as church advocate at the trial of has been Assemblyman from Tompkins quarters in the Aetna Building at Roches- Bishop William M. Brown of the Protest- County for the last two terms, has an- ter, N. Y. ant Episcopal Church on charges of heresy, nounced his candidacy for a third term '15 CE—William G. Lehrbach was re- on which-he was convicted. The trial and is already conceded the probable win- cently named business manager of the attracted nation-wide attention as the ner in the fall elections. public schools in Pasadena, Calif. After twenty-three counts in the ecclesiastical Ό8 ME—George N. Brown, who has leaving college he was for two years with crime of teaching doctrines contrary to been in Jamaica, N. Y., is now located in a brick manufacturing concern in the those of his church were pressed against Pittsburgh, Pa., with the Pittsburgh East. Then he entered the Naval service the bishop. It was the first time a bishop Transformer Company. and was assigned to the Eleventh Naval was ever tried in America for heresy. Ό8, '09 ME—Robert E. Friend is with District where he was in charge of ten '04 ME—Roberto J. Shalders attended the Nordberg Manufacturing Company of million dollars' worth of construction the recent International Rotary meeting Minneapolis, Minn., where his address is work on the Pacific Coast. After demob- in Toronto, Canada. He extended an 825 Shepard Avenue. ilization he took the position of mainte- invitation to the clubs to hold their 1926 Ίo AB—Professor Millard V. Atwood, nance superintendent in the business convention in Rio de Janeiro, where he who has been in the Office of Publication manager's department of the Los Angeles resides. at the. College of Agriculture since 1918, school system, which position he held when '04 CE—Frederick F. Connor is with recently added the Trumansburg, N. Y., given his appointment in Pasadena. He the Crucible Steel Company in Chicago, Free Press and Sentinel to his list of rural is married and has two children. His ad- 111.; his address is 650 West Washington newspapers. The transfer came at the dress is 525 Security Building, Pasadena. Boulevard. end of fifty years of editorial work on the ΊS BS, '17 MS—Albert S. Kenerson '04 ME—John A. Cleveland has left part of the former owner. On July 12, is associated with the seed firm of W. Saginaw, Mich., and is with the Con- Professor Atwood left the College to be- Atlee Burpee and Company in Philadel- sumers Power Company at Grand Rapids, come managing editor of the Utica, N. Y., phia, Pa. His address is 485 Fifth Street. Michigan. Observer-Dispatch, one of the Empire '15—Ralph L. Sollitt is associated with '04 ME—A. Morris Buck, Jr., is con- State group owned by Frank E. Gannett the construction firm of Ralph Sollitt and nected with the Electric Railway Journal '98. Professor Atwood will retain the Sons Company at 303 Sherland Building, at Tenth Avenue and Thirty-sixth Street, newspapers which he now conducts. South Bend, Ind. New York. Ίo ME—Edwin A. Hunger is in the '15 ME—In the June issue of Pit and '04 EE—Robert J. Shalders is manager advertising department of the Interna- Quarry there is an article about the exten- of the Companie S. K. F. de Brazil, a tional Harvester Company of Chicago, sion of the lime plant at Genoa, Ohio, of Swedish firm selling ball bearings and one of the largest makers of farm machin- the United States Gypsum Company for transmission material. He recently visited ery in the world. which John R. Davis is works manager. the United States and Toronto, Canada, Ίi—Mrs. Norman F. Waugh (Bessie The article says of him: "Mr. Davis has as a member of Rotary International in Marriott) is living in Bahia, Brazil, where been with the Gypsum Company about company with his wife and en route to she can be reached in care of the Bank of ten years. . . . and belongs to the new CORNELL ALUMNA NEWS 501

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the scientific control of quality rather than awarded the degree of A.M. by Ohio '20 AB—Anna M. Leonhardt is spend- on the old rule-of-thumb method of gov- State University, where she spent last ing this month at the University of erning output. He entered the employ year in graduate work and was also an Rochester. Her home address is 103 of the company in the laboratory of its instructor in the Department of Romance Church Street, Alexandria, Bay, N. Y. Oakfield, N. Y., plant. He later began Languages. '21 BS—Bertha Whitelaw was married his executive training as assistant super- Ί8 AB—Dominick P. Rotunda, who has on May 29 to Samuel Deutsch, a graduate intendent and subsequently had charge been instructing in Italian and Spanish at in civil engineering from Columbia. After of the plant at Blue Rapids, Kansas. Al- Ohio State University for the past year, an extended honeymoon trip they will live ready he has started investigations looking has left to take a position in the University in Chicago, 111. toward the further improvement of the of California. '21 ME—Sherwood Vermilye is with product of the Genoa plant and has de- • Ί8 LLB—Benjamin Schwartz, former the Louisville Drying Machine Company, veloped excellent laboratory equipment Inc., at 451 Baxter Avenue, Louisville, with an extensive organization." research executive of the Associated Jew- ish Charities of Baltimore; Md., has re- Kntuckey. Ί6 AB—Miss Florence E. Wilbur re- signed from that organization to enter the '21 LLB—R. Alexander McClelland cently directed the presentation of ' 'Fash- practice of law. He went to Baltimore became associated on June 2 last with ions for Men," staged in Santa Barbara, three years ago to aid in the reorganiza- Charles F. Murphy in New York in the Calif., by the drama extension department tion of nineteen charities which compose general practice of law. His office address of the Community Arts Association there, the Central Charities. He is also editor is 141 Broadway, and he lives at 320 Lin- with which she is associated. of The Jewish Times, a weekly periodical coln Place, Brooklyn. Ί6 BS—Frank G. Corrigan is with the of Baltimore and Washington which is '21 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Warn Keystone Lime Company of Williamsport, printed in English. of Roslindale, Mass., have announced the Maryland. Ίg BS-—Carrie M. Luce was married engagement of their daughter, Ruth '17 CE—Professor and Mrs. Milton H. on July 2 at her home in Ithaca to W. Gladys, to Gustav A. Fingado of S tat en Turk of Geneva, N. Y., have announced Merle Webster of Warsaw, N. Y. The Island, N. Y. the engagement of their daughter, Esther ceremony was performed by her father. '21, '22 EE—Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Cornwall, to Harry H. Hemmings of Until recently the bride had been dietitian Carr announce the arrival on June 20 Brooklyn. His address there is 639 East in the Highland Hospital at Rochester, last of Anne Carr. Third Street. N. Y. They will reside at Warsaw. '21 EE—Mr and Mrs. Frank E. Fair- '17 AB—Mr. and Mrs. Byron J. Hop- '19—Harry G. Wardenburg was mar- child of 3801 Eighteenth Avenue, Brook- kins have announced the marriage of their ried on June 7 in St. Paul's Episcopal lyn, have a son, Frank E, Jr., born on daughter, Isabel Hopkins Ί8, to Stuart Church in Brooklyn, to Miss Phyllis R. June 19. R. Allen of New York. The ceremony Renz, daughter of Mrs. W. R. Barney of '21, '23 ME—Archer C. Albin, Jr., was took place in Philadelphia on June 14 and 134 Remsen Street in that city. The married on June 7 at Lynbrook, L. I., to the couple sailed for Europe on June 17. bride is a graduate of St. Francis Xavier. Miss Edith M. Stocker, daughter of Mr. They will reside abroad for some time and '20 BS; '21 BS—John Witkop of Buf- and Mrs. Franklin T. Stocker. After the can be reached in care of the Bankers falo, N. Y., was married on June 28 in Sage. ceremony, the couple left on a honeymoon Trust Company, 3 and 5 Place Vendome, Chapel to Irene Augusta Zapf '21, daugh- through the New England States and later Paris. Mrs. Allen had been an instructor ter of Mrs. Huldena Zapf of Ithaca. After will reside on North Spencer Avenue in in Spanish and Italian in the high school a wedding supper at the Ithaca Hotel, the Lynbrook. Albin is employed by a Balti- at Atlantic City for the past three years. couple left on a wedding trip which will end more firm of engineers. '17 CE—Ernst W. Kurz is now in Day- at their new home at 269 Parker Avenue, '21 LLB—Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. ton, Ohio, where his address is 314 Bellevue Buffalo. For the past three years, Mrs. Cornell of Brooklyn have announced the Avenue. Witkop had been in charge of home making engagement of their daughter, Helen Ί8, '20 BS—A daughter was born on work at the Cory, Pa., High School. Her Willis, to John H. McCooey, Jr., of 908 June 22 to Peter A. and Mrs. Mattli of husband is with the Witkop and Holmes St. Mark's Ayenue, that city. The bride Ithaca. They reside at 117 Thurston Grocery Company in Buffalo. to be is a graduate of St. Francis Xavier Avenue. '20—On March i last, Alice H. Neal Academy. Ί8 AB—Joseph A. Becker is credited resigned as secretary to Dean Walk of '21 CE—Cesar Cortina is located at in recent dispatches from Los Angeles, Teachers College, Temple University, and San Pedro de Macoris, Santo Domingo, Calif., with the discovery of a new law of on September i will become secretary to where he is engaged in building a railroad radiant energy. His experiments are Harry A. Cochran, director of the School for the sugar estate of "Consuelo." From claimed to have confirmed the theory that of Commerce at Temple University. She August 1921 to December 1923, he was radiant energy, or light waves, does not will also be an instructor in shorthand. working for the Dominican Government travel in continuous streams, but that Her address is 1936 North Eighteenth on the construction of roads. This work it goes along in minute bundles of energy Street, Philadelphia, Pa. he left for his present position. called quanta, and that when these quanta '20—James A. Carberry is in the erec- '21 MD—The Cornell University Trav- strike matter, they behave much the same tion department of the Bethlehem Steel elling Fellowship in Medicine for the year as a tiny chunk of matter. Company at Cornwall, Pa. 1924-25 has been awarded to Dr. Arthur Ί8, '19 AB—Clifford S. Bailey is with '20 BS—H. Evelyn Hendrix recently M. Master. He obtained his B.S. degree Newson and Company at 73 Fifth Avenue, established what is claimed to have been from the College of the City of New York New York. a new precedent when she conducted a in 1916 and since 1922 has been an interne Ί8 LLB—Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Jen- free cooking school in a department store at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Recently he be- nings of 30 Strathallan'Park, Rochester, in Newburgh, N. Y. The school lasted came admitting physician. He has done N. Y., announce the arrival of a son, Ed- for a week, during which she demonstrated considerable research work under Dr. H. ward James Jennings, 2d, on May 21 last. approved methods of scientific cooking, E. B. Pardee of the New York Hospital. Jennings is vice-president of the Cornell employing twenty-three tested recipes, '22 ME—Victor J. Snyder is now a sales Club of Rochester, where he is a practicing and also lectured upon food preparation to representative in the pump and condenser attorney. many visitors. She is supervisor of the department of the Ingersoil-Rand Com- Ί8 AB—Irene M. Gibson is now located domestic science department of the grade pany, and is located at 414 Marquette at Holley, N. Y. On June 10 she was schools in Newburgh. Building, Detroit, Mich. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 503

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'22 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Ball '24—Theodore H. Strong is located in '07—Alexander Kennedy, 216 Union of 6446 Overbrook Avenue, Overbrook, Saulte Ste. Marie, Mich., with the Union Street, Schenectady, N. Y. Pa., announce the birth of a son, Harold Carbide Company as an electrical engi- Ό8—Robert L. Coe, Middlebury, Conn. A., Jr., on March 25 last. neer. His address is 301 Armory Place Ίi—William P. Rose, Enterprise-News, '23 BSC—Margaret P. Bateman is and he would be glad to hear from any Cornellians in that vicinity. Cambridge Springs, Pa.—John E. Smith, teaching domestic science in a private 2iι South Moody Avenue, Tampa, Fla. school at Parktown, Johannesburg, South '24—Rufus W. Johnson of Berkeley, Africa. She writes that her class has re- Calif., was married on July 5 in Ithaca to '14—Frank H. Hibbard, 3 Valley Road, cently been painting and decorating a Miss Laura Brewer, daughter of Mrs. Mountain Lakes, N. J.—Charles F. Blaks- house given for instruction uses and has William E. Brewer. They will reside in lee, 442 South Virgil Avenue, Los Angeles, also been doing garden work. She adds Berkeley. California. 7 that she misses America and Cornell very '24—Collis M. Bardin is doing graduate ι6—Paul K. Roth, Mattituck, Long much. work this summer in physics at the Uni- Island.—John K. Stotz, 410 Center Street, '23 ME—Carlton B. Quinby is with the versity of Wisconsin and in the fall will Wilkinsburg, Pa. Consolidated Engineering Company at have an assistant ship in the department. Ί8—Jennings K. Love, Fort Stanwix 243-269 Calvert Building, Baltimore, Md. He may be addressed in care of the de- Hotel, Johnstown, Pa.—Miss Jay R. '23 EE—Lewis R. Gaty is now with the partment at Madison, Wis. Traver, 112 River Street, Willoughby, Sioux City Gas and Electric Company of '27—Edward T. Smith of Oswego, N. Ohio. Sioux City, Iowa, as cadet engineer. His Y., and Miss Lillian Waite, daughter of '20—Rollin H. McCarthy, 35 Union residence address is 1103 Nebraska Street. Mr. and Mrs. William D. Waite of Ithaca, Street, Cortland, N. Y. '23—Frank Lindsay is associated with were married on July 3 in Ithaca. They '21—William C. Murray, Lincoln Radia- are making their home temporarily in the the Atlantic Coast Nurseries, Inc., at tor Corporation, Box 147, Utica, N. Y. citv. Portsmouth, Va. '22—John I. Vass, 1411 Chicago Ave- '23—Herbert S. Church is employed by nue, Evanston, 111.—James V. Beugler, NEW MAILING ADDRESSES the Carnation Stock Farms at Carnation, Custer Arms, Bronxville, N. Y.—A. Leah Washington. '95—Andrew G. Croll, 546 Park Avenue, Gause, Quarryville, Pa.—Huston A. Wade, East Orange, N. J. '23 MS; '23 AB—Prof. Albert Naetor of Mount Kisco, N. Y.—Elizabeth Doss, "oo—Elbert A. Wilson, 225 Merriam Chapel Hill, N. C., and Ruby Wheaton, Shelbyville, Ky.—Mrs. Rena V. Jones, daughter of F. L. Wheaton of Ithaca, were Avenue, Leominster, Mass. 538 South Main Street, Niles, Ohio.— married on June 30 in Sage Chapel. After '02—Mrs. Charles S. Powell (Carrie W. James M. Plummer, 612 West Rittenhouse a wedding trip they will be at home at Thompson), 11320 Hesler Road, Cleve- Street, Germantown, Pa. Chapel Hill where Prof. Naetor is a pro- land, Ohio. '23—C. Ralph Bennett, 20 Sterling fessor of electrical engineering in the Uni- '05—James Lynah, General Motors Street, Gouverneur, N. Y.—Barbara versity of North Carolina. Building, Detroit, Mich. Deuel, Chittenango, N. Y. LANG'S PALACE GARAGE 117-133 East Green Street, ITHACA, New York

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While They Last—50c DOTH Mr. Troy and Mr. Morgan have turned over *-* to us the unsold part of the 1924 edition of their calendars. While these calendars last we will sell them at fifty cents each postage prepaid. It is an unusual opportunity to get recent Campus pictures at a low price. Send now as the supply is very limited. Courtney and Cornell Modern Gypsies $2.50 Rowing $1.50 Many know "The Bedells." This The book is still selling well. We book tells of their trip to the coast do not know what to think. Are and back. Perhaps it will bring to people just hearing about it from your mind a trip which you made friends? Perhaps we should have some time ago and will keep fresh in called your attention to it more fre- your mind some of the things you quently. saw. Have you a copy? CORNELL SOCIETY Morrill Hall Ithaca, N. Y.