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Y., APRIL 22, 1926 PRICE 12 CENTS AFEW nights of long sleep, and the students are recovered from their week's vacation, and look much better than they did before, when many of them either had colds or wondered how soon they would go on the sick list. They seem glad to be back, and even the chimesmaster has recovered from that woful state which made him play "Auld Lang Syne," "The Girl I Left Behind Me/' and "Moonlight and Roses" on his first programs, and is now ringing "The Soldiers' Chorus" as lustily as ever. FIREMEN dared the gods and turned their hoses on the streets to remove the lingering pieces of snow and the dirt accumulated during the winter. Which is probably why the thermometer went down one balmy evening with a speed outdistancing that of Galileo's pebbles, accompanied by a clammy snow storm. Fortunately the sun was on the firemen's side and melted the snow in the morning. WOMEN undergraduates are represented on the Sun board of 1926-27 by Rhena V. Madden '27 of Seneca Falls as women's editor, assisted by Katharina Geyer '28 of Brooklyn; and Irene D. Aldrich '27 of Gouverneur as woman's business manager, with Anna J. Hoggstrom '28 of New York, assistant woman's business manager. Whether the word "woman" is inserted in each title to keep the young ladies in their proper places or whether it is a mark of special respect has not been announced. PROFESSOR ROLLINS A. EMERSON is a member of the advisory board of The Quarterly Review of Biology, which began publication in January. The editor is Professor Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins. THREE MEMBERS of the Faculty of the Medical College in New York, Dr. Lewis A. Conner, Dr. Eugene F. DuBois, and Dr. Alexander Lambert, are contributors to the third edition of Osier's "Modern Medicine," to be published in April in six volumes at $9 per volume. SANGER BROWN, 2D, instructor in clinical medicine at the Medical College in New York, is secretary of the American Psychopathological Association. THE COMMISSION to survey the publicschool system of Utah includes Professor George A. Works, one of three general consulting advisers, and Professor Julian E. Butterworth, school buildings. PROFESSER FLOYD K. RICHTMYER '04, national past president of Sigma Xi, on March 20 installed a chapter of the society at New York University. Later he ectured at Purdue University. THE Portland Cement Company gave a dinner to the sophomores of the School of Civil Engineering at the Ithaca Hotel on April 14, after the students had inspected the company's plant at Portland Point. EVERY so often the minds of some students get so filled with wise cracks that they feel they must be released publicly, and the Campus buzzes for a day with hucksters on every corner selling a new publication. The latest is The Humidor, a four-page pink affair, selling, as usual, for one dime or two nickels. It consists of take-offs on Cornell organizations and societies, some jokes and pictures, which in some quarters were considered humorous. It bore the imprimatur of Sigma Delta Chi. PENTHAMA, women's honorary athletic society, has elected the following juniors: Muriel J. Drummond of Forest Hills, Grace W. Hanson of Sea Cliff, Ruth L. Hausner of Corning, Helen S. Haskell of Malone, Carmen M. Schneider of Brooklyn, Meta S. Ungerer of Lyons, and Betty T. Wyckoff of Ithaca. No one is eligible to membership who has fewer than 400 points in athletics to her credit. DEPUTY United States Marshal John F. Shay of Binghamton, and Chief of Police William Marshall of Ithaca played a new kind of bean bag one day this week, beer bottles being the beans and an iron ash-can the bag. Over a year ago the sixty bottles were seized in a raid at the home of the Marinos on South Cayuga Street, and since then have staid in police headquarters waiting for a federal court order for their destruction. Marshall Shay brought the order, and he and the chief had a big time carrying it out amid much pop-popping and flying glass. Then Marshall Shay went over to the county jail and collected two alleged bootleggers whom he escorted to Syracuse to be tried for violating the law. A COYOTE, presumably one of the band recently reported roaming about in Orleans County, went on a sight-seeing tour which took him as far as Newfield, where he was disturbed in the underbrush by a sixteen-year-old boy out hunting woodchucks. The boy had the presence of mind to shoot before the animal jumped. It was a good shot, and the coyote has joined his brothers in the dissecting rooms, after a brief display in a window at Treman,King and Company's. THE Ithaca Chamber of Commerce celebrated its tenth birthday on April 13 by entertaining four hundred of its members and friends at a dinner on the Bank Restaurant. Daniel A. Reed '98, now Congressman from the 43d New York State District, was one of the principal speakers, making a strong plea for more "mental income," consisting of cultural advantage, scenic and architectural beauty and a human soil cultivated for the arts as well as for moneymaking. The proceedings were broadcast by Professor William C. Ballard Ίo through Station WEAL THE George Junior Republic is having a campaign for an endowment fund of $1,150,000. President Farrand is honorary chairman of the national campaign committee. Ithacans, well acquainted with the good work of the Republic because of the nearness of Freeville, are working hard for the success of the campaign. Professor Asa C. King '99 is chairman of the University committee. DANIEL ROTHSCHILD, vice-president of Rothschild Brothers' department store, died of double pneumonia at the Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo on April 15. The Boston Variety Shop, from which grew the present store, was founded here in 1882 by Jacob Rothschild, who was joined by his brother Daniel two years later. Mr. Rothschild had always devoted a large share of his time and income to charitable institutions, which included the Ithaca Reconstruction Home and the George Junior Republic. He was the originator of the nation-wide movement for the establishment of a Jewish Temple at Ithaca, and was a national director of the United Hebrew Campaign which is raising $15,000,000 for Jewish charities. Leon D. Rothschild '09 is his nephew. FIRST LIEUTENANT Edwin L. Sibert, Field Artillery, now stationed at Cornell, is to be sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma next Fall, according to an announcement of the War Department. He will there be assigned for duty as a student in the battery officers' course. At Cornell he is giving instruction in the freshman field artillery. courses. THE Ithaca Rotary Club has elected R. Warren Sailor '07 president for the coming year. Arthur Treman '23 λvill be sergeantat-arms. LECTURES of the week included: "The Progressive Wage Policy of the American Federation of Labor" by William Green, president of the Federation; at the Cosmopolitan Club, "World Labor Unity" by Scott Nearing; "What Has the World Learned from the War" by Manley O. Hudson; and "Sites et Monuments d'Alsace," a lecture in French by M. Benjamin Vallotton. There were also the daily Messenger lectures of Dr. Millikan on "The Evolution of the Elements." 342 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S Radio Discovery Professor Bidwell Finds Fading Related to Changes in Signal Direction A discovery which may aid in eliminating "fading," one of the chief evils which beset the radio fan, has been announced by the Department of Physics. This phenomenon has resisted the efforts of radio engineers ever since the radio made its appearance. Through the experiments of Professor Clarence C. Bidwell, Ph. D. '14, it now appears that a definite relationship exists between fading and the fluctuations in direction from which the signals seem to come. Fading and fluctuations in direction are more noticeable at night and are affected by atmospheric conditions. The establishment of a relation between them seems to indicate that both are connected with disturbances in the upper atmosphere at a distance of one hundred miles or more above the earth. With this discovery as a working basis it ought not to be long before someone is able to find out what these disturbances are. In a recent interview given to the Associated Press Professor Ernest Merritt '86, head of the Department of Physics, described the results thus far obtained by Professor Bidwell. "Most radio fans," he said "are familiar with fading, which often interferes very seriously with reception. If indicating devices more sensitive than the ear are used it is found that the intensity of radio signals often fluctuates back and forth through a wide range in just a few seconds and that these fluctuations are extremely erratic." "During the eclipse of the sun a year ago, observers at Ithaca found that Station WEAF in New York had apparently moved over into New Jersey, so that for ten or fifteen minutes after totality it was located in the neighborhood of Trenton. Then, it got over its nervousness and moved back to Manhattan Island again as the sun became unobscured. "Fortunately direction changes are much less marked on sea than on land; otherwise, the radio compass would be of little value. "Direction changes also are greater at night, and undoubtedly depend upon atmospheric conditions. Recently Professor Bidwell has detected a relation not previously known to exist between these apparent fluctuation changes and fading. Simultaneous observations made of direction and intensity would show, besides sudden and erratic changes, a gradual drift up and down in intensity and to one direction and another. Professor Bidwell finds that these go together. "For example, great intensity comes at the same time that the direction is deflected to the north, small intensity when the direction is toward the south, or vice instances that it seems hardly possible it can be accidental. Apparently, therefore, direction changes and fading are due to the same ultimate cause." 1904 NEW YORKERS TO MEET Plans are about completed for a dinner of 1904 men in New York City and vicinity. The dinner will be held in the Campus Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 245 Madison Avenue, the evening of May 4. Rym Berry, who is a member of the class, has given every assurance that he will be present and will exhibit his ability as an after-dinner entertainer. There also will be a number of short talks, and an excellent musical program. All 1904 men are invited. The primary object of the dinner is to arouse enthusiasm for the coming reunions in Ithaca in 1927 under the Dix plan and in 1929, the 25-year reunion. Last year Walter S. Finlay, Jr., chairman of the class reunion committee, conceived the idea of having local gatherings of 1904 men all over the country. Jay Odell was appointed chairman of a local committee for the New York District. His committee sponsored a successful dinner last year, at which 42 members of the class were present. The success of that gathering was such that it was felt that the same idea could be repeated with profit this year. Indications are that there will be an even larger attendance. FACULTY NOTES PROFESSOR OTHON G. GΓJERLAC spoke on "Women of France" at an open meeting of the Women's Alliance of the Unitarian Church, Ithaca, on March 3. PROFESSOR HOWARD J. MILKS '04 was one of the speakers at the graduate conference on cattle and poultry diseases held at Ohio State University on March 24-26. DR. LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY is to deliver the baccalaureate address at the fiftieth annual commencement of Texas A. and M. College on June 2. PROFESSOR NATHANIEL SCHMIDT spoke at the City Club luncheon in Rochester on March 13 on "Germany and the League of Nations." PROFESSOR WALTER F. WILLCOX has received a leave of absence for next year and will study scientific aspects of human migration. KENNETH C. COLE, Grad., is to be a National Research Fellow for 1926-7 in biophysics. PROFESSOR RIVERDA H. JORDAN has been elected a member of the executive committee of the National Society of College Teachers of Education. PROFESSOR WILDER D. BANCROFT is to be a special lecturer on chemistry at Campus Dogs Consistent Patrons of University Affairs Are Discovered to Be Few in Number But Energetic in Spirit The Cornell Campus canine has been the target for all sorts of collegiate humor for so long that it is difficult to write anything really serious about him. Instead of the proud title of "man's best friend" he bears the flippant epithet bestowed upon him by some alliterative joker. Yet dogs are dogs, and it is difficult to perceive wherein the festive animal who disports himself on the Campus green and most other Cornell meeting places is different from more respectable members of the dog family. There are, in fact, very few Campus canines. Rather, there are comparatively few dogs that one may see on the Campus at any one time. The dog register in the City Clerk's office shows that 949 dogs claim Ithaca as their home. This does not include the denizens of Forest Home and Cayuga Heights, some of whom are affiliated with the Campus fraternity. Even in warm spring weather when the dog temperament naturally pines for company there are seldom more than twenty dogs on the Campus at once. These twenty are fairly regular attendants. In the course of time they must come to know one another well; yet a certain clannishness is observable among them. Ayrdales, for instance, prefer the company of Ayrdales, collies consort with collies. But Great Danes and bulldogs almost always travel alone. There is a dignity of bearing in the attitude of a Great Dane toward smaller dogs, a dignity which says plainly, "I suppose you were created for some purpose, but it's hard for me to see it." Bulldogs of the campus variety are quite indifferent to the advances of other dogs except warlike advances. On April 16, after the first dogfight of the year, the Campus was forsaken by all the belligerents except one, for a period of two hours. That one was an English bull. Ordinarily the life of a Campus dog is well-ordered. He rises at an hour convenient to the person who supplies him with food, a circumstance which explains why the Campus is singularly free of dogs at an early hour of the morning. Having breakfasted to the full and at his leisure, he wends his blithesome way toward the Campus, arriving usually about nine o'clock. There he engages, at his pleasure, in whatever events the day brings forth. It is worthy of note that Campus dogs show individual traits and aptitudes in the academic atmosphere. Some prefer the cloistered sanctity of the class-room where, between professorial jokes, they manage to sleep peacefully. One Great Dane (said to belong to Phi Delta Theta) has probably slept through more law lectures than CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 343 ally inclined, taking pleasure in timing the speed of their own thin legs to that of passing automobiles. Two collies, who have adopted the front of Willard Straight Hall as a starting point, are particularly adept at this sport. Within the past three or four years drivers have discovered to their high displeasure that the only way to avoid sensational publicity on Central Avenue is to take it at sixty miles an hour. There is another class of Campus dog, who seems to be a born blunderer. Having no cut and dried program for the day,he follows his fancy wherever it leads him, frequently visiting class-rooms where the professor's demeanor is anything but encouraging. Such indiscretions invariably merit a swift kick in the midriff which, instead of serving as a lesson, is soon forgotten. He it is who never fails to lose his head at a football game and go plunging after the ball, to his speedy disgrace and certain ejection. The members of this class, doubtless, go a long way toward providing material for the funny men. One naturally wonders, on seeing these self-appointed guardians of the University welfare, where they come from. That question is more easily asked than answered. Most of them, it is true, wear collars bearing the name of an apparent owner, but getting close enough to read those names is something else. As a matter of fact, an inquirer who attempted to do that very thing, unwittingly started the fight on April 16, heretofore mentioned. Nevertheless, the identity and habitat of nine of these playful animals has been definitely established. Five have their licenses paid for by persons wholly unconnected with the University. One of these spends his evenings at home in the vicinity of the "Rhine." Three of the remaining four are claimed by fraternities, and one bears the stamp of a professor in the College of Agriculture. The whispered rumor that Campus dogs are maintained by tender-hearted professors to keep Cornell from becoming too exclusively human a place is utterly false. DINNER TO OPEN >08 CAMPAIGN Joseph N. Pew Ό8 has consented to take the general chairmanship of the reunion campaign of his class. As a send-off to the campaign in the East, a dinner will be held at the Cornell Club of New York, 245 Madison Avenue, on Friday, May 7, 6.33 p. m. This dinner is in charge of Ralph R. (Rick) Lally and Fielder J. (Squire) Coffin. Every 1908 man is invited to come to this dinner, but all those in the metropolitan area or within a radius of 150 miles from New York are earnestly requested to come. This will be the first 19:8 dinner since graduation, and it should be a big one. Those who can go should send their reservations to Rick Lally, Globe Steel Tubes Company, no E. Forty-second Street, New York. Spanish War Veterans Former Student Names Some Cornellians Who Served in Porto Rico This letter from Henry C. Nelson '92 comes appropriately at a time when the British tank America has arrived at its final resting place in Ithaca. "I read with much interest about the British tank America, which has been secured by Major Seaman for Cornell University, and would like to call attention to the fact that the World's War was not the first time that Major Seaman has shown his patriotism or that Cornell men have enlisted in time of need. "I have had a photo for twenty-eight years, taken at Peekskill, N. Y., which shows twenty-one Cornell men who enlisted in the First United States Volunteer Engineers during the Spanish-American War. There were other Cornell men in the regiment who did not get into the photo. Of the twenty-one men in the photo I know of six who have since died. The Cornell men in the picture are Archibald S. Downey '96, sergeant major; Fred H. Jennings '02; Smith; Louis L. Seaman '72, major; Ira A. Shaler '84 (deceased); George E. Waesche '96, corporal; DeForest H. Dixon '96; William M. Purman '95, sergeant (deceased); Charles T. Rainey '96; Henry C. Nelson '92, sergeant major; Frederick R. Slater '94; Jay G. Keyes '03; William D. Kelly Όo, sergeant; Chester G. Rider '96; Jasper R. Rand '97 (deceased); Justin J. Burns '92, sergeant major (deceased); DeLano, lieutenant; Stevens; Charles J. Heilman '97, corporal (deceased); Lorin H. Ireland '96 (deceased); Clarence W. Marsh '94. "This regiment was sent to Porto Rico, where it was kept on duty until late in 1898. Major Seaman gave a Cornell dinner for us in Ponce, Porto Rico, and another Cornell man, Gustavo Steinacher y Henna '92, who lived there, responded with a dinner at his place. "Major Seaman, Major Nelson, and,I believe, A. S. Downey served in the World War." HENRY C. NELSON '92 THE Sun sent a request to Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, for his opinion on the value of intercollegiate athletics, and received the following reply, "In my judgment, athletic sports are a most important factor in the life of our colleges and universities and when rightly regulated and kept in proper relation to other interests are of great value in the development of character and in preparing our young men and women to meet the tests of life." This, if not a particularly startling statement, seems to be in agreement with the student opinion on this much discussed subject, as expressed in the Sun's columns. CLUB ACTIVITIES Kentucky The Cornell Alumni Association of Kentucky entertained Deax Dexter S. Kimball at a luncheon on April i, at the Pendennis Club, Louisville. Dean Kimball spoke concerning some of the proglems facing the University at the present time. Professor Ernest P. Chapin '93, principal of the Louisville Manual Training High School, invited Dean Kimball to speak before the school on April 2. Michigan At the regular luncheon of the Cornell Club of Michigan on April 15, Warren Packard '14 gave an interesting talk on the early history of the Packard Motor Car Company. On April 22 Dean Dexter S. Kimball is to be the guest of the club. Montclair On Thursday evening, April 8, the alumni of Montclair, N. J., gave a smoker at the Upper Montclair Country Club. About 150 men attended. Invitations were also sent to men in nearby towns of Essex County. The smoker was entirely informal and was held mainly to give the local alumni an opportunity to become better acquainted with one another. Music was furnished by the Deal Pool orchestra of Newark. Chick Norris and Carl Schraubstadter entertained with their usual songs and stunts. Horace Whittemore '22 did a number of new Charleston steps. There were besides several professional entertainers. An invitation was received from the Yale Alumni Association of Essex County, inviting the Cornell crowd to be their guests at an early date. A definite move toward having the Cornell Musical Clubs in Montclair next year was started. A large party was planned for June 5, to be staged in the Orange Mountains, with afternoon sports followed by a beefsteak dinner. Morris County The annual meeting of the Cornell Club of Morris County, N. J., was held on March 27, at which time the following officers were elected: president, James R. Hillas '19 of Morristown; vice-president, H. W. Meyers of Madison; secretary, David D. Jennings, Jr., '13 of Whippany; treasurer, John B. Howell '14 of Boonton. It is planned to hold the next meeting of the club in the form of a smoker at the Morris County Country Club on May 19, to which affair the members of the Cornell Club of Plainfield will be invited. Charles A. (Chick) Norris '21 is chairman of the entertainment committee. Philadelphia The annual meeting of the Cornell Club of Philadelphia was held at the club house, 310 South Fifteenth Street on April 7. 344 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S After the transaction of the regular business, the results of the election of officers were announced as follows: president, C. Rodman Stull '07 (re-elected); vice-president, W. Howard Fritz, Jr., '14; secretary George T. Ashton '12; treasurer, Allen C. Fetterolf '19; athletic director, Waldemar H. Fries Ίi. The president outlined his program for the coming year, and the meeting was marked with enthusiasm and interest in the Cornell Alumni Convention to be held in Philadelphia this fall. Washington The Cornell Alumni Society of Washington, D. C. held its monthly men's luncheon on April i at the City Club. Major James G. Mcllroy, chief of the Far Eastern Section, Military Intelligence Division, General Staff, talked on present day problems in China. Lieutenant Colonel Harold E. Bullis '09 presided. TO REPRESENT CORNELL Brandt V. B. Dixon '70, president emeritus of Sophie Newcomb College, will represent Cornell at the formal dedication of the new campus and buildings of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge, April 30 to May 2. Professor Walter W. Hyde '93 of the University of Pennsylvania has been appointed delegate to represent Cornell at the inauguration of Charles Ezra Beury as president of Temple University, Philadelphia, on May 7. S. Wiley Wakeman '99, of the Board of Trustees, will represent the University at the inauguration of Daniel L. Marsh as president of Boston University on May 15. TO DO RESEARCH ON DRY LAWS A committee to investigate the working of the Eighteenth Amendment, appointed by the National Social Science Research Council, with Professor Gillen of the University of Wisconsin as chairman, has chosen George E. G. Catlin, Ph. D. '24, assistant professor in the Department of Government, to direct the preliminary survey. His work specifically is to determine the available sources of information through which the social effects of the present dry laws can most effectively be studied. Professor Catlin has been granted a leave of absence from the University until September i and has already taken up his duties in New York. Professor Catlin was born in Great Britain and received his A. B. from Oxford in 1920. For two years he was a lecturer in modern history at the University of Sheffield. He came to Cornell in 1923 as Andrew D. White Fellow in Political Science and received his Ph. D. in 1924. LITERARY REVIEW Possession By Louis Bromfield Ί8. New York. Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1925. 19.3 cm., pp. xii,493. Price, $2.50. Louis Bromfield has already published "The Green Bay Tree" and is said to have written three other novels which he withholds from publication for the present. "Possession" is a highly creditable performance. It has faults, we think, but in the main it is a fine story, well planned and carried to a worthy climax in a manner which renders the book hard to lay down until we have reached the end. As in "The Green Bay Tree" so in "Possession," Bromfield is concerned with the fortunes of the children and grandchildren of those pioneers who left New England or Maryland and crossed the country of the Six Nations and the Appalachians to settle in the Western Reserve. They have the same qualities of energy and perseverance which their ancestors had their difficulty, as Miss Mann remarks, is to use these qualities in a world already under material control. One of these grandchildren is Ellen Tolliver, who desires to be a musician. "Possession" is the story of her career. She is born and reared in a dull mill town (which, by the way, should have had a name instead of going through the story by the designation of the Town). Unexpectedly the opportunity is afforded her to go to New York in the capacity of a wife. She seizes upon it in order to gratify her ambition to study music. She has a great career as a pianist. But she pays a heavy price. There are some features of the book that we do not like. The author has yielded too much to a certain tendency of the times and has too much to say or suggest about sex, in a way which will not please all. We do not advocate prudery, and when it is necessary we see no objection to a considerable degree of frankness when something is to be gained by it. In this novel we fail to see that anything is gained by such frankness, and we believe that in the end the author will suffer from this kind of thing. There is such a thing as a decent reticence about sex matters; it may be mid-Victorian, but we believe that the abandonment of this reticence is as much a violation of good taste to-day as it was in the age dominated by the good Queen. There are, moreover, certain turns of expression which we dislike. From her room on Riverside Drive Ellen hears in the night "marvelous splendorous sounds of a great world close at hand" (p. 169). Piffle! Speaking of a beautiful piano, Bromfield says that the "sound of its low mellow beauty led Ellen into playing more and more passionately" (p. 251). Nonsense! Bromfield can write too well to stoop to such mush as this. Then he makes too much of the dirt on Mrs. Calendar's diamonds. After a while we get tired of it. And he should resolutely cut out the omission periods. It is a vile practice. If the reader can learn to forget these things (and this is not so hard), he will find "Possession" a powerful story. There are many striking and attractive passages and the characters are real men and women. We hope to hear more about them and their friends in future stories from Bromfield's pen. Books and Magazine Articles In The American Economic Review for March Professor Allyn A. Young, of Harvard, formerly of Cornell, discusses "Economics and War." Professor Harold L. Reed, Ph. D. '14, reviews R. Griffiss, "The New York Call Money Market," and W. F. Mitchell, "The Uses of Bank Funds." In The International Journal of Ethics for April Professor G. Watts Cunningham, Ph.D. Ό8, of the University of Texas, reviews George P. Adams and J. Loewenberg, editors, "Essays in Metaphysics." "The Moral Standards of Democracy" by Professor Henry W. Wright '99, of the University of Manitoba, is reviewed by T. V. Smith. "Determinism in Education" by Professor William C. Bagley, Ph.D. Όo, of Teachers College, is reviewed by O. F. Myers. In The Journal of English and Germanic Philology for January Professor Clark S. Northup '93 reviews "Vassar Mediaeval Studies" and Philipp Aronstein's "Englische Stylistik." In Modern Language Notes for April Professor J. William Hebel, Ά.M. '13, Ph.D. '20, has a note on "Drayton and Shakespeare." Professor Thomas P.Harrison, Jr., Ph.D.'23, of the University of Texas, writes "Concerning The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Montemayor's Diana." Professor Allan H. Gilbert '09, of Duke University, reviews "Studies in Shakespeare, Milton, and Donne" by Members of the Department of English at the University of Michigan. Gilbert's own book on "Dante's Conception of Justice" is favorably reviewed by Professor Charles H. Grandgent of Harvard. In Science for April 16 Dr. David Starr Jordan '72 has a note on "Mount Jordan." In The Journal of Forestry for January "Elements of Forestry" by F. Moon and N. C. Brown is reviewed by Professor Arthur B. Recknagel. "A Manual of Tree and Shrub Insects" by Dr. Ephraim P. Felt '94 is reviewed by L. A. G. In The Quarterly Journal of Speech Education for April Helen M. Peppard's "The Correction of Speech Defects" is reviewed by Charles K. Thomas '22. Mary A. Grant's "Ancient Rhetorical Theories of the Laughable" is reviewed by Professor Harry Kaplan Ί6. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 345 OBITUARY Dr. Zenas L. Leonard '80 Dr. Zenas Lockwood Leonard, formerly one of the leading ear and throat specialists in New York, died at his home in Pittsfield, Mass., on April 4, after a long illness. He was born at Sturbridge, Mass., on January 28, 1857, and entered Cornell in 1877 as an optional student. After a year he left and went to Brown. Leaving that institution after a short period he entered New York University, from which he graduated in 1880 with the degree of M.D. Immediately after, he began to practice in New York and became surgeon of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and head of the throat clinic at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. It was while in this work that he attained much prominence as ear and throat specialist. In 1914 he removed to Massachusetts and practiced in Pittsfield until last December, when his health failed. He was an active member and officer of several Masonic organizations and a vestryman of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. While in New York he married Miss Georgia A. Dennis, who survives him with one daughter, Mrs. Warren N. Drum of Indiana, Pa. Dr. Jesse L. Bliss '95 Dr. Jesse Leonti Bliss died at his home in Holyoke, Mass., on April n. He came to Cornell in 1891 as a student of medicineand left the University in 1893. He was a member of Kappa Sigma. Later he attended Columbia and eventually became a physician in Holyoke. He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Ruth Hillick of Ithaca. George A. Wilson '02 George Adam Wilson died on December 13, 1924, in Paris, Me., it has just been learned. He was born at Waterville, Me., on October 12, 1877, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Wilson. He graduated from Colby in 1898 with the degree of A.B., and then came to Cornell as a student of electrical engineering, remaining only part of the year. Mrs. George M. Marshall, Sp. '04 Mrs. Alleta Wentz Marshall died on November 4, 1925. She was born at Kirkwood, Pa., on September 19, 1881, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Wentz . In 1903 she came to Cornell as a special student in Arts and left at the end of the year. Later she was married to George M. Marshall. Allen Mason '04 Allen Mason died at his home in Elmira, N. Y., on April u of acute nephritis. He was born in Detroit, Mich., in 1882, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Mason. He entered Cornell in 1900 as a student of mechanical engineering and graduated in 1904 with the degree of M. E. He was a member of Chi Phi, Quill and Dagger, the Savage Club, the Sunday Night Club, the Junior Promenade Committee, the Senior Banquet Committee and the Masque. In 1912 he was named works manager of the American La France Fire Engine Company in Elmira and held this position until 1920, when he resigned to become the local manager in Elmira for the W. L. Curtis Oil Company. In 1906 he was married to Miss Mary L. Bacon of Elmira, and she survives him with three children, Mary, Jane, and Edward Mason. John S. Meltzer Ίl John Salomon Meltzer died on November 16, 1918, it has just been learned. He was born on November 16, 1888, at Bridgeport, Conn., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Meltzer. After attending school in Bridgeport he entered Cornell in 1907 as a medical student for one year. THE SCENE OF SPRING SPORTS Photo by Troy A remarkably clear aerial photograph of the athletic fields, with Schoellkopf and the Cornell Crescent in the right foreground, the new Hoy Field and baseball stand to the left, and behind them Lower Alumni Field. One end of the new practicetrack on Upper Alumni Field is visible to the extreme right. 346 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S Published for the Alumni of Cornell University by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Company, Incorporated. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of September. Weekly publication [numbered consecutively] ends the last week in June. Issue No. 40 is published in August and is followed by an index of the entire volume, which will be mailed on request. Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in advance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single copies twelve cents each. Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his subscription a notice to that effect should be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that a continuance of the subscription is desired. Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to Cornell Alumni News. Correspondence should be addressed— Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. Editor-in-Chief and ) Business Manager J Circulation Manager R. W. SAILOR '07 GEO. WM. HORTON Associate Editors CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 ROMEYN BERRY '04 BARRETT L. CRANDALL '13 H. G. STUTZ '07 J. J. ELSON '22 BRISTOW ADAMS L. E. REED '23 Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Company, Incorporated: JohnL. Senior, President; H. G. Stutz, Vice-President; R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Secretary. Office, 123 West State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. Members of Alumni Magazines, Associated Printed by the Cornell Publications Printing Co. Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL 22, 1926 THIS YEAR'S REUNIONS W HAT with an unusually late recession of the polar ice cap, the long coal strike, and possibly other factors, it is the unfortunate handicap of reunion committees this year that they must do their ground work in a season that seems to be winter. Many alumni are not yet consciousof their membership in a Dix group, and are impatiently awaiting their regular fiveyear reunion several years away, which will never come. Preparations by the various class committees are, however, quite well advanced for the season and the deluge of literature, orders for costumes, supplies, headquarters, rooms and the like, is about to break. This year every class will reune that belongs to the old quinquennial plan, the Ones, the Sixes, and the Class of '24. In addition there are two large Dix groups and one small Dix group. Some of the members of this year's Dix groups will not hold their regular quinquennial reunion that would normally come next year or the year after. This complicatedschedule is not the fault of either plan, but is incidental to the consolidation of the two plans. It is important, therefore, that the members of the various classes have the schedule of reunions well in mind, and as our readers constitute the majority of those who come back, we offer the following lists of classes that hold their reunions this year on June n, 12, and 13. The Dix groups are: '86, '87, '88, and '89; '05, Ό6, '07, and Ό8; and '20 and '21. The Five-Year Classes not in Dix groups are: '71, '76, '81, '91, '96, Όi, Ίi, Ί6, and '24. The Five-Year Classes that are also part of Dix groups are: '86, Ό6, and '21. COMING EVENTS Monday, April 26 Lecture, Professor Charles H. Toll of Amherst: "The Modern Conception of Infinity in Our Universe," Goldwin Smith A, 12 noon. Tuesday, April 27 Free Concert, University Orchestra, under the Gerald Hinkley Endowment, Bailey Hall, 8.15 p. m. Thursday, April 29 Performance, Cornell Dramatic Club, three one-act plays by students: "Gestures" (1926 prize play) by Samuel P. Horton '27; "Sharp Practices" by John B. Emperor '26; and "The Devil Comes to Town" by Aristide d'Angelo '26, University Theater, 8.15 p. m. Friday, April 30 Luncheon, Class of 1911, Machinery Club, 50 Church Street, New York City, 12.15 p. m. Baseball, Columbia at New York. University Concert, Rosa Ponselle, Metropolitan prima donna, Bailey Hall, 8.15 p. m. Saturday, May 1 Baseball, Dartmouth at Hanover. Lacrosse, Syracuse at Syracuse. Tennis, open date at Ithaca. Banquet, Cornell Law Quarterly Board, Willard Straight Hall, 6.15 p. m. Performance, Cornell Dramatic Club, three one-act pla,ys by students: "Gestures" (1926 prize play) by Samuel P. Horton '27; "Sharp Practices" by John B. Emperor '26; and "The Devil Comes to Town" by Aristide d'Angelo '26, University Theater, 8.15 p. m. Wednesday, May 5 Lecture, Professor Charles Sisson of the University of London: "Shakespeare in Native India," Baker Laboratory, 8.15 p. m. Baseball, Syracuse at Ithaca, 3.00 p. m. Thursday, May 6 Lecture, Sir Arthur Newsholne: "Public Health", 8.15 p. m. Tennis, Princeton at Princeton. Friday, May 7 Lecture, Sir Arthur Newsholne: "Public Health," 8.15 p. m. Dinner, Class of 1908, Cornell Club of New York, 6.30 p. m. Saturday, May 8 Baseball, Dartmouth at Ithaca, 3.00 p. m. Track, Pennsylvania at Ithaca, 1.30 p. m. Lacrosse, Navy at Ithaca. Meeting, Board of Trustees, President's Office, 9.30 a. m. ATHLETICS Lacrosse Team Wins Opener The lacrosse team opened the season Saturday with a victory over Colgate. The score was 6 to 2 and though the game was loosely played Cornell showed evidence of strength. The field was muddy and swept by a cold wind, but several hundred shivering spectators saw occasional flashes of form. Hermann scored the first goal of the game about the middle of the first half on a double pass, Rollins to Bowdish to Hermann. He also scored two more goals before the half ended. In this period Cornell was on the offensive all of the time and Hecht, the Colgate goal keeper, was kept on his toes. Colgate rallied in the second half, and after Rollins had scored another goal for Cornell Frickie counted twice for the Maroon. Cornell checked the drive however and before the half had ended Leibman and Harrison, substitutes, each found the net. Snow flurries, a mercury flirting with the freezing mark, and high winds made baseball impossible Saturday and the game with Penn State, scheduled to open the season, was called off. SOME STUDENTS will say that no Greek doing a candy business in Ithaca is in any danger of starving because of his low prices. It has just been announced that Gus Conomikes has severed his connection with Candyland, on North Aurora Street, which he ran with Harry Marinos, and will leave shortly for an extended visit to his native Greece. WHEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT was first made that the prisoners in the county jail were to be sent out to work on the roads, they thought it might be a pleasant change from the not exactly thrilling days spent under lock and key. But a day or two before the scheme was put into effect, the prisoners got to thinking that if jail was unpleasant at least the life was restful and working on the roads was very decidedly something else again, and a mad rush for bail began. Many of them were successful in raising it, and some are still trying. For the first time in a long while, no one was brought in last Monday because of too much Sunday celebration, and at police headquarters they are wondering if the possibility of getting a sentence involving real work may not have helped to keep some persons on their good behavoir. DEAN KIMBALL was the guest of the Little Rock Engineers' Club on April 5. He spoke before the Cincinnati Engineers' Club on the 6th. AT PRINCETON it has been found that the average annual expenditure of a graduate student is $910. This d0es not include the tuition fee for graduates, which is $100. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS T>ίE HθUSE THAτ BUILT — and your telephone This is the telephone that WesternElec-, trie built. 347 This is the shell that inclosed the receiver on the telephone that Western Electric built. This is the mould that made the shell... This is the lead that formed the mould. , . . This is the plant that made the gas that heated the lead that formed the mould that made the shell that inclosed the reί ceiver on the tele- thatWestI era Electric built. "V7ΌU recall the chain of events in •*- the House that Jack Built—one thing leading to another ? When it comes to the Telephone that Western Electric Built you find the same sort of chain. At Western Electric skilled artisans carry the work of making the Bell telephone on through all its stages. Industries within an industry have been developed here—not only a factory for producing the many types of telephone equipment, but also a tool factory, a rubber mill, a cable shop, a wire-drawing plant and many others. For all the world it is like a fairy tale come true. But on how vast a scale—the fact greater than the fancy. SINCE 1882 M A N U F A C T U R E R S FOR THE BELL SYSTEM 348 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S ALUMNI NOTES '76 BS—The Penn State Alumni News for March has the following to say about Professor Madison M. Garver, known to all Penn State men of the last thirtythree years as "Gravy": Professor M. M. Garver was born November 18, 1848 at Scotland, Pa. He was a student at Rockford, Illinois, Academy and after teaching in the public schools for three years he entered Cornell University, graduating with the Class of, 1876 in Physics. While a student, he was MADISON M. GARVER '76 assistant to the professor of physics, and was a member of the crew. After graduation he helped in the construction and testing of the first Gramme dynamo machine constructed in the United States. He taught three years at Mercersburg and later, after serving for a time as an assistant at Cornell, he became inspector in the factory of the Unitebl States Electric Lighting Company at Newark, N. J. Some time after this, he became engaged in the manufacture of surgical and then electrical instruments, working also with the Western Electrical Instrument Company and being the author of several inventions which were patented. For some years he was with Queen and Company of Philadelphia, perfecting electrical measuring instruments, and one of his resulting patents, "the hot wire voltmeter," which embodied his improvements took a medal at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. In this year he became connected with Penn State as assistant professor in the Department of Physics and has given many years of splendid service to the College. His principal interest lies in pure science and he has written many scientific papers. Three papers, in particular, he considers are valuable and important contributions. One "On the Energy Relations of Solute and Solvent," contains a thermodynamic explanation of Morse and Eraser's experiments and was printed in The Journal of Physical Chemistry. The second, "A New Method of Determining the Range of Molecular Action," contains a new equation for the liquid phase and is recorded in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. The third is "On the Polymerization of Liquids and a General Method of Determining Its Relative Value," which was a paper read at the eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry. Professor and Mrs. Garver are living at Centre Furnace, better known as The Evergreens, about a mile below College on the road to Lemont. '85 MS—Samuel Wilson Parr, who is professor of applied chemistry at the University of Illinois, has been awarded the eighth annual Chandler Gold Medal for achievement in chemistry. He will give the 1926 Chandler lecture at Columbia on April 23, at which time the medal will be presented to him. Professor Parr is an expert on coal and its chemistry. '89 ME—Professor George D. Shepardson, head of the department of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota, is spending his sabbatical year on a tour around the world. He spent last summer in designing a new generator and in work on several books. Leaving New York in the fall he went first to Cuba and thence to Mexico, Southern California, the Hawaiian Islands, Japan, China, and Java. From Calcutta he will go up the Persian Gulf, tour the Mediterranean countries, and then spend some months in Europe. '89, '90 BL; '92, '93 BL—Mr. and Mrs. Edmund F. Brown (Mary Relihan '92) have announced with no little pride that they are now grandparents. Their daughter and her husband had a daughter born to them on January 31. The youngest daughter of the Browns is now a junior at Wisconsin and was recently elected president of the Women's Self-Government Association there. She will represent Wisconsin in the International Friendship Tours. '98 BS, '02 MD—Samuel J. Druskin has been elected president for 1926 of the Eastern Medical Society. '98 PhD—Dr. Samuel J. Barnett, research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is lecturing on physics during the second semester of this year at the University of California, Southern Branch, at Los Angeles. '99 ME—Fredellia H. Moyer has been appointed general superintendent of operations of the United Alloy Steel Corporation of Canton, Ohio. He became chief engineer of the company in January, 1923, and on January I last became vicepresident. '99 BS, '03 PhD;' 1768—Professor Hugh Daniel Reed is still teaching zoology at Cornell. He and his wife, who was Miss Madeline K. Church of Ithaca, have two children, a boy and a girl. '99 PhB, Όo AM—Herman R. Mead is curator of incunabula at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Gabriel, California. '99, Όi BSA—Eugene M. Baxter was recently appointed head of the new department of agriculture in the UnionAcademy at Belleville, N. Y. Όo BS—Professor Louis C. Graton of the Department of Mining Geology at Harvard has received a grant from the Milton Fund for the construction of a machine for the preparation of highly polished surfaces on opaque metals and ores intended for microscopical investigations. Όo MD—At the first organization meeting of the New York Society for Clinical Research, held on February 5, Dr. Jacob Gutman was elected president. The purpose of the organization is to investigate the adaptability of the latest researches to clinical medicine. '02 AB, '05 AM, Ί8 PhD—Professor Paul F. Gaehr, of Wells, is on leave of absence for the second semester, and is studying at Harvard. '02, '04 ME—William G. Allen is sales manager for Goulds Pumps, Inc., of Seneca Falls, N. Y. '03 ME—Captain David E. Burr was married on February 20 at Cambridge, Mass., to Miss Eleanor Sheridan, a graduate of the Portia Law School, who was recently admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. They went on a honeymoon trip in the South and are now living at 8 Craigie Circle, Cambridge. Ό6 MD—Walter T. Dannreuther was the guest of honor at a dinner given by Dr. Edward Frankel, Jr., at the Columbia University Club in New York on February 10. Dr. Dannreuther is a professor of gynecology at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School. Ό6 BArch—On January i last, Pliny Rogers severed his connection with the architectural firm of Litchfield & Rogers, with which he had been connected for several years, to open his own offices at 232 Madison Avenue, New York. While he and Mr. Litchfield were together, they designed the Public Library in St. Paul, Minn., the library of James J. Hill; the Government town of York Ship Village, consisting of 1,500 brick homes with stores and apartments; McAlester College gymnasium and dormitories; and Pelham Gardens for Edwin Gould. '07 CE—Clarence F. de Clerq is an assistant engineer in the Bureau of Highways of the New York State Department of Public Works. He is located at 24 Sherwood Avenue, Binghamton, N. Y. '09 ME—George T. Hider is now a farmer and cotton ginner at Lake Providence, La. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 349 PROFESSOR CHARLES LOVE DURHAM ENRAPTURED BY THE CORNELL BOOK OF VIEWS Right on your library" table Bill came in. Good old Bill! Bill with the great big smile! He was bubbling with enthusiasm. He had something to talk about. It soon came out. He wanted me to go to the class reunion with him. Well, he didn't have to talk much. My mind had already been made up a few minutes before. The reason was there on my library table—the new CORNELL BOOK OF VIEWS. I picked it up again. Bill hadn't seen it. Together we ran happily through its pages. Each picture reminded us of something. Bill thought of more things than I. But I recalled my share. Sometimes we were talking together. Most of the time we were laughing. Did I remember this? Had he forgotten that? It was midnight before he went. We were as happy as boys. This new CORNELL BOOK OFVIEWS has brought the campus vividly into my home. It is always good for ten or more happy minutes. It will ever remain right on my library table. Right where Cornellians and other friends can refresh themselves on the beauties of Alma Mater. Mail your order today to the BOOK OF VIEWS Headquarters, 32 Morrill Hall, Ithaca, N. Y. on the coupon provided. THE BOOK OF VIEWS 32 Morrill Hall, Ithaca, N. Y. Π I need one on my library table. Here's my check for $6.50. Please mail it to the address below or G Please send the BOOK OFVIEWS to me on approval. If it is not all I expect of it, I will return it to you at your expense; otherwise I will remit my check for $6.50 within two weeks. Name.............................. Address. 350 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S Ί i A B , Ί8PhD; '17 AB—Announcement has been made of the marriage of Walter A. Verwiebe Ίi and Viola Buchert Dengler '17 in Philadelphia on September i i , 1925. They now reside in Ann Arbor, Mich. Verwiebe is teaching geology in the University of Michigan. '12 ME—Since last December, Harold C. Strohm has been vice-president of Court, Ernst & Wesson, Inc., dealers in iron and steel products at 131 Pacific Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. Strohm left his position with the Bethlehem Steel Company to take this place. He is living at 33 Oakland Avenue, Bloomfield, N. «}• '14 AB, '23 MD—Margaret Merris was married in May, 1925, to A. H. Wurts, and they are now living in Englewood, N. J., where she is practicing as a physician. Their address is 80 Knickerbocker Road. '14, '15 AB—Announcement has been made of the engagement of Arthur J. Putnam to Miss Marian W. Walton, Bryn Mawr '21, daughter of Mrs. Ernest F. Walton of Bronxville, N. Y. Putnam is with the Macmillan Company, 60 Fifth Avenue, New York. '14 ME—Mr. and Mrs. McRea Parker have a daughter, Marilyn, born on January 23. They live at 2355 Bellefield Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Parker is chief engineer of the Cleveland Worsted Mills Company. '14 BS—Edwin G. Bishop was recently named city clerk and tax assessor in Coral Gables, Fla. He was formerly manager of the bond and mortgage department of the Coral Gables Corporation. '14 PhD—President George F. Zook of the University of Akron will deliver a series of lectures at the coming Ohio State University Summer Session on "The Administration of Higher Education." '14 ME—J. James Munns is now with the Detroit Seamless Steel Tubes Company in Detroit, Mich. '14 PhD—Albert W. Davison is a professor of chemical engineering and head of the Department of Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. '15 Sp—William E. Davis is a salesman for the Purina Mills of St. Louis, Mo. He and his wife have two children and live at 31 North Chenango Street, Greene, N. Y. Ί6 AB—Carlton P. Collins is engaged in the real estate and insurance business at 432 Main Street, Stamford, Conn. He lives there on Shippan Point. Ί6, '17 ME—A daughter, Jeannette, was born on March 25 to Mr. and Mrs. J. Carey Othus of 303 North Thirty-first Street, Corvallis, Ore. Ί6—Maxwell Rose is supervisor of employment at the Eclipse Works cf the Atlantic Refining Company, Franklin, Pa. His address there is 62 Front Street. Ί6 AB—Clinton E. Sherwood was married on February 6 to Miss Alice L. Peckham, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ellery G. Peckham of Stamford, Conn. Sherwood is with the law firm of Carter & Cressy. Ί6 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. O'Neill of Washington, D. C., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Dorothy Rebekah, to Ralph C. Davis Ί6, who is now located in Columbus, Ohio. Ί6 BS—Franklin H. Thomas is just getting around again after an operation which was followed by an attack of peritonitis. His address is 115 Kenmore Road, Upper Darby, Pa. '17 AB, '21 PhD—Lewis R. Koller is a physicist with the General Electric Company at Schenectady, N. Y., having been transferred there from New York. On March 30, he was married to Miss Noreen Macrum Mathews, Radcliffe '19, of Cincinnati, Ohio. '17 CE—John C. Tunnicliff is engaged in general contracting at Davenport, la., where his address is 2136 Scott Street. He writes that he and his wife have two future alumni in a son John and a daughter Jacqueline. Ί8 BChem, '25 PhD; '21 BChem— George H. Brandes Ί8 has been made assistant professor of general and analytical chemistry at Muhlenberg College. Professor Hermann F. Vieweg '21 is head of the department. Ί8 BS—Mildred M. Stevens is assistant State club leader of boys' and girls' clubs in New York State, with headquarters at the College of Agriculture. She lives at 116 Delaware Avenue, Ithaca. Ί8, '21 AB, '21 ME; '21 BS—Lawrence V. Smith has severed his connection with the Charles McCaul Company of Philadelphia, but has not yet announced his plans for the future. He writes that his wife, Katherine Duddy '21, presented him with a daughter, Audrey Lovett, on March 29. They live at 32 Aberdale Road, Bala, Pa. Ί8—John S. Knight is the managing editor of the Akron, Ohio, Beacon Journal and an editorial director of the Springfield, Ohio, Daily Sun. He was recently elected a director of the Central Savings & Trust Company of Akron, vice-president of the Portage Country Club, and a director of the Akron Chamber of Commerce. His address is 400 South Portage Path. Ί8 BS, '23 MD—Dr. SamuelHochman is resident surgeon at Mt. Sinai Hospital at looth Street and Fifth Avenue, New York. He was appointed to this position the first of the year, after having been house surgeon at the Harlem Hospital. Ί8, '20 BS—The City of Los Angeles, Calif., has four up to date and complete automobile service stations, known as "Perley Auto Services," of which James J. Perley is the president. He writes that any Cornellians visiting the city will receive a cordial welcome from him and that he will present them with a helpful road map "free." His address is 960 Edgecliff Drive, Los Angeles. Ί8, '20 BS; Ί8, '21 BS—Mr. and Mrs. J. Brackin Kirkland (Eleanor M. George) had a son born to them on April 5 at the Ithaca City Hospital. Kirkland is in the Extension Department of the College of Agriculture, and they are living on the Ellis Hollow road east of the city. Ί8, '21 AB—On April 12, Paul Gillette joined the advertising staff of the Ithaca Journal-News. Until recently he has been with the Williams Electric Company in Ithaca. He is married and lives at 202 Linden Avenue. '19, '20 ME—Morse G. Dial is the advertising manager of Morse & Rogers of New York, a branch of the International Shoe Company. He was married in the summer of 1924 to Miss Ethelwyn Gamble of Watertown, N. Y., and they have a son, Morse G. Dial, Jr., born on June 21, 1925. They live at 11 Willow Circle, Bronxville, New York. '19 AB—Announcement has been made of the engagement of C. Wellington Elmer to Miss Elizabeth Taylor of Hartford, Conn. They expect to be married on June 12 and will live in Bronxville, N. Y. '19, '20 CE—Abbott P. Herman is the minister of the student church at the University of Illinois at Champaign, 111., and lives at ιo6| East Chalmers Street. He is also the associate minister of the McKinley Memorial Presbyterian Church in Champaign. He is married but has no children. His training for the ministry was obtained at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, from which he graduated in 1924 with the degree of B. D. '19, Ί8 ME—A son, George S. Evans, was born on November 30, 1925, to Mr. and Mrs. Earl R. Evans. Evans is with the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh. His address is Box 2i, East Pittsburgh, Pa. '19, '21 ME—Clyde Mayer recently bought a home at 69 Woodland Road, Montclair, N. J., and since April i he and his wife have been living there. '19 AB—Dr. William P. Elliott of New Berlin, N. Y., was married on February 11 at Binghamton, N. Y., to Miss Lucy E. Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Volney Brown of Mansfield, Pa. '20 BS, '21 MF—Charles W. Ten Eick is still in Florida and frequently breaks into print there. His most recent article was on "Matchless Money," published in the November 7, 1925, issue of The Florida Grower. '20 MSA—On February 25, Earl, the four and one-half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis A. Eyster, of ion North Aurora Street, Ithaca, lost his life when he fell through the ice in Fall Creek west of the Tioga Street bridge and was swept out of sight beneath the ice. Every effort was made to recover the lad's body, but without result. Eyster is now employed as a CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 351 salesman for the H. C. T. Motor Company in Ithaca. '20 BS, '21 MF—Robert M. Volkert is located in Philadelphia and connected with the Union Lumber Company, manufacturers of California redwood, in market extension and sales. His address is Apartment 24, Drexel Court, Drexel Hill, Pa. '20 AB—Abraham A. Zausmer is a salesman for the National Cash Register Company in Syracuse, N. Y. His address there is 247 West Fayette Street. '20—Andrew E. Colson was married in the Congregational Church at Glen Ridge, N. J., on March 27to Miss Florence Whitely, daughter of Mrs. Helen T. Whitely of Glen Ridge. The bride is a graduate of Simmons College. They went on a honeymoon trip to Atlantic City and then sailed via the Panama Canal for Los Angeles, Calif., where they will reside. '20 AB—Elfreda C. Heath is an assistant in the library at Radcliffe College. Her address is n Shepard Street, Cambridge, Mass. '21 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Howard B. Hengerer of 2537 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., have a son, Howard Betts, Jr., born on March 31. '22, '23 BS—Announcement was made recently of the engagement of Walter R. Dann to Miss Katherine E. Haywood, Vassar '21, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. '22 ME; '21 AB—A daughter, Phyllis Jane, was born on January 26 to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert D. Tobey (Elva M. Cable '21) of 1648 Robinwood Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio. '22 EE; '23 BS—Ernest V. Strack and his wife, Elinor Watson '23, have contributed a candidate for the 1945 wrestling team in Charles Allen Strack, born on December 27. They are living on Clinton Street, Spring Valley, N. Y., and Strack is a junior statistician with the American Telephone & Telegraph Company at 195 Broadway, New York. '22 BS—Elizabeth Pratt is the leading lady in a company which is now presenting "Applesauce" in Southern cities. Last fall she was with a stock company in New London, Conn. Her home address is 28 Pine Street, Wellesley Hills, Mass. '22, '24 ME—Herbert P. Croxton is a salesman for the Air Reduction Sales Company of St. Louis, Mo. He was married on March n to Miss Evelyn Craven of St. Louis and as he expects to be transferred to the Cleveland, Ohio, office of the company, they will make their home in that city soon, he writes. '22 BS—Adrian F. Blume is the vegetable gardener at the Homeopathic State Hospital at Allentown, Pa. '23, '24 CE—Charles F. Lovan is the resident engineer of a seventeen-story office building at Main and Forsyth Streets, Jacksonville, Fla. He is also instructing elementary and advanced surveying classes in the Y. M. C. A. Night School there. His address is 327 Catherine Street. '23, '24 BS—Justin A. C. Curtis is a real estate broker and manager of the Sanitary Barbecue Company in Cleveland, Ohio, a subsidiary of the J. H. Dickman Company. He resides at the Lambda Chi Alpha House in Cleveland, but mail should be addressed to him at 964 Hanna Building. He is planning to be back in Ithaca for Spring Day. '23 AB—Willis K. Wing was recently chosen as editor of Radio Broadcast, one of the Doubleday, Page & Company publications. He has been on the magazine staff since 1923. He writes that two other former members of the Widow staff are doing work that appears regularly in his magazine. One is Frank Stratford '24, who is illustrating a regular department of broadcast comment and criticism, and the other is "Wallie" Purcell '23, who is writing the amusing "The Listener's Point of View" under the nom de plume of John Wallace. '23 AB—Denis B. Maduro is studying law at Harvard and writes that he is in the midst of his third and last year of a long grind. He says that he hopes to get out in June "and get next to some of the stuff the prohibition agents in New York have amassed." '23 ME—William C. Taylor writes that he was married on February 6 last to Miss Constance Long of Oak Park, 111. They are living at 405 South East Avenue, Oak Park. Among those at their wedding were Otto Unzicker and L. Van Epps Mitchell of Chicago, and Beauchamp E. Smith of York, Pa. Taylor is with the Western Electric Company. '23 CE—Harold L. Furst is now located at 4O-BBroadway View Apartments, 2720 Broadway, New York. '23 CE—Thomas Telfer was married to Miss Emily P. Eggleston on February 6 last, and they are now living at 1862 Arch Street, Berkeley, Calif. '23 ME—Nevin T. Brenner is in the coal conveying business, selling aerial tramways, with offices at 509 Columbia Bank Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. He lives at 6934 Church Avenue, Ben Avon, Pittsburgh. '24 AB—William H. Smith is an insurance investigator in the Newark, N. J., office of the Retail Credit Company. He lives at 105 Lincoln Park, Newark. '24 ME—Nathan Kliot recently left the Combustion Engineering Company to organize the T & K Construction Company, Inc., which is engaged in the construction of private homes in Jamaica, Long Island. His address is 63 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn. '24; '23—Milton G. Dexter is in the sales department of the L. G. Balfour Company, fraternity jewelers in Paw- STAY RIGHT IN YOUR CAR and Open or Close Your Garage Door Electrically THE Electric Door operates from a plate in the driveway, and enables you to either open or close your garage doors without getting out of the car, or even taking your hand from the wheel. When you are in a hurry, or the rain is pouring down, it is always ready to serve you. Saves time, clothes, and temper, and permits full enjoyment of a closed car. Simple, safe, durable, ^reliable. Designed especially for the private residence garage. Operates 100 times for 2 cents. Easily installed. At Electric Dealers or direct from factory $125 complete, f. o. b., Ithaca, N. Y. The finishing touch to a modern home Write for Illustrated Booklet ELECTRIC DOOR CORPORATION ITHACA NEW YORK 352 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S tucket, R. I. On April 4 he and Jennie A. Curtis '23 announced their engagement. 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