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OF MARIETTA COLLEGE

VOL. IX NO. 4 JULY 1930

THE MARIETTA ALUMNUS Subscription Price $2.00 per Year

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Published bi-monthly by the Alumni Council of Marietta College, at Marietta, Ohio.

MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI COUNCIL

Term to Expire 1931: Myron A. Hays, '80 C. C. Middleswart, '94 Allan T. Williamson, '98 Ruby A. Wilder, '08 Corwin L. McMahon, '20

Term to Expire 1932: Howard W. Dickinson, '89 Henry M. Dawes, '96 Joseph C. Brenan, '96e Miss Willia D. Cotton, '98 Beman G. Ludwig, '19

Term to Expire 1933: William S. Plumer, '91 Asa E. Ward, '02 George J. Blazier, '14 Mrs. Jessie Hyde Palmer, '20 Howard E. Beebout, '25

EDITORIAL STAFF

Arthur G. Beach, '91 Thomas H. Kelley, '74

George J. Blazier, '14 Charles A. Ward, '90

Miss Willia D. Cotton, '98

Entered as Second Class matter May 2, 1922, at the Post Office at Marietta, Ohio, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

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T h e Marietta Alumnus Vol. IX JULY 1930 No. 4

Table of Contents

Alumni Council Report 121 Frontispiece—A new view of Erwin Hall 122 Editorial Comment and Review 123 Athletics • 135 Professor Henry L. Coar 137 The President's Message 138 A History of Science in Marietta College, by C. E. Corwin, '92 139 The Baccalaureate Address, by President Edward S. Parsons 144 Letters from Alumni 150 The Reading Table 151 Alumni Meetings 151 News by Classes 155

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THE ALUMNI COUNCIL REPORT 1929-1930 I. General

I hereby report as Secretary of the Council the activities of the year 1929-1930. The activities of the Council are still somewhat curtailed because of the lack of funds with which to operate. However due to the generosity of the President and the Treasurer of the College the Alumni Council has received a greater sum from the Marietta Fund and the deficit of last year is greatly reduced. We have also effected greater savings in the money by curtailing certain activities which have resulted as follows:

EXPENDITURES 1927-28 1928-29 1929-30 *Decrease

The Marietta Alumnus Printing $1240.55 $959.16 $867.07 $ 92.09 Pictures and Cuts 165.59 144.85 68.41 76.44 Mailing 67.42 59.53 49.05 10.48 Subscription Appeals 43.84 95.63 95.63

Assistants 875.00 615.00 420.00 195.00 Traveling Expense 188.40 98.34 70.17 28.17 Office Supplies 34.16 9.19 1.80 7.39

$505.20 •Decrease—this year less than last year.

II. The General Catalog Last August at the direction of this annual meeting a year ago the newly printed 1400 General

Catalogs were mailed to a selected list of Alumni with the request for a dollar to pay for it. The sum of $76.50 was received. This sum with $1000.00 from the Marietta Fund just clears this account to where the Council funds can absorb the remainder. The account is as follows: Expenditures Receipts

1928-1929 $1,111.49 From Alumni $ 76.50 1929-1930 8.82 From Marietta Fund 1,000.00

$1,120.31 $1,076.50 Deficit $43.81

III. Regional Meetings This year 13 Regional Meetings have been held, all of which were successful and most enjoyable

from every point of view. The number, 547 attending, is larger this year by 103 than a year ago. Three new clubs have been organized, bringing the number to 18. We regret that there was no opportunity to hold the Philadelphia and Detroit meetings.

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EDITORIAL COMMENT AND REVIEW 'THE TWO OUTSTANDING EVENTS * in the life of the college during the past

six months aside from Commencement have been the dedication of the new Dorothy Webster Hall on January 20th and the Founder's Day celebration on February 14th.

The Dorothy Webster Hall is the gift of Mr. W. W. Mills and Mr. John Mills as a memorial to their mother and is the most beautiful building on our campus. It is the General Warner home on Butler Street enlarged and reconstructed within and without. Few colleges possess so beautiful and well appointed a home for their young women. The responsive service composed for the occasion by Professor David E. Adams expresses fitly the spirit of the gift and the purpose of the hall: "For the nurture of the highest ideals of young

American womanhood, in health, in intelligence, and in the things of the spirit; in grateful remembrance of the lives and character of noble women who have set the stamp of their personality upon this community; to the end that others like them may be trained to take their places and carry on unbroken the tradition of high and noble service, we dedicate this house." Brief addresses were made by President Parsons and Dean Rosemond, and by Miss Miriam Manning on behalf of the residents in the hall, and the prayer of dedication was made by Professor Adams. A delightful feature of the dedication was a musicale given by Mr. Francis MacMillan, Miss Marie Houston of Cincinnati, and Miss Ruth Russell. The guests were also shown about the building by the young women who make their home there.

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THE CHIEF GUEST AND SPEAKER at the Founders' Day celebration was emeritus President Thompson of Ohio State University. Ex-president Thompson spoke out of a rich experience in college education and in life as well with a wisdom and humor that delighted his audience on the general theme of education and culture in the life of America today.

The Alumni Luncheon was held at the Lafayette Hotel and the principal speaker was Mr. Archie M. Palmer, Associate Secretary of the Association of American Colleges, whose theme was "Liberal arts colleges and their contribution to American life." Dean Rosemond and President Parsons also spoke in regard to the new developments and plans of the college and Mr. Blazier, alumni secretary, presided as toast master. A pleasant reception was given at the Dorothy Webster Hall in the afternoon and the student assembly on the following morning closed the celebration with an address by Mr. Palmer.

THE PLAYERS CLUB'S development under the direction of Miss Geneva Stephenson has been a source of gratification to all friends of the college. The usual programs of one act plays have been presented at regular intervals and in addition a very creditable rendering of the three act play, "Dulcy," by Kaufmann and Kelly, has been given with a cast of eleven players, Miss Ruth Bergen playing the leading role.

The most unusual and interesting event of the year, however, was the participation of the Players Club in the Eva LeGallienne Cup tournament at Northwestern University in which nine colleges took part. The Marietta players presented "Rain," a one act play by Dana Burnett, with Mary Cisler, Lincoln Schmidt, John Daymont, Roy Ash, Charles Devore, Francis Middleswart and Ernest Gazda as the performers. They were given fifth place by the judges. Another group of players also presented the play, "The Very Naked Boy," at the annual meeting of the Marietta College Club of Chicago. A pleasant feature of the trip was the fact that Miss Stephenson and the young women players were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus C. Dawes in Evanston during their stay and all the players were given a party at the same hospitable home. Others were entertained at the home of Mrs. Ada

Swingle Camp, '05, who also with Kingston C. McCoy, '23e, arranged the details of the visit.

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MISS HELEN V. NICHOLAS, '31, and Miss Miriam Manning, '30, sailed June 25th for a ten weeks residence in Geneva, Switzerland. Miss Nicholas will study in the Geneva School of International Studies, having been awarded a scholarship to that institution some weeks earlier. Miss Manning will study as a post graduate in Bacteriology in the University of Geneva.

# * * * * THE DEBATERS have been discussing

disarmament, advertising and higher education with several college teams, among them Baldwin Wallace, Mt. Union, Miami, Lake Forest, and a team from Southwestern University of Los Angeles. Homer Hall, Charles Jennings, Adolf Weiss and Herbert Richards were the Marietta debaters.

THE FRENCH CLUB has given a French play, "Au Luxembourg," and has had an address by Monsieur Octave Long who was born in France and spent most of his life there.

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TEN MEMBERS OF THE SENIOR class have been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. One of their number, William Klare, was elected last year as the Junior member, and had already been initiated. The others are Beulah Caswell, Kathryn Hanna, Olive Alexander, Dorothy Ash, Eleanor Ward, Elbert Ahlstrom, Ray Flesher, Edgar Fogle, and Lincoln Schmidt. Mr. Oscar M. Voorhees, national secretary of Phi Beta Kappa, visited the college recently and addressed the chapter.

SCHOLARSHIP has also been recognized in the college by the awarding to the local chapter of Theta Kappa Nu Fraternity of the national scholarship cup.

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tional guidance have recently been inaugurated under the direction of Miss Rosemond and Mr. Piersel and a number of interviews have been held by them with students. The purposes of this effort are stated to be: to furnish information regarding requirements of various occupations and positions and qualifications for

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THE MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS at Marietta College presented their first concert over the air to the large audience of radio fans throughout the country who listened in to station WLW of Cincinnati at ten o'clock Saturday night, March 29th.

The combined club of twenty men and women was the pick of the best musical talent in the college and were under the direction of Mr. Gerald L. Hamilton.

The wide reception of the program is shown by the many letters since received from Texas to New Jersey.

The students were the guests of the Marietta College Club of Cincinnati at its 76th annual dinner held on this occasion in the banquet hall of the new Y. W. C. A. building. President Edward S. Parsons and Dean D. T. Schoonover represented the faculty

The members of the glee club were entertained in the homes of Cincinnati alumni.

In addition to the program presented at the Alumni Dinner they sang at one of the hotels Saturday noon and later gave a dinner concert in the Florentine Room of the Hotel Gibson. The radio presentation took place in the studios of the Crosley Radio Corporation.

The second annual spring trip of the combined glee clubs included in its itinerary McConnellsville, Pomeroy, Gallipolis, Ironton and Cincinnati. At Ironton and Gallipolis the club appeared in the afternoon at the high schools and made a most favorable impression for the college.

The Club has sung at 15 other towns in the Marietta region in the past year.

AMONG THE LETTERS RECEIVED at the college were those from C. Earl Humphrey, '15, from his home in Oklahoma; Robert H. Walker, '78, of Gonzales, Texas, and Miss Marjorie Nye, daughter of William Wallace Nye, deceased. Mr. Walker expressed his appreciation inasmuch as he has been an invalid for the past three years—not being able to leave his room. Since, we have heard of his death which occurred May 4th.

A NUMBER OF INTERESTING and instructive talks have been given at the

student assemblies the past few months. Professor Gerrish has spoken of his visit to Oxford University and of his experiences in Italy. Professor Eggleston of the scientific work of Professor Biscoe. Dr. Tiber Eckhardt, a statesman and journalist of Hungary, has told of financial, economic and social conditions in Central Europe since the war. Professor Hamilton has given several illustrated lectures of musical appreciation. The students representing the Christian Associations have continued their custom begun early in the year of occasionally taking charge of the volunteer chapel assemblies and furnishing leaders from their own number.

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SCOTT MENDENHALL of the Junior class represented Marietta College at the annual convention of the Mid-west Student Council Federation which was held at The Georgia School of Technology. Many topics of interest were discussed such as student government, student publications, student finance, and athletics and Mr. Mendenhall reported the results of the meetings to the student assembly.

* * * * * MOST OF THE ORGANIZATIONS on

the campus have indulged in dances or banquets including the Student Council, the Women's Pan Hellenic Association and the Players Club. The Junior Prom, the Sophomore Frolique and the The Dansant given by the freshmen, have been events of interest to the entire student body, and the usual round of fraternity and sorority dances and house parties has not been neglected, the members of Alpha Sigma Phi varying the program by their annual Mother's Day celebration with banquet, reception and church attendance, each member of the fraternity bringing his mother to church thus reversing the usual process.

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PROF. HENRY LIVINGSTON COAR is retiring from the faculty this year at the end of a period of 24 years service in Marietta College. Professor and Mrs. Coar have been guests of honor at three meetings at the close of the college year, a Student Assembly on June 3rd at which Professor Joseph Manley, President Edward S. Parsons and Professor Phil L. Rea and Mr. Ross Decker of the Student Body paid tribute to Professor Coar's valuable service. The same evening a faculty and trustee dinner was held in honor of them


at the Betsey Mills Club at which many telegrams and letters from friends, alumni and other institutions were read. Complimentary expressions were made by President Parsons, Dean Schoonover and Mr. T. J. Summers, Trustee, and Professor Beach. Professor Beach on the behalf of the faculty presented Mr. Coar with a Gladstone Bag and Mrs. Coar with a vase.

Among the alumni who sent letters of congratulations and good wishes were: Lee G. Stealey, '07; George R. Lord, '08; William E. Byers, '08; Albert F. Wendell, '08; Annan E. Becker, '09; Albert W. Schimmel, '12; Henry F. Corwin, '14; Stanley C. Morris, '14; W. D. Wolfe, '14; Mildred Palmer, '17; Harry S. Bailey, '18; M. A. Hyde, Jr., '19; Beman G. Ludwig, '19; Kenneth R. Ward, '22; N. Goff Carder, '24; Richard Trott, '26; Virginia Laugh-lin, '29; William B. Beaver, '19; Amos H. Black, '24; Alfred L. Sprecker, '22; J. Sheldon Scott, '18; The Marietta College Club of Cleveland, and Eugene H. Ogdin, '18.

* * * * * THE ANNUAL PLEDGING by the

fraternities came during the early days of the second semester with the following results:

DELTA UPSILON — Francis Clark Ahern, '33, Willimantic, Conn.; Lowell Ellenwood Alderman, '33, Marietta; Richard Backus, '33, Columbus; Floyd William Bules, '33, Marietta; Clifford Loraine Cogswell, '33, Marietta; John Thomas Dietz, '33, Marietta; John Robert Gibson, '33, Nashua, N. H.; John Dana Hubbell, '33, Beverly; Arthur Kenneth Johnson, '33, Circleville; James Porter Jones, '33, Pennsboro, W. Va.; Frank Arthur Leon-hardt, '33, New York City, N. Y.; George W. Lovell, '33, Marietta; Theodore Pitts, '33, Sharon, Pa.; Virgel Sturgell, '33, Lucasville; John Wade White, '33, Marietta; John Caleb Wightman, '33, Florence, Mass.; Robert Glenn Williams, '33, Marietta; Paul F. Wittlig, '33, Marietta.

NU PHI—George Wilbert Benedict, '33, Walton, N. Y.; Charles Buckley, '33, New Boston; Forrest Gilmore Conrath, '33, Marietta; Donald Edgar Flower, '33, Marietta; French R. Fogle, '33, St. Marys, W. Va.; Glenn Daniel Hoyt, '33, Carroll-ton; Walter Lee McCullough, '33, St. Marys, W. Va.; Antony Noto, '33, Brooklyn, N. Y.; William Andrew Palm, '33, Cleveland; Gayle H. Price, '33, Parkers

burg, W. Va.; Hubert Miller Price, '33, Parkersburg, W. Va.; Howard F. Steele, '33, Quaker City; James Riley Weeks, '33, Marietta; Gerald Victor Weinstock, '33, Marietta; Kermit Weinstock, '33, Marietta; Don Metcalf White, '33, Stockport; Paul McRa Riffe, '32, Parkersburg, W. Va.

THETA KAPPA NU —Ralph William Walter, '33, Cleveland; Richard John Trommetter, '30, Cleveland; Hugh Yarian, '33, Sharon, Pa.; John Chotlos, '33, Sharon, Pa.; Richard William Donovan, '32, Martins Ferry; James Russell Fankhauser, '33, Parkersburg, W. Va.; Eugene Edward Schwall, '33, Woodsfield; Frank Odino Lollini, '33, Rayland; Arthur Franklin Wykle, '33, Jackson; James Austin Johnson, '33, Gallipolis; Robert George Johnston, '33, Marietta; Robert V. Lusk, '33, Marietta.

ALPHA SIGMA PHI — Daniel Scott Wilkin, '33, Washington, C. H.; Charles W. Griffin, '33, Williamstown, W. Va.; James Edward Clark, '33, Syracuse; Paul Earnest Petty, '33, Marietta; Robert Henry Gerke, '33, Marietta; Russell Bennett Polonus, '33, Sharon, Pa.; John Lorenzo Woods, '33, Rochester, Pa.; Carl William Patton, '32, Woodsfield.

ALPHA TAU OMEGA —Earl William Ross, '33, Bellaire; Roscoe R. Cunningham, '33, New Matamoras; Wilfred Blaine Myers, '33, Marietta; Robert William Burk, '33, St. Marys, W. Va.; Layrd Bea-man Smith, '33, Marietta; Charles A. Trimble, '32, Parkersburg, W. Va.; John William Miller, '32, Parkersburg, W. Va.; John Michael Hackett, Jr., '32, Marietta, and Kenneth Boone, '32, Marietta.

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MRS. PROFESSOR T. D. PHILLIPS, who has had many stories published in "Child Life" and other children's periodicals, has recently had a book accepted by a publishing firm and it will appear in a short time.

* * * * * MR. GEORGE J. BLAZIER has had

published in a recent bulletin of the Association for Adult Education a bibliography on "Alumni Relations and Alumni Work in Colleges and Universities" which he presented at a recent meeting of the Alumni Secretaries of the Colleges and Universities.

* * * * * IN MARCH A CHAPTER OF THE

Archeological Institute of America was


installed in Marietta, the membership including both college and townspeople. Dean Schoonover was elected president, Judge D. W. Jones vice president, and Miss Katherine Parr Nye, secretary. Professor Rollin G. Tanner of New York University, Secretary of the National Institute, gave an interesting and illustrated lecture on "The Minotaur and the Labyrinth of Greece." At a later meeting Professor Ralph Van Deman Magoffin, who was formerly connected with Marietta Academy, gave an address on recent excavations.

OLD COLLEGE CANNON is resurrected after being lost 11 years. The following account is taken from The Marietta Times:

After having been lost for 11 years the old college cannon—a weapon that has had a long and eventful history in connection with college pranks and celebrations—has been found and had an honorable position in the commencement parade on Monday morning. It attracted widespread attention as it rolled down Putnam Street mounted upon a new caisson.

Years ago the city gave the cannon to the graduating class of 1898 and its members mounted the weapon upon a concrete base memorial. For years the cannon was the source of bitter rivalry between the different fraternities on the campus and from time to time it had many different masters. The concrete slab upon which it originally was mounted has been preserved by "Dad" Elliott.

Five years ago the Marietta College Olio made an attempt to locate the old cannon, but efforts proved futile.

Later it developed that in 1919 the graduating class of Nu Phi Fraternity confiscated the cannon. The weapon was hidden away and from that date until Sunday night its location was a guarded secret. This year it was decided by alumni of the fraternity that the time to produce the cannon was ripe and it was brought forward late Sunday night.

It is a surprise to many of the college people to know that the cannon lay buried during the 11 years beneath the surface of the campus, its "grave" having been within two feet of the old pedestal location in front of the college library.

Following the parade today the cannon

was placed on display on the lawn of Nu Phi Fraternity.

HON. SAMUEL MORSE FELTON, Hon. LL. D., 1927, in railway service since 1868 at which time he began as a rodman on the Chester Creek (Pennsylvania) railroad, died March 12, 1930. He was born in Philadelphia, February 3rd, 1853. In 1909 he became president of the Chicago Great Western Railroad. During the war he was director general of military railways, vice chairman of the Port and Harbor Facilities Commission and a member of the United States Shipping Board.

He will be remembered in Marietta by his association with Hon. Charles G. Dawes.

RANDOLPH CHANDLER DOWNES, who was instructor in history in Marietta College 1925-27, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Ohio State University May 25th, 1929. The title of Mr. Downes' dissertation is Founding Ohio 1788-1803." Mr. Downes had access during his instructorship here to the documents stored in the library.

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NEWS OF OTHER DAYS was recalled most pleasantly in the Commercial Gazette of Cincinnati on January 23rd, 1930, when news taken from files of the Cincinnati Commercial on the same date in 1880 was published. The report was written by Edward Betty, who, says Mr. Kelley, was one of the famous Cincinnati newspaper men, now deceased.

"Sons of renowned old Marietta College, now useful and honored citizens of Queen City, foregathered at Burnet House and there made a joyous night of it along with invited guests from outside districts. Club dated itself back to 1870, so Historian W. C. Cooder recounted, some of its founders being Sir A. T. Goshorn, Hon. John F. Follett, Maj. E. C. Dawes, William M. Ramsey, W. H. Blymer and Charles Little. President S. N. Maxwell wielded authority at banquet board, where telegrams of congratulations from other Marietta clubs, from college Prexy Andrews, and from members of faculty and under-grads swelled the tide of jubilation. Toasts and speeches pealed the praises of alma mater. George Bradley, Class of '41, specially honored guest, and among others participating were William Means, Maj. E. C.


Dawes, Dr. A. B. Isham, A. W. Waters and the Rev. Dudley Rhodes. Thomas H. Kelley responded to the toast, "Our Lawyers;" Dr. Isham to toast, "Our Physicians." Officers of club of ensuing year were: W. H. Blymyer, President; L. E. Warner, Vice-President; W. C. Cooder, Secretary; L. W. Gilliland, Treasurer, and C. H. Bosworth, Historian.

* * * * * ON FRIDAY, JUNE 6th, 1930, Miss

Alice Rosemond, Dean of Women, was the hostess of 75 high school senior girls of Marietta, Parkersburg and other nearby towns, at a reception at the Dorothy Webster Hall. Miss Rosemond gave this opportunity for the girls of the city of Marietta and surrounding region to look over the college.

THOMAS DWIGHT BISCOE, LL. D., professor emeritus of Marietta College, died at his home here February 27th.

From 1874 to 1907 he was professor of science at Marietta, a period of thirty-three years in which he devoted his interests and labors to the progressive development of the college's science department, especially in the field of biology.

Dr. Biscoe was born at Grafton, Mass., on May 12,1840, the son of a New England clergyman. He received his A. B. degree from Amherst College in 1863, after which he studied for two years in Hartford Theological Seminary. He received

his A. M. degree at Amherst in 1866. From 1868-70 he studied sciences at Halle University, Germany.

Coming here in 1874 when all the sciences were listed under the old department of natural history founded in 1846, he taught geology, mineralogy, chemistry and physics. In 1879 zoology was added to this group and when in 1892 the biological sciences were made an independent unit, Dr. Biscoe being relieved of other responsibilities, began his great work in this field. A collection of several thousand microscopic slides, many charts and drawings, and the herbarium are all monuments of his services of this period.

Dr. Biscoe retired as active professor in the department of biology in June, 1907.

In 1875 he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa fraternity as a reward for his remarkable accuracy and the painstaking qualities of his work. At the commencement of 1891, Marietta College conferred upon Dr. Biscoe the degree of Doctor of Laws.

One great contribution which Professor Biscoe made to the cause of general science was his 40 years of service in co-operation with the United States Weather Bureau. Mr. W. H. Alexander, in charge of the weather bureau at Columbus, Ohio, has said, "Marietta is our longest and most distinguished weather record in the state." Professor Biscoe's service was much the longest of any observer.

So passes on another of Marietta's great teachers, who gave his life to the advancement of learning. To the end he retained his keen mind and lively interest in all about him. His death is mourned by all who knew him and felt the touch of his personality.

AT GREENWICH, Connecticut, there was celebrated May 6th, 1930, the 225th anniversary of the founding of the Second Congregational Church. One speaker took for his title "Some Milestones in Our History" and related some interesting incidents in the Church's history, one of which was the pastorate of Dr. Joel H. Linsley, first president of Marietta College. He spoke as follows:

"Dr. Joel H. Linsley was the mastermind, I venture to believe, who first suggested this Gothic church which was built in 1856. Dr. Linsley was a big man when he came here, from previous pastorates in


the Second Church, Hartford, and in Park Street, Boston, and he had been president of Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio. So he knew a thing or two. And when he spoke of a new church of stone and of the Gothic type to such a wise man as Philander Button, he approved. And when he talked it over with Robert Williams Mead, that fervent soul at once kindled into flame with the idea. It was this triumvirate, I believe, who were responsible for the great vision that built this church."

DR. CHARLES A. GALLAGHER

\ / A N Y alumni, especially those who have *"• had their eyesight helped by him, will recall Dr. Charles A. Gallagher who practiced his profession in Marietta for 36 years. His death which occurred in March 1930 was felt by the whole region about Marietta.

Dr. Gallagher, by a will found a day or so after his death, made the college the principal beneficiary of his estate to which he left a sum of $25,000.00 in cash and provisions in other gifts which may eventually increase the amount.

The bequest to Marietta College is for endowment for the departments of biology, chemistry and physics, fields of work in which Dr. Gallagher was intensely interested. By the provisions of his grant the income from his gift is to be expended "solely for the promotion, advancement and betterment of the courses" in these departments. It is expressly provided that in accepting his gift the college may

not reduce the regular appropriations for these departments from the average budgets of the past five years. It was Dr. Gallagher's intention that the fund should provide for their improvement. A trust fund of $10,000.00 and a residence property was left to a niece, Mrs. Josephine Carter of South Bend, and will in time revert to the college. An unusual feature of the will is the bequest of $10,000.00 to an unknown beneficiary whose identity is to be established by the presentation of a half of a torn leaf from a book, the other half being attached to the will. If this bequest is not claimed by 1955, it also reverts to Marietta College.

Dr. Gallagher had repeatedly expressed his interest in the college. He was a member of the Marietta College Science Club and a regular contributor to the Marietta Fund. This gift coming from one who had no affiliation with the college except in fellowship, but who had observed its splendid work for more than thirty years, is most encouraging. His is the fourth gift to the Centennial Endowment Fund.

'-THE ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT held * June 13th to 16th was favored by good

weather and a goodly number of returning alumni. The program was much as in former years and was well carried out. The purely social affairs included reunions of various classes, notably those of 1890 and 1905, the June Breakfast, the alumni dinner, fraternity and sorority dances and suppers, as well as informal renewal of old friendships. The presence of Mrs. Alfred Tyler Perry, who had not been in Marietta for seventeen years was greatly enjoyed. The class of 1890 mustered fifteen members 'with headquarters at the country place of Beman G. Dawes up the Muskingum, and in their gatherings they included Emeritus Professors Phillips and Chamberlin. Clark, Dawes, Deshler, Gear, Kaiser, Lucas, McMaster, Moore, Plumer, Ripley, Scott, Shaw, Stoughton, Ward and Weber made up the group and from all reports they had a great time. The classes of 1905, 1910, 1920 and others were fewer in numbers and made less noise but seemed to enjoy themselves. Another group was Alpha Sigma sorority, composed of women who attended either Marietta College or the earlier Marietta College for Women or Elizabeth College, be-


fore the sororities now at the college were inaugurated. This group held a banquet at the Betsey Mills Club, initiated a number of new members, and listened to the reading of the following poem sent by Mrs. Agnes McKay Henking from Huntington, W. Va.:

Backward, turn backward, O hair in the flight, Make me brunnette again, just for tonight. Scatter, you wrinkles in every direction, Give me once more a school girl complexion. Drop off, O figure, the contour of fifty, Make me eighteen again, slender and nifty. Now call the friends, start the hullaballoo, We'll show the world what the 90's could do.

Here's Linnie and Laura, and Anna and Bess, And Alice and Agnes (that's me, I confess). And Jesse Wood Clifton, the Chamberlins, too, Grace and Ite Penrose—oh, how do you do. I'm so glad to see you, you're looking so grand, The finest, the dearest, the best in the land, Old friends, my devotion to you will not fail, The years pass away, and distance prevail.

And so, as you gather to feast and to sing, This message from one eight nine nine, I would

bring: Let us hold to our f riendships-the older the better-tin fact that is really the text of this letter.) Though fashions may change and beauty may exit, The love of old friends comes to her who expects

it; To the friends of our youth all honor and praise— The friends that we love in our young college

days.

THE MARIETTA COLLEGE WOMEN'S Club also held a luncheon as also did the Science Club, the Varsity "M" Association, and the Trustees. The Alumni Dinner, held in the gymnasium of the Betsey Mills Club was quite largely attended. The new president of the Alumni Association, Stanley C. Morris, '14, presided as toast-master, and responses were made by Robert A. Shaw, '90; Professor Coar; Archer B. Hulbert, '95, of Colorado College; President L. B. Hopkins of Wabash College; Rufus C. Dawes, '86; Dr. James P. Berkley, '05, of Newton Theological Seminary; Mr. W. W. Mills, '71, and President Parsons. An interesting guest was Sir Henry Cole, who had just crossed the ocean from England with Ambasador Charles G. Dawes and went on to Chicago with Mr. Rufus Dawes, President of the Century of Progress Fair to be held in Chicago in 1933 to act as an expert adviser in that great undertaking. Professor Hulbert brought with him the following poem which had been set to music in honor of Rodney M. Stimson whose services to the

college during many years are so well recognized.

RODNEY STIMSON'S CANE

(Dedicated to Edward E. MacTaggart, '92. Words arranged by Archer B. Hulbert, '95, with apologies to Chas. B. Wright. Music by E. Pruda Wiley.)

Every night a figure stalks, slowly down our campus walks,

It's the spirit of a man of kingly strain; For when gruff old Stimpy died, he was Marietta's

pride, And he bossed the cock-eyed world with a cane.

Chorus— Oh, it's rap-»rap-rap, and it's tap-tap-tap;

If you listen you can hear it sounding plain; For a helper true and tried, as the generations

glide, There is nothing like old Rodney Stimson's

Cane!

When the college was dead broke, with a chapel bell in soak,

Old Stimpy saw the rainbow thru the rain; I am not sure what he swaller'd, but I've heard

the Trustees holler'd, When the old man raised the money with his

Every Marietta boy, now can add to Stimpy's joy, Let him cultivate his muscle and his brain;

With a center to go thru, or a Dawes Plan to do, Let him summon up the courage of that cane.

Oh the sheiks on Athens' Hill, tremble with a deadly chill,

And their shivering is easy to explain; We have trimmed them in the past, we will trim

them to the last, For we conquer in the courage of that cane.

Stimpy's crooked bones now rest, by the Mound he loved the best,

Forever there in honor to remain; But his gifts and all his books, aren't a picayune,

by Zooks, To our heritage of iron in his cane.

* * * * *

THE RECEPTION ON THE LAWN of the president's home was, as it always is, a very delightful occasion. A new feature was the Water Sports Carnival on the Muskingum River, consisting of canoe races, outboard motor races, and a shell race between three of the fraternities in which the Nu Phi crew outdistanced its competitors.

The Glee Club gave a very enjoyable concert under Professor Hamilton's direction, and the Players Club presented Lang-don Mitchell's problem play, "The New York Idea," directed by Miss Stevenson.

All the participants in the Class Day program acquitted themselves well. Pen-


elope Gantz read a class history set to the theme of "Row, row, row your boat;" Carmen Josephy delivered an ivy oration replete with optimism and college loyalty; Royal Richards in the class oration spoke of the qualities which make for a successful life; and Miriam Manning read the following excellent poem:

Where lazy rivers whispered to each other, While moving seasons watched us come and go,

We have wandered with our foster mother Till she is done with us and bids us go.

We cannot frame the wondering nights of dreaming.

Or write the laughing days of things that are; Dead words are strangers to the living

And frames are futile things, around a star.

The Falls have dressed the trees in golden glory; Each Spring has laid her violet spread;

Crystal snows have fallen, white and hoary, And we have walked, and laughed and read.

To few, becoming, are the robes of learning, And more will change them for a brighter

gown; A few will look at stars, and go on yearning.

And more will laugh at stars till stars fall down.

And some have book-filled arms and thought-free brain cells;

And some have cared for neither thoughts nor books.

Wise ones have wisely learned, to follow bells, And foolish ones, still foolish follow brooks.

There are far, far truths we know The thought we feel is near;

Next Fall the leaves on Andrews b low. . . And we will not be h e r e . . . .

THE JUNE BREAKFAST proved as enjoyable as in former years. Some 300 were present, and altho so many were not expected and food ran short, there seemed to be no lack of good humor.

At the meeting of the Alumni Council, Miss Willia Cotton was added to the board of editors of "The Alumnus." The council voted to appoint a committee of alumni to interest themselves in the development of the various departments of education in the college with a view to discovering their needs and providing for them. This committee is to be appointed by Secretary Blazier in groups of three and is to work in co-operation for the development of the educational departments.

At the meeting of the Alumni Association Stanley C. Morris, '14, of Charleston, W. Va., was elected president, and Harry S. Bailey, '18, of Wheeling, W. Va., vice-

president. There were 100 present at the meeting which was presided over by Asa E. Ward. The class of 1930 extended a welcome to the annual association by Edgar W. Norris, '20, Toledo. A response was made by Wesley C. Clark, '30. A memorial to the late Arthur H. Savenye was read by Thomas H. Kelley, '74, of Cincinnati. David Dale Johnson, '96, Morgantown, W. Va., spoke in memory of his classmate, the late Carl H. Lund. Edgar W. Norris paid a fitting tribute to the late L. D. Bevan of the class of '10.

Attorney Arthur A. Clark of Vincennes, Indiana, and a member of the famous class of 1890, presented the class oration, "The Pageant," which proved to be intensely interesting. Mr. Clark is an unusually fine speaker. He gave a picture of what was going on in state and national politics from 1885 to 1890 and interesting data concerning Marietta and Marietta College during that period. He paid a fine tribute to Professors Chamberlin and Phillips and also to the outgoing president of the college, I. W. Andrews, and incoming president, John Eaton. He compared the period of that time (his college days) with the modern times, which proved to be very amusing. Following Mr. Clark's oration, "The Navy Blue and White," the college song was sung by the ensemble and the meeting adjourned.

The officers of Phi Beta Kappa, Prof. D. T. Schoonover, president; Prof. A. G. Beach, vice-president; and Mrs. C. C. Middleswart, secretary; were re-elected for another year and Homer J. Hall, '31, was elected as the junior class member of the fraternity.

* * * * * THE TRUSTEES at their annual meet

ing re-elected W. W. Mills, class of 1871, John Mills, class of 1867, and Fletcher S. Heath, of Columbus.

The meeting was attended by ten members. Those present were W. W. Mills, of Marietta; R. C. Dawes, of Chicago, 111.; W. H. Wolfe, of Parkersburg, W. Va.; T. J. Summers, of Marietta; T. H. Kelley, of Cincinnati; E. E. MacTaggart, of Marietta ; B. F. Strecker, and Dr. E. S. Parsons, of Marietta. The resignation of T. J. Jones, class of 1897, of Muskegon, Mich., was offered and accepted by the board members. Dr. E. S. Parsons summarized the leading events of the year and spoke of the college's great loss in the deaths of


Arthur H. Savenye and Prof. T. D. Biscoe. Dr. Parsons notified the board of the retirement of Prof. H. L. Coar at the age of 68, who, after 25 years of service, is to be placed on the Carnegie allowance. Prof. Coar is one of five Marietta College professors to share in this fund.

One new appointment to the faculty was announced when Thomas Freeman Cope, Tulane University and the University of Chicago, was named as the head of the department of mathematics. Prof. Cope will fill the position given up by Prof. Coar. The following promotions were announced to take effect during the school year: Miss Alice Rosemond, dean of women, from assistant professorship to full professorship of modem language. Edwin Lawrence Christie from assistant professorship to full professorship of English, and Thomas Davis Phillips from assistant professorship to full professorship of physics. Dr. Parsons referred to the generous bequest of Dr. C. A. Gallagher of Marietta, who died last March leaving an estate to Marietta College that will eventually approximate $50,000.00.

There was a discussion of the college finances, which were reported as being very good. W. W. Mills was re-elected secretary and treasurer, with B. B. Putnam re-elected as auditor.

* * * * * DR. M. H. LICHLITER, of Columbus,

who delivered the annual address to the Christian Associations, proved to be a very interesting speaker. He discussed the need of building up in young men and women "a moral fastidiousness" which will act as a powerful motive in character and conduct.

* * * * * THE BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS

of President Parsons, which appears entire in this issue of "The Alumnus," was an admirable presentation of the need of eliminating fear from the minds of men, physical, moral, economic and political fear, as a means of advancing personal, social and international living.

At the graduating exercises on Monday morning 70 young men and women received the degree of Bachelor of Arts and became alumni of Marietta College. The speakers were William A. Klare, Elbert H. Ahlstrom, William Ray Flesher and Lincoln G. Schmidt.

Conferring of degrees was made by Dr.

E. S. Parsons, president of Marietta College, who also announced the prize awards. Honor diplomas were presented to three members of the class with Magna Cum Laude distinction, this list including Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom, Miss Beulah Lenore Caswell and William August Klare. Eleven members of the class of 1930 were awarded diplomas with Cum Laude honors, this list including Miss Olive Ruby Alexander, Miss Dorothy Mildred Ash, Miss Hilda Elizabeth Brickwede, John Bently Daymont, William Ray Flesher, Elston Edgar Fogle, Mrs. Alice Neptune Gale, Miss Kathryn Turner Hanna, Lincoln Gustav Schmidt, Richard John Trommetter and Miss Eleanor Beatrice Ward.

Honorary degrees were conferred upon Archer Butler Hulbert, alumnus of the class of 1895 of Marietta College, who received the degree of Doctor of Humanities; Alfred Morris Perry, alumnus of the class of 1910 of Marietta College, who received the degree of Doctor of Divinity; and Lewis Bertram Hopkins, president of Wabash College, was given the degree of Doctor of Laws. Dean D. T. Schoonover presented the candidates, and William W. Mills, secretary of Marietta College since the death of the late Hon. Douglas Putnam in 1894, presented the diplomas and the degrees.

The commencement prize awards, made m general recognition of high scholastic standing in the classes of the student body, were named by President Parsons. The Kingsbury scholarship prize for scholastic standing in the class of 1931 was awarded to Homer James Hall, first; and Thomas Dixon Dudderar, second. The Hyde scholarship prize for scholastic standing in the class of 1932 was awarded to Harold Victor Klare, first; and Miss Ardis Marie Wittenberg, second. The sophomore scholarship prizes were awarded to William Andrew Palm, first; and James Riley Weeks, second.

The Jewett prize of $50.00, presented to the member of the class of 1930 for the best commencement address was awarded to Lincoln G. Schmidt. His subject was "James J. Hill's Problem." The other speakers were William A. Klare, who spoke on "A Faith for the Future;" William Ray Flesher, whose subject was "A Philosophy of Life;" and Elbert H. Ahlstrom, who spoke on "Guatama Bhudda." The judges were A. T. Williamson, Prof.


R. F. Clark and David D. Johnson. The Junior rhetorical prizes for essays

submitted were awarded to Miss Marion Stage MacTaggart, first, whose subject was "Francesca da Rimini," and whose cash prize was $25.00; and Miss Edna Pauline Frederick, whose subject was "Drama in the Land of the Sun," with a cash prize of $15.00.

Miss Miriam Delano Manning of the class of 1930 was awarded the Emerson poetry prize of $50.00. The lone Congdon Hammond prize of $50.00 for the best essay on Dickens was awarded to Miss Kathryn Turner Hanna, whose subject was "Charles Dickens and the Development of the English Novel."

The Chi Omega prize of $25.00 for the best work in the field of economics and sociology, was awarded to Miss Hilda Elizabeth Brickwede of the class of 1930.

The fraternity scholarship cup was awarded to Nu Phi Fraternity for honor of highest scholastic standing of any fraternity group in the college. The Nu Phi fraternity permanently owns the cup, it having won it for highest scholastic standing for the third time.

The sorority scholarship cup, granted to the group of girls making the highest scholarship standing of any groups in the college, was awarded to Sigma Sigma Delta, national non-sorority group.

The Pan-Hellenic prize of $25.00, presented to the young woman in any sorority who had the highest scholastic average for the year, was awarded to Miss Beulah Lenore Caswell of the class of 1930.

Final honors in the various subjects were awarded members of the graduating class, and included: Elbert H. Ahlstrom, Roy Philip Ash and Paul C. Crone, who majored in biology; Miss Beulah Lenore Caswell, who majored in Latin; Miss Naomi Esther Greene, in geology; Miss Frances E. Hancock, Miss Carmen E. Josephy and William A. Klare, in English; Royal Hart Richards, in economics and sociology; Trinis E. Volkwein, in French, and Miss Lillian Janet Willis, in mathematics.

Those who received their degree of Bachelor of Arts were:

Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom Olive Ruby Alexander Ruth Mackey Allison Dorothy Mildred Ash Roy Philip Ash

Mai'garet Louise Auch Hilda Elizabeth Brickwede Isabel Loella Brittigan John Jay Brunner Beulah Lenore Caswell Mary Cisler Wesley Clarke Clark Ralph Edward Cors Paul Clifford Crone Everett Fulton Dailey Robert Olen Davies John Bently Daymont Ralph Hibbard Farnham William Ray Flesher Elston Edgar Fogle Alice Neptune Gale Raymond Sylvester Gallagher Sara Penelope Gantz Mordechai Hirsh Goldish Dorothy Elizabeth Gray Sara Elizabeth Gray Naomi Esther Greene Kathryn Alberta Gregory Edward Gross William John Habeeb Frances Ethelyn Hancock Kathryn Turner Hanna Gordon Bartlett Late Harman Betsey Louise Hathaway Ruth Edella Hill J. Richard Jackson Carmen Esther Josephy Bernard Douglas Joy William August Klare Beatrice Agnes Kremer Harold Reginald Latimer Donald Edward Lemon Wilma Alice Lorentz Mary Louise McDermott Joseph Mancuso Miriam Delano Manning Ruth Susan Marsch Rolla John Matheny George Louis Meyer Andrew Muntean Arpad Jay Nevada Walter Wordsworth Partlow John Morgan Penrose George Benjamin Powell Everett William Reiter Josef Jefferson Richards Royal Hart Richards Lincoln Gustav Schmidt Paul Jacob Seyler Edgar Eugene Simonton Joy Alfred Snider Harry Goff Straley Bailey Trendon Tharp James Patrick Torpy


Richard John Trommetter Trinis Elizabeth Volkwein Eleanor Beatrice Ward

Charlotte White Lillian Janet Willis James Harold Wyland

ATHLETICS D OWING under the direction of Coach *** Ellis MacDonald as a sport was renewed in Marietta College after a lapse of 50 years, about the middle of March 1930. The college crew is composed of young men over six feet in height. Second and third crews were also developed in April and May. Development began of class crews for the interclass meet which was held on May 30th in the afternoon before a crowd of three thousand people. The sophomores won by a half length. The Henley course of one and five-sixteenths miles was selected as the distance. The time of the winners was seven minutes and twenty-nine seconds. Those participating were as follows:

BASKETBALL Marietta 17—Muskingum Marietta 36—Kenyon Marietta 20—John Carroll Marietta 26—Kent State Marietta 20—Ohio University Marietta 28—Otterbein Marietta 26—Capital Marietta 25—Muskingum

22 24 56 35 31 29 24 47

Marietta 31—W. Va. Wesleyan .... 29 Marietta 25—Otterbein .'. 28 Marietta 21—Ohio University 37 Marietta 33—Capital 36 Marietta 28—Kenyon 36

Sophomores—Buck, stroke; Klare, No. 7; King, No. 6; Wilson, No. 5; Myers, No. 4; Crawford, No. 3; Riffe, No. 2; Parke, bow; Cuthbertson, coxswain.

Freshmen—Burke, stroke; Dietz, No. 7; Jones, No. 6; Lollini, No. 5; Leonhart, No. 4; Neyman, No. 3; Bachus, No. 2; Alderman, bow; Ross, coxswain.

Juniors — Weppler, stroke; Northrup No. 7; Kennedy, No. 6; Kanage, No. 5 Habeeb, No. 4; Hall, No. 3 ; Kasek, No. 2 Schmidt, bow; Pratt, coxswain.

The fraternity race was rowed over the Henley distance on Saturday afternoon, June 14th, which resulted in the Nu Phi's as the winners by over a boat's length.

BASEBALL Marietta -Morris-Harvey .... Rain Marietta 4—Marshall 3 Marietta 9—Fairmont 2 Marietta 2—Ohio University 18 Marietta 2—Cincinnati 12 Marietta 6—Fairmont 5 Marietta 6—Muskingum 3 Marietta 2—Marshall 7 Marietta 1—Ohio University 18 Marietta 6—Capital 8 Marietta 3—Muskingum 12 Marietta 7—Capital 4 Marietta 5—Alumni 7

MARIETTA COLLEGE ROWING CREW.

Pattin, Weppler, Bennett. Jones, Wilson, Pratt , Cors, Leonhardt, Klare, Patterson.


MARIETTA COLLEGE "M" ASSOCIATION.

MARIETTA COLLEGE BASEBALL TEAM.

PROFESSOR HENRY L. COAR Written by Professor Joseph Manley and read by him at the recognition meeting of the Faculty and Students

at the Chapel exercises June 3, 1930.

/"\UR Colleague—we greet you and we ^ bring to you our academic farewell.

And you, replete with many years of teaching and full of knowledge, with memory of your early gymnasium years in Germany—you need say no longer:

"And straight or crosswise, wrong or right, These forty years, with many woes,

I've led my scholars by the nose— And see that nothing can be known!"

"Say rather: 'Actual life comes next? Patience a moment:

Grant I have mastered learning's crabbed text,

Still there's the comment. Let me know all! Prate not of most or

least, Painful or easy!'"

You have read your Homer, too: Do you remember how the older men of Troy-town sat at the Scaean gate, where an angle in the wall gave warmth? They gazed out across the wind-swept plains of Ilios; they beheld still the deeds of men, where youth sought glory in battle. Or their ancient voices rose again and told over the rumor of the nearer town, as heroes or fair women went and came ? Their part was to be wise, as they dwelt on the heights. For experience had taught them.

You remember, too, how Odysseus, having spent ten years at the battle field, wandered ten years more about the world. But through all that turmoil, beyond all those scenes, he felt the need to go on and on. "Much have I seen and known (he said);

cities of men And manners, climates, councils, govern

ments,

I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravelled world, whose mar

gin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end."

Odysseus came home at last. He found

his wife still weaving at his hearth, found his true son. But even so, he would not put away his toil. He called to his comrades—

"My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and

thought with me— That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are

old;

The long day wanes, the slow moon climbs, the deep

Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,

'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose

holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars."

You will go on to find new scenes. And you will harmonize what you see and hear by the science which you know. You can attune the vast forces which uphold and order our many worlds. You can gaze with the far eye of light. You know line and curve and angle. You can factor and articulate projections and force. You know number, which alone builds space, wherein reality becomes dimensioned by an ideal complement. You can hear the music of the spheres.

"Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of pure gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou

behold'st But in his motion * * * sings."

Endowed with these rich treasures of the mind, you will retire, sir, to well-earned repose. But yet instinct with action always. You will say: "When strength no more avails me, I shall have done."

So as you quit your work at Marietta, but still fare on in content and wisdom, we, your colleagues, say ever and again: Salve atque vale.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE yT IS natural that the President's message * for the July Alumnus should present some of the features of a report to the alumni of the year's life and work.

It has been a year of mingled lights and shadows. The completion and occupancy of the Field House and Dorothy Webster Hall, and the remodeling of the old Dorothy Webster House into a most satisfactory administration building, the construction of the model, embodying our architect's dream of the future physical development of the college, have brought great satisfaction to us all and have stirred a new institutional pride in both faculty and students. The academic work of the year has gone forward most harmoniously with no friction whatever in the college life.

But shadows have mingled with the light. Emeritus Professor Thomas Dwight Biscoe died February 27th after a long and honorable life. Had he lived until May 12th he would have completed his ninetieth year. His work for the college was of the utmost value. His scientific standards were very high and he had unusual skill as a teacher and in preparing apparatus and material for use in his department .which is still greatly enriched by the results of his tireless energy. His interest in the college and in the life of the world was keen up to the very end, which came quickly and without prolonged suffering.

Professor Biscoe had completed his life span. The death of Arthur Henry Savenye, the financial secretary, in May brought to a most untimely close a very useful life. He was only thirty-two and had just entered the mature stage of his work. He was rendering invaluable service to the college, in the direction of the business office, in his contacts with the students, personally and in groups, in his care of the plant, in his relations to the alumni and other groups and individuals throughout the country. He is mourned alike by faculty, students and alumni and by very many others in Marietta and elsewhere. How to discover his successor is one of the pressing problems of the college.

One who has long served the college became on June 16th Professor Emeritus— Henry Livingston Coar. He joined the faculty in 1906 after twenty years of

teaching and taught here twenty-four years. He showed himself a man of excellent ability, a hard worker, with keen interest in his subject and in his students. The honor shown him and Mrs. Coar at the College Assembly on Tuesday morning, June 3rd, and at the Faculty Club dinner that evening were worthy expressions of the respect and affection in which they are held. We wish for them many years yet of happiness and satisfaction.

It is an interesting co-incidence that Prof. Coar's old instructor at Harvard, Professor William G. Osgood, whose affectionate telegram of congratulations was read at the faculty dinner, is the one who suggested Prof. Coar's successor—Thomas Freeman Cope. Mr. Cope was born in Texas, but lived in New Orleans for a number of years. He has the degrees of B. S. and M. S. from Tulane and the Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught at Tulane, Western Reserve and Harvard. His wife is a daughter of Professor Edward L. Thomdike of Columbia. She has just received the degree of Ph. D. from Harvard—also in mathematics.

Three of the faculty have been advanced from assistant professorships to full professorships: Miss Alice Rosemond, Dean of Women, Modern Languages; Edward L. Christie, English, and Thomas David Phillips, Physics.

Prof. Coar's retirement and Mr. Cope's coming are the only faculty changes for the coming academic year

The faculty have been at work during the year in developing plans for the improvement of the work of the institution. Two may be mentioned here. The first has issued in the formation of a Committee on Productive Work the object of which is to stimulate research as an accompaniment and inspiration of the best teaching. It looks forward to the establishment of a series of Marietta College publications, which shall include faculty and student studies in various fields. The second is a survey to discover what in the judgment of the faculty is the ideal organization and inner development needed for an ideal liberal arts college here of five hundred students—the survey to be parallel to the physical survey of the college embodied in the model. While this study will not be as


striking in its presentation as is the model it is of even more importance, for the building of an institution are only its shell. The real life of a college is in the organized personal relationships of teachers and student.

A few words should be said here about the student body. The numbers have been a little smaller this year (371 as against 406) the result of the sag in attendance the country over and of the rise in tuition. We graduated seventy this year, the largest class in the history of the college, only two less than the maximum. The geographical distribution of the student body has been as follows:

Ohio—240 from 51 towns (150 from Marietta, 10 from Cleveland.)

West Virginia—64 from 16 towns (26 from Parkersburg, 16 from St. Marys.)

Pennsylvania—22 from 6 towns (16 from Sharon.)

New York—19 from 14 towns. New Jersey—6 from 5 towns. Connecticut—4 from 3 towns. Illinois—4 from 4 towns. Massachusetts—4 from 3 towns. New Hampshire—2 from 1 town. Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Wiscon

sin, China, Russia—1 each. The quality of the student group has

been unusually excellent. The prospects for the next academic year are excellent.

I cannot better close than by expressing our gratitude for the generous remembrance of the college in his will by Dr.

Charles A. Gallagher who died suddenly of heart disease in Marietta in March 1930. He had grown to be deeply interested in the college, especially in its scientific work. He was one of the original members of our Science Club and a most faithful attendant upon its meetings. When his will was opened it was found that he had left all his estate to the college, $25,000.00 outright, $10,000.00 after the death of a niece and her husband, and $10,000.00 more in twenty-five years in the event of its not being claimed by an unnamed beneficiary. If all the estate finally comes to the college it will provide a sum of approximately $50,000.00, the income of which the will stipulates shall be used for the benefit of the departments of Chemistry, Biology and Physics, to be added to the average amount given the departments in the last five years.

This bequest will materially strengthen these very important departments and make their work still more efficient. And we not only rejoice in this generous and notable gift for its own worth, but for the example it has set to others in our city and state.

The large numbers who attended the 1930 Commencement, the pleasure the class reunions gave to all who attended them, the great enthusiasm of the alumni over the development of the college, greatly heartened us, to whom have been entrusted the task and the responsibility here at Marietta.

A HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN MARIETTA COLLEGE By C. E. Corwin, '92.

(Continued from the January issue.)

•"THE Eclipse of the moon to occur on the * 24th of October 1874 was mentioned at

some length, in the Olio, showing that the students were alive to all of the natural phenomena that were occurring.

In the issue of May 11, 1878, there is a long account of the work done by one of the seniors, Mr. Frank Waldo (who with his brother, Leonard Waldo, have won names for themselves in the field of Science) on the transit of Mercury which took place on the sixth inst. "He secured a fine box chronometer from Boston, a small transit instrument from Mr. D. B.

Anderson, a jeweler of Marietta, and time signals from Washington Naval Observatory and so was enabled to get the exact time of ingress and egress of the planet on the sun's disk. His results were sent to the Naval Observatory for its use. In connection with his observations he incidentally determined the longitude of Marietta, his result being 17 minutes and 41.5 seconds of time, or four degrees twenty-five minutes twenty-two and one-half seconds of arc. This I have reason to believe, was the first instrument determination of Longitude for Marietta. All


of the other values that I have found have been estimates, some near this value, but all acknowledged to be the result of estimation."

In the Science Column of the February issue of the Olio a number of interesting astronomical data that would occur through the month are found, The Transit of Venus is noted with remarks as to the value of it. The French observing stations and the care which they use to protect their observed data are described. The measurement of the velocity of light, by MM. Fizeau and Cornu, under the direction of M. Leverier, is mentioned and the method of experimentation discussed.

Due to the scarcity of students in the early eighties or from some other cause the science work in the College did not seem to be of the same order as formerly. The work lagged but in 1889 there was a revival of the interest in scientific subjects. Professor Henry W. Hulbert, while not of the scientific faculty, organized the "Marietta Scientific Association." Professor Biscoe was the first President, Arthur J. Warner, 1889, Secretary.

The objects of the Association were: "(1) to promote scientific inquiry; (2) to make a careful study of the various objects of natural history in this vicinity: to make a complete collection of these objects, to be permanently preserved in the museum of Marietta College: to classify them in harmony with those specimens already in the museum so as to make one whole orderly arrangement, to the end that all persons in this region of country interested in scientific investigation shall have an opportunity, by means of the museum, to carry on their work under the best possible conditions: and to the end that we shall be able to account to the scientific world for the region in which we live. (3) To secure the necessary literature and other helps for the best help along these lines to be permanently deposited in the Library of Marietta College, there to be at the service of all persons interested in scientific studies. This literature to consist of the current scientific journals and reports, and files of the same, and of the books, plates and charts useful in scientific investigation. (4) To awaken a taste for scientific investigation in the city of Marietta, and in the surrounding country, and especially among the students, alumni and friends of Marietta Col

lege. (5) To encourage the formation of branch associations in this region of country, and to give such assistance as shall be in the power of the central organization to give for successful work in the branch associations. (6) To investigate those subjects of immediate practical importance to the community in which we live, such as electricity, sanitary science, forestry, analysis of soils, parasitic life of plants and animals, etc. (7) To carry on a system of exchanges, so far as may be deemed expedient, and to solicit contributions from any quarters for our collections. (8) To carry on correspondence with other similar bodies of investigators; to take such part in general scientific research as shall be of mutual benefit to ourselves and to the scientific world.

"The active members of the association will be divided into sections for the work of scientific investigation, and to each section will be assigned some particular line of study. These sections will meet in an informal way every week to compare and arrange the results of individual work done during the week. They will make reports to the General Association at the monthly meeting, which will be public. These, reports will embody an account of the work done and the progress made, and will be illustrated so far as practicable by specimens collected and explanatory charts. It will be the effort to make these meetings of interest and value to the public.

"Sections for the study of botany, birds, microscopic life, sanitary science, electricity and geology, have been or soon will be formed.

"There will be a regular meeting of the Association on the last Thursday of every month during the working year (September 1st to June 30th) to which the public will be invited * * * .

"All correspondence should be directed to Supt. C. K. Wells, Corresponding Secretary." (R. M. Stimson scrap book.)

Thus the beginnings of the association. What of the work done? I will answer that, in a measure, by more quotations from the Olio. "During the College year just closed the Marietta Scientific Association has held free public meetings at which the following lectures have been delivered to good sized audiences. October fourth, 1889, lecture by Professor T. D. Biscoe on the United States Fish Commission at Woods Holl, Mass., supplemented by re-


marks of C. K. Wells. This lecture was well attended and very interesting.

"Rev. David Moore, Presbyterian minister of Logan, Ohio, spoke to us on the evening of November 23, 1889, on shells. This lecture was illustrated by specimens of shells he had collected in Ohio." I remember how strange it seemed to me to learn that the study of shells was a department of scientific study. Rev. Mr. Moore was a powerful speaker, very much interested in his subject and so he interested his audience.

I think the surprise of the season was when Dr. H. B. Shipman read a paper on "Quail and Other Birds." Few knew that he was an interested student of bird life and so his paper came as a great surprise. His study of quail was based on the tame birds he had in his back yard. This lecture was given on the twenty-fifth of April, 1890, and was supplementary to a lecture by Professor Hulbert on "Our Winter Birds" delivered February fourth, 1890. The last lecture of the year was by Dr. W. T. Holland of Pittsburgh on the "Art of Collecting and Preserving Insects." This was illustrated by means of several trays of beautiful moths and butterflies, collected from all parts of the world and carefully preserved. Viewing the specimens by the audience took nearly as much time as did the lecture itself. This was delivered on the sixteenth of June 1890.

"Taking all things into consideration the Association has had a successful year. It has been at considerable expense in giving to the public these free lectures, but closes the year with a balance of $20.00. It has kept the scientific table in the Library supplied with the best current literature which has been at the command of all the people interested. Two sections have gone regularly through the year, making commendable progress. The Botanical section under the leadership of Professor Biscoe has done a good deal of original work on mosses. The Ornithological section has added materially to the bird cabinet and the number and variety of the birds in this region will soon be known. During the spring sixteen candidate members coming into the section, under the guidance of Mr. C. T. Okey, '92, have made good progress in bird knowledge. The following year a section in entomology was formed and directed by Mr. A. R. Addy, '92."

Growing out of the interest aroused by the Scientific Association Robert Schufeldt came to Marietta Academy in February 1892. He was a boy of sterling character, a discriminating collector and a good taxidermist. I am going to quote the Minute of the faculty on his death.

"It is with a deep sense of personal loss that the faculty of Marietta College extend heartfelt sympathy to Dr. R. H. Schufeldt and his family in view of their great bereavement in the death of Robert W. Schufeldt who for six months has been connected with the Marietta Academy as a student and with Marietta College as a taxidermist and a collector for the Natural History Museum. The faculty wish to put on record their high estimate of his character and his work. His sudden death by drowning while on an ornithological expedition, has taken from the scientific world an ambitious young scientist of unusual promise. It gives us great pleasure to accept from Dr. Schufeldt of Takoma Park, D. C, the private ornithological collection of his son, in whose memory it shall be preserved in the College Museum as the Schufeldt Collection.

By order of the faculty, T. E. McKinney, Secretary.

Marietta College October 5, 1892." Thus one generation orders and the

next—does as it pleases. "The Schufeldt Collection has been

largely added to by Dr. Schufeldt and Percy Schufeldt, the younger brother, who succeeded to the position held by his brother Robert. Mr. Percy Schufeldt is doing most excellent work, having enjoyed some months of instruction in the ornithological department of the Smithsonian Institute." A new museum was contemplated then and a case of birds was to have had a prominent position in it.

This was a transition period in the science work of Marietta College. The need of better facilities for a more extended course in the sciences, than had ever been given before was very strongly felt.

During Dr. Simpson's term of office, in April 1894, the Hildreth Museum and Slo-comb Hall were transformed into a chemical laboratory at an expense of $1,500.00 and Professor Wilson Monfort, who had been studying at Bonn, Germany, for two years, was engaged as Professor of Chemistry and Geology. The interest of ad-


vanced study in Chemistry had been fostered at the expense of Geology. No course was given in it at this time and at the order of Dr. Simpson the Hildreth Cabinet and the College Cabinet were moved with no regard to preserving them for future use. They were a mess and it is not entirely straightened out at the present time in spite of the work of Professors Whipple and Eggleston.

In the Catalogue of 1882-83 Oscar H. Mitchell, Ph. D., was mentioned as acting Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Professor Mitchell was a man who could think in mathematical terms much faster than he could find words to express himself. It was very hard for him to talk before a class but after he had explained a problem or demonstrated a theorem one, if he were paying attention, would understand it. He was very patient with those who tried to do his work and very severe with any who tried to bluff.

After the death of Professor Mitchell, George F. Metzler was appointed to the place. He was a good man but a failure as a teacher. I met him again at the University of Michigan, where he was an instructor. There he was having the same difficulty as he had here. I was privileged to hear both sides of the story there and tried to help him out by having some of the boys with whom I became acquainted go and see him privately. Professor Metzler's name appears in the 1889-90 Catalogue. He was here only one year. Professor T. E. McKinney was recalled from Johns Hopkins University and took up the work. He occupied the chair of Mathematics, Engineering and Astronomy until the present incumbant was elected, whose name appears for the first time in the Catalogue of 1906-1907.

Professor T. E. McKinney, 1890-1906, had charge of the observatory and was doing considerable work with the telescope. He wrote to the Director of the Harvard Observatory and asked him the best work to do with a six inch telescope. The reply was "Measure the binary stars, this work is being neglected by the men who have larger instruments, and the binaries need remeasuring." I was working with him in 1897 and '98. We were out nearly every clear night and succeeded in measuring about sixty of the double stars. I, very foolishly did not keep notes. He kept them but whether he took the note book away

with him or whether it was destroyed by the colored people before mentioned I do not know. The record is lost. We did some photographic work. Dr. Frank Jordan of the Allegheny Observatory did some of his first work then.

In 1898 the shower of Leonids was supposed to appear in full splendor. We agreed to work in connection with the Harvard Observatory. All of those who were willing to help including the class in Astronomy began studying the geography of the heavens in September and continued it through October so as to be ready for the shower and be able to trace the paths through the stars at a glance. There were twenty-two meteors seen the first night, November 14, and eighteen the second night, November 15. In 1906 Professor McKinney went to Spain as a member of the Lick Observatory party to observe the total eclipse of the sun. His daughter, Margaret, is following in his footsteps as a scientist as she is a biologist having published one paper and has another in preparation.

John Cutler Shedd was appointed to the chair of Physics in 1893. He began building up the equipment for the Physics laboratory and the material he obtained is still in use. During the excitement caused by the discovery of X rays there were some wonderful experiments tried in that laboratory. There was no money to purchase a Crooks Tube so we tried to make one. I was working with Mr. Shedd at the time, and as the mechanical air pump would not create high enough vacuum we tried to make a mercury pump. We made one but as we had only thin glass the pump lasted scarely a half hour. Then we found that the electrodes of the Wimshurst machine held on the terminal of an electric bulb and the outside of the glass would produce a flourescence but would not effect a photographic plate covered with black paper.

Dr. Biscoe was made Professor of Biology and Botany in 1893 and Mr. Elmore Monfort was appointed instructor in Botany and Librarian. James Francis Jones, B. A., V. S., instructor in Hygiene, Physiology and director of the Gymnasium. Mr. Gurley was still director of the Observatory but owing to ill health did little work.

There was no one in the Physics department from 1898 to 1906 when James


Arthur Birchby was appointed to fill the position. He as well as Mr. Shedd added to the equipment of the Laboratory and prepared the way for the men who came after them. They were the builders who laid the foundations for the modern structure of to-day.

As has been stated Professor Biscoe became the organizer and head of the department of Biology. His work there was very painstaking as was all of his work. The department now has the great number of microscopic slides of the brain which he prepared. His daughter, Alice, was his assistant 1902-3, and her drawings are used even to-day for purposes of illustration.

The successor of Professor Biscoe was Arthur Mangun Banta, Ph. D., who was connected with the College for only two years. He left here to go to the Carnegie Experiment Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, where he still remains. Professors Krecker, Severn and Eggleston are the others who have been at the head of the department.

There was no department of Geology after the time of Dr. E. B. Andrews until

the present incumbant was elected to the position. I remember my experience with Geology was a few weeks with Dana's Elements.

Psychology was not considered a science when in 1892 it was my privilege to study it but rather as one of the departments of Philosophy that had to be worked out by pure reason. I believe the class after me had an introduction to Ladds Physiological Psychology which marked the beginning here of experimental work.

In the Physics department Professor Krause succeeded Mr. Birchby and later at the resignation of Prof. Merriam of the Chemistry Department, Professor Krause was changed to that position. Professor Merriam was the successor of Professor W. F. Monfort. Professor T. D. Phillips was Mr. Krause's successor in the Physics department who while he was studying in New York was relieved by Mr. Raymond B. Sawyer, 1924-27.

I think this paper clearly shows that through its history Marietta College has been intensely interested in all branches of science and has fostered them to the extent of her ability.

THE TENNIS TEAM Dudderar, Penrose (Capt.), Trommetter, Clark.

THE BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS By Dr. Edward S. Parsons, President

Delivered before the Graduating Class of Marietta College on June 15, 1930, at the First Congregational Church.

"Who art thou, that art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass, and hast forgotten Jehovah thy maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearellT continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor when he maketh ready to destroy—and where is the fury of the oppressor?—Isa. 51:12-13.

TT HAS been pointed out that the second 1 human utterance recorded in the Bible, the utterance of the man to whom Hebrew tradition pointed as the progenitor of the race, was an expression of fear: "I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid."

"In the beginning," as a recent writer has said, "there was fear in the heart of man, and fear controlled man—all the days of man were gray with fear because all his universe seemed charged with danger." (Browne, The Believing World, 27). And what was in the beginning has continued through the millenia of man's life. Fear has been his dread companion and still walks by his side.

I wish I were expert psychologist enough to speak with authority about fear in its relation to the physical, mental, spiritual and social life of man. I wish, too, I could adequately trace the history of fear. Such a study would take us far afield into religion and theology, into science, into medicine, into economics and sociology—in fact into every phase of human relationships.

Fear has been at the bottom of much human disease, both of the body and of the mind. As long ago as five hundred years before Christ a Greek physician, Hippocrates, said: "Anger and fear breed a poison in the blood."

Poisoned by fear — many human ailments go back to this sinister cause and do not respond to the ordinary powders and pellets of routine medical care.

"I am no naturalist," wrote Montaigne three hundred and fifty years ago, "and I know not well by what springs fear doth work in us, but well I know it is a strange Passion—and as Physicians say, there is none doth sooner transport our judgment out of his due seat." (Essays, Ch. XVII opening.)

When Agamemnon returned home from the Trojan Wars, his wife Clytemnestra laid down a rich purple carpet for him to walk upon from the chariot to the palace door. But Agamemnon feared to tread on it without some advance act of humiliation, so he took off his sandals,

"Lest, trampling o'er these royal dyes, some god

Smite me with envious glances from afar."

(Campbell's trans. Aescylus' Agamemnon, 137.) *"

Thus fear is the parent of superstition. It peopled the earth and the air and the sky with hostile deities, evil spirits, which must be placated by every manner of sacrifice. The superstitions which linger down to the present time, so crude and senseless, are the lineal descendants of fear, the life companion of the race.

Fear breeds suspicion and hate. The man who kicks or swears at the rock or a fallen branch over which he stumbles in the path is the child of the man who believed that rock or that branch contained a spirit hostile to him, which he must suspect and hate. Out of fear comes by normal and natural descent the most of human cruelty and brutality and strife between individuals, between classes, between nations. "All the historic tyrannies, religious persecutions, burnings and slaughters, have been done in terrorem, and for the purpose of subduing man through fear. The same is true of all lesser forms of oppression. Such practices are not done only to arouse fear in the victim but for the most part they represent fear in the doers themselves. When you see a persecutor, a cruel man, or a mean man, or an unjust man, there is pretty sure to be an element of cowardice in him; the man is afraid of something." (J. J. Chapman, America's Fear Complex, The Forum, May, 1926.) Booker Washington once said: "We are always afraid of those to whom we have been unjust."

Illustrations might be multiplied indefinitely of the fatal influence of fear upon individual, social, national and international life. But already you are asking,


no doubt, why such a theme should be discussed at a Baccalaureate service, before a graduating class of young people on the threshold of their life work. The reason is plain to one who senses the bearings of the theme. "Civilization is just another name," as has been said, "for man's increasing victory over fear." (Browne, The Believing World, 162.) The right education will increasingly eliminate fear in the individual, and the educated individual can be a compelling force in the expulsion of fear from society at large. Fear being one of the great curses of humanity, it is the duty of those who go out from our colleges to do what in them lies to make this a world in which sanity and confidence and friendly feeling rule and from which fear and the children of fear, superstition, cruelty, suspicion and hate, are more and more banished.

The ramifications of such a theme as this are beyond the possibilities of the present hour to trace. I can only call your attention to a very few suggestions of its outstanding relationships. As has already been suggested, fear is one of the prime causes of disease. The comparatively new branch of medical science, mental hygiene, is making this fact more and more apparent. Some of you young people are going out into the field of medical research and practice and you will have special opportunities to help banish from human minds the fear of physical suffering and disease. How much medical science has done even within the short memory of some of us here today to lift the load of fear from suffering humanity! Think how many diseases have been stripped of their terrors— cholera, yellow fever, malaria, smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid, hook-worm, scarlet fever. And the circle is ever widening. I read only a day or two ago the prophecy that tuberculosis will in the not far distant future be an almost forgotten scourge, and even cancer, now a spectre in many a mind and many a home, will some day be no longer a menace. And with the increase of the mastery of disease by the physician and the surgeon and the research student in the laboratory will come the blessing to man's spirit in the relief from anxiety, the lifting of a mental and spiritual burden more deadening and disastrous than physical pain and suffering. The lengthening of the human span is nothing as compared with this release from the fetters of haunting fear.

You who enter this magnificent field of human endeavor and service will have your chance to help lift these burdens. But the opportunity will not be yours only. The rest of us who have had the privilege of getting a glimpse into some of the deeper facts of life will be false to our opportunity if we do not do our best to spread the gospel of good health, to banish medical superstition, to make the places in which we live uncomfortably warm for the quack, to help people be intelligent as to hygiene and public health and preventive medicine. You and I can make it clear, if we will, to the communities in which we live, that a typhoid or diphtheria or smallpox epidemic is the result of someone's criminal negligence, as worthy of prosecution and severe punishment as murder itself for it often means the ruthless and unnecessary sacrifice, not only of money and time and strength, but of life itself. Every one of you before me can play a part, if you will, in making the community in which you live a safer place, not only morally and spiritually, but physically, for children to be born into and to grow up in, a place where they will not be sacrificed to ignorance or to incompetency or to greed.

Dr. Osier once said: "The spirit of fear may come on a people like pestilence and in the Middle Ages was responsible for that black record of witches and witchcraft. Waves of emotion play on man's nerves as the wind on an Aeolian h a r p . . . we get 'nervy' and lose control of the machine. Judgment gets difficult and we are swayed by emotions that sweep over the crowd regardless of any basis in truth. We become weak-minded and believe what any Ananias says." (Life II, 491.) The days of such emotional storms did not close with the Middle Ages. There were plenty of them during the Great War when men by thousands believed stories which in calmer moods they would have rejected as inherently and absurdly unbelievable. Today there are plenty of people in this and every land who are trying to terrorize us, to create bogies of the imagination, to incite mob attacks on men and institutions. We all recognize that lynch law in the South is the fruit of such mob frenzy, but we do not usually sense the fact that the attempts of certain groups among us to silence individual judgment and to coerce opinion and to villify men and women with whom they do not agree is simply another


form of the same iniquitous emotionalism, is in reality lynch law.

You will have to deal at some time in your lives with that kind of mob opinion and mob emotion, which I have already pointed out is usually the terrorism of cowards. If you have learned the lesson of the college class room aright, you have acquired the ability to suspend judgment, to balance opposing arguments and come to an intelligent decision, to think through a subject instead of feeling about it. It will be one of your responsibilities as college graduates to stand like adamant against the waves of feeling which would sweep men as a mass into unreasoned action. You will be false to your training and your heritage if you join the cry, "Crucify him," with which the mob seeks to down the brave man who thinks and acts for himself, if you follow the crowd to do either good or evil, the reasonableness or unreasonableness of which you have not sought to fathom. The pressure upon you from business and social and political groups will at times be almost overwhelming but I suggest you cultivate the philosophy which Bernard Shaw quotes from a French writer and which has been the inspiration and stay of others beside the great English individualist:

"They say— What do they say? Let them say it!"

If you live out such a philosophy, you will help overthrow the terrorists who are a human curse.

We glory in the fact that we live in an age of unparalleled progress, an age such as the world never saw before. We enumerate the discoveries and inventions which have transformed life the world over, the most of which have become the possession of the race in recent years. Over and over again we exclaim exultantly, "What a wonderful age!" But we cannot forget, if we are thoughtful, that there is another side to the picture — that all this marvelous progress has bred fear in hosts of people. The business which has been developed through long years of thought and struggle, and self-sacrifice may over night be scrapped by some new discovery. Modern conditions have put many a business into the gambler class. There are hosts of business men, large as well as small, who do not know what a day may bring forth—and who fear the future.

This is a day of mergers, and million dollar and even billion dollar corporations are no rarity. Economy, unity of operation—we know the arguments for unification— but what fear of disaster such mergers have brought to many people! I met a man recently who had for years held a responsible position in a Pittsburgh corporation. A merger had dropped him out, and he had become, by a fortunate circumstance, the business agent of an Ohio school system. Many men who have been steadily rising in business corporations to positions of specialized importance are at the present moment utterly uncertain whether they can have any longer the chance in any capacity to earn their daily bread.

And our vaunted progress has made the problem of unemployment one of growing seriousness. We want to feel that every new invention which throws men out of work will prove to be only a temporary inconvenience, that they will soon be absorbed in other occupations and that the net result will be the increased opportunity and comfort of all. But usually such adjustments are not possible in a moment and privation and suffering are almost sure to come in the interim. The employee who does not earn enough to save for the lean years is always dogged by the spectre of unemployment, of illness, of old age. It is a marvel that the great mass of men can be as happy and contented as they appear to be with these possibilities staring them in the face.

It has again and again been pointed out that while the world has made vast progress in the last few generations in scientific discovery and the application of new scientific knowledge to human need, it has sorely lagged behind in the solution of economic and social problems, the intensity of which has been multiplied vastly by the scientific progress of which we boast. If this world is to be a peaceful world in which people can dwell happy and contented, some of these problems must be solved. Unless they are, confusion and anarchy are ahead.

A large percentage of the college graduates of today go into business. Are you going out to make money merely, to secure for yourself ease and comfort and the special privileges which wealth can buy? You have failed miserably in your college days if you have not learned that the good


of all is the real price of the good of each, and if you are not going out determined to contribute your bit to making this a safer and happier world for all to live in. The stabilizing of industry and the banishment of unemployment — these are the two greatest economic and sociological problems. There are many business men today who clearly realize the situation and who know that evolution and not revolution must somehow be established as the law of business development. There are more and more who are coming to know that their own largest safety and prosperity are to be found in the best good of those who work for them. There are others who are blind to the larger problems, who are simply thinking of what they themselves can gain. You, prospective business men, and women, too, will be found in the one class or the other! You can, if you will, help lay the spectre of fear. What is to be your spirit and attitude?

The whole world is seeking a way out of the dangers and terrors of war. The philosophy which glorified war as a means of human progress has fortunately been utterly discredited. The belief that war brings any real advantage to anyone, conquerors or conquered, is no longer entertained by any sane mind. The idea that huge navies and land forces are a deterrent from rushing into armed strife has been proved to be sheer absurdity. Viscount Grey in his Twenty-five Years (II, 54) made this clear by his sketch of the events which led to the Great War. "After 1870 Germany had no reason to be afraid but she fortified herself with armaments and the Triple Alliance in order that she might never have reason to be afraid in the future. France naturally was afraid after 1870, and she made her military preparations and the Dual Alliance (with Russia). Britain, with a very small army and a very large empire, became first uncomfortable and then (particularly when Germany began a big fleet program) afraid of isolation. She made the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, made up her quarrels with France and entered the Entente. Finally Germany became afraid that she would presently be attacked and struck the first blow, while she believed her power to be still invincible." "Armaments," he goes on to say, "were intended to produce a sense of security in each nation—that was the justifi

cation put forward in defense of them. What they really did was to produce fear in everybody. Fear causes suspicion and hatred; it is hardly too much to say that, between nations, it stimulates all that is bad and suppresses all that is good." (II, 53.) At the close of the Great War, under its shadow of the awful calamity, we recognized the truth of the words of the great English statesman. But human memory is short and war has a glamour for the young and the inexperienced; it is easy to appeal to patriotic emotions and hard to resist the unbalancing influences of a time of national and international excitement. And there are still politicians who think that they can best repair their fences by an appeal to prejudices and an outgrown philosophy. There are still admirals who think that to retain an eight inch gun is of more importance than to co-operate in the work of establishing universal peace. A blustering Mussolini proclaims that "right if inaccompanied by might is a vain word," and boasts that there has been no decrease in his natural pugnacity, a spirit which could easily set the world aflame.

So the fear of war still walks, like the ghost of Hamlet, inspiring terror in the minds of innocent and defenseless populations who know from personal experience what are its horrors, and setting back the day when men shall live in peace and cooperation for the highest good of each and all.

It will be your opportunity, my young friends, to penetrate and help expose the sophistries of a pseudo-patriotism, to throw every ounce of your influence on the side of those forces which are trying utterly to outlaw and banish war, and to advance the control of international life by the spirit of generosity and the Golden Rule. The student life of the world could in a generation dispose of this question forever if it would.

But the fears of which I have been speaking are after all superficial—fear of physical breakdown, fear of the crushing influence of the mob spirit, fear of economic instability and of unemployment, fear of war and its desolating results. Deeper than all these is the fear begotten of a false philosophy of life, or of the absence of any satisfactory philosophy of life. Fear was born, we all recognize, out of the kind of theology which pictured


God as an angry God, vindictive, not only hating sin but actually hating the sinner. Indeed the great preachers of this theology, whom I might name and whose words I might quote to support what I say, used to try to make men afraid, to drive them into a state of terror which would rack them by day and by night, in the hope that at last they might find peace in the acceptance of a grace which it was hard to believe could exist in a God such as they pictured. Some did not come out into peace; some became convinced they had committed the unpardonable sin; many, very many, became mentally unhinged, and not a few, like the Ethan Brand of Hawthorne's vivid story, found the burden of life unbearable and threw it off. All this has largely passed. The Parable of the Prodigal Son is accepted today as the truer picture of the Father God. But there is another philosophy abroad today, a philosophy which is very old and yet very new, which is taking the joy out of life for many, blocking the springs of enthusiasm and spontaneous endeavor, clouding many a life with cynicism and despair. You know full well what this philosophy is— it is the philosophy that tells us that consciousness and free will are a mirage, that we are all self-deluded puppets of impersonal force, a mechanical adjustment of wheels and springs, which, wonderful as it is, came into being by accident and chance. Knowledge and love and heroism and pity and kindness and joy and aspiration and insight;—these are all illusions, pleasant fancies without reality.

The reason why some people are willing to stand for such "a deterministic nightmare," to use another's words, is that they accept the philosophy intellectually but lightly ignore its logical implications. Some men seem to be able to believe in a world of mere force and mechanism, and yet live happily and contentedly, holding fast the old values. But others are keenly aware what such a philosophy does with life and are frank to indicate its inevitable issue. I quote from a recently printed epitome of Joseph Krutch's book, The Modern Temper: "Religion is a comforting myth— born of desire—what is true of religion is true of all the intellectual and spiritual faculties of man, scientific optimism is as unfounded as religious optimism; not only is man an ethical animal in a universe which contains no ethical element, but he

is a philosophical animal in a universe that contains no philosophical element; all man's finer life—art, romance, sense of honor—is as much an alien in this world as is religion, and if the cosmos is basically physical, then through the entire range of man's mental and moral experience he faces an inestimable disharmony between himself and the universe—in a merely quantitative world all qualitative life is alien." (Fotsdick, Are Religious People Fooling Themselves? Harpers, June, 1930, 66.)

Bertram Russell has painted a picture of what life in the light of a philosophy like this means to him. "We see surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship the dark ocean on whose rolling waves we toss for a brief hour; from the great night without a chill blast breaks in upon our refuge; all the loneliness of humanity amid hostile forces is concentrated upon the individual soul which must struggle along with what of courage it can command, against the whole weight of a universe that cares nothing for its hopes and fears." (Quoted, Lippman Preface to Morals, 27.)

To me the astonishing thing is that intelligent men should accept such a mechanistic philosophy when that philosophy itself teaches that they have no power to construct any philosophy at all. The very fact that they believe this philosophy is proof that it is false.

The same article from which I have quoted the above summary has the following:

"Harry Elmer Barnes recently wrote, 'Astronomically speaking, man is almost negligible,' to which George Albert Coe whipped back an answer, 'Astronomically speaking, man is the astronomer.' " (Ditto 65.) The Psalmist of old struck the true note: "What is man that thou art mindful of him?"—almost wholly negligible from one point of view—but—"Thou hast made him but little lower than God."

Men committed suicide when they came to believe they were "sinners in the hands of an angry God," or that they had committed the unpardonable sin. Is it anything to be wondered at that not a few young people in our colleges, and many older men and women are deciding that with such a creed, and on such terms as the mechanist allows us, life is not worth living and are dropping out of life. A victimized, deluded


man, the sport of hallucination, is in reality an insane person, and a natural avenue out of insanity is suicide.

But not all the prophets have bowed the knee to Baal. There are men like Haldane and Eddington in science and Paul Elmer More in literature and philosophy who are steadily moving away from such a creed, are totally rejecting the mechanical theory of life, asserting free will, and proclaiming the reality of the unseen, and of spiritual and ethical values.

Even Walter Lippman himself, the sincere apostle of a humanism which he wishes might fill the place that religion has had in the life of the race, is obliged to confess that "the modern world is haunted by a realization which it becomes constantly less easy to ignore, that it is impossible to reconstruct an enduring orthodoxy and impossible to live well without the satisfactions which an orthodoxy would provide." (A Preface to Morals, 20.)

Set over against the despairing hopelessness of such a philosophy the triumphant words of our text: "Who art thou that art afraid of man that shall die and of the son of man that shall be made as grass; and hast forgotten Jehovah thy maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and feareWcontinually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor when he maketh ready to destroy—and where is the fury of the oppressor?"

A greater than the prophet, one who lived in one of the most pessimistic centuries in the world's history, said: "Peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful." And his greatest disciple caught the same spirit and taught the same philosophy: "In nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer and thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God, and the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

The power of such a philosophy of life in banishing fear cannot be better illustrated than by citing the experience of Dr. John Rathburn Oliver, the well-known psychiatrist of Baltimore. He says, using the doctor in his story of "Fear" as the mouthpiece of his own thought, that in his office practice he had been impressed by the fact that there was a certain class of

persons whom he never saw, men and women who never sought his help. "People who either were not bothered by fear or had found some remedy of their own." As soon as he began to notice this fact he started to keep a list of the types of people he seldom or never saw as patients. He felt that if he could find out the kind of people who were immune to fear he could go one step further and discover the secret of their immunity. I will let him give in his own words the conclusion at which he arrived:

"I'll tell you the kind of people I don't see in my office. As far as my experience goes, people who believe and practice the religion that centers about the Personality (of Jesus) seem to have an antidote against fear. I never see them." (Oliver, Fear 31.)

Side by side with these words, I want to place a few sentences spoken by Charles Steinmetz, the great electrician of the General Electric Company, who died not long ago:

"Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness and are of little use in making men and women creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of God and prayer and the spiritual forces. . . . When this day comes the world will see more advancement in one generation than it has in the last four." (Has Religion Gone to Grass? Edward S. Martin, Harpers, May 1930, 782.)

Such words as these need no comment of mine.

My Friends of the Class of 1930: Since, as a class, you entered Marietta

College four years ago you have seen many changes in the institution. And you have come to realize, I know, that you yourselves have also changed, that in many important respects you are not the same persons you were then. Your horizon has widened; your grasp of fact and principle is more sure; your sympathies have grown keener. You have come to know yourselves better, and you know better also the world into which you go out. Your purpose and determination are, I trust, no less clear and strong than when you first registered as students. There may be some mists concealing the way ahead, but you are rightly confident they will speedily clear away. Your supreme duty now is to


face the future with courage and hope. The world may laugh at the ultra-optimist, but it has no real place for the pessimist. The fears that beset men are most of them "spectral lies," and the rest can be put to flight by a resolute mien. But, in the last analysis, courage and hope are not surface virtues. They cannot endure the stress and strain of the years unless they are fed by springs deep in the soul. The pessimism of modern life is the cloud that overshadows the spirit of the men and women who have lost the sense of fundamental realities. Pessimism is the child of negation. To banish fear from one's personal life and to help drive it out of other men's souls, one must believe. I cannot see how one can be consistently and permanently an optimist unless one's philosophy of life includes, as I suggested a year ago, a con

viction that this universe will not betray the truth seeker, and that it is co-operative, offering help in abundance to him who will seek it aright; that we have a free nature and are not mere cogs in a machine, that we have powers equal to the tasks of life, that by and large human nature is worthy of our confidence, that truth and righteousness are eternally vital and victorious. Such a creed and fear can not exist together.

May you of the class of 1930 have the serene confidence which comes to those who live in the light, and by the power of such a life philosophy. And may it be your happy lot, by living in the strength of such a faith, to help make this world, for many to whom it might otherwise be full of fears and forebodings, a glad place of freedom and power.

LETTERS FROM ALUMNI Moelfre, Llandovery, S. Wales, GB.

Dear Mr. Blazier: The Alumnus was duly received and I was very

glad to have it and all the news and the face of the jovial Dr. D. Hugh Jones. Kindly notice my address as on the top of this card not omitting the word "Moelfre," please. Mr. Dawes must be kept busy now as great international questions are being handled these days.

I am glad to find that the old Alma Mater is doing so well.

With kindest regards, Yours sincerely,

February 3, 1930. D. L. Thomas, '89,

Home, April 1, 1930. My Dear Blazier:

I want you to know what a splendid impression the Glee Club made last week when it visited Cincinnati. As a preliminary the club sang a number of old time college songs selected to illustrate a few remarks of one of the members on the history of college songs at Marietta College. Our meeting was a bit different from that of other years. We had 63 present—a large number—and many who were there for the first time and others who had been at only one or two of our meetings.

We took the name and address of everyone present and I think it will help to keep track of those in Hamilton County and vicinity.

As soon as the minutes are written up by Mrs. Riesner, who acted as Secretary pro tern in the place of Gates Dawes who was on his way home from the West, I will get the address list from

her and make out a copy and send it to you. I am enclosing the account of the meeting which appeared in the Times-Star of Saturday the 29th. Do not publish it for there are a number of inaccuracies in it. Because the President, Prof. J. V. McMillan, was abroard enjoying his sabbatical year, we concluded to re-elect him so that he can preside at our next meeting. Mr. Arthur R. Probst, '10, was elected Vice President; B. Gates Dawes, Jr., '17, Secretary, and Mrs. Virginia Fowler Goebel, '23, Treasurer.

On Saturday evening at seven o'clock the Glee Club put on a splendid concert in the Florentine Dining Room of the Hotel Gibson and surprised the audience with the excellence of their work.

The hotel management were very much pleased with the performance and will be glad to give the singers a return engagement. At ten o'clock the radio performance from Station WLW was a great success and received many favorable comments from lovers of good music throughout the city. Certainly one college was never advertised so favorably in any one-half hour as it was last Saturday.

If the thing can be satisfactorily financed, I believe a radio campaign in important cities within 200 miles of Marietta would be a great advantage in securing new students. If it could be arranged to put on these radio concerts during the late Spring months under the direction of the principal of the high school in each city—and a couple of reels of Savenye's pictures—the combination would be about sure to draw some students to Marietta. As soon as I can arrange to do it, I will write you further on the subject.

Sincerely yours, Thomas H. Kelley.

THE READING TABLE The Art of Business Thinking, by H. G. Schnackel and

Alfred L. Sprecker, '22. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1930.

"The Art of Business Thinking" is the title of a book written recently by Mr. H. G. Schnackel with the collaboration of Alfred L. Sprecker. In the foreword the following is to be found:

"In this book will be found the fundamental facts about the mind and the mental processes involved in thinking in business. Here will be found many facts so important yet so hard to find free from abstract theories and stereotyped expressions. And while the simplicity of the logic may put many pet schemes and quack nostrums to rout, the realities of a vitally important relationship between thinking and doing are brought to light and the task of understanding

reduced to the familiar formula, 'He who runs may read.' "

In this book which Mr. Schnackel and Mr. Sprecker have so ably written is a review of the general psychology as applied to a large part of practical life, that of the operation of a successful business concern. It is a detailed study of the mental position of an executive, methods of obtaining practical results with the greatest economy. The value in practical life will be in a greater conservation of assets and increased products, and, therefore, greater dividends for the stock holders. It is a work which should be read by all division heads of big business, in fact by all the principals of any business or semi-business undertaking. Mr. Schnackel and Mr. Sprecker are also the authors of another book which will soon appear, "The Art of Business Reasoning."

ALUMNI MEETINGS

i WASHINGTON The Marietta College alumni of Washington,

D. C., met for their annual dinner January 16, 1930; The dinner was held at the Army and Navy Club and was managed by the officers of the club who formed the dinner committee, President James A. Edgerton, '91e; Vice President Col. L. C. Lucas, '86e; Secretary-Treasurer Mrs. Florence Gross Morgan, '11. Officers for the coming year were elected as follows: President Reese F. Tener, '20, the Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer were re-elected.

Those present were as follows: Col. L. C. Lucas, '86e; Mr. James A. Edgerton, '91e; Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Morgan, '11; Mr. and Mrs. Reese F. Tener, '20; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd M. Biddle; Mrs. Ann Crebassa; Miss Ruby Dedge; Dr. Ralph M. Hannan, '25e; Mr. W. W. Dyar, '83; Miss Louise Dyar; Miss E. Aline Fenner, '12; Miss Paula E. Lucas; Miss Gertrude Grosvenor; Mrs. Gladys Mason Lawhorn, '07; Mrs. David M. Oakey; Mr. Carl E. Rist, '29; President E. S. Parsons; Dean D. T. Schoonover, and Mr. Arthur H. Savenye, '20, of Marietta.

NEW YORK The Marietta College Club of New York held

its annual dinner of the organization January 17th, 1930, with the largest number present in the history of the club. There were eighty-one present. The program this year consisted of three parts—the speaking program at which President E. S. Parsons addressed the club under the title of "Marietta College Today and Tomorrow;" Mr. Nathan Winston Cook on "Broadcasting;" and Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, '97, on "Shibboleths in International Relations"—the musical program in which Mrs. Maude Van Deusen Wort-

man, wife of Charles P. Wortman, sang two numbers—and the dancing and social program at which the guests indulged in dancing and conversation until a late hour.

The committee was composed of I. G. Jennings, 10; Robert A. Shaw, '90, and Howard W. Dickinson, '89. The entertainment committee was composed of Edward Manley, '26; Norman Wittlig, '27; Hayward Strecker, and Walter G. Springer, '17.

Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Arkins, '24e; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer S. Aumend, '17; Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Barber; Mr. and Mrs. A. Vernon Bowen, '27; Miss Ethel Brown, '23; Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Buck, '02; Mr. Nathan W. Cook; Mr. David R. Cooper, '03e; Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Corwin, '14; Mr. and Mrs. G. Blaine Darrah, '12; Mr. Robert and Miss Mary Detlor; Miss Anna L. DeNoon, '09; Miss Clara M. DeNoon, '06e; Mrs. Laura H. DeNoon; Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Dyke, '99; Miss Dyke; M r S . C. Gilman, '08; Mr. Charles S. Hamner, '86e; Rev. James G. Hamner, '81; Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Jennings, '10; Mr. Irwin L. Jennings, '26; Miss Jennings; Mr. Irwin Johnson, '22; Mr. Cecil S. Johnston, '28; Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Jesse Jones, '97; Mr. George R. Lord, '08; Mr. Edward Manley, '26; Mr. L. J. Mathers, '25; Mr. John T. McManus, '28; Mr. and Mrs. H. Ward Meacham; Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Merriam; Miss Frances F. Oldham; Miss Edna H. Palmer, '28e; Dr. Edward S. Parsons; Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Pitman; Mr. Zimmer; Miss J. Waldine Rathbone; Mr. Theron Ripley, '90e; Mr. and Mrs. Mills Ripley; Mr. and Mrs. Franklin E. Reed, '29-'28; Mrs. Russell; Mr. Kinnard Russell; Mr. A. H. Savenye, '20; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shaw, '90; Miss Marian C. Shaw; Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Smith, '96e; Mr. Robert P. Sniff en; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred L. Sprecker, '22; Mr. H. W. Strecker; Mr. C. E. Weppler; Miss Emma Wil-


helm, 'OOe; Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Wilder, Mr. Allen A. Witt, '29; Mr. Norman F. Wittlig, '27; Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Wortman, '97; Mr. Dana L. Wortman, '27e; Mr. Charles D. Zimmer; Miss Verna Zimmer; Miss Louise Watson.

BOSTON The annual dinner of the New England Club

was held at the Twentieth Century Club, Boston, Saturday night, January 18th. A goodly number of alumni and friends gathered for the occasion. Those unable to attend sent their regrets and desired to assure President Parsons of their abiding interest in their Alma Mater.

The Twentieth Century Club is an ideal place for a college gathering. It is centrally located and surrounded with a home atmosphere. It has every facility for comfort and sociability.

The social hour proceeding the dinner was most profitable in renewing acquaintances and meeting the newer members of the Marietta family.

After dinner the club was called to order by its President, Professor Edward C. Moore, who with Mrs. Moore have so kindly entertained the Club on several occasions. Professor Moore welcomed the Club and guests in a most happy way, then presented President Parsons, who informed the gathering of what the college has done, is doing and what it hopes to do. Naturally the New England Club was pleased with the plans for preserving the traditional Colonial architecture of "Greater Marietta College." Following the outline of "The Expanded Plan" President Parsons, with the aid of motion pictures, took the group on a personally conducted tour of Marietta which was thoroughly enjoyed.

The meeting came to a close with all present looking forward with much enthusiasm to the next meeting of the New England Alumni Club.

Those present were: Doctor Edward C. Moore, '77; Captain and Mrs. E. W. Scott, '00; Mr. and Mrs. William E. Jones, '10; George W. Mindling, '03; Mr. and Mrs. James H. Sheldon, '27; Mr. and Mrs. Bennett L. Moore, '20e; Professor James P. Berkeley, '05; Mrs. Jane Miller Wolfe, '08; Mrs. James Hamilton, '01; Louise S. Calef; Miss Marianne Benedict, '29; Miss Lois McKelvey, '27; Wilbur Schramm, '28; Professor and Mrs. Talcott Parsons; Paul E. Sheldon, '30e; Professor Martin A. Henry; Miss Bertlyn Bosley, '29; Mr. Oliver S. Lyford; President Edward S. Parsons, and one other guest who came with Mrs. Hamilton.

WHEELING The alumni of the Wheeling district met for

their annual dinner on the evening of March 14th, 1930. The dinner was held at the Hotel Windsor, in the mezzanine dining room and was in charge of the very capable committee consisting of Hon. Roy B. Naylor, '92, President; Harry S. Bailey, '18, Vice President; and Roy E. Wilson, '24, Secretary.

At the close of the five-course dinner the secretary, Mr. Wilson, introduced the chairman of the evening, Mr. Naylor, who acted in that capacity in his usual charming manner. Talks were made by President Edward S. Parsons, Prof. H. R. Eggleston and George J. Blazier, representing the college, and C. H. McVeigh, '15; Dr. C. W. Kirkland, '06; C. L. MacMahon, '20, and Miss Irma Stanfield, '15e. Other entertainment was provided by the Marietta College orchestra, composed of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Hamilton, Miss

Emma Schoonover, Miss Mary Louise Otto and Mr. Deane Northrup,' and three reels of moving pictures shown by Mr. Blazier.

Through the efforts of the Wheeling committee the orchestra broadcasted from the studio of Station WVWA the following day at 12:30 noon.

Those present were: President Edward S. Parson; Roy B. Naylor, '92; Prof. H. R. Eggleston; Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Kirkland, '06; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. McVeigh, '15; George J. Blazier, '14; Miss Irma Stanfield, '15e; Harry S. Bailey, '18; C. L. MacMahon, '20; Howard E. Eaton, '21; Mr. and Mrs. Willard B. Wilson, '21e; P. J. McDonough, '23e; R. P. Herdman, '25; Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Wilson, '24; Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Spiker (Elizabeth Hughes),'24; J. Herbert Stitt, '23; Kenneth Hanson, '26e; Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Wilson (Gladys Stacy), '27 and '24; Miss Zelma Seyler, '27; J. C. Nevada, '28; C. Edward Stitt, '29; Mr. and Mrs. John Roberts, '29e; Harold Baumgard, '29e; Mary Louise Otto, '26; Miss Emma Schoonover; Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Hamilton; Deane Northrup; Mrs. Eleanor Carroll; Ralph Kirby, '32e; Donald Smith; Harold Suter; Charles Hartwig; Ronald Wilson.

CINCINNATI The seventy-fifth annual dinner of the oldest

college and university club in the state of Ohio was the Marietta College gathering at Cincinnati on Friday, March 28th, 1930. The meeting was a dinner at the new Y. W. C. A. and was arranged by Mr. Thomas H. Kelley and Mrs. Rebecca Schwesinger Riesner. Mr. J. B. Warner, '81, presided. The main feature of the dinner was singing by the Marietta College Glee Club, under the direction of Professor G. L. Hamilton. The club sang a selected program of college songs of the past. The selections were made by Mr. Thomas H. Kelley. President Edward S. Parsons was present and outlined the new plans for the Marietta of the future. Plans were made at the meeting to attend the dinner-hour concert at the Hotel Gibson on the following evening, at which the Glee Club again sang.

The officers for the ensuing year are: President, Professor J. V. McMillan, former Dean of Marietta College; Vice President, Arthur R. Probst, '10; Secretary, B Gates Dawes, '17; Treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Jowler Goble, '23.

The Cincinnati Alumni Club have the appreciation of the entire college administration and the Glee Club for sponsoring the broadcasting program from WLW, March 29th, at 10 P. M. This program was heard all over the country. Fan mail has been received from towns in Oregon, southern California, Texas, Long Island, southern Mississippi and South Carolina.

FORT WORTH The 18th regional Marietta College Club was

organized at Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday night, March 29th. The meeting was organized by Fred C. Cutter of the class of 1910, who is connected with the G. M. Smith & Company, investment bankers of Fort Worth. Invitations were sent to all alumni in the state. Officers of the club were elected as follows: Paul Gage, '98, president; Fred Cutter, '10, secretary.

Mr. Gage was not present on account of an injury sustained in a traffic accident from which he is recovering.

The club received many messages of good will,


among them being messages from President Parsons of Marietta College and from Thomas H. Kelley of the Cincinnati Club. The radio program of the College Glee Club from WLW in Cincinnati was heard at this gathering and was greatly enjoyed.

COLUMBUS The annual dinner of the Marietta College Club

of central Ohio was held at the University Club, Seneca Hotel, Columbus, on the evening of Friday, April 4th, with an attendance of over ninety, nearly twenty of whom were from Marietta, principally members of the college staff. The affair was in charge of an entertainment committee of which Charles A. Ward, '90, was the chairman (as usual) assisted by the officers of the club, Kenner McConnell, '11, president, and Charles M. Hovey, '27e, secretary. During the dinner hour music was furnished by the Marolads Orchestra of Columbus and J. Robert McConnell, '17, of Newark, sang beautifully. Brief talks were made by Dr. Parsons, Hon. W. W. Mills, A. H. Savenye and Hon. George White, and a number of excellent movies of the college and campus were shown by Mr. Savenye. New officers for the ensuing year are as follows: L. S. Dougan, '19, president, and Charles W. Hovey, secretary. At the conclusion of the meeting dancing was indulged in until nearly midnight.

CHICAGO The annual dinner of the Chicago Alumni, held

at the Union League Club, on the evening of April 9th, 1930, was made unusually interesting by the presence of a number of members of the College Players Club who had come to Chicago to take part in the dramatic competition at Northwestern University April 10th to 12th. The Club presented most entertainingly after the dinner the skit, "That Very Naked Boy."

Mr. H. B. Gear, '92, presided and introduced President Edward S. Parsons who told of some of the notable advances of the year at the college. Following his address, moving pictures of campus activities were shown. There were fifty present.

The officers of the present year hold over for the next year.

CLEVELAND The Cleveland and northern Ohio alumni of

Marietta College met for the annual get-together meeting, April 24th, 1930. The meeting took the form of a dinner at the University Club, arranged by the executive committee, Mr. J. Francis Wieser, '13, as president of the club and Mrs. Estelle Nixon Foster, '02, as secretary.

The speakers of the evening were Professor Robert F. Clark, who represented President Edward S. Parsons; Miss Alice Rosemond, Dean of Women; George J. Blazier, Alumni Secretary; Daniel E. Morgan, '97, and Charles C. White, '97. Mr. Wieser acted as toastmaster.

New officers were elected as follows: Edward B. Follett, '00, president, and Miss Mildred Palmer, '17, secretary.

Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Hen-shaw, '93; Mr. Charles C. White, '97; Mr. Daniel Edgar Morgan, '97e; Mrs. Estelle Nixon Foster, '02; Mr. Walter Kelly, '06; Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Wieser, '13; Miss Mildred Palmer, '17; Miss Ruth Palmer, '20; Mr. Lewis Timblin, '21; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wittlig, '21; Miss Effie Travis, '24; Miss

Alice Chandler, '24; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Torpy, '27 and '27e; Mr. Charles Bruny, '27; Mr. Harold Rand, '28; Mr. James Rhoads, '28; Miss Mabel Schramm, '29; Miss Doris Buck; Professor Robert F. Clark; Miss Alice Rosemond; Mr. George J. Blazier, '14.

PARKERSBURG Forty alumni and thirteen seniors of the Park

ersburg High School who are considering coming to Marietta College attended the second annual alumni dinner of the alumni of the institution living in Parkersburg, held May 6, 1930, at the Elks Club. The meeting took the form of a dinner. Mr. Charles A. Ludey, '95, presided as toastmaster and introduced the speakers of the evening. The speakers were President Edward S. Parsons; Mr. William W. Mills; Miss Alice Rosemond, Dean of Women; Professor William C. Gerrish; Alumni Secretary George J. Blazier— all of Marietta—and Mr. W. H. Wolfe of Parkersburg, and Miss Bonnie E. Kerr who introduced the young men and young women visitors from the Parkersburg High School. Others present from Marietta were Professor George S. Chapin, Mr. John E. Sandt, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Corwin and Mrs. George J. Blazier.

Officers for next year were elected as follows: President, Dr. Marvin R. Stone, '02; Vice President, Martin P. Vorberg, '23e; Secretary, Miss Daisy I. Waller, '19.

The committee in charge of the dinner was composed of Mr. Barron N. Hall, '18, as president of the club; Miss Daisy Waller as secretary; Dr. Stone as vice president; Mrs. Hall, and Mr. and Mrs. Vorberg, the latter three having charge of the dinner and ticket arrangements.

I t was regretted by all present that the Hon. Albert B. White in whose honor the dinner was held, was called to Charleston in connection with his duties as State Senator in West Virginia.

Those present were: Charles A. Ludey, '95e; William H. Wolfe, '99; Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Stone, '02; Miss Bonnie E. Kerr, '09; W. F. Leeper, '09; Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood N. Dana, '12; Mrs. Gale Graham (Dorothy Morris), '17e; Arthur Reynolds, '18e; Mr. and Mrs. Barron Hall, '18; Miss Daisy Waller, '19; Miss Ethel Musgrave, '20; Miss Willie E. Neal, '21; Mrs. Lois Hull Killough, '21e; R. M. Neale, '23e; Miss Sophie Inslee, '23e; W. H. Neale, '24e; Edward Dana, '24e; George Shedan, '25e; Richard Beckwith, '26e; Miss Frances Inslee, '27e; Miss Elizabeth Terry, '28; Richard Busch, '28, and Miss Helen Hughes.

PITTSBURGH The annual dinner of the Marietta College Club

of Pittsburgh was held Friday evening, May 2nd, at the Faculty Club, Oak Manor, University of Pittsburgh. Immediately after the dinner the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Mr. D. J. Parr, '14, president; Mr. Charles L. Wilson, '99, vice president; Miss Margaret S. West, '13, secretary-treasurer.

The club greatly appreciated talks by President Parsons and Professor Manley who brought to the club news of the college events and plans for the future. Mr. Charles L. Wilson and Mr. D. J. Parr spoke on behalf of the local organization. Dr. Parsons presented a series of splendid moving


pictures, showing many college activities on the campus and on the Muskingum River.

Among those present were: President Edward S. Parsons, Professor Joseph Manley of Marietta; Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Layman, '74; Mr. S. H. Putnam, '88; Mr. F. C. Jordan, '89; Mr. and Mrs. Lee S. Devol, '92; Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Wilson, '99; Mr.

and Mrs. A. V. Johnson, '10; Mr. and Mrs. Rolland R. Painter, '12; Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Altvater, '13; Miss Margaret S. West; Mr. D. J. Parr, '14; Mrs. Mary Scott Maurer, '21; Mr. O. L. K. McKibben, '22; Mr. L. F. Stroefer, '24; Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Ferguson, '28-'29; Mr. and Mrs. James A. Sprague; Mr .A. H. Maurer; Mr. J. W. Jordan.

ALUMNI COUNCIL REPORT (Continued from page 121.)

The coming year efforts are being made to organize smaller centers. The list follows:

twfo others in larger cities and some in

Date June 17, 1929 November 23, 1929 January 16, 1930 January 17, 1930 January 18, 1930 March 14, 1930

March 28, 1930

March 29, 1930 April 4, 1930

Place Seattle, Wash. Charleston, W. Va. Washington, D. C. New York City Boston, Mass. Wheeling, W. Va.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Ft. Worth-Dallas, Columbus, Ohio

No. 17 23 22 84 26 44

63

14 95

April 9, 1930 April 24, 1930

May 2, 1930 May 6, 1930

Chicago, 111. Cleveland, Ohio

50 29

Pittsburgh, Pa. 27 Parkersburg, W. Va. 53

College Representatives None. Dr. E. S. Parsons, Mr. George J. Blazier. Dr. Parsons, Dean Schoonover, Arthur H. Savenye. Dr. Parsons, Mr. W. W. Mills, Arthur H. Savenye. Dr. Parsons. Dr. Parsons, Mr. George J. Blazier, Mr. H. R. Eggleston, Mr. Gerald L. Hamilton. Dr. Parsons, Dean Schoonover, and Mr. Gerald L. Hamilton. None. Dr. Parsons, Mr. W. W. Mills, Mr. Frank L. Hayes, Mr. George S. Chapin, Mr. Arthur H. Savenye, Mr. P. L. Rea, Mr. T. D. Phillips, Miss Alice Rosemond (Dean of Women),Miss Paschal, Mr. Blackburn, Miss Geneva Stephenson and Mr. MacDonald. (Crew Coach). Dr. Parsons and Miss Stephenson. Mr. George J. Blazier, Mr. R. F. Clark and Miss Alice Rosemond. Dr. Parsons and Mr. Joseph Manley. Dr. Parsons, Mr. W. W. Mills, Miss Alice Rosemond, Mr. George J. Blazier, Mrs. Wolfe, Miss Stephenson, Mr. George Chapin, Mr. W. C. Gerrish and Mr. John E. Sandt.

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IV. The Marietta Alumnus This year the Marietta Alumnus has appeared quarterly with a total of 152 pages published.

This is larger by 24 than a year ago by the publication of the bi-ennial directory of 60 pages which was published in April. The main topics have been as follows:

Directory 60 Pages Alumni News 42 Pages President's Messages and Baccalaureate 11 Pages College News 29 Pages Historical Articles 10 Pages

152 Pages

V. Routine Work of the Office (a) Number of graduates including class of 1929 1727

Deceased : 582 Total number of living graduates 1145

(b) Non graduates including class of 1929 1681 Deceased 633

Total of living non graduates 1048

Total living Alumni 2193 (c) The Alumni Office has the addresses of the following:

Graduates 1087 or 95% Non graduates 833 or 80%

(d) During the year 544 missing addresses have been found and corrected. (e) We have personal files for living and deceased Alumni, 2453, or a gain of 123 during 1929-1930.


VI. Financial Report

Revolving Fund $3,250.00 Memberships 170.92 General Catalog 76.50 Miscellaneous 440.75

Total Receipts $3,938.17 Expenditures

Deficit, June 1, 1930 $1,742.14 Assistants 420.00 Secretary 250.00 General Catalog 8.82 Traveling Expenses of Secretary 70.17 Stamps and Office Supplies 1.80 Addressograph 20.03 Founders' Day and Commencement Expenses 547.82 Incidentals—Telephone, etc 15.87

$3,076.65 Marietta Alumnus—

Printing $ 867.07 Pictures and Cuts 68.41 Mailing 49.05

$ 984.53 , Total Expenses $4,061.18

Deficit $ 123.01 Respectfully submitted,

GEORGE J. BLAZIER, Secretary.

NEWS BY CLASSES '67

The address of Rev. Charles S. Walker is 30 Prospect Ave., Darien, Conn.

'69 Mr. and Mrs. Tasker B. Bosworth are living in

Marietta where Mr. Bosworth is recovering from an illness of more than a year.

'74 * WILLIAM PUTNAM CURTIS

1853-1930 *

William Putnam Curtis, '74e, died at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, January 12, 1930. He had been in failing health for some months.

Mr. Curtis was born July 17, 1853, in the village of Harmar. He was educated in Marietta Academy and entered college in 1870 where he stayed two years. He was a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity.

Mr. Curtis was in the railroad business nearly all his life since the completion of his college work. He entered the freight office of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad in Marietta in 1872, and served as agent at Musselman, a station on the line. After a brief period spent as deputy internal revenue collector, he went to Minneapolis where he worked in a bank. Soon he went back to the railroad business as agent for the Fargo and Southern Railroad at Fairmount, N. D. For more than 30 years past he has been connected with the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, the last years being spent in the Cleveland offices.

Mr. Curtis was married October 25th, 1888, to Miss Alice B. Waters of Marietta, who with one daughter, Dorothy, survives him.

'76 Charles E. Walker, 237 Avalon Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio,

Class Secretary. No class letter received.

'77 Dr. Edward C Moore, 21 Kirkland St., Cambridge, Mass.,


'78 Hon. Albert B. White, Parkersburg, W. Va., Class Secretary.

Robert H. Walker died at his home in Gonzales, Texas, May 4th, 1930. An extended account of Mr. Walker's life will be printed in the October issue of the Alumnus.

Hon. Albert B. White is a Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. which convenes at Cincinnati, May 29th, 1930.

The old home of Mr. Edward G. Ewart was found to be in the path of building progress at the University of Chicago, so he moved, with his former hotel name, Del Prado, to 5307 Hyde Park Boulevard, formerly the Cooper-Carleton Hotel.

'79 Prof. William W. Jordan, 427 Berkeley Eoad, Haverford, Pa.,

Class Secretary, No class letter received.

'80 Myron A. Hays, 120 S. Fourth St., Louisville, Kentucky,

Class Secretary. Mr. Warren B. Galbreath who has been for 40

years connected with the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and more recently general livestock agent thereof is retiring from active work. Mr. Galbreath lives in Fort Worth, Texas.

'81 W. G. Sibley in his "Along the Highways" in


the Chicago Journal of Commerce has this to say on reducing college expenses:

"Many college students, as a result of heavy stock losses by their fathers, have been compelled to cut their expenses drastically, says the news. This may not be a bad thing for the boys. College boys, allowed large incomes, are under a heavy handicap so far as the true purposes of a college course are concerned.

"Money to spend for things other than shelter, clothing, food and books, thwart many a benefit. A boy in college is midway between adolescence and manhood. If encouraged to be a spender because supplied with more money than needed, he will have little regard for economies and self-denial after he is out of college, and is likely to remain dependent on his father's income instead of learning self-reliance by earning his own living.

"There is a softness in many fathers, aggravated by foolish mothers, that spurs them to an excess generosity to their sons that does them serious harm. Parents really want their sons to become capable men, able and willing to undergo all those things which make real men out of them. When they feed them 'foolish' money in the years before they arrive at their majority, they have trained them to become and remain dependent when they should be building self-things to be self-supporting. Paternal softness that applies a youth with the means of constant self-indulgence, has spoiled many a fellow who might otherwise have made a man of himself."

'82 Paul W. Eaton, Department of State, Washington, D. C ,

Class Secretary. Mr Paul W. Eaton who lives at 1803 Biltmore

St., N. W., Washington, D. C, is a contributor to the Sporting News published at St. Louis. Mr. Eaton has been in the Government service in Washington for 48 years, the last 26 being in the State Department.

'83 William Wade Dyar, 219 Holly Ave., Tacoma Park, D. C ,


'84 William W. Boyd, Oxford, Ohio.. Class Secretary.

Judge Edgar B. Kinkead died at the home of his daughter in Atlanta, Georgia, April 9th, 1930. An extended account of Judge Kinkead's life will be printed in the Marietta Alumnus of October.

'85 Austin G. Curtis, 5548 Blackstone Avenue, Chicago, HI.,

Class Secretary. £ LOUIS R. PUTNAM *

1864-1929 Louis R. Putnam, an ex-member of the class of

1885, died a t his home in Ashland, Kentucky, February 23rd, 1929. Mr. Putnam having been bom October 7th, 1864, was nearly 65 years of age.

Mr. Putnam was the son of Douglas Putnam Jr. and Mrs. Valonia Putnam. He was born at Hope Furnace, Vinton County, Ohio. He attended Marietta Academy and entered college where he remained two years. In college he was a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity.

On leaving college in 1882, Mr. Putnam was accountant for about ten years. In 1892 he became the treasurer of the Ashland Steel Company, which position he held until 1911 when he was made general manager of the same corporation. Mr. Putnam was for six years the treasurer of the city of Ashland.

He was married on November 19th, 1885, to Miss Marie Hardie who with his son and daughter survives him. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Ashland and also of the various Masonic Orders.

'86 Eufus C. Dawes, 1800 Sheridan Road, Evanston, 111.,

Class Secretary. Mr. Rufus C. Dawes, as the president of the

Chicago World's Fair of 1933, or the Century of Progress Exposition, ran the steam shovel on May 27th which broke ground for the first building structure. Mr. Dawes' work as president began more than two years ago when the financial plans were laid for this great exposition.

'87 * PROFESSOR THOMAS E. McKINNEY *

Former Professor Thomas E. McKinney died at his home in Marietta April 12th, 1930. An extended account of Professor McKinney's life will be printed in the October issue of the Alumnus.

'88 No class letter received.

'89 Hunter S. Armstrong, Box 263, Palo Alto, Calif.,

Class Secretary. * CHARLES RUSSELL *

1867-1930 Mr. Charles Russell, one of the leading citizens

of Ashland, Kentucky, where he was actively identified in the business life of the town, died on February 25th, 1930.

Mr. Russell was born in Bellefonte, Kentucky, March 7th, 1867. Early in his boyhood his family moved to Ashland where he lived until his death.

He entered college in 1886 as a sophomore where he was ' a student for one year with "the class of '89. Leaving college in 1887 he became interested in the banking business in his home city. He rose to be cashier of the Merchants Banking and Trust Company which later merged with the Ashland National Bank. He was a director in the latter organization. Mr. Russell was also president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Cattlesburg, Kentucky, and also director of the Kentucky National Bank.

Outside his chosen profession his interest extended to the Ashland Fire Brick Company where he was a director and the Means-Russell Iron Company in which he was also a director. He was president and general manager of the Ashland Sheet Metal Company and a director in the Kentucky Iron and Coal Manufacturing Company.

Mr. Russell was also interested in many lines of civic work; one of them is proved by his long service on the Board of Education. One of the schools in the city is named for him.

Mr. Russell was married to Miss Phoebe Northrup of Louisa, Kentucky. Mrs. Russell with three children survive him.

'90 Charles A. Ward, The Pure Oil Company, Columbus, Ohio,

Class Secretary. * CHARLES HENRY SMITH, JR. *

1868-1930 Charles Henry Smith, Jr., an ex-member of the

class of 1890, died in a hospital in Canton, Ohio, April 2, 1930. Mr. Smith was born July 13, 1868, at Loda, Illinois. He was the son of Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Smith.

He was prepared for college in Marietta Academy where he spent three years. In 1886 he entered Marietta College, where he spent two years, leaving in 1888 for the study of medicine. He


CLASS OF '90 First row, seated: Moore, Scott, Prof. Chamberlin, Prof. Phillips Second row: Deshler, Shaw, Ward, Ripley, Weber, Plumer. Third row: Gear, Kaiser, Stoughton, Lucas, McMaster.

Clark, Dawes.

practiced his chosen profession ten years. He then turned his attention to floriculture, in which business he interested himself for the remainder of his life. His address for many years was R. F. D. No. 2, Canton, Ohio.

He was married December 30, 1889, to Miss Jennie D. Pugh of Marietta, who with one son, Edwin D. Smith, survives him. Interment was made in Oak Grove Cemetery, Marietta.

Columbus, Ohio, June 25, 1930. Dear Classmates:

Inasmuch as ten members of the Old Class failed to attend our Fortieth Reunion at Commencement time, I am going to send out this brief report to all of you. We had a glorious time together from Friday until the following Monday. There were fifteen present as follows: Clark, Dawes, Deshler, Gear, Kaiser, Lucas, Moore, Plumer, Scott, Shaw, Ward, McMaster, Ripley, Stoughton and Weber. Barnes and Snodgrass fully intended to come, but both were detained at the last minute by illness.

Most of the crowd was there Friday and we spent the first evening together on the porch of the Dawes home up the Muskingum. Saturday at ten o'clock most of us attended the Alumni Meeting, where Pussy Clark delivered a splendid address on the Marietta College of our day. That day at one o'clock the local members, Kaiser,

Deshler, Plumer and Weber, entertained us for luncheon at the Wakefield Hotel, after which we adjourned to see the first college shell boat race that has been held in the Muskingum River since 1880 I believe. From there the whole gang went up the Ohio, eight miles, to visit in the beautiful home of Arthur Cole's two sisters. That evening most everybody attended the frat banquet, after which we held another late session on the Dawes porch.

Sunday afternoon Dawes, Shaw and Ward entertained the class to a dinner at the Marietta Country Club, at which Profs. Chamberlin and Phillips were present. After this we had our usual class picture taken, and it is our intention to see that all the class gets one of these pictures as soon as they are ready.

Monday was Commencement Day and most of us saw a senior class of seventy get their degrees, after which came the usual alumni dinner, at which Shaw responded for Old Ninety. After that the crowd scattered to their various homes. We had letters from every member of the class who was not there.

Barnes is Dean of Maryville College, Maryville, Tennessee. Church is still in New York. Clark is in Vincennes, Indiana, and is a candidate for circuit judge this year. Dawes still lives in or near Columbus, where he is developing a wonder-


ful arboretum, which he has recently dedicated to the public. Eells is in business at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Evans is still preaching at New Preston, Connecticut. Gear is contracting at La Grange, Illinois, and had his daughter with him at Commencement. Kaiser is in real estate at Marietta, and has been a trustee of Ohio State University for many years. E. Monfort is still a chemist at St. Louis, while his brother is at Greensburg, Indianapolis. Moore is with Brown Brothers, Bankers, New York. Morris is in the law at Minneapolis. Plumer lives at Marietta and has retired. Scott is one of the big lawyers of West Virginia a t Huntington. Ward is with Pure Oil at Columbus. Snodgrass is in New York. Dana teaches music at Hillsdale College, Michigan. Kingsbury is still in the railroad business at Chicago. Ripley is an engineer at Buffalo, while Stoughton and McMaster are with Pure Oil, the former at Newark, Ohio, and Jim at Cabin Creek, West Virginia. Charley Weber is a merchant at Marietta, while Ben Knowles is in real estate in Brooklyn. The latter were with us in the Academy.

Those who have passed on are as follows: Bailey, 1917; Cole, 1927; Crawford, 1910; Elliott, 1924; Hutchinson, 1928; James Cole, ; Booth, 1928; Smith, 1930; Woodyard, 1929; McCowan, 1922.

We had a glorious time and are looking forward to our next reunion in 1935, the 100th anniversary of the college. Best regards to all,

Sincerely yours, Chas. Ward, Class Secretary.

'91 William S. Plumer, Marietta, Ohio, Class Secretary.

No class letter received. '92

Lee S. Devol, 907 First National Bank Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa., Class Secretary.

Great honor has come to Professor W. A. Cooper of Stanford University in his election to the Deutsche Akademie. This is one of the highest honors that a non-German Germanist can receive from Germany. There are five other members in this country: Professor Kuno Francke of Harvard University, Professor A. B. Faust of Cornell University, Professor Franz Boas of Columbia University, Professor Julius Goebel of University of Illinois and Professor A. R. Hok-feld of the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Cooper's major work is the translation of A. Bielschowsky's Life of Goethe.

Roy Benton Naylor was the subject of an honorary sketch in the Wheeling News of March 16th, 1930 which included a picture and a resume of his life, which is as follows:

"Roy Benton Naylor, born 1871, resides at Hawthorne Court; representative Travelers Insurance Company since 1916; director Y. M. C. A.; Associated Charities; several financial institutions; member Chamber of Commerce; Fort Henry Country Club; Twilight Rotary Club; was chairman Municipal Recreation Commission; newspaper man; Commercial Secretary; graduated Wheeling Public Schools, Linsly Institute; Marietta College; hobby golf."

'93 E. C. Shedd, 1310 E. Sixty-fourth St., Chicago, Illinois,


'94 Clarence C. Middleswart, Marietta, Ohio, Class Secretary. The following is copied from the Missionary

Herald of January 1930:

"Dr. C. T. Wang, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Nationalist Government, who was a friend of Dr. Williams, the late vice-president of Nanking University, who was murdered in 1926, has caused a monument of white marble to be erected over his grave. It bears an inscription of six hundred ideographs giving the circumstances of his death and a testimonial to his character. In a letter to Mrs. Williams, Dr. Wang says, 'Perhaps it will be of some consolation to you to know that the extreme sacrifice of your husband was the turning point of our Northern Expedition. It was that unfortunate incident of March 24, 1926, that caused the Nationalist leaders to purge the Luomintang Party of the communist elements at all costs.' "

Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Middleswart have returned from a tour of Hawaii, Australia, India and Japan to Marietta. They sailed from San Francisco in December and returned to Marietta about June 1st.

'95 Dr. Herbert E. Sloan, Clarksburg, W. Va., Class Secretary.

Professor Archer B. Huibert has produced another of the historical reprints entitled, "The Oregon Trail Centennial: Documentary Background."

John P. Eagleson is a partner in the Cambridge Barbers Supply Company at Cambridge, Ohio.

•96 Francis Penrose, Marietta, Ohio, Class Secretary.


Albert L. Smith, Haskins-Davis Co., Marietta, Ohio, Class Secretary.

On January 28th, 1930, the City Council of Cleveland elected Mr. Daniel E. Morgan as the City Manager. Mr. Morgan is a graduate of Marietta Academy and was a student in the class of 1897 for two years. He then went to Oberlin where he was graduated in 1897.

This is a well deserved honor. Mr. Morgan is a lawyer, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, and a member of the Henderson, Quail, McGaw & Morgan law firm. He has had splendid training for his job, first as a member of the City Council, a member of the Cleveland Charter Commission and two years ago represented a Cleveland district in the State Senate. He is a former president of the Citizens League and is a member of the Cleveland Bureau of Research. The bulletin of the Citizens League has the following to say about him:

"In every public office which he has held, and in every position which he has occupied in civic bodies, he has rendered distinguished service. When he was a member of the city council he was one of its leaders; taking a leading part in the gas franchise ordinance, in the amendments to the Tayler grant, and other important legislation.

"When he was a candidate for state senator in 1928 the League's committee on condidates said: 'A keen student of politics and an able lawyer; has the training, ability, personality, and point of view to make an unusually effective legislator; he should, by all means, be elected.'

"Senator Morgan, by his industry, tact, legal acumen, speaking ability, independence of thought, and keen sense of fair play, was generally recognized as one of the most forceful and useful members of the General Assembly. The Cincinnati Enquirer said of: 'He has won, by common consent of legislative observers, a ranking with the outstanding leaders of the senate. * * *


His careful work in committee, his ability to detect loopholes and incongruities in bills, his accomplishment in handling the election bill, showed him to be of such stature that he may not be said to be stowed in anybody's vest pocket.'

"Mr. Morgan enters upon his duties as city manager with a fine background of experience.

"In his brief speech of acceptance, Mr. Morgan indicated his intention:

"a. Of co-operating with the council in giving the manager plan of government a fair trial.

"b. Of following the lines clearly laid down in the charter and confining his attention to administrative matters, and avoiding intrenchment on the council's rights and prerogatives.

"c. Of co-operating, when requested, with the council which must develop and demonstrate a real power of leadership.

"The people of Cleveland have confidence in the new city manager. He enters upon a difficult task with the best wishes of all groups of citi-

Charles C. White, who is the Title Officer of the Land Title and Abstract Company of Cleveland, has written an article in the Title News for November 1929 which outlines that part of the law profession in which Mr. White has so greatly excelled.

'98 Thomas J. Jones, 392 West Muskegon Ave., Muskegon, Mich.;

Miss Willia D. Cotton, Marietta, Ohio; Class Secretaries.

The address of Karl G. Kaiser is: Care of Rueter & Company, 208 West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois.

*99 Fred W. Torner, Marietta, Ohio; Miss Anna M. Richards,

Marietta, Ohio; Class Secretaries. Mr. W. H. Wolfe and daughter have returned

to their home in Parkersburg after a six months trip around the world.

From the National Petroleum News we copy the following:

"A. D. Sloan, vice president of the Sinclair Gulf Pipeline Company, at Houston, is the operating manager of a system which serves to connect Coastal Texas properties of the Sinclair Oil & Gas Company with the Houston ship channel plant of the Sinclair Refining Company. He has held his present position for years. Before joining the Sinclair organization and being subsequently transferred to Gulf Coastal Texas, Mr. Sloan spent many years in oil transportation service with the Prairie Pipeline Company, in the Mid-Continent.

'00 Evan W. Scott, Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Mass.;

Class Secretary. X WARREN W. STRAIN *

1875-1930 Warren W. Strain, alumnus of Marietta College

of the class of 1900, died at his home in Sisters-ville, West Virginia, on Wednesday, January 8th, 1930. Death followed an illness of two years.

Mr. Strain was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Strain of Warren Township, where he was born December 12th, 1875. Following his graduation from Marietta College and post graduate work at Chicago University he was superintendent of schools. He was afterward principal of Magnolia High School at New Martinsville, West Virginia, and continued in this work until his health failed. He was recognized as a chemist and scientist and during the world war was in

the chemical branch of the government service. Mr. Strain was widely recognized in West Vir

ginia as an educator and at one time was president of the West Virginia Educational Association of the northern district. He was a member of the Sistersville M. E. Church and was active in Boy Scout Work. Surviving the deceased are his widow and a son and daughter, Gordon Strain and Mrs. Marshall LeBarr, the husband of Mrs. LeBarr being an interne physician in Marietta Memorial Hospital.

Funeral Services will be held in Sistersville on Saturday afternoon.

—Marietta Times, January 9, 1930. •01

David F. Turner, Parkersburg, W. Va.; Mrs. Helen Henderson Allmon, 27 Monongalia St., Charleston, W. Va.;

Class Secretaries. No class letter received.

*02 Charles N. Buck, 17 E. 42nd St., New York City; Mrs. W. H.

Brigham, 1595 Lincoln Ave., Lakewood, Ohio; Class Secretaries.


Glen Edwards, 431 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.; Class Secretary.

Mr. Glen Edwards is doing trade association work and is now secretary of the International Association of Blue Print and Allied Industries, located at 431 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111.

'04 William E. Scott, 1258 Conway Bldg., Chicago, 111.,

Class Secretary. The address of Charles A. Kast is Lamont,

Iowa. John N. Chamberlin has received a promotion

as the assistant vice president of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Mr. Chamberlin's address is 140 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California.

The address of Cecil J. Gardner is 5011 Argus Drive, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California.

'05 George M. Strong, 75 Glenmont Avenue, Columbus, Ohio,

Class Secretary. Judge Grover C. Pierpont of Wichita, Kansas,

is the presiding judge in a bitterly contested murder case in his home city during the week of Commencement. This is the reason he did not board an airplane for the 25th reunion of his class.

Besides his activities on the bench, Mr. Pierpont has been a member of the city school board and one of the leaders in the management of week day religious education. He is serving on the board of Friends University. Because of the latter position he has had to decline appointments to the board of trustees both at Municipal University of Wichita and Washburn College.

Mrs. Arabella Powell has entered the Clare-mont College of Education, Claremont, California, toward a general secondary certificate. California requires one year post graduate work.

A. J. R. Schumaker has changed his address from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to 1848 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.

Ontario, California, January 10, 1930. Mr. George M. Strong, 75 Glemont Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. Dear Friend:

There have been two, possibly three letters that have reached me from you, all hitherto unanswered for which neglect I ask your pardon.


Two of your letters were, by coincidence, received during the only illness I have had in the past ten years and it was utterly impossible to answer them at once. Then, as is the case with so many things not done promptly, the answering was not done at all.

It is quite possible that you have not yet heard of the death of my husband which occurred November seventeenth very suddenly, though he had been a sufferer from nephritis since March 1918. He was employed as Study Hall Supervisor in the Chaffey Union High School for the past seven years—doing study hall duty continuously until this fall when his study hall duty was reduced to two periods though he did outside work on the grounds—traffic problems—truancy, etc.— making himself generally useful. On November 15 he chaperoned a bus load of students to a game at San Bernardino and on the 16th he took tickets and directed traffic at a football game on the Chaffey grounds. So you may understand that we had no idea the end was so near though he had been given a rating of total and permanent disability by the Veterans Bureau.

While Ashby had at one time attended Carnegie Tech, he did not graduate and did not hold a teacher's certificate but his personality was such that he could enforce discipline with a minimum of friction and very little nerve strain to himself.

We have one child, Ashby Jr., now thirteen years of age, in the eighth grade. We shall remain here in Ontario where our home is. I contemplate taking some courses in education, probably at Pomona College, Claremont, about six miles distant, with a view to teaching. If I find it necessary to attend the summer session, any eastern trip will be impossible — otherwise we shall spend the summer in West Virginia and Ohio. I should very much like to attend the class reunion.

While Vera and I do not see each other often perhaps once or twice each year, we keep in touch and sometimes visit over the phone. Los Angeles and Ontario are only thirty-eight miles apart.

Laura Frederick lives in Pomona, six miles distant. We meet occasionally. Laura has become extremely deaf.

As I am no longer gifted in letter writing—as you yourself bear witness—I have almost entirely lost touch with former friends and classmates, but am always pleased to hear of them. Ada Tomer's death is still a source of sorrow to me. She was the most lovable of all, and the first to go.

Please extend greetings from me to Mrs. Strong whom I have not met. I t would be a pleasure to make her acquaintance next summer at Marietta.

Sincerely yours, Betsey.

636 Princeton St., Ontario, California. From the Chaffey Thrasher (November 21,

1929) Chaffey Junior College, Ontario, California, the following article is taken:

ASHBY POWELL "Mr. Ashby Powell came to Chaffey in 1919

amongst a group of Federal Board Trainees. He was completely invalided at the time of his arrival in Ontario. As soon as he was able, he enrolled in class work at the Chaffey Junior College and took courses as long as the Federal Trainees were enrolled at the Chaffey Junior College.

"Mr Powell did such acceptable work and manifested such a remarkably helpful spirit, that he was offered employment as soon as he was ready for it. He has been a member of the Chaffey staff for a period of nine years.

Mr Powell has been a silent sufferer for the past ten years or fnore, and is another Service man who has given his Life for his country. His spirit was always very fine; he was faithful in his work; he was loyal to the best interests of Chaffey; he was a patriotic American whose absence will be noted daily, for he will be missed. It is because men like Ashby Powell have lived, have served their country and their community, and have been willing to sacrifice all for humanity's welfare that we enjoy our freedom and the opportunities that America affords."

—Merton E. Hill. Cairo, January 4, 1930.

Since sending you a card from Rome (I was there six weeks) I've had a lovely month in Sicily. Crossed from Syracuse to Malta, arriving Christmas morning, and sailed for Alexandria next day on the American export line. So I had a 3-day ail-American interval before plunging into Egypt. I shall be here at least a month to go up the Nile to Assuan. After that perhaps North Africa. After that perhaps New York. Then I think I'll make a little money to start out again. Best wishes to you and your family.

Sincerely, Louise Hyde.

'06 Walter C. Kelley, 912 Society for Savings Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. E. L. Porter, State Medical College, Galveston,

Texas; Class Secretaries. Edward H. Wichern is the Treasurer of the

Wheatcrisp Company which is the manufacturer of several tempting chocolate and fruit nut bars. The home office of the company is 2104 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

'07 Charles D. Brokenshire, Alma, Michigan ; Mrs. John L. Lang-

horne, 4648 Hamilton Ave., North Side, Cincinnati, Ohio ; Class Secretaries.

No class letter received. •08

Earl L. Weinstock, 1323 Asbury Ave., Hubbard Woods, 111.; Miss Ruby A. Wilder, Marietta, Ohio; Class Secretaries.


Albert F. Wendell, Lowell, Ohio; Miss Eloise Grafton, 1746 K St., N. W., Washington, D. C.; Class Secretaries.

The following is clipped from the National Petroleum News:

"Charles Roeser, principal in the producing firm of Roeser & Pendleton, Inc., with Fort Worth headquarters, dates his oil industry affiliation back to the early days of Mid-Continent development, including Cushing district operations of 1914-1915. Mr. Roeser and his partner, "Tol" Pendleton, made their first big success in Texas in the days of Breckenridge development, where they operated extensive natural gas gasoline plant properties. Later, in Shackleford County, they made one of the big strikes of recent years in the development of the Cook ranch field."

'10 Miss Clara B. Sugden, Marietta, Ohio, Class Secretary.

Doctor Samuel A. Adair, father of Dr. Frank E. Adair, died at his home in Beverly, January 7th, 1930. Dr. Adair was for many years prominent among the citizenship of Washington County.


'11 Carl C. Hoyt, 104 Carson Ave., Akron, Ohio ; Miss Florence

West, New Matamoras, Ohio; Class Secretaries. Cooley Baume is connected with the Hires-

Turner Glass Company of Washington, D. C. '12

G. Blaine Darrah, 26 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Mrs. Aline Fenner Kempton, Centerville, Ind. ; Class Secretaries.

H. Ellis Sibley is the Advertising Manager of the Pure Oil Company. Mr. Sibley entered upon his new duties February 1st, 1930. He was formerly business manager of the Chicago Journal of Commerce.

Married at Winchester, Virginia, May 28th, 1930, Miss Ellen Aline Fenner to Mr. Forrest Ellwood Kempton. Mr. Kempton is a doctor of philosophy in Biology and has been connected with the Department of Agriculture. They are living in Centerville, Indiana, where Dr. Kempton has business and farming interests.

'13 Frank R. Altvater, 1679 Suburban Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa . ; Mrs. Helen Coar Sinclair (Mrs. A. E. Sinclair) 14 Hollywood

Ave., East Orange, N. J . : Class Secretaries. The address of Roger A. Greene is The Potts-

ville Hospital, Pottsville, Pennsylvania. '14

Thomas W. McCaw, Dennison, Ohio; Mary Louise Taylor, 415 Ann St., Parkersburg, W. Va. ; Class Secretaries.

"Hands that Write" is the title of an advertisement in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post for Dur-o-lite pencils, with a picture of the hand of Harry A. Blankenship, Advertising Manager of the Wilson-Jones Company, leading manufacturers of loose-leaf equipment.

Mrs. E. J. Collins (Frances Butler) has moved again. This time to 2941 Mattern Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

W. Donald Wolfe is with the Research Division of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio. His residence address is 2513 Berk Avenue, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

'15 Fred A. Sheridan, 223 Tibet Road, Columbus, Ohio; Mrs.

George W. Siegler (Margaret E. Otto), Marietta, Ohio; Class Secretaries.

Married at Columbus, Ohio, April 25th, 1930, Mr. Donald David Drumm and Miss Ida Marie Bruny. Mr. and Mrs. Drumm will make their home in Marietta.

'16 Mrs. Walter G. Toepel, 369 E. Grand Blvd., Detroit, Mich.,

Class Secretary. Raymond E. Haas is living at Newport, Ohio. Charles H. Parker, Jr., is connected with the

Armco Iron Company in their plant at Butler, Pennsylvania.

'17 B. Gates Dawes, 22 Garfield Place, Cincinnati, Ohio; Miss

Mildred Palmer, 1833 Grassmere Avenue, East Cleveland, Ohio ; Class Secretaries.

Beman Gates Dawes, Jr., was elected President of the Eureka Security Fire and Marine Insurance Company at the annual meeting of the company held at the home office in Cincinnati, February 11th, 1930. Mr. Dawes has been vice president of the company. Mr. Dawes is quoted in the Cincinnati Enquirer as saying:

"With the issuance of our sixty-sixth annual statement, the Eureka-Security Fire and Marine Insurance Company will have completed another year in its progress. Believing, as we do, in Cincinnati and her steady progress forward, financially and industrially, we intend to continue our

consistent policy—that of concentrating a major part of our assets in Ohio securities, whenever possible. At present more than 75 Ohio Corporations, industrial firms and public service corporations are represented on our investment list."

Herbert E. Ross, an auditor in the Pure Oil Company, has been transferred from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Columbus, Ohio.

Mrs. J. Herbert Jarret t (Mabel Eddy) is living at 370 Burton Avenue, Washington, Pa.

'18 J. Sheldon Scott, 1627 State St., Steubenville, Ohio; Miss

Thelma Geiger, Marietta, Ohio; Class Secretaries. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Bailey, March

28th, 1930, at Wheeling, West Virginia, a daughter named Elizabeth Estelle.

Mrs. Carl Hendricks (Marceline Wolfe) is living at Rockland, Ohio.

J. Sheldon Scott composed a cantata for Easter uses entitled, "The Message of the Cross." This is published by the Willis Music Company of Cincinnati, Ohio.

J. Sheldon Scott has received much favorable publicity from a small pamphlet which he has written entitled, "Control of Phenol Tastes by Means of Increased Lime Treatment," which was read at the Ninth Annual Ohio Conference on Water Purification held in Columbus, Ohio, October 24-25, 1929. The Steubenville Herald Star of June 5th, 1930, had the following to say on this article: "The article embodies a report made by Scott at the conference concerning a method evolved at the local plant for the removal of phenol taste from city water, caused by industrial pollution of the river.

"The success of the method used by Scott depends upon the reception of warning of an approaching phenol wave at least 24 hours before its arrival, if all of the phenol taste is removed from the water. If the warning is not received, the water cannot be free from the phenol taste in less than 24 hours.

"When the warning of a phenol wave in the river is received through the state department of health, to which the chemist of each purification plant of a river city immediately wires in case of such a wave, an excess of lime is added to the water in the mixing chamber at the filtration plant. The treatment has been found successful in every case of its use here since July 1928, when it was first used.

"Attempts to confirm the theory held by Scott that an excess-lime treatment actually removes the phenol from the water have not succeeded in the laboratory, but the practical application of the treatment tends to prove that the theory is correct, Scott says.

"The discrepancies noted in the laboratory tests are believed to be due to the Folin-Denis method of phenol measurement which is now in use."

•19 Fred Mullenix, Marietta, Ohio; Miss Daisy Waller, 1201

George St., Parkersburg, W. Va. ; Class Secretaries. Attorney Leland S. Dougan is the general

counsel of the First Security Building & Loan Company, Columbus, Ohio. He was elected at the annual meeting last January.

William C. Beaver, '19, has been advanced to a full professor at Wittenburg College effective at the beginning of the academic year in September.

Mr. Beaver was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Ohio State University August 13th, 1928. The title of his dissertation


was "Thermophilic and Thermotolerant Bacteria."

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Marsh, Jr., January 2nd, 1930, a son, named Harry Harrison III of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The address of Niles N. Charles, '19e, is Room 1204 State Bank Building, Chicago, Illinois.

Miss Jessie M. Cherrington is living at 211 West Eleventh Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. Miss Cherrington is studying in Ohio State University.

Two of the interesting visitors at Commencement were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Mechling of Wichita, Kansas, who had the distinction of journeying the farthest to attend that celebration. Mr. Mechling had not been in Marietta for thirteen years or since the beginning of the Great War.

The address of Walter V. Wycoff is Hudson Apartments, 39 Calhoun Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.

'20 Hiram H. Maynard, 1206 State Bank Bldg., 120 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, 111.; Miss Sara Ethel Musgrave, 407 Twelfth St..

Parkersburg, W. Va. ; Class Secretaries.

* ARTHUR H. SAVENYE 1898-1930

By Thomas H. Kelley, '7U

*

Arthur H. Savenye of the Class of 1920, Marietta College, passed away at his home in Marietta, May 20, 1930, in his thirty-second year, from septicemia following an operation for mastoiditis. He is survived by Alice Coffin Savenye, his widow, a daughter Ruth Ellen, aged six, and an infant son Arthur H. Jr., aged one year.

This sorrowful chronicle marks the close of a life all too brief but full of accomplishment.

He was born in Solvsberg, Sweeden, and came to America in early childhood. After graduating from the Cambridge (Ohio) High School, he entered Marietta College in 1916. Almost at once we find him in groups where popularity and intellect predominate. He was a member of the Glee Club until the end of his junior year. He was elected President of his class while a sophomore. During his ast two years in College he more. During his last two years in College he was a member of the Players' Club, serving as the President of that organization while a senior. He was editor of the college publication. "Rank and File," during his junior year, and associate editor of the "Olio" while a senior. Besides these worth while student activities which are not to be had for the asking, other honors came to him during his last two years in college, for he was a member of the "Student Council" and in his junior year he was vice president of the student body.

He was a member of the Delta Chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity and rapidly rose in position and influence in that organization. Most of his post graduate life having been spent in Marietta he was a frequent visitor at the Chapter House and his counsel and advice were eagerly sought by the actives. At the annual gatherings his voice will be remembered as always urging the members to strive for the highest in scholarship and to uphold the best traditions of the fraternity.

He had not been in college long before he began to attract the attention of the faculty and others in authority.

ARTHUR H. SAVENYE A charming personality combined with rare

modesty always gained him an audience at the first interview. A second usually won his listener to his cause.

As Sergeant Major of the S. A. T. C. he displayed those qualities of leadership which singled him out for rapid promotion.

On January 1, 1926, he assumed the office of Financial Secretary of Marietta College, a position of great responsibility. He was so well equipped for his work that its exacting duties seemed easy to him and he was destined to take a high place in the business of administration of the College. Few men of his age have shown a clearer comprehension of the problems confronting the modern college and his leadership in these matters was rapidly being conceded to him. His innovations for bringing the college to the attention of the public won the instant approval of his superiors and his illustrated lectures before the Alumni groups in distant cities were most enjoyable.

His little more than four years of service to his beloved college were filled with constructive work which will live after him, and serve to perpetuate his name. Combined with ability of a high order, loyalty and devotion to the college were his outstanding characteristics.

President Parsons in announcing the passing of the Financial Secretary of the College spoke from the heart when he said "the loss is a heavy one for the College where he filled a large place."

The larger place that he occupied in the hearts of his friends cannot be filled.

Now that the activities of this young life have ceased, shall we not remember him in the words of one poet as not dead but just away, or in those of another shall we not liken our departed friend "to one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams?"

Cecil G. Bauerle has been elected Treasurer of the Marietta Manufacturing Company at Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

The address of Paul Westfall is in care of The


Pure Oil Company, 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois.

Bennett L. Moore, Sales Promotion Manager for the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, has an article in Sales Management for June 7th entitled, "We Cut Sales Cost 19 Percent in Five Years—and Double the Volume."

'21 Oscar E. Bauman, 3544 Erie Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio ; Miss W.

Estelle Neal, 1116 Nineteenth St., Parkersburg, W. Va. : Class Secretaries.

Claude E. Davis is Superintendent-Principal of Public Schools of Fayette City, Pennsylvania.

The address of Mrs. Margaret Sells McAllister is 4549 Mitchell Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mr Walter B. Stitt is living at 15703 Ohio Street, Detroit, Michigan.

Professor Lloyd E. Devol, who was formerly an instructor in the University of Michigan, is now on the faculty of the University of South Dakota at Vermilion, South Dakota.

•22 Harry N. Bonar, Marietta, Ohio; Mrs. Mildred Benedict

Bush, Gallipolis, Ohio ; Class Secretaries. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert P. Bush (Mildred Bene

dict) are the parents of a daughter born at Gallipolis on April 7th, 1930.

Married in Los Angeles, California, May 1st, 1930, Doctor Lawrence W. Smith to Miss Lillian Lessard. Dr Smith is a surgeon in Los Angeles.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hubert E. Arnold of Indianapolis, Indiana, March 23rd, 1930, a son named Paul Funkhauser.

Curtis C. Balding who has been in the Refinery Construction Department of the Pure Oil Company for several years is now with the Max B. Miller Company of Detroit and is at present in Azneft, Baku, U. S. Soviet of Russia installing Gyrio Process gasoline plant at a refinery there.

The address of Mrs. Ernst Whitaker (Helen Middleswart) is The Churchill, North State Street, Chicago, Illinois.

'23 Brooks F. Ellis, 83 Waller Ave., White Plains, N. Y.; Miss

Lillian R. Spindler, Marietta, Ohio ; Class Secretaries.

Mrs. Thelma Adamson Salant was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Columbia University in 1929.

'24 N. GorT Carder, 301 Hampton Drive, Indianapolis, Ind. ; Mrs.

Gladys Stacy Wilson, 602 Tenth St., Moundsville, W. Va. ; Class Secretaries.

Hayes T. Clark, who is manager of the publicity department of the Chamber of Commerce at Columbus, Ohio, is the editor of the organization publication, "Columbus Today," a 40 page magazine full of material written in Hayes' interesting style.

W. Russell Jarrett has been the principal of the schools at Nan, West Virginia, the past year.

The address of Lewis E. Penn is 22 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, California.

Married at St. Marys, West Virginia, February 8th, 1930, Thomas Blake Summers to Miss Jean Bigger. Mr. and Mrs. Summers are living in Marietta where he is an attorney and city solicitor.

Married, May 2nd, 1930, at Peekskill, New York, Miss Helen Irene Edwards to Mr. Matthew James Arkins. Mr. and Mrs. Arkins will live in Peekskill.

Amos Shaffer is connected with the Standard Oil Company in Argentina, South America.

•25 Joseph C. Folsom, 1213 First National Bank Building, Ft.

Wayne, Ind. ; Mrs. Ethel Reynolds Marshall, 320 Locust St., Washington, Pa. ; Class Secretaries.

Joseph C. Folsom is agency assistant at the general agency of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company at Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Folsom's address is 1213 First National Bank Building, of that city.

Miss Irene Ogle was awarded the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Pittsburgh in the summer of 1929, the subject of her thesis being "Training on Personality Traits."

Married at Marietta, June 14th, 1930, Miss Irene Ogle to Mr. Richard Mansfield Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Collins are living in Toledo where he is engaged in business. Their home address is 3720 Rushland Avenue. The marriage ceremony was performed by Professor Arthur G. Beach.

Keith C. Stevens is living at 515 Liberty Street, Conneaut, Ohio, where he is assistant Master Mechanic at Conneaut Dock Company, a subsidiary of The U. S. Steel Company.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Silliman have returned to America after a three year period of teaching in the Philippine Islands.

Mr. and Mrs. Almond F. Shafer are living at 1520 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois.

'26 Wayne Dennis, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. ;

Miss Ellen L. Buell, 221 Fourth St., Marietta, Ohio; Class Secretaries.

Married in Kansas City, Missouri, February 1, 1930, Harry F. Bierschwal to Miss Grace Dorothea Van Houten. Mrs. Bierschwal attended Illinois Women's College at Jacksonville, Illinois. They will make their home in Kansas City where he is assistant credit manager of the Remington-Rand Corporation.

Wayne Dennis, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, has been asked to conduct classes in the summer school of that institution in 1930.

Born January 22, 1930, to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Dennis (Marsena Galbreath) a daughter, named Mary.

Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. McKibben of McDonald, Pennsylvania, March 1st, 1930, a son.

Miss Clara Muskat is teaching in the Cincinnati Public Schools.

Miss Muskat traveled through Europe and visited also Egypt and Palestine during the summer of 1929.

Reverend Arthur H. Schoolcraft is spending the period from May 1st to August 1st in postgraduate study at the University of Berlin. Mr. Schoolcraft is aiming to complete the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Boston University and his summer work in Berlin will complete his classroom requirements.

Married in Marietta, April 12th, 1930, William M. Summers to Miss Margaret Janet Miner. Mr. and Mrs. Summers are living in Marietta where he is engaged in the practice of law.

Harold A. Staats is teaching in Matoaka, Mercer County, West Virginia.

Carl F. Walker, who has been for the past four years coaching and teaching in the high school at St. Marys, West Virginia, has accepted the principalship of the high school at Wellsburg, West Virginia.


'27 Emmett Sutton, Jr . , c/o Houghton, Mifflin Co., 386 Fourth

Avenue, New York; Class Secretary.

Clayton R. Cook was married August 17, 1929, at Cambridge, Ohio, to Miss Gladys Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are living at Castalia, Ohio, where they both will teach the coming year. Mrs. Cook is a graduate of Ohio State University in the department of Home Economics.

Bom February 4, 1930, to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Gerhart (Nancy Kane) a daughter.

Miss Helen Ludwig, who has for the past two years been a post graduate student in Northwestern University and an Assistant to the Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Evanston, Illinois, will be an Assistant Secretary at the Columbus, Ohio, Young Women's Christian Association. Miss Ludwig received her degree of Master of Arts in June 1930.

Mr. John F. Murray is living at 364 Linwood Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.

Married at Marietta, January 22nd, 1930, Charles Dan Torpy to Miss Charlotte Meister. Mr. and Mrs. Torpy are living at Cleveland, Ohio.

Howard G. Bristol is a Dentist with business address at 321 Laurel Street, Hartford, Connecticut.

Lieut. George E. Bush, U. S. A., was married at Gallipolis, Ohio, on Saturday, June 17th, 1930, to Miss Helen McDade. Mrs. Bush was a graduate of Ohio University and a member of Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority. More recently she has been in training for kindergarten work and connected with the public schools of her home city.

Mr. Robeit J. Hansel completed in June his second year in the Medical School of Ohio State University. Mr. Hansel after leaving Marietta College spent two years at Oberlin where he majored in Music.

Miss Dorothy L. Roberts has been teaching in the high school at Westerville. Miss Roberts' home is at Lima, Ohio, where her father is the Pastor in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

George H. Spies is living at 670 S. Lincoln Avenue, Alliance, Ohio.

'28 Gordon B. Gray, Columbus, Ohio: Bertha May Drain,

Muskingum Drive, Marietta, Ohio; Class Secretaries.

James Lawrence Amos was graduated from the Case School of Applied Science in June with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. Mr. Amos will enter the firm of Dow Chemical Company at Midland, Michigan.

Born—to Mr. and Mrs. Virgil D. Brittigan (Ruth Clark) of Lowell, March 28th, 1930, a daughter.

Mr. and Mrs. Milton Brown (Alice Baker, '27) are living at 503 East Fifth Street, Jamestown, New York.

Miss Marie Dickson is in the summer Library School of the University of Illinois.

The address of Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Ferguson (Carol A. Smith) is 351 Pacific Avenue, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.

Married, at Ashland, Kentucky, January 4th, 1930, Miss Mary Alice Hall to Mr. Ralph E. Mahnken. Mr. and Mrs. Mahnken are living in Memphis, Tennessee.

Married, January 11th, 1930, at Marietta, Miss Sally Woodyard Kiger to Mr. Bliss Winn. Mr. and Mrs. Winn are living in Marietta.

The address of Richard C. Moore is 205 Watson Avenue, Fairmont, West Virginia.

Married, May 8th, 1930, at the Lampman Memorial Chapel of the Union Theological Seminary of New York City, Miss Eloise Lawrence Ripley to Mr. Edwin Francis Celette. Mr. and Mrs. Celette are living at 126 St. James Place, New York City.

Miss Nina L. Wilson is teaching in the Wisconsin State School for the Blind which is located at Janesville, Wisconsin.

M. Gilbert Dudderar is connected with the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company at Union City, New Jersey.

'29 Miss Miriam Dickinson, Antioch College, Yellow Springs,

Ohio ; Miss Hilda Hyde, 121 Oakwood Ave., Marietta, Ohio ; Class Secretaries.

Married, on June 8th, 1930, at her home in Marietta, Miss Martha Adaline Fleming to Mr. Herschel C. Jordan. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan will live in Charleston, West Virginia, where Mr. Jordan is in business.

Adelbert C. Long is District Manager for the Universal Credit Company with headquarters at 1010 Union Trust Building, Cleveland, Ohio.

The address of Alfred H. Stanley is 3700 South Morgan Street, Chicago, Illinois.

The address of Ronald C. Stillman is 561 Flatt Terrace, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mr. Stillman is a chemist in the Procter and Gamble Company at Ivorydale.

C. Edward Stitt is in the cost department of the Wheeling Steel Corporation at Wheeling. Mr. Stitt lives at his home 336 Main Street, Bridgeport, Ohio.

The address of Miss Virginia Crickenberger is Nitro, West Virginia.

The address of Mrs. Harold Ansel (M. Caroline Dudderar) is 29 Edgewater Road, Grantwood, New Jersey.

Mrs. Ansel was married December 24th, 1929, at The Little Church Around the Comer in New York City. Mr. Ansel is a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity and has attended Amherst College. He is an aeronautical engineer.

The address of Mrs. Lloyd Kendall (Ruth Hilton) is 112 Porter Street, Marietta, Ohio.

On January 28th, 1930, twins were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, only one of whom is now living.

Mr. Ralph L. Rose is employed by the Schenk Packing Company of Wheeling, West Virginia.

David W. Schuehler is now located with the Air Corps Detachment, Boiling Field, D. C.

'30 Thomas Griffiths is living at 372 S. Burlington

Avenue, Los Angeles, California. Mr. Griffiths is supervisor of one of the city recreational grounds.

Marietta College al Clubs

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF CINCINNATI

Organized 1855. The officers a r e : President, Professor J . V. McMillan, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; vice president, Arthur R. Probst, '10, 4329 Haight Avenue, Cincinnati ; secretary, B. Gates Dawes Jr., '17, 22 Garfield Place, Cincinnati; treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Fowler Cloble, '23, 3205 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF NEW YORK

Organized, April 4, 1902. The officers a r e : President, Robert A. Shaw. '90, 41 Park Row, New York City ; secretary, Henry F. Corwin, '14, 149 Broadway, New York City; treasurer, Norman T. Wittlig, '27, 136 W. 65th Street, New York City.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF NEW ENGLAND

Organized, April 4, 1902. The officers a r e : President. Edward C. Moore, '77, 21 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts; secretary-treasurer, William E. Jones, '10, Beverly, Massachusetts.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF COLUMBUS

Organized, January 26, 1904. The officers a r e : President, L. S. Dougan, '19, 604 Citizens Bank Building, Columbus: secretary, Charles M. Hovey, '26e, c/o Pure Oil Company, Columbus.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF CHICAGO

Organized, March 23, 1905. The officers a r e : President, Harry B. Gear, '92, 72 West Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois; secretary, Mrs. Ada Swingle Camp, '05, 824 Seward Street, Evanston, Illinois.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF CLEVELAND

Organized, April 11, 1923. The officers a r e : President Edward C. Follett. '00, Cleveland Trust Company. Cleveland, Ohio ; secretary. Miss Mildred Palmer, '17, 1933 Grasmere Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF AKRON

Organized, February 19, 1925. The officers a r e : President, William S. Wolfe. '10, Seiberling Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio; secretary, Mrs. Lee Kanaga, '06e, 67 Hurlburt Street, Akron, Ohio.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA

Organized, April 22, 1925. The officers a r e : President, John K. Payne. '98, 133 S. Fourth Street. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: vice president, Clarence M. Jones, '17, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; secretary, Mrs. Caroline Kast Miskimmen, '02, 6601 De Lancet Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF PITTSBURGH

Organized, April 28, 1925. The officers a r e : President, D. J . Parr , '14, 907 First National Bank Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; vice president, Charles L. Wilson, '99, 2319 Woodstock Avenue, Swissdale, Pennsylvania: secretary-treasurer. Miss Margaret S. West, '18, Cathedral Mansions, Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF SYRACUSE

Organized, April 20, 1925. The officers a r e : President, Charles P. Wortman, '97, 212 West Beard Ave., Syracuse, New York ; secretary, David R. Cooper, '03e, 516 Dillaye Building, Syracuse, New York.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF CHATTANOOGA

Organized, October 17, 1925. Secretary, Mrs. Marie Hall Jones, '03e, 200 Dodds Avenue, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF WASHINGTON, D. C.

Organized, October 30, 1925. The officers a r e : President, Reese F. Tener, '20, 1440 Meridian Place, N. W., Washington, D. C.; vice president. Col. L. C. Lucas, '86, Washington, D. C.; secretary, Mrs. Florence Gross Morgan, '11, 5721 Chevy Chase Parkway, Washington, D. C.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF DETROIT

Organized, April 16, 1926. The officers a r e : President, Rev. Berton S. Levering, '12, 3121 Woodstock Drive, Detroit, Michigan; secretary, Mrs. Corrine Bohl Toepel, '16, 369 East Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF WHEELING

Organized, April 23, 1926. The officers a re ! President, Roy B. Naylor, '92, 502 National Bank Building, Wheeling, West Virginia; vice president, Harry S. Bailey, '18; secretary, Roy E. Wilson, '24, Orchard Terrace, Indiana St., Martins Ferry, Ohio.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF PARKERSBURG

Organized, September 5, 1928. The officers a r e : President, Dr. Marvin E. Stone, '02, 1718 Avery Street, Parkersburg, West Virginia; vice president, Martin P. Vorberg, '23e, Parkersburg, West Virginia; secretary. Miss Daisy E. Waller, '19, 1201 George Street, Parkersburg, West Virginia.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF SEATTLE

Organized, June 17, 1929. The officers a r e : President, Mrs. Lillian Summers James, '23, Apt. 6, Greenwood Terrace, 766 Belmont N., Seattle, Washington ; secretary, Sibboleth DeLancey, '26, 8302 82nd Avenue N. W., Seattle, Washington.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF CHARLESTON

Organized. November 23, 1929. The officers a re : President, Attorney Thomas Coleman, '93, Kanawha Valley Bank Building, Charleston, West Virginia; secretary-treasurer, Stanley C. Morris, '14, c/o Step-toe & Johnson, Kanawha Bank Building, Charleston, West Virginia.

MARIETTA COLLEGE CLUB OF FT. WORTH-DALLAS

Organized, March 29, 1930. The officers are President, William Paul Gage, '98e, 729 Kirby Building. Dallas. Texas; secretary, Fred C. Cutter, '10, 208 Galveston Avenue, Ft. Worth, Texas.

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