TRINITY COLLEGE

ALUMNI NEWS ISSUE Bullett'n MARCH, 1949 HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

Association Notes Last October Bert Holl a nd made an extensive trip in

the midwest visiting schools and also attended alumni meetings in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Rochester.

CHICAGO The Chicago gathering was an informal get together as

the annual meeting does not come until spring. President Edgar Craig, '34, was in charge of the luncheon at Marshall Field's and Bert Holland showed movies of football and campus scenes.

DETROIT The Detroit Alumni Association held its annual meeting

at the home of the Rev. Francis B. Creamer with twenty in artend ance. Norton lves , '16, was re-elected president.

CLEVELAND The Cleveland Alumni Association meeting at the

Cleveland Athletic Club reelected David S. Loeffler, '26, president. Clarence E. Needham, '11, is serving as secretary.

PITTSBURGH President Joseph Buffington, Jr., '18, arranged the Pitts­

burgh meeting at the Harvard-Yale-Pri nceton Club. Sher­man C. Parker, '22, is vice president and James G. Marks, Jr., '33, is secretary.

BUFFALO Seventeen alumni attended the annual meeting of the

Buffalo Alumni Association at the Saturn Club. Thomas C. Brown , '15, was elected president to succeed Lewis G. Harriman.

ROCHESTER The Rochester Alumni held a most successful meeting

with Frederick C. Duennebier, '35, being elected the new president and Elmer S. Tiger, '16, chosen secretary.

BOSTON The an nual dinner and meeting of the Boston Alumni

Association will be held on April 21, probably at the Hampshire House. Secretary R. George Almond, '24, 143 Longwood Avenue, Brookline, Mass., will send out the invitations to all alumni in the area. Any other Trinity men who find themselves in Boston at that time are cor­dially invited to attend.

HARTFORD Over seventy-five alumni heard an interesting talk

by Major General Frank A. Keating of the Army First Service Command at the annual meeting of the Hartford Alumni Association on January 28 at the Hotel Bond . Judge Russell Z. Johnston , '16, acted as toastmaster, and

President Funston and Sydney Pinney, '20, also spoke. James E. Bent, '28, was elected president;]. Ronald Regnier, '30, vice president; Hugh Campbell, '32, secretary; and Melvin W. Title, '18, treasurer. Nelson A. Shepard, '21, was reelected head of the Association's Scholarship Com-mittee.

NAUGATUCK VALLEY The Naugatuck Valley held an informal dinner on

November 9 at the Waterbury Club. Howard Whittemore, instructor of Romance Languages, and Bill Peelle spoke.

NEW YORK Seventy a lumni attended the annual meeting of the

New Alumni Association on December 2 at the Yale Club. President Funston was the principal speaker and John Reitemeyer, '21, National Alumni president, Sydney D. Pinney, '20, chairman of the Alumni Fund. Bert Holland and Dan Jessee also gave short talks. John B. Cunningham, '22, was reelected president. The v ice presidents are: John H. Callen, '21, Robert 0. Muller, '31, and William H. Benjamin, '34, Frederick C. Hinkel, Jr ., '06, was reelected secretary-treasurer, a post which he has filled for over forty years.

PHILADELPHIA The Philadelphia Alumni heard Dan Jessee and Bert

Holland speak at an informal fall meeting on November 19 at the Coin D'or. Fifteen parents of boys now at College were present. Robert A. Gilbert, '38, has been appointed secretary of the Association to replace Charles Fritzon, '34, who has moved from the area.

PITTSFIELD Under the leadership of William G. Oliver, '10, the

Pittsfield Alumni held an informal luncheon meeting at the Hotel Sheraton on November 23 and heard talks b y John F. Butler, '33, placement director, and Bill Peelle. The group plans to have another gathering in rhe spring.

SPRINGFIELD The Springfield Alumni Association held a meeting at

the University Club on November 5 with eighteen attending. Kenneth B. Case, '13, was reelected president and Sidney R. Hungerford , '17, secretary.

WASHINGTON Theodore Hudson , '14, arranged an inform al luncheon

of the Association to talk over plans for a meeting late in April. Bill Peelle spoke to the group which included besides Mr. Hudson, Theodore Peck, '15, Joseph H. Ehlers, '14; the Rev. James Henderson, '02, and F. Stuart Fitzpatrick, '14, president of the Association.

Lost Alumni Anyone knowing the whereabouts of these lost alumni, please notify William R. Peelle at the College

19 16 Crocker, Charles]. Dorsey, William Lewis Lamond, Bertram Bruce Levinson, Michael Mycr Linnerr, Joseph M. Martin, Robert Starr Paulsen, David Frederick Wainwright, Arthur W.

1917 Case, Arthur Milo Coffee, ~1aurice Dodson Fa~an, Wilham Leslie, Jr. Peabody, Henry Gi lman Rainsbury, Joseph Herbert \Vilson, Wifliam Norbert

1918 Austin, William L. M., ]r. Burnham, John DuBois Caldwell, James Russell Hahn, james P., M.D. Huang, Cho~Chun Price, Aaron Ely

Sofia, Rev. Aurelius Stein, Samuel Stewart, Murray MeG. Jr., Strauss, Henry Todd Talbott, Barnett Thomas Toll, Eric Oswald

1919 Bofird, Daniel Fiat, Nathan Poritz, Hyman Rorison, John Chadbourn Wen, Wanchian Jenchian

L9ZO Bashlow, Harry Ingersoll Cohn, Harry Feldman, Arthur Ernest Hodder, Clifford Ernest Johnson, Gardiner Porter Lin, Chi-Huang Mancall, Benjamin O'Neil, David Ramsay, Phillips Spencer

Rosenberg, Maurice W. Sanford, George Adrian Sharon, Max Siliciano, Andrew Robert Smith, Waher james T. Stansfield, Joseph Wurrs Trotter, Alton Victor

1921 Bcnnert, Milton Charles McCormac, Hubert j. ]. Noel, Wilbur Kincaid Weinman, George, Jr.

I <>22 Burns, Philip Caulfield, Stuart Leo G ladstein, Kealc Hersh Goldberg, Abraham M. Gornlan, Arthur Clifford Hutcheson, \'Villiam R. johnson, Algernon S. Jones. Howard S. lin, Long-Wun

Moller, Roland Samuel Macauley, Edward T. B. Racine, Elroy David Schumann, Harold George Silver, joseph Albert

1923 Ahern, Francis D. Andrews, Arthur Bertrand Cullum, Ernest James J. Dolan, James \'Valter Foley, joscoh Patrick Jackson, William Albert johnson, John Hilder KralJsc, Haro ld Leon Lawson, George M., M.D. Richman, joshua Stevens, George E., M.D Smherland, William, Jr. Swan, Clarence Henry

Issued six times a year by Trinity College- January, March, May, July, October and ovember. Entered January 12, 1904, at Hartford, Connecticut, as second-class matter, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Secrion I 103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized March 3, 1919.

EDITED BY JOHN A. MASON, '34

VoLUME XLVI NEW SERIES NuMBER 2

Memorial Field House, Elton Hall Dedicated

Memorial Field House (above) was formally dedicated on Lincoln's birthday, February 12, at an impressive ceremony witnessed by more than 1500 alumni, friends, and students, . Earlier in the day, the new dormitory was dedicated to the memory of John Prince Elton, '88, former chairman of the Board of Trustees. At the right, President Funston is pictured receiving the key to Elton Hall from Louis W. Downes, '88, while Mr. Elton's daughters, Mrs. Roderic M. Cross and Mrs. Arthur E. Allen, Jr., and his grandson, John Elton Allen, look on.

Principals in the field house dedication ceremony, shown at the right, were Ray Oosting, Director of Athletics, A. Northey Jones, Development Campaign Chairman who pre­sented the building, the Rt. Rev. Walter H. Gray, Hon., '41, Brigadier General Archie J. Old of the Air Force, principal speaker, and President Funston.

The academic, military, and religious ceremony was staged on the canvas-draped basketball floor at 3 p.m. The lower right photograph was taken as General Old praised the record of Trinity's 70 war heroes. A few minutes later color guards, representing the services in which Trinity men died, marched on the floor for a salute to the war dead (lower left). Seymour Page, Jr., and Charles Dabrowski, two veterans who are now top cadet officers in Trinity's Air ROTC unit, unveiled the bronze memorial plaque in a scene pictured on the cover.

The climax came as Bishop Gray, in his dedication prayer, asked that the building "serve to preserve the memory of brave men made immortal by self-forgetfulness. Here may the sons of Trinity train their bodies to be servants and not masters; here discipline their wills in that teamwork which teaches men to play and work as one for the common good; and here strengthen their spirits to face victory and defeat alike and to be overcome by neither."

Four Alumni Elected to Board of Trustees

Louis W. Downes, '88 John R. Cook, Jr., '10

FouR LOYAL ALUMNI well known to many Trinity men and prominent in the business world have been named to the Board of Trustees, while a fifth, Colonel William H. Eaton of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has resigned from the Board after twenty-four years service and is now a member of the Advisory Council. The new trustees are Louis W. Downes, '88, of Providence, founder of the D. and W. Fuse Company and inventor of the enclosed fuse and asbestos­insulated wire; John R. Cook, Jr., '10, president of Arrow-Hart and Hegeman Electric Company, Hartford; Robert S. Morris, '16, president of the Robert S. Morris Company, Hartford; and James B. Webber, Jr., '34, vice president of the J. L. Hudson Company, Detroit.

In College, Mr. Downes, the son of Lewis T. Downes, 1848, was active in the Glee Club, a member of the Ivy, and president of his class in 1887. His fraternity is Psi Upsilon. After graduation he attended the City of London Institute, returning to Providence, Rhode Island in 1889 to take up general engineering work and experimental investigation.

In 1897 he was elected vice-president and general manager of the D and W Fuse Company, manufacturers of Downes' patented "enclosed fuses." The company grew rapidly and Mr. Downes had some 35 electrical devices patented under his name. In 1918 he sold the business to the General Electric Company.

After his retirement Mr. Downes traveled extensively and became interested in the work of early English clock makers . He now has a collection of thirty-five antique clocks dating back to 1640 and all restored by him.

In 1912 Mr. Downes was awarded the John Scott medal by Franklin Institute for his original work in the development of asbestos wire, and the next year Trinity granted him the degree of Doctor of Science.

Mr. Cook, a member of the Sophomore Dining

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RobertS. Morris, '16 James B. Webber, Jr., '34

Club, the Ivy, and Delta Psi fraternity, entered the Travelers Insurance Company after gradu­ating from College. He was also associated with Levering and Garrigues of New York City and the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company before joining the Arrow-Hart and Hegeman Electric Company in 1918 as service manager. Successively he became sales manager, sales executive, general manager, vice president, and in 1932 was elected president which position he still holds. Mr. Cook is vice-president of the American School of the Deaf, and a director of insurance, banking and industrial companies.

During the recent 125th Anniversary Develop­ment Program Mr. Cook headed the advance gift solicitation in Greater Hartford.

Mr. Morris has always retained his keen interest in Trinity affairs. As an undergraduate he played football, basketball and track and was a member of the Freshman-Junior Banquet Committee, Glee Club, choir, Sophomore Hop Committee, Junior Prom Committee, Sophomore Dining Club, Senate and Medusa. He was president and vice-president of his class, and since graduation, class secretary and class agent. His fraternity is Alpha Chi Rho.

Mr. Morris was football coach in 1917 in which year he received his Master of Science degree. He was president of the Athletic Advisory Council, the Hartford Alumni Association, the Board of Fellows and the National Alumni Association. From 1941 to 1947 he was alumni trustee, and was alumni chairman of the 125th Development Program.

Ever since his undergraduate days Mr. Morris has retained his love for singing. He coached the Glee Club in 1927-1928; started the Inter-Frater­nity Singing Contest and gave the cup for the annual competition; and compiled the Trinity College Song Book. Incidentally Mr. Morris has been active in the Hartford Choral Club for over thirty-five years.

In 1932 Mr. Morris formed the Robert S. Morris & Company, investment bankers, and is the sole proprietor. He has served as president of the Connecticut Investment Bankers Asso­ciation and as member of the Executive Com­mittee of the National Securities Dealers Asso­ciation.

In the community Mr. Morris has been active in many Community Chest Campaigns; the Charter Oak Council of Boy Scouts; the Open Hearth Association; and the Salvation Army. He is past president of the Lions Club; the Hartford Cinema Club; the Rotary Club of Hartford; and the Connecticut Council of Churches. He has served on many committees in the First Church of Christ, West Hartford.

Mr. Webber graduated in 1934 and from the Harvard Business School two years later. In College he was a member of the Political Science Club, the Jesters and the German Club. His fraternity is Delta Psi. Joining the J. L. Hudson Company in Detroit in 1936 as a research assis­tant, he has been promoted successively to assistant divisional merchandise manager; assis­tant to the general manager; assistant general manager and director; and vice-president and assistant general manager. Mr. Webber is presi­dent of the Hudson-Webber Foundation and the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund; a director of the Detroit Board of Commerce, the Detroit Com­munity Chest, the Detroit Chapter of the Ameri­can Red Cross, and the United Health and Welfare Fund of Michigan; and a trustee of the Ford Foundation, the Eloise and Richard Webber Foundation, the Harper Hospital, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Detroit University School, and the Grosse Pointe Country Day School.

Colonel Eaton as an undergraduate was in­terested in the Dramatic Association holding the position of business manager and member of the board's executive committee. He belonged to the German Club and the Sophomore Dining Club. His fraternity is Delta Psi. Since his gradua­tion in 1899 he has been a paper manufacturer and is now director and chairman of the Eaton Paper Corporation in Pittsfield, Mass.

In World War I he was captain in the Ordnance and later was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Intelligence. He also served as an executive officer of the AEF until his promotion to colonel and transfer as commanding officer of the 390th Field Artillery. On April 1, 1941, Colonel Eaton was transferred to the Military Intelli­gence, First Service Command, where he served until- his retirement in September, 1945.

Colonel Eaton was elected alumni trustee from 1919 until 1924, and a trustee in 1930. In his community he has served on the Pittsfield City Council and as treasurer of the Berkshire County Society for Care of Crippled Children.

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AI umni Reunion, June 17-19 Following the suggestion of the National

Alumni Association's Executive Committee that alumni should handle the June reunion arrange­ments, an active Reunion Committee under the chairmanship of Raymond A. Montgomery, 25, is already at work drawing up plans for the June 17-19 weekend. Other members serving with him are Alex W. Creedon, '09, J. Ronald Regnier, '30, Melville Shulthiess, '18, and Edward E. Dis sell, '11.

This year the Commencement exercises will be held on Sunday afternoon thus enabling more alumni to attend conveniently.

Morris Donates Sing Cup Robert S. Morris, '16, has presented the

College with a new Intramural Singing Cup to encourage better group singing. All the frater­nities and the Commons Club may enter the contest, but to be eligible for the Cup must have at least three-quarters of their membership in the competition. The present plans call for holding the sing in May and each entrant shall sing two songs of its own choice, at least one of which shall be a college or fraternity song.

College Receives Two Gifts The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

has given Trinity College $5,000 to be used for the purchase of equipment to develop an audio­visual educational program. The money will be used to procure two 35 millimeter sound pro­jectors and to modernize completely the projec­tion room equipment in the Chemistry Building Auditorium.

The College has received a bequest of $25,000 from the estate of the late Mrs. Eliza W. Valentine of New York City and Hartford. The trustees have established the "Porter Memorial Fund" with the bequest to memorialize the family of Mrs. Valentine, whose maiden name was Eliza W. Porter. Income will be used for general College purposes.

N etwork to Air Glee Club The College Glee Club will sing over the

New England network of the National Broad­casting Company on Sunday, March 20, from 5 to 5:30 P.M. In Hartford the station will be WTIC, in Boston WBZ, and in Springfield WBZA.

Students H old Art Show The first undergraduate art show was held

last November in Cook Lounge when nine students exhibited oils, water colors, pen and pencil drawings, and one piece of sculpture.

Trinity Pioneets Speech as Liberal Art Robert M. Vogel, Assistant Professor of English

PuBLIC SPEAKING is a new tenant in college halls. Until thirty years ago public speaking was only an occasional visitor intruding into elocution or rhetoric courses. Then it moved in, and soon became in many places a noisy and unpleasant neighbor. Adding courses rapidly, it raised a large family. For those who wanted to get through college with a minimum of effort, speech was too often the field in which to major. The speech family included such offspring as oral reading, speech correction, radio, acting, scene design, costume design, television - even courses in stage makeup.

In public speaking itself there came a serious change. Emphasis was placed on the "speech personality." Students were to develop the ability to "sell themselves." The purpose of speech courses was to encourage the glib.

Yet within the last five years a course in public speaking and another in dramatic technique have been added to the offerings of the English department at Trinity. Any course in technique, a "skill" course, does not easily fit into the liberal arts concept. Courses in speech and dramatics, in particular, have shown a tendency to grow beyond their usefulness to the liberal arts. What, then, are Trinity's reasons for these new courses?

For the speech course the reason is simple; men talk more than they write. Speech is their primary method of communication. It has a logical place in a liberal arts program. So Trinity has attempted to devise a course in public speaking which will, first of all, fit properly into a plan of liberal arts training. This has resulted in an approach to speech which, as far as is known, · is unique. There are indications that the pattern will soon be followed by other colleges.

In the first term of the one year course the members of the class (sections are limited to twenty) constitute a discussion group. After careful consideration this group chooses a topic, a current problem, upon which all members agree to prepare themselves. Then the students, through voluntary oral participation, exchange information in an attempt to define, analyze, and arrive at a solution of the problem. The attempt becomes an exercise in group learning, group thinking, group problem solving.

There are several advantages in this approach. First, because the group itself has chosen what it will talk about, there is assurance that the members of the class will be interested in listen­ing as well as speaking. This is important. In a class of twenty each student will on the average listen nineteen times as long as he speaks. Bore­dom is a constant threat. Second, because of

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their interest and because each student speaks only when he desires to speak, the problem of stage fright, always one of the largest problems in speech training, is reduced to a minimum. During the Christmas term of 1948-49 the mean number of speeches among the members of the two sections of the course was twenty. The lowest number was nine, and the highest was forty-six. At the beginning of the term the speeches were short, but gradually they increased in length until speeches of seven or eight minutes were not unusual. When we remember that skill in speaking is developed through practice, these figures become significant.

With the use of controversial topics each student soon learns a valuable lesson, the third distinct advantage of this method. His audience, he realizes, is far more receptive to information, well organized information, than to time con­suming verbiage, no matter how skillfully phrased. Usually the last few minutes of each class meeting are devoted to criticism of the speaking. At the conclusion of the discussion of each topic (each class used three during the last term) one day is spent in criticism of the dis­cussion as a whole.

This method of presentation in the first term has now been used for two years with encourag­ing results. A textbook, which may be ready for use in mimeographed form next year, is in preparation.

During the second term the course follows more closely the usual technique in a public speaking course. Each student is required to deliver several prepared speeches. Manuscripts and notes are not used, but students are expected to speak from mental outlines. After each speech the speaker answers questions from the

class on his topic. Recordings allow the student to criticize himself.

The course in public speaking, then, em­phasizes knowledge, selection, and organization of subject matter, and, after these, manner of delivery. In this way, it is believed, the course is consistent with the purposes of a liberal arts college.

Outside the course in public speaking the Brown and Whitlock Prize Contests, the De­bating Club, and WR TC, the student operated radio station, provide possibilities for a variety of additional speaking experience.

The new course in dramatic technique fits into the curriculum in a different way. One of the requirements for a candidate for the B.A. degree at Trinity is one course in "appreciation of the arts." The student is required to choose one of the following: expository writing, creative writing, a course in music, in fine arts, or the course in dramatic technique. The purpose is clear; a liberal education should include an introduction to at least one of the creative arts.

For many years the Trinity College Jesters have made dramatic productions available to the student body. The course in dramatic tech­nique has no direct connection with the Jesters, but whatever presentations they offer will be used as illustrative material for the course. The recent production of Our Town, for example, was used extensively in the analysis of problems of directing, acting, and lighting. The content of the course includes these three topics as well as scene design and construction. Obviously this is not a course to prepare students for the professional theatre. A better appreciation of drama is its aim. A number of plays are read with emphasis placed upon the production, as contrasted with the literary, standpoint. The

course should serve as a complement which will strengthen the Jesters, just as the work of the Jesters will provide valuable study aids for the members of the class.

Speech and dramatics have taken up residence at Trinity. Present interest indicates that the work will probably grow slightly beyond its present status. The course in public speaking may be required for students majoring in certain fields. A growing interest in dramatic art may be reflected in larger student attendance at Jesters' productions, and probably in a larger number of productions each year to accommo­date the growing number of students who desire to participate in plays. Each of these develop­ments would follow a precedent already estab­lished at other liberal arts colleges. The offerings now available may be extended to more students, bur at Trinity speech and dramatics will always be confined to the definite contributions they can make to a liberal arts education.

College Keeps Small Classes Dean Hughes reports that despite the record

breaking enrollment of 892 Trinity has one teacher to each 12.6 students and that the average size of a class section has been held to 19 men. Last year the average size of the class sections was 20. Less than seven per cent of the classes have more than 36 men assigned while an equal number have less than five students.

Economics leads in student interest with 133 electing it for their major. Engineering has 112 enrolled and 96 are taking the pre-medical program. One hundred and ninety-four students are in the general liberal arts course without a major while sixty-five are pursuing a general course in science.

Business Gets 57 Percent of Trinity Alumni IN AN ATTEMPT to evaluate the contribution of Trinity College to business, the professions, and public life, the College is classifying all alumni by vocations. More than 1200 men responded to the vocational survey post-card mailed last summer with the report on the 125th Anniver­sary of the Chartering of the College. Men who did not return this post card are urged to fill out the following information and mail it to THE ALUMNI OFFICE, TRINITY COL­LEGE, HARTFORD 6, CONN.: name, class, mail address, type of work, title, business or profession, name of business or employer.

The partial survey shows that 57 per cent of Trinity graduates have entered business and administration, 11 per cent are educators, 10

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per cent are in medicine and dentistry, 8 per cent in law, 7 per cent in the ministry, 6 per cent in communications media, and 1 per cent in mis­cellaneous other occupations.

The survey is particularizing occupations in nine main fields of business and administration with results as follows: management and direc­tion, 17 per cent; insurance and realty, 13 per cent; sales, 7 per cent; government, 6 per cent; engineering, 5 per cent; scientific, 4 per cent; banking, 3 per cent; accounting, 1 per cent; personnel work, 1 per cent.

Lists of alumni in each classification will be compiled for circulation among alumni in order to acquaint Trinity men with other alumni working in the same field.

Webster Teaches Surgeons In N ationalist China DR. }EROME P. WEBSTER, '10, prominent surgeon and well known trustee of the College, has recently returned from a trip around the world. He left last summer to deliver a lecture course in plastic sur­gery to Chinese medical stu­dents, and returned by plane stopping at Bangkok, Cal­cutta, Damascus, Beirut and London. While he was in Bangkok the Siamese cabinet fell, and just as he left Damas­cus the Syrian cabinet col­lapsed bringing martial law, curfew, tanks in the streets and helmetted soldiers.

Concerning the Chinese portion of his travels we quote from a letter Dr. Web­ster wrote for the Alumni News:

"I left on August 11th on the SS President Wilson in order to give a course in plastic surgery to surgeons from 13 medical schools in China. The course was given in Shanghai and the men came from schools representative of the best medicine in China. The course ran for 6 weeks. All of these men were trained surgeons ranging from in­structor to full professor of surgery. They were very keen about taking the course and were interested in acquiring a knowledge of this new specialty.

"It had been intended that the course run for 8 weeks but the economic situation was such that the men asked to be released after 6 weeks in order that they might be able to get to their homes and medical schools before the situation became tighter. It was not hoped that the 6 week course would teach these men plastic surgery but they were given instruments to carry on this work, textbooks and a cabinet with 7500 slides, most of which were kodachrome, was left in China to be sent to those men for study and in addition to these, textbooks and maga­zines in plastic surgery were furnished them. In addition to this course I spoke at Canton, Hong Kong, Peiping, Nanking, Hangchow and Shanghai, addressing various medical societies in these cities.

"While I was enroute to China, the National Government tried to put across a new currency, the Gold Yuan which they hoped to stabilize at the rate of 4 Gold Y uans to 1 United States dollar. Previously the rate had been CN 12

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million to 1 U. S. dollar. In addition to trying to. keep this new currency pegged to 4 to 1, pnces were kept down as of August 19th and luxuries were not permitted. The cost of a pack of cigarettes went from 50 to 75 cents a pack to $5.50 a pack.

"The Government also asked the people to turn in their hoardings of gold bars or United States or other foreign currency and 125 million dollars went into the coffers of the National Government. Unfortunately the Gold Yuan could not be kept at this level and the exchange rate went up badly. As a result of this the people became very much discouraged and lost con­fidence in the government. The Communists were rolling up military victories frequently by the turning over of a Nationalist general with his troops, arms and ammunition to the Com­munists. Therefore, the putting in of arms to the Nationalist Government with the govern­ment troops not having any incentive to fight might mean that they might be turned over directly to the Communists.

"It is hoped by some that the Communists will kick out the Soviets when they get in power and there are those who believe they will do this as Chiang did in 1927. It is possible, how­ever, that they cannot do this."

Phi Gams to Reactivate With ATK Help

The College has approved the petition of the Trinity Phi Gamma Delta and Alpha Tau Kappa alumni to reactivate on campus. The new organization is to be called the Tau Alpha Fra­ternity and will have temporary quarters across from the College Post Office. Alumni members expect to pledge an undergraduate nucleus by March.

Death Takes Student Head Herman R. D. Holljes, president of the College

Senate, died suddenly in his room on November 14. He had been most active in restoring college traditions which had been allowed to lapse during the war. '""•

Leonard C. Overton of Newton Centre, Massa­chusetts, has been elected to succeed him.

Jesters Plan Spring Plays The Jesters will present George B. Shaw's

"Androcles and the Lion" and Noel Coward's "Ways and Means" at the Avery Memorial March 31-April 2. Their production of "Our Town" in January was very well received and Professor Robert Vogel, the new director, is to be heartily congratulated.

Magazine Schedules Small College Article

The April issue of Good Housekeeping maga­zine will contain an article on small American Colleges and will include Trinity.

Alumni Fund Approaches Third of Goal AN IMMEDIATE RESPONSE of $8,929 in gifts by 213 men to the 1949 Alumni Fund for College operating expenses was reported on February 1 by Sydney D. Pinney, chairman.

Class agents have mobilized for the drive to raise $30,000 by Commencement to help keep in the College budget some of the necessities of education which might otherwise be cut because of the inflationary increases in College operating expenses.

The class of 1884 was the first group to report unanimous support of the Alumni Fund with every living member contributing and four gifts "in memoriam. " Lawson Purdy is agent for the

class of '84. The reunion classes, which are expected to give generous support to the Alumni Fund, are led

in first returns by the class of 1934. Charles T. Kingston , Jr. , class agent for the 15th reunion group, reports 16 contributors.

"The success of the Alumni Fund depends upon the number of contributors," Mr. Pinney said in announcing early returns. "Too often alumni feel that small gifts are not welcome and give nothing. Trinity needs the full support of all its alumni. Never before in the history of American education has the existence and continuance of private colleges been so dependent on its alumni."

1877 1906 Jones, A. N. Mather, W. G. Butler, R . P.

Fallow, E. S. Little, D. W. Wooster, C. A .

1884 Hinkel, F. C., Jr. Andrews, C. M. 1918

(in m<mOTy of) 1907 Beers, H. S. Brainard, J. Cunningham, R. Buffington, J., Jr.

(in memory of) deMauriac, H . D. Griffith, G. C. Deming, W. C. Pinney, S. D. Hitchcock, W. H. 1908

(in memory of) Myers, T. B. 1919 Johnson, F. E. Barber, H. T.

(in memory of) 1909 Brill, C. B. F. Purdy, L. Backus, C. J., Jr. Buckley, R. C. Richardson, F. W. Buchanan, W. S. Silverberg, B. Russell, F. F. Butterworth, P. M . Sturman, E. N. Sanford, E. L. Creedon, A. W.

( in mcmOTy o/) Hallden, K. W. 1920 Harriman, L. G . Berg, W.

1885 Morrow, C. E. Jackson, S. S. Loomis, H. B. Roberts, P. Russell , F. F. 1921

1910 Budd, T. G. 1887 Gecr, E. S. Matthews, A. N .

Pinney, H. A. Leschkc, A. H. Shepard, N. A. Strong, N.C.

1888 1911 Downes, L. W. Berman, W. G. 1922

Maxon, P. de Macarte, P. A. H. 1889 Rosebaugh, J. Gable, B. C., Jr.

Beers, F. H . Hurewitz, j. B. Scott, E. N. 1912 Johnson, G.

Barnes, G. L. Kneeland, H. T. 1890 Blake, C. E. Reynolds, R. G.

Brady, R. M. Bleecker, W. H., Jr. Tansill, F. T. Carpenter, C. Walsh, John P.

1891 Flanagan, T. F. Hoisington, F. R. Holcomb, C. S. 1923

Penn, C . I. Smith, H. L. 1894 Wessels , H . Smith, L. E.

Greenley, H. Webster, S. W. 1913

1895 Adkins, L D. 1924 McCook, P. J. Barber, W. P., Jr. Lundborg, F. L.

Case, K. B. 1925 1896 Jewett, E. W.

Forward, J. F. Ward, C. D. Anderson, A. R. Ward, E. L. Anderson, N . A. C.

1899 Malcolm-Smith, G. Davis. J. H. K. 1914 Glazebrook, F. H. Burgwin, G. C. , Jr. 1926 Henry, C. W. Bigelow, A. F. Bartlett. H. Morgan, V. F. Little, T. W. Lieber, M. M.

Walker, R. F. Linnon, J. L. 1900 Lischner, M. D.

Simonds, E. L. 1915 Parke, N. R. Bailey, B. B.

1927 1901 Brand, S. Clement, M. \Y/. Kinney, R. E. Eberle, F. J. Rudd, H. H. Peck, T. A.

1928 Schatz, L. M. 1902 Spitz, L. Lacy, N. B.

Higgi nbotham , F. A. Young, V. Whitaker, W. E. Lorenz, E. H. McCook, A. T. 1916 1930 Wheeler, W. H. DeNezzo, V. F. F. Brainerd, L. B.

Meyer, C. A. Keeney, R. R., Jr. 1903 Morris, R. S. Nyc, R. H.

Morgan, S. S. O'Connor, R. B. 1931 Trumbull, W. S.

1917 Oann, H. 1905 Griffith, J. E., Jr. Doolittle, H. D.

Carr, E. S. Gummere, J. S. tcobson C. E., Jr. Goodale, A. R. Hasbur~, W. uller, R. 0.

1932 1936 1944 Funston, G. K. Clark, J. K. Davett, G. A. Phippen, H. 0 ., Jr. McKee, R.I. Toland, R., Jr.

1933 Sellars, D. M.

Acquaviva, P. J. 1937 1945

Armstron~ W. B. Hull, W.G. Milligan, A. W. Birch, K. . May, E. C. Wheeler, H. Butler, J. F. Onderdonk, A. B. 1946 Frothingham, J. R. Silver, G. B. 1938

Feldman, L. H. Sisbowcr, W. W. Astman, J. G. 1947

1934 Drury, B. E., Jr. Dubinsky, A. S. Bayley, H. R. , l.i. Fuller, H. M. Koeppel, B. D. Benjamin, W. . Sherman, A. M., Jr. Marggraff, H. D., Jr. Clark, N. T. Tulin, M. Peliner, I.]. Craig, E. H. 1939 Daur, R. H. Hope, F. J. 1948 Dixon, A. B. Howard, R. R., ]r. Frankel, M. A. Gladwin, D. J. Leggett, R. A. Glazier, W. S. , I! Higgins, E. H. Madden, R. C. Lovell, J. C. Holland, A. E. Meredith , T. M. Howard, R. J. 1940 Weitzel, R. W. Kingston, C. T., Jr. Bland, H. R. Mason, J. A.

1941 1950

Newman, C. F. Armstrong, W. A. Onderdonk, A. Butterworth, G. F. Ill Honorary Rosenfield, R. H. Flanagan, A. Perkins, H . A., '20 Shenker, B. M. 1942 Brainard, M. B., '32 Snowdon, D. M. Krulikoski, S. J. , Jr. Cook, C. B., '36

Nichols, R. P. Jackson, J., '37 1935 Tuttle, D. S., Jr. Crofut, F. S.M., '38

Adams, P. W. Viering, D. ]. Gray, W. H., '41 Hanaghan, J. A. Goodwin, C. A., '48 Hazenbush, A. W. 1943 Graduate McCook, J. S. Scott, T. J. McVay, D. M., '30 Shaw, J. L., Jr. Tyler, D. R., Jr. Athanas, E. S., '33

ROTC Stands First Review

President Funston and Major William E. T aylor inspect the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps at its first formal review in Memorial Field House. Seymour Page, Jr., '5 1, extreme left, was appointed cadet Lieutenant Colonel in command of the unit.

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Cage Squad Thrills Field House Crowds BEFORE 1500 fans Captain Joe Po nsalle and his mates opened the season on December 8 in the new Memorial Field House by overwhelming Massachusetts Institute of Technology 74-44 in the first game on the campus in over twenty-five years. The Hilltoppers were completely at home in their spacious new quarters, and with Ron Watson and Moon Curtin racking up nineteen and eighteen points respectively the team raced to an early lead. The Engineers had trouble working the ball in against the Blue and Gold man-to-man defense and did not have the shots to loosen up Trinity with short sets.

The team lost a thriller to Williams by one point, 53-54, and gave Harvard a terrific battle before bowing 46-51. In the Williams game Ron Watson led both teams with 22 points. Against the Crimson the two clubs were tied at half time. Harvard went ahead 39-38 with seven minutes to go and the Blue and Gold could never catch up. Trailing by ten points at half time against Coast Guard. Trinity came back to nose out the Cadets 43-42. Ron Watson sparked the rally by getting all his 15 points in the last half, and Captain Ponsalle sank the winning basket from far out on the floor with only one minute left to play.

After the holidays Coach Oosting's squad lost to Bowdoin 41-45, and to Bates 36-53 on successive nights Down East.

In the first game against Amherst, Ron Watson, lanky forward from Fitchburg, Mass. , ran wild and set a new Trinity scoring record of 32 points as the team romped to a 61-49 victory. The old record of 30 points was set last year by Pitkin.

Trinity made it "4 and 4" at the season's halfway mark by beating our old rival Worcester Tech 50-42. The two teams were even in field goals, 18 for each side, but on the foul line the Hilltoppers put in 14 to 6 for the opposition.

Despite the loss of Red Faber by graduation last June, this year's team has good balance and should improve even more before the final games against Wesleyan and Union.

FRESHMAN BASKETBALL Coach Fred Booth's yearlings have defeated

Trinity-Pawling, Hopkins School, Amherst and Worcester Tech while losing by seven points to the Yale freshmen and six points to Harvard. Bill Goralski, Dave Smith, Harry Hutnick and Sam Nakaso have played exceptionally well. Against Yale, Hutnick was high scorer with 19 points while his mates kept Eddie McHugh, brilliant Eli cub, in close check.

VARSITY SWIMMING Joe Clarke expects his present squad of juniors

and sophomores to develop steadily so that by

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Front row, left to tight: William Leahey, Donald McKelvie Joe (Captain) Ponsalle, Jack Mahon , Tom Naud. '

Second row, left to right: Bob Elliott, Jim Brainerd, Marshall Dudley, Bill Pitkin, Ron Watson, Don Boyko, Joe Shettle, Jim Curtin, Bill Van Lanen.

next year with the addition of some fine fresh­man prospects he should have one of the best Trinity teams the genial mentor has ever had in his twenty years of coaching in Trow bridge Memorial. As we go to press the team has lost to Bowdoin and M.I.T.

Against powerful Bowdoin the team was defeated 43 to 32 with sophomores Phil Costa and Fred Kirschner capturing the 50 yard dash and the 220 yard breaststroke. Several of the races were extremely close.

The veteran Massachusetts Institute of Tech­nology swimmers sank the Hilltoppers 50 to 25. Phil Costa won the 50 and 100 freestyle events. He is as yet unbeaten in college competition in the fifty, winning in every meet last year as a freshman. Tim Cutting in the 220, Fred Kirschner in the 200 yard breaststroke, and Bruce Bollerman in the dives were narrowly defeated.

FRESHMAN SW-iMMING The freshmen under Coaches Joe Clarke and

Harold Shetter have been edged by Yale 28-38, and swamped Trinity-Pawling 54-12. In the Yale meet Ed Morrissey, Tony Mason, Chip Vaile and Ted Ward swam the 200 yard relay in 1:41.02 for a new Trinity freshman record.

SQUASH In the only matches before midyears Army

and Wesleyan have beaten the team. John Burbank and Jay Geiger are playing well, but the other squad members need a lot more prac­tice to gain the experience needed for inter­collegiate squash. Dan Jessee has entered the men in a city league with home and home matches against the Hartford Golf Club the "Y" and the Squash Club. '

H all Elected Football Captain

Roger Hall, hard driving fullback from Cheshire, Con­necticut, will be captain of the Blue and Gold this fall. One of the mainstays on the attack which gave Trinity the second best small college offense in the country, Roger was a continuous threat in every game.

Dan Jessee should have a strong and experienced squad next fall as only six letter men graduate in June. Gone will be the regular tackles, Joe Ponsalle and Mitch Holmgren. A s co-captains they were excellent leaders and played heads up ball throughout the season. Joe was elected tackle on the mythical All-New Eng­land team of 1948. Although not graduating, Whitey Kunkiewicz, quarterback and ace passer, is n ot eligible, having played four seasons of college football. Also missing next fall will be Cy Seymour, veteran end who filled in at center when Ratcliffe and Oberg were injured, and Chuck Osborn and Ken Kochanski, ends. Ken's shoes will be hard to fill as he was one of the best ends in recent years. To replace these men Dan should receive some excellent material from Fred Booth's undefeated freshmen who were victors over Springfield, Amherst, Wesleyan and Cheshire.

Next November an old rivalry with Tufts which started in 1894 will be resumed. The series lapsed in 1915 with four wins for Tufts, two by Trinity, and a no score tie in the last game. The rest of the schedule will be the same as last year: Oct. 1, Williams, horne; 8, Norwich,

away; 15, Hobart, away; 22, Middlebury, home; 29, Worcester Tech, horne; Nov. 5, Amherst, away; 12, Wesleyan, horne; 19, Tufts, away.

The past season showed five wins and two losses. Frank Eblen ran wild against Williams in the opener, and easy wins followed against Norwich and Hobart. Middlebury beat us in a hard fought struggle which saw the lead change several times. Victories over Worcester Tech and Amherst raised our hopes to knock off unbeaten and untied Wesleyan. Over 10,000 fans saw this clash on Andrus Field in Middle­town and were treated to a spine tingling battle. The play roared up and down the field and on the final play of the first half Wesleyan's star co-captain and tackle, Jack Geary, dropped back and angled a twenty-three yard field goal for the first score. In the second half the Cardinals scored twice for a 16-0 triumph, but T rin gave them several anxious moments thanks to Hall and Corcoran.

SOCCER Under the leadership of Captain Jay Geiger

the team scored three wins, one tie and three losses. The new coach, Harold Shetter, did an excellent job in developing players and arousing interest in the game throughout the College. Geiger and the Nelson brothers were named to the All-New England squad, while Nick and Cort Nelson received honorable mention on the All-American team.

The freshmen turned in two wins, two ties and one loss, and Coach Shetter believes that several of the yearlings will be pressing the varsity for starting positions next September. Robert H . Wood of Hagerston, Pa., who played a steady game at center-half all season, will captain next fall's team.

Spring Sports Schedule FRESH MAN BASEBALL VARSITY BASEBALL FRESHMAN TRACK

Apr. 7 Georgetown away Apr. 26 Cheshire home Apr. 29 HopkJps home Apr. 8 Quantico Marines away Apr. 29 Morse College home May 4 Loomut home Apr. 9 University of V irginia away May 2 Yale)V home May 12 Wesleyan away Apr. 11 Virginia May 5 Massachusetts May 19 Massachusetts

University home University home Military Institute away May 7 Trinity-Pawling home May 23 Cheshire away Apr. 12 Washington and Lee away May 10 Wesleyan home Apr. 13 Western Maryland away May 13 Kingswood home VARSITY TENNIS Apr. 23 Springfield home May 18 Yale Frosh away Apr. 29 Springfield away Apr. 26 Amherst away May 21 Springfield home May 5 Rhode Island home Apr. 28 Yale away May 24 Wesleyan away May 6 Amherst away Apr. 30 Union away May 11 Wesleyan away May 3 Coast Guard home VARSITY TRACK May 13 New England

May 14 Intercollegiates May 7 Williams away Apr. 23 Union away May 15 at Williamstown May 10 Massachusetts Apr. 30 Massachusetts

May 17 Massachusetts University away University away May 7 Coast Guard home University away

May 11 Wesleyan home May 14 Eastern lntercollegi- May 21 Worcester Tech home May 14 Tufts home ares at Springfield May 25 Wesleyan home May 17 Amherst home May 18 Worcester away FRESHMAN TENNIS May 19 Coast Guard away May 21 Middlebury home May 4 Hopkins away May 21 Worcester Tech away May 24 Wesleyan home May 9 Loomis home May 24 Brown home May 30 Greater Hartford May 13 Kingswood home May 25 Wesleyan away High School Meet May 18 Wesleyan away

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Necrology MEL VILLE KNOX BAILEY, 1879

The Rev. Dr. Melville Knox Bailey died December 12 at his home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, in his ninety­third year. He was born in Waterford, Maine, September 10, 1856, the son of Samuel Reed and Lydia Ann Little Bailey.

Preparing for college at Fort Edward Institute, Fort Edward, New York, he entered Trinity in 1875 with the class of 1879. At his graduation he was class poet, winner of the silver medal for oratory and the Jackson Philosophi­cal Prize, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. His fraternity was Beta Beta, now Psi Upsilon.

The Rev. Bailey graduated from the Berkeley Divinity School in 1883 and also received his Master of Arts Degree from Trinity. He served at three Connecticut parishes: Sr. John's Church, Waterbury; Trinity Church, Branford; and Trinity Church, Farmington; before going to New York City in 1895.

For seventeen years the Rev. Bailey was assistant to the vicar of Grace Chapel, a former mission on East Four­teenth Street; and from 1913 to 1920, was vicar of the Chapel of the Holy Spirit in the Bronx. He was a member of the Board of Examining Chaplains and the Board of Religious Education of the New York Diocese, and president of the Churchman's Association of New York.

He retired from active ministry in 1920 and moved to Old Saybrook. For twenty-five years he was literary editor of the Church Missions Publishing Company of Hartford.

In June, 1934, Trinity awarded the Rev. Dr. Bailey the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

The Rev. Dr. Bailey regularly read the Greek Testament, the " Odes of Horace" in Larin , and painted many water colors. He always maintained a keen interest in Trinity. He wrote an article for the October, 1946 Alumni News, entitled "Trinity: Old and New," in which he gave an interesting account of student life on the old campus. Onlv last summer the New York Herald Tribune published one of his verses, "Summer Kalendar."

On September 5, 1883, the Rev. Dr. Bailey married Miss Elizabeth Hart of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, who died in 1927. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Paul H. Barbour and Miss Elizabeth H. Bailey.

SEABURY DOANE BREWER, 1882 Seabury Doane Brewer died January 2, 1946, at Mont­

clair, New Jersey, according to word received at the College. It is hoped rhar information will be received about his

life so that a complete necrology may be written in a future Bulletin.

CLARENCE GRIFFIN CHILD, 1886 Dr. Clarence Griffin Child, recipient of three Trinity

College degrees: Bachelor of Arts, 1886; Master of Arts, 1891; and honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, 1902; and professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania for more than forty years; died September 21, in Norris­town, Pennsylvania. He was born March 22, 1864, at Newport, Rhode Island , the son of William Spencer Child, Hon. 1854, and Jessie Isabella Davis Child and was edu­cated at Sr. John's School, Newport, before he entered Trinity in 1882 with the class of 1886.

In College he was awarded honors in English at his graduation and was the Commencement Speaker. His fraternity affiliation was the Beta Sera Chapter of Psi Upsilon .

After further graduate study, he taught English and mathematics at Trinity in 1890-1 891. He then studied at the University of Munich and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1895.

For a short while he was assistant editor of the New Worcester's Dictionary, and in 1896 was appointed in­structor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1901 he was promoted to assistant professor and in 1906 a full professor. He served as dean of the Graduate School from 1904 to 1907. Remembered by generations of Pennsyl-

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vania men for the histrionics and pantomime that animated his heavily attended lectures, Dr. Child was a specialist in medieval English. He was one of the translators of Beowulf. His volumes on euphuism and old English dialects are recognized as authoritari ve works.

After his graduation he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. H e was a member of the Modern Language Association, the Dialect Society and the Association of American Professors.

When Dr. Child retired from active teaching ten years ago, he occupied the John Welsh Centennial Chair of History and English Literature. He spent much of his retirement pursuing his hobby of mathematics.

He leaves his wife, the former Miss Elizabeth Reynolds of Boston; a son, William; and a daughter, Mrs. Richard H. McKey.

CHARLES HERBERT YOUNG, 1891 The Rev. Charles Herbert Young, honorary rector of

Christ Church, Woodlawn, Chicago, and rector emeritus of Howe School, died September 22, 1948, in Sturgis, Mich­igan. He was born in Manhattan, Illinois , September 16, 1867, the son of Edward and Ann Eliza Hoyt Young.

Preparing for College at public schools in Joliet, Illinois, Mr. Young entered Trinity in 1887 with the class of 1891. In College he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated salutatorian with honors in Greek, Larin, and Mathematics. He also won the English Literature Prize. Mr. Young was a member of the track ream and on the football squad. He held several class offices.

After attending Seabury Divinity School, Fairbault, Minnesota, he was graduated from the General Theological Seminary, New York C ity; was ordained by Bishop Worth­ington of Nebraska, and became a member of the Associ­ate Mission of Omaha, Nebraska, where he served as princi­pal of the Mission School from 1894 to 1903.

The Rev. Mr. Young became rector of Christ Church of Chicago in 1903 and remained there for seventeen years. While in Chicago he was a member of the Board of Exam­ining Chaplains, Chairman of the Diocesan Board of Religious Education, and a member of the Provincial and National Board of Religious Education. He was a deputy to the General Convention seven times, and served as a trustee of Western Theological Seminary for many years.

He became rector of Howe School, Howe, Indiana, in November, 1920, where he served until 1933. After his resignation he became rector of St. Mark's Church, Water­loo, Iowa, and for several years was chaplain of St. Kath­erine's School, Davenport, Iowa. At the invitation of Bishop Littell, '95, he became in 1938 acting principal of the Iolani School for Boys, Honolulu.

Surviving the Rev. Mr. Young are his widow, the former Miss Sarah Hillhouse Bowen, o maha, Nebraska, and two daughters, Mrs. Theodore Courteau and Mrs. Howard Downs.

STEPHEN HOWARD ALLING, 1892 The Rev. Stephen Howard Alling, son of the late James

Morrison and Elise Richmond Spencer Alling, died October 6, 1948, at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born in New York City on January 11 , 1870, and moved to Suffield, Connecticut, when a youth and attended the public schools there before entering Trinity in 1887 with the class of 1891. In his junior year an accident caused his withdrawal and he graduated in 1892. At Commencement h e was chosen to be speaker at Class Day, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also was awarded the Chemistry Prize.

After graduating, the Rev. Mr. Alling attended the Berkeley Divinity School and received his degree in 1895. That year he was awarded his Master's degree from Trinity. He served parishes in Lyndonville, Vermont, East Berlin, Connecticut; Dansville, New York; Pittsford, New York; and Sault St. Marie, Michigan, before accepting the rector­ship of the Church of the Resurrection, Cincinnati, in 1923. He recently celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary there and the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination.

The Rev. Mr. Alling was four times Community Chest chairman in Cincinnati. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Sons of the Revolution and the Colonial Wars Society. When he first came to Cincinnati he founded the Lower River Nursing Association.

He leaves his widow, the former Miss Margaret Nichols Therlkeld of Toronto, Canada; two sons, the Rev. Roger Alling and Stephen J. Alling; and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas Clarke.

JOHN CHARLES BULKELEY, 1893 John Charles Bulkeley, son of the late General William

Henry and Emma Guerney Bulkeley, died at his home in West Hartford on October 25, after a long illness. He was born in Hartford on September 24, 1871, and attended Hartford schools before entering Trinity in 1889 with the class of 1893. His fraternity affiliation was the Epsilon C hapter of Delta Psi.

Mr. Bulkeley joined the Aetna Life Insurance Company in 1896 as supervisor of claims in charge of the accident claim department. Later he headed the health claims division, and in recent years he was connected with the audit department.

On September 21, 1896, Mr. Bulkeley married Miss Mabel I:.ockwood Claghorn of New Canaan, Connecticut. He leaves his wife; a son, William Henry; and two daughters, Mrs. Lydia Bulkeley Hewes and Mrs. Anna Bulkeley Yost. Colonel William E. A. Bulkeley, '90, is his brother.

HENRY AUGUSTUS CARY, 1893 Word has been received at the College of the death of

Henry Augustus Cary. It is hoped that more derails about his life may come in so that a Necrology may be written in a future Bulletin.

Mr. Carey was born on April 26, 1869, the son of Joseph Clinton and Jane Elizabeth Carey. He attended St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, before entering Trinity in 1889. He left College after a few months. His fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi.

Before World War I Mr. Carey was Secretary-Treasurer of the Dusal Chemical Company, New York City.

JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD, 1896 John Curtis Underwood, poet and literary figure, died

January 14 at his ranch near Santa Cruz, New Mexico. He was sevenry-four years old.

The son of Edward Jackson and Mary Alice Horseman Underwood, he was born in Rockford, Illinois, on July 26, 1874, and prepared for College at the Rockford High School and St. Albans Military Academy, Knoxville, Illinois. Entering Trinity in 1893 with the class of 1896, he was editor of the Tablet and class secretary after gradua­tion for ten years.

Mr. Underwood traveled extensively and made four trips around the world. In 1925 he gave $1,000 in prizes for free verse, and also provided a like sum for a prize in a competition of paintings in New Mexico.

Among his various poems were "The Iron Muse," "Americans," "Processionals," "Literature and Insurgency," "War Flames," " Trail's End," and "Pioneers." He was a member of the Poetry Society of America and was awarded the Levinson Poetry Prize in 1918.

In 1939 he married Emily Rudolph, a California artist, and as a hobby they maintained the Pioneer Art Gallery in Santa Fe.

WILLIAN RUSSELL ALLEN, JR., 1898 Word has been received at the College of the death of

William Russell Allen, Jr ., of the class of 1898. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 15, 1878, and was in College from 1894 to 1896 when he left to attend Massa­chusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr. Allen married Miss Florence York of St. Louis, Missouri, on January 18, 1905, and they had one son, Francis York, who was born September 28, 1906.

It is hoped that further information concerning Mr. Allen will be sent to the College.

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WILLIAM STEWART HYDE, 1902 · William Stewart Hyde, judge of probate for the Man­

chester district and Connecticut's first labor commissioner died in Manchester, Connecticut, on October 2. At th~ time of his death he was also town counsel and chairman of the Republican Town Committee. He was born on February 16, 1881, at South Manchester, the son of John and Margaret Hunniford H yde. Preparing for College at the South Manchester High School, he entered Trinity in 1898 w1rh the class of 1902. Graduating with his class, he stud1ed law at Yale, receiving his LL.B. in 1904. Mr. Hyde had to finance his way through both institutions but was aided by an unusually quick mind. '

Mr. Hyde entered the law office of the late Judge Herbert 0. Bowers of Manchester and was admitted to the bar. He became interested in politics and was named moderator at a state election. His ability became recognized and he served Manchester for three terms as representative in the state. legislature. He was elected majority leader in 1915, and m that year Governor Holcomb appointed him Con­necticut's first labor commissioner in which office he served until 1923. . For the last thirty years he had been elected probate Judge for Manchester and usually received the endorsement of both political parties.

Judge Hyde was for years a trustee of the Manchester Memorial Hospital, and from the age of twenty continued to teach a Sunday school class at St. Mary's Episcopal Church. A thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Odd Fellows Lodge and the Sphinx Temple, Judge Hyde also held membership in the Connecticut State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

He is survived by his widow, the former Miss May Chaffee of South Manchester; a daughter, Frances; and a son, Stewart.

RICHARD MORSE SMITH, 1913 Richard Morse Smith died September 9th at his home

in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He was born on December 30, 1891, the son of George Wooding and Grace Wright Smith. After attending the Wethersfield High School, he entered Trinity in 1909 and graduated in 1913 with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Enlisting in the Navy in 1918, Mr. Smith served for six months and received an honorable discharge.

Mr. Smith worked with the Phoenix Mutual Life In­surance Company from July, 1913, until his death. In 1926 he was made supervisor of the Policy Loan Depart­ment where he remained until 1943 when he was trans­ferred to the Claims Department to pass on disability and death claims.

For seven years Mr. Smith was treasurer of Trinity Church, Wethersfield, and served on the vestry for several terms.

Mr. Smith leaves his wife, the former Mary Angela Curtin; and three daughters, Doroth ,,.Grace, and Helen. His brother, Irving, is a member of the class of 1910.

PAUL HUMISTON ALLING, 1919

Paul Humiston Alling, United States Ambassador to Pakistan, died January 18th at the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland, after an illness of amoebic dysentery which he contracted at his post in Karachi last year.

Born in Hamden, Connecticut, July 16, 1896, the son of Edson Lyman and Lulu Augusta Harrison Alling, he attended New Haven High School, New Haven, Con­necticut, and entered Trinity in 1915 with the class of 1919. In College he was a member of the Senate and the Inter­fraternity Council. He also served as associate editor of the Tripod and secretary-treasurer of the Athletic Associa­tion. His fraternity was the Sigma Chapter of Delta Phi.

Mr. Alling received his degree in 1920 because in his junior year he enlisted with Troop B of the Connecticut Cavalry and later served in France with the 101st and 102nd Machine Gun Battalions. He was also attached to the 3rd U. S. Cavalry and the General Staff Headquarters and was discharged with the rank of first lieutenant.

After graduation he worked at the National City Bank of New York; the Benjamin Franklin Institute of New York; and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. While in this latter position he studied at the University of Pennsylvania for his Master's degree which he received in 1924.

Joining the foreign service he served as a vice-consul at Beirut, Aleppo, Damascus and Tangiers. On November 30, 1930, he resigned to become divisional assistant in the Department of State and in 1934 was appointed assistant chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs. In 1942 he was chosen to be chief of the Division.

Mr. Alling, as a diplomatic agent with the rank of minister, arranged the historic meeting in 1945 of President Roosevelt and King Ibn Saud of Saudi, Arabia, aboard an American cruiser in the Suez Canal.

After the Japanese surrender Mr. Alling was chosen to be political and liasion officer of the United States delegation at the United Nations Conference in San Francisco. In 1947 President Truman appointed Mr. Alling minister to Syria. At the end of the year he was named the first United States Ambassador to the new nation of Pakistan.

Ambassador Alling left for his new post in January, 1948, but had to be flown home from Karachi last July because of illness. In the shore time he was there he had established our relations with the new country on a basis of friendship and confidence.

Acting secretary of state Robert A. Lovett said, "! know that my sorrow is shared by his hose of friends, both American and others, who had come to know his ability and co appreciate his lovable character during the course of his long and distinguished service in the foreign service."

He leaves his wife, the former Miss Romaine Braden Loar of Bloomington , Illinois, whom he married on June 23, 1923, and two daughters, Constance and Anne.

EUGENE EDMUND MACY, 1920 Word has been received at the College of the death of

Eugene Edmund Macy on November 25, 1947, at Chicago, Illinois. He was born April 2, 1894, in New York City, the son of John Williams and Sophie Hack Macy. In 1916 he entered Trinity but was in residence for only one semester.

After serving in the Marines from 1918 to 1921, he joined the Remington Rand Company in Chicago and was associated with them until his death.

He leaves his widow, the former Miss Edith Jerman of Columbus, Ohio, whom he married on June 29, 1921.

MATHEW GEORGE THOMPSON, Hon. 1920 The Rev. Mathew George Thompson, rector emeritus

of Christ Church, Greenwich, Connecticut, died October 7, 1948, in New York City. He was born at Leeds, Quebec, Canada, on April 18, 1863, the son of Isaac Martin and Elizabeth Jiggens Thompson.

Mr. Thompson attended St. Francis School, Richmond, Quebec, before entering Bishop's College in Lennoxville, Quebec, from which he was graduated in 1882. He re­ceived his M.A. there four years later, and in 1920 Trinity awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree.

Dr. Thompson was rector of Holy Trinity Church, Levis, Quebec, from I886 to 1888 before going to St. John's Church, Long Island City for one year. He was senior curate at Holy Trinity Church, New York City, from 1889 to 1895, and then was elected rector of Christ Church, Greenwich, Connecticut. He retired in 1924 and moved to New York City where he continued his activities in church work as associate preacher of St. Stephen's Church.

He is survived by a nephew, Harry S. Thompson and a niece, Mrs. William Cornick of Quebec. His wife, the former Miss Mary E. Frayer, died in 1944.

WILBUR LUCIUS CROSS, Hon. 1935 Wilbur Lucius Cross, scholar, teacher, writer, and

former four-term governor of Connecticut, died October 5 at his home in New Haven. Funeral services were conducted in Bartell Chapel at Yale University by the Rt. Rev. Fred­erick G. Budlong, Hon. '33.

Ninth in descent from William Bradford, the first gover­nor of Massachusetts, Mr. Cross was born April 10 1862 in Gurleyville, a small settlement near Mansfield' Con: necticut. After graduating from Willimantic High 'School as valedictorian of his class, he taught school a year before entering Yale with the class of 1885. At Yale he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and won highest honors in English and in oratory.

Mr. Cross served as principal of Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut, before returning co Yale to study for his doctorate which he received in 1889. He caught English for five years at Shadyside Academy in Pittsburgh before being appointed an instructor in English at Yale. He was made professor in 1902, and elected dean of the Graduate School in 1916, holding that pose until his retirement in 1930. Dr. Cross founded the Yale Review in 1911, and was its editor for many years.

At a Democratic party rally in June, 1930, Dr. Cross substituted for a detained speaker, and his speech won him the Democratic nomination for governor. He held the office for four terms and achieved a notable record in progressive legislation. His reorganization of the state's fiscal affairs saved the taxpayers nearly two million dollars a year.

In 1935 Trinity awarded Dr. Cross the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

In 1889 he married Miss Helen B. Avery of Willimantic, Connecticut, who died in 1928. They had four children, of ~hom two, Wilbur Lucius, Jr., and Samuel Avery, survtve.

GEORGE JACKSON MEAD, Hon. 1937

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George Jackson Mead, co-founder of Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company, died January 20th at his home in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Considered one of the world's foremost aircraft power plant engineers, Mr. Mead as a boy used to keep his father's early model cars in running order.

Born in Everett, Massachusetts, on December 27, 1891, the son of Dr. George Nathaniel Plummer and Jenny Leman Mead, he prepared at St. George's School, Newport, Rhode Island, and then enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for four years.

During World War I he was an experimental engineer at the Wright Martin Aircraft Corporation. After a year in Dayton, Ohio, as engineer in ~arge of the power plant laboratories of the United States Air Service, Mr. Mead held the position of chief engineer of the Wright Aero­nautical Corporation from 1920 to 1925.

That year he came to Hartford and with Mr. Frederick B. Rentschler founded the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company. In 1930 when the company became United Aircraft and Transport Company, he became vice president and chairman of the technical advisory committee until his retirement in 1939.

Trinity conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Science on him in 1937.

President Roosevelt appointed him vice-chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in October, 1939, and as director of the Aeronautical Section he did much to push to completion the president's 50,000 plane program.

Mr. Mead served the Hartford Hospital as chairman of the building committee from 1941 to 1946, and was a member of the Metropolitan District Commission.

Last June Mr. Mead was awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit. He was also holder of the Taylor Gold Medal of

the Royal Aeronautical Society, and the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award. Mr. Mead was an honorary fellow of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Cary Hoge Mead, to whom he was married in 1921; his mother; and five children, George, Peyton, Charles, William, and Mary.

DAVID WILLIAM ALLEN, 1939 David William Allen, the son of George Henry and the

late Alice Randall Allen, died September 5, 1948, in Tor-

rington, Connecticut, after a heart attack. He was born June 9, 1916, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and prepared for college at the Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut.

He transferred to Trinity from Yale in 1935 and was in College for one year. His fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon.

Mr. Allen was employed by the Torrington branch of the American Brass Company.

Survivin{are his wife , the former Miss Marjorie Pomeroy; a daughter, Jane Randall Allen; and a son, David Pomeroy Allen.

Alumni Notes HON. - 1935

The RT. REV. JOHN I. BLAIR LARNED has been elected chairman of the Board of Managers of the Depart­ment of Reconstruction and Interchurch Aid of the World Council of Churches.

HON. - 1946 -DR. V ANNEV AR BUSH has retired as chairman of the

United States Research and Development Board.

HON. -1947-FRANCIS S. MURPHY has been commissioned a

captain of the First Company, Governor's Horse Guard.

-1897-DR. ROBERT S. STARR is president of the Hartford

Heart Association, an affiliate of the American Heart Association.

-1898-EDGAR F. WATERMAN has been re-elected president

of the Watkinson Library in Hartford. The REV. ARTHUR ADAMS has been elected secretary, and PROFESSOR HENRY A. PERKINS, HON. 1920, assistant secretary.

-1901-ARTHUR E. ARVEDSON has retired and is living at

Wood, Wisconsin ... GODFREY BRINLEY is spending the winter at Rex Court, Sixth Avenue, Tuscon, Arizona. . . . WILLIAM M. NICHOLS, president of the Yellow­stone Park Company, Helena, Montana, reports that the 1948 season was the most successful of the park's history. He spends the winter in La Jolla, California ... JAMES A. WALES, author of a series of illustrated articles on Post-War Skiing in Europe, plans to attend many United States meets this winter. Last year he attended fourteen ski weekends from Christmas through Easter. He has been appointed vice president of Sheldon, Quick & McEl­roy, Inc., New York City ... CHARLES H. WHEELER has retired as general manager of the Locke Insulator Corporation and is living in Upper Montclair, N. J. Re­cently he has been appointed manufacturer 's agent for Economy Products and Research Corporation in Mont­clair.

- 1909 -CLINTON J. BACKUS, JR., wrires that HARRY

MAXSON spent a month at La Jolla, California, and that DR. DONALD CARPENTER, '10, of the faculty at the University of Vermont made him a brief visit ... LEWIS G. HARRIMAN has accepted the regional chairmanship for Buffalo and the Niagara Frontier Committee of leading business men for the Transportation Association of America. Founded in 1935, the purpose of this association is better public understanding of transportation problems, and the determination and adoption of sound national transportation policies. It is opposed to government owner­ship of transportation facilities. Mr. Harriman is currently serving his ninth term as president of the Buffalo Clearing House. This is longer than anyone else has ever held the office. His first term was in 1926.

- 1910 -HORACE R. BASSFORD has been elected to a fellow­

ship in the Institute of Actuaries. He is vice president and

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chief actuary of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. ... ARCHER E. KNOWLTON is editor-in-chief of rhe Standard H andbook for Electrical Engineers, the 8th edition of which has just been published following a 70,000 copy sale of his 7th edition. Since 1930 Mr. Knowlton has been senior associate editor of Electrical World, a McGraw­Hill Publication. . . DR. E. WARREN RIPLEY'S son RICHARD, '50, is engaged to Miss Alice Mary Duckha~ of Madison, N. J.

- 1912 -THOMAS F. FLANAGAN is managing director of the

National Association of radio station representatives in New York Ciry ... RAYMOND H. SEGUR has retired from the Bureau of Public Works in Hartford after 36 years service. He is living in Rocky Hill, Conn.

- 1913-CORTLANDT SAYRES writes that his son, Bill , has

been elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Beloit College, and also won the Detroit Open Tennis Championship last sun1mer.

- 1914 --COLONEL THEODORE F. WESSELS has been ap­

pointed post executive officer at Camp Gordon, Georgia. After serving overseas for 32 months as brigadier general and provost marshal, he was director of civilian marksman­ship and executive officer of the National Board for Pro­motion of Rifle Practice, Washington, D. C.

- 1915 -GEORGE BEACH is professor of piano and harmony

at the National Conservatory of Music and Declamation in Panama City, Panama.

It was Trinity Night at the annual " Man of the Year" dinner of the Press Club of Bristol at Chippanee Country Club in Bristol last fall. KARL A. REICHE, '08, Bristol's superintendent of schools, was n amed " Man of the Year" for outstanding service. He is shown, with the engraved electric desk clock presented him by the city's working newspapermen, being congratulated by DELMONT W. BAKER, '37, president of the Press Club.

-1916-The REV. FRANK LAMBERT officiated at the wedding

of his son FRANK, JR., '49, to Miss Deborah Fogg of West Hartford on December 18 ... ROBERT S. MORRIS was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Southbury Training School by Governor Shannon last fall. He has been elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford ... T he new Olmsted Hall in the parish house of St. George's Church, New York City, was dedicated on January 9 in memory of the late WILLIAM B. OLMSTED, JR. A bronze memorial plaque was unveiled by Mrs. Olmsted ... ROBERT B. O'CONNOR has been appointed supervising architect of Princeton University. He is a member of the advisory council of the Princeton School of Architecture and is representative of the school on the Princeton Graduate Council. .. The REV. JOHN H. TOWNSEND, arch­deacon of Colombia, write"s that he traveled throughout much of Central America in 1948. In September he was free to go on furlough and came north for a visit on Long Island. He has returned to Colombia and will make another trip through the country.

-1917 -RICHARD S. BARTHELMESS has moved from New

York City to Southampton , Long Island, where he has taken up potato farming. . . ROGER B. LADD, president of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, arranged a most interesting program at the annual meeting held in the College Auditorium on December 8. Among the speakers were Mayor Coleman of Hartford, Brigadier General Charles T. Lanham, and President Albert M. Jorgensen of the University of Connecticut. Dr. Roger H. Morten, former College treasurer, was elected president to succeed Mr. Ladd.

-1918 -HENR Y S. BEERS was re-appointed by Governor

Shannon to the State Advisory Council for the Unem­ployment Compensation Act. He will serve until Decem­ber, 1951. . . ARTHUR E. BURNAP represented the College at the inauguration of Dr. Harold L. Trigg as president of Sr. Augustine's College, Raleigh, North Carolina ... DR. LOUIS NOLL is chief of Medical Service and chairman of the Execuriye Committee of the Irvington, New Jersey General Hospital. He is assistant physician at the Presbyterian Hospital , Newark. Dr. Noll is a charter member of the Irvington Rotary Club ... LISPENARD B. PHISTER is president of the Big Brother Association of Boston. Last October he participated in the American Bar Association program on the Yankee Network. The topic was "Shall We Amend Our Election Laws?" He has taken part in three other programs- two had to do with the need for amendment of our divorce laws - and all of them are completely unrehearsed.

- 1919 -EDW ARD F. MURRAY marked his twenty-fifth anniver­

sary with the Aetna. He operates under his own name one of the largest agencies in Colorado ... The REV. HERBERT E. PRESSEY has been elected secretary of the New York Chapter of the Military Chaplains Association.

- 1921 -NELSON A. SHEPARD has been reelected president

of the Shade Tobacco Growers Association.

-- 1922 --KARL P. HERZER has been admitted as a general

partner of R. L. Day & Co., New York . . . ALLEN M. TUCKER has been made secretary of the Port Jarvis, New York, Packing Company.

-1924 -DR. MORRIS N. COHEN, special student, has been

elected an associate member in the American Academy of Periodontology. This society studies diseases of the teeth, gums and jaws, and membership is voted on the basis of accomplishment ... HAROLD W. GLEASON, M.A., has

been elected to the Ellsworth, Maine, school board for a three year term. He is also a member of his local draft board ... DR. FRANK S. JONES has been elected illus­trious potentate of the Hartford Shriners.

- 1925 -KENNETH SMITH of rhe New York Mirror sports

staff has been awarded the Gold Key Award of the Con­necticut Sportswriters' Alliance.

- 1926 -EDWARD J. FERTIG has joined the firm of Flagg

Brackett & Durgin, Park Square Bldg., Boston, Mass .. : JAMES H. UBERTY addressed the Thompsonville, Conn., Chamber of Commerce on October 19. His subject was "Highlights on Leather." Mr. Liberty is director of research and chairman of the board of directors of the Upholstery Leather Group, Tanners Council of America New York City ... The REV. FRANCIS J. PRYOR, ur', is Dean of Calvary Cathedral, Sioux Falls , South Dakota. He left the Church of Our Saviour, North Platte, Nebraska, where he had been rector for many years on New Year's ... MER­R ILL B. SHERMAN announces the birth of a son, James Albert, on November 21.

1927 -PUTNAM BROWNE is assistant to the manager of the

new Union Square Savings Bank branch office at 245 First Avenue, New York City.

JAMES M. CAHILL, for many years prominent as a raring and actuarial specialist of the casualty insurance business, has been elected secretary of the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters. This Bureau is the national ratemaking organiza­tion of stock companies in the casualty insurance field and is li­censed to act as a rating organiza­tion for most kinds of casualty insurance in all of the states and territories which have enacted laws

regulating such rates. Forty-two stock casualty companies are members and 89 casualty companies and 90 fire com­panies are service subscribers.

- 1928 SCOTT ALFORD is an industrial engineer at the

Russell Mfg. Co., Middletown, Conn ... ALBERT C. BILL has been appointed assistant secretary of the Hart­ford National Bank ... HARRISON S. BROWN is engaged to Miss Virginia Spurrier of Princeton, N . J . .. the REV. DUDLEY H. BURR has been named state chairman of the People's Party in Connecticut ... DEAN ROBE~T GIBSON has been elected Suffragan Bishop of Vtrgtma.

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--1931 -HOWARD D. DOOLITTLE has been awarded the

President's Certificate of Merit for scientific work done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory during World War II.

-1932 -RAYMOND K. ADAMS has been appointed judge

of the Windsor, Conn., Probate Court ... HUGH S. CAMPBELL has been promoted from assistant counsel to counsel of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company . . . . The REV. JAMES CARSON is rector of St. Andrew's Church, St. Johnsbury, and St. Peter's , Lyndonville Vermont, as of January lsr ... RICHARD C. MELOY is. ~~nager of the Marketing Research Delco Appliance Dtvtston, General Motors, Rochester, N. Y. He is living at Pittsford, N. Y ... FRANKLIN N. MONACELLA has been appointed deputy judge for the Town Court of East Hartford .

-1933 -SIMON BERNSTEIN has been appointed law clerk

of the Connecticut Senate Judiciary Committee ... JOHN

F. BUTLER has been elected a director of Mitchell House, Hartford. With BERT HOLLAND and JOHN MASON he attended the New England American Alumni Council meeting in Boston January 27-29 . .. JAMES G. MARKS represented the College at the inauguration of Dr. William G. Ryan as sixth president of Seton Hall College, Greens­burg, Pa., on November 11. .. GEORGE C. RICHARD­SON has been transferred from Baltimore to Walla Walla, Washington , where he is assistant chief of the Hydraulic Design Section of the Engineer Corps. He is engaged on the design of navigation, power and flood control dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. His address is 19 East Poplar St., Walla Walla.

1934 --ROBERT H. DAUT is general manager of the Harbor­

side Warehouse Co., Jersey City, N. J ... CHARLES A. FRITZON has been promoted to district freight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Trenton, N.J ... ALBERT E. HOLLA D is chairman of the Individual Subscribers Division of the 1949 Greater Hartford Community Chest . . . . CHARLES T. KINGSTON, JR., was chairman of the Greater Hartford American Heart Association Cam­paign ... JAMES B. WEBBER, JR., has been chosen president of the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund. He will lead a campaign for more than 19 millions.

- 1935 -ALBERT W. BASKERVILLE reports the birth of a

daughter, Barbara Ellen, last April 21. .. WILLIAM R. CURTIS is now associated with the new law firm of Lovejoy and Cuneo in Norwalk, Conn . .. DUANE FLAHERTY is connected with Wolff Brothers, Kansas City, and engaged in the fur business ... DAN GIBER is on the Hartford Board of Education .. . JOHN S. McCOOK was the campaign manager for Ellis, Republican candidate against

Marcantonio in New York City . .. THOMAS Mc­QUADE is with Hartford Housing Authority ... TER­RITT H. MOWBRAY was the first guest speaker at the third annual Winter Travel Forum January 6 in Wilming­ton , Delaware. He showed some excellent colored slides on Bermuda . . . DANIEL O'NEIL married Miss Veronica B. Hague of Bridgeport on October 2. They are living in Milford, Conn ... DR. ANTHONY PADDON travels over 1,000 miles on dog team to see his patients in the back country of Labrador each winter. Tuberculosis, beri-beri, scurvy and rickets are very common. He is assisted by the Royal Canadian Air Force at Goose Bay who fly him supplies. His father , the late Dr. Henry Paddon, worked with Grenfell on the Labrador Coast for 40 years. .. ALBERT RIMOSUKAS is director of Adult Education in Windsor, Conn., Public Schools ... FREDERICK M. SENF has received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale ... RALPH G. SLATER reports the birth of a son, Ralph Evan, on July 14 ... LOUIS WARREN is on the staff of the Public Utility Commission of the State of Connecticut.

-- 1936 -VICTOR E. BONANDER is in Detroit with the Hart­

ford Accident Indemnity Co., as the Superintendent of Underwriting ... CAPTAIN WILLIAM F. GILFILLAN has been in the Army for seven years. He is now with the Eighth U. S. Army, Yokohama, Japan, and is an assistant provost marshal. .. ADOLPH A. HOEHLING has been named publicity representative in Denver for United Air Lines ... DR. CHARLES K. KIRBY has perfected a device to detect whether a gall stones operation has been completely successful. His "surgeon-alarm," which is a tiny quartz crystal enclosed in silver at the end of a slender, hollow silver probe, can detect a gall stone and the sound is amplified to the surgeon's earphones. It has been used successfully in twenty-five operations ... HARRINGTON

MALCOLM-SMITH IS HOT DISC JOCKEY TOO Ever since a day in 1917 when the original Dixieland

Jazz Band visited his hometown dance hall George Mal­colm-Smith, '25, has been fascinated with the strange rhythms of hot music. He is now an expert connoisseur and has his own program on Station WTIC every Saturday night from eleven-thirty to midnight when he plays out­standing "Gems of American Jazz" and comments on the musicians. Often he interviews other jazz enthusiasts.

For a time his youthful interest was sidelined by such serious things as Dean Academy, Trinity College and the hard business world. In College he was managing editor of the Tripod and then editor in chief. His classmates elected him their president and later secretary-treasurer. George also found time to serve on the Senate, the Soph Hop Committee, and the Freshman-Junior Banquet Com­mittee. He belonged to Phi Gamma Delta, and is now active in restoring the Chapter on campus.

Another ambition was writing and he successfully suc­ceeded in securing a part-~ime job with the Hartford Courant in his sophomore year. Thanks to the thorough training that he received with the country's oldest newspaper, George easily landed a position with the Waterbury Repub­lican after leaving Trinity. There, besides writing he became interested in cartoons, and soon was promoted to the position of art editor.

Late in 1928 the Travelers Insurance Company asked to talk with the youthful artist-writer about an opening on their publicity staff. Un able to arrange a personal interview, George got the position by sending the com­pany a scrapbook containing a collection of his writings and cartoons.

For twenty years George has done publicity work for the Travelers starting at first as publicity man for their radio station WTIC, and then with the publicity staff of the company. He edits the employee publication "The Traveler's Beacon" and writes a weekly column for "Pro­tection," a Travelers publication. The author of many children 's books he is best known for his two novels

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(Radio Mirror photo) George with Mary and Kirby

"Slightly Perfect" and "The Grass Is Always Greener" which describes a man who awoke one morning to find he was not himself. The former, a story of an insurance actuary in Hartford, has been produced as a musical comedy with the title "Are You With It" and later made into a movie.

Whenever he can steal some spare time George reverts to his old love of jazz, and now has a collection of over 3,000 records, many of them extremely rare. His favorites range from the old timers like Jack Teagarren and Sidney Becher to newcomers such as Thalonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie. And whether he is reminiscing about a Dixie­land rarity that no longer is recorded or how by chance he happened to receive from an acquaintance a collection of platters worth more than one thousand dollars, the listener quick ly realizes that George is coming closer and closer to "Perperual Motion."

LITTELL is with the Aluminum Corporation of America in Oakland, California. Hank has a new home in El Cerrito, and will be happy to see any Trinity men ... JAMES R. MILLER has left the editorial staff of "This Week" magazine and is a free lance writer working directly from his home in New Canaan , Conn ... DR. SAL VA­TORE S. PlACENTE has opened an office in Hanford for the practice of medicine. . . JOHN R. WILLIAMS is an assistant public affairs officer at Bordeaux, France. He may be reached at the U. S. Consulate, Bordeaux.

- 1937 -DEXTER ). ANDERSON is engaged to Miss Helen

Oliver O'Neill of San Francisco ... HENRY C. KOHN announces the birth of a daughter, Joanne, on January 19.

-1938 -ERIC A. ANDERSON recently married Miss Virginia

Felske of West Hartford, sister of RICHARD, '46. He is the automotive maintenance officer of the 203rd Air Service Group, Connecticut Air National Guard, with the rank of captain ... R. ROBERT CONNAR is a technical representative for the Fairchild Aircraft Com­pany in Maryland. He lives in Hagerstown, Md ... GEORGE W. CULLENEY, II, we hear, is with a fund raising company in New York ... TIMOTHY N. FAN­NING has been elected executive vice president of the Hartford Junior Chamber of Commerce ... ROBERT A. GILBERT of Rosemont, Pa., has accepted a position with Selby, Battersby and Company as purchasing agent. He was formerly comptroller of the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City ... WILBER R. GRISWOLD has been named supervisor of the Hartford Branch of the University of Connecticut. The Branch conducts a full and part-time program for 800 undergraduates and graduate students ..• CARL R. HODGDON, JR., is with the Larus Corporation of Bethlehem, Penn ... WILLIAM LINDSAY'S wife Margaret, a major in WAC, has been appointed to Gov­ernor Bowles' military staff. She is the first woman to enjoy this honor ... NEIL H. PFANSTIEL has been appointed adjutant of the 118th Fighter Squadron of the Connecticut Air National Guard ... JAMES M. F. WEIR is engaged to Miss Margery Allen Breed of West Hartford. He is with the Riverside Trust Company, Hartford.

- 1939 -JOHN C. ALEXANDER, JR., became the father of a

daughter, Nancy Clarie, on September 26 ... WALLACE L. ANDERSON has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago. His field is English ... EARL H. FLYNN has been appointed the first traffic engineer of Springfield, Mass. He resigned from the Connecticut State Highway Department on December 31 to accept his new position ... RAYMOND HICKEY, JR., is engaged to Miss Eileen A. Reynolds of New Haven. ... LAWRENCE NEWHALL has returned from Greece and is studying at the University of Pennsylvania ... LT. COMMANDER WILLIAM J. SCOTT, USN, is engaged to Miss Thelma Mary Freeman of Norfolk, Va. His ship is based at the Norfolk Naval Station ... TED STEELE has signed a television contract for General Mills calling for ten years and a total financial return of a million and a half. His first radio job was a page boy at $15.00 a week! While in College he worked at stations WTIC and WDRC. He rose rapidly and at 23 headed his own band as well as writing and producing radio programs. On the side he found time for singing and acting ... FRANCIS A. STOCKWELL, JR., represented the College at the inauguration of Dr. Edward B. Evans as first president of Prairie View College, Prairie View, Texas, on December 3 ... LT. COMMANDER WEEKS married Miss Bettie Jayne Knab of Fort Thomas, Ky., on September 3 at the Naval Chapel, Newport, R. I. They are living at Middle­town, R. I., while he is studying at the War College in Newport ... STAN DISH WIGHTMAN reports the birth of a son on November 24.

- 1940 -JAMES F. COLLINS married Miss Constance V. Sullivan

of West Springfield, Mass., on January 22. He is associated

with the law firm of Gordon and Cheney, Hanford ... CARMINE R. LA VIER! announces the birth of a daughter Roberta . Ann, on October 4 ... He has just passed hi~ Connecticut State Bar exams ... The REV. ALBERT ~~J~ DUZER is rector of Grace Church, Merchantville,

- 1941 -JAMES M. CAFFREY, JR., has received his Ph.D. in

Orgamc. Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin. He IS with Texaco Company, Beacon, N. Y ... LEE D. GOODMAN is president of Eastern Television, Inc. , of Boston ... RALPH GROVER conducted a presentation of Mendelssohn's "Elijah" by the Oratorio Society of Paterson, N. J. , last fall. He is organist and choir master a_t t~e C~urch of the Messiah in Paterson, and is con­tmumg h1s studies at the Julliard School of Music, New York ... RODNEY D. HALL announces the birth of a second daughter, Judith Benedict, on October 9 ... PHOE­NIX INGRAHAM married Miss Margaret Mary Eckman of New York City on November 18 ... RONALD E KINNEY, JR., has been made Eastern Sales Manager of the U. S. Bobbin Company of Lawrence, Mass ... DR. JOSEPH N. RUSSO is a resident surgeon at the Hospital for Spec1al Surgery, New York City ... PAUL S. STEN­BUCK is e~gaged to Miss Ruth Whatoff of Lakewood, N.J. He IS affiliated with the Research Department of Schwarz Laboratones, Mount Vernon, N. J.

- 1942 --MORRIS R. EDDY has moved from Chicago to Bloom­

field, N. J., and continues in the insurance business there. . . . GEORGE L. HOPKINS reports the birth of a son George L., Jr., on February 23, 1948. He is teaching at St James School, St. James, Md ... J. PETER MAYNARD was married on January 23, 1948, to Miss Yvonne M. Baker of Windsor, Illinois. The ceremony took place in Athens, Greece, where Peter is employed by an American engineering firm ... EDWARD G. ROSEN announces the birth of a son, Richard Allen, on December 14 ... THOMAS H. T AMONEY married Miss Mary Agnes Ahern of Hartford on December 27 ... FOWLER L WHITE is in his third year of medical school. He is at th~ Maryland Medical School, Baltimore.

-1943 -GEORGE FEEHAN has been teaching in the Army

Educanon Program m Kobe, Japan. He ran into BILL ~ANDALLS, '40, and they had a good chat about old nmes on the H1ll. .. ROBERT B. HALL is engaged to M1ss Dorothy V. Glass of Wheeling, West Virginia. He is studymg at the Episcopal Theological Seminary CHARLES H. HODGKINS expects to graduate from. th~ Harvard Law School t_his May .... CHARLES L. JONES, JR., 1s engaged to M1ss Mary Ehzabeth Stubbs of East Aurora, N. Y ... MYRON KELLIN played the role of Statf Sargeant McVay in the comedy "At War With The Army," at the Bushnell Memorial on January 21-22. Last summer he directed and acted with the Pitchfork Players tn Sharon, Conn ... WILLIAM MITCHELL is back in Chicago with Skilsaw, Inc ... FRANCIS M. RACKE­MANN, JR., is with E. A. Parlee Co., Boston , Mass., sellmg Rusco combination screen and storm windows . .. RANDOLPH G. SHARP is with William H. Coburn Co. , Boston, Mass. He lives in Auburndale ... RICHARD TULLAR is national advertising manager for the Air-ona Times in Phoenix ... DAVID A. TYLER, JR., has been selected by the Connecticut General Life Insurance Com­pany as the "Man of the Year" for 1948. He is with Allen, Russell and Allen, a branch office in Hartford ... PAUL WARREN announces the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, on December 5 ... ROBERT K. B. WOODWARD married Miss Elsa Brown of New York City on June 5 in San Francisco. He is with the Glidden Company there.

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- 1944 -H~RR Y BALFE, II, is st~dying law a t the University

of V1rgm1a. HERB BRUST, 45, completes his law course there this May ... GEORGE S. BAXTER married Miss Evelyn Mahon of Hartford on September 25. He is with

Minneapolis-Honeywell Company in their Hartford office. ... FRANK W. EICHHORN was married to Mrs. Dorothy Golly Gibbs on September 30. He is on the announcing staff of Station WGLN ... ARTHUR H. HEALEY has been admitted to the Connecticut Bar. .. JOH P. RENWICK, JR., became the father of a son , James Brevoort, on January 15 ... PETER TORREY announces the birth of a daughter, Robin, on December 12. He has left Hart­ford and is now in San Francisco with the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co . .. JAMES R. URBAN has passed his Connecticut Bar examinations ... DR. RAY­MOND J. ZAK has opened an office for the general practice of dentistry in Hartford.

-1945-

HILDRETH M. C LARK became the father of a son, Stephen Baldwin, on November 10 ... ARTHUR E. FAY reports the birth of a son, Peter Elliott, on September 22 ... WILLIAM M. GRA YES married Mrs. Elaine Durston Stevens of West Hartford on December 17. He is teaching at the new Robinson School in Hartford ... WILLIAM S. HART is engaged to Miss Sally H art of Farmington , Conn ... WALTER 0. R. KORDER, JR., is at the Harvard Business School. .. WILLIAM I. MARBLE married Miss Doris N. Shoudy of Syracuse, N. Y., on September 25. He is with Aircooled Motors, Inc., Syracuse, as a technical service engineer, and has been elected to the Society of Automotive Engineers ... DR. RICHARD C. PETERSON married Miss Lorraine Brennan of East Hartford on December 27 ... BERTRAM L. SMITH , JR. , reports the arrival of Bertram, Ill , on May 16.

- 1946 -

WALTER WILSON, 65 Edgar Lane, Hastings on Hudson, N. Y., writes in the following news: At last word FRA K ANDERSON was at the Cornell Law School with wife and family. The twins are reportedly eating them out of house and home ... LOUIS FELDMAN and SPIRO PETERSEN are starting their third year of graduate work at H arvard, in Classics and English respectively ... FRANZ SCHURMANN, also at Harvard, spent much time classifying Trinity's Moore (Oriental) Collection .. . GENE HARRIS is at the Yale Public School of Health .. . Third year medical students include TOM WALKER and PAUL KINGSTON at New York Medical; KEN GOLDEN at Syracuse; and SANDY COBB at Albany ... Theological students include BUD CADY in Hartford; JOE JOHN­SON at Berkeley; and ROLAND de CORNEILLE at General Theological Seminary .... BUD JOHNSON, who graduated from Dartmouth after his year at Trinity, is covering New Jersey for the Aetna Insurance Company and is living in Somerville, N.J. .. DICK PAGE is engaged to Miss Marjorie Ann Dawley of Cassadaga, N. Y ... BILL WEAVER graduated from Tufts Engineering School last June ... COKEY PRENTICE, still act ive in the United World Federalists, is finishing at Swarthmore chis June ... AL GROVER has returned to the University of Michigan where he is doing graduate work in Biology. .. . ED MARRA is at the Boston University Medical School. .. SHERMAN P. HAIGHT, JR., is engaged to Miss M argaret E. Grahame of New Hackensack, N. Y.

- 1947 -

KEY! J. BRENNAN is with the real estate firm, Joseph P. Kennedy Co., Hartford ... PAUL H. GATES is engaged to Miss Barbara L. Zaiser of Stoughton, Mass ... FRED GELDERMAN became the father of twins , Douglas and Diane, on October 7 ... RUSSELL HANMER is engaged to Miss Patricia Martin of Fort Worth , T exas . .. JAMES A. KAPTEYN is engaged co Miss Janet Ostrander of Farmington , Conn ... ANDREW MILLIGAN, JR., is engaged to Miss Mary Jane McLean of West Hartford.

He is with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Com­pany ... RICHARD H. SCEERY married Miss Annamae Murphy of Bristol, Conn., last October. He is with Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, Hartford ... JOSEPH A. STIRLACCI is at the Georgetown Medical School. . . MARTIN WISH married Miss Evelyn Lassman of Hart­ford on September 5. He is with G. Fox and Co.

- 1948 -DON CRAIG writes that he is at U. C. L. A . in Califor­

nia. There are 14,000 students and little personal attention. He still likes ew England! ... ROBERT S. CROSS announces rhe birth of a daughter, Elisabeth Sheldon, on December 30 . .. GEORGE DONNELLY writes that 1948 held an informal reunion in Cambridge with W!NKY GLEASON, JIM MANION, RED FABER, ART WALM­SLEY, CLINT MACY in attendance. Also BOB HALL, RAY CUNN I GHAM, and LYMAN OGILBY, Dr. Ogilby's second son .. . ED FABER is playing with rhe Hartford Hurricanes basketball ream. . . . ORICE F. GRACEY and family have moved to North Grafton, Mass., where he has taken charge of a Baptist Church. He is attending Andover-Newton Theological School in Newton Center, Mass ... JULIAN F. HOWELL married Miss Dorothy Wells Schoenfuss on September 18. They are living in Bloomfield, Conn. , and he is a special agent for the ew York Life Insurance Company ... ALEX HUNTER and FRED MOOR are in San Francisco and Los Angeles respectively. Both have chosen the stock and securities field for their vocation. Alex is attempting to start an active alumni group in San Francisco. All alumni in the area are asked to contact him at Dean Witter & Company ... NORWOOD H. KENNEY, JR., is studying Chemistry Engineering at the University of Maine. He is living in Winterport, Maine ... HAROLD G. LEAR ED married Miss Marjorie T revithick of Middle­town, Conn., on November 27 at the Wesleyan Memorial C hapel. . . JAMES LIM is completing his engineering training at the Technological Institute of NorthwestLrn University . .. CHRISTOPHER MARTIN is teaching mathematics at the Woodbury High School, Woodbury, Connecticut ... RICHARD MARTIN is with Eastern Air Lines, ewark, N. J ... RICHARD F. MASTRO­NARD£ is in the School of Social Work of the University of Connecticur. He is doing his field work with the Diocesan Bureau of Social Service, Hartford ... FREDERICK MERTZ married Miss Gwenn Brickett of Hartford on October 25 . .. HARRY MONTGOMERY is with Surro & Sons in San Francisco, and is living with HARRY HUL TINE, '43 ... JOSEPH P. QUINN married Miss Mary Lorraine Sheehan of Hartford on ovember 6 . . . C HARLES E. SAUNDERS is engaged to Miss Elizabeth B. Whiton of Setauket, L. I. He is with the Balmar Cor­poration in Baltimore ... JOSEPH G. WH ELAN has been awarded a University of Rochester fellowship to study for his Ph.D. degree in history at that University. We hear that Joe married Miss Ann«·Downey of Buffalo on December 28 ... KENNETH WYN E, JR., has been appoinred full time executive secretary of Connecticl'lt State Bar Association. His office is in Hartford.

-- 1949 -PHILIP THRESH!£ is with United Fruit Company in

Panama ... WILLIAM M. A. WILSON married Miss Marion Anne Cowan of Hartford on August 28 in the College Chapel with Dr. Adams officiating.

- 1950 -MORTON H. GAVENSKY is engaged to Miss Lorraine

G. Gross of Hartford. He is a student at the University of Michigan . .. JOHN T. STEEL married Miss Patricia Hoyt of Southport, Conn., on November 27. He is asso­ciated with the Steel Cadillac-Oldsmobile Co. in Bridgeport.

Alumni Reunion June 17-19

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7hen, to insure continuer! success of his m(qhf;; p/tl11, he sat down and wrote a gtnerous checK to the Alumni limO- do 4!; sendi'[f inc!!Oil" own contribution,

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