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VALE ALUMNI WEEKLY 347 = YALE ALUMNI NOTES. | Every alumnus is invited to contribute to this column, news concerning himself or concerning any other alumnus. The column is intended to keep Yale men informed about each other. Anyone who contributes to it helps a good Yale object and pleases and interests other Yale men. '33-Frederick E. Mather celebrated his ninetieth birthday, May 23d, at his home in New York. *25—William C. Bissell celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday on June 8 at his home in Humboldt, Neb. ’°36—William D. Ely will celebrate his eighty-fourth birthday on June 16, at his home in Providence, R. I. ’°37-Rey. Elisha W. Cook of Brook- lyn, N. Y., has just completed a new book entitled “The Origin of Sin and Its Relations to God and the Universe.” *42—Dr. Samuel W. Skinner of Toledo, O., has retired from the prac- tice of medicine because of ill health growing out of his four year’s service as Surgeon in the Civil War. He is de- voting himself to practical mathematics and has recently invented a “perpetual calendar’ by which may be ascertained on what day of the week any given date —past, present, or future—will fall. He is now working on a method of computing the date of Easter for an unlimited period in the future or past. ’47—Prof. Henry G. Jesup has re- signed the Professorship of Botany at Dartmouth College owing to ill health, He has been connected with the Col- lege for over twenty-two years. ’49—President Dwight will spend the greater -part of the Summer at his home in Litchfield. *50—Rev. Willis S:. Colton has re- cently retired from the Ministry and is living at 35 13th street, Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Colton was run down by a bicy- clist a short time ago and quite seri- ously injured. ’*50—Rev. Samuel Johnson was elected President of the American Congrega- tional Association, May 29. ’51—J. W. Hendrie has recently given $10,000 to the California Academy of Sciences. He has also made a gift of $1,000 to the Ferguson Library of Greenwich, Conn., within a short time. ’5I—Rev. James G. Vose, D.D., of the Beneficent Congregational Church of Providence, recently returned from Lakewood, N. J., where he has spent the Winter for his health. ’53—Hon. H. C. Robinson delivered an address at the Hartford High School semi-centennial which was held in Hartford, June 9. ’53—Joshua Coit was elected Cor- responding Secretary of the American Congregational Association, May 29. ’53—Charlton T. Lewis has been re- cently elected a Director of the North American Trust Co. ’56—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. French of New Haven, have returned from a trip to Washington, Gettysburg and Norfolk. ’56—Rev. Prof. Levi L. Paine, D.D., Professor of Church History in the Bangor Theological Seminary, spent the past week in New Haven. ’56—General Wager Swayne, LL.D., delivered an address before the Mo- honk Lake Arbitration Conference on June 2. ’56—Chauncey M. Depew sailed for Europe on Wednesday, June 7. *58—F. A. Noble has been elected Vice-President of the International Congregational Council to be held in Boston, Sept. 20. ’50—Rey. William K. Hall delivered the sermon on the cccasion of the 261st anniversary of the Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery Company of Boston on June 5. ’590—Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Twichell will sail for Europe, June 28, to be abroad until the end of September. ’60-—Prof. Eugene L. Richards repre- sented Yale at the meeting of the Grad- uate Committee of Appeal of the I. A. A. held in New York, May 26. ’60—Dr. and Mrs, Francis Delafield will spend part of the Summer at Southampton, L. I. ’6bo—An article on the late O. C. Marsh of Yale University appears in the June number of the American Jour- nal of Science. 61—Samuel Arthur Bent has recently resigned his position as Clerk and Treasurer of the Bostonian Society, Old State House, Boston, to which he was elected in 1890. His address will be Brookline, Mass. ’62—P. N. Welch was elected Treas- urer of the Connecticut Law and Or- der League, June 7. ’62—Rev. James B. Chase has ac- cepted a call to the pastorate of the Congregational Churches at Hull and Perkins, Ia., in connection with the principalship of the Hull Educational Institute. ’63—Walter Allen has an article en- titled ‘New Haven” in the current number of the New England Magazine. ’66—Mr. and Mrs. M. Dwight Collier sailed for Europe, June I. ~ 66 M.S.—Dr. George R. Shepherd of Hartford, Conn., was recently -unani- mously elected President of the Na- tional Association of Medical Directors of Life Insurances Companies. ’68—John H. Wilson was ordained a Deacon of Trinity Church, New York, May 28. *68—The Right Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster was elected President of the Alumni Association of Berkeley Divi- nity School, June 7. ’68—Rev. and Mrs. Donald Mac- Gregor of Troy, N. Y.; sailed .for Glasgow recently on the Steamship Furnessia. ’*68—Wm. M. Slay has been nomi- nated as State’s Attorney by the Demo- cratic party of Kent County, Md. ’68—The marriage of Miss Dickey and Surrogate James M. Varnum will take place in Grace Church, New York City on Wednesday, June 14. Mr. and Mrs. Varnum will spend their honey- moon at Bar Harbor. °69—Prof. Bernadotte Perrin has been appointed a member of the State Com- mission of Sculpture for Connecticut. *69—E. P. Arvine was elected to the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Law and Order League on June 7. He will sail for Rottendam, July 15. ’69—Dr. John P. C. Foster of New Haven will spend the Summer travel- ling through Europe. ’69—Rufus B. Richardson of the American School at Athens is now con- ducting the evacuation going on at Corinth. Some valuable discoveries have been made recently. 69 S.— Albert B. Hill of New Haven, Conn., is at Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. ’70—Charles W. Gould was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Knickerbocker Trust Company on June I. *70—C. E. Perkins presided over the Hartford High School semi-centennial, which was held in Hartford on June 9. "70-—Charles E. Shepard was re- elected Vestryman and Junior Warden of St. Mark’s Parish, Seattle, on May 1. '70—The Hon. Morris B. Beardsley of Bridgeport, Conn., who has been traveling in Europe will return home on June 20. VATS ON aR B. G.I. Golf Goods Highest ... oe Grade. Made under personal Supervision of Write to us, or our agents for complete illustrated catalogue, containing “ Elemen- tary Instruction to Beginners,’ by JOHN * PD. DUNN, and the “Rules of Golf.” THE BRIDGEPORT GUN IMPLEMENT CO. RETAIL BRANCHES, CANADA & ROBERTSON, NEW HAVEN. NEW YORK—313 Broadway. BOSTON—408 Washington Street. PHILADELPHIA—1028 Chestnut Street. SAN FRANCISCO—425-427 Market Street. WASHINGTON—909 Pennsylvania Avenue. John D. Dunn. . ’79—Charles H. Dix is engaged with James Garrett in the stone industry, with office at 3201 Walnut street, Phila- delphia, Pa. ’790—Hon, John H. Perry has been elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Congregational Home Missionary Society to serve until Igor. *72—Rev. E. S. Lines was elected Vice-President of the Alumni Associa- tion of the Berkeley Divinity School, June 7. 73 T.S.—Rev. Henry L. Griffin, Pas- tor of the Hammond Street Congrega- tional Church, Bangor, Me., sailed re- cently for Europe. Most of. his time abroad will be spent in Berlin. "73 S.—Prof. Andrew W. Phillips was one of the committee in charge of the examinations for admission to West Point held in New Haven, June 3. "74—Prof. Henry W. Farnam has been granted a year’s leave of absence and will sail for Europe with his family directly after Commencement. ’74—The marriage of Mrs. James D. VanHoevenberg and Thomas G. Evans took place at New Brighton, L. L., June 2. "74—Henry A. James will spend Com- mencement week in New Haven with Prof. T. S. Woolsey. "74—The marriage of Miss Elma C. Hixson to Dr. Charles W. Benton, Professor of French in the University of Minnesota, took place May 29 in the Grace M. E. Church at Fergus Falls, Minn. The ceremony was followed by a reception at the bride’s home. Prof. and Mrs. Benton left immediately for the East to sail for a four months’ Eu- ropean trip. 74 'T.S.—George E. MacLean, Ph.D., LL.D., of Lincoln, Nebraska, has been elected President of the University of Towa. 75°5.—Mr. and Mrs. Alfred N. Wheeler have taken a cottage at Wood- mont, Conn., for the Summer. ’76—President-elect Arthur T. Had- ley will pass his vacation this Summer at Botsford, Fairfield County, Conn., about twenty miles from New Haven. ’76—In the sketch of President-elect Hadley, by a typographical error his term as Labor Commissioner was made to extend from 1885 to 1880. have been from 1885 to 1887. ’77—Dr. James B. Neal sailed June 9 from San Francisco for Chefoo, China, where he has been engaged in medical missionary work for many years past. He has been in this coun- try the past year. 77—J. G. Pyle is now located at Everett, in the State of Washington, It should and reports good progress toward the’ recovery of his health, which has been much impaired during the past two years. *78—Rev. Douglas P. Birnie has re- ceived a call to the Presbyterian Church of Rye, N. Y. *78—The present address of Tudor Jenks is Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N.¥ *78—Edward B. Whitney will spend the Summer at Wainscot, L. I. "78—The Rev. Douglas Putnam Bir- nie addressed the meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa alumni held at the Savoy Hotel, N. Y., recently. His subject was “The White Man in the Tropics.” *79—Ernest Carter, the Paymaster on the cruiser Yale, sails for Honolulu and Manila, July 27. *80—Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Osborn will spend the Summer at Castleton, Vt. 80 T.S.—Dr. John E. Russell, M.A., Professor at Williams, has been granted a leave of absence for one year on ac- count of poor health. i 80 T.S.—Macmillan Company an- nounce the publication of a book by Prof. William Freemont Blackman on “The Making of Hawaii.” sober and comprehensive discussion of the forces developing the islands. ’°81—Prof. George Woolsey is one of the editors of a new edition of Gray’s Anatomy. ’°82—Prof. Frank F. Abbott of the University of Chicago has been as- signed to the American School at Athens for the year 1901 to 1902. 82 S.—William H. Crocker of San Francisco sailed for Europe on the Kaiser Frederich, May 23. °83—The marriage of Miss Margaret Grosbeck Burnet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs Staats Burnet, to Dudley Phelps took place on Thursday, June-r, $1638 at the Mount Auburn Presbyteri Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. oes '83—Professor E. I. Bosworth = conduct the class in “Studies ‘athe ea and Epistles’ at the Northfield Sty- dents’ Conference this Summer. °84—Prof. Gustav Gruener will spend the Summer traveling in Russia and Germany. 9 84—Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund P. Cottle of the 2o1st New York Regi- ment, upon retiring from the position of Provost Marshal, was presented with a handsome sword by the citizens of Greenville, S. C. ’°84—Prof. George W. Patterson, Jr., Professor of Chemistry and Electrical Science at the University of Michigan, who has been pursuing a year’s course of study abroad, will return to this country the latter part of July, and as- sume an advanced position. ’84—Dr. G. Hudson Makuen has re- cently been elected President of the American Academy of Medicine. ’84—Frank Strong has resigned his position on the New Haven Board of Education. The resignation will take effect at the close of the present school year. °84—Rev. Prof. Reinert A. Jernberg of the Dano-Norwegian department in the Chicago Theological Seminary left Chicago, May 22, for a Summer in Eu- rope. He will visit Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Norway. ’85—The marriage of Miss Mary Ap- pleton Ripley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Ripley, to Frank R. Shipman, will take place Thursday, June 15, at 4.30 P. M. at South Church, Andover, Mass. A wedding reception will be held immediately after the ceremony at 48 Central street. . *85—“The Development of the Eng- lish Novel,” by Wilbur L. Cross, As- sistant Professor of English in the Shef- field Scientific School, will be published — shortly by the Macmillan Company. ’85—Dr. William M. Carhart has been elected Secretary of the Board of Direc- tors of the Peekskill Training School for Nurses. 85 M.S.—Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Vishno will occupy a cottage near the Ansantawae, Savin Rock, Conn., during the whole of the Summer. ’°86—Dr. L. B. Bishop left New Ha- ven, May 24, for an extended trip in Alaska. ’°86—The marriage of Miss Ida Catherine Lilly to Lawrence William Churchill took place Wednesday, June 7, in New York. °86 T.S.—F..C. Porter will speak on “Messages of the Old Testament for To-day” at the International Congrega- tional Council to be held in Boston, Sept. 20. ’°87—Rev. Charles O. Scoville will spend the Summer in the northern woods of New England, as is his cus- tom. ’°87—Dr. Charles A. Knight has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Peekskill Training School for Nurses. 87 L.S.—Benjamin F. James has re- cently moved from Bowling Green to Toledo, Ohio. His present address is 524 The Spitzer, Toledo, Ohio. He is attorney for the Standard Oil interests in Northwestern Ohio. ’88--The marriage of Miss Louise Gregg of Philadelphia to Dr. Alfred Hand, Jr., took place Tuesday, June 6, at St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia. "e8-Dr: “B. A. Cheney and Ws G. Bushnell of New Haven and Henry L. THEODORE B. 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