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YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY YALE ALUMNI NOTES. *49—Ex-President Timothy Dwight made the prayer and Henry B. Wright, ’98, delivered an address at Yale Hall, Sunday evening, May 6. ’53—F. Wayland Fellowes has been elected Vestryman of St. John’s Episco- pal Church, New Haven. ’53--The Rev. Kinsley Twining spoke at the alumni dinner of the Divinity School at New Haven, May 16. visit to California, is enjoying a month’s fishing in the Adirondacks. He will be at the Class reunion in June. ‘oo—At the present time, for the re- union of the Class of Sixty, thirty-four have written about attendance upon this reunion; twenty-two have promised to be present, six are in doubt, seven can- not come; twenty-three have not yet been heard from. °63—Professor William G. Sumner ef the University delivered an address on “Trusts and Tariffs’ at the annual banquet of the New England Free Trade League in Boston, May 4. °65—The Rev. Henry A. Stimson of New York City has just been appointed Southworth Lecturer at the Andover Theological Seminary for next year. He will deliver a course of six lectures during the Winter on “The Church of To-Day.” 68—Dr. William T. Bacon, the new President of the Hartford County Medi- cal Society, and Mrs. Bacon sailed for Europe April 27, to be absent until July. ‘71—Charles Hopkins Clark of Hart- ford, Conn., returned home May 4, af- ter a trip through the South and West. ‘71—The Rev. and Mrs. Nathan H. Whittlesey have returned to their home in New Haven, after an absence of six months, spent in traveling on account of Dr. Whittlesey’s health. 72—Rev. Charles O. Day, of Ger- mantown, N. Y., Secretary of the Edu- cation Society, is in Utah and New Mexico, in the interests of the Society. He will return about the 12th of May. 73 1.S.—Rev. E. P. Salmon, Beloit, Wis., will open his Summer resort, “The Old Mission,” Madeline Island, Lake Superior, July 15. “The: Old Mission” is a favorite resort for Wis- consin Congregational ministers and educators. '74—Charles F. Joy, Congressman from the Eleventh District of Missouri, Was tenominated by the Republican Convention held May 5. '74—Professor Edward L. Curtis of the Yale Divinity School will sail for Europe June 16, with his family. They will spend the Summer there. "75 T.S.—The Beloit Convention of Congregational ministers and churches will hold its fifty-ninth annual meeting with the Congregational church in Dela- van, Wis., of which Rev. S. P. Wilder is pastor, May 15 and 16. "76 T.S.—Rev. William T. Hutchins will give up his pastorate of the First Congregational Church, in Indian Or- chard, Mass., August 1. "76 T.S.—The Rev. Charles H. Oli- phant, D.D., will preach the Bacculaure- ate Sermon to the graduating class at Phillips Andover Academy, June 27. ‘77 S.—Professor James H. Brewster will have charge of the courses in law at the Summier session of the University of Michigan, which begins June 2s. 77 L.S.—Carlton F, Drake, after spending several weeks at the Marlin Hot Springs, where he has been under tieatment for rheumatism, has returned to his home at Austin, Texas, much im- preved, though he has not entirely re- covered. ‘78—The Rey. Charles F. Carter has an article in the Congregationalist for May 3, on “The Congress of Religions.” _79—-Mr. Frederick W. Williams of the Yale Faculty will sail for Europe June 9, where he will spend the Sum- mer. 80 T.S.—Rev. W. W. Leete spoke at the dinner of the Divinity School Alumni at New Haven, Wednesday, May 16. 81—Rey. Edwin E. Aiken, Mission- ary at Tientsin, China, spoke at the Alumni dinner of the Divinity School at New Haven, May 16. ’81— Professor Benjamin W. Bacon, of the University, is at Lookout Moun- tain, Tenn., for his health, which has Filley, been greatly improved. He will return to New Haven about the first of June and will go to his new home on Edwards Street, which has just been completed. e will resume his classes in the Di- vinity School next Fall. ’83—Edward N. Dingley is a delegate from Michigan to the Republican Na- tional Convention at Philadelphia. 84 T.S.—At the session of the Ameri: can Social Science Association in Wash- ington, May 9, Professor E. Hershey - Sneath, of the University, delivered -an ’60—H. L. Johnson, after a six weeks’ _ 5 - Kducation.” ’85—Proftssor Wilbur L. Cross has been conducting the courses in Eng- ‘lish, of Professor Lounsbury, at the address on “The Aesthetic Factor in Sheffield Scientific School, during the _latter’s recent illness. ’85—-Frank B. Brandegee was elected an alternate from the Third District of Connecticut to the National Republican - Convention. His speech, arguing for the acceptance by the State Convention, for the minority report of the Commit- _tee on Credentials, in disputed election cases, has been called the feature of the - convention. ’87—W. R. H. Trowbridge, Jr., has resigned his position in the West In- dian branch of the Colonial Bank and removed to London, England, where he is engaged in the publication of a new book. He is also a regular contributor to several of the London weeklies. ’87—-George E. Hill, Secretary of the Class of Eighty-Seven, reports that S. FE. Cobb, O. G. Jennings, W. L. Phelps and J. R. Sheffield, have been appointed as the Quindecennial Committee, and that Lenox Hall has been engaged for the meeting place of the reunion. Mr. Hill also reports on the progress of the Bennetto Fund, which, at the date of April 15, amounted to $3,050. 88 S.—Charles E. Curtis and Philip P. Wells, ’89, sailed Thursday, May 10, on the Hamburg American Line, for a RE bicycling in England and Scot- and. *89—Herbert A. Smith, who has been studying the past Winter at the Sar- bonne, is now traveling in Italy and will return to America during the first week in July. ’°890—Robert L. Luce, ’89; Seward Davis, ’91, and Francis H. Griffin, 92, formed a partnership May 1, for the practice of law at 7 Wall St., New York City, under the firm name of Luca, Davis & Griffin. ’89--Rev. E. L. Parsons, who has been rector of Trinity Church, Menlo Park, California, has become rector of oh Matthew’s Church at San Mateo, (al, *91—Samuel C. Shaw, ’o1, and Ed- ward K. Nicholson, ’96, have formed a partnership for the practice of law at Bridgeport, Conn., under the firm name of Shaw & Nicholson, May 11, 1900. ’°92—Charles L. Wooding has just re- signed his position as Librarian of the Public Library at Bristol, Corin. ’°92—George R. Montgomery delivered an address at the commencement exer- cises of the Yale Divinity Schocl, May 16, on “Schools and Prophecy.” 92 S.—The marriage of Miss Mabel daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Filley of St. Louis, Mo., to Edward H. Simmons took place April 30) at: 7 P. MW. D. Simmons; ’9o, was best man and among the ushers were Albert DeW. Erskine, ’94S., and George W. Simmons, 1900. ’°93—Geo. B. Spalding, Jr., was ap- proved in examination and licensed to preach by the Syracuse Presbytery, May 7. ’93 T.S.—Dr. W. J. Moulton of the Yale Faculty contributed the article on “The Passover” to Vol. III of “Hast- ing’s Dictionary of the Bible,’ which will appear in July. *94—Miss Jeanette Searle, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Searle, and Charles Henry Hall were married at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, May 9. Rev. G. W. Smith, President of Trinity College, and Rev. Dr. McConnell, Rec- tor of the church, officiated. F. S. Burwell, ’904, was best man, and Miss Caroline F. Searle was maid of honor. ’94 S.—The engagement has been an- nounced of Miss Grace Salstonstall Lee, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Northam Lee, of 114 West 78th St., New York City, to Frederick Allen Johnson. ’96—F rederick Coonley has received an appointment as Interne in the King’s County Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y. *96—George L. Buist has accepted the position of Interne in the Brooklyn City Hospital. ’96—-The. marriage of Miss Edith Burr, daughter of Dr. Charles Ray Pal-— mer, °55, to Arthur Ellsworth Foote, took place at the United Church, New Haven, Saturday, May 5. The Rev. Theodore T. Munger, 751, performed the ceremomy and Assistant Professor Harry B. Jepson, ’93, was at the organ. John Sargent, ’94S., was the best man and the ushers were: Harry J. Fisher, 96; Walter S. Hoyt, ’96; George H. Nettleton, 96; Thomas B. Wells, ’96, and Henry L. Foote, ex-1902. ‘97-—W. S. K. Wetmore, who has spent some months in Panama, United States of Columbia, has just returned to Washington. ’97—William D. Beach delivered an address at the commencement exer- cises of the Divinity School, May 16, on “The Element of Vitality in Preach- ing.” ’°97—The marriage of Miss Messenger Merriman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Friend E. Merriman, of Dunmore, Pa., and Mr. Francis Martin Lynch, took place at St. Peter’s Cathedral, Scran- ton, Pa., April 25. The best man was EOL.’ Smith, ’97.°°T.° Mz" Contior® 97: B. J. Lynch, and L. A. Lynch, ’99, were the ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Lynch will live at 637 Quincy Avenue, Scranton, P 2. 97 T.S.—A son was born to Rev. and Mrs. B. M. Wright of Orange, Conn., Sunday, May 6. 97 T.S.—Rev. Wallace M. Short is the pastor of the Congregational Church in Evansville, Wis. This is his first and only pastorate. He has read several able papers before ministerial gatherings in the past three years. 798 M.S.—Dr. Harry G. Watson re- moved May 1, to his new offices at 39 Seventh St., between Second and Third Avenues, New York City. ’99—Frederick. Webster is studying law in an office in Galveston, Tex. ’99-—-The correct address of Thomas ©. Maffitt is 3501 Washington Ave., St.. Louis, Mo. 99 T.S.— The engagement is an- nounced of Miss Florence M. Coleman of Denver, Col., and Rev. Ernest E. Day, pastor of Open Door Congrega- tional Church, Minneapolis, Minn. Ex~-’99 S.—Miss Harriet Worcester Kittredge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Henry Kittredge of Oakland, California, was married to Frank Fow- ler Baldwin, April 26, at Oakland, Cal. _ Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin are now in New. York at the Holland House, where they will remain for two weeks. eee YALE NOTICES, ~ [Class and Association Secretaries are invited to contribute to this column.] Ninety-Four S. Sexennial. Preparations for’ the celebration of Ninety-Four Sheff. Sexennial are nearly completed and the committee reports that a large number of the Class will return. Some new features have been added since Triennial, to make the af- fair enjoyable. ee , The Second Connecticut Regiment band, augmented by the Regimental Drum and Bugle Corps, will furnish music at the Field, where the Class will attend the Harvard game in a body, and also during the banquet, which will be held in Warner Hall. As this band enjoys the reputation of being the finest in the State, further comment is un- necessary. Photos of the Class in re- union dress will be taken at the Field by Phelps. The business meeting will be held in North Sheffield Hall at to A. M., June 26, when the matter of at- tending the Bi-Centennial as a Class will be discussed. The Committee is unable to locate the following men and will be greatly obliged to anyone furnishing addresses: Leverett S. Baldwin. Chas. S. Benson. John M. Boden. Edwin H. Dennison. Harold S. Johnson. H. Lee Joyce. Joseph Lentilhon. Marshall G. Linn. Geo. B. Seeley. Lewis B. Wilson. Winslow Mallery. Wm. DeWitt Mitchell. Fred. W. Varker. John Graham Wickham. Harry Worthen. James Miller. Fred L. Olmstead. Fred B. Mechling. A list of the men who will attend will be published later. Henry BREWER. JOHN SARGENT. H. PP Hore Kiss. Committee, Box 61, New Haven. a eS At a meeting of the University hockey team held April 23, Alfred Conkling Coxe, Jjr., 1901 of ‘Utica, Ne Yi wae elected captain for 1900-1901. Caps and watch charms were given to the men who played in the intercollegiate games. 28 CA ea a ddd we iat REASONABLE PRICE. FINE FINISH. LIGHT WEIGHT. WELL MADE. oS FUDEBAKER. BROADWAY, COR. PRINCE ST., N. Y. WM. R. INNIS, MANAGER. Carriage Builders LARGE VARIETY. CORRECT APPOINTMENTS. UNEXCELI ED WORKMANSHIP. PRINCIPAL EVENTS AT Brantford Driving Park, BRANFORD, CONN. Decoration Day. 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