MICHIGAN STATE COUEQC 9f AGRI.AND APP. SCIENCE W *»'• '••*Kaj£ c &%*«. ">H -..T^Swftv.,,^... ,,.«**$» Michigan Agricultural College Association Publishers a East Lansing Vol. XXIX No. 15 Jan. 21, 1924 II The M. A. C. RECORD Established 1896 Published for the alumni and former students of the Michigan Agricultural College by the M. A. C. Association. Published weekly during the college year and monthly during July, August and Septem ber ; thirty-five issues annually. Membership in the M. A. C. association, including subscription to T HE RECORD, $2.50 per year. Unless members request a discontinuance before the expiration of their memberships it will be assumed a renewal is desired. Checks, drafts and money orders should be made payable to the M. A. C. Association. Entered as second class matter at the post officec at East Lansing, Mich. R O B E RT J. M c C A R T H Y, '14, editor THE M. A. C. ASSOCIATION 3 Faculty Row, East Lansing, Mich. OFFICERS—1923-'24 '00, Pres. '93, Vice-Pres. E. W. Ranney, A. B. Cook, F. F. Rogers, 83, Treas. R. J. McCarthy, 14, Secy. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Elected at large Henry T. Ross, '04. Mrs. Grace Lundy Drolett, Horace Hunt, '05. '00. BRANCH ASSOCIATIONS In Michigan unless otherwise noted. BARRY COUNTY MINNEAPOLIS BERRIEN COUNTY NEW YORK CITY BAY CITY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CALHOUN COUNTY NORTHERN OHIO CENTRAL MICHIGAN NORTHWEST MICHIGAN CHICAGO CLINTON COUNTY DETROIT CLUB FLINT GRAND RAPIDS HURON COUNTY IONIA COUNTY JACKSON COUNTY LENAWEE COUNTY LIVINGSTON COUNTY MACOMB COUNTY MILWAUKEE, WIS. OTTAWA COUNTY OWOSSO PORTLAND, ORE. SAGINAW ST. JOSEPH COUNTY SEATTLE, WASH. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SOUTH HAVEN UPPER PENINSULA WASHINGTON, D. C. WASHTENAW WESTERN NEW YORK WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA Vi THE M. A. C. RECORD VOL. X X I X. No. 15 E A ST LANSING, M I C H I G AN J AN 21, 1924 HALF-WAY TREE CUT DOWN Landmark at Lansing City Limits Known to All Older Alumni, Dead for Some Time. When workmen cut down the tree grow ing through the split rock at the Lansing city limits, they removed a landmark which has been familiar to M. A. C. students over a long period of years. The tree had been dead for some time. Encroachment of pavements and heavy traffic close to its roots had aided in its extinction. Several years ago Dr. Beal, during a trip to the the "college at commencement, predicted early death of the tree. It was then ap parently vigorous but shortly afterward it failed to put forth its leaves. It was left standing for two years after every branch was dead. The lifetime of this cherry tree parallels the first six decades of the history of the college. It was probably started but not very well developed as a seedling when the college was founded. As the half-way point on the trip to Lansing from the college, the cleft stone, was a resting place for stu dents making the trip on foot before the days of trolley cars and it has a prominent place in the memories which most alumni connect with their college days. A cherry pit had lodged in a small crack in the rock, it had germinated in wind blown particles which also found lodgement and, growing had, with the help of moisture and frost, expanded the crack until the stone was en tirely divided. It probably ran a close second to College hall as a landmark to the older alumni; those of later generations have noted it because of the unusual circumstances sur rounding its growth but new methods of transportation have long ago taken from it the distinction of being a resting place for travelers from the college to Lansing. At the fortieth anniversary of the class of '62, Francis Hodgman, since deceased, read verses on the anniversary which in cluded the following: When half the toilsome way was passed, we rested by the stone Within whose cleft a cherry pit had taken root and grown; The cleft was not so very wide; just half an inch or so; The little tree scarce touched its side some forty years ago. Forty years ago; forty years ago; The cleft has spread; the tree has grown since forty years ago. THE PINETUM A tribute to Dr. Beal by B. O. Long- year, '03. (Longyear was connected with the college and experiment station staffs 1894-04. He is now on the forestry fac ulty of the Colorado Agricultural college.) No warlike statue lifted high No arch imposing stands; No bronze engraved to signify Some bloody conquest of your hands, But whispering pines their canopy Spread near a quiet stream, Your love of life and peace denote, A monument supreme. (The verse was inscribed folder which included a photograph of the author taken in the Pinetum.) in a Page Four The M. A. C. Record Detroiters' Doings J. \Y. Wagner, '20, has exchanged sell ing club ideas to the children of Wayne county for selling real estate for the H a n- nan Realty company in and around Dear born. He still lives on Adeline street in Dearborn. Kstber Allen, '19, came to the Ford hos pital as a chemist shortly before Christmas. She is living on West Grand boulveard. Before coming to Detroit she was in a hos pital in Washington, D. C. landscape architect for T. Glenn Phillips, '02, besides being the official the M. A. C. campus, is engaged in a number of city planning projects, one of which the Royal Oak district north of Detroit. is Ray Turner, '09, state leader of boys' and girls' clubs, was a guest at one of the recent M. A. C. luncheons the Log Cabin Chop House on John R. street. Ray addressed students in some of the schools of the city while here. at Alvan E. Downer, '19, still teaches shop work in Cass Tech high school. He now reports that he is living at 7333 Pilgrim, where he has become converted the to " O wn Your Own H o m e" movement. Dale T. Musselman, '21, is now an in structor school in the Hamtramck high teaching science. ! Mrs. Musselman also teaches, her work being in cooking at the night school. Listed among the Detroit pedagogues is Louise Landstrom, in the schools and living at 478 Prentis ave nue. '19, now teaching A disciple of principles learned at M. A. teaching C. is Ona Bishop, 20, who home economics at the Garfield school. is Anna Carson, '17, and L a u ra Crissman, '21, are proving that the dairy industry is not for men alone. Both are with the De troit Creamery, Miss Carson in the labora tory and Miss Crissman as bacteriologist at the Towar branch. Clara Morley, '05, is now doing publicity work with the Polk Advertising agency. H er work is to explain the uses of the city to directory, published by the company, and organizations. various civic groups Previously she was publicity director for corporation, the Detroit Motion Picture in and which was "shooting" a picture around Detroit. The picture is now com pleted and soon will be released under the name of " M a r y ." D. W. Kent, '19, has gone south for the winter. He is now in Uncle Sam's army and his the ticket Philippines via Panama. reads New York to Ray Hunter, '18, claims he got the best Christmas present of all, for Santa Claus got there a day early and left him a fine new baby girl, now called Barbara Ann. Ray's address is R. 2, Wyandotte. the testing Hermians in and around Detroit staged a regular holiday get-together and skating ice party January 2. After around Palmer park the crowd retired to the home of Gilbert Clegg, '17, for a pleas ant time around fireplace. M. A. C. folks who attended were R. E. Trippensee, '20, M. B. Wolford, '20, Gilbert Clegg, T7, T. R. Miller, '23, T. S. Blair, '21, Marion Clegg, '26, C. E. Johnson, '23. the Louis Schwartz, '23, is now selling type writer supplies for the Typon company of Chicago, having as his territory Detfoit and the neighboring towns. " P e t e" R. Taylor, '15, paid Detroit the friends a visit on his way home from International live stock exposition where he had also attended the annual conference of the National Association of Marketing Officials. the Pennsylvania state bureau of markets and at the reporting. committee on market Signal honors were paid him in his election as president for the coming year. the conference was is now head in charge of Taylor of federal bureau of Roy C Potts, '06, now in charge of the division of dairy and poultry products of the eco nomics also had a place on the program. He was demonstrating na tional egg grades as advocated by the U. S. department of agriculture. the proposed agricultural The M. A. C. Record Page Five NEW MEMBER TAKES STATE BOARD POST Jason Woodman, '81, completed his term as a member of the state board of agriculture on January I, and was suc ceeded by Herbert W. Gowdy of Union Pier, Berrien county. Mr. Woodman was one of the pioneer county agricultural agents, serving in Kalamazoo county for several years. He had for a long time conducted a farm near Paw Paw and was active in the agricultural organizations of the the state. His efforts standards of potato growing have met with outstanding success. He declined to be a candidate for reelection and Mr. Gowdy was chosen in his place. improve to The new member of the State Board was born in Union Pier, educated in the public schools of that place and Chicago and took up fruit raising near his home in 1902. He wras a member of the legis lature from Berrien county in the sessions of 1919 and 1921. He met with the board at its first meeting of the new year on January 16, displaying an active interest in the affairs of the college. ALUMNUS WAS HIGH IN GRAIN EXHIBIT A. W. Jewett, jr., '19, Mason, was one of the best rewarded exhibitors at the In ternational hay and grain show in Chi cago. Jewett took for the second year in succession, a feat not before, accomplished in the history of the exhibition, the first prize for the best bale of hay exhibited. He was also awarded first honors on his ten-ear exhibit of yellow dent corn over the products of some of the largest corn growing states. In addition to the above he took first in soft red winter wheat, first in white win ter wheat, fourth in rye, first in field beans, fifth in soy beans, sixth in six-rowed bar ley, fifth in single ear corn, second in flint corn, third in clover hay, and eighth in al attention intensive falfa. Since his discharge from the army to Jewett has given farming, specializing in the raising of im proved seed. The interest caused by his ex ploits has put Ingham county high in the number of awards given any similar terri torial unit at the exposition. UNDESIRABLE TREES TAKEN FROM CAMPUS Very noticeable changes were effected in the appearance of the campus during the holidays when a crew of students, under the direction of T. G. Phillips, '02, land scape architect for the college, removed a large number of trees. Their activities were not confined entirely to the smaller ones but large specimens which had out grown their usefulness or which were lo cated badly in respect to buildings, were cut down in several different parts of the grounds. At the rear of the Woman's building big willows, badly infested with a variety of scale, were cut down, at the east end of the old post office building conifers and hardwoods which were so close to gether that none could grow satisfactorily,1 and along the edges of the Arboretum and the college picnic grounds forest weeds and dying or dead treese were destroyed with a marked effect on the surrounding landscape. By clearing out timber east of the Home Economics building the passer by is given a small view of the new library and the approach to the new build ing is gheatly improved. Other places were treated similarly with equally good re sults. For a time the spaces opened will appear bare but as the other trees have those a chance to develop the places of cut down will be filled rapidly and to much better advantage. the H. S. Reed, '06, is author of "The Manu facture of Picric Acid," published in the January number of Industrial and Engi neering Chemistry. Reed is in charge of industrial chemistry courses at the college. Page Six The M, A. C. Record [IJI VIEWS AND COMMENT m has spots but lost. Uncompromosing There are hundreds of pictures of vari Impressive land ous parts of the campus. scapes, bits of views artistic and interesting. The camera in the hands of the novice or recorded professional un-numbered beauty there are many more which it has missed and many of these are fea irrevocably the tures such as the bare foundations of Union Memorial building add nothing to is unsightly landscape. the ordinary with lumber, gaunt concrete mixers and heaps of building ma terials but once transferred to canvas with the atmospheric conditions prevailing at one time during the holidays it would have been the pride of a master. its cluttered piles of It they comprise Perhaps the absence of student activities, the unusual quiet pervading the place had something to do with the effect produced, perhaps the vantage point from which it was seen, a room decorated with the trap pings of Yuletide, enhanced the picture. But these elements enter into the composi tion of any picture, the "feeling" affecting its execution. Although only mid day, storm clouds had brought the lightly falling snow effect of early dusk, put a grey shroud over the scene, the back There ground was dim and uncertain. in the was a temporary contractors' office foreground its usual ac companiment of impedimenta but in none of they were rather those of an etching, indicated only. Trees were dim shadows, figures of workmen blotches against the horizon, piles of material and equipment but mounds of gray covered by the thin mantle of snow, lightly but effectively. T he commonplace was made beautiful by the storm. lines obtrusive, surrounded by them were the Just as there are hundreds of pictures of the campus and probably dozens of the Union Memorial building site so there are hundreds of conceptions of what the struc its ture will be when ready to carry out functions. Some of them are as uncertain the picture, the details of those as were insight which are the product of a lack of into the proposition or those biased by a lack of sympathy with the project show only the rough spots, but those who know what the Union Memorial building means to the college and its former students are privileged to view it from a point which brings to light the plan itself. The spirit responsible for the Union Memorial build ing will surround it with an aura, clothing it in the it was created, that of a tangible expression of a desire to serve in memory of those who served so well. ideal for which spring. instances W h at amounts to a contribution of large size to the Union Memorial building fund is being added to the available cash through the possibility of purchasing materials for the structure at a much lower price now than would be possible after active con struction work starts in the In the discounts allowed on many orders mean practically the addition of several life memberships in the M. A. C. in cash. T he Union, and they are given fur use of good judgment will result in ther savings but the value of proper judg ment will be nullified so far as savings are concerned if the money is not on hand to take advantage of the opportunities offered when cash is paid. There are two avenues through which alumni can aid the building they contribute, project above one is early payment of pledges and the the building other committee is enabled to get the best price on the material it purchases. There are already several instances of the latter sort to the credit of the those project, there are some of the former but the proportion of those who have complet ed their payments is still small. Conditions in connection with the building operations add further strength to the axiom that "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," is through seeing that the sums interested in Zw The M. A. C. Record Page Seven "Close Beside The Winding Cedar" The Coffer-Miller presented players the gym "Androcles and The Lion" at nasium on January 8 as a number on the liberal arts course. Mabel Rogers, '10, has been appointed critic teacher in the department of educa tion, replacing Mrs. F. E. Fogle, '12, who resigned at the end of the fall term. Among the alumni listed as speakers at the general meetings during Farmers' week are H. R. Smith, livestock commissioners, J. W. Nicolson, '15, State Farm Bureau, G. V. Branch, '12, director of municipal markets, Detroit. '95, national H. T. Darlington, who was on leave of absence from the faculty during the fall term, received a Ph. D. degree at the Uni versity of Chicago in December and has returned to his work in the botany depart ment. Checks for the Union Memorial building fund should be made out to the fund. Mail should be addressed similarly or to the M. A. C. Association. The officers of the M. A. C. Association are in charge of the fund. Frank F. Rogers, '83, state highway commissioner, is treasurer of all funds in the care of the Association. Students whose cash surplus is small can buy their 1924 Wolverines on the install ment plan, paying a small sum each week or month according to a recent announce ment by the publishing board. Diplomas, at the same price, must be paid for in one installment or the graduate is without this recognition, of his efforts. W. A. Taylor, '88, chief of the bureau of plant industry of the U. S. department of agriculture, was the guest of honor at the meeting of the International Associa tion of Agricultural Missions held recent ly in New York. He explained to the asso ciation the aid the department could give in training agricultural missionaries. Professor and Mrs. E. H. Ryder and Miss Yakeley have returned to East Lan sing. They were several days late in ar riving because of an accident which befell the Leviathan upon which they had planned to sail from England and were further de layed by a storm which they encountered on the Atlantic. A further account of their trip will be printed in a future issue of T HE RECORD. T. E. Frank, '24, Detroit, president of his class in its junior year, president of the student council, colonel of the cadet corps and leader in student affairs, was voted the best representative of M. A. C. in the contest sponsored by the Wolverine board. D. E. Clark, '24, president of the Union and member of the student council, was chosen second on the list of sixteen who were selected from among the men and co-eds by the members of the three upper classes. Both are honor students in forestry. From 10 to 11 o'clock each Wednesday morning this term is given over to an all college convocation for which suitable pro grams are arranged. C. E. Holmes, '93, superintendent at the state school for the blind, was the principal the first meeting of the term. Affairs of gen eral interest to the students are discussed at these meetings. speaker at In the Chicago Tribune for December 16 appeared a picture of Jack Knight, '15, showing the radio apparatus with which he is equipped when making flights for the air mail service. Recent newspapers told of Knight's use of his equipment to sum mon help when he had trouble with his plane and of the progress he was making toward establishing a method through which planes could at all times keep in communication with land stations by wire less telephone. He had been successful up to sixty miles. Page Eight The M. A. C. Record TEAM SHOWS WELL AGAINST MICHIGAN Four-Point Margin in First Game—Wrestlers and Szvimmers Lost Contests. . in the game threatened Michigan's basketball team celebrated the opening of Yost Field house as the scene of court encounters by defeating the M. A. C. five 23 to 19. The margin of victory amassed by the Wolverines was small and to be it early smaller. At the close of the first half the teams were tied at 13 each and for part of the first period Captain Eva's men led 13 to 9. Michigan started the final period the Green by counting six points before and White began to get its bearings, M. A. C. followed suit and it was only during the last part of the game that the Ann Arbor team was able to add the four points which meant victory. This was the first game either team had played on the new floor. Coach Walker took his squad to Ann Arbor a day ahead of the game in order that the men might have an opportunity to practice under the unusual conditions presented there and his proteges played practically as good a game as did their opponents;, failure to count on re the foul shots from sponsible the the scores marked up. line was final difference largely in for (23) It was a much better showing than M. A. C. made in its first Michigan game in 1923 and appears to forecast a close game when the two teams meet in East Lansing on February 6. Michigan Cherry Haggerty Rir-ks Deng Kipke M. A. C. (19) Nutilla L F. Richards RF. Kitto C Eva LG Hultman ..RG vScuring:- Field goals—Haggerty 4, Deng 2, Kipke 2, Nutilla 3, Kitto 1, Hultman 1. Foul goals—Haggerty 1, Cherry 2, Kipke 1, Deng 3, (sub Nutilla 2, Hultman 3, Richards 1, Mason 2. for Kitto) 1, Ralston Referee—Young, Illinois Wesleyan. Umpire— Ritter, Purdue. for Richards) (sub Director Young has started work on the the it into shape for track squad to get the winter season. indoor competition of the men busy with He has kept most of conditioning exercises but the meet sched uled for January 19 between the Freshmen and Sophomores was designed to indicate the quality of material upon which he could depend to fill the vacancies caused by graduation last June. Men expected to take part in the meets this year a r e: Herdell, Shannon, Zimmer man, dashes; Temple, VanNoppen, Kurtz, Preston, hurdles; .Burris, Goode, Sands, 440; Baguley, Hartsuch, Willard, Ripper, Harper, Green, Banks, Clark, half mile, mile and two mile; Minar, Lovejoy, W a r ner, pole vault; Kurtz, Preston, high j u m p; Surato, Teufer, Haskins, Trimble, Deter- this squad man, shot put. as established have good competitors in college circles. Among the freshmen Grimm and Alderman have had the most outstanding success. Both are sprinters. Several from themselves already in the first took second Indiana university's swimming team had but little trouble disposing of the M. A. C. tankmen on January 12. T he Hoosiers left East Lansing with a 50 to 18 victory. Richmond, elected captain of team when Kiefaber failed to return to college, the diving competition and • took also led the field in the 60-yard backstroke. Briggs race in and third in the 50-yard. Rosson was third in the 220 and the 60-yard backstroke. Eck- erman and Kennon placed third respective ly in the 60-yard breast stroke and plunge for distance. the 120-yard took the same time the M. A. C. relay. At wrestlers lost to Indiana at Bloomington, 24 to 2, accounting for but one decision. Williamson took the honors in the bantam weight class. the 100-yard Indiana The M. A. C. Record Page Nine CO-EDS LEAVE ABBOT; MAY BE USED BY MEN Removal of many of the co-eds from the campus has again resulted in the desertion of Abbot hall. The "Abbey" was occupied by the men until 1896 and was used by the co-eds when the course in home eco nomics was first instituted but after a short period of supremacy in that portion of the campus they left it to the men. It was again taken over by the girls in the fall of 1920 and, unless there is a great shortage of room for it will again be used by the men. the co-eds another year Opening of Abbot to the men will allow for about seventy-five more students liv ing on the campus, materially increasing the dormitories. the present capacity of When it was taken over by the co-eds decided improvements were effected in the facilities of the hall and should it now be returned to the men they would find it a much more convenient place to live than in former days. LIBRARY MAY HOUSE FARM WEEK EXHIBITS If the exhibits for Farmers' week, Feb ruary 4-8, are housed in the new library as is now anticipated, it will be the first time this feature has been staged anywhere except its closest neighbors. In addition the annual horticultural show will be held in the ar mory, as has been customary some years. the agricultural building or for Annual meetings of nearly thirty farm organizations will be held at the college during the week and the crowd is expected to equal the mark of 5,000 which has been set in the past. A luncheon for alumni at tending the week's program will be held, probably at the People's church, and many events of interest to the agriculturist gen erally are scheduled for the evenings of the week. A special feature which has not been tried heretofore will be competitive live stock judging by practical farmers. Ex hibitions by student teams in this line have been common occurrences but the entry of the agriculturist whose training has not been essentially that of a scientific man will provide a new situation with strong possibilities, for instruction from a stand point which should find favor with the crowd. Most of the speakers on the program the faculty and extension will be from staffs or at least prominent in the farm work of the state. WILL PRODUCE PLAYS IN NEW H. E. BUILDING Provisions have been made on the top floor of the Home Economics building for an auditorium which will accommodate the devotees to dramatic art among the stu dents. The dramatic club has already taken over the place for the presentation of several plays and it plans to continue the program. Interest in dramatics has grown widely during the past few years and the demand for a place to present plays has been increasing. A new organization, the Columbine Players, is also sponsoring af fairs of this sort but, heretofore, has had no place where its efforts could be tried In the new auditorium a on an audience. comparatively small audience may be seat ed but this defect can be overcome by pre senting the plays more than once and the compact size of the hall will not prove such a decided disadvantage. Most colleges are experiencing a revival of interest in the presentation of plays, at many of them this has taken the form of theatre" movement the so-called "little which comprehends the writing and stag ing as well as the acting end of the busi ness. Facilities at M. A. C. have in the past prevented the trying of any experi ments along this line. The college may now witness the efforts of its amateur thespians without disturbing the peace of the armory into a or having the gymnasium turned unsatisfactory temporary and generally theatre, Page Ten The M. A. C. Record Central Michigan in that luncheons for alumni they would gather at Weekly the Central Michigan district were inaugurated at a meeting at the Hotel Kerns on Janu ary 14 and it was decided by those who attended the Elks' home on West Allegan street in the cafeteria for luncheon each Monday noon. Visitors to Lansing and all alumni living in the territory encompassed by the asso ciation are urged the to luncheons. take part in '22, from A. R. Schubert, the Upper Peninsula, attended the first luncheon of the organization. He was reputed to be spending a week at the college taking a course in "pipe thawing." Schubert is in the state dairy department under T. V. Broughton, '15, and is in charge of that work in the Upper Peninsula. Floyd Bueschlen, '23, is an expert wit ness in court cases involving the purity of ice cream. He has appeared in several cases of this sort and has established his reputation as an expert. He is a chemist in the employ of the state. L. P. Dendel, '14, has acquired the initials of P. T. Barnum because of his activities in behalf of the Lansing Lions' club in obtaining a lion for the Potter park zoo. C. H. Hall, '13, visited Lansing last week the Mills on business connected with Mutual fire insurance. He is in charge of the New York office of the organization. Reports from alumni who attended the football banquet on December 15 indicate that several of the high school students who were guests at the affair have declared that they will enter M. A. C. in the fall. "Bob" Edmunds, '23, is connected with the advertising department of the Reo Mo tor Car company. R. E. Doolittle, '96, of Chicago, visited Lansing last week on business in connec tion with his work in the department of agriculture. Paul Yull, '20, has recovered from an attack of typhoid fever contracted through his association with organisms causing that disease in the laboratories of the state board of health. left '20, has "Jimmy" Jameson, the florist business and is resting while con sidering other fields for his endeavors. '13, is manager in Lansing for the consolidated Conners' and Arctic Ice Cream companies. "Bill" MacDonald, It is announced that dues for the Central Michigan M. A. C. association are due and payable. Checks for one dollar should be the F. J. sent to W. N. Cawood, care Blanding Co., Lansing. Glenn Carey, '16, is serving M. A. C. alumni in the capacity of adviser on the proper manner in which to make out in come tax reports, at least he sends them back if they are not correct. Alumni Opinion received by Note—Following is the only letter of its the * Union Memorial kind building fund. It sounds a discordant note in the harmony of alumni sentiment for the project effectively that the argument advanced is not founded upon a thorough study of the plans. It demonstrates Contractors are convinced that the work will be completed, hundreds of alumni have enough faith in their fellow alumni to put their money into the proposition while awaiting the construction of the building, students thought enough of its possibilities to actively aid in the work but the view point of the yachtsman is necessarily veiled by a fog of uncertainty. M. A. C. Association, East Lansing, Mich. Gentlemen: Union Memorial Fund I fear I must point out that you are wasting postage on me in sending bills for my $100 subscription. Please read the conditions on my sub- The M. A. C. Record Page Eleven that scription card and you will note I agree to make the first payment when sat isfied that the venture can be completed. I do not wish to pay in at the beginning, for although anxious to do my part and in full that re sympathy with the idea, I know gardless of the great effort and enthusiasm such a costly structure may prove to be too great a burden for our college crowd and Such fall affairs are sometimes on too expensive a scale to be consummated, where the funds must come from gifts. through when partly finished. Whenever I am convinced that the build ing can be finished, my $100 will be ready, but not before. With all hope that the plans can be com pleted, I am, Very truly, , 1 9 0 2. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 5. 1924. P. S.—I have had a twin-screw yacht built in Maine, and have cruised the At lantic coast from Bar Harbor, Maine, to Jacksonville, Fla., and am sailing soon for Miami for the remainder of the winter. The ship is equipped with every device for safe navigation on the ocean and in coastal waters. It took over a year to build her, and I remained in Maine over a year see ing every timber and every bolt that went into her. T he crew consists of an ex and an perienced captain as navigator, engineer-cook. T he power two heavy-duty marine gas engines—rpm 400 to 600. And there are auxiliary gas en gines for electric lights, etc., and for the twelve-foot tender. We have visited prac tically every port on the Atlantic coast, time in the historic and spending some quaint old colonial city of Charleston, S. S. is from —, ' 0 2. N E C R O L O GY E D M U ND S. H A R R I S O N, '03 E d m u nd S. Harrison, '03, died at Phoe nix, Arizona, November 29, 1923, where he had gone about six weeks previously seeking to regain his health. He was born from at P aw Paw, Michigan, November 30, the P aw 1879. He was graduated P aw high school in 1897 and later com pleted a mechanical engineering course at M . ' A. C. He was married to Edith Irene Rood in 1913 and soon after, on account of ill health, purchased a farm east of P aw Paw, where he made a success of fruit farming. M A R R I A G ES OvERMYER-BuxTON C. J. Overmyer, '18, and Barbara Elizabeth Buxton were married October 24, at Wellesley, Massachusetts. BROWN-STURM Emerson C. Brown, '22, and Dorothy Sturm in Toledo, Obio, December 22,. were married They are at home at 504 Purdy street, Birming ham, Michigan. ALDRICH-PETRIE is made of Announcement Peter Aldrich and Helen Pe*rie, Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich Mr. Aldrich conducts a real estate business. '16,-in reside the marriage of January. in Detroit wbere CALDWELL-WARD Mitt M. Caldwell, East Jordan were married 29. They will reside at 213 E. Hillsdale Lansing. '21, and Wilma AVard of in Lansing December street, BARKLEY-DUTT Brock Barkley and Maurine Dutt, in Lansing December married make their home in Raleigh, North Carolina. '22, were They will 29. BULLEN-FORBES Lee Bullen, '23, and Genevieve Forbes of Lan liv is em Construction sing were married December 19. They are ing in Champaign, ployed by the Bates and Rogers company. Illinois, where Bullen GUEST-KLASELL '17, were Percy Guest and Frances Klasell, married September 17 at the home of Edgar Guest in Detroit. L. L. and Dorothy Frimodig, '17, and Grace Anderson Brownrigg, '18, were guests. Mr. and Mrs. Guest live in Detroit at 11482 Wisconsin avenue. HATCH-GASTON Charles H. Hatch, '15, and Anne Baylis Gas ton of Philadelphia were married June 16. Hatch is in charge of industrial economics at the Nairn Linoleum company at Kearney, New Jersey, and lives street, Apart ment 33. in Newark at 30 Kearney Page Tzvelve The M. A. C. Record BILUNGS-ATWOOD Roger W. Billings, '22, and Nola Atwood were married in Spokane, Washington, December 8. Billings is in the forest service at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. GREENWOOD-SWANSON Emmet H. Greenwood, '23, and Edith Louise Swanson were married June 20. They are liv ing in Harvey, Illinois, at 15732 Turlington ave- nut. Greenwood the Bates & Rogers Construction company in Chicago. is with ROOT-PIERCE Howard J. Root, '23, and Eugenia Pierce were married November 2, 1923. They reside at 205 Washington Apts., Lansing, and Root is con nected with the State Highway department. POOLE-WARD T. B. Poole, were married in August, 1922. Deckerville, Michigan, where Poole riculture. '22, and Blanche Ward, w'25, live in teaches ag They G L A SS N O T ES '69 Richard Haigh has "nothing new or startling to report." He lives in Dearborn at 462 W. Gar rison avenue. >74 Henry A. Haigh has offices at 606 Penobscot Seminole lives at 762 building, Detroit, and avenue. '79 R. B. Norton is treasurer of the Hill Invest ment company at Arkansas City, Kansas. He is Savings, also secretary of Building and Loan association. the Arkansas City is president of L. G. Carpenter the Colorado Engineering council, an organization composed of representatives of the various engineering socie ties throughout the state. He lives in Denver at 1455 Gilpin street. '81 Carlton R. Dart is a consulting engineer with offices at 6 North Michigan avenue, Chicago He lives in Wilmette at 706 Greenleaf avenue. from reports Dr. Byron S. Palmer Jackson street, Palmyra, New York: "The writer has had twenty-five years a work on in preparation for 'Palmer Ancestry,' for which he has collected. information of over forty thousand Palmers, and which will soon be published. This will be a work of four or five volumes dealing with all Palmer lines, from their first American ancestors, in consecutive generations, down to the present time. He would be pleased to hear from all M. A. C. Palmers, and have their family records for inclusion." A. B. Turner, secretary of the class, reports the following: "A call on Arthur Jones in his offices in the Hammond building, Detroit, Michi gan, discloses the fact that he has gained a good deal in weight since college days. It was our first meeting in 42 years and was heartily en joyed. "George Grover is city clerk of San Jacinto, California and a booster for his state. He is a widower with three boys located near him and employed by the Standard Oil company at El Segundo. "Dr. B. S. Palmer, Palymra, New York, prac in Chicago for about 20 years. ticed dentistry He was one of the organizers of the Borcherdt Malt Extract company of Chicago. For more than six years he has been compelled by sickness to give up business and is still a semi-invalid. He is now busy compiling the 'Palmer Ancestry.' Byron's son, George Truman Palmer, is making a name for himself as epidemiologist with the American Child Health association in New York, and his daughter is Mrs. Irene McDonnell, now living in Laredo, Texas. Byron boasts one grand daughter and a grandson who inherits the good qualities of his maternal grand parents." Turner may be reached at 1805 North Park way, Memphis, Tennessee. '84 C. P. Gillette is director of the Colorado Agri cultural experiment station at Fort Collins, and head of the department of zoology and ento mology. '88 George L. Teller is the author of a recently published pamphlet entitled "Gluten as a Factor in Grading Wheat." Teller is with the Colum bus lives in River side. laboratories at Chicago and Lyster H. Dewey tells on his blue slip: "Still engaged in growing pedigreed hemp 18 to 20 feet tall at Arlington Farm here at Washington, and selected hencquin and sisal at Mayaguez, Porto Rico, and keeping track of fiber produc tion all over the world. Mrs. Dewey, special 'go, is just now busy with our two grandsons from Buffalo." Dewey lives in Washington, D. C, at 4512 Ninth street. C. B. Cook, formerly of Pontiac, may be reached at R. 1, Owosso, Mich. '89 Orlando J. Root should be addressed 5269 La- roda avenue, Eagle Rock, California. Waldo Rohnert is a wholesale seed grower and the relatives orchardist at Gilroy, California. He spent Christmas holidays and old friends. in Detroit visiting '90 Dr. John W. Toan says: "Am still at the State Sanatorium at Howell, Michigan, and oc the students under my casionally have one of The M. A. C. Record Page Thirteen jjift^^f^g^^ag^gg^g^^ng^^Bif w I Sf II Si 1 aw n 1 $9 B m i ft ')" tt Fifteen-Year-Old Boy (By Strickland Qillilan) THERE is just one thing in the world finer than being a fifteen-year-old boy — it is owning one. I'm the lucky one in this case. My boy will be fifteen next Christmas (yes, he was a fine present), and do you know what I'm going to do right afterward? I'll tell you: I'm going to take out an endowment policy on his life. And now I'll tell you why: He's probably going to col lege some day. That'll cost me money. I don't begrudge it. He has to have his equipment for life in competition with a lot of school-taught chaps. It is money well-spent. Like life insurance premiums, it is an investment and n ot an ex pense. It will help him acquire the ability to help himself. l a t er on he will M a y be amount to a great deal more than I think I amount to at present. After college, he will be starting out on his own hook. Paddling his own canoe and all that. A nd if he's even as smart as I am, he will be carrying some life insurance. Therefore: If I take out insurance on his life (which I can do when he has turned fifteen), I can get it at a very low rate. A nd what does this do? Well, (a) if the lad were to meet with some fatal misfortune before the finish of his college career (and some do), I should be financially reimbursed for the cost of his education to date; (b) if he w e re to lose his health, I should have provided him with a policy he could not get later; (c) and if (as I verily believe, in my faith and hope and love for him) he should live to complete his schooling and settle down in a home of his own, he will have insurance protection at a rate so low (owing to accu mulated dividends) as to be almost negligible. See? Now if you can discover any way in which the above plan is unwise, write and tell me. Personally, I can't see any thing but wisdom and profit in the scheme. OF B O S T O N. MASSACHUSETTS IPANY Sixty-one years in business. Now insuring One Billion Seven Hundred Million dollars in policies on 3,250,000 lives. Page Fourteen The M, A. C. Record care who has been so unfortunate as to develop tuberculosis. '94 Duncan D. McArthur's blue slip reads: "2848 Diego; California. No change in occupation or address. G. C. Davis of Los J. T. Wight, Angeles called to see me recently. the pres- ~Q3. and I happen jufy of San Diego county. I note the :' names of M. A. C. alumni in south- and am pleased to say that it will be a pleasure to have any who happen to be in San Diego to drop in any time if convenient. '02 to be members of II. L. Brunger is works manager of the Vul can Plow company at Evansville, Indiana. He lives a:-, the Riviera and extends an invitation to all M. A. C. ! Iks to "drop in." rs in the employ of the com- pathological in Lssachusetts Moore Canavan has been ap- the the Warren museum of medical school 01 Harvard university, and as sumed duties January 1, The new business ad- 240 Longwood avenue, care Museum, dress Boston '03 pster is manager of the Walker-Gordon of the Detroit Creamery company, and >7 Laurel street, Royal Oak. '05 the island, which (escribes Long Island: "A place /ded cities and desert spaces, ; ad barren acres. There are II over is ng, We are in the midst of the wt r region. The harvest of the big- going o n; some of the eason have been those of sels live at Riverhead, N. Y. > aiay no lunger be reached at . Kalamazoo. "is that Roman Pohl, '22, is a West Chemical and Paint com- rt, Michigan. '06 Y. P. Wilson has been transferred from 1 crops to the ordnance depart- cated at Frankford Arsenal, Phila- ania. ks is still head of the department aication and athletics at the Massa- 76 ultural college and lives at Pic, treet, Amherst. Mrs. Roy C. Potts, 210 Maple avenue, ark, D. C, announce the birth of Ches- dl on January 1, 1924. They express hat he be enrolled in the agricultural s of 1942. and Ella MacManus ('08) Lamb have Dayton, Ohio, to 314 Oxford avenue. Takom tor Ms the wi course Cass moved trsha sh ti cias: A. in . Lamb is president of the National Drop Forging company. '08 H. E. Marsh is still at the University of Red- lands, California, in charge of the department of physics an dengineering. He is anticipating a leave of absence soon, at which time he expects to visit the campus. '09 Winford C. Trout, superintendent of the Ella W. Sharp park at Jackson, Michigan, writes: ' We are building a municipal golf course which is one of the most popular projects we have undertaken for some time. The people of Jack son are organizing a zoological society for the purpose of establishing a zoo at this park." A. J. Hutchins is superintendent of public schools at Centreville, Michigan. Leslie H. Belknap is in road construction work under the firm name of Hill and Belknap. He re ports the completion of about 25 miles of road arid the expectation of entering general building construction in 1924. Belknap lives in East Lan sing, at 785 N. Grove street. '11 "I am enclosing a check for memorial to give more. Y'ou will be glad industry fund," writes Charles N. Frey from 103 W. 183rd street, "It is a pleasure to be able to New York City. that I am be of some assistance and I regret not able to learn that the baking is working hard to use up the big wheat crop, and in addition our company is putting out a bread which is known as food. Not a drop of water is used in this bread, only milk. This ought in breadmaking, and serve as an outlet for surplus milk. the safest methods of supplying milk to the children in the cities." It is perhaps the cheapest and one of to open up a new field 'vito vim.' This bread is a complete The reports following Herman Knoblauch from Blissfield, Michigan: "No change in occupation or address. Now have a family with two lusty candidates for future M. A. Cites, Herbert aged two and one- half years, and Charlotte aged one-half year." '12 is quoted the blue slip ' My home is still at 4109 from D. A. Spencer. I Third street, N. W., Washington, D. C, and the into my seventh year am the Bureau of Animal Industry and service of in the fourth year as senior animal husbandman charge of sheep and goat investigations. Our second daughter, Mildred Coe, arrived the 20th of last August." just starting from in Herman Groothuis is with Day & Zimmerman, consulting engineers of Philadelphia, working on power plans designs and designs for heating sys tems. He lives in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, at 7523 W. Chester Pike. E. E. Gallup should be addressed at 507 N. Pennsylvania avenue, Lansing. The M. A. C. 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'11F) Insurance and Bonds 208-211 Capital National Bk. Bldg. FORDS—W. R. COLLINSON, '18 The F. J. Blanding Co., Lansing Page Sixteen The M. A. C. Record On December First More Than $55,000 was Due on the Union Memorial Building Fund Prompt Payment will insure the t he success of project at the lowest possible cost. The Students used shovels to the con start struction work, you can use a pen to keep it going.