ME(?©IMD NOW W I N T ER COMES W I TH I TS B L A N K ET OF SNOW VOLUMNE X X X I II NUMBER F I VE JANUARY 19 2 8 T HE M. S. C. R E C O RD M O U NT ROYAL Monrrejl. Can RADISSON M i n n e a p o l is M.nn. SENECA Rochester. N V R L A C K S T O NE Chicago. 111. PERE MARQUETTE Peoria, 111. These hotels are your hotels Special features are provided for our Alumni Our alumni are urged to use Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels when travelling, and when arranging for luncheons, \ an- quets and get-togethers of various sorts. You will find at each Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel an index of the resident Alumni of the participating colleges. Think what this means when you are in a strange city and wish to look up a classmate or friend. You will find at these hotels a current copy of your Alumni publication. You will also find a spirit of co-operation and a keen desire to see you comfortably housed and adequately pro vided for. Reservations may be made from one Intercol legiate Alumni Hotel to another as a convenience to you. Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels are a new and vital force in assisting your Alumni Secretary. He urges you to sup port them whenever and wherever possible. He will be glad to supply you with an introduction card to the managers of all Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels, if you so request. THE PARTICIPATING COLLEGES The alumni organizations of .the following colleges and universities are participants in the Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel mwement: Akron Alabama Amherst Antioch Bates Beloit Bowdoin Brown Brvn Mawr Bucknell Buffalo California Carnegie Institute Case School Chicago College of the Ciry ot New York Colgate Colorado School Mines Colorado Columbia Cornell Cumberland Emory Elmira Georgia Georgetown College Goucher Harvard Illinois Indiana Ijwa State Kansas Teachers' Kansas Lake Erie Lafayette Lehigh Louisiana College Coll. Maine M. I. T Michigan State Michigan Mills Minnesota Missouri Montana Mount Holyoke NebrasVa New York University North Carolina North Dakota Northwestern Oberlin Occidental O h io State O h io Wesleyan Oklahoma Oregon Oregon State Penn State Pennsylvania Princeton Purdue Radchtfe Rollins Rutgers Smith South Dakota Southern California Stanford Stevens Institute Texas A. and M. Texas Tulane Union Vanderbilt Vassar Vermont Virginia Virginia Polytechnic Institute Washington and Lee Washington State Washington (Seattle) Washington (St. Louis' Wellesley Wesleyan College Wesleyan University Western Reserve W h i t m an Williams W i n t h r op Wisconsin Wittenberg Wooster Worcester Polytechnic Institute Yale c A L I F O R N I AN Fresno Cdlii SAINT P A LL M. Paul. Mirn MULTNOMAH Portland, Ore. PALACE San Francisco. Calit. SINTON Cincinnati, O. January, 1928 T HE M. S. C. R E C O RD 71 SI n Pi =>,MLs tgo, e»(ti. \ X AI n Nf\ ORh A S T O R IA v York. N. Y O N O N D A GA Syracuse, N. Y W O L V E R I NE Detroit. Mich. . BENJAMIN F R A N K L IN Philadelphia. Pa. M U E H L E B A CH Kansas City. Mo. Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels BILTMORE Los Angeles. CaliL < OPLEY-PLAZA Every Dot Marks an Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel LINCOLN Lincoln, Neb. Baltimore, Md., Southern Berkeley, Cal., Clarcmont r.ethlehem, Pa.; Bethlehem Birmingham, Ala., Bankhead Boston, Mass., Copley-Plaza Chicago, 111., Blackstone Chicago, 111., Windermere Cincinnati, O h i o, Sinton Columbus, O h i o, Nei/ House Danville, 111., Wolford Detroit, Mich., Wolverine Fresno, Cal., Cali/ornian Kansas City, Mo., Muehlebach Lincoln, Nehr., Lincoln Los Angeles, Calif., Bilcmorc Madison, Wis., Park Minneapolis, Minn., Radisson Montreal, Canada, Mount Royal New Orleans, La., Monteleone New York, N. Y., Rooseielt New York, N. Y., Waldorf-Astoria Northampton, Mass., Northampton Oakland, Cal., Oakland Ptoria, 111., Pere Marquette Philadelphia, Pa., Benjamin Franklin Pittsburgh, Pa., Schcnlcy Portland, Ore., Multonomah Rochester, N. Y., Seneca Sacramento, Cal., Sacramento St. Louis, Mo., Coronado St. Paul, Minn., Saint Paul San Diego, Cal., St. James San Francisco, Cal., Palace Seattle, Wash., Olympic Syracuse, N. Y., Onondaga Toronto, Canada, King Edward Urbana, 111., Urbana-Lmcoln Washington, D. C, Willard Lycoming W i l l i a m s p o r t, Pa., WINDERMERE Chicago, 111. T he Intercollegiate A l u m ni Hotel movement is sponsored by the A l u m ni Secretaries and Editors of the participating colleges and directed by I N T E R C O L L E G I A TE A L U M NI E X T E N S I ON SERVICE, 18 E. 41st St., New York, N.Y. O L Y M P IC Seattle. W a s h. D I R E C T O RS J O. BAXENDALE Alumni Secretary University of.Vermont A C BUSCH Alumni Secretary Rwgen CntUx, ' STEPHEN K. LITTLE Pnnceion Alumni Weekly Princeton University J O HN D. McKEE Wooster A/umni Bulletin W ouster College J. L M O R R I LL Alumni Secretary Ohio State University W R. O K E S ON Treasurer of Lehigh University W B. S H AW Alumni Secretary University of Michigan R O B E RT SIBLEY Alumni Secretary University of California K \V\ H A R W O OD Harvcnd Aim.,,,, Build, K m a iJ l n „t, s ,h HELEN F. McMlLLIN K W. S A I L OR Welleslcy Alumnae Magazine WeUcsles College Coniefl Alumni Neus Cornell University F L O R E N CE H. S N OW Alumnae Secretary Smith, College E: N S U L L I V AN Alumni Secretary Penn State College L E V E R I NG T Y S ON Alumni Federation Columbia University E. T. T. W I L L I A MS Broun University SACRAMENTO Sacramento. Calif BETHLEHEM Bethlehem, Pa. LYCOMING Williamsport, Pa. MONTELEONE New Orleans, La. SOUTHERN Baltimore, Md. NORTHAMPTON Northampton M.its T HE M. S. C. R E C O RD January. 1928 America Discovered for $7200 finance Columbus, Old records show t h at the cost of Columbus' first expedition to America amounted, in modern exchange, Isabella, to only $7200. To Queen of Spain, offered to pawn her jewels. Today word comes from Spain indicating t h at a twentieth century importation from the new world is fast effect ing a sufficient saving to ransom many royal jewels. The Spanish Northern Railway reports the American equipment with which in 1924 t he railroad electrified a mountainous section of its lines from Ujo to Pajares has accomplished the following economies: t h at A 55% saving in the cost of power. 1. 2. A reduction of 40% in the number of engine miles for vor_ The substations, overhead equipment for the complete installation, and six of the twelve locomotives for this particularly difficult and successful electrification were furnished by the Gen eral Electric Company. Gen eral Electric quality has attained universal recog nition; the world over, you will find the G-E monogram on apparatus that is giving outstanding service. the same traffic handled. 3. A saving of 733^% in the cost of repairs and upkeep for locomotives. 4. A saving of 6 3% in crew expenses. 5. A reduction of 31^ kilometer of freight. in the cost of moving a ton- In every part of the world, electricity has replaced far less efficient methods and greater t h an the ransom of a queen's jewels. You will always find it an important advantage in your work and in your home. is saving sums 350-32 DH GENERAL ELECTRIC S C H E N E C T A D Y. E L E C T R IC C O M P A NY G E N E R AL Y O RK N EW The M. S. C. Record Entered at the East Lansing postoffice as second class matter. Vol XXXIII. No. 5 EAST LANSING, MICH. January, 1928 College Station Now Broadcasting Games for length will feature the next T ^ HE broadcasting of seven home basketball'games from W K A R, the college radio station on a 277.6 the pro wave two months. grams time Because of the division of the with WK H P, Detroit, only scheduled games which are for Monday, Friday, Saturday and nights can be broadcast. However, it may be possible to make special provision the Albion game which comes on Wednesday, Feb. 8. for The music programs for Monday, Jan. 16 and for Monday, Jan. 30 have been postponed by the music department in order that the time may be available for the Coe college and the Hope college games. Starting time for the games will be 7 45 eastern standard time, and there will be no it is hoped that the "overtime"' games because of fact that it will be necessary to sign < ffl at n:ne o'clock. J. B. Hasselman, W K AR sports announcer, who started the first col lege sports announcing in 1923, will give a play by play account of the games from the gymnasium. T he Swartz Creek band, clown musical organization will entertain the fans. Arrangements have been made to home following the broadcast games : Fri., Jan. 13—University of De troit. Mon., Jan. 16—Coe College. Mon., Jan. 30—Hope College. Fri., Feb. 3—Notre Dame Uni versity. Sat., Feb. 11—Kalamazoo Col lege. Sat., Feb. 25—Marquette Uni versity. Many Associations To Meet Farmers' Week TH I R TY different agricultural as-; sociations will hold their annual meetings on the campus during F a r mers' Week, January 30 to Febr uary 3. The organizations represent peo ple interested in soil improvement, livestock breeding, dairying, fruits, flowers, potatoes, poultry, soils, and general farm crops. Afternoon and evening sessions of the week will be occupied with the general pro the group meetings grams, with scheduled for the morning. for T he State F a rm Bureau has se cured Professor William E. Dodds, the University of Chicago as of their main the an speaker, nual banquet in the Union building the evening of February 2. on Reservations have been made for yoo. M. S. Winder, sec.-treas. of the American farm bureau federa tion will be present. Among the speakers for the gen eral sessions are the following: Dr. W. A. Thompson, president emeri tus of Ohio S t a t e; Director G. L. Christie of P u r d ue University; E d ward W. Wentworth, of A r m o ur (Continued on page 4) President D i s c u s s es Continuing Education To a l u m n i: I presume many alumni have been curious regarding our use of the words "continuing education." is simply a phrase designed It to include all educational types of work which the institution does off- campus. One of the possibilities in is being developed this field in a number colleges, of American namely, helping alumni to keep up their reading and study, both voca leisure, for tionally (President Little has called this scheme "the alumni university") as well as to take leadership in their communities in this work of out-of- school education. Mr. Cartwright, the the American Association for Adult Education, in addressing a recent conference of the American Alumni Council, stated very cogently para graph : this matter following executive director their and the of in idea a leadership. Bring "I ask each one of you to give trial this adult education among your constituencies. Pick out a community—urban or rural— where you are assured of decent in every telligent university facility you have to bear on this community. Arrange lec tures (through your extension divi sion, if you have one) by first rate members of the faculty; utilize the local organizations; use local lead form d i s c u s s i on groups, e r s; forums, reading institutes; supply lists and reading courses, form read ing circles—above all, convince the groups of alumni which you do in terest that theirs is the responsibil ity for the intellectual tenor of their own communities. This demonstra tion—it is \ more a demonstration than an experiment—will really cost little if anything. T he return will itself be great the community in 4 T HE M. 6. C. R E C O RD J a n u a r y, 1928 and its repetition elsewhere will not be difficult. We are a nation which progresses largely through the pro cess of imitation." — K EN VON L. BUTTERFIELD. to present nominations President MacKinnon Appoints Committees FO L L O W I NG the custom of pre vious years, President MacKin non. '95, has selected several com mittees from members of the asso ciation for the general election in June. Each committee is to prepare a full slate of candidates, and each committee will be responsible to the extent that all persons nominated shall have agreed to serve if elected. Mem bers of the committees shall confer in person or bv correspondence on suggestions received in time to have a slate published in the March issue of T HE RECORD. T he committees follow: G R O UP 1 Chairman. James Hays. '11, East Lansing. Mich. Henry E. Aldrich. '14. Wickes Boiler Co.. Saginaw. Mich. H. G. Collingwood. '11. Forestry Extension, I*. S. Dept. of Agricul ture, Washington, D. C. Emil Pokorny, Ave.. Detroit, Mich. '07. S3 Marston Anna Cowles Herr, 'i5, Fleming- ton. X. J. G R O UP 2 Chairman. Herbert D. Straight, "17. 611 Parkwood. N. E., Grand Rapids. Mich. C. Ross Garvey, '12, Sawyer- Godman Lumber Co., 709 Railway Exchange Bldg., Chicago, 111. L. O. Gordon, '06, Gordon Mfg. Co., Muskegon, Mich. Leo Stanley. "16, P a r k er St., Ben ton Harbor. Mich. Lucile Urch Judd, St.. Jackson, Michigan. '18, Cooper Bv mail correspondence the committees have each committee will nominate a slate and the chairman of each group will forward same to the office of the association before March 10. Af reported, ter during the interval between March 10 and May 1, any twenty members of the association may make addi tional nominations. On May 10 ballots will be mailed to all members of the association in good standing. C O M M I T T EE for A L U M NI D AY June 16 Jason E. H a m m o n d, '86, ch airman. E d na Y. Smith, '03, assistant chairman. James Satterlee, '69. 'l. D V. R J. B Lutr Mrs Clar Mar Towar. "85. . Gardner, '05. Edmonds, '23. er Baker, '93. L. C. Plant, '98. ssa Anderson, '24. ^aret Hager, '26. Di x Reunion Classes and Secretaries -Daniel Strange. • 6 7- •68— • 6 9- $ 5- " 8 6- • 8 7- ' 8 8- 0 4- '05— 0 6- ' 0 7- ' 2 3- ' ^ 4- '25— -James Satterlee. -James D. Towar. -Jason E. Hammond. -George J. H u m e. -C. B. Cook. -L. T. Clark." -Y. R. Gardner. -L. 0. Gordon. -Helen Ashley Hill. -J. B. Edmonds. -Clarissa Anderson. -Robert L. Shaw. rive Year Classes and I Secretaries - F r a nk E. Robson. • / 8- - F r a nk F. Rogers. ' 8 3- -Luther Baker. ' 9 3- '98—Dewev Seelev. ' 0 3- - E d na Y. Smith. '08—H. H. Musselman. 'LS- "18- -Robert E. Loree. -\Yillard Coulter. chairman Ralph H. Young, director of phy sical education, and Prof. O. E. Reed, athletic council, attended a meeting of phy sical directors and athletic councils in New York City during the holi days. the of , Special recognition was accorded the college military band in a re cent issue of Jacob's Band Monthly, a national musical magazine pub lished in Boston. "Spanish Moon," 1928 Union production at State Theatre, Feb. 2, 3, and 4. MANY ASSOCIATIONS TO M E ET F A R M E R S' W E EK (Continued from page 3) Institute, Chicago; Rep. John C. Ketchum, Washington, D. C.; P r o fessor \Y H. Hobbs, of the Uni versity of Michigan, and Herbert agricul Powell, commissioner of ture, Lansing. DEATHS MRS. Mrs. IRA H. BUTTERFIELD Ira H. Butterfield, mother of President Butterfield died Wednesday, January 4, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George W. Nichols, Pittsburgh, Pa. She had been quite ill for nearly a year. in her 86th Airs. Butterfield, who was in 1924 year, moved from Amherst, Mass., and made her home at 345 Evergreen Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield their 60th in 1926, at the col wedding anniversary lege. to East Lansing celebrated Mrs. Butterfield is survived by the hus band, three children, Mrs. Nichols, Clin ton D. Butterfield of Detroit, and Presi The funeral was held dent Butterfield. in Detroit Saturday, January 7. E D W IN SAWYER ANTISDAXE, '85 '85, died avenue, January 1, Dr. Edwin Sawyer Antisdale, at his home, 5403 Woodlawn Chicago, Sunday morning, from an acute heart attack. He in the treatment of mental and cialized nervous diseases and had an office in the Marshall Field Annex building. He is daughter, Mrs. one Interment was at Kernochan Babcock. the old home in Nottaway, Michigan. survived spe by the -past four years W I L L I AM PEGRAM W I L S O N, '06 Major William Pegram Wilson, '06, for in charge of instruments the designing of fire-control at the Frankfort Arsenal, died Novem ber 29. 1927, at his home in Philadelphia, Pa. He from is survived by his wife, Marie Piatt Wilson, w'06, formerly of Lansing, and two children, Robert and Helen. He graduated in excellent the engineering division with scholastic records, and a commission in the reserve army. He was a member of Tau Beta Phi, honorary, and the Hes perian society. the college in 1906 from Major Wilson was largely use of rangefinders, which responsible for the development of the unique anti aircraft weapon—the artillery is with automatic hailed by army authorities as excellent protection against attack the air. C. P. Summerall, major general, chief of staff, Washington, D. C. writes that "Major Wilson was an officer of highest super professional attainments, and of ior qualifica technical and engineering tions. By his loyalty, ability, and devo tion to duty he won the unstinted com mendation of his superiors. His passing the ser is deeply vice." throughout regretted J a n u a r y, 1928 T HE M. S. R E C O RD CHARLES W I L L I AM MCCURDY, ' 8I S3 Dr. Charles W. McCurdy, '8i, for merly of Lansing, went to the Osteo pathic hospital in Philadelphia on Octo ber 15, 1927, for treatment. On Novem ber 7 he submitted to an operation, and died it. He was buried at Philadelphia. He is survived by a sister, Ida McCurdy McNair, of Dansville, N. V. the effects of from J. H A S K I NS S M I T H, '83 J. Haskins Smith, '83, died at the Ep- worth hospital, in South Bend, Indiana, on March 31, 1927, following a ten day's illness of intestinal flu. He was one of the early students at the college and for the teaching pro many years followed fession. Before he retired in 1915 he was in the trade paper publishing busi two brothers, J. Willett ness with his and W. R. C. Smith. Their headquar ters were in Atlanta, Georgia, where they published the Southern Engineer and Cotton, a textile paper. Campus Radio Night for State Alumni FOR the alumni radio family of Michigan State a real campus night and evening of good fellow ship is being planned for Friday, March 16. T he program will be planned by the alumni association in connection with the college radio school. The hour of 8:10 to 9:00 time has been eastern station college selected. standard The 1928 MARCH 1928 S M T W T F S 4 11 5 12 6 13 V 14 3 10 1 8 15 2 9 16 Michigan State Night Ev eryw lere W K AR is now using a 277.6 wave length and radio fans are requested to tune in on the Friday night pro grams now being broadcast. This will let you know if your set gives satisfacory results with this station. If it does, invite in all the old grads and former students and make a real old time evening of it. Alumni clubs everywhere are urg ed to plan a party for March 16. Hear President Butterfield, M r. MacKinnon of the association, and many others you will know. A de tailed program will be announced later. for room reserved '17, the SPARTAN CLUBS THE Grand Rapids alumni club meets every Friday noon at the Masonic Temple cafeteria. A spe them. cial is re President H e rb Straight, ports that over forty of local members heard Charles W. Gar- held, '70, recently, and that H e n ry '16, enlightened the club on Gork, last the new municipal the college week. Speakers from fu will be used again in the near ture. All men in Grand Rapids or visitors in town on Friday are wel come to Straight. in, according to drop stadium The J a n u a ry 9 meeting of the De troit club was postponed until Mon day evening, January 16. L,t. Col. Sherburne and Glen O. Stewart of the college will be the speakers, according to W. G. Knickerbocker, '16, chairman of the program com mittee. These meetings are held in the Masonic Temple. Alumni Field Secretary Stewart contemplates attending the annual meeting of the Washington, D. C. club on the evening of February 2 1. G. H. Collingwood, '11, is president of the club. every description and color, com bined to make the stately evergreen near the the W o m a n 's building, customary campus " C h r i s t m as Tree."' A. H. Lavers of the build ing and grounds department was responsible for arranging the wir ing. Record Reader Replies to Game of Tag- F V H J ND among the editor's mail -* one morning the following note made us feel good, and we wish we could print the many others. My dear S t e w a r t: take on Brace up and renewed courage for you succeeded in catch ing one Scotchman in his "home." With a very very penitent and chas tened spirit enclosing my I am check and in keeping with the cus season tom that solemnly promise and pledge such tardiness will not again oc cur. particular this of Sincerely hoping that- all other deliquents will find themselves "it" in your game of tag. Sincerely, A. E. F, '06. F. H. Valentine, '09, writes that the Cleveland club is about to reor ganize and perhaps the field secre tary will plan a day or so with Northern Ohio alumni on the trip. N o t e: The editor is playing a tag with the delinquent game of dues of the association. We are happy that our "players" are few er and fewer each day.—Ed. Bright metal stars that sparkled they reflected stray gleams of as light, and myriad electric bulbs of "Spanish Moon," 1928 Union production at State Theatre, Feb. 2, 3, and 4. 6 T HE M. S. C. R E C O RD January, 1928 THE M. S. C. RECORD Established 1896 Published for the alumni and former students of the Michigan State College by the M. S. C. Association. Published monthly Membership in the M. S. C. Association, including subscription to T HE RECORD, $3.50 throughout the year. per year. Unless members request a discontinuance before expiration of their memberships, it will be assumed a renewal is desired. Checks, drafts and money orders should be made payable to the M. S. C. Association. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at East Lansing, Michigan. GLEN O. STEWART, 'IT, Editor THE M. S. C. ASSOCIATION Union Memorial Building OFFICERS—1927-28 Arthur C. MacKinnon, '95, President G. V. Branch, '12, Vice-President R. Bruce Mc Pherson, '90, Treasurer Robert J. McCarthy, '14, Secretary Glen O. Stewart, '17, Field Secretary Henry T. Ross, '04, Milford, Mich., term expires 1928; E. E. Gallup, '96, Lansing, term expires 1930 ; Frances Kirk Patch, '14, East Lansing, term expires 1929 ; Harris E. Thomas, '85, Lansing, exofficio; E. W. Ranney, '00, Greenville, ex-officio: Frank F. Rogers, '83, Lansing, ex-officio. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE this time B Y A Great Alumni Coine-Baek the twe n t y-t h r e e classes to scheduled co.ve back for regular *>r special reunions during com mencement week are planning to bring their "entire families,"' espe cially for Alumni Day, Saturday, lune 16. T he smallest but perhaps the most interesting, will be the golden celebration—the fiftieth an niversary of the class of '78. F r a nk E. Robson. class secretary, of De troit, has started to line up this honored group. Eugene Daven port of this class, has been selected by the college to give the commence ment address on Monday, June 18 Sixteen graduates of this old class which left the college half a century ago are still alive, and wherever possible they are making plans to reune again at the cherished scenes of their younger days. '86 will probably The class of have their usual large attendance, because of their strong class organ ization, and the interest maintain ed through the efforts of their class secretary; Jason E. Hammond. H is recent class letter was an excellent example of what can be done by selecting the right person for secre tary. Under the Dix plan, fifteen class es are to come back for regular re unions, and eight will celebrate their five or five year multiple anni versaries. T he Class Secretaries' Council formed at the College Con gress last fall will appoint all com mittees for the big June event. All of the chron'clers of Michigan State alumni reunions of the last few years have shown a marked in clination to ring various changes on time-honored phrase of 'The the best yet." It is a natural tempta tion. the great come-back on Saturday, alumni June 16, i<)28, should prove no ex ception. The events of A S we adjusted our Standing I >n the Starting-line calendar pad sev eral weeks ago we realized suddenly that we were standing on the starting- J<;J8. Without a line of the year doubt there is a very beneficial tonic effect in connection with the coming of a new year. No matter what our failures have been, or the oppor tunities we have neglected, the new year offers us the incentive of a fresh start. Let us suggest that no time or mental energy be lost in futile re grets or attempts to excuse failure. K at her, let every effort be made to plan a definite, constructive pro gram, the execution of which will automatically wipe out the short comings of the past. this applies Although to any worth while human endeavor, we refer more specifically to the alum nus who has put off active member ship in the association. As Dr. W. < ). Thompson, president emeritus, of ()hio State has said, " a thous and alumni united on important col lege ideals would be under-estimat ed at a million dollars a year.'' We believe our task lies in secur ing in the consciousness of more than 9,000 living alumni and for mer students that they are a living part of a growing college to which they may make some contribution of idealism. We are standing on the starting-line. We are ready for the first step. thought or — O Country newspaper editors from all over the state will meet on the campus January 26, 27, and 28, for the annual conference of t he Mich igan Press association. for February 1, bas been set as the date all-college the annual oratorical contest when men and women students will be given an opportunity to display their public speaking powers. announced Friday evening March 16, is of ficially as Michigan State n ght everywhere. A campus radio program especially for the alumni is being arranged by the as sociation. Watch for the full pro gram in the February number of T HE RI-XOKD. Start now to form a party State for your Michigan State friends. Broadcasting hour will be 8:10 1,, (;;(x) eastern time, 011 \\ K A R, 277.(J wave length. the Many letters of praise are daily received by the college radio school for they are fine programs broadcasting this year. T he music department, with new artists, are especially well received. Phillip Abbas, cello soloist of the Detroit Symphony, and part time instructor here, has given some ex cellent numbers recently, as have 1 Yofessors Richards and Farwell. several "Spanish Moon," a musical com edy with a Spanish background, has been selected for the 1928 Union theatrical production and will be presented in the new State theatre in East Eansing Feb. 2, 3. and 4. Tickets on sale at Union building or State theatre. January, 1928 T H E M. S. C. R E C 0 R D "Close Beside th\e Winding Cedar" in first through Traveling Potato Show traveling T he potato show the United States is being the shown ten southwestern counties of Mich igan at this time under the auspices of the College and the New York Central lines. Additional exhibits are being shown in food nutrition and crop production by the home economics and farm crops depart ments. is of ai A .r • the University Menchhofer i\cw Debate coach T he post of debating coach for men is be- • •> ms filled this ye ar by Joseph E. Menchhof er, a man widely known in debating a circles. M r. Menchhofer graduate of Michigan, where he received his A. B. and Master's degrees. He taught for five years at St. Olaf college at Northfield, Minn., and last year worked on his doctor's degree at Wisconsin. T wo years ago he was elected national vice- the Pi Kappa Delta, president of national honorary forensic frater nity, at the national convention at Fort Collins, Colo., and holds office until June 1928. to A three-ton be 1 11 valuable experiments in special Engineering motor generator, said exceedingly Dept. Receives 11 r Generator labora for practical and tory electrical demonstrations the recently engineering course, was presented the engineering de to partment of the college by the Con sumers Power company of Jackson. This is in line with the power com pany and the college having a com mon interest in students and grad uates of the electrical course. ,, c o u n t r y 's Apparatus valued at ~ more than $5,000, a na representing the work 0f , , . Chamberlain Brings Costly Devices the greatest physicists, mechanicians and opticians, has been brought to the college by Prof. C. W. Cham berlain. T he instruments, of which there are five, measure minute dis tances and were brought here from labora Dr. Chamberlain's former in university, tory at Dennison Ohio. They have been placed in the physics laboratory for the pres to a ent and later will be moved chemistry laboratory ex building. pects laboratory work in his classes, as well as spe cial research experiments, which he will conduct. in Dr. Chamberlain in to use them the old j • to A p o p u l ar Stat, College «M i c h i g an Song Written song, S t a t e ," j , 1 the d e d i c a t ed faculty of Michigan State College and her mother, has just been issued by Mrs. Zae North- '06. Mrs. W y a nt is a up Wyant, writer of popular music, published commercially for use of radio en tertainers, vaudeville artists and oth ers. Both Mr. and Mrs. W y a nt were formerly on the faculty here, but now reside at Greenville, Ohio. . . , / ,. . Valuable Paintings to Be Shown of One the most generally interesting . & b art exhibitions is just announced by Profes sor A. G. Scheele, head of the art department, which will be held here at the College early in Febr uary. T he public will be invited to inspect a group of paintings by con temporary American artists, the in the second display to be hung library. lobby of floor the college * ^ term. Members of Course for Hotel Work t J <•-1 training Preliminary 1 r r S e l e C t" ^ ed men and women s t u d e nts, preparing them for entering hotel work on graduation, the only project of its kind in Michigan, is being started here this the educational committee of the Michi- igan Hotel association and Dean Phelan have selected al ready on the college catalog. Dur ing the summer, these students will serve in various apprentices hotels, and, providing their services are satisfactory, will be given posi tions upon their graduation. courses as "Spanish Moon," 1928 Union production at State Theatre, Feb. 2, 3, and 4. Hort Club Apple Show the Preparations most extensive apple for e v er s h ow the horticulture club s t a&ed hy was launched recently with the ap pointment of student committees. T he show, which will include ex hibits of vegetables and flowers as well as apples, will be held during F a r m e r 's Week, which is scheduled to this year February 4. J a n u a ry 30 from TonifUfif 0 eaoe Tor Missouri Resignation of P r o- f e S S°r J ° h " R U fi' e c}u c ation jl e a (j Q£ ^ , *•• " "1 department, who has the accepted a position as head of the Uni education department of versity of Missouri was recently announced by the president's office. He will take up his new post Sep tember 1. Rufi came here as asso in ciate professor September, 1925, and was after ward promoted to a professorship and then to head of the department. training and preparation Years of in the field, have combined to make Dr. Rufi particularly adapted to his work. education of A new method which Makn***" r,. Discovery W i l1 g a in soil needs i tS d a ta from °f the . . in instead s ap plants circulation by of through analysis of soil solutions, has been developed by Dr. M. M. McCool, head of the soils department and his associates, after three years of new research method will not end fertility work, but will eliminate much expense and time if the final results confirm the discoveries of the three years' experimentation. study. T he and g T H E M. S. C. R E C O RD J a n u a r y, 1928 SRARTAN ATHLETICS By Ted Smits, w'27 Spartan basketball B a s k e t b a ll Quintet Shows Improved Form CQ A CH Ben V a n A l s t y n e 's has demonstrated very clearly in its first two games of 1928, both of which were played in the college gymna sium, that State this season is out to do <>ne thing and do it well— and that is score baskets. Perhaps the opposition offered by Hillsdale team T*Jt Dickenson to act as court captain as scholastic rulings bar Kenny Drew K. L. DREW :etball, 1928 under crushed .ind ( iliio Northern, both of which were top-heavy scores, was not of the best, but the fact stands out tallied 07 points in those two games to 50 for opponents. that State A dazzling short-pass attack that the ball under the basket carries seems to be the secret of State's -coring ability. VanZylen of Grand and Vera llaven. a sophomore, Dickeson a junior, are the two men that figure most prominently in the scoring. of Highland Park, Ineligibility cost Coach Van Alstvne two good men when Cap tain Kenny Drew of Adrian, a guard, and Moco of Detroit, a for ward, were stricken from the squad. To take D r e ws place are two new comers—Schau Schererville, Ind. and Russo of Jackson. Schau carries more height and weight of of Three Minor Sports On Winter Program to the fact that supplement TH R EE minor sports serve to track and basket ball as an important part of Mich igan State's winter sports. They are wrestling, hockev, and fencing. Due repairs are being made on the filters for the big pool, swimming will not be conduct ed on an intercollegiate basis, but Coach YY. Sterry Brown will work with prospects with a view towards developing a strong team next year. Wrestling meets with Chicago, < )hio State, Michigan and Ohio I Diversity, and a possible trip into the Missouri Valley, lay ahead of Coach Ralph Leonard's grapplers. addition. Lawrence College. In Armour Tech, Western State and Ypsilanti Teachers College, Xormal will be met. Coach Leonard has Captain Landsburg, Michigan A. A. U. champion at 135 pounds, and George Ferrari, the state heavy weight champion, as a nucleus for the two, but Russo has had more experience. ran up one of In trampling Hillsdale, 58 to 25, the Spartans the highest scores ever registered at the gymnasium, in addition to making 25 baskets out of 43 attempts—an almost unheard of percentage of efficiency. Ohio Northern, defeat ed 3c; to 25, presented a trifle better instances, defense, but Coach YanAlstyne was to send in his entire second team and part of his third string. in both able During the next four weeks State meets the University of Detroit at East Lansing on Jan. 13, Coe Col lege at East Panning on )an. 16, Loyola University at Chicago on Jan. 20, Marquette at Milwaukee on Jan. J i, Xotre Dame at South Bend on Jan. 28. Hope College at East Lansing on Jan. 30, Xotre Dame at East Lansing on Eeb. 3, Albion at East Lansing on Feb. 8, and Kalamazoo at East Lansing on Feb. 11. Some the scoring ability of the team can be gleaned from the list of points amassed in In defeating the first four games. and Hillsdale, Ohio Northern, Adrian, and in losing to Michigan, State has scored 150 points to 118 for opponents. Tnis is an average of better than i,~ to a game, which is enough to delight the most blood thirsty fan. Dickeson, act ng cap tain and high scorer last year, ap pears again in the role of ace of the YanAlstyne offense. ind'Jcation of throws Pea. Home The pi avers, their position, home town, baskets, and free total points, up to date, are as fol lows : Player Dickeson Van Zylen Colvin Russo.. Sheathelm DenHerder.... C Grand Rapids Hood F Totten. Schau McGillicudrly G Lansing Felt Drew B Ft Tp 2 34 10 7 29 11 3 21 9 3 19 .. .. 8 3 13 . ... _ _ i_ 5 S 2 3 6 0 3 ... 2 6 2 Ind. 2 .2 .1 F Highland Park F Grand Haven G East Lansing G Jackson F Lansing . .. .C Muskegon G Adiian G Schererville. . 0 2 O il ... C. Detroit Ionia 4 4 15 . ----- Totals. . .. - - - --32 26 150 March 2 has been selected as the date of the J - H o p, which will be held at the Hotel Olds in Lansing John Anderson, is general chair man of the committees in charge. New Spartan Captain '_;<;, Lansing Jack H o r n l i e c k, youth, who will captain the Spar tan football team in the first season under the tutelage of Coach H a r ry tie has been a regular end Kipke. on the past two seasons and during the season just closed saw more service than any player on the squad. Hornbeck is the first Lansing man who had been honored w i th the captaincy of the Spartan aggregation since Del Y'anDervoort in 1927. the State elevens for January, 1928 T HE M. S. C. R E C O RD 9 his teams. Many of the other di visions reveal weakness, however, which the State coach is striving to remedy. Coach John Kobs' hockey team meets Michigan Tech, Minnesota, Michigan, Marquette, and possibly in a the L'niversitv of Detroit series of games. A new rink has been constructed near the armory and field house, but since outdoor ice in Michigan remains an uncer tain quantity throughout the winter, Coach Kobs faces a difficult task in moulding together a team. Joseph W'affa, a native of Egypt and a graduate of last vear, directs (he fencing team. F or the first time this vear the sport will be on a for mal basis, and meets have been ten tatively arranged with Michigan, < >hio State, Chicago, leyan, and the Detroit Fencing club. < )hio Wes- Yearling Squad Finishes Good Season awarded TH I R T Y - T WO freshmen were football numerals by recom the athletic council upon mendation of Coaches Ben Van ACTING ( A P T. P I C K E S O N, 2U Forw.-inl. Highland P a rk that this group Alstyne and John Kobs. T he por tion of survives scholastically, and seventeen major letter winners the varsity squad who do not graduate will form the material that will report to H e ad Coach H a r ry Kipke next fall. from T he Spartan scored four-touchdown victories over both yearlings and Assumption College Ferris Institute in their .two games of the season. A rangy, heavy line and a few fairly good ball carriers wrere the bright freshman squad. lights of the T he men receive numerals to o€ a r e: Centers—Bruce Schafer Howell and. John Raber of East Lansing; g u a r d s — E d w in Fricker of Massilon, O., A r ne Danels of P aw Paw, Don Lowing of Grand Rapids, Robert Miller of Wauke- gan, 111., Reuben Dill of Saginaw, and Robert Lincoln of Greenville; of Battle tackles—Earl Stine of Detroit, Creek, Don Ridler Ernest Buckholtz of River Rouge, Harold P a r k er of Mt. Clemens, Hendrick Heeson of Beaver Falls. Pa., and Harold Nielson of Sheri dan ; ends—Cecil Fogg of Jackson, John Gafner of Escanaba, F r a nk Weyerman of Hastings, Clarence Lindner of Grand Rapids, Harold Raymond of Lansing, and Gerald Maskery of Detroit; quarterbacks —Carl Norberg Joseph, Sterling Moore of Hastings, and Grand George Rapids ; halfbacks—Clyne Durst of Lansing, Roger Grove of Sturgis, Robert H a m m o nd of Spring Lake, Gerald Breen of Holland, Carlos Hall of Northville, and Gordon Hoy of Battle Creek; fullbacks— of Birmingham, Claude Lynn Erratt of Cheboygan, and Alvin ( )lsen of Chicago, 111. Roseberry Strob St. of of in Time and Change— W H E RE swimmers once stood around a concrete "swimmin' the old armory, clung pool," launched to plaster columns, and silver their depths, t he M. S. C. band practice nightly. Sound of drum and trumpet has driven out even the ghostly echoes of the old pool. shining bodies 65 musicians into of If A visitor to the present college band room would never guess the use to which it has been put in the that visitor came when past. band practice was in full swing, he would never dream that these men sat over a covered recess m the floor, the paradise of old-time lov the aquatic sport. Yes, if ers of that cover were lifted, he could see, with the box the aid of a shape of that old pool . light, the old T he days of armory swimimng pool were halcyon days for college swimmers. T h e re they met in the old barber shop of Andy tonsorial wizard, ate at his Sias, honor system candy counter, and told mighty stories and made great boasts. Those were the days be fore the advent of Aimee M c P h e r- the prize Ananiases son, and all of the college met there. Those swimmers have passed on Blake Miller, '16, Popular Pr< at Lansing Gauntry' Club No few educations. into life. They have taken woes unto themselve> (some were M. S. have C. co-eds), and some gained doubt, itch, when office when red flannels life grows stale, those same a t h letes fall In those reveries they must again hear the splash of the green waters, and the the boisterous cries of hear swimmers. That is what years, late night clubs, heavy food and black coffee, will do to a man's dreams. :nto mystic reveries. N ow only the remains of both the pool and of Barber Andy Sias are with us. Both are physically out of sight. Together they were to a musical environ transformed ment. T he one became an angel seated on a cloud, harp in hand, the other was insulated to form a band room whose acustics are marvelous — E. K. G., '27. 10 T HE M. S. C. R E C O RD J a n u a r y, 1928 What is SERENITY Worth? BUDDHA, who was born a prince, gave up his name, succession, and his heritage to attain serenity. But we are no Buddhas; for us the serenity of mind is the happiness of human beings who are secure in the enjoyment of what they possess, whether it is much or little. We do not have to give up the world; we have only to see a life insurance agent, who can sell us security for the future, the most direct step to serenity of mind. The next John Hancock agent who calls on you may be able to put you on the road to serenity. Isn't it worth while to see him? A STRONG COMPANY, Over Sixty Years in Business. Liberal as to Contract, Safe and S e c u re in E v e ry W a y. Grand Rapids Savings Bank Grand Rapids, Michigan "Th« Bank Where You Feel At Home" M. S. C. People Given a Glad Hand Charles W. Garfield, '70, Chairman Executive Committee Gilbert L> Daane, C Fred Schneider, '09, President '85, Manager Division Branch Benj. C. Porter, '84, Manager South G. R. Branch Benj. C. Porter, Jr., 'si, Asst. Manager South G. R. Branch Willis Vandenburg, '21, Manager Fulton St. Branch MARRIAGES ROBBINS-TRESTRAIL Putnam \Y. Robbins, '27, and Elsie Trestrail, Northern State Normal, were Iron Mountain on October married 18, 10.27. Mr. Robbing is research as sistant in the forestry department at the College. in MILLER-LARSOX in Blake Miller. '16. and Dorothy Larson of Lansing, were married December 28, 1027, in Lansing. They are at ho^ne in the Dean the parlors of the Porter apartments. Lansim "t EEDRED-MOSHER of Waukegan, Announcement is made of the marriage of Thomas Eldred, '24, and Margaret on Masher Illinois, November 7, 1927. Eldred is in the en gineering department of the city electric light office, Lansing. They are at home at 530 S. Capitol avenue. HUBBARD-CHIESON Edgar Lee Hubbard, '25, and Loris Chilson, '27, were married June 11, 1927. They are living in Lynn, Massachusetts, at "The Breakers" Suite 10, Lynn Shore drive. PA NGBOR N - BOOM HOWER The from following is quoted the "Flor December Michigan Alumnus: to ence Boomhower, Willard H. Pangborn '23) on August 20, 1927. Mr. and Mrs. Pang- horn are living at 2710 Chicago blvd., Detroit, Michigan." (U. of Mich. '23) (M. S. C. MORRICE-BUTLER Alex Morrice and Lorraine Butler, '27, were married November 30, 1927. They are located at present at 1609 W. Hills dale street, Lansing. LARZELERE-BREEN Robert B. Larzelere, '26, and Marjorie Breene of Chesaning, were married in Detroit on Thanksgiving morning. They are living in Detroit. Among the Alumni 1891 Arthur B. Turner, Secretary, 1805 North Parkway, Memphis, Tenn. Herbert \V. Mumford, dean of the college of agriculture, at the University of Illinois, ts one of a committee of nine agricultural educators from the Associa tion of Land Cram Colleges and Uni versities who have (published an important report, "The Agricultural Sit says uation." that "we regard im portant mental contribution to American agriculture since the report of Roose velt's Country Life Commission." The Breeder's Gazette the most this as just 1894 Clarence B. Smith, Secretary, 1 Montgomery St., Takoma Park, D. C. a d d r e ss \. A l e m, B u e n os A i r e s, \Y. P e r r i go gives his new J. as 68y L e a n d ro A r g e n t i n a. 1896 William K. Clute, Secretary, "Central Trust Bldg., Grand Rapids. CJ. E. W. Tracy returned over a month from California and the west coast trip as stock seedsman his annual 3;and purchasing agent for the D. Land- .Jreth Seed company of Bristol, Pennsyl v a n i a. This was his 28th consecutive v yearly trip. He reports having seen very V few M. S. C. men, but he makes it a '96 < point to call on every man of period whose address he knows. the < T **" 1902 Norman B. Horton, Secretary, Fruit Ridge, Mich. H. L. Brunger has moved in Beloit, Wisconsin, to 1721 White avenue. George Henry Ellis gives his new a d' dress as 208 N. Walnut avenue, Wilmore, Kentucky. Maurice F. Johnson should be address ed at 1512 Granger avenue, Ann Arbor. Michigan. 1910 Mrs. Minnie Johnson Starr, Secretary, 627 Madison Ave., Grand Rapids. 1387 Thirteenth street, San Bernardino, California, reaches A. L. Campbell. 1911 James G. Hays, Secretary, 213 Bailey St., East Lansing. Ralph W. and Maude Nason, ('13) in Columbus, Ohio, Powell are living at 135 West Norwich avenue. G. P. Springer is at Purdue University in the highway engineering as assistant section of the civil engineering depart ment. 1007 First street, West Lafayette, Indiana, is his address. inspector H. Basil Wales writes that he is still with the U. S. Forest Service as district forest in forest management. Wales is located in Albuquerque where he lives at 135 S. 14th street. He adds: "Don't know of another specimen M. S. Cite in this state." He has evidently failed to meet up with Howard Jordan '18 at State College, and Mrs. Calla Krentel Eylar, Guy H. Smith poultry business Humboldt avenue. He lives in Birming ham. the wholesale at 2827 is in Detroit Evelyn Kopf Barnes is France, where she may be reached care of the American Embassy. in Paris, in '07, at LaMesa. in 1907 Mrs. Helen Ashley Hill, Secretary, Davison, Mich. Emory Tappan is a civil engineer with offices at 1007 American State bank building, Detroit. January, 1928 T HE M. S. C. R E C O RD 11 Th Mill Mutuals Agency • i Lansing, Michigan Representing the Michigan Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. (MICHIGAN'S LARGEST MUTUAL) The Michigan Shoe Dealers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company AND Their Associated Companies Fire Insurance—All Branches Tornado Automobile Plate Glass Arthur D. Baker, '89 Luther H. Baker, '93 " "> ' "" "" lfc-—«----2^^ il.l ?l 12 T HE M. S. C. R E C O RD J a n u a r y, 1928 E. G. Hulse is district sales represen tative in St. Johns, Michigan, for the5 Ruggles Mi iter Truck company of Sag inaw. 165 S. Swvgl.es street reaches him. G. P. Springer gives his address as 1007 First street, West Lafayette, In diana. 1 9 12 C, V. Ballard, Secretary, —-"'" East Lansing, Mich. Class dues are still needed before class newsletters can be sent out. Your dollar will be accepted by Clinton Ballard, secretary, East Lansing, Michigan. "MICHIGAN STATE" New Michigan State College Song By Zae X. 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P O R T L A ND C E M E NT A S S O C I A T I ON Dime Bank Building D E T R O I T, M I C H. A National Organization to Improve and Extend the Uses of Concrete O f f i c es in 32 C i t i es The postoffice gives the new address for K. D. VanWagenen at 1356 Garfield street, Denver, Colorado. is Xels Hansen located at Fergus Falls, Minnesota, as construction engi neer for the treasury department field force. Leon B. and Helen Eichele ( ' i i) Gardner have moved their new- home at 14873 Piedmont avenue, De troit. The Gardners have two girls, Barbara Jane, Q, and Esther E., 3. into H. V. Loveland has moved to 1211 North Lafayette, South Bend, Indiana. Hubert B. Hendrick is living in Tak- oma Park, D. C, at 115 Baltimore ave is a Ford dealer, manager nue. He and treasurer of the Hendrick Motor company. 1913 Robert E. Loree, Secretary, East Lansing, Mich. high Ralph G. Chamherlin sends his blue slip from 997 44th street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: "Vice-principal North Divi sion school, Milwaukee. Mrs Chamherlin (lva Wilson, '11) keeps the home and my avoirdupois up to standard with food cooked a la M. S. C. Our latch key is ever out to sojourners in our city. Glad to see appointment of Kipke as football coach. We look for big things from M. S. C. now in foot- hall." Joseph YanKerckhove is a salesman in for the General Electric Milwaukee. He lives at 395 Lake Bluff boulevard. company George W. Stege is district manager of the Standard Electric Time company at Dallas, Texas, with offices at 717 Mercantile bank. F. T. Riddell has been transferred from the department of economics at M. S. C. to work in farm management. E. W. Brandes, sugar cane disease in vestigator for the U. S. department of agriculture, will go next year on a trip to New Guinea, a large island off the coast of Australia, in search of certain specimens and information. New Guinea is practically unexplored and populated by wild tribes specializing in using white visitors for stew. He will be accom panied by a scientist They will have the protection of native their constabulary and expect to make journey on foot and by water since there are no roads and no horses on the island. Brandes recently returned from a trip around the world conducting sim ilar famous Dutch investigations. William L. Davidson is in the real es in Milwaukee. 69 East tate business reaches him. His Wisconsin business firm is conducted under name of William L. Davidson and com pany. avenue the 1914 Henry L. Publow, Secretary, East Lansing. Don P. Toland has moved in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to 1157 Alexander street, S. E. T HE M. S. C. R E C O RD Tfie N A T I O N 'S B U I L D I NG S T O NE 13 J a n u a r y, 1928 S. P. Doolittle gives his new address in Madison, Wisconsin, as 105 N. Spoon- er street. Gerald H. Mains sends his new ad in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, as dress 1838 Montier street. He says: "Have town and our ad moved in nearer to dress is now easy to find. Hope some of the old bunch can stop over to say hello on their way through Pittsburgh. the Westinghouse Electric Still with and Manufacturing company in charge of development work on micarta." is western C. S. McArdle technical manager for the Atlas Portland Cement company of St. Louis, Missouri. He is located in St. Louis at 6675 B Washing ton avenue. 1915 Rolan W. Sleight, Secretary, Laingsburg, Mich. C. \Y. Simpson has the work of farm advisor of White county, Illinois, with headquarters at Carmi. taken over Thomas J. Smith is at the coke and gas plant of the Michigan Alkali com pany. 734 Kings Highway, Wyandotte, reaches him. The postoffice that Bertram notes Giffels has moved from Detroit to 952 Rosedale avenue, Atlanta, Georgia; and that J. A. Bennett has moved in Hol land, Michigan, to 50 East 22nd street. 1916 Herbert G. Cooper, Secretary, 1829 Moores River Drive, Lansing. Myrl E. Bottomley is associate profes sor of landscape architecture at Univer sity of Cincinnati, and lives at 421 Lud low avenue. The postoffice gives F. H. Pressler's new address as 1423 Edgwood, Royal Oak, Michigan. E. G. Smith may be reached at 602 N. Pennsylvania avenue, Lansing, Mich igan. O. A. Olson's address, as given by is 1322 Eighth avenue the postoffice, south, Escanaba, Michigan. Louis S. Wells is farming near Grand Rapids, Michigan, on route 5. M. H. Shearer is superintendent of schools at Stevensville, Michigan. Wilbur Wright writes from Corsi- cana, T e x a s: "Outdoor advertising and looking for the school news. Sorry M. S. C. didn't show up so well in football. All I see of the games is the score. Give plenty of space to the whereabouts of M. S. C. men and women in the paper." C. E. Thompson has moved in Detroit to 9 Kensington blvd., Pleasant Ridge. Rose Hogue has moved in Mt. Pleas ant, Michigan, to 629 S. Lansing street. 1917 Mary LaSelle, Secretary, 420 W. Hillsdale St., Lansing. Raymond C. Smith, j r. was born April 27, 1927, and will be ready to en ter M. S. C. with the class of 1945. Thus writes Raymond Senior from Lake Odessa, Michigan. Leon F. Smith is a salesman with the Harkness Memorial Residence Halls, Yale University. James Qamble Rogers, Architect. Detail view in one of the Courts showing "Rippleface" finish Indiana Limestone No Substitute Compares with this fine Natural Stone COLLEGE building throughout the country shows an ever-increasing trend toward natural stone. The natural stone most used for all building purposes on account of its structural merit, beauty and economy, is Indiana Limestone. If you will compare buildings of Indiana Limestone those of any other material, you will note the with fine-textured, greater and more lasting beauty which this light-colored limestone gives to them. So highly is Indiana Limestone regarded by architects that practically all of their finer public buildings, memorials, churches, and other important structures are built of it. Let us send you a brochure showing a large number of college and high school buildings of Indiana Limestone. This booklet will widen your acquaintance with some of the best college buildings and enable you to follow your own institution's building program more intelligently. For convenience, fill in your name and address, below, tear out and mail to Box 855 Service Bureau, Indiana Limestone Company, Bedford, Indiana. Name T HE M. S. C. R E C O RD J a n u a r y, 1928 14 * EAST LANSING STATE BANK Banking In All Its Branches East Lansing. Michigan COURTESY — SAFETY — SERVICE w\ TITI i un nil i rimmi 1111:111 H i iii 1111 ii ii in mm 111111111111111 IT; • I 11 I n iiiiliiii!(iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiminiiii| I J | j Citizens' Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. 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Cleveland gives his new Station, as Naval Training address Great Lakes, Illinois. Burton Householder "Kathleen Anne and Donald Chapin, born May 4," writes G. M. Glidden from 43 Parker street, Mansfield, Ohio. "Electric power and lighting business in is Mansfield very good, since Mansfield indus exceptionally busy. The major tries here are Ohio Brass company, Westinghouse Appliances, Tappan stoves, Mansfield Electric sheets, etc." writes from Minis, Brevard county, Florida: "Am located in the heart of the famous Indian River orange district, near Titusville. .Have several good groves, one of five acres which paid me $4,900 cash for fruit nn trees. Florida is a wonderful state. Rut like all others, she possesses good, If bad, poor, and indifferent sections. any M. S. C. friends Come south to enjoy our balmy winters or to seek good investments, I shall be a thousand times glad in any way. Our home will be easily found on the Dixie, or State road No. 4. is Elsie Lautner teaching mathema the Traverse City. Michigan, to favor them in tics senior high school. 1920 Stanley Powell. Secretary, Ionia, Mich. and research with lewett is engineer in charge Maurice of metallurgy the Cham Belt company of Milwaukee. 595 reaches Seventh avenue:, Wauwatosa, (w'18). him and Marjorie Smith Jewett William C. Boman gives his new ad dress as 553 Court street, Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. Marjorie Williams is home bureau agent in Chemung county. New York, with headquarters at the Home Bureau, 104' -j Lake street, Elmira. The postoffice indicates that Albert N. to from Dowagiac Xcsman has moved I'nionvillc, Michigan. street, Ashley P. Bock gives his new address Springfield, as 26 Kingsley Massachusetts. He is still with the West and Manufacturing inghouse Electric depart company, engineering ment, but has been the to Chicopcc Falls plant. transferred radio 1926 Margaret Hager, Secretary, 400 N. Walnut St., Lansing. Car let on Brown is on the road doing special test and research work part of the time but spends most of his time in the Detroit where he is in charge of J a n u a r y, 1928 T HE M. S. C. R E C O RD 15 FRASER'S INK used by Michigan State College State of Michigan Reo Motor Car Company C. Harold Eddy Stain-Go Laboratories Detroit Insurance Bonds FAUNCE & SCHEPERS 136 W. Grand River Avenue East Lansing Real Estate Rentals L. 0. GORDON MFG. CO. Muskegon, Mich. C A M S H A FT M A C H I N I S TS L. O. Gordon, '06 (Pinkey) dust research laboratory for the Ameri can Blower company. His Detroit ad dress is 4083 Elmhurst avenue. E. J. Wheeler has recently been a p pointed as research assistant in farm crops at M. S. C. Otis Shear has returned to East Lansing, where he has been engaged by the college as extension poultryman. Duane Barrett is assistant director of census and attendance for the Fordson Board of Education. He lives in Ford- son at 5838 Williamson. ^ Carl B. Brown and wife of Harbor Springs announce the birth of Marilyn Jeanne in October, 1927. Brown is the Smith-Hughes ag teacher. Johnston teaching Dora is dressmaking school in Detroit. She lives at 5135 Cass avenue. in the Farrand Charles Mohrhardt is taking a libra rians course at Columbia University. His- address is Box 149 Furnald Hall, Columbia University, New York City. trade Trade The Equitable LifeAssuranceSociety of the United States F. M. Wilson, '17 E. A. Johnson, '18 903 Prudden Bldg., Lansing, Mich. College Drug Co. Rexall Store 103 E. Grand River 180 Acres Landscape Designs THE CORYELL NURSERY Birmingham, Mich. Growers of Hardy Trees and Shrubs R. J. Coryell, '84 I. Wangberg, '25 Ralph I. Coryell, '14 George Burren, '28 Send for Latest Price List COLLEGE PHOTO SERVICE J. H. Pratt, The Photographer College Views 214 Abbott Road East Lansing The Mill Mutuals Agency INSURANCE In All Its Branches "Always at the Service of the Students and Alumni " THE STATE COLLEGE BOOK STORE . - . §. N. E. WAGNER, Manager B /* fN K. B L O C K .- P U B L I C A T I ON W O RK A S P E C I A L TY The Campus Press (Incorporated) 139 East Grand River Ave. East Lansing, Michigan Printers of the M. S. C. Record and Michigan State News 16 * T HE M. S. C. R E C O RD J a n u a r y, 1928 1 A Personal Invitation To All Michigan State Alumni The Hotel < Mils invites yon lo make your headquarters whenever you make a trip to Lansing. Strategically located Opposite in service that can he found the utmost dining room, inviting rooms, and minute service will make your stay enjoyable. largo and the Stale Capitol, tin- Hotel (this offers in a modern hotel. A spacious lobby. 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