a* »c.-#i E i= Michigan Agricultural College Association Publishers a East Lansing Vol. XXVII. April 14, 1922 No. 25 2 THE M. A. C. RECORD R E - C O RD ESTABLISHED IN 1 8 96 M. A. 0. Cannot Lave on Her P a s t — W h at Will You Do for Her F u t u r e? Trees, Shrubs, and Hardy Plants. Landscape Plans and Plantings. WILLIAM J. ATCHISON '16 Landscape Gardener and Nurseryman Opposite Baker's Switch, East Michigan Ave., Bex 525, East Lansing, Mich. . Citz. Phone 9733 302 Helen St., Flint, Michigan. Tel. 2109 HILCREST FRUIT FARMS Fennville Michigan. H. Blakeslee Crane '14— Muriel Smith Crane, '14 We are members of the Fennville Fruit Exchange— the largest in Michigan. THE GRAND RAPIDS SAVINGS BANK, Grand Rapids; Michigan. "The Bank Where You Feel at Home.' M. A. C. People Given a Glad Hand. Chas. W. Garfield, '70, Chairman of the Board. Gilbert L. Daane, '09. Vice President and Ca<0iier.- VV. A. Mvl>ouaia, '13-F. M r. Entered as second-class matter October 30, 1916, at the post office at East Lansing, Michigan, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published every Friday during the College Year by the Michigan Agricultural College Association. E. W. Ranney H. C. P r a tt '09, Lansing W. K. Prudden J. B. Hasselman, East Lansing '00, Greenville '78, Lansing - - - - - Pres. Vice Pres. - Treas. - Acting-Editor - - Members of Executive Committee. Elected at Large: C. S. Langdon, '11, Hubbardston. A. C. Anderson, '06, Flint. Mrs. Helen Esselstyn Wood, '09, Lansing. which MEMBERSHIP IN THE M. A. C. ASSOCIATION to includes subscription Record, $2.50 PER YEAR. payable Association. Unless members request a discontinuance it will be assumed that a renewal of membership is desired. Make Remittances the M. A. C. the to IF YOU WOULD HAVE REAL SERVICE LET M. A. C. MEN SERVE YOU CLUNY STOCK FARM Registered Holstein Friesian Cattle Can furnish young sires of splendid and breeding backed by yearly records. Correspondence solicited. large short individuality and time R. BRUCE McPHERSON '90, Howell, Mich. CHARLES H. ROUSE, '17 Telephone Main 3783. Pardee & Rouse, State Manager, Continental Assurance Co. 605 Lincoln Building, Detroit, Mich. EDMUND H. GIBSON, '12 Consulting Entomologist and Agricultural Engineer and Staff of Sanitary and Civil Engineers. 508 Munsey Bldg., Washington, D. C. Fred M. Wilson, '17; Einar A. Johnson, 602 Lansing State Savings Bank Bldg., Lansing, Mich. '18 The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Life Insurance, Health, Accident Insurance. Citz. 3S56. Bell 2646. DR. C. A. GRIFFIN, '10 Osteopath 360 Capital National Bank Building. Cite. Phone: Office 8341. House 4950, THE^M. A. C. RECORD VOL. X X V I I. N o. 25. E A ST LANSING, MICHIGAN A P R IL 14, 1922 PURDUE UNIVERSITY DEBATERS fell before the M. A. C. "home" team in a dual debate in the last Friday evening. The college gymnasium arguments presented were unusually interest ing and showed splendid preparation and plat form ability on the part of all the speakers. The decision of the judges stood two to one for M. A. C. The affirmative team, which is now on the road for an extended western trip, won its opening debate with Kalamazoo Nor mal College before it left Michigan. T HE STATE BOARD OE AGRICULTURE will hold its regular April meeting on Wednesday, the nineteenth. It will be President Friday's first official meeting ,with the Board. ERECTION OF A CANOE HOUSE on the banks of the Red Cedar river is contemplated by the M. A. C. Canoe Club, an organization of stu dents and faculty. facilities for caring for canoes, both during the season and through the winter, have handicapped canoe enthusiasts materially. In recent years a con taken ad stantly increasing, number canoe vantage of the unusually waters offered by the Red Cedar. have attractive Inadequate PERMANENT WAVES, high coloring, and all the rest of a co-ed's many necessary "equip ments" with which to smooth the path . to higher education are now available to M. A. C. women in East Lansing. The opening of a beauty parlor on Grand River Avenue has made it unnecessary to undertake pilgrimages to Lansing. INTEREST IN GOLF has increased to such an extent among students of the college that the possibility of adding the game to the list of intercollegiate sports has been brought up. Nearly two hundred students are playing on the nine hole college course, according to esti mates. Seventy-five members of the faculty belong to the M. A. C. golf club, paying regu lar yearly dues by means of which the course is kept in repair. The college, of course, fur nishes the ground, and students play without any tax beyond their athletic fees. C. F. ( I R I S H) RAMSEY, '20, was recently ap superintendent of the In pointed assistant dustrial School for Boys at Lansing. Ramsey was formerly director of athletics at Arthur Hill High School, Saginaw, a post now Held by Smiley Bassett, '21. FIVE SENIOR HOME ECONOMICS students are taking institutional management work at the Flower Pot Tea Room term. The Flower Pot, managed by an instructor in the H. E. Division under the general super vision of the Central Michigan Alumnae, is proving an admirable "laboratory." this temporary partitions are being T HE COLLEGE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE, in the Li brary Building, is being remodeled for Pres ident Friday. Permanent walls in place of the old installed, and the rooms are being redecorated. Presi temporary offices in dent Friday is holding occupied by the college residence Secretary A. M. Brown. formerly T HE ANNUAL Y. W. C. A. CARNIVAL was held in the Woman's Building last week. Various side shows and concession stands pro vided a wealth of entertainment for the crowd of visitors, and at the same time returned a • generous profit for the Y. W. girls. E D I TH A L L A N, WELL KNOWN American so prano, will give a concert in the auditorium of the East Lansing People's Church on Mon day evening, April 17, under the auspices of the M. A. C. Woman's Club. the college military S T U NT AND FANCY RIDING" will be part of squadron the regular work for the cavalry of spring'. Officers in charge expect to turn out student horsemen capable of putting on real "wild west" performances by the time of the annual military field day, late in May. forces this instruction A SPECIAL COURSE of for men who will compete for places on the livestock judging team which will represent M. A. C. at the International Livestock Show, in Chi cago next fall, is being given by the animal husbandry department during the spring term. M EN football IN SOCCER INTERESTED re ported to Jack Heppinstall, of the athletic department, early in the week to consider the advisability of organizing work in the old English sport at M. A. C. Heppinstall played the game extensively in the old country, and feels there is room for soccer in the athletic program at the college. that WORK IN POTATO EXPERIMENTATION and test, formerly handled under the college horticul tural department, was transferred to the farm crops department at the last meeting of the State Board of Agriculture. T he feeling that potatoes' were more nearly a field crop than a horticultural product led to the change, it is understood. A FORESTRY EXPERIMENT STATION in Michi gan is a possibility for the near future, ac cording to A. K. Chittenden, head of the M. A. C. forestry department. Legislation pend ing before congress at the present time calls for the establishment of a Federal station in the Lake States, and Michigan is considered to have an excellent chance of securing the location. T he college department is aiding the project actively. THE M. A. C. RECORD President Friday Outlines Policies In Luncheon Talk. ideals Outlining his for college education and enumerating certain phases of the pro gram he intends to push at M. A. C, Pres ident David Friday addressed the Central Michigan Alumni Association at a luncheon in .Lansing last Monday. About a hundred mem including a number bers of of men from in at tendance. the college staff, were the Association, Of chief interest to alumni was President in Engi tendency of engineering graduates Friday's announcement of courses to be made effective. neering Administration, the at M.^A. C. in the fall of 1922. That present is to veer off from merely technical lines, tak ing up matters of production, distribution, and selling in a broad way, was brought out in the talk. Recognition of this fact must come to engineering colleges, and that M. A. C. will .assume a distinct field of in dicated by the President. leadership was About three-fourths of the work in the new COlifses will be technical, leaving about twenty- in economics, ac five per cent for courses counting, banking, and other "business ad ministration" work. Dean Bissell and Presi dent Friday are working out the details of the-new course, with the cooperation of the enuineering faculty. The matter of investigational work in fields second the of agricultural economics was in his question touched by President Friday talk; Pointing out the lack of definite infor mation on agricultural conditions in the coun try, Friday indicated that M. A. C, within, a period of three to five years, hopes to know more about the economics of agriculture than any other agency in the country. "Shifts in the ratio of city and farm popu lation in the state have made Michigan large ly an importing state, as far as farm products are concerned,'' said President Friday in dis cussing the agricultural situation. the exception of. potatoes, beans, sugar beets, fruit, and one or two other crops, Michigan must now be classed as an importing state. "With "A readjustment of state agriculture must take place, and it will lie the business, of the college to keep the farmers of the state a year or two ahead of changing national and world conditions. "We must not lose sight of in the end that ever, who gets rich acre and more per unit of labor. the fact, how farmer is the one produces more per individual the in trends In discussing general educational matters, Friday sketched recent education, pointing to a new era which lies before Amer ican colleges. That the age of purely scien tific education alone was passing and that the college trained man of the future must have a broad foundation in and understanding of the business principles of his profession,' was indicated. in fields of "A college man, no matter how technical the particular course he is studying, must be literature, history,, and educated political philosophy," said Friday. the American college does not turn out High- Brows,, in the sense of broadly educated, in telligent men and women, it is a failure. We hope to set high standards and to open new fields of leadership at M. A. C." "If Southern California Association Meet. to The M. A. C. Association of Southern Cali fornia will hold its annual meeting at Jahnke's Tavern, 524 S. Spring St., Los Angtles, on Friday evening, April 21. The meeting will be in the nature of a dinner dance, heginning to E. E. Nies, secretary, at 7:30, according Special who s e n d s, in stunts will be provided for those who do not dance. The tax is to be $2.50 a plate. Every former M.. A. C. student is urged to attend. the announcement. in the district Field Agent Plans Long Trip. him take Norm Weil, '17, college field agent, is - to leave East Lansing on April 18 for a seven weeks' trip which will high schools scattered all over the lower peninsula of the state. More than seventy high schools are listed on the itinerary for personal • visits, indirectly while many others will be reached through contact with alumni the various districts. Weil will travel in a Ford, making quick "jumps" possible. in to that alumni can do much for Feeling the the college by cooperating with interests of the field agent at the time of his visits to the different towns and cities, the Record is puh- lishing below the complete itinerary. April 18, a. m. Howell, p. m. Plymouth; TO, a. m. Monroe, p. m. Adrian; 20, a. m. Hillsdale, p. m. Jonesville and Litchfield; 21, a. m. Quincy and Coldwa'ter, p. m. Burr Oak and Sturgis ; 24, Union City and Colon, p. m. Three Rivers; 25, a. m. Niles, p. m. Three Oakes; 26, a. " m. Benton Harbor, p. m. St. Joseph; 27, a. m. Watervliet and Hartford, p. m. Bangor; 28, a. rn. South Haven, p. m. Allegan and Plainwell; 31, a. m. Holland, p. rri. Grand Rapids Union. May 1, a. m. Grand Rapids South, p. m. Grand Rapids Central; 2, a. m. Grand Haven, p. m. Muskegon; 3, a. m. Shelhy, p. rn. H a r t; and 4, a. m. Pentwater, p. m. Luclington Scottville ; 7, a. m. Manistee, p. m. Reed City; 8 a. m: Cadillac; 9, a. m. Traverse City, p. m. Mancelona; 10, a. m. East- Jordan, p. m. Boyne City; 11, a. m. Petoskey, p. m. Harbor Springs; 14, a. m. Cheboygan, p. m. Onaway; if), a. rn. East Tawas, p. 15, a. m. Alpena; m. Tawas City; 17, Bay City; 18, a. m. Sagi naw, p. rri, Arthur Hill; 21, a. m. Flint,-p. m. Lapeer; 22, a. m. Port Huron, p. m. Sandusky ; 2^, a. m. Deckerville, p. m. Bad A x e; 24, a. THE M. A. C. RECORD 5 m. Cass City, p. m. Card; 25, a. m. Vassar, p. m. Millington; 28, a. m. Charlotte, p. m. Hastings. June 4, a. m. Grand Ledge, p. m. Ionia; 5, a. m. Lowell, p. fa. fielding; 6, a. m. Ovid, p. m. Elsie. Detroiters' Column. Everybody seems to be fed up on our pres ent meeting place for the Friday lunch, so we have changed the scenery. Starting Friday of this week the lunch will be held at the Blue Bird Tea Room, 1426 Farmer St.— on the east side of Farmer between the Dixieland Inn and King's dish emporium. Be there at 12:15 sharp. The annual meeting, while rather poorly attended, was lively while it lasted. The en gineers were much elated to- hear of Jay R. McColl's appointment to the State Board and smoked his cigars with much relish. They are expecting big things o'f .Mr. McColl. The new members of the board of directors elected were Middlemiss, Pagelsen, and Newell Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ballou (Bertha Kaiser) of 144 Geneva Avenue, H. P., have to Saginaw, where Mr. Ballou will moved have his headquarters. This move caused Janet Renwick to look for a new home. Janet is teaching i n ' t he Highland Park school. Family cares must "rest heavy on Dutch Keydel's head. He introduced himself as the father of a seven months' old baby, but she is only seven weeks old. Her name is Elizabeth Ann. "Stew" Miller is back in town again. - He has charge of construction and maintenance of service stations for the Sinclair Refining Co. The column scrivener has moved his office from 504 Union Trust Building to 1510 First National Bank Building. Walt Sprang is working out of Detroit for the E. Heubner and Sons. Ran other day selling to Henry Weber, Jr., the Woodward Avenue hardware king who stuck around the Hesperian House for a while- back in 1914. radio outfits into him to May 6 in order chief ' spreader The Intercollegiate Alumni Lunch has been to get Judge ' postponed Landis scintillating sentiment, etc. Don't forget to use your cou pon when - you get the announcement. come, first served. S. B. L. '17. First for of ATHLETICS Olivet Cancels—Kalamazoo Comes on April 19 Olivet College canceled her engagement to open the M. A. C. baseball season at East Lansing on April 8, inclement weather making it impossible for the coaches to whip a team leaves into shape for the early game. This cancella the Kalamazoo College game, at tion East Lansing April 19, as the official curtain- raising engagement for the year. Coach John Morrissey and his charges ex pressed no regret over the failure to play last Saturday, as the M. A. C. squad itself was far from ready for an inter-collegiate contest. A practice game with a team of Lansing inde pendent players was substituted, the Green and White tossers taking the long end of a 10 to 6 decision after eight innings of erratic ball-. Johnson, Ross and Kuhn each took a turn lost in the box and showed none of the pitching ability which made them ; a feared year. None of the men "cut loose" at all, but each showed nice control for so early in the sea son and gave promise of coming along rapidly. two combination, looks better with each practice weeks ago, session. Daley short; traveling well at Fullen is holding down his old job at second in good shape, while Schwartz, Mellencamp, Higbie, Sepanek, and two or three others all show promise of real infield ability. trio of college they have a puzzle tossers infield The that last is Brady, a former infielder, and Stevens, an outfielder, have worked behind the bat in an effort look to plug the hole there, and both fairly good, with prospect of satisfactory de velopment. Many Colleges Building Stadiums Unusual activity in the erection of athletic stadiums has manifested itself among Amer ican colleges and universities during the past In view of the general alumni in few years. terest in the possibility of a future stadium a t . M: A. C, the following item from the In tercollegiate News Bureau may be of to Record readers: interest have their construction, "American universities which com pleted athletic stadiums within the decade, or have provided for include California, Ohio State, Yale, Illinois, Stanford, Chicago, Washington,, Princeton, Kansas, Pittsburgh, and the City College of New York. Of these, Yale's stadium cost $400,000 and seats 70,000; Washington spent $600,000 and can seat 60,000; California is spending $900,000 to seat 60,000; Illinois is planning a combined stadium and ampitheater to cost $2,500,000; and Ohio State raised $1,250,000. No stadium yet completed has been large enough to meet the immediate demand for seats. These facts, together with the recent discussion by Pres ident Lowell of Harvard University, on the re lationship of the university, indicate two opposite trends which are likely to clash in the future.". inter-collegiate athletics to for students of AN ENGINEERING BANQUET, the college en the division and members of gineering staff, will be held at the Lansing Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, April 25. 6 THE M. A. C. RECORD Dr.. Beal, M. A. C's Grand Old Man, Receives Many Congratulations on Eighty-ninth Birthday Dr. William James Beal, the "Grand Old- Man" of M. A. C, celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday on March n, 1922. Connected' with the Michigan Agricultural College since 1870, the year he came to the college as a lecturer in botany, Dr. Beal has come to symbolize the very spirit of the institution. Known to more alumni and former students in than probably any other man, he is held esteeip and seldom accorded any living educator. The entire M. A. C. family is justly proud of Dr. Beal, and all rejoice with him as he reaches the milestones in his life of singular usefulness and inspiration.. reverance Many alumni and former associates of Dr. Beal remembered him on his recent birthday friend with messages of congratulation and ship. re markable in their scope, covering a range of ;alumni reaching from the "early days" down to the present generation. In fact, the letters received are them Ray Stannard Baker, '89, gathered together a budget of the letters at Dr. Beal's Amherst, Mass., home and forwarded the Record. Feeling that M. A. C. people over the entire half century of Dr. Beal's connec tion with in terested in this "budget of M. A. C. news," as Mr. Baker expresses it, we are publishing the letters the in "Grand Old Man." the college would be intensely issue as a testimonial this to to "The feeling letters show how much real the old times," and enthusiasm is for says Mr. Baker in his letter. "Dr. Beal keeps in wonderful health and in good spirits. . He is entering his ninetieth year with serenity." there Dear Friend: the n t h. I see by my birthday book that your 89th will be on Congratulations and many happy returns ! I had my 75th on Satur last, and Charley Garfield will have his day 74th on the 14th. So you see we are quite kids yet. You would think so of Charley, if you could see his every day program—and he carries it out too. He is a wonder in the effi cient use of time. Mrs. Satterlee joins me in sincere regards to yourself and to Jessie and her family. Very truly, James Satterlee, .'69. 913 West Ottawa St., Lansing, Mich. My dear Dr. Beal : This is our birthday month. You are three days some years old than I. Jim Satterlee had a birthday on March 4. This is hoping we may all hold our own until another anni for versary comes. We have many reasons import to us thanksgiving. None of more than our neighbors and friends. It is a little severe on us to keep up with the procession of important events. This in which to live. I'm glad every day that I am permitted to linger here and I am grateful for the impress you have made on my life and career. is a great epoch Yours today and forever, 'p. Chas. W. Garfield, Grand Rapids, Mich. My dear Dr. Beal : If the eleventh of I am not mistaken your birthday will this month, three occur on Is it 89 or 90? However, days before mine. that is a small matter. The important thing is the fact that you are, I trust, still enjoying good health, and are .able to look back upon so many years of usefulness and helpfulness to your fellow man. I am glad that I have this opportunity of extending to you most hearty congratulations on the return of this happy event and we all hope and trust that there are many more in store for you. From one of the many old students at M. A. C. Most cordially yours, J. Troop, '78. Professor of Entomology. Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. My dear Friend and Teacher: another I remember," too, the calendar shows to your birthday and the Good Father has seen fit Somewhere about this time of year, I re land member, mark, and it must be near the ninetieth. As the my mind deverts age which to bestow upon you, it also goes back to the old times at M- A. C. when I was a youngster in the classes and you were giving us something of botany. the old days down on the flatiron. It is all a long time ago; much longer than it seems when we con sult the almanac. Many things have hap-. pened since that time, and among them, we far apart with many miles be have drifted tween us. This is my last year of University work, and I, too, shall become a private citizen on my farm in Woodland, Michigan. After we get to living there, I hope to have the oppor tunity to renew some old acquaintances; and it is not among the impossibilities that I may turn up some day as as Massa chusetts. far east " • Our daughter is married and lives in Geneva, New York, where her husband holds a posi- THE M. A. C. RECORD 7 tion with Hedrick, whom you know. Being it is of especially interested course a great opportunity . for him to get - started; for Hedrick is one of the best men in the country in this particular field. in Horticulture, Professor Mumford, whom you will re returned member, is still here, having from a two years' leave of absence in service Illinois Agricultural Association. with is still in the College of Engi Goodenough neering. I think these are all of the M. A. C. people of our vintage. just the Please give my respects to the Bakers and remember me always as Your devoted friend and admirer, E." Davenport, '78. University of Illinois, College of Agriculture, Urbana, 111. To my Dear Old Friend and Instructor, Greetings! On this ninetieth anniversary of your birth please accept congratulations from one of your old followers of forty years ago. In those days of long ago when I sat on one and of the front seats stopped the pendulum movements your shoe with my shin 1 had no dream" of what this time would have in store for us. room of the class in May your memories of those days be pleasant. May the knowledge that you have started so many young minds right direction be your reward. We all honor and the care and pains that you respect you. for took to they should go. impress our minds in the way the in With hopes of many, happy returns of this day please accept my best wishes. . • Very respectfully, Victor E. Bailey, '81. Corvallis, Oregon. " • • . My dear Prof. Beal: Allow me to extend my sincere and hearty congratulations on having arrived at the most important birthday you have ever had, and may I wish you more of them, and may you have the. very best of health, to enjoy each of them as they come, and a continuation of the same good health as they go, and until the next one conies. I have just written my father who has the same birthday, and same age as yourself, and who is hale and hearty. He came from Iowa to visit me this past fall for several weeks, and he could stand as long a walk as I could. I am happy to tell you that my health is now much better, after five years of sickness. Most sincerely and cordially yours, Byron S. Palmer, 81. Palmyra, N. Y. My dear Dr. Beal : I seem to recall that the anniversary of your I wish to con this time. is about birthday gratulate you on the event. Even I can ap preciate the pleasure of age in seeing events unfold and not worry as to the outcome. Yours very truly, R. J. Coryell, '84.. Birmingham, Mich. from know letting you My dear Doctor: . This clear beautiful March day reminds me I that next Saturday will be your birthday. can't refrain that forty-four years ago last August I first met you at the M. A. C. During those years many things have happened and many changes have taken place, but it has always been a pleasure same to know that Dr. Beal was that kindly friend. you we should have changed should have gone into my boyhood State a n d' I should be in Michigan. That after all, those changes of residence and little difference as compared place make but friendship. with the steadfastness of It seems a little strange that fixed here places, firmly just the Kindly give my regards to Jessie and Ray, and all the children. They all have a very I hope you will warm place in my affections. not disappoint us by failing to reach your hundredth birthday. Yours very truly, Charles B. Collingwood, Thirtieth Judicial Circuit of Michigan, Lansing, Michigan. '85. My dear Dr. Beal : to remember I am delighted I am reminded by one of our good M. A. C. friends that time is rolling by and that some of our old professors as well as the earlier graduates of M. A. C. are acquiring gray hairs. that you are one of the men who helped to make the repu tation of our old College and who has never grown old. White hairs do not necessarily indicate age, and I am told that you exercise things necessary systematically and do other I am wondering if this to retain your youth. this may not be includes massage. Even that you are still literally young enough to enjoy good news from your old students and friends, and I wish to con gratulate you upon another year rolling by in which you have enjoyed good health and re tained your interest in the College and the old students. the case I know if I had hoped to go back to commencement think it will be this again soon, but do not the boys at New year. I saw a number of Orleans last winter, all of them, I think, as successful and full of expectation as they have the always been. Dean Shaw new President-elect, but I have not yet seen any statement of his actually taking charge. I certainly hope for good things from him, as he must be an aggressive man and one of good ability or he would not have done the things which are credited to him. Eet us hope told me of 8 THE M. A. C. RECORD in 1 saw the President's he will be as successful chair as he has been in other things. Illinois, the Davenports at Urbana, last winter on the occasion of the installation insisting of President Kinley, the that leave they would end of to this year. the contrary since. They were the University at I have heard nothing My family is as well as usual. son eighteen years old who in the University. I have one is a sophomore 1 hope some day to sec you again in Ara- .herst. Remember me to Mr. I. H. Butter- to Mr. and held, President Butterfield, and Mrs. Baker. My very best wishes for your good health and happiness for many years to come. Very sincerely vours, E. A. Burnett, '87. University of Nebraska, College of Agriculture, Lincoln. Dear Dr. Beal: 11" my memory serves me right the eleventh for in your century run which many of us of March will mark another milestone you believe you are quite likely to accomplish. left your department hut It is now something over thirty-three years since I train ing and inspiration that I received under your past guidance are as fresh in my mind as they were on the day following. Whatever service we boys have been able to render in the held of scientific agriculture has been largely due to your own efforts. the 1 take the greatest pleasure in: extending you greetings appropriate to the occasion and trust that I may have the opportunity of doing so many times more. With kindest personal re gards. 1 am. Verv truly yours, C . ' B. Waklron, '87. North Dakota Agricultural College, Agricultural College, North Daktota. Congratulations and best wishes health and happiness on your birthday. for your eighty-ninth (Telegram) New Brunswick, N. J. L. A. Clinton, '80. My Dear Friend : I greet you on your eighty-ninth birthday. I You ought to be a very proud young man. am sure that if you could appreciate, as do your friends, the greatness of the services you have rendered to the world, you would be bursting with pride on this your birthday in the year 1922. Who can measure the continuous and con tinuing influence and power set in motion by a good man, a wise man, and of knowledge ? a man I want you to know that on more than one occasion you had a great influence upon my their official relations with life, and I hereby acknowledge my deep grati tude to you for your wise counsel. ^ on have of course forgotten the circum stance, but some time in the year 1893 after Burnett and Holden had been quietly asked to sever the De partment of Agriculture at M. A. C, and later Mr. P. M. Harwood, now of your state, was likewise quietly separated from his posi tion by the all-wise Board of -Agriculture, I returned from erecting the exhibit of the in stitution at the Chicago World's Fair. I was placed in charge of the Department by Presi dent Chits and for many months I did all the teaching that was done, which admitted!}' was small in quantity and mediocre in quality, and all the investigational work and all the super vision the College Farm. All of this I cheerfully attempted at the then I was some munificent salary of $500 a year. at what discouraged " and disheartened great burden- and lack of ap preciation on the part of the Board of Agri culture. 1 had about decided to resign and go back to my farm. Before actually coming to this point, however, I came to you and told you all about it, and with-your usual- wisdom you suggested that I go slow in such an im ;i man portant matter—that in your opinion could not continue to do what 1 was trying to do without having it appreciated sooner or later. that was given the apparent to the . Whether my conversation with you was re ported to the Board, or not, I do not know, hut 1 do know that the very next meeting the president of the Hoard, Mr. Henry. Chamber lain, came to me and went out of his way to express the Board for the work I was doing. Not only- that, but he told me the Board had agreed to double my salary and dated it back about three months. This was such an unusual cir cumstance that it made a very great impres sion (iii my mind. the' very great appreciation of I give you all the credit for this. I wish for you long life arid continued happiness. Very sincerely, yours, F. B. Mumford, '01. University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. - -. My dear Dr. Beal: the the nth. Please accept my most sincere congratula return of your annual anni tions on versary on instant. While eighty- nine years, put down in cold type, looks rather formidable I suspect that as you look back Your many ward it does not seem friends, the old including I am sure all of boys who passed through M. A. C. are wish ing you many happy returns of With kindest regards, I am the day. long. Verv truly vours,. Win. A. Taylor, '88. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C. THE M. A,. C. RECORD 9 i to siiri itiiig itul; me t a ke to ; y ou u p on this t h i s, ofte tall •n s p e ak Of you tith vou a re en- r e- a'nd J o f t en L t h ad with you :ed o v er th. l or t plea COrigr; lav. • nd sis able g the irk. " p l e a! t d [t the My d e ar Doc is a ciis! o p p o r t u n i ty < your 8oth bir My m o t h ei and r e m; th« j o y i ng at m e m b er t he \ t wo y e a rs ag t i m es at ColL A ' ou pr<»l>al I w as o b l i ge in B o t a ny on my p a rt a nd ] : a n a l y z e - a nd the t i me or i h ad seeim in aide to plaee As a rnatti t r e a s u re and vou sent me r to .1 w a nt of plea i tin tal • W i th k i n de o ur u V et 'v s': " T. H. G r a nd Rapids tich. My d e ar D r. I h a ve Hear Be • sctly from time H i f re 4e the 1 v farmers' weel the old cai ipus" c i to time m the M> A. t eeive regularly. (during Pound I noted a marked diff " dent body there' and a ii;)is. particular!1.- with refe • ' haps 1 can express it best A saying seemed to me like boys and girls, they seem- more women. th'< to ag | - like young fhefl and- yi jri I' just returned to tlie University on \ leave of absence •: time is re::1' thi Uliri two years' i was employed by i, after which Agricultural Association, which State Farm Bureau Federation o This Association has at pi members in this state and is stro and -financed. The particu ir was asked to do vwas to work < cooperative live stock marl :tirig fir has been completed and the - national plan at Rational Stock Yards, was strongly urged to' remain with that work. 1 am convinced that so far as 1 am concerned 1 will render, a larger public service by con tinuing in the educational is now f'.unctioui • y h \ ' i uiit tlliii A rganiz field. Vou will pardon me for saying so muich about myself. My only, excuse is that I know you always show a deep interest in what your old students are doing. I sincerely eighty-ninth birthday on March n, will find yon well and I think years ago you met my mother, happy. that your trust le ripe aye of ninety- t as A igorous as. you .' our old asso- • Eshes for your vo.urs, . V. Akimford, '91. of two each year the enjoying 5 •; "a happy re- •:' this week. May the •.any more of r.c'an Association Tonto. For years in lings ying good health tth kind per- Glose old boys to eighty-ninth and very few do the "great n grow even v C E wish • , manv \\ atkms, '93. •ire to note an- 3 .lir life. The ] 1 years ago family and ntore of these \\ [th best wishes 1 A. T. Stevens, '93. College, teal on Conference in bruary, I learned >ys that you were L-; retired.. for your birth- hot—and I want 10 THE M. A. C. RECORD to wish you many happy returns. Please re member me also to the Bakers. Yours very truly, Dick H. Crosby, '93- New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. Congratulations and best wishes, Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Butterfield, Secretary, M. A. C. '93-99. My dear Doctor Beal: it. seems to me that you have another anni versary along about this time when the spring things are beginning to get green. • May I again express my pleasant recol lections of your contribution to my success? I never think of college days and the meet ings with you since but that I feel that I am the better for these thoughts. I hope that you may continue to enjoy the health, and activity which have so long been yours. Regretting that I cannot extend these greetings in person, I am With kindest personal regards, Your Student and Admirer, H. E. VanNorman, '97. World's Dairy Congress Association, Washington, D. C. Heartiest congratulations on your birthday. Make it a hundred! Mr. ('99) and Mrs. ('00) E. W. Ranney, Greenville, Mich. My dear Doctor Beal: Y'ou are to have a birthday about the time this letter reaches you—I hope it will get to you on the n t h. Mrs. Eustace and I hope that you are well and that- you will have a fine day—that your thoughts will hark back over your many and highly profitable years at M. A. C. and you willrecall a few, at least, of the many, many young people that you inspired to love nature. the remember us very kindly the Marshall children when you to Please Bakers and see them. Oakland, Calif., 6452 Beauveune Ave. Cordially yours, Harry Eustace ,01. Dear Dr. Beal: If my memory serves me rightly you will be 89 years old on Saturday the n t h. I wish to congratulate you upon your - birthday and hope that you will have many more of them. Very truly yours, C. A. McCuc. Dean and Director, Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station, Newark, Del. Dear Dr. Beal: In looking over some statements which I have here, I find that March n will be your eighty-ninth birthday, and I write you now to congratulate you upon this event, and to let you know, too, that one of your old students has not forgotten you. I was in college from 1898-1902, and after I graduated in that year, I went into the service of the United States Bureau of Soils, with whom I have been connected through all these years. During the last ten years, I have been assigned co to Wisconsin where we operating with the state in making a soil sur vey of the entire state. are through 1 keep in touch with the college through the its columns M. A. C. Record, and note your activities from time to time. I re member an occasion on which your old friend T. J. Phillips was looking through a miscro- scope trying to find it. You told him to keep on "squinting." If we keep hammering away at whatever we are doing, we are sure to make some headway. T. J. finally found what he was looking for. Again congratulating you, and with kindest personal regards, I am Yours very cordially, W. J. Geib, '02. United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, Madison, Wisconsin. My dear Doctor Beal: It gives me great pleasure to to be able time on having congratulate you reached your eighty-ninth birthday. I assure you that your former students are all pleased to know that you are still enjoying an active .interest in the everyday affairs of life. this at the opportunity of 1 assure you that I would appreciate very much sitting down and having a good old-fashioned visit with you I trust relative to the old days at M. A. C. that you will be spared to celebrate many more of these occasions. With sincere regards, I am Very cordially yours, James G. Moore, '03. University of Wisconsin, College of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture, Madison. My dear Doctor Beal: it has come to my mind that you have an other birthday due next Saturday, March the eleventh, your eighty-ninth, I believe. It certainly gives me great pleasure to con gratulate you again upon this event. May it find you well and happy and with renewed joy in the prospect ahead. Last summer I spent my vacation in Mich igan with my parents and had a good time in spite of taking part in an auto accident. I have been able to work harder this winter THE M. A. C. RECORD II than for several years and hope to finish a little job started several years ago. Give our kindest regards to the Bakers. Most cordially yours, B. O. Longyear, '03. Department of Forestry, Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado. Dear Doctor Beal: Accept my hearty congratulations upon the occasion of your 89th birthday. May God grant you many more such .happy days. I am always glad to hear of you and I will always remember my associations with you when we were both 'young back in 1900-1904. Very sincerely yours, Geo. C. Morbeck, '04. Iowa State College, Department of Forestry, Ames, Iowa. My dear Doctor Beal: As one of your former students, is a pleasure to be able to .congratulate you on your eighty-ninth birthday. it With kind regards and best wishes for your continued good health, I am. Very truly yours, W. J. Wright, '04. State Club Leader. Cooperative Extension work in Agriculture and Home Economics, Ithaca, N. Y. Dear Dr. Beal: It is one of the year's keenest pleasures, to send birthday greetings to you and yours. Surrounded by health and happiness we be speak the fullest measure of similar blessings for you. Sincerely, The Andersons, A. C. Anderson, '06. 1640 Euclid Avenue, Flint, Mich. My dear Dr. Beal: I am reminded of the fact that you are now a year older, or younger, whichever way you happen to feel. I wish to take this occasion' to send you greetings and wish you a most pleasant new year. You may be interested to learn that two of the other men in this department and myself have been hard at work for a couple of years on a book on Principles of Fruit Growing. We have tried to make it of University grade. printer's We expect to receive it from hands in six or eight weeks and probably in due course of time you will see a copy. We include a good deal of have attempted Botany, particularly Plant Physiology, as it relates to Horticulture and I hope when you look it over, if you should chance to do so, sometime, you will not be too disappointed at the to what we learned or failed to learn in some of your courses. Yours very truly, V. R. Gardner, '05. Professor of Horticulture, University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Columbia, Mo. _ • Happy returns, affectionate congratulations from one Michigan Aggy Naughty Seven. T. H. McHatton, '07. Athens, Ga. Dear Friend: It has occurred to us that you are about to in your earthly pil pass another milestone to extend our con grimage and we desire gratulations, that it the hope you may have the privilege of enjoying many your more years. The years we spent classes will ever the very brightest spots in our memories. including with remain in With best wishes for the day, we are Very truly yours, Floyd M. Barden, '08, Myrta Severance Barden, '09. South View Fruit Farm, South Haven, Mich. My dear Doctor Beal: I am writing this note to offer congratula tions and best wishes on your birthday and to tell you how much I appreciated your let ters and the sentiments they expressed with re gard to my work here in the Alumni Office. I have just a fair start in Lansing and thus far in my new work it with my brother is going very well. I understand No one has been secured as-Alumni Sec is retary but the Committee seeking a man in the East who graduated in 1913 or 1914. We all hope that the changes the better and that have been made are for that the new college administration will fulfill the desires of all of us. Again birthday greetings, and best wishes for many more pleasant and happy" years. Sincerely yours, C. W. McKibbin, '11. East Lansing, Mich. From Botanical Department, University of Michigan. To one of the Nestors of American Botany, Dr. W. J. Beal, on the occasion of his 89th "birthday, congratulations the Botanical Staff of the University of Michigan. by F. C. Newcombe Jas. B. Pollock C. H. Kauffman Bradlev Moore Davis J. H. Ehlers. Walter W. Tupper Carl D. LaRue F. G. Gustafson H. H. Bartlett. THE M. A. C. RECORD Congratulations from President. K. L.~' But ter Held, 'gi. Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass. Congratulations from Dr. Charles E. Mar shall. •; Professor Bacteriology, M. A. C. From 1806- HJ12. My dear Friend: Once more we wish to come on your birth day with most hearty greetings, and the best of good wishes for another year oi comfort and joy. ''Make new friends but keep the old. Those are silver, these are gold;; Xew-madc friendship.-., like new wine Age will mellow and refine. that have stood the test, • Friendships . " Time and change—are surely best;. Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray. Friendship never knows decay.'' With kindest regards, Fred C. and Eva S.. Kenney. Mount Pleasant, Amherst, Mass. Dear Doctor Beal: Being laid- up with influenza prevented me from writing you 011 your eighty-ninth birth day which, i believe, occurred on March 11. I think of you many times during the year, especially, when my mind wanders back to my good Alma Mater, the Michigan Agricultural ) g-t back there hut W d - m - o n ce in College. about ten years. 1 returned some [our years ago and I missed your presence very much. 1 have been told that you are enjoying good the reunion-.. talk- health and 1 hope at some of I may have the pleasure of meeting and nig with you again. Everything is going nicely With me down here with the exception that 1 have had con siderable sickness the past six weeks. 1 am glad to state, however, thai we are all "out of the woods" now. in my family in Wishing you many more birthdays with kindest regards and best wishes, ! am anil Very sincerely yours,; "E". S. Good. Chairman, Animal Industry Group, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. My dear Doctor Beal: occurred I have just taken a squint at the calendar and have been reminded of the fact that your yesterday., day birthday It 1 remember, correctly, you have March 11. this event roll around some eighty-nine seen times. 1 wish to congratulate you upon hav1 iug lived a life full, not only of years but of before deeds that live and will be cherished long in the minds of your old students. We are just as busy here as ever. It keeps us everlastingly hustling to care for the con stantly increasing number of students. The registration to date for this year, exclusive of Summer school and winter short course stu dents, has passed the 380b mark. This, I be lieve, makes the separate the standpoint of hand Grant colleges from student enrollment. In agriculture alone,, the registration for tl*e year, will reach very near ly goo. the largest of this I have been 1 feel that your interest in your old students is such 'that you will be pleased to know that 'as a result of a rather serious operation, to which 1 submitted two years ago, 1 am now in much better .health for a than considerable number of years. Mrs. Cord- in Icy and our daughter, Dorothea, are both excellent health, and.Dorothea will soon .enter tiie last term of her Junior year in College For some 'unaccountable reason she is prov ing the possessor Of a rather Unusual voice which we are attempting .to have developed," Both she and Mrs. Cordiey unite with me in sending regards to you and yours. to be an excellent student and is Very truly vours, A. B. Cordiey, '88. I iree.on Agricultural .College, Whoo] of Agriculture and Experiment Station, C irvailis. Honor C. W. Garfield "70 • issue of n from the March 15 the in is held this community where he M ichigan Tradesman) BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF A N O T ED .MAX. " . sterday was the 74th birthday of'Charles ... Garfield, and those of his friends who kven awar< or the anniversary took great de light in reminding him of the esteem in which he is. known. Xo man in private life has a wider- circle of warm friends than Mr! Garfield, and c-rtainly no one has ever done more to merit friends the hienship and admiration of his than Mr. Garfield'has done. He is the epitome of all that is good and gracious and unselfish and Irs long career has been a constant bene diction to all who have had the pleasure of his acquaintance and the advantage of his friendship. Xo one has ever done more to in proportion proftrote community betterment to his means, than Mr. Garfield, and his in terest in the big problems of forestry, horti human culture, agriculture betterment and in scope and world haye been country wide wide influence; Grand Rapids doffs her hat to her foremost citizen-and sincerely hopes" to see him to round out a. century of years, good deeds, and good influence." live in THE M. A. C. RECORD 13 C L A SS N OT 1- S '82 Commencement in June will mark the 40th anniversary of our graduation. Cards are sent to all living members of onr class. We to meet President Friday, greet Dean wish Kedzie, and rally around Dr. Beal once more. '82, "Let's all go," 100 per cent Come on '8r and .'S3 to be present strong. We'invite "and will put something over on in days of yore. Come along, you are worthy of meeting and owe it to yourself and fellows to be present. We will meet you in June on the campus. them as T. F. Millspaugh, 9271 Martindale Ave., Detroit. W. T. Langley, Centreville, Mich. . '95 • The .following is quoted from the. San Fran cisco Bulletin under date of March 23. "Peter V. Ross of San Francisco has been appointed an accredited lecturer of the Christian Science Church by the Mother Church of Boston.. Ross practiced law here until seven years ago, when he engaged is well known as a practitioner and teacher here and served oil the Committee on Publication for in Northern Cali fornia. His first Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March J i ." lecture engagement was in" in Science work. He the Science Churches '96 Frank C. Morse, care Browne-Morse Com pany of Muskegon, sends this. "Still plugging away making filing cabinets in wood and steel little construction, also supplies for same—a bit better than they have ever'been made- be fore. Trying to -a basis of $5,000,000.00 a year. Haven't quite Still reached it yet, but well on married—two boys—one big enough to wear his dad's clothes. Have no. particular com plaint as to the way the world is using-me." to get our business up the way. /' : - .Herbert A. Hagadorn the General Electric Company a xl 2S14 Main Street,. Stratford, Conn. 98 • is plant engineer for lives at •. '99 . Under a cartoon entitled "Philip S. Rose, Associate Editor," appearing in the April, is sue of the Curtis Publishing Company's Home Organ, are these .words, "From sunny south to Arctic snows, they read the stuff by Philip Rose." Elsewhere in the paper is this,' "Few men have seen more of our country than Phil. the Michigan lumber drives He has .watched in come down North Dakota, bathed from a beach at Los Angeles, sipped Java at New Orleans, and a t. time was one neering department." in the spring, faced blizzards the head of a college engi '00 .Alice M. Cimmer, 112 North Avenue, Bat tle Creek, writes, "Same address. We are interested very much in our new Vocational Building. The Home Economics rooms are located on upper floor, modern in every way. We expect to be able to occupy them in Sep tember. Am planning on spending summer in Corvallis, Oregon." H a r ry J. Westcott was recently elected sec retary of the Masonic Club of Passaic, New Jersey. Westcott Lafayette Avenue. lives at 345 ' 03 • . C. M. Marshall continues at Heber, Cali fornia. '04 George McMullen visited friends on the campus April 6. J. W. Decker, 661 Clatsop Avenue, Portland, ex . -()regon, says there is nothing new or citing. '06 • the following the Parkway, - Albert N. Robson, forester for Bronx Park in charge of all way Commission and also maintenance work on lives at Pennsylvania Avenue. Crestwood, Yonkers, N. Y. A daughter, Hope Howeth, was born February 28. He also has a son, Albert N., jr., aged three years. The signature on is W. E. Stanton of Dowling, Michigan. "No change in occupation, etc. Still on the old home farm. We have a girl 12 years and two boys, one 14 and the other 8. . Occasionally see some M. A. C.-ite down in this part of the country." The following the February is taken from 22 issue of the Official Record issued by the" i\ S. Department of Agriculture. "R. C. Potts, of the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates, attended the third annual conven-' tion of tiie Michigan Allied Dairy Association held February 14-17 at Saginaw, Mich. He gave an address at the general session on the . fundamental principles .dairy in marketing products, and at the creamery-men's session- lie spoke on 'Future's Yardstick.' " '07. T. H. McHatton is still with the College of of Georgia, the University Agriculture at Athens. J. L. Myers' blue slip reads, ''Myers, Buck Co., Engineers and surveyors are still on the job. We have just added about 400 acres to the city of Manila and are now adding nearly as much to Cavite. Manila needs more and we hope to accommodate." Myers may be ad dressed at 325 Kneedler Building, Manila, P. 1. '09 Mr. and Mrs. Leon V. Belknap announce the arrival of Janet Elizabeth on March 22, 1922. The 1'elknaps are living in Pontiac, Michigan, .at 98 Palmer Street. '12 This is from J. F. Campbell, Station C. R. '-, Box 207, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Still teaching Manual Arts at the West Division H. S. Frank Jr. born Christmas morning. Has to a good pair of lungs but knows enough 14 THE M. A. C. RECORD sleep at night. Thank Goodness. Am now interested in a company, "The Boys' Home craft Company" which is supplying plans, in structions and lumber for making small ob jects to boys in manual training classes and for home work." H. E. T r u ax the U. S. the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates for last of February and is now in business himself as a buying broker and vegetables located at 211 Wholesale Terminal Building, Los Angeles, California. resigned fruits from - ,.' of laboratory of Gerald Mains is an associate chemist in the color of Chemistry at Washington, D. C. He lives at 503 Y. M. C. A. the U. S. Bureau This comes from C. H. Taylor at Perry- ville. Maryland. "I am still managing the Sta tion Farm for the U. S. Public Health Service at this place. Aside from the farm, I have charge of the care and upkeep of the lawns, trees, etc., in the village of approximately 1200 people and around buildings. the Also, have charge of all of the new plantings the grounds surrounding hospital build on ings. As they have started a building pro gram of is increasing and becoming more twenty-seven buildings this work interesting." hospital Jessie Whitney Cartwright has moved Oak Park, Illinois, 945 N. Harvey Avenue. to J. Wade Weston and Helen Philleo Weston in East Lansing where Mr. the extension living is an specialist at are now Weston college. D. D. Cushman is now in Chicago at 4822 Ken more Street. '16 Merrill S. Fuller and Kittie Handy Fuller are back at New foundland and are at present located at Law rence.- Michigan. their honeymoon from H. L. Lewis has resigned as superintendent of schools at Napoleon, Michigan, and has entered the University of Michigan. truck Harold Stenson farming the in is business at Flat Rock, Michigan. Bessie Turner 323 Saginaw is living Street, Lansing, and is teaching Home Eco nomics in the East Junior High School. at John U. Layer continues at R. 3, Clarks- ville. Michigan. '17 Albert Cooney nue, Detroit, and Dodge Brothers. lives at 5002 Tvanhoe Ave the is shop. engineer for Ruth McKinley asks us to change her ad dress to IIQQ Collingwood Avenue. Detroit. Alice Dalby has been appointed the President General of the National Society of Daughters of to the Michigan pases at Con serve as one of tinental Congress in Washington, D. C. April 17. the American Revolution to be held by H. W. Hayes is still with the Dodge Bros. Motor Car Co. at Detroit as division engineer in charge of car design. Hayes lives at 927 W. Euclid Avenue. He says that D. C. Black and V. C. McColl, both' 1917 engineers, are working as designers in his department, and that Al Cooney '17 is along as shop main tenance engineer. Virginia Lee was born to Captain and Mrs. H. L. Campbell on March 21, 1922, at Phila delphia. Her daddy is located at the Frank- ford Arsenal there. '18 Mr. and Mrs. Willard M. Coulter (Helen the birth of Marie Edmonds Elizabeth on April 3, 1922. '19) announce Ethel "Higgins may be reached at Vassar, Michigan. H. Curtis Howard continues at 1601 S. Bonnie Brae Street, Los Angeles, Calif. Announcement has been received of the en lo Miss gagement of Edgar S. Anderson Dorothy Moore of Newton, Massachusetts. Miss Moore is a graduate of Wellesley Col lege with the class of 1918 and is now secre tary of the botany department at that college. Anderson the Bussey Institution of Harvard University. is an assistant in genetics at '20 Marjorie William's home address is now 394 Minnesota Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y.. Bob Gorsline is still teaching ag. in county high school at Kalispell, Montana. H. V. Hoffman is now located at 275 19th Street, Milwaukee, Wis. Dr. Warren P. S. Hall will receive mail nnd M. A. C.-ites at 5034 Fernwood Avenue, Detroit. Roland' Shenefield in Rowland Bldg., Columbus,,Ohio, at 526-28. is now located the '21 After the first of May, Nelson Carr will be fruit and produce in Cleveland. Carr's is 6310 Dibble Avenue, with Donald B. Pocock, distributor and broker address at present Cleveland. • Leon Catlin has been transferred from Lan sing to Owosso as plant superintendent of the Connor Ice Cream Company. the "baby" class The first reunion of this June promises to be a big one. About 40 members have been heard from and they all reunion habit express a desire to get early. Better come back and meet with the bunch. the Maurice Rann is now located at the West- inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company works at Newark, New Jersey, building meters and instruments. He will be at 55 James St., Newark, until baout May 1. S. P. Nelson the State Highway Department at 603 Murray Bldg., Grand Rap ids. is with . '. i ~; 5 in A NUMBER OF M. A. C. PROFESSORS and structors attended the annual meeting of the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club, held at A n n' Arbor recently. THE M. A. C. RECORD 15 CTKe ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS offered by the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston for the best answer to Mr. Edison's question, " W ho Was John Hancock?" has been awarded to Leon V. Quigley, a student at the Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute. This answer, giving a cor rect, concise and comprehensive statement of the position occupied by John Hancock in American history, is printed below in full. **Who Was John Hancock?" J O HN H A N C O CK was an American statesman and patriot. His signature is found on the oldest and most im portant documents of Massachusetts, and of the United States. He was the first signer of the Declaration of Inde pendence and was the first Governor of Massachusetts. John Hancock was born at Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1737. He graduated from Harvard College, and entering, upon his uncle's business became a suc cessful merchant in Boston. He gained much in social power and in wealth, being meanwhile justly popular for his integrity and ability. He was in 1765-1770 a selectman of Boston and a member of the general court. With Samuel Adams he led the Massachusetts Whigs, and only escaped capture at Lexington and Concord by virtue of the valiant fight by the Minute Men on the "Nineteenth of April in 7 5 ." J o hn H a n c o ck was s u b s e q u e n t ly known in various positions: as President of the Continental Congress, as Major- General of the Massachusetts military forces, as President of the Constitution al Convention. He died at Quincy, Massachusetts, October 8, 1793. The historical position of John Han cock is unique in State and Nation. He wielded great political influence butwas always liberal and public-spirited. His name is most prominent as a Whig leader during the American Revolution in such events as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and the battles of Lexington and Concord. John Hancock signed his name first to the Declaration of Independence. He thus risked his own "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" that these privileges might be obtained for others to enjoy. To t h is e nd he " p l e d g ed his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor." That he was popular and efficient may be judged from the fact that he was for ten years Governor of Ma s s a' chusetts, being elected annually to this office by popular vote. John Hancock insured the life of the nationa lise urill insure uour life urith the same integrity / AL L I FE INSURANCE COMPANY OF B O S T Q N, MASSACHUSETTS i6 THE M. A. C. RECORD IF Yfll) WOULD HAVE REAL SERVICE - -LET M. A. C. MEN SERVE YOU EDWARD N.% P. Patents, Patent L 11OP-9 Detroit Savi Octroi H. Books LANI Plans by OUT V ' Landscape F. A. Carlson, '16 i/AITING Architect 508 k a t f k ws Bldg., ; GOODEIJ . (Forts - Insurance and 1 If vou write Goodfc!! Lansing In«ur 20S-212 Capital AMERJC Correspondent 1 A. C. Burnham. B. Pre?., 12? Stints VIRGIL T. BOGUE, '11 Architect and Nurseryman planted with our >pecimen trees and evergreens extra grown ill- give you immediate . results. Geneva, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. 'MAPLEHOME SHORTHORNS" , A Scotch-topped :,;; herd of 20 females, estab- rea- sale, .:•- sires for one white, one red, and one roan on terms "AD & SON, L. W. READ, '14. • iietors, Copemish, Mich. MAYER & VALENTINE Consulting. Engineers i n ts Electric Wiring Plumbing Refrigeration • 1 Plans, specifications, supervision F. H. VALENTINE, '89 >r Bldg. Cleveland, Ohio. LOUIS BECK CO. 112 Wash. Ave. N. n Beck, with '12, Sec'y and Treas. riothes oval Tailored Garments for Men, Young Men and Boys to order. FRY BROKERAGE CO., INC. Shipper's Agents Distributors of Fruits and Vegetables 102 N. Clark St. . President; 11. P. Henry, '15, Vice President and Treasurer; V. C. Taggart, '16, Secretary. .••• kerage House in Chicago. O. C. Howe, '83, Manager LANSING INVESTMENT CO. Stocks—Bonds ional Bank Bldg., Lansing, Mich JREEDER OF HOLSTEIN CATTLE AND HAMPSHIRE S H E EP C. I. Brunger, '02 Grand Ledge, Michigan. SHERIDAN CREAMERY CO. Sheridan, Wyoming. CHAS. J. OVIATT, 'S3 " • r, ice cream and eggs in this neck ilie woods—we admit this freely KEITH BROS. NURSERY, B. W. Keith, '11 Raspberries, Blackberries, Orna- Shrubs, etc. Everyone should have 1 attractive home grounds. J. H. LARRA1 Sport Shop—A' Finest of Mich"?.n H OM Clover He Apiary BASIL T. KNIGI ' M. Attractive prices Shipped any The Readers Special Offers to M. A. C. People. Address Box 11, Sawyer, Mich. FARGO ENGINEERING CO. Engineers, Jackson Michigan i-EIectric and Steam Power Plants, Difficult Dam Foundations. Horace S. Hunt, '85. Write Todav Do Not Delay is advancing THE MARL EXTRACTOR CO. i y<>{ [arehali, Mich. •• Incorp.) ' - W. G. Merritt '93 Why They Paironiz'e Its Advertisers.