1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

564 THE SCROLL.In the spring of 1899 he received the baccalaureate degreefrom Columbia and for a time thereafter was in the emplo}'of the Standard Oil Company in New Jersey. He then ac.*cepted a position with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,Madison Avenue and 23rd Street, New York City andremained there for four years up to January i, 1905. Hethen became connected with the publishing house of Dodd,Mead & Company, and maintained this connection until thetime of his death. The funeral took place from St. Mary'sChurch, 46th Street and 6th Avenue according to highChurch rites on Wednesday morning, October 25, 1905 at 11o'clock. Members of his class at Columbia and his brothersin Phi'Delta Theta attended in a body and sent to his familytokens of the high regard in which Brother Simpson was held.In writing his biography for the '99 class-book, publishedin his senior j'ear. Brother Simpson ended the story of hislife with the following words which no one appreciated at thetime were to become literally true.The annals of most great men are short, and the history of Richard GordonSimpson does not form the exception that proves the rule. Therefore—The less saidThe sooner mended:With this adieu.My story's ended."BERN.IRD M. L. ERNST, Columbia, '99.\ JOHN BUGHER KUHNS, BUTLER, '84.John B. Kuhns, Indiana Gamma, '84,. died at the verydawn of the new year of 1906 at Johns Hopkins Hospital,Baltimore. Here passed away one of the truest sons thatever wore the shield and sword. He had lived forty-fouryears, and more than half of that time he had been a memberof Phi Delta Theta. His ways were quiet and unassuming,but his character was gold unalloyed, and his soul wasstaunch and true. The older generation of Indiana collegemen will remember him as a mighty athlete,—small of figure,but all muscle and iron,^-a true lover of amateur sports,filledto the brim with youthful energy. He was born of fine, oldPennsylvania stock. After graduation he went back toGreensburg, Pa., which was always his home except when hisbusiness operations took him up into the mountains at Dunlo,where, as a lumberman, he acquired a fortune and a greatname for probity and fair dealing. Among his intimatefriends he always numbered many fraternity brothers. Clar-