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ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW
Finance." Mr. Morman has written numerous
books on credits, finance, economics and like
subjects and was for some time in the service
of the United States gnvernment as an economist
; he is also a regular contributor to "The
Magazine of Wall Street."
Charles R. VanVoorhis, former state Public
Service Commissioner, of Rochester, and Miss
May M. Ward, his former secretary, were married
at Albany on April 18th. They are spending
three months in Europe, traveling in HoIland,
Germany, Belgium, France, Italy and
England, and upon their return will reside
in Rochester, where Mr. VanVoorhis is a member
of the law firm of John VanVoorhis' Sons.
Ex-'9t. Charles M. Thoms, Rochester real
estate dealer, is touring the world and has
passed some time in Burma, India and Java.
'92. Rev. Henry B. Williams, former pastor
of the First Baptist Church of Woburn and now
pastor of the First Baptist Church in New Bedford,
Mass., was the princi pal speaker on the
fifth district program, which made up the dedicatory
services at the n ew First Baptist Church
at Woburn.
'93. Sympathy is extended to Herbert A.
Slaight, of Cleveland, 0., and Leland V. Slaight,
of New York City, ex-'97, over the death of
their mother, Dr. Mary J. Slaight. Dr. Slaight
practiced in Rochester for many years and was
one of the first women to be appointed city
physician in this city.
'94. Rev. Rufus M. Traver, minister of the
Hilton Baptist Church, presided at the ordina- .
tion of his son, Rol an M. Traver, which took
pl ace in h is church.
'96. Rev. Carl Betz, minister of the Bethlehem
Church, was reelected president of the
Rochester Conference of the New York Min ­
isterium at the closing sess ion of the spring
convention held in Rochester recently.
'97. Dr. Mason D. Gray, head of the classical
language department in East High and the
junior high schools, and the Board of Education's
specialist in this field, has marked the
completion of twenty-five years of service in
the Rochester public schools with a new firstyear
text book on the teaching of Latin called
"Latin for Tod ay," which has recently been
issued by his publishe rs. Dr. Gray spent twoand-a-half
years as a member of the commission
which made a survey of the teaching of the
classical languages in the schools and colleges
? f the country and did a great deal of the
Import ant work. This commission's report is
regarded as one of the great contributions to
educational research of the times.
Dr. John J. Quinn, who has been head of the
department of mathematics and physics at St.
Edward's University, Austin, Texas, since 1923,
has been elected dean of the College of Engin­
.
eering.
Ex-'97. Sa fety Commissioner Curtis W. Barker,
of Rochester, was recently presented with
a hand ! ome gold badge, with a large diamond,
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from hiS Eighteenth Wa rd Republican friends.
'98. H a rl an W. Rippey, attorney and ch airm�
n of the Mon roe County Democratic committee,
has been appointed by Governor Smith
�o the Supreme Court bench, to fill a position
10 the Seventh Judicial District created by the
enactment of a law which gave that District
an additional justice. A Su preme Court J us-
tice Mr. Rippey will serve until January lst
and will be a candidate for election next November
for a full term.
'02. Lloyd S. Tenny, who has been serving
as acting chief of the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics in the United States Department of
Agriculture since last June, has been appointed
chief of the Bureau by Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine. This appointment places Mr. Ten ny at
the head of one of the largest and most important
federal services to agricultural interests
of this country.
'02. Harvey F. Morris, adverti sing manager
of the Hickey-Freeman Clothing Company of
Rochester, N. Y., presided at a conference between
retail and wholesale advertising men at
the convention of the National Association of
Retail Clothers, held at St. Louis during March.
'05. Raymond C. Keople, director of the
Bureau of Attendance and Work Permit Certification
of the Board of Education, Rochester
is the author of an article called "Seven to Sev�
en teen," which explains the State Compulsory
Education law and its enforcement.
Ex-'OS. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight E. Wetmore
of Pittsford, N. Y., have sailed for Europe o�
the S. S. Rochambeau, planning to return about
June 15th.
'06. Prentiss B. Gilbert has been appointed
Acting-Chief, Division of Western European
Affairs, Department of State, Washington. It
is the largest and most important of the political
divisions of the Department which, as well
as being charged with matters pertaining to
American relationship to the League of Nations,
naval limitation, disarmament and similar
problems, handles all questions of policy between
the United States government and fifteen
European states, including all of the great
worl d powers except Japan.
- William A. Searle, has resigned his position
as assistant to the president of the National
Association of Life Underwriters, which he
has held since 1924, and has bt;come supervisor
of agencies for the National Life Insurance
Company of Vermont. Mr. Searle's home will
still remain in Haddonfield, N. J.
Harry J. Simmelink, who has been following
the profession of civil engineer at Rochester
for several years, started a coal and contracti
ng business on January 1st of this year.
'07. Prof. Howard P. Barss, of the Oregon
Agricultural College, Corvallis, Oregon, was
this year elected vice-president of the American
Phytopathological Society.
Nathaniel G. West, princi pal of Andrews
School No. 9, Rochester, has been granted a
year's leave of absence for study and teaching
in New York University. Mr. West will spend
the next school year studying for his doctor of
philosophy degree and will also teach a course
in elementary school principalship in the department
of education al administration of the University.
'09. Prof. John W. Johnson, of the Berkeley
Baptist Divinity School, Berkeley, Calif., was
this year elected to "Membership at Large" in
the National Social Science Honor Society­
Phi Gamma Mu.
Ex-'09. Harry A. May, has resigned as secretary
and general sales -director of the Todd
Company, Inc., of Rochester and will enter the
coal business with his father in the firm of