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ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIE W 131
H. H. Babcock Company. Mr. May has been
connected with the 'l'odd Company for twelve
years and will continue as a director of the
company.
Ex-'ll. Charles Gurley has recently been
appointed manager of the San Diego Better
Business Bureau of the Advertising Club of
San Diego, Calif.
'lZ. Rev. Albert Bretschneider of Rochester,
is general secretary of the German Baptist
Young People's and Sunday School Workers
Union of North America and in that work trav­
el1ed 33,000 miles last year.
Albert H. Covell, principal of Oneida High
School, has been elected superintendent of
schools at Oneida, to take effect July 1st.
' 13. A. A. Backhaus, production manager of
the U. S. Industrial Alcohol Company, of Baltimore,
Md., recently returned from a six weeks'
trip to the Pacific, where he started operations
in a new plant at Los Angeles, which was purchased
by the company a short time ago.
Principal Benjamin H. Root, of the Attica
High School, has been re-engaged for his seventh
year by the Board of Education of Attica,
N. Y.
' 14. Dr. Avery A. Ashdown, research assistant
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
presented a paper at the spring meeting
of the American Chemical Society in Richmond,
Va. The paper outlined the life of
James Mason Crafts, the co-discoverer with
Charles Friedel of the Friedel-Crafts reaction.
'15. Dr. Robert W. Angevine, of Rochester,
was married to Miss Ruth Mildred El1iott, in
Rochester on March 16. They are taking a
European trip for two months and on their
return wil1 live in Rochester.
'16. Paul L. Hill and Miss Florence G. Otto
were married in Rochester, on March Z5th.
They are residing in this city.
We regret to note the death of Edward A.
Schreiber, of Rochester, father oJ Walter T.
Schreiber, of Baltimore, Md.
'18. Sanford A. Baker, Jr., is secretary of
the Central New York Title Guaranty Company
at Albany, N. Y.
Harold E. Cowles has become engaged to Miss
Hazel Kolb, 'Z4, of Rochester.
Louis E. Meinhardt, of Rochester, was married
to Miss Marion Fischer at Germantown,
Pa., on April 18, 19Z7.
'20. Monroe A. Blumenstiel was married to
Miss Julia Cohen at Rochester on February ZOth.
Ex-'ZO. Herbert M. Gosnell has become engaged
to Miss M. Elizabeth Brower, of Rochester.
'Zl. Dwight Vandevate, of Rochester, has become
engaged to Miss Helen 1. Hagood, of Evergreen,
Ala., a former student at the Eastm an
School of Music.
'Z2. Theodore F. Fitch, director of the University
Glee Club, is the author of the musical
accompaniment for Vachel Lindsay's poem,
"General William Booth Enters into Heaven"
and ha dedicated the music to Dean Hoeing.
Mr. Fitch also acted as gue t conductor of the
community chorus at Potsdam Normal School
recently, directing Rossini's "Stabat Mater".
Richard De Luc V�n De Carr has become engaged
to Miss Dorothy Dix of Rochester.
Ex-'ZZ. J. Frederick Colson has recently
passed the State Bar Examinations and is with
the law firm, Adler and Adler of Rochester.
Gordon B. Harris was recently admitted to
the bar and will practice law in Rochester
with Werner, Harris & Buck, with which firm
he has been associated since February, 1926.
We regret to note the death of James S.
Havens, a prominent lawyer of Rochester, father
of James D. Havens.
'Z3. George A. Lang is now pastor of the
German Baptist Church of Lorraine, Kansas.
Oscar Loeser, Jr., is at present Aeronautical
Engineer at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory
with the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics, located at Langley Field, Virginia.
Sympathy is extended to Earl Remington, over
the death of his father, Frederick Brooks Remington.
Franois E. Remington was one of eight Rochester
students to pass the State Bar Examinations
recently.
Ex-'Z3. Howard C. Spencer, junior member
of the law firm, Spencer, Ogden & Spencer,
Rochester, was married to Miss Glady M. Stapley
at Geneseo, on April 2nd.
George Weber is secretary of the Florida
Forums, a civic organization of Daytona Beach,
Fla., and is editor of the Forum News, a small
paper in which activities of the Forum, and reports
of speakers at the Forum, are printed.
As president of 1he Community Players of Daytona
Beach, Weber has di rected several productions
of the Little 'I1heater of that city. The
Florida Forum, now in its thirteenth season,
is the largest forum in America. Mr. Weber
has himself spoken before many local civic
groups.
'Z4. We regret to note the death of Mrs.
Ann'a W. Hoare, mother of Elmer Hoare, of
New York.
We regret to note the death of Mrs. Emma
M. Walzer, mother of Elmer C. Walzer, of
New York.
Ex-'24. Sympathy is extended to Grandison
Hoyt over the sudden death of his mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth B. Hoyt.
Rowland L. Sa nford, formerly connected with
the Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., at Cleveland,
Ohio, is now assistant sales manager of the
Globe-Wernicke Department, Brooks Company,
at Cleveland.
'Z5. Max Gideonse is a graduate student in
political science at Harvard University.
'Z6. Rufus H. Hedges, former wel1-known
Varsity athlete, has been el ected vice-president
of the Square Compass Club of Harvard University,
where he is taking a post-graduate
course.
Ex-'Z6. Frank B. Dugan, formerly with the
S1romberg-Carlson Company of Rochester, is
assistant overseer with the United Fru it Company
at Costa Rica, C. A.
Kenneth W. Hinds graduated from Col umbia
University in February of th is year with a
B. S, degree and is connected with the purchasing
department of the Western Electric Company
of New York.
I 3Jn �emoriam I
Clinton Dewey Clark, A. B., '8Z, M. D., else­
where, died at Minneapolis, Minn., July 6, 1926,
aged 64 years ; was graduate of the Harvard
Medical School, 1889, and practiced medicine
in Minneapol is.