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Egstad, H. M. (ed.) / The Wisconsin alumni magazine
Volume 32, Number II (Nov. 1930)

In the alumni world,   pp. 72-73


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The Wisconsin Alumni Magazine                                           
            November, i 930
                                                                     World
7 1 Charles Noble GREGORY of      '85   Emma GODDARD Marsh of         mission
appointed  by  Governor
     Washington, D. C., is spend-       Portland, Ore., spent two    Holloway.
Mr. and Mrs. Schaper
ing the season at the Homestead,   weeks in September, visiting her   spent
the month of August at Estes
Hot Springs, Va. He is now in his  sister, Jessie GODDARD McKinlay,   Park,
Colo. For the past three sea-
80th year.                         '89, who lives in Los Angeles.      sons
they have been regular visitors
                                                                       to
the Rocky Mountains National
                                                                       Park.
Mrs. Schaper was Harriette
'76 The happiest and proudest     ''8    Dean Emory R. JOHNSON of     E.
McKOWEN, '07.-Aloys WART-
      alumnus of the University of   -- the Wharton School of Fi-     NER
writes: "I am healthy, happy
Wisconsin is Albert S. RITCHIE, for  nance and Commerce of the Univer-  and
busy. I was very sorry that
he is now a grandfather and spends  sity of Pennsylvania has been re-  1895
class did not have the usual
most of his time entertaining his  tained by the Attorney General and  reunion.
I am not very keen about
granddaughter.                     the Department of Revenue of the    the
Dix plan and hope that we will
                                   State of Pennsylvania as the witness 
go back to the old five year plan
                                   for the commonwealth in a case in-  again.
Kindest good wishes to all
 7 7 Mr. and Mrs. J. Brigham       volving the value of the leasehold  '95ers,
especially Law.-Rodney A.
      BLISS and Miss. Helen KEL-   which the Pennsylvania Railroad    ELWARD
is a member of the State
LOG, '94, reside at 1267 North Gar-  has of the railroad lines between  Tax
Commission of Kansas.
field Ave., Pasadena, Calif. They  New York City and Philadelphia
have a beautiful home amid orange,  and  Camden, N. J.-Kirke    L.
lemon and avacado trees and a pro-  COWDERY is a professor of French    
  George O'NEIL writes from
fusion of flowers.                 at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.  '96
Los Angeles: "Dr. Berg of the
                                                                       University
Medical School and for-
                                                                       .mer
president of the football rules
'82  John J. Escil, Washington,   '89   E. C. MELAND has begun his  committee,
recently addressed the
      D. C., spent the month of          thirty-sixth year of teaching  Los
Angeles alumni on the present
August vacationing at his old home  at De Forest, WIS.                 football
rules. John R. RICHARDS
in La Crosse, Wis. While there he               *                      '96,
addressed the same organization
addressed the Rotary and Kiwanis                                       on
October 6. The group meets the
clubs and was elected an honorary   90 W. G. POTTER, Evanston, has    first
Monday each month at the Uni-
member of both.-Mr. and Mrs.             been elected president of t versity
Club, Los Angeles."-Geor-
E. A. DRAKE (Mary LAMB), have      National Drainage, Conservation   vit
Club, Los Anes '-Geor
returned to El Paso, Texas, after the  and Flood Control Congress. The  France
immediately after the na-
summer vacation spent at their     next session of the congress will be 
tional convention of Kappa Kappa
home in New Ulm, Minn.      Mr.    held at Dallas, Texas, in February,  Gamma
at Mackinac Island last
Drake is head of the department of  1931-Leonard  SMITH, who was     July.
Mrs. Jones is national presi-
English literature at the College of  professor of highway engineerig  dent
of the sorority. In Paris she
Mines of the University of Texas.  and city planning at the University  joined
her daughter, Florence, who
                                   for thirty-five years, presented a  i
i
                                   paper before the Pacific Coast Build-
 is in school at Canne. Mrs. Jones
                                                                       will
return to her home in Tulsa,
'83  E. G. MCGILTON of Omaha,     ing Offcials' Convention at Long   Okla.,
about November 1.-Profes-
     Nebr., has been very ill for  Beachs Calif.n on October 3d  Pro-  sor
Grant SHOWERMAN was director
the past four months and part of   fessor Smlth's subject was "Some
  of the summer session of the School of
that time was in a hospital where he  Neglected Phases of our Natlional 
Classical Studies, American Acad-
submitted to a minor operation.    Housing Problem.  He is lving at   emy
in Rome for the eighth time
This was during the hottest weather  106 Via Monte D'oro, Redondo    this
past summer. The session began
in July, when the mercury reached  Beach, Calif.                       on
July 7 and ended August 16 and
111 in the shade. He is out again                                      was
attended by sixty-seven gradu-
now and attending to business as   sa    Dr. Burt R. SHURLY, has been  ates
of American institutions repre-
usual. He and Mrs. McGilton spent  '9    elected president of the De-  senting
twenty-three states.-Ger-
the past winter in St. Petersburg,  troit Board of Education.          hard
M. DAHL is one of a group of
Fla.                                                                   men
who are attempting the solu-
                                                                       tion
of the confused traction situa-
                                   '95  Dr. William  A. SCHAPER,     tion
in New York City. Dahl is
 84   George B. PARKHILL is prac-        head of the department of    chairman
of the board of the Brook-
      ticing law at 8 S. Carroll St.,  finance in the College of Business
 lyn-évIanhattan Transit Corp., and
Madison. His wife died on October  Administration, University of Okla-  according
to Samuel Untermeyer
20, 1929, leaving her husband, one  homa, acted as one of the advisers  is
the most powerful figure in New
son, and two daughters.            of the temporary State Tax Com-   York
City transportation.
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