CLASS OF 1869

Dr. Edwin Peabody Gerry died suddenly June 21 at Phillipston, Mass., while on a carriage drive with his wife. Dr. Gerry was born at Standish, Me., November 2, 1846, and in 1858 came to Boston with his family, where he was graduated from the Mayhew School and from the Boston Latin School. In college he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. For two years after graduation he taught in the high school of Hudson, Mass., and then studied medicine at Harvard, graduating as an M.D in 1874. After some hospital experience, he began private practice in the Jamaica Plain district of Boston, and continued to reside there through life, though he had of late retired from practice. He had been vice-president of the Boston City Hospital Club and president of the Norfolk District Medical Society, and was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Jamaica and Eliot Clubs, and the Eliot lodge of Masons. He was much interested in civic matters, had been a member of the board of aldermen, and a candidate for other offices. His wife, who was Martha Jane Ireland of Somerville, survives him.

Oscar David Robinson, Ph.D., principal of the high school of Albany, N. Y., died July 11 at Hinsdale, Mass., where he had been spending his vacation. The, disease was pleurisy, and he had been ill but four days. Dr. Robinson was born in Concord, N. H., August 19, 1838, being a son of William D. and Zelpha (Clement) Robinson. At the age of twenty-one he entered Kimball Union Academy, from which he graduated in 1862, Postponing his aspirations for a higher education, he enlisted at once in the Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers as private, and remained with the regiment the full three yeafs, holding the rank of captain when mustered out. He then entered Dartmouth, and remained for the full course. His fraternity was Kappa Kappa Kappa. After graduation he went to Albany and taught for a year in the Albany Boys' Academy. After a year's teaching in Boston he was recalled to Albany,.and taught Latin and Greek in the Albany High School, formerly known as the Free Academy, until 1886, when he was appointed principal of the school. In 1892 he served on the widely known "Committee of Ten" of the National Educational Association, of which President Eliot of Harvard was chairman. He was a member of the First Congregational church of Albany, of the Masonic order, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Loyal Legion, the American Philological Association, and the Headmasters Association, of which last he was recently president. August 4, 1870, he was married to Jennie M. Rowell of Madison, Wis., who had been a pupil with him at Kimball Union Academy, and she survives him with their daughter. On the occasion of Dr. Robinson's death, the mayor of Albany issued a proclamation containing this tribute: "An intrepid soldier, he was honored by his comrades of the Grand Army; a model citizen, he was active in whatever related to the interests of the city. He was respected, admired, and beloved by the throng of thousands of students who passed under his fostering care. His memory will be held dear by hundreds of graduates, who felt and acknowledged his benign influence on their characters and careers. It is ordered that the flags on all municipal buildings be hung at half mast until after Dr. Robinson's funeral."

Secretary, Charles P. Chase, Hanover, N. H.