CLASS OF 1861

The twentieth of January last was a red-letter day in the life of Gilman H. Tucker. A notable group of men representing the principal publishing houses of the country came together at the University Club in New York to do honor to Mr. Tucker on his seventy-sixth birthday and the completion of a half century in a single line of work. Representatives were present from Scribners, Appletons, Ginn and Company, Cowperthwait, Merriam, and many other well-known houses to pay tribute to one who was truly a veteran and who had held the position of secretary of the American Book Company for twenty-five years. In January, 1862, Mr. Tucker accepted a position in the school-book publishing house of Brown, Taggard, and Chase, in Boston, of which his classmate, D. H. Brown, was senior member. After remaining with this house and its successors for six years, he became New England agent of Charles Scribner's Company. In 1878 he removed to New York and assumed the management of the educational department of the Scribner publishing house. In 1884 he became secretary and executive officer of the School Book Publishers' Association, with headquarters in New York, retaining this position until 1890, when the Association was discontinued. Upon the formation of the American Book Company he was chosen sec- retary of this corporation, which office he still holds. At the gathering above referred to, there were many graceful and fitting testimonials to the various qualities of mind and heart which have endeared this Nestor of his profession to his colaborers and competitors in a business which has connected with it some of the keenest minds in the country.

Secretary, Maj. E. D. Redington, 1905 Harris Trust Building, Chicago