CLASS OF 1872

Albert Ellis Frost, who has been secretary of the class since graduation, died suddenly. May 11, from acute indigestion, at his home in Pittsburgh, Pa.

He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., August 9, 1851, and fitted at St. Johnsbury Academy. His parents were Selim and Emily Sophia (Ellis) Frost. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

In the month following graduation he went to Allegheny, Pa., to become assistant to Prof. S. P. Langley, director of Allegheny Observatory, and remained in that position three years. From 1875 to 1885 he was teacher of physics in the Central High School of Pittsburgh. He then entered the faculty of the Western University of Pennsylvania, now the University of Pittsburgh, as professor of physics, and held this position till 1908, when he became professor of mathematics. From 1886 to 1910 he was registrar of Pittsburgh College and the School of Engineering, acting dean of the University in 1908-10, and its registrar since 1910. For a long time he was also treasurer of the board of trustees, and was one of the most widely known and best beloved of all the men connected with the University.

He has given several courses of popular scientific lectures, and was a member of the executive committee of the University Extension Society. He had been president of the Academy of Science and Art, and for twenty-five years treasurer of the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania. He was a communicant of the Episcopal church.

Professor Frost was married July 20, 1882, to Addie Mary Dalbey of Pittsburgh, who survives him, with two sons and a daughter.