CLASS OF 1912

Paul Wendell Coolidge died at his home in Rutland, Vt., May 23, of pneumonia, after an illness of ten days.

He was born in Rutland, December 27, 1889, his father being Ashbel G. Coolidge, new probate judge of Rutland district. He prepared for college at Dean Academy, Franklin, Mass. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.

For the first two years after graduation he was in the employ of the Vermont Marble Company at Proctor, and then for six months in insurance business in Rutland. Eighteen months ago he went into the crockery and wall paper business in the Paul W. Coolidge Company. He was a Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias.

September 18, 1913, he was married to Marjorie E., daughter of Oscar M. Barton of Rutland. They have had two daughters, one born only four days before her father's death.

Paul was a very popular member of the class of 1912, and his death comes as a sad shock, coming as it does on the eve of the Big Fifth, for which he was full of hopeful enthusiasm. He will be among the most missed.