CLASS OF 1908

Morton Lee Lewis died at his home in Worcester, Mass., October 15, of pneumonia, following influenza.

He was born in Moline, Ill., December 4, 1885, his parents being Eugene and Caroline (Lee) Lewis. His father, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1864, removed to Claremont, N. H., and died there in 1907.

For three years after graduation Mr. Lewis studied law at Harvard, and graduated from the Law School in 1911. He went into practice in Worcester, and continued there, having become recognized as a young lawyer of fine ability and promise. Recent articles from his pen in the Law , Review had attracted much attention.

He had tried repeatedly to enter military service, but each time failed to reach the physical standard. Finally he sought for an appointment under the Y. M. C. A., and after many delays a letter announcing his acceptance arrived the morning after his death.

He was unmarried. His mother survives, and has made her home with him in Worcester.

John Sidney Patton died of pneumonia October 8, at his home in Newton, Mass.

He was born in Allston, Mass., May 3, 1886, his parents being John Sidney and Anna K. Patton. His father, a lawyer and graduate of Harvard, died some years since. He was prepared for college at Boston Latin School and by private instruction. While his college class were taking their junior year, he was spending a year of travel and study in Europe, where he matriculated at the University of Munich.

For the first two years after graduation he was teacher of French and elementary English at Rugby Academy, a military preparatory school in New Orleans, La. Then returning home, he studied law in his father's office and at the Northeastern Law School in Boston, graduating as LL.B. in 1914. Jn December, 1913, he passed the Massachusetts bar examination, receiving the highest marks of the 119 successful candidates. In 1914-5 he practiced in the office of Weld A. Rollins '97, and had been since a member of the firm of Patton and Sloan. Since his graduation from the Law School he had taught in the school as general quiz master. In May last he became a member of the legal staff of the United Fruit Company. His engagement to Miss Elsa Richardson of Watertown was announced a few days before his death.