CLASS OF 1906

The death of Conrad Philip Hazen by an airplane accident in France, February 11, was noted in the last number of the MAGAZINE.

He was born in Norwich, Vt., April 7, 1884, his. father being Thomas Hazen, and he prepared for college at Hanover High School. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

After graduation he spent a year at Columbia University in the study of mechanics and electricity. For a short time he was draftsman and estimator for the Otis Elevator Company, and was then shaft engineer for the Underpinning and Foundation Company, both of New York city. In June, 1913, he entered the employ of the New York Telephone Company as installer. In March, 1914, he was transferred to the central office, and in March, 1916, was made supervisor in the construction force.

He had become a lieutenant in the 71st Regiment, New York National Guard, and in the summer of 1916 he was called to service with his regiment, and spent several months at the Mexican border. On his return .to New York he again took up work with the Telephone Company, in its equipment engineering force. In the summer of 1917 he resigned his commission in the National Guard to enter the aviation service, and took his first training at the Georgia Institute of Technology. September 11, 1917, shortly before sailing for France for his final field training, he was married to Miss Catherine Metzger. It has not been yet learned whether he had completed his training and received his commission as lieutenant.

Hazen was a man of modest bearing and stanch integrity, and won the confidence and affection of those who came to know him. He was a member of the Broadway Tabernacle Congregational church of New York.