CLASS OF 1901

Frederick William Gentleman died at the Dorr Hospital, Watertown, Mass., December 19, 1918, of pneumonia following influenza.

The son of John E. and Martha A. Cattle; Gentleman, he was born in Portsmouth, N. H., July 19, 1882, and fitted for college at Portsmouth High School. He graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank.

The first year after graduation he remained at Dartmouth as a graduate student m mathematics, teaching also in Hanover High School. The year 1902-3 he taught mathematics Reading (Mass.) High School and for the next two years he taught m Portsmouth High School. In 1905-6 he was at Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vt. From May 1906, to June 1909, he taught in the mathematical department of Lynn Classical High School, and was also athletic director. From September, 1909, until his death he was m the mathematical department of the Mechanic Arts High School in Boston.

In addition to his regular work he had taught for the past eight years at the DorChester Evening High School Together with a fellow-teacher in Boston, Mr. W E. Vosburgh, he had written a series of three textbooks on junior high school mathematics. The third in the series is not yet published but will probably be ready next June; the other two are already being used. He was for six years treasurer of the New England Association of Mathematics Teachers.

For twelve years he had been counselor and assistant director at Camp O-At-Ka at Sebago Lake, Me., a camp for boys of the Episcopal church of the Sir Galahad Club. He was assistant superintendent of the Sunday school of Christ Church, Cambridge, for the past nine years. Last year at the same church he organized a chapter of the Order of Sir Galahad, and had recently become assistant scoutmaster in that organization.

On January 28 a memorial service was held at St. Stephen's Church, Lynn, and another on February 14 at Christ Church, Cambridge. Among many tributes to his memory is one in The Church Militant for January, entitled "A Rare Spirit Gone."

December 21, 1905, Mr. Gentleman was married in New York city to Elizabeth, daughter of William H. and Martha (Benton) Buckingham, who survives him, with a son, William Buckingham, born October 10, 1906. Another son, Frederick Benton, was born December 27, 1910, and died January 20, 1911.