Class of 1902
D. F. Lyons has been promoted to general counsel of the Northern Pacific Railway, succeeding C. W. Bunn. This announcement is made in a recent issue of the Railway Age, which reproduces a photograph of Lyons. The photograph shows that the great responsibilities of an important office have not caused Lyons to age the least bit. It may be, however, that some member of his family sent the editor a photograph taken some years ago!
The Secretary in a motor trip to the Pacific stopped in Denver to look up classmates. He found that George Pattee had been taken last March to the Samaritan Hospital of that city. Pattee would welcome letters from classmates, but he is not well enough to answer any correspondence.
George H. Beaudry is the other 1902 man in Denver. George is younger than any other man in the class. He hasn't a gray hair, and is altogether too prosperous. His office in the Capital Life Insurance Building is so imposing as to bid one tread softly. George has already decided to motor to Hanover for the Twenty-fifth.
R. M. Leach announces that he is a proud grandfather. R. M. Leach, Second, was born June 28, the son of Walker Leach, who was of the class of 1923 at Dartmouth. And so 1902 passes into the category of "grandfather" classes.
A call upon Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Kircher at Tiburon, Cal., revealed the fact that the family is flourishing. Charlie enjoys the proud distinction of having the largest family in the class. His six children were not all at home, but the Secretary was introduced to three sturdy youngsters.
The Secretary had the pleasure of calling upon Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Bradley at Monrovia, Cal., and upon Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Sanborn at Arcadia in the same state. Neither of these 1902 men has been able to attend a reunion since graduation, but both showed signs of good intention to attend the great Twenty-fifth.
At last Harold Edward Plumer, after wandering over the earth and visiting the many cities of men, has been married. The happy event took place at Whitinsville, Mass. He was there married to Miss Ethel Newlands on the eighteenth of July. They will make their home at 712 Linwood Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Boston Sunday Globe on August 16 published a half page about Leland Griggs, picturing a lot of his intimate friends of the animal kingdom—everything from a feathery flycatcher to a pet wolf. Pretty soon Leland will be talking to fish. The Psi Upsilon society elected him to membership recently, and the fraternity paper published at Hanover remarks : "He [Leland] can be seen at all hours of the day and night prowling about the corridors of Butterfield Museum, carrying devilfish, dead toads, lobsters, and other impediments of his profession."
The New York Times in its edition of October 4, published the following:
"Yale University announced today the appointment of Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles as consultant in mental hygiene to the Department of University Health and lecturer in psychiatry in the School of Medicine for a period of one year. The university has also nominated Dr. Ruggles to the Board of Directors of the New Haven Hospital as pyschiatrist to the hospital and dispensary.
"It is anticipated that Dr. Ruggles will establish an active connection with the Connecticut State Mental Hygiene Association, which maintains mental hygiene clinics throughout the State. The Department of University Health has charge of the physical welfare of the students.
"The son of a Dartmouth professor, a graduate of Dartmouth College and of the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Ruggles was a pioneer in the mental hygiene work among the undergraduates at Dartmouth. During the war he was consultant in neuro-psychiatry for England, later becoming medical director. The French Government awarded him the Croix de Guerre.
"President James R. Angell, in commenting today upon the selection of Dr. Ruggles, said:
'With this appointment Yale begins the development of a highly important contribution to medical education, to the welfare of the student body and to the hygiene interests of New Haven and neighboring communities.' "
Secretary, Princeton, N. J.
