Class of 1897
Theodore H. Bacon is now social service agent and court worker for the Church Federation of St. Louis, Mo. After ten years' service as production manager of the American Woodworking Machinery Company of Rochester, N. Y., Bacon entered social service work as field agent for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children at Rochester. At that time he read law and made himself familiar with the treatment of mental defectives. He was offered a position as assistant to Douglas Farkener, head of the Associated Charities at Buffalo, N. Y., but accepted one as social service director of the Lake Avenue Baptist church, in which position he served until October, 1923, when he went to his present position. Bacon has three children. W. S. is working with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and at the same, time studying at Washington University. He expects to enter the University of Missouri at Columbia in the fall/ Olive graduated from "K.U.A." with second honors in 1921. She has attended Washington University, and will enter Harris Teachers College at St. Louis in the fall. Theodore Junior is completing his first year in the junior high school.
George A. Adams of Salamanca, N. Y., attended the American Bar Association's meeting in London last summer. After the convention he spent eight weeks on the Continent.
George E. Foss is general secretary of the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerice, with offices at the State Chamber Building at Harrisburg.
F. E. Heald is agent for agricultural teachers' training for the Division of Vocational Education, Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which thunderous title means that much of Heald's time is spent in visiting the agricultural schools of Massachusetts, improving the teaching, and developing the methods of agricultural training. Heald also runs a postgraduate course in agriculture in the summer school arid in the winter a short course at the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst.
O'Malley is head of the department of business technique in the Boston High School of Commerce.
It is generally known among men that Lull is chief engineer of the Atlantic Division of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with headquarters at Houston, Texas. It is becoming still more generally known that his daughter Barbara is a violinist of extraordinary ability. Press notices as early as 1916 were enthusiastic. The European press was as warm in its praise for her work last year as was the American press in 1916. For instance, an extract from De Haagsche Vrouwenkronich, November 1, 1924, reads as follows: "For me, this violinist possesses a spiritual quality extraordinarily developed, which effaces consideration of technique. I was too much absorbed to occupy myself with the details of her execution. Enough to say that had it not been faultless, no such impression of exalted spiritual musicianship could have been created."
B. W. Carr, M.D., has articles, one in the January issue of the Modem Hospital on "Occupational Therapy in the U. S. Veterans' Bureau Hospitals," and another in the March issue of Hospital Management on "Uncle Sam's Physiotherapy Service." Carr is chief of occupational therapy, United States Veterans' Bureau, Washington, D.C., and from an unusually favorable position has obtained an enviable reputation as an expert in his subject. Your Secretary read Carr's article in the Hospital Management until he reached the paragraph from which he quotes in part. This paragraph is so enlightening that it seems worth while to quote it. "The forms of treatment given under physiotherapy include massage, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, thermotherapy, actinotherapy, therapeutic exercises, and in some cases roentgenotherapy. In the tuberculosis hospitals physiotherapy is limited. Actinotherapy including heliotherapy is most widely used, particularly in cases of bone and joint tuberculosis and in the treatment of patients having glandular involvement. In the hospitals for mental cases hydrotherapy for its sedative and eliminative effects is of a special value. In the general hospitals the physiotherapy installations are more extensive because of the diversity in the types of cases to be treated." This clears up the whole matter, and you will understand perfectly just what constitutes Carr's activities.
A. A. Bacon is head of the department of physics at the Almerican University, Beirut, Syria. Bacon landed in that part of the world during the war, as part of a Red Cross relief unit. He became interested in the University, and took residence there in the fall of 1919. Quoting from a recent letter: "With the new transportation facilities across the desert to Bagdad, which is made from here in less than twenty-four hours by auto, a distance of about 600 miles, we are drawing largely from Mesopotamia and Persia. Palestine and Egypt are also large contributors to our student body." Bacon's daughter Mary Frances enters Vassar this fall. One son, Richard, is taking his senior year at Phillips~ Andover, and his younger son is at Beirut with his parents. Bacon has a year's furlough beginning a year from now, and expects to take in '97's Thirtieth Reunion.
Secretary, Park Square Building, Boston
