CLASS OF 1907

A great distinction and one that is well merited has come to George Howard. On March 1, he was made president of the United Corporation, a public utility stockholding corporation, recently organized by the J. P. Morgan Company, Drexel and Company, and the Bonbright Company, with assets of more than $155,000,000. At the same time George withdrew as a member of the firm of Simpson, Thacher, and Bartlett in New York, where he has been practicing law since he graduated from the Harvard Law School. To become a financial expert as the head of this new organization is but a natural step from his extensive training in the utility field.

Harry Pelren and his wife expect to spend the first two weeks in April in Bermuda.

Harold Niles and his wife enjoyed a West Indies cruise in February. Among other places they visited San Juan Hill in Cuba. They report a thoroughly enjoyable trip.

Charles Willson, who has been chairman of the school board at Farmington, N. H., for many years, continues to fill that position. He reports his oldest son, Allen, a freshman of the University of Wisconsin.

Judge McLane with his wife and three children spent the week-end of February 22 at the Hanover Inn.

Jack Stilphen was recently made vicepresident of the Sandy Burr Golf Club at Way land, Mass.

Bremer Pond has been given much publicity recently in connection with his article in regard to the development suggested for the Harvard Second Yard Plan.

On March 9, Dick Lane left for Bermuda, accompanied by his wife, for a well-earned rest of two weeks.

Henry Haley has moved back to Yarmouth, Me. The Dundee Mills, of which he was president and agent, are said to be in the process of liquidation.

The Howard University Bulletin of January contained an article about Dr. Ernest E. Just which stated:

"Dr. E. E. Just, professor of zoology at Howard University and Rosenwald Fellow of American Research Council, sailed Thursday, January 3, for Italy, where he is to conduct scientific investigation in the Italian Marine Biological Laboratories. Accompanying Prof. Just is his daughter Margaret, aged fourteen, second-year student at Dunbar High School. While in Naples, Dr. Just is to be the guest of the Prince of Monaco, conducting experiments with Dr. Doom, an eminent Italian scientist.

"The special investigation which carries Dr. Just to Italy is the life cycle of the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii, which seems closely related to the species which Dr. Just has worked on at Woods Hole, Mass., for the past fifteen years.

"Also while in Naples he will complete a monograph on fertilization, to be published next spring. He will remain in Naples until May, after which he will travel in Northern Europe, being the guest of fellow scientists at Graz, Austria, and the University of Berlin, spending some time in their laboratories and delivering lectures in several European universities, including Oxford and Cambridge. He plans to return to his work at Woods Hole, Mass., in July.

"The European tour of Dr. Just is in connection with the extension of research work in zoology, made possible by the recent grant of the Julius Rosenwald Fund.

"Dr. Just is generally regarded as the leading authority in the world today in his special field. His only teaching experience has been at Howard University, where he has taught since his appointment in 1907, serving from 1912 to 1920 as head of the department of physiology in the Medical School. From this position he resigned to devote himself as head of the department of zoology more intensively to the training of pre-medical students. He has always given an enthusiastic service in his work as a teacher and as a promoter of Negro scholarship."

Edward H. Temple, who has been with the Aberthaw Company for twenty years and who was for six years general manager of this company and ten years before that construction manager, has announced the organization of Temple and Crane, Inc., to act as construction managers, etc. He is the president of this company. The offices of the concern are in the Chamber of Commerce Building, Boston.

King McCoy has received another substantial promotion in the New England Telegraph and Telephone Company. On the first of January he was transferred to Springfield, Mass., where he is in charge of the commercial department for a wide territory.

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