CLASS OF 1899
On December 16, Mrs. Ella F. Richardson died at her home in Newtonville, Mass., in her eighty-fifth year. Besides her son on the Dartmouth faculty, our Jim, Mrs. Richardson left a daughter, Mrs. Frances Richardson Hunt of Newtonville. Interment was at St. Johnsbury, Vt.
The Robert Leland Read prize of fifty dollars for the best work in descriptive geometry was won in the year 1929-30 by Louis Benezet's boy, Roger Paul '32.
Details of the marriage of Joe Gannon's daughter, Frances Josephine, on September 2, 1930, are now available, as promised in an earlier issue. The groom was Mr. William Stephen Chosnyk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Chosnyk of New York city. The ceremony was performed in St. Joseph's church at the corner of Sixth Ave. and Washington Place by the rector, Rev. John J. Hickey. Miss Laura Benoit of Fall River, a schoolmate of the bride, was maid of honor, and the bride's two sisters were her attendants, Mrs. Winter Standish Read of Jack- son Heights and Miss Helen Louise Gannon. After a wedding trip to Bermuda, the young couple are to live in Flushing, L. I.
On June 1 last, Frank Staley was promoted to the Division of Post Office Service as assistant superintendent. Here Frank is under the direct supervision of the First Assistant Postmaster General.
Last September Harry Wason left his position with the John A. Roebling's Sons Company in Atlanta, Ga., to become manager of the same company's Chicago department. Harry's new home address is 434 Roscoe St., Chicago, and his new business address is 205 West Wacker Drive, Chicago.
On December 23, Mrs. Fannie M. H. Miller died in the Stamford, Conn., Hospital at the age of seventy-three years. Mrs. Miller was the widow of C. O. Miller, pioneer department store owner in that city, and the mother of our Carl 0. Miller, Jr., who died some years ago. Among Mrs. Miller's gifts to the city at various times have been a site and $250,000 for a nurses' home at the Stamford Hospital, $300,000 for the recently erected Y. W. C. A. building, and $25,000 for the Visiting Nurse Association building now under construction.
Maurice W. Dickey died at his home in Springfield, Mass., January 5, after a two weeks' illness with pneumonia. A full obituary notice will appear in the next issue of this MAGAZINE.
Secretary, , 41 West Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Md.
