1896

Your Secretary has just been informed that our classmate, Herbert A. Warden, was elected Mayor of Newburg, New York, last November. It seems that Warden, a Democrat, was supported by the NonPartisan Citizen Committee and the Tax and Rentpayers League. He was elected by a near record majority and defeated a man long recognized as one of the most powerful of Newburg's political figures. Immediately following his election Warden started for Grand Lake, Maine, on a hunting trip.

Arthur Thad Smith collapsed in the Boston South Station on the evening of January 1st, and was dead on arrival at the City Hospital. He had been afflicted with a heart ailment for sometime. His ability to think clearly combined with a fund of horse sense carried him far in his law practice in Boston. His inborn kindness and desire to be helpful brought him many friends who will mourn his passing. Your Class President, Guy Richards, has prepared Tad's obituary which appears in the Necrology Section of this MAGAZINE.

Tom Ham, after having been with the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation for thirty years, has recently created and is managing the Jones & Laughlin Students Training Course. This course is only for men who dare to aim at a large success. Its purpose is the training of college men for operating, sales, accounting and other positions. Men with technical training are preferred, but non-technically trained men are not excluded. All men must have an outstanding personality and a good health record.

The present course requires about twelve months. Students are assigned in pairs to all the major divisions for a certain period of time. Immediately after the training period in each unit has been completed, the students send to the manager of the Students Training Course answers to questions concerning that unit and write a thesis describing the unit in considerable detail. Each student is carefully graded not only upon his knowledge but also on such characteristics as ability to learn, initiative and tact. Upon completion of the course students are assigned to operating, sales and other positions for which they seem best qualified.

Tom is very enthusiastic about his new position and feels that he is doing the best work for the Jones and Laughlin Corporation that he has ever done.

Secretary, 21 Forest Road, Cape Elizabeth, Maine