1898

Fletcher Harper Swift on July 1, 1943, after 21 years as Professor of Education at the University of California, became Professor Emeritus of Education. Since 1904 Fletcher has been engaged in teaching, first at Teachers College (Columbia), then at University of Washington, and finally at University of California. He received a B.D. degree from Union Theological Seminary in 1903, his A.M. at Columbia in 1904, and Ph.D. at Columbia in 1905 and Dartmouth conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Pedagogy in 1933.

He has had a very busy life for in addition to his duties as Professor of Education at University of California he has been Visiting Professor and Lecturer of Educational Administration at many universities including Columbia, Pennsylvania and Harvard.

The influence of Fletcher Harper Swift in School Administration and Finance has been most extensive. He has had appointments in this work from the Carnegie Corporation, the United States Commission of Education, General Education Board, the President of the U. S. and from many Mid-Western, Western and Southern States. In 1936 he was made a Chevalier of French Legion of Honor in recognition of the significance of his study of The Financing of Public Educational Institutions in France. He has spent several years abroad in the study of The Financing oflic Educational Institutions in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany and of The Financingof Grant Aided Education in England andWales, and has published these studies. In 1937 while engaged in these studies in England and Wales his wife and daughters Julia and Mary Ruth went to Vienna to study German wishing to avoid Nazi Germany. Paradoxically they were in Vienna when Hitlel entered. Fletcher rescued his family and took them to Italy and was also there when Hitler made his visit.

At the United Nations Conference in San Francisco Fletcher was a representative of the Association of American Colleges on the Liaison Committee for International Education.

All of his time has not been devoted to teaching and he has authored many books and articles ranging from "The Most Beautiful Thing in the World" in 1905 to "Sleuthing for the Birthdate of G. Stanley Hall" in 1946.

Although 70 on May 20, 1946, he has been maintaining his schedule of fourteen working hours per day. Upon his retirement he is debarred from teaching in any branch of the State University, but this has not kept him away from teaching for he accepted an invitation to teach in the summer session of the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.

Fred Bennis is back in Sullivan, Maine, for the summer.

Bradley Rodgers was in the Faulkner Hospital for several weeks this spring where he had a severe major operation. He is now located at York Beach, Maine, and his mail address is P. O. Box 283.

Another addition to sons of '98 who were in the service is Bob Lucey's son Lieut. Robert J. Lucey, U.S.N.R., whose wife Gertrude J. was a Lieutenant, Army Nursing Corps.

A MASSACHUSETTS REUNION: 1899 class members take their ease at the New Ocean House, Swampscott, in late June. Above left, left to.right tary Joseph W. Gannon, Theobald E. Lynch, Rodney Sanborn and Judge Charles H. Donahue relax on the porch of the hotel, while right, left to right, WarrenC. Kendall and George Clark are deep in their morning newspapers.

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