1901

Hastings Lyon has been called back to teaching at Columbia University. He has a new book, just recently published entitled TheEconomy and Its Money "Rubber"Thayer in a letter to Johnnie Ward recalls old days when he led the college choir Dr. JohnProctor was the organist, and "Rubber" says that it was the last student choir to be paid by the College George French writes from Winter Park that he is heading back to Andover soon. The class of 1901 had a good delegation to the Annual Dinner of the Winter Parle Dartmouth Club, with Frank W. Halliday, Rush Newcomb, C. L. Phelps and George attending, and Frank being elected president at that time "Skunk" Hathaway's family are all doing all right, daughter Lucille's husband will soon be discharged from service, Eleanor entered B.U. in the fall after winning a scholarship and is majoring in Biology, Constance keeps busy at Filene's. Son John with Dora and Skunk keeps the home fires burning.

The Publisher's Weekly, under the heading, "You Meet Such Interesting People" states that "T. C. Morehouse was elected a vice president of Macmillan at a meeting of the board of directors of the firm on February 19, and has relinquished his duties as head of the Macmillan college department. Mr. Morehouse joined Macmillan in 1900, going almost immediately to its Chicago office. In igoi he returned to the New York office, working in the educational department until the fall of 1904 when he went to the company's San Francisco office. He traveled on the Pacific Coast for the educational department until 1910 when he was appointed manager of the company's San Francisco office. XVhile there, he converted that office from a promotional office into the firm's West Coast distributing branch, introduced the use of automobiles for sales representatives to permit more thorough coverage of their territories, and mechanized the accounting and bookkeeping departments. In 1929 he returned to New York and took charge of the college department. Mr. Morehouse was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., and attended King's Preparatory School in Stamford, Connecticut, and Dartmouth College." .... A previous letter from Ted had stated that he would have completed 50 years with the company in 1950, and that he was fully determined to retire at that time.

Editor's Note: The excellent picture of President Emeritus Hopkins and Ross McKenneywhich appeared with the 1901 notes lastmonth was the work of Steve Stevens Jr. '41and should have been credited to him.

Secretary and Treasurer, 1371 Locust Rd., N. W., Washington, D. C.