1896

Ike Cox has written the story of William Belcher Seeley, Founder and First President of San Antonio Academy with whom Ike was associated from 1896 to 1902. This is the history of a Princeton graduate, driven South by ill health, who established a preparatory school in San Antonio whose influence ex- tended far beyond State or sectional limits. This was the first such school in Texas whose educational standards were accepted by the colleges and universities of the North. The jacket of this 100 page brochure has an ex- cellent picture of the author and a resume of his educational background.

Bill Ham, 1897 states in his Class Notes in the issue of this MAGAZINE of February, 1949 that his classmates Jigger Pender and Bum Morrill were the first to wear knickers at Dartmouth. Your Secretary recalls that the first knickers he ever saw on the campus were worn by an 1896 medic named Lenox. The wardrobe of this man Lenox was, in style and variety, so far beyond that of the members of '96 that he was nicknamed "Ze Count" by Bill Randall. I doubt if 5% of the men in college in our time ever knew what Count Lenox's full name was.

Secretary, Treasurer and Class Agent

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