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William, Jr., is a member of the Harvard Class of 1924. David was graduated in 1928, and John in 1931. Garrison has two Har- vard brothers: Charles Garrison, '92, and Frank Wright Garrison, '94.
"In March, 1941," writes Garrison, "my son, David Lloyd, was inducted into the Army at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. He sailed overseas the following April with the Fifth General Hospital. He served as a sergeant, technician fourth grade, for three and a half years in northern Ireland, England, and France. The high point of his activity was a period immediately following the Battle of the Bulge in northwestern France. He was mustered out in October, 1945.
"My youngest daughter, who now signs herself Mrs. Lloyd G. Wheatley, served as staff assistant in the American Red Cross. She sailed to England in January, 1945, and was stationed at Liverpool in charge of the Clubmobile Service in that area. She was trans- ferred in June to Sissone, France, where she guided the activities of the recreational centers at Camp Washington. Just before Christmas she was sent to Chamonix in the French Alps, where she was put in charge of a leave center until April, 1946, when she returned to New York on a Victory ship.
"My wife was active in Red Cross work in West Newton, Massa- chusetts, during both world wars."
The Secretary has received the poem printed below from Garri- son and feels that it should be added to his record.
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1897-1947
THE DESTINY OF MAN LIES NOT IN TIME
The minutes mount, and melt away.
The hours hasten to their goal.
The days depart with sun's last ray. The years to their conclusions roll.
And Time, with muffled wing beat, moves,
Invisible, devoid of stress, Along its migratory grooves,
Unruffled though it blast or bless.
And we, who down the years have fared, To come this day to Harvard's gate,
When better men have not been spared,
Perceive the phantasy of Fate,
Aware that Man may never know
The hap and hazard of the throw.
JOHN PATRICK GATELY
A' LONG the cool sequestered vale of life, he kept the even tenor of his way,'" quotes Gately. "My life has been very average and routine. I have, however, visited Europe five times, the first in 1898, the last in 1924. Now I like our own national parks. We change with the times. I have enjoyed robust health. Deo gratias.
"I spent only two years with the Class of '97 as a special student. My twelfth to eighteenth years were spent at the Georgetown College Preparatory School. My rooms were in Quincy Hall at the entrance to the Square and it was easy to step into Boston. The Parker House was my other home and college.
"I supported many famous actors as part of the stage crowd - Joseph Jefferson, Henry Irving and others. The stipend was 50 cents a show. I still recall the unearthly beauty of the voices of Ellen Terry and Ada Rehan. That was a fine course in speech. That should have been compulsory for the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric.
"My favorites were Norton and Channing; one taught the best
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of Europe, the other the best of our own land. They are still vivid in my memory.
"In 1896 I toured Europe for the first time, and revisited it in 1898, 1900, 1914, and 1924. Norton and the chef at Young's were both useful, but Channing triumphed in the end. I learned to value most my own country and its national parks.
"I have lived to see the people of the earth coming into their own - Russian Communism, English Socialism, and the like. So let's stick around another twenty-five years and see what happens. There is a power behind the universe that makes for righteous- ness."
Gately, the son of Michael Richard and Catherine (Brennan) Gately, was born November 28, 1874, at Newton, Massachusetts. He married Bernice Dierkes in 1920 at St. Louis. Their children are: John Patrick, Jr., born August 17, 1921; and Joan (Mrs. Ma- theney), born March 14, 1923. There is one grandchild. John Patrick Gately, Jr., served in World War II.
Until his retirement Gately was a merchant.
+ JOHN RODNEY GAUSE
J OHN RODNEY GAUSE was born at Wilmington, Delaware, August
28, 1872, the son of Horace Wilmer and Elizabeth (Harvey) Gause. He came to Harvard from the Friends School in Wilming- ton and spent two years as a special student in the Lawrence Sci- entific School. In 1895 he became associated with Harlan & Hol- lingsworth Company, shipbuilders in Wilmington, of which he reported in 1903 he was a director.
At the time of our Twenty-fifth Report he was engaged in engi- neering and manufacturing, giving his attention to the manufac- ture of high explosives. During the first World War he built and assisted in running several high explosives plants which produced TNT explosive shells and other forms of munition. At the time of his death on October 13, 1944, in his native city, he had been retired as an engineer in the construction department of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company.
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On December 30, 1913, at Buffalo, New York, he married Kathe- rine Davenport. She survived him. D. C.
+ ERNEST LEWIS GAY
E' RNEST LEWIS GAY, a familiar figure on the gridiron during our undergraduate days, died November 25, 1916, on the special train returning from a football game at New Haven to his home in Boston. After graduating with us he had studied briefly at the Law School and was for a short time in business. He then entered the New York State Library School and from 1902 to 1904 was in the Harvard College Library. Until 1908 he was assistant librarian at the library of the Weather Bureau in Washington, D. C. In 1910 he became one of the incorporators and librarian of the So- ciety for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. During four trips to England he did bibliographical work in the British Museum. His special interest was John Gay who wrote The Beg- gar's Opera, of which he had over one hundred copies. In connec- tion with this work he collected many ballad operas. His gifts to the Harvard Library made its department of ballad operas the finest in the country. He was a member of the American Historical Association, the Bibliographical Society of America, the New Eng- land Historic Genealogical Society, the Essex Book and Print Club, the Club of Odd Volumes, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Uni- versity Club of Boston, of which he was librarian, and the Harvard Club of New York.
He was born December 14, 1874, at Boston, the son of George Henry and Elizabeth Greenough (Lewis) Gay, and prepared for college at the Boston Latin School. He never married.
+ FREDERICK PARKER GAY
F REDERICK PARKER GAY, eminent bacteriologist and immunologist, died July 14, 1939, at New Hartford, Connecticut. The son of George Frederick and Louisa Maria (Parker) Gay, he was born July 22, 1874, at Boston, and prepared for college at the Boston Latin School. While at Harvard he devoted himself chiefly to the
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physical and biological sciences and received honorable mention in Italian and Spanish. At Commencement he was awarded a Dis- quisition for which, however, he did not compete. In 1901 he graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins Medical School. He received the first fellowship awarded by the Rockefeller Institute and joined the staff of the University of Pennsylvania as assistant demonstrator in pathology. His special interest in immunology was strengthened after studies with Jules Bordet, Nobel Laureate, in Brussels, and after returning to the United States, he served as bacteriologist to the Danvers Insane Hospital in Massachusetts and then as instructor at the Harvard Medical School. In 1910 he went to the University of California as professor of pathology and during the first World War served briefly as a major in the Army Medical Corps. In 1921, still at the University of California, he was appointed to the new professorship of bacteriology, created largely through his influence and conviction that bacteriology as a study should be separate from pathology. He was also made chair- man of the department. He received the degree of S.D. from George Washington University in 1932. At the time of his death he held the position of chairman of the department of bacteriology at Columbia University.
Among his many contributions to scientific medical literature are Agents of Disease and Host Resistance and The Open Mind, the latter being a tribute to his friend and Harvard classmate, Dr. Elmer Ernest Southard. He was editor or associate editor of nu- merous scientific journals, and at the time of our 25th Report had authored eighty articles.
Gay was a member of many scientific societies, including the National Research Council, the National Academy of Sciences, the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, the Association of American Physicians, the Association of Pathologists and Bac- teriologists, and the Society of Experimental Pathology. He held an exchange professorship from Columbia to Belgian universities and was made a Commander of the Order of the Crown in Bel- gium. He was at one time chairman of the Advisory Committee on Research of the Leonard Wood Memorial.
His ability lay not only in the direction of research, but in teach-
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ing also. Though retiring and modest, he was a gifted speaker. At the time of his death, he was looking forward to retiring to the country with his wife and children. He married Catherine Mills Jones on October 18, 1904, at New Hartford. Their children were Louisa Parker, born August 3, 1905; Lucia Chapman, born Octo- ber 3, 1906; Frederick Parker, Jr., born April 1, 1912, died April 21, 1914; and William Coddington, '41, born April 4, 1920.
* LUCIAN EVERETT GIBBS
L UCIAN EVERETT GIBBS was born February 18, 1874, at Cam- bridge, the son of Fred Tyler and Helen Florence Gibbs, he attended the Cambridge High School, from which he graduated at the head of his class. He then took two years in civil engineer- ing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, winning the Massachusetts scholarship the second year. In the fall of 1894 he transferred to the Lawrence Scientific School, where he re- mained for three years and took an S.B. cum laude in 1897. He then entered the employ of the Second National Bank of Boston, but an illness which had developed during his college days put an end, to what had been a promising young life. He died in Cambridge on May 6, 1898.
+ BARRET GIBSON
B ARRET GIBSON died May 15, 1936, at Marshall, Texas, where he had been in the practice of law for eighteen years. The son of Charles Huntley and Mattie ( Middleton) Gibson, he was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 7, 1874, and was at Harvard from 1893 to 1895. He then attended the University of Louisville, from which he took an LL.B. in 1898. He practised law in Louis- ville and Galveston, as well as in Marshall. He was a member of the Harrison County Bar Association, and was active in com- munity affairs. On September 20, 1898, at Louisville, he married Helen Sprague Wolters. He was survived by his second wife, the former Anice Neff, whom he married in 1912.
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OLIVER WILLIAM GILPIN
O LIVER WILLIAM GILPIN was born September 5, 1874, at Kittan- ning, Pennsylvania, the son of John and Olive (McConnell) Gilpin and prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover. After graduating from Harvard, cum laude, he attended the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Law School, receiving an LL.B. in 1901, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar. He became a partner in the firm of Buffington & Gilpin, and after Mr. Buffington's death, he practised alone. He was president of the Armstrong County Trust Company of Kittanning and was always active in the civic and charitable affairs of the community. The death of his wife, the former Emily Reynolds, whom he married at Palm Beach, Florida, on February 16, 1909, shortly preceded his own, which occurred in his native city on October 27, 1941.
+ MAURICE EDWIN GINN
M AURICE EDWIN GINN died at La Jolla, California, on March 21, 1945. He was survived by his wife, the former Katrina Van Rensselaer, whom he married at Dallas, Texas, on July 17, 1901, and three children: Dorothy Van Rensselaer ( Mrs. Norman New- mark), Van Rensselaer, and Maurice Edwin, Jr.
He was born at Boston on October 16, 1872, the son of Edwin and Clara Eaton (Glover) Ginn, and came to Harvard from St. Paul's School. After leaving college he was with Ginn & Com- pany for a time and then entered the real estate business in Bos- ton. He later moved to California and evidently became com- pletely divorced from the East. He engaged in orange ranching and in real estate in Redlands, California, and made the Botanical Garden there an avocation. At the time of our Forty-fifth Anni- versary Report he was living in Los Angeles.
D. C.
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GEORGE GLEASON
A FTER taking my A.B. in '97," writes Gleason, "I spent one year as secretary of the Harvard Christian Association, while at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and received my A.M. in '98. I spent the next two years visiting preparatory schools in the eastern part of the United States, organizing student Y.M.C.A.'s. Then, after one year in the Philadelphia City 'Y,' I went out to Japan, where, for eighteen years, I was a 'Y' secretary in the big city of Osaka. During that time I spent one and a half years in Army 'Y' work with the Japanese troops in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War.
"In World War I, I was a liaison officer between the Japanese and the U. S. Army forces in Siberia during the winter of 1918 and 1919. In the summer of 1919, I returned to the United States, where I worked for three years writing and lecturing on the over- seas work of the 'Y,' and then, in 1922, I joined the staff of the Los Angeles Y.M.C.A. I retired from that position in 1935, and took graduate work at Columbia University, where I received a Ph.D. degree in 1937, five days after my sixty-second birthday.
"On returning to Los Angeles from New York, I was asked to accept a new and unique position which had been established by the county government of Los Angeles. For nine years I have been a Civil Service government employee with the title of Church and Community Coördinator. This work has given me great freedom in attempting to bring the influence of the church into government and community life, and to bring the community closer to the church. I serve under a committee of seventeen Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant clergymen appointed by the Board of Supervisors of the County Government. We think we have a church-government relationship which is unique, and which, for nearly a decade, has worked very satisfactorily here.
"Two and a half years ago, the supervisors appointed a large inter-racial committee of fifty-three members, and then asked me to become its executive secretary. Thus, in my office in one of the county buildings, we coordinate both religious work and inter-racial activities. A few months ago the supervisors gave me
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an assistant, and during the nine years I have had an able secre- tary.
"Anyone who reads between the lines of the above story can see that my life has been one of pioneering. As one of my daugh- ters says: 'There's never a dull moment in father's life.'
"My first wife, Anne Stokes Morris, whom I married July 12, 1901, at Germantown, Philadelphia, passed away in the summer of 1938. For seven and a half years I lived alone in a comfortable little apartment. On February 9, 1946, I married Margaret Matthew d'Ille at San Francisco, and life has begun anew. Mar- garet was a 'YW' secretary in Japan when I was there, and when I was in Siberia in Y.M.C.A. work, she was head of the Red Cross. During the last three and a half years, she was in charge of wel- fare work among the Japanese at the Manzanar Relocation Cen- ter. In a very striking way our paths have been very close for more than forty years although I saw her only four or five times during that time.
"I have been around the world twice and travelled in South America. This has given me a fine background for the inter-racial work which we are promoting in this county. Of course, being a Los Angeles man, I must speak of bigness. The population of this county is something over 3,500,000, a number which is equalled by only eleven of the states of the union. We take ourselves, therefore, quite seriously.
"I am a Democrat in politics, a liberal in religion, a New Dealer, a social worker, and an internationalist. I try to keep in touch with our local and national political leaders and to use my quiet influence in the promotion of social and human progress based upon the fundamentals of Christian morality. My specialty is young married couples, and my Doctor's dissertation was upon the topic: 'Church Group Activities for Young Married People,' which was published privately in 1937, second edition, 1943. I am constantly invited to speak to groups of newlyweds and to young parents. Such contacts keep one young."
Gleason, the son of George Leroy Gleason, Dartmouth '61, and Charlotte Augusta Perkins, was born March 8, 1875, at Man- chester, Massachusetts. He prepared at the High School in
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Haverhill, Massachusetts. As an undergraduate he rowed with the Class Crew and was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club, Forum Debating Society, and Christian Association. He was graduated with our Class magna cum laude.
Gleason has two daughters: Elizabeth Morris (Mrs. Wallace), born March 16, 1903; and Charlotte (Mrs. Vredenburgh), born June 27, 1909. There are four grandchildren, the eldest of whom is sixteen and drives his own red car, Gleason writes. The young- est is twelve.
Gleason is the author of What Shall I Think of Japan?, pub- lished by the Macmillan Company in 1921, and of many brief pamphlets on youth activities and religious education. He is a member of the Los Angeles Town Hall, Harvard Club of Los Angeles, Phi Delta Kappa, 20-Club, China Society, and Pacific Southwest Academy of Political Science. He is also a member of the Independent Church of Christ (a negro church).
+ HENRY FLETCHER GODFREY
H ENRY FLETCHER GODFREY died June 10, 1940, at Hewlett, Long Island, New York. The son of Charles Henry and Emma Louise (Bennett) Godfrey, he was born January 1, 1874 at Phila- delphia. He attended the Sillig School, Switzerland, and the Berkeley School, New York, before coming to Harvard. He re- ceived his A.B. degree in 1898 as of 1896, after only three years at college but considered himself a member of our Class and took an active part in '97 activities. After he left Harvard, ill health necessitated his going to the West and Mexico for about two years. Returning to New York, he entered the brokerage business. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange from 1902 to 1938 and belonged successively to the following firms: Lee Kretschmer & Company (1903 to 1907), Taylor Livingston & Company (1911 to 1919), Morgan, Livermore & Company (1923 to 1926), and Winthrop Mitchell & Company (1929 to 1940). During the first World War he was a first lieutenant in the Liaison Service attached to the French General Staff. He be- longed to the Knickerbocker, Union, and Harvard Clubs of New
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York and the Meadowbrook Hunt Club of Long Island, of which he was at one time Master of Hounds. Few of our classmates had a more charming personality combined with modesty and a keen sense of humor.
On May 3, 1905, at London, England, he married Mrs. Marie Havemeyer Tiffany, who died in 1925. In 1936 he married Charlotte Hearons, who predeceased him. He was survived by a son, Henry Fletcher Godfrey, Jr., born October 22, 1906.
* FREDERIC GROSVENOR GOODRIDGE
F REDERIC GROSVENOR GOODRIDGE died December 17, 1930, at Pomfret Center, Connecticut. The son of Frederic and Char- lotte Matilda (Grosvenor) Goodridge, he was born September 25, 1874, at New York City, and came to Harvard from St. Paul's School. After taking an A.B. with the Class in 1897, he went on a Polar expedition with Peary, where his scientific knowledge proved of great value. He was instrumental in having three tremendous meteorites, "The Bull," "The Cow," and "The Calf," brought back and placed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In the autumn of 1897 he entered the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia and in. 1901 he received his M.D. For a time he practised, but most of his life was devoted to medical research and teaching. In 1915 he re- ceived a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
During World War I, he was an officer in the Army Medical Corps, serving in this country and in France. He had several im- portant medical publications to his credit, and was a member of various scientific organizations. In his death his comparatively small circle of intimates lost a loyal friend whose cheerfulness and constant thoughtfulness and courtesy were always a source of pleasure.
He was survived by his wife, the former Ethel May Iselin, whom he married June 3, 1901, at New York City, and their three children - Frederic, born June 29, 1903; Ethel Gouverneur, born January 24, 1905; and Helen Iselin, born October 11, 1913.
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FRANK GORDON
F RANK GORDON died July 25, 1940, at Kansas City, Missouri. The son of Isaac and Rosa (Harris) Gordon, he was born December 25, 1875, at Pueblo, Colorado. He attended the Cen- tral High School, Kansas City, and was four years at Harvard before entering the Kansas City School of Law, from which he was graduated in 1899 with an LL.B. degree. Except for a period during the Spanish-American War when he served with Company H, Third Missouri Volunteers, he practised law in Kansas City. He was at one time city attorney and was later appointed assistant city counsellor, in addition to being associated with the City Water Department. He never married.
JOHN LIVINGSTON GRANDIN
F NIFTY years?" asks Grandin. "Of course, if dependable Roger says so, that makes it unanimous.
"Since our Fortieth my two sons have graduated from Harvard, John in 1932, and Richard in 1938. Each gave over four years' service in World War II, and returned home unharmed as lieu- tenant commander and first lieutenant, for all of which we are most grateful.
"My real business continues to be lumber and oil in Louisiana and lumber in Washington, farming in North Dakota, and trustee and charitable work in Massachusetts.
"I am a director of the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Company as is my son John, and together we regret that almost all bonds of merit paying 3 per cent have been called and replaced with those of lesser yield and too long maturity.
"I have just resigned as chairman of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the Northfield Schools after seven years. I am treasurer of the Burnap Free Home for Aged Women and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Old South Society in Boston. I believe strongly in the church as a stabilizing influence in a mixed-up world, but regret with misgiving the decidedly lessened part present-day youth is contributing to its work.
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"I have much to be thankful for and not the least is my only grandchild, John Livingston Grandin, 3d.
"Let us all hope, work, and pray that our sons, grandchildren, and their children may be spared the horrors of war and that the future may bring sanity and peace to our present weary, blood- stained world.
"As to my golf score, I hope to get around in 1947 and may we all be getting around in 1957."
Grandin, the son of John Livingston Grandin, Alleghany Col- lege, and Grace Helen Crockett, Vassar, was born November 16, 1875, at Tidioute, Pennsylvania. He prepared at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He was with our Class four years as a special student.
He married Isabel McCurdy, January 27, 1906, at Youngstown, Ohio. Their children are: Isabella (Mrs. Howard), born March 13, 1908; John Livingston, Jr., born January 22, 1910; and Rich- ard McCurdy, born June 9, 1914.
During World War I, Grandin was director of Red Cross sup- plies for the Northeastern Division. He is treasurer of the Trav- elers' Aid Society of Boston, and of the Grandin Coast Lumber Company. He is director of the Louisiana Central Lumber Com- pany, Forest Lumber Company, White Grandin Lumber Com- pany, and Missouri Lumber & Mining Company.
DICK GRANT
Y OUR Secretary had expected to have more information from Dick Grant, but, unfortunately, his questionnaire came too late to be included. Letters, however, indicate that Grant, after leaving his position as coach of the Track Team at the University of Minnesota, went to Havana, Cuba, where he engaged in both education and mining, still retaining his interest in athletics by occupying the position of professor of physical culture at Havana University. Grant is still in Cuba, active in his special fields and devoting a certain amount of time to his music.
Those who remember him will recall his prominence in ath- letics. He was a member of the Track Team during his years in
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