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During World War I, Jenney served in the Massachusetts State Guard. In World War II, he was neighborhood warden and did civilian defense and Red Cross work. Warren and Charles, Jr., were lieutenant commanders in the U. S. Naval Reserve.
Jenney served on the Belmont, Massachusetts, School Commit- tee from 1930 to 1936. He is a member of the Oakley Country Club there.
RUTHERFORD WAYLAND JENNINGS
TN August, 1876," writes Jennings, "my father proved that his nine-month-old first-born could fit in the mouth of the huge Krupp cannon, feature of the German Exhibit at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. At this same exposition Don Pedro, Bra- zilian emperor, blurted out the Portuguese equivalent of 'My God! It works!' as he held the receiver of Mr. A. G. Bell's newly invented telephone to his ear.
"The telephone was only one of the time and space destroyers which have featured the age in which we have lived. And the shrinking world has produced such friction among nations that our Class has seen two world-wide wars. It is a tragic paradox that the very inventions which have increased man's mobility and freedom of action should inevitably make war embrace the whole earth. Worse luck, this time the discovery of a new form of energy presages still more terrible destruction for the world of tomorrow. That is, unless a world government evolves out of the United Nations organization, a dim hope at best.
"But enough of this. We, at least, had the fun of living in the
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Gay Nineties and at Harvard. Under Gates in English 22 I learned that the most enduring satisfaction in life is found in creating something. I spent ten happy years in newspaper report- ing and editing. Later I derived a good deal of enjoyment from helping to design a hotel, during the operation of which I made and lost a modest fortune. However, I find as I grow older, pos- sessions mean less and less, so that it didn't make much difference.
"Finally, here's a tip. When my younger son came back from Guam he introduced me to chess. Take it from me, it's a grand game for a septuagenarian.'
Jennings, the son of Ryerson Wesley and Clara Elizabeth (Collet) Jennings, was born November 15, 1875, at Philadelphia. He prepared for college at the William Penn Charter School in that city. After three years' work with our Class, he received his A.B. degree in 1896. He married Anna Marie Downry, September 1, 1901, at Wilmington, Delaware. They had four children: Ford Ryerson, born October 19, 1907; Robert Jenks, born July 13, 1910; Richard Haughton, born September 14, 1911 (deceased); and Clara Elizabeth, born October 16, 1914. There are six grand- children, two boys and four girls.
In World War II, Ford Jennings served as a lieutenant com- mander in the U. S. Naval Reserve. Robert was a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve.
* CHARLES EDMONDSTON JOHNSON
C HARLES EDMONDSTON JOHNSON was fatally injured in a highway crash near Panguitah, Utah, on April 12, 1942, and died April 14, at Richfield, Utah. He was born July 28, 1874, at Sum- merville, South Carolina, the son of William Henry and Sarah Ursula (Edmondston) Johnson. He was educated at the State School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, and entered the Lawrence Scientific School in 1894, where he remained for two years.
For many years he followed the practice of mining engineer- ing. Since 1935 he had been a superintendent of soil-conservation projects in New Mexico and in this work he had made a fine rec- ord. During his life his work carried him over a wide field - Can-
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ada, State of Washington, South Dakota, Colorado, and New Mexico. At the time of his death he was living in Silver City, New Mexico.
He is survived by his wife, the former Emma Irene Peters, whom he married January 14, 1902, at Spearfish, South Dakota, and by his children: Wade Hampton, born July 31, 1903; Chris- topher Edmondston, born March 4, 1909; Katherine, born July 23, 1911; and Florence Ellen, born September 27, 1915. His two other children died in infancy: Mary Dorothy, who was born December 18, 1904, died April 3, 1905; and Charles Edmondston, Jr., who was born November 6, 1906, died February 28, 1907.
WILLIAM LYMAN JOHNSON
M Y four years at Harvard were a very enjoyable period," writes William Johnson. "I chose to be a special student as I de- sired the studies which would be of particular use to me. I lay deep tribute to two professors. First, to Charles Eliot Norton whose kindness and personal interest opened up new horizons of cultural conceptions. Second, to Dean Briggs whose kindness to me after being absent from lectures for over a month because of a severe illness, encouraged me to continue in classes rather than give up and wait for the next term. I did as he wisely directed and passed examinations. I gained a certain amount of valuable knowledge from Professor Gates, by his lectures and private talks, which broadened my quests into various paths of literature.
"I did not become a member of clubs or societies during my four years. My spare time was absorbed through my membership in a string quartet, semi-professional, in which I played viola. Players on this instrument, outside the Boston Symphony Orches- tra, at that time were scarce, and my services were in demand. When I became a member of the Pierian in 1893, I was the only violist in the orchestra for several months.
"In a previous report I recorded my labors as a researcher and inventor for the Choralcello Company. I also recorded that dur- ing that period, from 1918 to 1924, I was engaged in writing the largest and most exhaustive History of the Christian Science
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Movement. This was done for Mrs. Mary Beecher Longyear, and the manuscript numbered twenty-two hundred pages. Nine hun- dred have been printed, but not published. My historical story, From Hawthorne Hall, copyright 1922, has gone into its second printing.
"It is possible that I may write of the period of religion, philos- ophy, the rise of spiritualism, and the immense popularity of the teachings of animal magnetism which were in vogue for nearly one hundred years in Europe and in America. This was the pre- cursor of modern hypnotism. The attainment of my collection of books, pamphlets, and magazines on this subject has taken many years. And the subject is of interest and but very little known at the present time. In this piece of writing I shall embody the evolution of religious beliefs as well and the progress of culture relative to the arts during the nineteenth century.
"Ever since I heard Arold Dolmetsch in 1899 play the music of the great masters who wrote for the clavichord and the harpsi- chod, I became an earnest devotee of the music of the golden period of contrapuntal music from the fifteenth century to Haydn. Through my urgence in 1936, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts began giving Sunday afternoon concerts of music written for the harpsichord, lute, viol de gamba, and viols, and two instruments from my collection were used, a virginal and a spinetto (small spinet). The reason for their use was that my instruments were the only ones in Boston in playing condition.
"In the fourteenth Bulletin of the Harvard Musical Association of April, 1946, there is the following: 'Mr. William Lyman John- son's interest in ancient musical instruments has been keen and long-lived. So thorough have been his studies and researches that he is recognized as an authority on the subject.'"
Johnson, the son of William Benjamin and Rachel (Donnelly ) Johnson, was born September 13, 1869, at South Boston, Massa- chusetts. He prepared at the Dorchester High School. He mar- ried Maude Baker Wright in July, 1905, at Dorchester, Massachu- setts. Their son, Lyman Baker, was born March 13, 1905. There is one grandchild.
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+ FREDERIC WILLIAM JOHNSTON
E REDERIC WILLIAM JOHNSTON died September 12, 1925, at Santa Barbara, California, where he had lived since 1910. After graduating cum laude in 1897, he spent two years in the Medical School, but his health broke down in the autumn of 1899 and he had to give up his studies. He was unable to work continuously, but occasionally wrote stories which were published in various magazines.
Johnston was the son of Andrew and Sarah (Reed) Johnston. He was born in New York City on August 23, 1873, and prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy. He never married.
WILLIAM BERNARD JOHNSTON
A1 T the outbreak of World War II," writes William Johnston, "our government bought Jamaica Island, for more than fifty years our summer home in Portsmouth Harbor, and added it to the expanding Portsmouth Navy Yard.
"The invading Nazis occupied and looted our two small houses in Giverny on the north bank of the Seine midway between Paris and Rouen. Fortunately the property was not damaged by the bombardment that preceded the Allied crossing of the Seine at this point.
"The war put an end to the activities of the Reno Art Center of which I was president, but I gradually resumed my main inter- est of the past ten years - recording in pastel the ever-changing beauties of this western scene. Many of these pastels, together with earlier water colors of France, Scotland, and Spain, hang in the homes and offices of friends and relatives. During the San Francisco World's Fair, several of my religious paintings hung in the Temple of Religion, and other oil paintings have found a per- manent place in the Civic Auditorium and in the churches of Reno.
"It is obvious that the making of pictures has been my most continuously absorbing and most rewarding occupation.
"With the exception of a Frenchman, now in his eighty-fourth
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year, and of the recently retired professor of medicine of Johns Hopkins, the friends with whom I continue to correspond are all Harvard men."
Johnston, the son of William Waring Johnston, M.D., Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, '65, and Esther Dashiell Ladd, was born March 5, 1876, at Washington, D. C. He prepared at the Noble and Greenough School in Boston. He took an A.B. with our Class and an M.D. at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1901. As an undergraduate he was a member of the Delphic Club, Institute of 1770, D.K.E., Hasty Pudding, Signet, and Southern Clubs. He was president of the Banjo Club during our senior year, and was graduated with honors in chemistry.
He married Janet Newlands, June 10, 1903, at Chevy Chase, Maryland. They had two children: Janet Sharon, born July 29, 1904; and William Waring, born August 27, 1907 (deceased). There are four grandchildren.
In 1914-1915, Johnston practised medicine in Giverny, France, and in 1917-1918, examined recruits for the British and Canadian Recruiting Mission in Boston and San Francisco. He returned to France and for a few months in 1918-1919 served as captain in the American Red Cross.
He began the practice of medicine in Washington, D. C., in 1902 and remained there a year. He spent the following year travelling, and in 1906 began painting in France.
He is the possessor of La Médaille de deuxième Classe de la Reconnaissance Française, and the author of "The Story of the Moffat-Ladd House," Portsmouth, New Hampshire; "The Story of Jamaica Island," Piscataqua River; and "The Story of Giverny, France," published for private circulation. From 1920 to 1940 he was a member of the St. Botolph Club in Boston.
+ ARTHUR MORSE JONES
A' RTHUR MORSE JONES died in Brookline, Massachusetts, April 30, 1943. He was born in Cambridge, November 13, 1875, the son of Charles Willis and Mary Louisa ( Morse) Jones. He prepared at the Cambridge Latin School and entered Harvard in
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1893. After graduating cum laude with our Class, he spent the following year at the Law School.
On March 4, 1911, he married Mary Lovejoy Wetherbee, at Boston. He was survived by her and their three children: Eleanor Lovejoy, born March 10, 1912; Arthur Morse, Jr., born Septem- ber 11, 1913; and Lawrence Wetherbee, born March 26, 1917.
One of his close friends wrote of Jones:
"Arthur Morse Jones was one of those modest souls who hid a most delightful nature and delicious humor like a light under a bushel. Unfortunately a certain diffidence made it hard for him to expand and 'be himself' in formal surroundings and in the pres- ence of a crowd. But to the lucky few who knew him intimately he was the most delightful companion, always seeing the amus- ing aspects of life and commenting on the ways and foibles of his fellow-man with a delicate satire that few possess.
"He was at his best in the Maine woods 'stalking' the trout or on the Cape, where, with the old Codders and his closest friends, he kept one in stitches 'from morn to dewy eve.'"
"For many years he was a banker, with Loring, Tolman & Tup- per, and later became assistant treasurer of Stone & Webster. He retired some five years ago and thereafter devoted much of his time to roaming the countryside in search of antiques. Often he would stop at some old burying ground and take a rubbing of some tombstone that took his fancy. His collection of Currier & Ives is one of the best in these parts.
"He got a great enjoyment out of life and gave a great amount to others. He was a devoted husband, a kindly father, and a de- lightful friend. A very rare spirit has gone from the Class of '97."
C. H.
* EDWARD LORING JONES
E' DWARD LORING JONES was born September 23, 1873, at New York City. The son of Frank and Martha Sophia (Leavitt) Jones, he attended St. Paul's School. He left Harvard after our junior year and died at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Febru- ary 14, 1897.
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+ WILLIAM HARRISON JONES
W ILLIAM HARRISON JONES was born July 17, 1872, at Minneapo- lis. The son of Jesse Gleason and Annie ( Harrison ) Jones, he prepared for college at Hopkinson's School, and remained in Harvard only during our freshman year. He then went into busi- ness and for four years was manager of the Washburn-Crosby Company's St. Louis office. In November, 1902, he became man- ager of the Chicago office. He died December 29, 1904. He was unmarried.
As an undergraduate he was active in musical circles, especially the Glee Club, and his attractive personality won him many friends, brief though his stay with us was. Classmates who at- tended our Sexennial dinner will remember the pleasure his fine singing voice gave on that occasion.
+ LABIB BUTRUS JUREIDINI
Li ABIB BUTRUS JUREIDINI died in 1938 at Beirut, Lebanon, where he had spent most of his life. He was born at Shweifat, Mt. Lebanon, Syria, on June 4, 1871, the son of Butrus and Sitkan (Fadeb) Jureidini. Before coming to the United States, where he spent the year 1893-94 at Harvard as a member of the Class of 1897, he had taken a B.A. at the American University of Beirut, then called the Syrian Protestant College, in 1890, and taught Arabic in the preparatory school of that institution for two years. In 1897 he received the degrees of A.M. and S.T.B. from South- western Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tennessee. He joined the staff of El Mokottom, an Arabic journal in Cairo, which held a position of great influence. He later went to Khartum and became editor-in-chief of the Khartum Times. In the manage- ment of that journal he exercised a wide and good influence.
GEORGE RUDOLPH KATZ
TN the main," reports Katz, "my life has been a peaceful and a happy one. I have two fine children, an understanding wife, fine business associates, a few real friends, and enough to live on
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with comfort. What more should any man desire? And topping all of these boons - good health.
"At seventy-four (almost) I do my share of work, play, and enjoy life much as I did at sixty. I have all any man has a right to expect. Wealth and riches intrigue me not all. Enough is plenty. I am a very happy, fortunate man."
Katz was born May 21, 1873, at San Francisco, the son of Emanuel and Hannah E. (Gunst) Katz. He prepared for college at the Irving School in New York City. He was with our Class during freshman year only as a special student.
He married Lillian Migel, July 25, 1905, at Houston, Texas. She died August 30, 1938. On June 20, 1940, he married Ruby E. Migel, a sister of the former Mrs. Katz, at New York City. His children are: Eugene, born January 27, 1906; and Amy Helene, born January 23, 1913. There are five grandchildren. In World War II, Eugene Katz was chief of Intelligence in the European Theatre. Katz was active in bond selling and Red Cross work.
He was an advertising salesman until April, 1912, when he was elected president of the Katz Agency, Incorporated. He is a member of the Advertising Club, Harmonie Club, and Inwood Country Club. His writing has been limited chiefly to trade paper articles.
WILLIAM HARGRAVE KELSEY
A' FTER I got to an age where I had to support myself to some extent," reports Kelsey, "I carried papers week days and Sundays, and later went to work for a banking house on State Street, Boston, as office boy. After a few years there, I decided to go to Harvard. I took up electrical engineering and special courses. I had to work while there to make enough to carry me through, and was employed at the Lawrence Scientific School library nights. I kept the library open for the rest of the students who desired to refer to the books on hand. There I had contact with Professors Shaler, Hollis, Marks, and many others who were in and out of the library at various times.
"After leaving Harvard, I went to work for the Simplex Electric
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Heating Company in their Sales Department, selling electric- heating equipment. This company took over the old American Electric Heating Company and developed various patents cover- ing this field to use electricity for heating domestic as well as in- dustrial equipment.
"I came to Cleveland in 1903, and represented the Simplex Electric Heating Company in Ohio until 1908. I then represented various companies in the sales of industrial heating equipment using oil, gas, and electricity, such equipment as is related to forging, annealing, hardening, carburizing, and melting of metals. At that time I was one of the first in this new field which was de- veloping the processing of metals and their alloys for use in auto- mobile production.
"Later I organized my own company to manufacture this type of equipment. At the present time I am president and treasurer of my company, the Industrial Heating Manufacturing Company, and although not manufacturing much just now, I am doing a lot of sales and engineering work for other manufacturers and am as active as ever along this line. I find that I can still do considerable good with what I have been able to learn in the past along the various fields of industry and impart what knowledge I have ob- tained to the younger generation who have to carry on in the future.
"I received an LL.B. at Baldwin University in 1913. I do not practise law, but find that it has been very useful to me to know something about it, and I do not regret the time spent in obtain- ing this knowledge over the three-year period.
Although seventy-four years of age now, I am typing this my- self, and I do considerable work on engineering reports in the same manner. I have all of my hair - that's something. I have most all of my teeth - all but five of them - so that's something. I am as active as ever. I have a summer place at Mentor, Ohio, and only a week ago was out there with a scythe, one of those long, swinging types, cutting down weeds - with the temperature around 88ºF. Recently I was out in a factory showing the men how to operate a large gas-fired furnace for heat treating steel. The temperature in the furnace was about 165°F. at that time and
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around 110ºF. in the room; so that was a very hot place for a seventy-four-year oldster.
"I have not done anything to brag about, just worked hard to get somewhere, to make a living to bring up the children, to keep out of debt, and to have a little in the bank and bonds and invest- ments to keep me when I can't bring in the bacon in the regular hard work manner.
"I have had some of the hard knocks over the period and have bobbed up again and kept going, allowing them to wash off like water off a duck's back. I miss a lot of my old friends who have passed on, and those who were with me at Harvard, and who are now, if alive, all over the world. I hope we all meet again where we can find ourselves, maybe, in a better place than here."
Kelsey, the son of William Henry and Eva Elizabeth (Griffin) Kelsey, was born March 2, 1872, at Boston. He was twice mar- ried. He married Grace Evelyn Marchand, September 12, 1899, in New York City. His marriage to Pauline Evelyn Boecker took place in June, 1914, in Cleveland, Ohio. His son, Gerald Har- grave, was born July 3, 1900. There are two grandchildren, both girls.
Kelsey is a member of the American Society for Metals and of the Harvard Club of Cleveland.
+ WILLIAM WENTWORTH KENNARD
W TILLIAM WENTWORTH KENNARD, former chairman of the Mass- achusetts Industrial Accident Board and former member of the Massachusetts State Legislature, died December 16, 1938, at West Medford, Massachusetts. He was born September 3, 1874, at Somerville, Massachusetts, the son of Charles William and Lucy Jane (Lord) Kennard. He prepared for college at the Som- erville High School. After receiving an A.B. degree in 1897, he entered the Law School, from which he was graduated in 1900 with an LL.B. degree. Until 1917 he practised law in Boston and Somerville and was in the State Legislature for a number of years, part of the time as Republican floor-leader of the House of Repre- sentatives and as chairman of the judiciary committee.
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In 1911 he served as a member of the Somerville School Com- mittee and was at one time treasurer of the Republican City Com- mittee of Somerville. In 1917 Governor McCall appointed him to the State Industrial Accident Board and designated him chair- man, a post he held until 1932. He did much to raise the board to the high level it attained.
He married Lena Sears Doe on June 15, 1905, at Cambridge. She, with their two children - Wentworth, born September 7, 1906, and Mrs. Rebecca Louise Love, born December 28, 1910 - and a grandchild, Joan Kennard, survive him.
FRANK ALEXANDER KENNEDY
A FTER receiving my A.M. at Harvard in 1898," writes Frank Kennedy, "I taught in Dartmouth, Deerfield, Medford High School, and Worcester Classical High School, all in Massachusetts. I came to the Boston Girls' High School in 1910, and became head of the Department of Latin the following year. Later I was made head of the Departments of Latin and German, and still later of Latin and Mathematics. I was retired August 31, 1946.
"I have been very happy in my married life, have been blessed in my children, and hope that I have had some influence for good over some of my pupils."
Kennedy was born November 12, 1875, at Malden, Massachu- setts, the son of James and Margaret (Worth) Kennedy. He pre- pared at the Medford High School, and after four years with our Class, was graduated magna cum laude. He married Sadie May Brittain, December 25, 1899, at Medford, Massachusetts. Their children are: Lorena (Mrs. Van Breece), born February 24, 1902; and Frank Brittain, born May 29, 1904. There are two grandchildren.
During World Wars I and II, Kennedy assisted with the initial draft, and his wife worked for the Red Cross. In World War II, he helped with the distribution of ration books. His son was a member of the Coast Guard Reserve.
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SINCLAIR KENNEDY
OME seventy years ago," writes Sinclair Kennedy, "a fat infant
S and a beagle dog sat side by side on a sofa, surrounded by hilarious grownups and children. 'They do look alike! That boy is going to be a judge or a preacher.'
"The scene shifts to a kindergarten. The boy, still in skirts, was touching fingers to floor in a calisthenic drill when he felt a sharp pin prick in his right gluteus maximus - an unprovoked attack by the big girl behind him. Instantly he swung his right fist. The girl hit the floor, temporarily speechless. Later teacher appeared in his room of banishment: 'I am sure, Sinclair, you would not have done it if you had not been heated.' 'No, if it had been the coldest night in winter and I'd just got out of bed, I'd have done just the same thing.' No more trouble from the girl with the pin.
"Charles Darwin, in the autumn of 1859, published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preserva- tion of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Before and after that date, Asa Gray of Harvard was one of his correspondents and friends. My father studied under Gray. The resulting mental atmosphere of my father's house was one of the many good for- tunes of my life.
"I entered college accustomed to the idea of 'change' according to 'natural laws' not yet understood by man. Observation taught me that organisms live at (and only at) the expense of other organisms: (a) directly, by using them for food, as when a squir- rel eats a nut or a bird's egg or as when a pneumococcus recently found its nourishment in my body; (b) indirectly, by using the food (including moisture, light, air, and the like ) that might have been used by other organisms, as when a flourishing oak kills out its immediate neighbors. I learned, too, that each species, to the degree that it is free from enemies and from artificial or catastro- phic limitation, increases its numbers to the extent the food sup- ply permits.
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