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"I have travelled through eleven countries. My experience at home and abroad has taught me to exercise good judgment and
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self-control in knocking elbows with all mankind of whatever race, color, or creed. I know there are good and bad in every race, but, on the whole, the goods seems to predominate. I do not believe that any race should attempt to dominate another. It would, indeed, be a drab, dull world if all people were made of, or changed to the same pattern."
Roberts, the son of Michael Roberts, Trinity College, Ireland, and M.D., Harvard Medical School, '62, and Mary Elizabeth Crawford, was born October 14, 1875, at Lawrence, Massachu- setts. He prepared for college at the Lawrence High School, and after four years with our Class, was graduated cum laude. He studied for the following two years at the Law School. He mar- ried Minerva V. Holmes in 1923 at Lawrence. She died in 1937 at Methuen, Massachusetts. He married Marie Rose Keene in 1938 at Lawrence.
He practised law from 1900 to 1922. He was assistant clerk of the District Court of Lawrence from 1922 to 1926, and clerk from 1926 to 1946. On October 14, 1946, he retired from that position to resume the practice of law.
From 1907 to 1912, he was clerk of the Park Department of the City of Lawrence. He served as captain of C Battery, First Massachusetts Field Artillery, National Guard, on the Mexican Border in 1916. He served as clerk of the Lawrence Bar Asso- ciation from 1922 to 1934, and as vice-president from 1934 to 1936. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, Massachusetts Archaeological Association, and National Society for American Archaeology.
+ LOUIS SYDNEY BASSFORD ROBINSON
L OUIS SYDNEY BASSFORD ROBINSON died December 19, 1922, at San Diego, California, while on duty at the U. S. Veterans' Hospital 62, Camp Kearny, as a surgeon, Reserve Corps, in the Public Health Service. He took his medical training at the Medi- cal School, graduating cum laude in 1901, having taken his A.B. magna cum laude in 1897. After a year at Trudeau's Sanatorium in the Adirondacks and two years in the Boston City Hospital, he
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practised privately in St. Paul, Minnesota, for about ten years, specializing in tuberculosis. In 1915 he accepted the post of assistant superintendent to the Minnesota State Sanatorium for Consumptives and the following year became superintendent of the Nebraska State Hospital for Tuberculous, an institution which progressed greatly under his direction. After two and a half years in this post, he joined the Army Medical Corps and subsequently served at several camps throughout the country, continuing his concentration on tuberculosis. After receiving his discharge in October, 1919, he went into the Public Health Service.
On August 7, 1911, he married Esther Edith Jamieson, at St. Paul. Their children were Sydney, born May 10, 1913, and John, born October 9, 1914.
Robinson was born at Mendota, Illinois, on July 17, 1873, the son of Sydney Turner and Mary L. (Bassford) Robinson.
* JOHN DUNCAN RODGER
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OHN DUNCAN RODGER was born July 23, 1874, at Wellsville, Ohio,
the son of William and Mary Rae (Duncan) Rodger. He attended the Central High School at St. Paul, Minnesota. He was a student in the Lawrence Scientific School until the close of our junior year, when the death of his father obliged him to leave college. He was in business in St. Paul until June, 1907, when he went to Little Rock, Arkansas, to take a position with a publish- ing firm. He became ill and died on June 8, 1907, in Little Rock. He was unmarried.
Rodger's friends found him a fun-loving, fun-providing com- panion, a man loyal to his college and a good student, with high ideals of honor and strong sympathies.
* GORHAM ROGERS
ORHAM ROGERS was born March 27, 1875, at Roxbury, Massa-
G r chusetts, the son of Gorham and Elizabeth Forbes ( Lothrop) Rogers. He came to Harvard from the Roxbury Latin School and took an A.B. with our class. For the next ten years he was in the wool business in Boston and Manchester, New Hampshire. In
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April, 1911, he was elected an incorporator and a member of the board of trustees of the Eliot Savings Bank, Roxbury. His suc- cessful efforts on behalf of that institution were recognized in October, 1926, when he was elected president of the bank. He was also trustee of some estates and a director of the Exeter Gas Company. He held the position of treasurer in the First Church in Roxbury ( Unitarian) and was a director of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, as well as a member of the Alumni Council of the Roxbury Latin School and treasurer of the Roxbury Charitable Society.
He died December 27, 1926, at Brookline, Massachusetts, and was survived by his wife, the former Marian Dary, to whom he was married on October 8, 1925.
HARRY HALL ROGERS
D EAR classmates," writes Harry Rogers, "I am going to write you a few lines to let you know what little of interest has happened to me since the last Report. First, put your pencil end in your mouth, scratch your head, and pretend you are in old Sever Hall taking an exam.
"I kept on in agriculture for awhile and then, having a nice spring on my farm that had medicinal properties, I switched to the business of commercializing on it. I was glad, for in the past it brought me in contact with Jimmy Dean, Billy Vincent, and others.
"It seems to me that the present generation never had the real old pump to serve a cooling drink, or John the Orangeman to peddle his wares around the Yard; or were they able to hike to Jarvis Field to sweat out a few sets of tennis, or to eat at Me- morial."
Rogers, the son of William Alvin and Harriet Gersham (Hall) Rogers, was born April 13, 1875, at Quincy, Massachusetts. He prepared at Adams Academy there. He received his A.B. after three years' work, and spent our senior year in the Law School. He was married January 6, 1904, to Lillian May Magoun at Chicago.
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JOHN FRANCIS ROGERS
R OGERS has been "lost" for many years, the Secretary's knowl- edge of his activities having ended in 1903. Until that time he had taught physical culture in Boston, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Seattle, and had written articles and a book on the subject. He was born August 7, 1871, at Chicago, the son of James and Johanna (Barker) Rogers, and was in the Scientific School from 1893 to 1896.
HARRY FRANCIS ROSS
INCE our last rather voluminous Class Report," writes Ross, "I S have been living quietly but happily with my wife, Margaret Mason Ross, and our five children at Bangor, Maine, in winter, and on the coast of Maine during the summer. I have taken occa- sional trips in the United States and Canada.
"My duties as owner and publisher of the Bangor Daily Com- mercial and president of the Maine Daily Newspaper Association have taken most of my time, together with my work in connection with the Intelligence Department and my four years of active service in the First Fighter Command."
Ross was born at Bangor on November 20, 1873, the son of John Browne and Mary Anne ( Robinson) Ross. He prepared at Hop- kinson's School in Boston and was with our Class for four years, taking an A.B. in 1897. His five children are: Mary Frances, Margaret Joan, Anne Mason, Frances Teresa, and John Mason.
HARRY SHERMAN ROWE
N INE members of '97," writes Rowe, "maintain an active inter- est in their 'Old Schoole' - the Roxbury Latin School, founded in 1645."
Rowe, the son of Henry Walker and Lavinia Tyler (Rowe) Rowe, was born October 15, 1874, at Roxbury, Massachusetts. After three years with our Class, he received his A.B. at our gradu- ation with honorable mention in chemistry. He married Amanda
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Mayo Strout, September 29, 1906, at Berlin, New Hampshire. She died January 3, 1935, at Boston. Their children are: Eliza- beth, born October 18, 1907; and John, born June 22, 1909. There is one granddaughter, Elizabeth Ann Rowe, born March 13, 1945, the daughter of John Rowe and Gertrude Macauley Rowe.
During World War II, John served in the Merchant Marine.
Since 1897 Rowe has been a high school teacher and a master printer. He was a church clerk for seven years and a deacon for three years.
+ FRANK BAILEY ROWELL
F RANK BAILEY ROWELL died April 5, 1937, at Katonah, New York. He graduated with the Class and during the next few years he held several teaching positions. He then became a school secretary and held positions at Hackley, the Morristown School, and Groton. Finding the "ivory tower" aspect of such a life rather too predominant, he went to New York City in 1914 to become a secretary in the Carnegie Foundation and later undertook the secretaryship of the New York office of the American Academy in Rome.
When the war brought an end to this work, Rowell joined the Red Cross Military Relief as assistant field director and was for six months in the U. S. Military Hospital No. 1. The following winter he was secretary in an office for the collection of funds for European reconstruction work. Thereafter, he held no formal position, but, he wrote the Secretary in 1936, "There have been a few instances of helping out some cause or other. . . . So it has come down to my trying to be a decent human being in my rela- tions with other human beings." He travelled widely, and though in later years his legal residence was in Bar Harbor, Maine, where from 1921 to 1935 he was secretary of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, he spent a part of the year also in New York and Florida or California.
Rowell was the son of William Birchmore and Elizabeth Blanchard (Bailey) Rowell and was born February 19, 1874, at Manchester, New Hampshire. On December 26, 1914, at New
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York City, he married Christine Virginia Baker, who, with their son, Donald, '37, born May 9, 1915, survived him.
+ CYRUS PETER MILLER RUMFORD
C NYRUS PETER MILLER RUMFORD died January 31, 1926, at Wil- mington, Delaware. He had not been actively engaged in business since 1920, when he left the DuPont Company, with which he had been associated during the first World War. Prior to that time he was engaged in printing and engraving and in 1903 began the manufacture of ornamental bronze and iron work. On October 24, 1904, at Manchester, New Hampshire, he married Belle Pickering Johnston. Their children were Genevra Caroline, born August 23, 1905, and Henry Peterson, 2d, born March 30, 1911.
Rumford was born January 3, 1873, at Wilmington. The son of Henry Peterson and Alice Josephine (Miller) Rumford, he at- tended the William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia. He was with the Class for four years, taking an A.B. degree. As an under- graduate he was prominent in the Pierian Sodality. His friends will remember with fondness his cheerfulness, generosity, and comradeship.
+ CHESTER CHAPIN RUMRILL
HESTER CHAPIN RUMRILL was born February 29, 1876, at Springfield, Massachusetts, and died there on April 7, 1916. He was the son of James Augustus and Anna Cabot (Chapin) Rumrill. He came to Harvard from a private school in Springfield and took his A.B. in 1897. After travelling in Europe, he entered the employ of the Boston & Albany Railroad in 1898, but left three years later to enter the office of Lee, Higginson & Company, Bos- ton. He left this position in 1907 to take charge of the affairs of his father. After his father's death in 1909 he was associated with business interests mainly in Springfield. At the time of his death he was acting president of the Chapin National Bank. He was un- married.
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+ WILLIAM LACY RUMSEY
W ILLIAM LACY RUMSEY was born in Wolcott, New York, on December 14, 1874, the son of Homer Lockwood and Annie Eva (Rogers) Rumsey. He attended the Wolcott High School and the Cazenovia Seminary at Cazenovia, New York. He entered Harvard in September, 1893, and was graduated with distinction. He continued at Cambridge for two years in the Law School.
In the summer of 1899 he made an extensive bicycle tour of England and the Continent. He was admitted to the New York State Bar the following December, and soon after became asso- ciated with the law firm of Murphy & Rumsey in Buffalo. In politics he was a Democrat and was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
On June 2, 1909, he married Maud Emerson Almy of Syracuse, New York. They had two sons: William Lacy, Jr., born July 8, 1911; and John Almy, born July 13, 1916. William, Jr., received his A.B. from Harvard in 1934 and his M.D. in 1938; John is a member of the Harvard Class of 1939 and was awarded an M.B.A. in 1941.
In 1903 Rumsey moved to White Plains, New York, where he spent the greater part of his life. He had an office in White Plains and also in the Grand Central Terminal in New York. In 1919 his health began to fail and he moved to Miami, Florida, where for several years he had owned a grapefruit and orange grove. After nearly a year of hard out-of-doors work, his health was restored and he returned to White Plains and the practice of law. Later he moved to Bronxville, where he died on August 26, 1943, survived by his wife and two sons.
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+ ARTHUR WILLIAM RYDER
A RTHUR WILLIAM RYDER, one of the greatest authorities on
Sanskrit, died while teaching a class at the University of California, Berkeley, on March 21, 1938. The son of William Henry and Mary Elizabeth ( Bushell) Ryder, he was born March
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8, 1877, at Oberlin, Ohio, and attended Phillips Academy, An- dover, before coming to Harvard. As an undergraduate, he was one of the most brilliant scholars in the Class. His quiet, reticent nature, overlying a dry sense of humor, did not lead to a wide circle of intimate friendships, and he is doubtless best remem- bered for his skill at chess. On frequent evenings he and Elmer Southard took on all comers, sometimes playing a dozen games at once, and rarely did they meet defeat.
After graduating magna cum laude, he taught Latin for a year at Phillips Academy, Andover, and then went to Europe, where he studied for three years in Germany, at both Berlin and Leip- zig, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the latter university. Returning to this country, he taught Indic philology and German at Harvard for four years. In 1906 he went to the University of California to form a department of oriental lan- guages.
His publications include translations from the Sanskrit of Little Clay Cart, a drama produced with great success in Berkeley in 1907; Women's Eyes, a volume of verse; The Panchatantra, which became a best seller; Twenty-Two Goblins, a group of fairy stories; Shakuntala, a drama which was produced in San Fran- cisco and Berkeley; and other verses and stories.
HARRY EVERETT SAFFORD
M Y years of full activity," writes Safford, "embraced a pastorate in Granville, Massachusetts, and fifteen years' professorship of history in Rangoon University, Burma, where I also acted as pastor of its college church for a decade. Then ill health pre- vented my continued residence in the tropics or pastoral work at home. Occasional addresses, book reviews, and writing theologi- cal articles, with extensive correspondence, at times exceeding eight hundred letters a year, have occupied me along with the study of Biblical Prophecy.
"I am convinced that the early termination of this age is not only definitely foretold but inherently probable on the rise and reign of Antichrist and his crushing defeat at Armageddon. Then
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Christ Jesus as Prince of Peace will inaugurate His millennial reign on this earth where any other permanent peace grows in- creasingly improbable the longer our so-called Christian nations fight until exhausted and then negotiate, only to fight again. Possibly World War III can be staved off during our day, but Russia and Germany, with their satellites, will eventually com- bine against western Europe and the Americas."
Safford is the son of Joseph Henfield and Sarah Lodemi ( Hol- lister) Safford. He was born December 29, 1873, at Lawrence, Massachusetts. He prepared at the Lawrence High School and, after four years with our Class, was graduated with distinction. He received an A.M. at Harvard in 1898, and was graduated from the Newton Theological Seminary in 1903. As an under- graduate he specialized in history and diplomacy. He was a member of the Baptist Church. During the Spanish-American War, he assisted the state Y.M.C.A. in army canteen work for the Fifth Massachusetts Infantry at Framingham. His brother, Fred- erick Hollister Safford, was granted an A.M. in 1894 and a Ph.D. in 1897 at Harvard.
Safford married Elizabeth Stafford, September 12, 1907, at Lawrence, Massachusetts. He is chaplain of the Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants.
EDUARDO EGBERTO SALDAÑA
YINCE leaving Harvard," reports Saldaña, "my time has been S given, principally, to engineering work. In the latter part of 1897, upon my arrival at Puerto Rico, I was appointed a member of a committee of three engineers to inspect and accept the then recently finished Pumping Station for the San Juan Water Works, which took its supply from the river Piedras, near the town of Rio Piedras where I was born.
"During the year 1898-1899, I represented the Edward P. Allis Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in various parts of Spain. In Madrid and in Barcelona I was the engineer in charge of the erection of the power plants for the electric railways. Later I was ordered to London, to inspect some of the engines for the steam
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power plant of the London Electric Underground System, the largest steam and electric power house of this kind under erection at the time. During the Spanish-American War, I was in Spain for the greater part of the time. Because of the war, all the Americans were withdrawn from Madrid and Barcelona, but I was ordered to remain in Spain by the Allis Company and to take charge, at the same time, of the erection of the machinery fur- nished by the Wheeler Condenser and Engineering Company.
"There had been some trouble between a young engineer and a waiter at the Hotel Cuatro Naciones in Barcelona where I was staying. It was reported to me that an American had shot a Spaniard. A few days later I received a very politely written note from the chief of the Gendarmes, asking if I would please give work to the bearer. I did not hesitate. He was a tall, well-built man of athletic appearance, and I put him to work at once digging foundations. This man worked with me for over five months. I noticed two things: that the man acted as a perfect gentleman, and that he never appeared on pay day to collect his money. Upon inquiry I was told by a friendly contractor from the Argen- tine Republic that the man was an officer in the Gendarmes. I had appointed and paid a detective to spy upon me.
"In December, 1898, I was ordered to go to London first and then to New York. In London I met Mr. Wheeler, president of the Wheeler Condenser & Engineering Company. During my short stay in New York, I was appointed temporary representa- tive for the Edward P. Allis Company and the Wheeler Condenser & Engineering Company for Cuba and Puerto Rico.
"I have been a member of the Society of Mechanical Engineers, since 1903, Sociedad de Ingerieros Eléctricos y Mecánicos, Sugar Technologists of Puerto Rico, and Sociedad de Químicos e Inge- nieros de Puerto Rico."
Thus it can be seen that Saldaña started early upon an engi- neering career which he has successfully carried through in many countries and with many concerns, including government work in Puerto Rico and work which took him to Cuba, San Domingo, Canada, Belgium, France, Spain, England, and the United States, where he passed his examinations as mechanical engineer, United
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States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. Among his many important assignments he formed a connection with the Mirless Watson Company, Limited, of Glasgow, Scotland.
Much of his time recently has been spent as chief engineer in connection with the sugar factories in Puerto Rico and at present he is connected with the government of Puerto Rico as engineer- appraiser of sugar factories.
He has written many book reports and articles on engineering and sugar factory problems, most of them in Spanish.
Saldaña, the son of Manuel Isidoro Saldaña and Estefana Casenave, was born April 24, 1874, at Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. He prepared at Kendall's School and at the Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge. He received an S.B. with our Class after four years in the Lawrence Scientific School, and also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He married Maria Ezequiela de Casenave, August 19, 1900, at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Their children: Eduardo Luis C., born July 9, 1901; Luis Manuel, born February 5, 1903 (died June 9, 1943); Matilde, born April 26, 1905; Alberto J. M., born January 6, 1907; Víctor José, born July 20, 1908; Margarita, born May 28, 1911; David, born April 5, 1913; and Raúl, born July 23, 1916. Five of the children are married. Víctor José and Raúl served in World War II.
EUGENE LESTER SAMPSON
HAVE had my share of difficulties in life," writes Sampson, I "including some hospital experiences. But through it all I have had the durable satisfaction that the Lord was my helper, the forgiver of my sins, the saviour of my soul, and the daily keeper of His promises."
Sampson, the son of Edwin and Betsey Eastman (Bemis) Sampson, was born November 26, 1864, at Lexington, Maine. He prepared for college at the Anson Academy in North Anson, Maine. After a year at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he was awarded an A.B. in 1906 as of 1897. He had previously received an A.B. at Colby College in 1889, and an A.M. in 1892.
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He writes that in 1888 he joined the Congregational Church in Waterville, Maine. In 1897 he joined the Clarendon Street Bap- tist Church. From May, 1899, to August, 1929, he served as pastor of Baptist churches in Maine with an interim of a few years dur- ing which he was in business. From 1930 to 1945 he was town clerk for the town of Jefferson, Maine.
He married Winifred B. Ladd, August 8, 1923, at Marlboro, Massachusetts. She died March 27, 1942.
GEORGE PHIPPEN SANBORN
M Y dream of living to see the day when preventive medicine should become a part of every-day living resulted from the contacts I had made with men of scientific distinction during my training period," writes Sanborn. "My previous report notes my efforts to make that dream come true. I continued my efforts until my retirement from the hospital in 1937, and I am happy to say that the Department of Applied Immunology is an active one at the Boston City Hospital. Today I am listed as 'consultant in immunology.'
"Clinging to an ideal and working toward its fulfillment has been one of life's 'durable satisfactions.' Otherwise my life has been uneventful. My son is personnel director in a regional office of the Disabled Veterans Administration in Maine, and I have acquired a daughter-in-law of whom I am very fond and proud, but there is no grandchild to add joy to my declining years.
"My arrival at 'distinction' - to wit: So far as I know, I am the only one-legged member of the Class of '97. This happened sud- denly and unexpectedly and has hampered my activities greatly, but the support of my loyal friends has been a further 'satisfac- tion.' Men of '97, watch your step."
Sanborn, the son of Alfred Goodrich and Mary Frances Allen (Phippen) Sanborn, was born June 27, 1875, at Brookline, Massa- chusetts. He prepared at the Brookline High School, and was with our Class for three years, but did not take a degree. He entered the Medical School in 1897 and took his M.D. in 1901.
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He married Adalyn Henderson, May 7, 1915, at Methuen, Massa- chusetts. Their son, Phippen, was born April 10, 1916.
In World War I, Sanborn was requested by the hospital authori- ties to remain with the clinic and did not enlist until toward the end of the war. His son served in World War II.
Sanborn is a lieutenant commander, Reserve Medical Corps, on the honorary retired list. He writes that his literary works have been limited to medical articles. He was vice-president of the American Association of Immunologists in 1915. He is a member of the Harvard and Algonquin Clubs.
+ WILLIAM HUNTINGTON SANDERS
W ILLIAM HUNTINGTON SANDERS died August 12, 1898, on board the hospital ship Los Angeles in Santiago Bay, Cuba, where he had gone as a member of the "Rough Riders," Troop B, First United States Volunteer Cavalry. After enlisting, he was mustered in May, 1898, and served at Siboney and San Juan. He was un- harmed in battle, but contracted a fever which caused his death. He was buried with full military honors at his home in Salem, Massachusetts. The son of Charles and Helen Augusta (Lord) Sanders, he was born at Detroit on December 26, 1871. He at- tended Milton Academy and was in the Lawrence Scientific School from 1893 to 1897.
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