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Sanders' complete independence of thought and action, thoughtfulness of others, good sportsmanship, and even tempera- ment combined to give him a magnetic personality, which at- tracted loyal friends, among whom his death was deeply felt.
+ RALPH EVANS SAYLOR
R ALPH EVANS SAYLOR was born December 16, 1874, at Philadel- phia, the son of Francis Hoffman and Rebecca Harley (Moore) Saylor. He prepared at the Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and entered Harvard with the Class of 1896. Dur- ing the spring of 1894 he left college, and when he returned the
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next fall he registered with our Class. He left college in June, 1895, and did not return. He died April 23, 1897.
+ MONELL SAYRE
M ONELL SAYRE, called "the father of the pension system in this country," died June 15, 1936, at Washington, D. C. In 1895 he took an LL.B. at Columbian (now George Washington Uni- versity), and spent the next three years at Harvard. He left college to become an instructor of English at Columbia Univer- sity, where he took up the study of pensions. From 1907 to 1913 he was pension expert of the Carnegie Foundation. When Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts brought the matter of a pension system before the Episcopal Church, Sayre was recom- mended to him as an authority. The two succeeded in raising a fund of $9,000,000 in all the Episcopal dioceses to launch the plan which Sayre had devised. Bishop Lawrence highly praised him for the hard work and great care he put into developing the system, his originality and his business acumen, all of which helped the plan to succeed at a time when almost all pension systems in New York were on the verge of bankruptcy. He was unofficial adviser to nearly all other Protestant denominations in establish- ing pensions, including the Church of England. For ten years he was official pension adviser to the Federal Reserve Board. He also held at one time or another practically every high position in the Episcopal Church which was open to a layman.
Sayre was born at Madison, New Jersey, November 21, 1875, the son of Monell and Marie Anna (Stewart) Sayre. He prepared for college at Columbian Academy in Washington. He never married.
ROGER LIVINGSTON SCAIFE
W HEN I prepared the biographical statement for the first twenty-five years after graduation," reports Scaife, "I felt that the more active and adventurous part of my life was behind me. We had fought Germany and won. Peaceful years lay ahead.
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My children were off to a good start, and my business life and activities seemed secure, with no hope for a fortune, but reason- able security for the future. It was a cheerful prospect, and some of it has happily turned out to be true.
"My elder son, Lauriston, became master of classical languages at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, where he was ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church by Bishop Dallas. From there he went to St. Thomas's Church, New York City, as a curate, remaining there until 1942 when he became Rector of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island. During World War II, he served as a chaplain in the Naval Reserve, stationed first at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola and then in the Pacific Area. He is now Rector of Calvary Church in Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania. In 1939 he married Eleanor Morris Carnochan of New York. They have two daughters, Sibyll Grosvenor and Cynthia Lincoln Scaife.
"My daughter, Elizabeth, married Albert J. Beveridge, Jr., the son of the late Senator and Mrs. Beveridge of Indiana. They have two sons and a daughter - Albert 3d, Franklin Spencer, and Eliz- abeth Lincoln Beveridge. They have made their home in Indian- apolis, spending the summers with us on the Cape.
"My younger son, Roger Marvin, after graduating from Har- vard in 1939, entered the employ of Gulf Oil in Boston, where he remained until the war broke out. He entered the Armored Forces of the Army and after two years' training in this country, went overseas and fought in Germany until the cessation of hostil- ities. He was discharged with the rank of first lieutenant, having won the Bronze Star and Oak Leaf Clusters for conspicuous serv- ice in action. Upon his return he married Shirley White of Wiscasset, Maine, and re-entered the service of Gulf Oil, where he is now attached to the New York headquarters.
"While I have carried on my publishing activities and believe that my enthusiasm and interest in books is as keen as ever, my point of view has somewhat altered with the changing duties and responsibilities.
"In 1934 I left Houghton Mifflin Company to go farther up Beacon Hill to serve as vice-president of Little, Brown & Com-
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pany. Since 1944 I have also served as director of the Harvard University Press. Since 1924 I had been a member of the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Press and had become greatly inter- ested in the special problems confronting university publishing. For this reason, when Mr. Conant asked me to become director of the Press for a brief term, I accepted, retaining my directorship and interest in Little, Brown & Company.
"This has brought me back to Cambridge where I have renewed many of my happy associations with the University which, as a matter of fact, have carried through many years because of my responsibilities as trustee of the Lampoon. These duties included keeping the boys straight and safeguarding the reputation of the college when certain issues appeared which contained objection- able features. I had a number of interesting and amusing experi- ences, with both President Lowell and President Conant, when it was felt that the boys had overstepped their mark. There was one case where I was forced to order the Lampoon building closed for a month as a punishment to the editors.
"Publishing during war time, and even now, is vastly more complicated, and this is just as true of university presses as of general houses.
"With the marriage of the children, we decided to sell our rather large house in Milton, and so at present my wife and I have moved to an apartment on Beacon Hill, gathering the family together in the summer on the Cape at Wing's Neck, Pocasset, where we rejoice in the activities of the grandchildren.
"The war brought its anxieties and worries, and the so-called peace its disillusionments and disappointments, but very fortu- nately the family is still intact.
"I cannot claim pride in any particular accomplishment, but I take great satisfaction in the lives of my children and grandchil- dren and in the business associations of publishing, which have brought me in contact with many authors, a number of whom have become fast friends, and together we have rejoiced in many literary triumphs. My life, particularly with Little, Brown & Company, and its president, Alfred R. McIntyre, has been a happy and stimulating experience.
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"I miss the many men of '97 who have already left us, but I cling to the affection of those who remain and who still form a sturdy body of loyal Harvard men who are doing their part as elder statesmen in their various fields of endeavor.'
Scaife, the son of Lauriston Livingston Scaife, Yale '70, and Helen Amelia Sprague, was born August 14, 1875, at Boston. He prepared at Hopkinson's School in Boston, and spent four years with our Class. While in college he was a member of the Institute of 1770, the Hasty Pudding Club, the Cercle Français and the Fencing Club. He was secretary of the Glee Club and Lampoon, and served as president of the Mandolin Club, and was a mem- ber of the Banjo Club, Pierian Sodality, and the Drum Corps.
During his senior year he enlisted in the First Corps Cadets and remained in service for four years.
He married Ethel May Bryant, May 26, 1906, at Hingham, Massachusetts. Their children are: Lauriston Livingston, born October 17, 1907; Elizabeth Lincoln, born January 10, 1910; and Roger Marvin, born March 1, 1916. Lauriston studied at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences during the year 1931-1932.
In World War I, Scaife was a member of the Public Safety Committee of Milton, Massachusetts. Mrs. Scaife worked for the Red Cross during both World Wars.
Scaife has been chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Milton Public Library. He is the author of a number of brief volumes published anonymously. His clubs are the Somerset Club, Har- vard Clubs of Boston and New York, Faculty Club, and Hingham Yacht Club, of which he was one of the founders. He is a member of the Sons of Colonial Wars. In past years he was associated with the Union Club, of which he was secretary; Milton Club, of which he was president; St. Botolph Club; Club of Odd Volumes; Mayflower Society; Players Club of New York; Harvard Musical Association; Hoosic-Whisick Club; Cohasset Golf Club; Book Builders of New York; and the Garrick and National Clubs of London.
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DAVID DANIEL SCANNELL
S INCE graduation from the Harvard Medical School in 1900," writes Scannell, "and internships at the Boston City and Bos- ton Lying-In Hospitals, I have practised surgery.
"I have had the very great satisfaction of having had my two sons trail along after me at Harvard: David, Jr., was graduated from the College in 1935 and from the Law School in 1940; John Gordon is a member of the College Class of 1936, and received his M.D. in 1940."
Scannell, the son of Daniel and Joanna (Lyons) Scannell, was born June 24, 1874, at Boston. He prepared at the Public Latin School in Boston. Before entering the Medical School, he received his A.B. cum laude with our Class after three years' work.
He married Elizabeth A. Macdonald, February 14, 1912, at Boston. Their sons are: David Daniel, Jr., born March 30, 1913; and John Gordon, born May 13, 1914. There are four grand- children.
During the first World War, Scannell served in the Army Medi- cal Corps in this country and in France. His terminal rank was that of colonel. He writes that he was not acceptable for active service in World War II, despite his rating in the Medical Reserve Corps, where he had been inactive since the age of sixty-two, because he was beyond the age limit. For four years he worked as a voluntary advisory consultant to several draft boards, giving surgical advice concerning draftees. Mrs. Scannell worked for the Red Cross.
Scannell was a member of the Boston School Committee for eleven years and served as its chairman for three years.
J. HENRY SCATTERGOOD
HAVE had a very interesting and varied experience in the fields
I of business, investments for various institutions and trusts, and educational and charitable work," writes Scattergood. "In gov- ernment I helped in the reform of voting lists in Philadelphia
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from 1906 to 1912. I served on the Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania at a time of important cases in rural electrification, Conowingo power development, and rate cases of the Philadel- phia Rapid Transit Company. The four years at Washington as assistant commissioner of India Affairs in Mr. Hoover's adminis- tration gave me many interesting experiences. I have long been active in education as trustee and treasurer of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges and as acting chairman and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hampton Institute, of which I am now chair- man emeritus. Relief service in France and Germany during and after the first World War, cricket with four trips to England, mountain climbing in Switzerland and the Canadian Rockies, and general travel have been pleasant changes.
"I have had the blessing of good health and am still active in most of my interests. I am an eighth-generation member of the Society of Friends and, although none too well, have tried to support Friends' testimonies, especially in the direction of world peace and the breakdown of unfair racial barriers. The organiza- tion of world government as a substitute for so-called military security with its train of power politics and a new armament race seems to me the paramount duty of mankind.
"I have treasured my one year at Harvard and have always been grateful to the men of '97 for admitting me so cordially in my senior year. I am always a rooter for Haverford, where a small college is desired, and for Harvard as the best for further study in a university."
Scattergood, the son of Thomas and Sarah (Garrett) Scatter- good, was born January 26, 1877, at Philadelphia. He prepared for college at the Forsythe School there, and received his A.B. degree from Haverford College in 1896. He writes that he played left halfback on the '97 Class football team in our senior year when the class championship was won. He played on the Harvard College Cricket Team in 1897 and rowed with the '97 Class crew. He majored in mathematics and chemistry and writes that he also took Philosophy 5 under Francis G. Peabody with great satisfac- tion and that he has happy memories of it.
He married Anne Theodora Morris, June 13, 1906, at Villa
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Nova, Pennsylvania. She died November 8, 1933, at Bedford, Pennsylvania. He married Dorothy Stephenson Deane, Novem- ber 20, 1937, at Winchester, Massachusetts. His children are: Mary Morris (Mrs. Robert F. Norris), born September 24, 1907; Thomas, born March 1, 1909; Alfred Garrett, 2d (married Helen Gailey), born November 2, 1911; Ellen Morris ( Mrs. W. H. Dun- woody Zook), born January 24, 1914; and Evelyn ( Mrs. Ralph C. Bryant, Jr.), born February 2, 1916. There are eleven grand- children. Scattergood's brother, Alfred Garrett Scattergood, was graduated with the Harvard Class of 1899.
In 1916 Scattergood was a member of the original Red Cross Commission to France. From 1916 to 1917 he was first chief of the Friends' Bureau of the American Red Cross and of the Friends' Unit in France of the American Friends' Service Committee. He was special representative in the Ruhr of the American Friends' Service Committee in 1920.
He was a member of the Personal Registration Commission of Philadelphia from 1906 to 1912, Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania from 1925 to 1927; secretary, American Dyewood Company, from 1904 to 1906, and has been a director since 1904; president, Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania from 1908 to 1911, and is now vice-president and director. He is a director of the United Dyewood Corporation, New York; First National Bank of Philadelphia; Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia; Philadelphia Transportation Company; Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, Philadelphia; Lehigh and New England Railroad, Philadelphia; American Pulley Company, Philadelphia; American Water Softener Company, Philadelphia; and Vicksburg Bridge Company, Vicksburg, Mississippi. He has served on the committee managing the Friends Select School in Philadelphia and on the Board of the Philadelphia Recreation Association and Indian Rights Association. He is a former direc- tor of the Y.M.C.A. in Philadelphia, former manager of the Elwyn Training School, Armstrong Association of Philadelphia, and for- mer member of the Executive Committee of the Committee of 70 of Philadelphia. He has been treasurer of the Friends Freed- men's Association of Philadelphia since 1901, and served as
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president of the trustees of the Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men.
He belongs to the American Philosophical Society of Philadel- phia and was chairman of the Electric Power Committee during its study for the Twentieth Century Fund. He is a founding mem- ber of the American Alpine Club, and is a member of the Histori- cal Society of Pennsylvania, Academy of Natural Sciences, Frank- lin Institute, Genealogical Society, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, Friends Historical Society, American Academy of Politi- cal and Social Service, and Geographical Society, all of Phila- delphia.
He has written articles for the Appalachian on climbs in the Canadian Rockies, and on French spoliation claims which have appeared in Congressional reports and testimony. His clubs in- clude the Union League, University Club of Philadelphia, Merion Cricket Club, and Cosmos Club of Washington, of which he was a member from 1908 to 1945.
+ HERBERT SCHURZ
H ERBERT SCHURZ was born March 5, 1876, at New York City, the son of Carl and Margarethe ( Meyer) Schurz. He pre- pared at Sachs Collegiate Institute.
During his four years in college he became one of the best known and best loved members of the Class. His wide range of interest brought him into contact with many men, all of whom felt the attractiveness of his charming personality and the rare quality of his gifts. Of a romantic nature he was intensely fond of all that was beautiful in art, music, and literature, and indeed, while he was in college he showed his versatility through his participation in musical events, chiefly with his violin. The ex- cellent qualities he possessed as an actor through his perform- ances of the Cercle Français, Hasty Pudding Club and Dramatic Club, and his humor and the ability to write with wit as well as learning established his reputation as well in letters. There was no more brilliant or versatile member of the Class and through all these years he will be vividly remembered by a large section of '97.
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On graduation, however, instead of following the trend of his own tastes, he believed it his duty to enter the law and he devoted three years of study at the Columbia University Law School. His health failing in 1900, he sought recovery in travel, but died in London, England, on July 24, 1900, on his way home. He was unmarried.
WILLIAM HASKELL SCHWEPPE
I HAVE enjoyed a long and happy married life," writes Schweppe, "blessed with good health until these last years when I have had to give up many of my hobbies. They are replaced, however, by new interests, happiness, and satisfactions in the growing families of our son and daughter who have found good mates and fine prospects for success.
"Twenty-five years in the small New England community of New Canaan, Connecticut, near enough to New York and on the way to New Haven and Boston and the resorts in Maine, have brought many pleasures to youngsters as well as parents. New Canaan possesses a goodly portion of college men and women. Its Harvard Club with over one hundred members is noted for its activities in the cause of education and welfare. For many years free lectures have been of interest to this and surrounding com- munities as noted men from the colleges were brought to ex- pound their advanced thought.
"As a lifelong Republican I have not learned to accept with grace the new conditions, theories, and debts that have been heaped upon us by New Deal Democrats. Never have I known prosperity to prevail under 'Democratic reforms.' I hope for bet- ter conditions under a new Republican administration, a new understanding, and equity between labor and management. I hold grave doubts that jealousy and selfishness will allow world peace to prevail. The nations will not pull together over the years.
"May our Fiftieth Reunion be as successful as the good work of our Class officers deserve. I hope to be with you!"
Schweppe, the son of William Eugene Schweppe, Sherliff College, and Eva Jewett, Dearborn Seminary, was born August
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26, 1874, at Alton, Illinois. He prepared at Garland's School in Concord, Massachusetts, and was with our Class two years. He married Emily Bickham Wilt, December 26, 1900, at Dayton, Ohio. They had three children: William Wilt, born November 8, 1908 (died July 11, 1911); Denison Wilt, born January 29, 1917; and Emily Jewett (Mrs. E. Dale Adkins, Jr.), born September 29, 1919. There is one grandchild, E. Dale Adkins, 3d. Schweppe's brother, the late Charles Hodgdon Schweppe, was a member of the Class of 1902.
During World War I, Schweppe worked for the Schweppe & Wilt Manufacturing Company of Detroit, which produced parts for the government-financed companies building de Haviland air- planes. They also manufactured parts for the U. S. Quarter- masters' "Class B" trucks. Their days were "short on both ends in their efforts," adds Schweppe. In 1943 he was in Washington in the capacity of filtration engineer at the McMillan Filtration plant in an effort to increase the water supply from that government plant. In World War II, his son, Denison, '39, M.B.A. '41, was a lieutenant in the U. S. Naval Reserve stationed at the Navy Ord- nance plant at Milledgeville, Georgia, producing the proximity bomb that stopped the German submarine havoc.
His daughter, Emily, who was graduated from Smith College in 1941, "was fortunate in having the opportunity to enter the Office of the Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs in Washing- ton," writes Schweppe. "When Nelson Rockefeller was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Latin-American Affairs Judy con- tinued as head of his office. In June, 1945, she married Major E. Dale Adkins of the U. S. Air Forces and a graduate of Harvard Law School in 1939."
Schweppe was first employed by the Schweppe Mercantile Com- pany in St. Louis, where he rose from employee to vice-president. He later worked for the William M. Garland Company of Los Angeles, engaged in real estate and building. Still later he be- came vice-president of the Schweppe & Wilt Mauufacturing Com- pany of Detroit, and more recently worked for the Blaisdell Filtration Company of Los Angeles and New York, manufacturers of water-works machinery, and filtration engineers.
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He was a member of Battery A, Supply Department, in St. Louis in 1898, and did charity work for the St. Louis Provident Society. He is the author of technical articles on automotive and purification of water and has been editor of the Journal of the Society Automotive Engineers of New York. He has been secretary-treasurer of the Harvard Club of Southern California, and secretary of the Harvard Club of New Canaan. He has been a member of the University Club of Los Angeles and Harvard Club of New York.
+ ARNOLD SCOTT
A RNOLD SCOTT, Boston lawyer and former assistant district at- torney for Middlesex County, died February 23, 1939, at Brookline, Massachusetts. The son of George Robert White and Mary Elizabeth (Dow) Scott, he was born October 9, 1874, at Cambridge, and came to Harvard from Phillips Exeter Academy, having previously attended schools in Germany, Switzerland, and England. After leaving college, he attended Harvard Law School and went into practice in Boston. He was assistant district at- torney for three years and later acting district attorney in Middle- sex County. He was general counsel for Massachusetts gas and electric companies, was a director of the Commonwealth Hospital and other corporations, and served as a trustee.
He was a man of independent thought. Because his mother had had to move frequently to benefit her health, he time and again found himself a new member of an established group. This gave him a "different viewpoint," as he himself said, which, he wrote in the 25th Report, "makes for contentment." He found it of value both in his business and social life. He was very fond of boating and gave great pleasure to his guests on land and sea. His friendships were firm, and he was always ready with help where help was needed.
He was survived by his wife, the former Mabel Kate Morrison, whom he married at Philadelphia on January 22, 1907, and their two children, Palmer, born December 12, 1908, and Elizabeth Mabel, born April 23, 1912.
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HENRY RUSSELL SCOTT
A s a preface to his autobiography," writes Henry Scott, "Wil- liam Allen White warns his readers not to confuse his story with reality. God alone knows the truth, he says, and the facts which seem real and true to him, at best, are 'only a tale that is told.'
"I was born November 19, 1874, in the Middle West, at Burling- ton, Iowa, and my father, Henry Bruce Scott, '60, worked his way through Harvard and was seriously wounded in the Civil War of '61 with the South. My mother, Leonora (Cranch) Scott, was born in Sorrento, Italy. My parents knew that our Iowa schools were not the equal of those in the East. They sent three of their four boys east, two of us to St. Mark's in Massachusetts. And as Iowa was a wild land of farms to the boys of St. Mark's, they dubbed me Farmer Scott, and at Harvard that nickname followed me through four years of college and three more at the Law School.
"At neither the College nor the Law School was I noted for scholarship, but Shaler, William James, and Charles Eliot Norton in the College succeeded in getting some ideas into the Iowa hayseed, and in the Law School Ames, Thayer, Gray, and our classmate Arthur Beale's brother, Joe Beale, helped me to get a few ideas about the best way to study law under the Harvard case work system.
"I liked New England's stone walls and rocky pastures, and continued my education with the practice of law under a Choate, yes, a descendant, like our Joe Choate, of the famous Rufus Choate. When I hung out my own shingle, I worked in three law offices, an evening office of the Legal Aid Society, housed by the Salvation Army in Boston, one evening a week, another evening office five days a week at Framingham, where I lived with an aunt, and my regular day office in Boston. Soon my legal-aid work interested me in social service. The Salvation Army referred to me a man about to commit suicide because he had taken the funds he held as a guardian, so that when his ward came of age, the money was gone. I persuaded him to write to the bonding
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