Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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3320211503 Bomb QEiJituriaI $taff Richard N ewbold ........................... Editor-in-Chief Burton Keim ...................................... Grinds Arthur Shuey. . ................................... Grinds Ruth Andrews ..................................... Grinds Sam S. Carr ....................................... Grinds Ida Reinhart ...................................... Grinds Marcelline Roberts ................................. Grinds Effie Eby ....................................... Athletics Ernest Grabiel .................................. Athletics Stanley Palmer ....................................... Art Enolia Maxwell. . . ................................... Art Roy Magill ..................................... Calendar Mary Foster .................................... Calendar Alfred Everhart ............................. Organizations Stuart Clarke ............................... Organizations May Heath ................................. Organizations Sidney Graeff ................................ Photographs managerial $taff J ames G. Carr ........................... Business Manager Lester Whitlock ................. Assistant Business Manager Mary Foster .................... Assistant Business Manager Ruth Andrews .................. Assistant Business Manager Ernest Grabiel .................. Assistant Business Manager 8

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IN MEMORIAM Born, Franklin C0., Pa., May 10, 1827. Died, Cincinnati, Aug. 5, 1912. Hon. John W. Herron, 0f the class of 1845, President of the Board of Trustees of Miami, died at his home in Cincinnati on Aug. 5, 1912. Mr. Herron was the last survivor of his Class, which numbered twenty-seven members. He was noted for his love for his Alma Mater. F or fifty-two years he was a member of the Board of Trustees, and from 1880 he was the honored president of the board. It has been said that Miami owes more to Mr. Herron than to any other man. Mr. Herron was very largely instrumental in bringing about the reopening of the University in 1885. He has been described as the greatest college trustee in America. After his graduation from college he had a distinguished career as a lawyer. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Ohio in 1878-74, and was U. S. District Attorney under the Harrison administration. He was married in 1854 and had a large and very interesting family of children, one of whom is Mrs. William H. Taft. Mr. Herron enjoyed the distinction of being the first lawyer admitted to practice before the U. S. court of appeals for the Cincinnati district, estab- lished in 1901. l- ,1 : i. 4' 'Z i, i 13 . .4 1. i i i ii e i - 1- . -- .nT?-.nw .--..,...--.-I-.. 1r. .1 ....Ha.s's.;. A k HON. JOHN W. HERRON 10