Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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8 IN MEMORIAM EDWARD WRIGHT SHELDON Died: February 14, 1934 Edward Wright Sheldon, who died on February 14th, 1934, had been a member of the Board of Trustees of Barnard College for thirty-eight years, having been elected on March 20th, 1896. He had thus helped the College grow from its very small beginnings to its present strength. Mr. Sheldon was extremely wise and experienced in all matters of investment. For a large part of the time during which he was a Trustee he served as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board. To him we owe a debt of gratitude for the safe conserving of our resources. Mr. Sheldon was a lawyer, and, during the latter part of his life, also a banker, for he held the positions of President and then Chairman of the Board of the United States Trust Company. Besides Barnard, lie served Ii is own college, Princeton, as Trustee. Perhaps his most notable civic activity, however, was his service as Governor and President of the New York Hospital. In this connection he was largely responsible for the creation of the great New York Hospital-Cornell Medical School Centre. He was also a Trustee and Treasurer of the New York Public Library, and Treasurer of the committee to collect funds for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In many other connections also he was a most useful citizen of New York. A bachelor all his life, Mr. Sheldon was a cultivated gentleman of the old school, with charming and courtly manners, quiet and rather retiring. He would not accept office on our Board, except the Chairmanship of the Finance Committee. We shall greatly miss his friendly interest and his devoted care of our funds. FREDERICK WINTHROP ALLEN Died: November ' 25, 1933 Frederick Wixtiihop Allen, who died on November 25th, 1933, was elected a Trustee of Barnard College on May 24th, 1928. He was associated with the firm of Lee, Higginson and Company. For reasons of health, during the last few years he was not active in Barnard affairs. The Board had been hoping to enjoy in future the benefit of his presence and his advice, and his death came as a serious loss to the College. Page 23

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TRUSTEES James R. Sheffield, Chairman 80 Maiden Lane Miss Mabel Choate, Vice-Chairman .770 Park Avenue Lucius H. Beers, Clerk 25 Broadway George A. Plimpton, Treasurer 70 Fifth Avenue Mrs. Alfred Meyer 1225 Park Avenue George A. Plimpton 70 Fifth Avenue Edward W. Sheldon 40 Park Avenue Nicholas Murray Butler Columbia University Albert G. Milbank 15 Broad Street Howard Townsend 15 East 86th Street Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey 136 East 79th Street Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid 15 East 84th Street Miss Mabel Choate 770 Park Avenue George W. Wickersham 14 Wall Street James R. Sheffield 80 Maiden Lane Lucius H. Beers 25 Broadway Mrs. Henry Wise Miller 450 East 52nd Street Gano Dunn 43 Exchange Place Mrs. Alfred H. Hess 16 West 86th Street Frederic W. Allen 37 Broad Street Pierre Jay 1 Wall Street Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D 490 Riverside Drive Winthrop W. Aldrich 18 Pine Street Mrs. Paul S. Achilles 520 East 86th Street (Alumnae Trustee, 1933-1937) Mrs. William L. Duffy 443 West 162nd Street (Alumnae Trustee, 1931-1935) Deceased. Page 22

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IN MEMORI AM ADAM LEROY JONES Died: March 2, 1934 The death of Dr. Jones is a grievous blow to us all on Morningside Heights. Our hearts are sorrowful indeed. Dr. Jones was as nearly indispensable as any one academic officer can be. He had organized and practically created the work of uni- versity admissions, over which he presided, with broad and generous outlook, kindly human sympathy and the highest academic ideals. The excellence of the student body in every part of the Columbia University educational system is, in chief measure, due to his policies and their administration. If 5,000 or 6,000 students are turned away from the university ' s doors each autumn, it is not because they are all unfit for admission, but rather because the university ' s resources are taxed to their utmost in caring for those who, by Dr. Jones ' s tests, are deemed to be still more fit. Dr. Jones has left with us an enduring reputation as a college teacher of philosophy and as a university administrator of the first rank. He was a past master of all that concerns the relations between secondary school and college on tile one hand, and those between American college and university faculties at home or abroad on the other. Nicholas Murray Butler. HELENE BIELER Died: September 12. 1933 Miss Helene Bieler, Instructor in Romance Languages at Barnard College, died in New York on September 12. She was born in Lausanne on October 26, 1878, the daughter of Professor Samuel Bieler, D.Sc. After having attended the Ecole Superieure of Lausanne (1890-95) and the Ecole Secondaire of Geneva (1895-98), from which she received the Diplome d ' Eeole Secondaire, she taught in Germany. England, France, and Italy from 1898-1910. In the latter year she was appointed Instructor of the French Language and Literature at McGill University, Canada, where she remained for nine years. In 1919 she was appointed Lecturer in French and Spanish at Barnard College, and was later advanced to the post she occupied at the time of her death. In 1922 Columbia University awarded her the M.A. degree. A gifted and devoted teacher. Miss Bieler asked no more than to give her life to the cause, and her fine character impressed itself upon her students and friends who mourn her loss. Page 2J