Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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Q= D 16 BICKXELL rXIVERSITV REV. GEORGE HENRY WAID, ' 94. George Henry Waid was born of German-Welsh par- entage in Reading, Pa., November 28, 1866. He attended the pnblic schools, and later learned the jeweler trade. Having been a wide reader and desirous of a thorough edu- cation, he entered Bucknell .-Icademy in 1887 and College three years later. In addition to his studies, all the reli- gious, literary and other wholesome student activities had his closest interest. He graduated in 1894. Later he took. a post-graduate course at the University of Chicago, and had the degree of A. M. conferred upon him. After a the- ology course at Crozer and his ordination in his home church at Reading, June, 1S97, he took up his pastoral work a year later at Detroit, Mich., where he established and en- larged a charge from a mission. In January, 1904, he ac- cepted a call to Vassar, Mich., where he spent two happy years in pastoral work. In April, 1906, this charge was re- signed to accept the Editorship of the Michigan Christian Herald, the Baptist State paper, published in Detroit. Since 1902 Rev. Waid has been annually elected secretary of the Baptist State Convention. He was married to Mar- garet Anna Spaulding, of Detroit, in April, 1903. Two children, Clara and Marion, brighten their beautiful suburban home near Royal Oak. HERBERT FREDERICK HARRIS, ' 96. Herbert F. Harris, A. B., 1896; A.M., 1897; LL. B. (Columbia), 1899. Mr. Harris is a lawyer in Camden, N. J., en,gaged in tlie practice of his profession in partnership WMth Curtis T. Baker, Esq., with the firm name of Baker S; Harris. He read law witli . ttorney-General Henry C. McCormick and Seth T. McCormick, the well- known lawyers of Will- iamsport, Pa. After ad- mission to the Bar of Ly- coming County he served an apprenticeship at law with Candor Munson cif that city, and with William C. Farnsworth, of Harrisbnrg, Pa. Mr. Harris is a member of the SpanisIi-.American Veter- an .Association and of the Masonic Consistory. REV. THOMAS CARSON HANNA, ' 95. Rev. Hanna was born in New York City, August 26, 1872. He prepared for college in the public schools of Con- necticut and the Pliiladelphia Central Manual Training School, winning a four years ' scholarship in the latter for the I ' niversity of Pennsylvania. He used his scholarship for two year-., taking the science course, when a call to the Baptist ministry led him ro aban- ilon his course here and go to Bucknell University. After graduating from Bucknell in the classicil course in 1895 he took a theological course in the Vale Divinity School. Before his ordination he organized the FMrst Baptist Church, Hazleton, Pa., and was missionary pastor at Johnsonburg, Pa. He was ordained as pastor at Plautsville, Conn., October. 1895. Later he organized the First Baptist Church at Naugatuck, Conn., where he preached four years, after which lie served the Jenkintown ])arish for the same period. At present Rev. Hanna is pastor of Wayland Memorial Church, Philadelphia. He was married in 1S98 to . nna Barnes Cook, of Southington, Conn. Three children brighten the home.

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a L ' AGENDA 15 REV. THOMAS AI. EASTWOOD, ' 72. Rev. Dr. Eastwood was graduated from Biicknell Uni- versity in 1S72, and from Crozer in 1874. His first pastorate was in Wilmington, Delaware, his place of ordination. While there he organized the Bethany Baptist Church and became its first pastor. He also organized the Shiloh Bap- tist Church, the first colored Baptist Church in the State. He was the first Moderator of the Delaware Union, which position he held for three years, when he declined re-elec- tion. His other pastorates were at Greenwich, N. J.; Bur- lington, N. J., and jilbany, N. Y, He is now in his ninth year of his second pastorate at Burlington, N. J. He has been actively engaged in denominational work, and has been Moderator both of the West Ne w Jersey ' and of the Camden Associations. While at Albany- he was chaplain of the .Assembly. Besides being eminently successful as a preacher Rev. Eastwood has a fine reputation as an author, iiaving written some fifty hyunis. published by the Hall- Mack Co.; several college songs, and numerous poems and otlier periodicals for the secular and religious press. The degree of D. D. was con- ferred on him hy Buck- nell in 1906. DR. CHARLES ALEXANDER GUNDY, ' 93. Dr. Charles A. Gundy, son of John . Gundy, Bucknell College, 1856, graduated from Bucknell , cademy in i88S, and from Bucknell College in 1S93. I the fall of this same year he entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1896. After spending one year as Resident Pliysician of Cliarit}- Hos- pital at Norristown, Pa., he located in Lewisburg, Pa., where he has been pr acticing medicine ever since. Dr. f i u n d y is a member of the Union County ' Medical Soci- ety, the Penn- sylvania State Medical Soci- ety and of the American Med- ical Association. DR. JAMES M. STEWART, ' 05. Dr. James M. Stewart took a three years ' course at the University at Lewisburg, now Buck- nell University-, preparatory for his medical course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1880. He located at Pat- erson, N. T. , where he has practiced ever since. He was elected coroner of Passaic County in 1884, and served a full term of three years. In 1885 he was elected .Assistant City Physician, and was twice re-elected. He has been elected twice as ])resident of the Passaic County Medical Society. He has for many years been a member of the General Staff of the Paterson General Hospital. He was appointed in 1902, by the Governor of the State, as a member of a commission to investigate the conditions of tenement-house life, and re- ported numerous reforms to the Legislature. This resulted in the establishment of a permanent Tenement House Commission, to which Dr. Stewart was one the first members appointed by the Governor, and of which he is still a member. In 1905 Dr. .Stewart had the degree of A.M. conferred on him by Bucknell University.

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a -.D L ' AGENDA 17 REV. THEODORE HEYSHAM, ' 94. Rev. Heysham was born of English parentage in Nor- ristown, Pa. Heysham and Heysham Chapel, Lancashire, England, the scene of many of Turner ' s famous paintings, and Old Christ Church, Philadelphia, are links in his ances- tral chain. After taking preparatory courses in the Norris- town Public Schools, the National School of Elocution and Oratory, Philadelphia, and Bucknell Academy, 1887-1890, Mr. Heysham took two years in Bucknell College, after which his father ' s death necessitated his completing his course at University of Pennsylvania, from which he grad- uated in 1894. He immediately entered Crozer, where he completed a course in 1897. In 1898 the Universit} ' of Pennsylvania conferred the degree of Ph. D. upon him. . fter his ordination into the Baptist ministry in 1898 Rev. Heysliam preached at Bridgeport, Pa., for five years, trav- eled extensively through Arizona, Colorado and California, and held the pastorate at Minneapolis, Minn., till April, 1906. Since the destructive earthquake he is engaged as field representative in the Eastern, Middle and Southern States by the American Baptist Home Mission Society and the California Baptist Relief Commission. Rev. Heysham has ever manifested an ardent interest in health organiza- tions. In fraternity life he is a 4 F . , a B K, a Mason, a Chapter Mason and a Knights Templar. In religious fellowship, a Baptist and a number of religious organizations East and West. In domestic rela- tions, a husband, being married to Ella May Reese, and a father of three children, Anna Stewart. Theodore, Jr. , and Sara Reese. CHARLES DISON KOCH, ' 98. Charles D. Koch is one of Bucknell ' s prominent alunnii, who stands high in tlie ranks of the teaching profession. He fitted himself for his chosen profession by taking the Latin-Philosophical course at Bucknell, graduating in 1S98. For two years following his graduation he served as Princi- pal of the Curwensville, Pa., High .School, after which he taught for one year in the more desirable position as Prin- cipal of the Market Street Granmiar School at Williamsport, Pa. For eight summers, 1896-1903, Prof. Koch was a mem- ber of the Faculty of the Lycoming County Normal School, having charge of the De- partment of .Science. In 1901 Mr. Koch decided to further liiseducation, and took a four vears ' course in Columbia I ' niversity. He then accepted the .Superintendency of tlie Philipsburg, Pa., Public Schools now very ably serving. JOHN V. LESHER, ' 97. John V. Lesher was born on a farm in Union County, opposite the borough of Northumberland. With his par- ents he spent here his boyhood days. In the countr}- schools and at Bloonisburg State Normal School he was pre- pared for Bucknell University, where he was graduated in 1S97. . fter graduation he studied law in the office of the Hon. .Simon P. Wolverton. and was admitted, after a course of two years, to the practice of la%v at the Northumberland County Bar. In January, 1903, he was made an attornej ' and counsellor of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Mr. Lesher is at present pursuing the practice of law at Sun- bury, Pa. whicli capacity