Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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N. E. HENRY, ' 05. Norman EUvood Henry graduated with honors from the Williamsport High School. He entered Bucknell in iqoi, where he specialized in Greek and Latin during his college course. He won the Herbert Goodman Barrows prize in Greek, and was appointed one of the Commencement speak- ers of his class He served at various times as editor of the Commencement Daily Neivs and assistant editor of the Orange and Blue, the L ' Agenda and the Mirror. He received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from his Alma Mater. After graduation he was retained as field representative of the Registrar for an extended period of time. In igo6 he was awarded a scholarship and entered the Graduate School of Yale, where he continued his studies in Latin and Greek, receiving the A. M. degree from Yale in June, 1907. He has chosen teaching as his profession. CLAUDE G. LANGFORD, ' 91. Claude Grinsley Langford was born and reared on a farm near Weston, W. Va. He prepared for college at the Mt. Pleasant Classical and Scientific Institute. After graduating from Mt Pleasant he entered Bucknell, and graduated with the Class of 1891. He then went to Crozer Theological Semi- narv, where he received his theological education. Since graduating from Crozer he has been pastor at the following places: First Baptist Church, North Wales, Pa.; First Baptist Church, Pittston, Pa.; Moravia, N. Y.; the South Baptist Church, Elmira, N. Y., and is at present pastor at Wellsboro, Pa. Mr. Langford has been especially successful with men, having a Sunday school class of fifty-five. His personal work among men has resulted in leading many to a better life. E. E. JOHNSON, ' 00. Mr. E. E. Johnson was born in Lycoming County, Pa., on April 4th, 1877. He was educated in the Lewisburg public schools, graduating from the high school in 1894. After teaching one term in the Union County schools he spent a year at Bucknell Academy, and took up his college work in 1S96, graduating in 1900, Cum Laude. He was a Commencement speaker, and received the Ph.B. degree, havin g specialized in biology. He continued his work in biology during the summer of 1900 at the Marine Biological Laboratory. Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, and received the degree of M. S. pro meritus at the Commencement of iqoi. After graduation he taught science work in North Carolina College, Mt. Pleasant, N. C, and in the Carbondale and Shamokin high schools, Pa. He was elected to his present position in the North East Manual Training School (one of the best of its kind in the country) in September, 1907. He has a bright future before him. 22

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EDWARD HERBERT DUTTON, ' 98. Edward Herbert Dutton was graduated from Bucknell Academy in i8q4, and from the college in iSqS. During his course in Bucknell he was a leader. He won a place on the Commencement jilatform and also took a personal interest in all the activities of the college. While Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. he so enlarged the scope of the organization that even to-day his hand can be seen in some features of the work. In the fall of 1S98 he entered Rochester Theological Seminary. At once he became a force in the life of the seminary and in the city Y. M. C. A. In the second year of his seminary course, because of his reli- gious activities, he was made an associate of John R. Mott, in the inter- national work of the Student Federation. After an absence of six months he returned to the seminary and was graduated in lyoi. Before his graduation from the seminary he had accepted a call to a Baptist Church in Troy, New- York. In Troy, among a working ]3eople in two years, he paid ' off a church mortgage ' of five thousand dollars, increased the pastor ' s salary and the offerings for beneficence, and led the church to support a missionary in the foreign field. His success in his first pastorate, his interest in foreign missions, his ex- perience as a secretary and business man, opened a larger field— the secretaryship of the Baptist Young People ' s Missionary Movement, with headquarters in Boston. In this position he remained only one year, for the time was not ripe for the inauguration of a policy like that on which he had set his heart. From Boston he went to the Cedar Street Baptist Church in Buffalo, . Y. Here, in a down-town church, he has done his characteristic, solid, con- structive work. Recently a heavy debt was cleared, the church was renovated and a foundation laid for enlarged acti ities. G. W. ENGLISH, ' 02. G. W. English was born in Pittsburg, Pa., in 1882. He received his early education in the public schools of Pittsburg. Graduating from Pittsburg Academy in i8g8, he entered Bucknell and graduated in 1902. While in college he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, Dramatic Club and Varsity Basketball team. After graduation he entered the employ of the Monongahela Furnaces of the National Tube Company, at McKeesport, Pa., where he became assistant superintendent. He resigned this position in April, 1907, to accept the position as superintendent of Cleveland Furnace Company, of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1906 he married Miss Esther B. Godcharles, of Milton,lPa. REV. RAYMOND G. PIERSON, ' 01. Rev. Raymond G. Pierson was born in Camden, N. J. He was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, and graduated from Bucknell Academy in 1897, s- from Buck- nell University in igoi with the Ph.B. degree. After graduating from Bucknell he attended the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. While at Chicago he was student pastor of the Waterman (Illinois) Baptist Church. After graduating from Chicago he was for two years pastor of the Baptist Church of Moundsville, W. Va. Leaving this pastorate, he became religious work director in Bedford Y. M. C. A. of Brooklyn, X. Y. Since July, 1907, he has been pastor of the South Baptist Church of Milwaukee, Wis., the second largest church of the city, having a membership of 425. Two missions are also under his care. While in college he was a member of the track team for four years, glee club one year, manager of the Mirror for two and one-half years, and assistant manager of the football team of ' 00. On June 14th, 1905, he was married to Miss Agatha D. Hequenbourg, of Dunkirk, N. Y., who graduated from Chicago University in ' 03

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A. GENEVIEVE WHITE, ' oo. Augusta Genevieve White was born in Wellsburg, . V., September 15th, 1879. Both her parents were physicians. When she was nine years old they removed to Bedford, Pa., where she received her grammar and high school training. In I goo she graduated from Bucknell University. The fol- lowing year she entered the Homeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan, and graduated from that institution in 1904, following the footsteps of her grand- father, her father and her mother. The next year Dr. White spent in the Woman ' s Homeopathic Hospital of Phila- delphia, where she was interne. In September, 1905 she located in Rochester, X. Y., with Dr. Marcena Sherman- Ricker. Here she has an otSce with Dr. Ricker at 58 Lorimer Street, and at the same time is establishing an independent practice. FRANK WATTERSON JACKSON, A. B. ' 95, A. M. ' 98. Frank W. Jackson was born in Pennsylvania in 1874. He prepared for college at the Mt. Pleasant Classical and Scientific Institute, from which school he received the S300 cash prize for scholarship. After his graduation from Bucknell, in 1895, he returned to Mt. Pleasant Institute as Head Master of Greek, and held the position for five consecutive years. During this period he studied Greek Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, under the late Dr. Seymour, of Yale University, and in 189S, in connection with this work, received his Master ' s degree. In 1901 President McKinley appointed Mr. Jackson a Consul to Greece. During his sojourn in Greece he traveled extensively and wrote numerous articles for American magazines! Two years later he resigned his post on account of the ill health of his family, and returning to America he located in New York City, where he is head of a large Greek corporation controlled by the National Bank of Greece. Mr. Jackson has built up a business ' of large proportions, and his house enjoys the distinction of being the largest importers of Greek products in America. He continues to keep in touch with educational work, and has been for a number of years lecturer for the Board of Education of Ne w York City. He was married in i8g8 to M ' iss Markle, of Pennsylvania. T. R. JONES, ' 62. P Thomas Rockafellow Jones was born in Northumberland County, Pa. He graduated from Bucknell University in 1862. He immediately recruited a com ' panv of which he became captain (Company C, 131st Pennsylvania Volunteers). He was accountant in the U S Treasury from 1865-1S72. He graduated from the Law Department, Columbia University in 1868. He was cashier of the National Savings bank from 1S72-1S74. From 18S4-1892 he was manager of the New York branch of the American Baptist Publication Society. From 1802- 1897 he was Vice-President and Executive Officer of the National Safe Deposit Savings and Trust Company, Washington, D. C. (this company has a capital of one million dollars surplus half a million, and six milHons in deposits). Mr. Jones has been President of the company since 1897. ■ ' 23