Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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Our Alumni I -, the student liddy, ftel justly proud of those, who ha e. gone out from these very walls to take their jjlace in the wcjrld and light the hattles of life. It is the purpose of this department to show, in a small way, with what success our Alumni haxe y -i fought those liattles and how well they have represented their Alma Mater in practicall}- e ery phase of modern actix ' ity. It must be imder- stood, however, that there are man ' others, in addition to those named here, who have and are doing work of the greatest importance. It is a matter of selecting- representatives from an almost innumerable list of names. Of all those, who e -er attended this institution, the name of (leneral Tasker H. Eiliss iuidoul)tedly stands out most prominently at the present time. Gen. Bliss is at the head of the General Staff of the United States . rm - and recently represented our nation at an Allied ' ar Council, held in France. It is noteworthy that Gen. Bliss is the only of cer who was ever retained as head of the staff after reaching the age of retirement. ' e are ably represented in the held of diplomacy by Dr. David Javne Hill, ex-Ambassador to Germany. Dr. Hill is also an author of considerable importance, having but recently ]mt out a book entitled The Rebuilding of Europe. In athletics, Bucknell claims such well known stars as Christy Matthew- son, Dooin. McC(irmick, Xorthrop and ' ckoff. The political profession has Krnest L. Tustin, ex-Senator and. at present, president of the Philadelphia Board of Recreation and Chairman of the Pana- ma-Pacific International Commission. The engineering department is still young at Bucknell. yet we claim some rather illustrious men in this world. Richards ranks, perhaps, the highest of our graduate engineers, holding the position of Division Engineer in the W ' est- inghouse. ' e can claim as a classical graduate no less a personage than Jesse O. Shipman. Division Engineer, First Division of the Dual System of the Xew York Cit - Rapid Transit S -stem, who controls a staff of one hundred and eighty engineers, inspectors and clerks. The system, when complete, will more than treble the former facilities, increasing the annual carr -ing capacitv 21

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from three-(|uarters of a billion to three liillion passengers. Then, too, as a graduate engineer in Chemistry we have Morris VanGundy, who has proved invahialile to the Texas Oil Co. As knowledge has been imparted to us as stu lents h} ' our facult •, this spirit of teaching others has been assimilated and characterizes itself in such Educators as Dr. Lincoln Hulley, President of The John B. Stetson Univer- sity, and Dr. Milton G. Evans, President of Crozer Theological Seminary. L ' niversities uriginatcd for the purpose of instructing Law, Medicine and Religion. W ' liile Hucknell does not graduate men with these degrees, yet our alumni who have studied further ha e attained a commendable degree of suc- cess in their respective vocations. We ha e the far-famed Dr. Ziegler, noted as an eye-specialist, to represent medicine; Judge J. Warren Davis. jud2;e of the I ' ederal ciiurt of New Jersey, to reiiresent Law: Dr. Batton, who has charge of the American Baptist War Work, and Dr. Raymond West, Secre- tary of the New Jersey Baptist State Board, to rejiresent religion. Ve fintl, too, that some of our alumni have ac(|uirc(l a distinguished liter- ary aljilit} ' . As e ' idence of this let us jireseut to iiu I ' arl Sprout, who had gradually adxanced in joiu-nalistic work from the l- ' dit(irship of the Buck- nellian until he has lately filled the position of Religious Editor on the North American editorial staff. We also have Louis Theiss, author of such books as Lumber Jack Bob, and various other famed boys ' books, as representa- tive of special literary eminence. You will mile that our alumni spread into nther fields than those especial- ly prepared for here. For instance, we ha e social workers. Most noteworthy of these we can mention Miss Mar}- Belle Harris, Superintendent of Vomen of the Dejiartment of Correction at Blackwell Island, N. Y. Her influence there has been far-reaching and of great lieneht. Money makes the world go. Business makes the money go. This is the slogan Kresge started with and todav he is an important factor in the business world of retail commodities, owning a chain of the Kresge 5 and lo ' s ' throughout the northeastern states. So, we will end what might be an almost endless enumeration, ha ing set lose of our al in the various fields. forth those of our alumni w ho ha -e attained a com mentlable degree of success