Harvard Boys High School - Review Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Sxgxstgtssxsxgxgxgxs RQVIQVV LX? ?QxAExAxAx5xAxsb.xSx3.xSx Though in 1926 he had retired from active full time direction of the school, Mr. Scho- binger still taught one class in mathematics up to his eightieth birthday, when a physical ailment developed which caused his death the following year, October 23, 1927. Mr. Schobinger always had the faculty of being happy with little things. He was inde- fatigable in his activity, mental and physical. V'hen not busy with school work, he was working in his little laboratory at home, for he was an enthusiastic amateur photographer: or he was doing some other handiwork which his stubby, strong fingers finished with ad- mirable precision. Wfhile his own boys were growing up, he devoted a great part of his summer vacations to themg with them, in the shop built for the purpose, he con- structed model sail boats and canoes, or he took them on long bicycle trips-one time to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and back. Although his income was never large, he satis- Iied many of his simple desires during his life, was able to travel considerably, and when seventy-nine accomplished his life-long ambition of visiting Greece and seeing the relics of the antiquity he so greatly admired. In one of his letters, one may read an extract which really contains his philosophyof life. There are two ways of being happy: the one to have the means of satisfying all desires, the other to learn to be satisfied with little. The more I see of the world and the longer I live among rich people, the more I am impressed with the conviction that the second is the only true one. Wl'fffL7ll for fbc' Swiss Sfivlzfijic' Sovivfy. Elric SLI!JU!7flIgt'1', A.I0l't'llII7l'l', 1929. 05.9 THE ALUMNI GROUP OF 1886-1905 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA It was inevitable that inaccuracies should have crept into the first alumni bulletin, which went back fifty years into the past, and still more inevitable that omissions should have been made. The iirst bulletin, published in 1929, started only with those listed as graduates, although it did include others whose names had been sent in. Since then, we have tried to reach, in so far as possible, those who attended the Harvard School for Boys for some years and Hnished elsewhere. Many of them we have been unable to Hndg some did not answer, but from many we have had cards and letters full of interesting informa- tion. It is with pleasure that we bring before the years 1906-X930 this distinguished group of men from the years 1886-1905, and we hope and believe that twenty-five years from now we may write of the younger group with similar pride. One of the most distinguished men of the group is Frederick Clay Bartlett, who attended the Harvard School from 1881 to 1884. As an artist, his work is outstanding. He has a studio at 100 E. Chestnut St. but spends a great deal of his time in the East. Mr. Bartlett has given the Helen Birch Bartlett collection to the Chicago Art Institute- one of the finest collecions of modern art in the country. Howard F. Gillette, in school 1881-1888, is a banker at 209 S. La Salle St. He lives at S0 Banks Street. His son, Howard F. Gillette, Jr., is in preparatory school in the East. Frank S. Hibbard, also in school from 1881 to 1888, is well known as a partner in the old Hrm of Hibbard Spencer Bartlett. He lives on Astor Street and has two children, both married. Allison Armour was in school from 1876 to 1880. He is a prominent explorer of Central America, and of Grecian antiquity. He is at present using his yacht to assist the Department of Agriculture in the development of new species of plants. Page IIS CQ? 7 il li il 1 1 i l r l 5 1 K . I 1 r li, dx 81 .J li fn Q., T , .,.., 1

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fzfzfzfdaafafzfaffifafaf THQ HARVARD J7JEEZEE GLS 1 1 l l , l , 1 l v l 4, l l .1 ., Elf l 1 1 ii- Morton Davidson Hull QHarvard 18891 is the president of the Raymond Concrete Pile Company with oliices at 105 S. LaSalle St., but he is perhaps better known for his fine civic activities-as Representative to the Illinois General Assembly, 1906-14, State Senator 1914-20, Delegate to the Illinois Constitutional Convention 1920-22, Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916, and Representative in Congress from 1923 to the present time. Everybody knows Burton Holmes and has sat spellbound by his beautiful pictures and talks of many lands, but does everybody know that his career as a lecturer began at the Harvard School? When he was a young lad, he was taken on a trip around the world by an aunt. Upon his return, he made slides from his kodak pictures and gave a talk on his trip to the boys at school in 18861 his first success came then and there. Camillo von Klenze, 1882, fHarvard 18861 has spent the greater part of 1930 lecturing at the principal universities of the United States. He is to spend the summer lecturing at Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, and will return in October to Munich, where he occupies the chair of American Literature and is honored with the following title: Honorar-Professor fur die Literatur-geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika und fur die Forderung der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Kul- turbeziehungen. XVe regret the error made last year in attributing Murry Nelson to the class of 1878. He left school that year, but belongs to the class of 1887. He was in the class of '91 at Harvard, is an attorney-at-law on S. Dearborn St., and has four children. Louis Chapin Penfield fex 'SS1 lives on Orrington Avenue, Evanston. He has four children, three of them graduates of Northwestern and one now a sophomore there. He has life insurance oiiices at 209 S. LaSalle St. with his son, Henry Day Penfield, named after the brilliant student who died in 1886 while at the Harvard School. Robert Allerton was in school from 1881 to 1885. He gives his occupation as farmer at Monticello, Illinois. Wfe do not know what he raises on his farm, but in Chicago Mr. Allerton specializes in art. He is Vice-President of the Art Institute of Chicago and his generosity to the museum is rivaled only by his modesty. His Chicago address is on Astor Street, and he has othces in the First National Bank Building. Mr. Allerton is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Munich, in the class of 1896. Another farmer alumnus is Arthur M. Merryweather fI8921 Harvard 1896, who is raising chickens and pure-bred Jersey cattle at Northneld Farm, at Prairie View, Illinois. He retired there after spending seventeen years with the Brown Hoisting Machinery Com- pany of Cleveland. Previous to this, he followed engineering work with the Pennsyl- vania Railroad and the Peoples Gas Company in Chicago. His brother George Herbert Merryweather, who was in school from 1 886 to 1889, lives in Highland Park. He founded the Waubun Co.1l Company at 77 W. Wfashington St., and has continued in that business. He was formerly President of the American Wholesale Coal Association. Ralph C. Otis, in school from 1881-1 886, studied law in 1890, has retired from busi- ness, and lives at 2350 Lincoln Park West. He has four children. John C. Neely fPrinceton 18941 lives at the Princeton Club in New York City. He has been with the Society of Automotive Engineers for several years. John Stuart Coonley QHarvard 18951 is a manufacturer. He lives on Astor Street, and has three children and three grandchildren. Julian S. Mason 11882-18931, editor of the New York Evening Post, has brought us in touch with a group of eastern alumni. These are Norman Ream, who is a capitalist, now living at Greenwich, Connecticut: Bruce D. Clark, a member of the New York Stock Exchange, who lives at Glen Head, Long Islandg Robert E. Stone, who is a general insur- ance broker at S9 State St., Boston: and Charles Hanford H883-881 who is in the ex- ecutive oiiices of the Ingersoll Rand Company, at II Broadway. Page I 16 ,.... - - 'cotta C mi