Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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5 WILLIAM LUToN woon There has passed away from our college life one who had always been a kind teacher and a generous friend to all Hobart men during his three short years in our midst. On December 9th, IQQI, William Luton Wood died at the Geneva City Hospital after a brief illness of two days. On one day we had seenhim walking quietly about the campus-a few days later we knew that he was gone, leaving a place that only he could ill. - Professor Wood graduated from the University of Rochester in the class of 1874. Having decided to make the study and teaching of music his life work, he served as director of music in Elmira College from 1876 to I882. Two years later he wentto Europe, where he studied with such masters as Mortiz Krocz- kowski, Oscar Raif, and Waldemar Bargiel. He studied vocal music with Belari from 1886 to 1890. Few American professors of music have had as fine training as that which Professor Wood gave himself. During his first two years as a member of the Hobart Faculty Professor Wood commuted from Ithaca, where he belonged to the Cornell University of Music and maintained a studio for private lessons. Gradually his work among the students of Hobart and William Smith Colleges came to behis absorbing interest. So interested was he in the welfare of his pupils, that he often gave a great deal of his tim.e to those from whom he could expect no payment for his services. Such generosity won for him the respect and admiration of all who knew him best. Professor Wood had gained a wide and lasting reputation as a composer of songs, and his melodies for children, in particular, won great popularity. The two volumes of music which he published, in which are included Ashes of Roses and For Love's Sweet Sake, are used by many musical clubs throughout the country. , - f The quiet, thoughtful temperament and the unfailing patience and generosity which characterized the life of Professor Wood endeared him. to all who came to know him well. 'His memory will not fade as long as gentleness and melody en- dure. .- Dear music! that can touch Beyond all else the soul that loves it much- Now heard far off, so far as but to seem' Like the faint, exquisite music of a dreamfl 27

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IN MEMQRIAM WILLIAM LUTON WOOD Born 1885. Died at Geneva, N. Y.,- December 9, 1921. 26

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gff-ip ff. NYY, -LBX3 Local Alumni Associations NEW YORK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FoR THE YEAR IQQI-22 ' President Hon. IVIORTIMER C. ADDOMS, LLD., '62, . Vice-President I. STANLEY LEWIS, '18, . ' . . . Secretary and Treasurer CHICAGO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION I OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR IQQI-22 Rev. WILLIAM O. WATERS, A.M., '84 . . President FREDERICK L. OLIVER, '88 . . Vice-President Rev. GARDNER A. MQCWHORTER, '13 Secretary and Treasurer NEW ENGLAND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION , - OFFICERS FoR THE YEAR 192 I-22 Rev. ALEXANDER MANN, D.D., '81 . . President Rev. WILLIAM C. WINSLOXV, LL.D., '61 . Vice-President HARRY R. SWANSON, ,QO . . . Secretary and Treasurer BUEEALO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FoR THE YEAR 1921-22 DELANCEY RANKINE, '88 . . . President Rev. WALTER NORTH, S.T.D., ,'fO . Vice-President RICHARD L. SLOSSON, '05 .Secretary and Treasurer ROCHESTER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR THE YYEAR 1921-22 Dr. CHARLES O. BOSNVELL, ,QS . . . . President Rt. Rev. DAVID L. FERRIS, LL.D., '88 First Vice-President DANIEL M. BEACH, '92 I . Second Vice-President Rev. H. CURTIS VVHEDON, ,O4 . , Secretary 28