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

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MARIAN STEVER Instructor in Economics LEON STOVER Instructor in Anthropology SHIRLEY SWARTHOUT Instructor in English ROBERT TEAGUE Assistant Line Coach FRIEDRICH H. TENBRUCK Assistant Professor of Sociology MARGARET TONGUE Instructor in English WENDELL E. TRIPP Instructor in American History J. EDWARD TRYON Professor of Physical Education Varsity Football Coach JOHN G. VAN DEUSEN Professor of American p History AH i GEORGE V. WALSH Professor of Philosophy RICHARD O WHITCOMB Instructor in Modern Languages EMILY T. WOLFF Instructor in Biology ELOISE WOOD Associate Professor of Ail 26

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JOHN W. MORSE Assistant Professor of Economics «SB FRANCIS J. M. O'LAUGHLIN Lecturer in History CLINTON P. RESSING Associate Professor of Education RICHARD A. RYAN Associate Professor of Biology OTTO E. SCHOEN-RENE Horace White Professor of Rhetoric and Elocution ABIGAIL M. MOSEY Associate Professor of Mathematics THEODORE T. ODELL Professor of Biology PERRELL F. PAYNE Instructor in History WILLIAM RUNQUIST Assistant Professor of Psychology ALMA SARAYDAR Instructor in Modern Languages HENRY F. SEDOROVITZ Instructor in Classics MAYNARD SMITH Associate Professor of Politics LAWRENCE A. SPRINGER Professor of Classical Languages 25

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IN MEMORIAM EDWARD J. COOK On October 17, 1958, death came to one of Hobart's most loyal alumni at his home on South Main Street, Geneva. Edward John Cook, hobart 1895, affectionately known as Eddie John in college, legal, and Geneva circles, died at the age of eighty-five years. Mr. Cook was captain of the football team at Hobart, and won the White Rhetorical Prize at his graduation. He took a postgraduate course the following year, at which time he coached the foot- ball team, and is said to have been Hobart's first athletic coach. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi, and later served as the twenty-third President or the Grand Lodge of that organiza- tion, in addition to remaining extremely active in all fraternity affairs, locally and nationally. He was the author of the Hobart College Alma Mater. He received the degree of LL.B. from New York Law School in 1898 and practiced law at 50 Seneca Street, Geneva, for sixty years. Mr. Cook specialized in corporation law and estate work. He was active and influential in many organizations in Geneva. For two years he was president of the Federated Bar Associations of Western New York, and was Vice President of the New York Bar Association for twenty years. In 1938 he was a delegate to the New York State Con- stitutional Convention. Mr. Cook was a trustee of Hobart College for twenty-six years up to 1943. He was the secre- tary of the Board of Trustees for much of that time. He was to receive an honorary LL.D. de- gree from Hobart in June 1959. It is heartening to know that President Hirshson had informed Mr. Cook of this before his death. Hobart College is indeed fortunate to have had men such as Eddie John Cook as part of the college family. He will be sorely missed. 27