Rutgers University - Scarlet Letter Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Stuart Augustus Stephenson, r. TLZMRT :XL'Gl'S'TL'S STil2l l'll3NSCiJN, -1 R., was born at New Rochelle, N. Y., on january 30, 1878. I-le received 'his early education at the public schools of that place and the School of Social Economics, New York City. In 1899 he received the degree of USC. from New York Univer- sity, and two years later the degree of CE, from the same institution. W'hile attending college Mr. Stephenson was employed during the summer vacations by the traction company in this city, the Sewer Commission at New Rochelle, N. Y., and on a Geological Survey, Schoharie Valley, N. Y. After graduation he tauglit engineering subjects until April, 1900, at New York University, and then worked as an engineer with the U. S. Engineering Corps in Porto Rico for one year. From 1901 to 1904 he was engineer in charge of the construe- tisn work on the 'Pennsylvania Railroad elevation through New Brunswick, and from 1904 to 1905 he was employed by the same railroad to superintencl engineering work at Greenville, N. J., and jersey City. From january to july, 1906, Mr. Stephenscn was engaged in Cuba as topographer on two hundred miles of preliminary railroad surveys, He was with J. G. VVhite and Com- pany, of New York, from july, IQO5, to May, 1910, doing engineering and construction work at Vlfilsion, N. C., in Porto Rico, New York City, and in various parts of Massachusetts. Fr-om May to September, 1910, Mr. Stephen- son was at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., in charge of the masonry construction on ten miles of electric railways, being appointed Instr-uctor in Mathematics and Graphics at Rutgers College on july 1, 1910. He is a member ofthe Zeta Psi Fraternity, the American, Society or Civil Engineers, and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. 22

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William Dana Hoyt ILLIAM DANA HUYT was born at Rome, Ga., April 16, 1880. He received his early ezlucation in the public schools at that place, enter- ed the University of Georgia in 1897, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in IQOT. He was appointed Assistant in .Biology in that insti- tution, and after pursuing graduate studies in Botany, Chemistry and French, received from it the degree of Master of Science in 1904. Entering the johns Hopkins University, he received from it the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1909, with Botany, Zoology and Geology for his subjects. ln 1909, while holding a Fellowship in that University, he gave a half of the graduate course in Plant Physiology. Receiving the Bruce Fellowship in Biology, he spent the year 1909-1910 in Botanical researche-s at the University of Heidelberg and, as a holder of the table of the Smithsonian Institution, at the Stazione Zoologica at Naples. Dr. Hoyt has spent several summers in a study of the marine algae of Beaufort, N. C., for the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, and has pursued additional researches tlhere, at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., and in Jamaica. He is a member of the Chi Psi Fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, American Association. for the Advancement of Science, Torrey Botanical Club, and the New jersey Microscopical Society. A 25