Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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William C. Spkoul, ISOl State Senator, Penna. A. Mitchkll Palmer, 1S91 Ex-Co ligressmaii 26tli District o( Penna. (Bovernmeat Charles R. Miller. IST!) Bx-GoTernor of Delaware Fui:im:ri( ' k ( ' . Hicks Member of Congress First District of New York a?

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TME ymitrm ® isia Swartl)morc ' 5 Alumni XT would l)e impossible, in such a book as this, to show adequately the fields Swarthmore alumni have reached, the works they have done, and the men and women who have done them. It is a case of picking out representative doers from a list of almost two thousand names. The engineers of Swarthmore, perhaps, present the largest list of achievers. Dur- ing his professorship of twenty-six years, the late Arthur Bearsley trained a large number of men who are ranked high among the members of their profession. The list includes Fred J. Taylor, division chief of the Northern Pacific; James J. Rhoads, chief of the Schuylkill division of the Pennsylvania R. R.; Henry B. Seaman, one time chief engineer of the New York Public Service Commission and now engineer of the Wool- worth Corporation; Henry Turner, head of the big construction company which bears his name; Edward B. Temple, assistant chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad system; Charles A. Bunting, electrical engineer of John Wanamaker ' s in Philadelphia; Aaron C. Pancoast, civil engineer of San Antonio, Texas; David B. Rushmore, chief engineer of the General Electric Company at Schenectady; John F. Murray, another assistant Pennsylvania Railroad chief. Professor George F. Blessing is now yearly turning out young engineers with the ciualities necessary to make good. In chemistrj ' the name of Walter Rittman stands out from all the rest because of his remarkable work in the line of oils and its refinement. Beside the name of Rittman there is a host of younger chemists trained by Swarthmore ' s renowned professors. Alle- man and Creighton, all remarkably successful in their work. In this list is the name of Frederick J. Blatz, managing chemist of the Blumenthal Leather Co., at Wilmington. In literature, Swarthmore, with two other colleges, lays claim to Richard Harding Davis, who was a student here in 1880 and 1881. Mrs. Helen R. Martin, from whose novel, Barnabetta, the successful dramatic piece, Erstwhile Susan was taken, is another literary Swarthmorean. John Edwin Wells, ' 96, Professor in Beloit College, Wisconsin, has written a notable book, A Manual of the Writings in Middle English. Government and the political profession claims such men as A. Mitchell Palmer, William C. Sproul, Charles R. Miller, ex-governor of Delaware; Congressman Hicks of New York, and Congressman Emmor Roberts, of the Fourth New Jersej ' district. The law has for its representatives such often-heard-of men as Francis Shunk Brown, attorney general of Pennsylvania; Howard Cooper Johnson, Walter T. Gilky- son and Judge William Butler, Jr., of the Chester County bench. The ministry has Alexander Griswold Cummins, rector of Christ Church, Pough- keepsie. Education has Francis G. Blair, Commissioner of Education in Illinois, and Thomas A. Jenkins, Professor of French Philology at the University of Chicago. Sur- gery has the famous Dr. Edward Martin. Finance and business has a list of names altogether too great to catalogue here. Such men as Morris L. Clothier, Robert M. Janney, Percival Parrish, Charles Hodge, George Brooke. T. Janney Brown, E. Pussy Passniore, Walter Lippincott, Rowland Comly, William E, Sweet, George .S. and William P. Worth, and Charles C. Miller are all men of note in the business world and all have given liack to .Mma Mater in return for what she has done for them. Swarthmore Field, the $50,000 gift of Morris L. Clothier to the college, and Alumni Field, being constructed by the rest of the alumni, the response to the call for a million dollar jubilee endowment fund, are proofs whicli the past Halcyon year offers for the loyalty and devotion of Swarthmore alumni. 26

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David B. Rush more. 1894 Cliief Engineer Power and Mining Dept. General Electric Co.. Selienectad.v, N. Y. EUWAHLl B. Tli.MI ' l.K. ISfll Assistant Chief Engineer Pennsylvania llailroad Co. Engineering J. .1. UlluAhS. ISSS .Suiii.-iliiti-ii ' lciit ScliiiylUlll Division Feniisylvjini:i Itiiilrniid Co. SAMfET, D. IIUKl), I ' .Wi Penns.vlvania Itailroail Construction lies. lOiig. llcngalc I ' .ridgu 28