University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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Board of Trustees oYo SAMUEL MOOR SHOEMAKER Hon. Samuel M. Slioemaker was born in Baltimore, December 7. 1861. He received his early education at private schools in Baltimore and at the Military School in New Haven, Conn. He graduated from Princeton with the Class of 83. He has been fur- nishing milk for the Walker-Gordon Laboratories since 1896. He has been, at different times, a member of the AIar -land State Roads Commission, Secretary of Committee that drafted the State Aid to Roads Law, member Executive Committee American Guern- sey Cattle Club, member Maryland State Road Com- mission, and a member of the Executive Committee Certihed Milk Producers ' Association of America. For several years he has been President of the Mary- land Agricultural Society, and in 1916 he was made President of the Board of Education of Baltimore County. ROBERT GRAIN Hon. Robert Grain was born in Charles County, Maryland, November 12, 1865. Received his educa- tion from the local district school. Charlotte Hall Academy, St. John ' s College and studied law at the Iniversity of Maryland, graduating in 1886. Engaged in practice of law in Baltimore until October, 1916, when he moved his law office to Washington, D. C. Mr. Grain has been deeply interested in farming since his childhood, and around the home of his ancestors he has gathered together an estate of ten thousand acres, one of the largest farm properties in tiie East. He was appointed by Governor Harrington for the eight-year term as a member of the Board of Trus- tees of the State College of Agriculture. JOHN M. DENNIS Hon. John M. Dennis was born in Frederick City in the year 1866. He came to Baltimore in 1891 and entered the employ of Tate, Muller Co., of which company he was made President in 1910. He was made President of the Union Trust Co. in 1914. For years Air. Dennis has been known as one of the strong financial figures among the Baltimore finan- ciers. Besides being a banker, Mr. Dennis is a practical farmer. He is President of the Maryland State Dairymen ' s Association. In 1916 he was made a member of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland State College. 16

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A Nation At War Cont. out the purging and purifying intiuenccs of war nations must decline and fall and pass into obscurity? America is indeed engaged in a mighty conflict. But America is not at war because she professes a philosophy of national eminence to be secured at the cost of humanity. America does not hold the doctrine that nations rise supreme upon the down-trodden and persecuted, upon the dead bodies of outraged humanity, upon the writhing forms of agonized manhood, upon the prostrate forms of desecrated womanhood, upon the wasted remains of inno- cent childhood. America wages war today that the World ma forever be rid of this old philosophy of war and l)loodshed, of persecution and tyrannv, of the Divine right of kings. Today a great nation obsessed by victory and indemnity, nt) longer con- tent peacefully to establish her commerce, her institutions, or her language among the nations of the earth is running amuck. America is engaged in a world conflict to bring- this war-mad nation to her senses aiid to make the world safe for those free institutions which are the inalienable right of all mankind. The Author of Nature directs all His operations to the production of the greatest good and has made human virtue to consist in a disposition and conduct which tend to the common felicity of His creatures. Peace is no longer feasible or desirable when the freedom of the world is endangered by the existence of autocratic governments. We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and respon- sibility for wrong shall be observed among the nations and their governments as are observed among- the individuals of civilized states. To help achieve this noble purpose, to teach this great moral truth, America is at war. From the portals of M. S. C. our fellows have gone forth to this great conflict. Responsive to their country ' s call in this hour of world crisis, inspired by the precepts of liberty and democracy, breathing the free spirit of our noble land, they have gone forth in the cause of humanitv. May the Cod of ( )ur l -ithers gird their loins and strengthen their arms. May the Free S])irit ot America inspire ib.em. Mav X ' ictorv crown their cause; and thus insure to all the world eternal peace. G. J. S. 15

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Board of Trustees— Cont. FRANK JOHNSON GOODNOW Dr. Frank J. Goodnovv was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received liis A. B. degree from Amherst in 1879. and A. M.. 1887. and LL. B., Colum- bia, 1882. He studied at the Ecole Libre des Science Politiques. Paris and University of Berlin. He re- ceived his LL.D.. degree. Amherst, 1898; Columbia. 19G4; Harvard, 1908; Brown. 1914. In 1911-12 he was a member of President Taft ' s Commission on Economy and Efficiency. In 1913-14 he was Legal Adviser to the Government of the Republic of China. Since 1914 he has been President of Joiins Ho])kins University. He is the author of a number of books on Legal and Political Subjects. CARL RAYMOND GRAY Hon. Carl Gray was born in I ' rinceton, Ark., Sep- tember 28, 1867. He began his long railway service AJarch 20, 1883. Ever since that date he has been in the service of some railway company. He began his career as telegraph operator and station agent, and has been, in turn, general Western agent, dis- trict freight agent, commercial agent, general mana- ger and president of two railways before he was made president of the Western Maryland Railway in 1914. He was appointed a trustee of the Marvland State Ccillege in 1916. ALBERT W. SISK Ccl. Albert W . vSisk has been in-ominciit in vduca- ti ' inal and linancial circles in the stale for a num- ber of years. He has served in the State Legisla- ture, was appointed Colonel on the staff of former Governor John Walter Smith, was for a number of years Chairman of the Caroline County School Board, and was named by former Governor (iolds- borough as a member of the Educational Survey Boarrl which framed the new School Law of .Mary- land. In 1912 he was elected a trustee of the Maryland Agricultural College, and was appointed by Go - ernor Harrington as one of the Charier Trustees of the Marvland State College when it was reorganized in 1916. Colonel Sisk has large interests in the canning and orchard industries in both the Eastern and W estern Shores. He has been one of the prominent residents of Preston, Caroline County, for a number of years. 17