Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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PAUL FOX MURDOCK CLASS Box'

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BIOGRAPHIES. 8 1 N. Y., from which he joined a regiment at Chickamauga, Tenn., at the outbreak of the Spanish VV'ar. He was Regi- mental Commissary at Tampa, Fla., and had charge of Co. C, 25'Cl'1 Infantry, during the expedition to Cuba. He led his company in a charge on the blockhouse at El Caney, July 1, 1897, and in all the skirmishes in front of Santiago until the surrender. He was stationed in North Dakota, Montana, Kansas, Texas and Arizona. He resigned his commission as First Lieutenant in March, 1899, on account of ill health, due to fever contracted in Cuba. He taught mechanical and civil engineering in New York University in 1900, went to California on account of sickness in 1902, and taught military tactics and mathematics in the Harvard School, Los Angeles, Cal., in IQO2-O3. l-le was appointed Major in the California National Guard, and has been Instructor in Mathematics in Morgan School, Clinton, since 1904. B I'L.S'li7Z6SS address: Morgan School, Clinton, Conn. Home address: Wfestbrook, Conn. PAUL FOX MURDOCK, the Class boy, was born Sep- tember 17, 1892, in Ft. Bufort, N. D. Wfhen two months old he came to Connecticut with his mother. ln August, 1893, he went to Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., in 1895 to Ft. Assiniboin, Mont., in 1897 to VVillets Point, N. Y., and in September, 1898, to Denver, Colo. From Denver he went to San Carlos, Ariz., then to Connecticut in 1899, to Florida in 1902, Los Angeles, Cal., and back to Connecticut again in IQO3, so that he has been in nearly every State in the Union. His school life has been pretty well broken up, so that for his age he may be a little behind, but he has made up in scholarships what he has lost in grade. The following letter to the Class from President George F. Eliot, Ir., of Morgan School, Clinton, Conn., where the boy is at present, speaks for itself: 6

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B1ocRAPHn3s. 33 It is with very great pleasure that I answer the request to report to you on the intellectual status of your class-boy, Paul Fox Murdock. It is a pleasure, in the first place, that, through fortuitous circumstances, I am entrusted with the school training of such a worthy scion of so illustrious a class, and in the second place, because I can meet your expectations with so satisfactory a statement of facts. The youngster has passed through the fifth, sixth and seventh years of the Lower School, and has each year been nominated as the Founde'r's Scholar: that is, the ranking scholar of his grade. During this period his marks for the successive years have been: 95, 97, 95.5 on the basis of Ioo. I may state, incidentally, that all this time he has out- ranked not only his own grade but the entire School, Upper and Lower, of 250 pupils. As a logical corollary he has distinguished himself in the prize list, and during his attend- ance has won five out of a possible seven awards. Such intellectual attainments are eminently satisfactory, but the best of it all is that he reaches his excellence in scholarship without being a grind I-Ie possesses a pleasing personality, which renders him universally popular among the boys, and his physique is sufficiently sturdy to augur well for his athletic prowess when he reaches the Upper School. All in all, ,QI may well be proud of its class-boy. At your Vicennial he will be just ready to enter Sheff. WARREN BYNNER NASH was born December 1, 1871, in Brooklyn, N. Y. I-Ie prepared at the Brooklyn Latin School, Brooklyn, and entered college in the beginning of Freshman year, pursuing the Mechanical Engineering course. VVhile in college he received an appointment to A. 419. I-Iis father, Williaiii Alexander Nash, was born January 18, I84O, in Hudson, N. Y. I-Ie is the eldest son of Thomas Nash. I-Ie was married January 14, 1869, and resides at