The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-12
JERSEY ALUMNI OF
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Graduates of the New York Univer-
sity had an ENJOYABLE reunion at the
first annual dinner of the Alumni AS
ISOLATION of New Jersey at the Essex
Club last night. An sections of the
State were represented, &
Judge James b. Din. OF the New Jer-
sey Court of Errors and Appeals, was
POSTMASTER. The speakers. were Chan
cellor McCracken, Of the university;
DR.. Willis Fletcher johnson, president
of the New Jersey Civil Service Board
the Rev. DR.. Wilson Phraner, pastor
of the East Orange Presbyterian
Church. who Is 81 years old and grad
uated from the New York University
in 1s47, and former Sheriff Frank II.
Sommer. DR.. Addison B. Poland,
superintendent of the Newark public
| schools. and DR.. s. E. Robertson talked
briefly.
Chancellor McCracken. the guest of
honor, spoke as the head of the uni
! versity, telling of the men distinguished
in the professions who were educated
at the institution, which was char
tered in 1881. He said that eighteen OF
the twenty-five Supreme Court judges
Of the New York district were grad
yates of the university. He said the
greatest universities in the world are
nearly all in large cities now and that
England will have its greatest univer-
sity in London in the near future.
After referring to the proximity OF
Newark to the New York University,
Chancellor McCracken spoke of the
gifts of the late Banker Kennedy of
s750.000 to the institution. which money
will be Used to wipe out the debt of the
university. He also treated of the uni
versity making reforms in football.
DR.. Johnson told of the assistance
Jerseymen had given in the founding
and the development of New York Uni
versity. He gave high praise to Theo-
dore Frelinghuysen, he second chan
cellor of the Institution, grandfather of
Frederick Frelinghuysen, president of
tho Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Company. He became chancellor of the
university seventy years ago this fall,
DR.. johnson said, and did more than
any other man to make the university
successful in its early years. DR.. john
son also said:
He was a native of Somerset county,
OF which a worthy grandson of his Is
now State senator and practically lieu
tenant-governor of the State. He was
twice mayor of Newark, where another
grandson of his is now one of the fore
most leaders of business and social life.
He was a candidate for Vice-President
of the United States on the ticket with
Henry Clay.
HE. was known throughout the land,
not in derision, but with respect and
reverence, as the Christian States
man. There is no purer name in the
history of America, 10 loftier name in
the annals of New Jersey, no greater
name on the rolls of the New York
University than that of Theodore FREE
~linghuysen."
Among those present. were Judge
James B. Dill, Frank H. Sommer, DR..
D. r. Johnson, George +. Reeve, Will
lard ]. Hamilton. DIR. IS. E. Robertson,
George r. Howe. of East Oranges H. L.
Farrow. L. q. Bailey, James d. Nc
Clelland. DIR. Addison 'B. Poland, David
B.. Corson, Edward J.. Kelly, Alden
Freeman, DIR. Norton L. Wilson,, of
Elizabeth; Theodore Gliedt, of Union;
Miles M. Dorson, of New York; William
S. Stuhr, of Hoboken; the Rey, Or.
Charles j. Hook, DIR. Frederick W..
Hook, of Hoboken; Frederick j.. Green-
berg, William .Schultze, Charles w.
Schmidt, Winthrop Il. scarrit, Philemon
Hoadley, Philemon Woodruff, H. NJ.
Van SAINT. Professor Charles L. Bristol,
of New York University; Dr. G.. X,
Dickinson, of Jersey City, DIR. j. ID.
Burtis, Of Rcd Bank; Judge Simon
Hahn, DIR. Benjamin G. Demarest, Of
Montclair; Professor Charles G. Shaw,
of New York University; Frank Benja-
min, East Orange; Franklin F.. Mayo.
former Judge Thomas S. Henry. DIR. G..
B. Philhower, of Nutley; DIR. P. B. Dav-
export, the Rev. DR.. Wilson Phraner,
Of East Orange; DIR. J. w. Read, DR..
George r. Kent, DR.. r. N. Connolly,
DIR. James bangles, of Morristown; DR.,
Alfred A. Lewis, of M~orristown; Judge
Frederic Chamberlain, of Bayonne,
Hugo Woerner, Richard Sharing
hansen, Edward Hartpence, Charles
Niebling, Gilbert Cornich, Joseph VOL
Der, Thomas Grimm, DIR. J. j. Sayitz, OF
Westfeld: DIR. John r. Haggerty, DR.
P. F. Motzenbecker, Professor Thomas
F. Kennedy, DIR Irwin Vanderhoof, DIR
J. J. Smith, DR.. James c. Corlies, DR.,
Andrew G. Voigt, Or. William Freile.