The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-10
CLASS OF 1903
TO H0LDIREUN|ON
Gathering of Former Students
Will Be Feature Of
commencement,
ANNEX TO coLoNNADE CLUB
Virginia Medical Men Success
Jul in Hospital Exami- S.
nation.

Charlottesville. Va, March o..-"Back i
to the Old Rotunda.' is the slogan
of the class of 1908, which, has been
sounded with such wonderful success
by the reunion publicity COMMITTEES
throughout the ranks OF tho alumni.
a great reunion ia now assured. or
the $50 members of the class a MAJ
jority is sure to be back for finals.
and with their attractive uniforms.
and their brass band they promise toAg
be the big noise around the uniyer-ss
sity for n whole week AZ
Lewis d. Crenshaw. of New York.
secretary OF the class, Is at the uni-
versity now. making arrangements for
the reunion, and talking up the value
OF cass organization to the faculty,
the finance committee, the Colonnade
Club. and the student body In general.
GLASS organization" no says, "is
the very strongest tie to bind the
alumni to Virginia This has long
been lacking here, but by success
full reunion this year tho class of 1908
expects to lnaugurate a custom that
will be lasting, and OF inestimahlas
value TO tho university" II
On his trip from New York Mr..
Crenshaw saw delegations OF the
alumni from Wilmington, Philnde1phia I
and Washington, and he was assured
of their hearty support. and their at51
tendance en- masse. Interest In the
reunion Ia not confined to this class OF |
1908. This class has extended an in7s
vitation to every aiumnus to como
back, and to join with them in the
big celebration. Tho Norfolk alumni
VIII charter special car to bring them
to Charlottesville. while smaller delo-
cations Will be here from every d.
rection, from far and near.
While here Mr.. Crenshaw will con-
fer with Granville Curry. secretary or
the 1913 class, and together they Will
work out an organization which Will
bind the class together working
body for It's own interests and for
the amending benefit of alma mater.
Annex to Club. ~
Work has been started on large
extension to the Collonadc Club build
Ing on West Lawn. For some time.
lit has been felt by the members OF
tho club that the building was too
small to serve the purposes for which
| 1t is needed, and now with an in-e
creased membership, an annex will bnS
built. This. with the old part of the
building, will be sufficiently largo to
house .. large number Of visiting
alumni
! The extension Will be added to the
back OF the present building. running
back into the garden OF the club with
n wing on either side Directly back
OF the present building will be n
llounging room about thirty feet square
| and covered with ground glass roof
On either side OF this will extend a
wing containing four bedrooms. each
| with n private bath. There will be
| no second floor to the annex but q
lcommodtous basement Will be con-
structcd which Will contain the bi1-s
liard-rooms OF the club. According
| to the present plans, the ground floor
| 90 h,tl
contains the reading and billiard
rooms Will be used for reading and
smoking rooms only.
| OF the five members Of this sessions
! graduating medical clnss who took the
New York examinations for appoint.
ments internes III the hospitals OF
| that city, all were successful. As
| over 200 men took the eSaminar
tons, the success oG Virginia's repre-;
sentatives is particularly compliment
tary to the university's medical school,
| The men who took the examinations
were Kyle Steele, Darlington VIII
liams. Mercer Blanchard. II III. Ethe-
ridge and r. L. Kendrick. Steele anu
! Williams received appointments to St
! Luke's Hospital. Ethcridge was APP
| pointed to the Hudson Street Hospital.
Blanchard to the Postgraduate Hospi-
! tai. and Kendrick was appointed to
Bellevue Hospital
| Samuel B. McPheeters, member of
|
inent lawyer OF st. Louis, has been
appointed by the Mayor of that city
| ms one OF the four new police commis-
sioners. Mr.. McPheeters is slated for
president of the board OF commissions
eTs, though he has not yet been formal
| ly elected to that position.
! Charles p. McGill, of the 1902 law
class, has been elected to the Texas
| State Legislature for the Galveston dis 3
| trict. Mr.. McGill was prominent in
| athletics and social life at the univers-
| ity.
| Or. Smith Returns.
| DR.. G. Alphonso Smith has recently
been absent from the university on a !
| speaking trip in Pennsylvania His
principal address was delivered before
| the students OF Wilson College, q
! Chambersburg. DIR. Smith had as HIS
| subject, American Literature in For
! eign Lands"
| While in ChambersburG Dr. Smith
| WAS much Impressed with the esteem
! with which the people regard Colonel
| Peters, who preceded DIR. FltzHugh as
professor OF Latin in this university
! AT the height of the Confederate irt-V
| vasion of the North during the Civil
! War, Colonel Peters was verbally ord
| cred to burn Chambersburg. Thinking
| to turn hts general from this intention.
| he asked for a written order Even
| when this was received. although ha
| was threatened with court martial. COLI
| onel Peters still refused to destroy tho
| town. Largely on account Of this oc-s
| currence, says DR.. Smith, the people or
| Chambersburg have very high opin-
/ Ion of Virginia. H
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