The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-09

Nettie W. Barker. Osborne; Miss
Eulalia Nevine, Baldwin; Mrs o. n.
Nevins, Dodge City; Miss Valeska
City; Miss Annie n. Shafer, Olathe;
Miss Jessie Thomas Orr, Olathe; Miss
Grace Overmyer, Miss Bertha Hemp
stead and Miss Kate Thomen, Topeka
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The regular monthly meeting Of the
Topeka chapter of the D. A. r. will
be held Saturday afternoon, at 2:3O
O'Clock, with Mrs. H. L. Peppmyer,
1909 Harrison Street. A meeting of
the Board will be held at two O'Clock.
The University Daily Kansan is car
rying a column of copy this week on
noted men who are former K. U. stu
dents. Most of the names in the ac-
count are familiar ones, and they give
us a new pride in the state and its
leading educational institution
The richest man who ever entered
the university has a fortune which can
be computed in millions. He is Henry
f. Sinclair, head of the Sinclair Oil
Co., a corporation capitalized at about
eighty millions SincIair'S own per-
sonaI fortune is estimated to be any
where from ten to twenty millions.
Several are men of letters and are
connected with big publishing inter-
eSts. Frank Harris is one of the most
Pearson's Magazine. He was former
ly editor of the Saturday Review of
London and claims credit for the
discovery and encouragement in writ
ing of the two famous English writ
ers, George Bernard Shaw and H q.
Wells. Harris was so intensely pro-
German in his attitude on the war
that public sentiment drove him out
of England into this country. Flor
ence Finch Kelly is author OF several
books and is on the book review starr
of the New York Times. She is a
sister of Charles S. Finch, editor of
the Lawrence Daily Gazette. Dana
Gatlin is a writer of fiction and short
stories to western magazines.
Hale Hamilton is the only notable
actor who attended this University.
He has played before audiences in
both London and New York.
Many of our graduates are editors
and owners of newspapers. Charles F.
Scott of the lola Register, Frank P.
MacLennan of the Topeka Journal, w.
Y. Morgan, Hutchinson News, f. E.
Slosson of the Independent, r. R.
Whitman, New York Commercials
Charles S. GIeed, Kansas City Jour
nal; William Allen White, Emporia
Gazette.
Brigadier General Wilder S. Met
calf and Charles l. Martin represent
the University in the army. Other
officers are Col. Hugh Means, Major
Adna G. Clarke, Lieut.. Col. Carl Phil
lips. Lieutenant William T. Fitzsim-
ons, the first American officer to be
killed in the war, was both a graduate
of the college and school of medicine.
Preparations are already being made
to erect a memorial in his honor. Roy
Stockwen was recently decorated by
the French government for bravery
shown in ambulance work. Frank G..
Croweu is a member of the Grain
ing in Washington without any COM
pensation. He was until recently q big
grain operator in Kansas City, Mo.
Evadne Laptad will sail in a short
time for France, where she will serve
as an interpreter. Willard ShaIer and
Vernon Kellogg have been doing relief
work in Belgium. Marjorie Templin,
daughter of Dean Templin of the Col
lege, is a dietitian in the base hos
pital at Atlanta, Ga.
Those who have had success in the
political field are: Congressman Doo-
w. Y. Morgan, ]. c. Ruppenthal, Her
bert S. Hadley, Senator William A.
Borah, of Idaho; Scott Hopkins, D.
w. Mulvane. William Allen White,
Edward Hackney, c. F. Foley, John
A. Rush.
Cooke, Scott Hopkins, D. w. Mulvane,
A. F. Wulfekuhler, c. L. Davidson,
Wallis D. Wilson.
Educators are: Arthur L. Corbin,
professor of law at Yale: Charles F.
Scott. temporary president, College of
Emporia; Olin Templin, dean of col
lege. University of Kansas; J.. H.
Long, professor of chemistry and
dean of the school of pharmacy,
Northwestern university; Vernon l..
kellogg, professor of entomology,
University of California; W. H. Car
ruth, professor of comparative litera-
ture and head of the English depart
ment Leland Stanford university.
Frederick Funston, major general
U. S. A, was the most famous student
ever turned out Of K. U. and also the
most illustrious Kansan.
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The second regular meeting of the
Shawnee County Teachers Association
will be held Saturday at noon, when
the association will have banquet at
the Central Congregational church.
The affair will be held in the Bowman
Memorial room, at the corner of Hun
toon and Buchanan Street The
guests will use the Huntoon Street
entrance to the building.
The program for the party will be