Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-05-09
MEETING OF ALUMNI
Military Service Fund to he Increased
REPORTS ana Officers

-NepOftS ana OfflCcrH
| The annual meeting of the Associate
| Alumni association of the University of
Vermont was held Monday afternoon at
2:3O o'clock in the chapel. President Alvin
M. Taylor of Chicago presiding. The meet
| ing moved in routine fashion and occupied
| about an hour.
! The following officers were elected:
President, Judge Seneca Haselton of this
city; vice-president, DIR. f. II. Clapp of
North Grafton. Mass; secretary, Roy l..
| Patrick of Burlington; treasurer Forrest
w. Kehoe of Burlington.
Judge Joseph T. Stearns of this city
and Frank d. Forbush of Detroit were
| elected to the alumni committee to
nominate a trustee.
The following committees were elected
Executive committee. II. f. Gray, A.
II. Circuit, ]. o. Baxendale. Il. A. Brodie
| and f. S. Abbott obituary. Walter B.
Gates. the Rt. Rev. G. Y. Bliss, Robert
Roberts and +. S. Isham; advisory athletic
| committee. DR.. Lyman Allen, Ray w.
Collins and DR.. f.. s. Towne; breakfast
committee. Max l.. Powell. DR.. II. r.
Watkins, Fred B. Wright and Mrs. H. E.
Gray.
REPORT OF OBITUARY COMMITTEE.
ing learned of the death since the last
commencement of fifteen graduates or
sometime students at the university. One
other former student is supposed to have
lost his life in the service OF his country,
and the names of seven others, whose
death occurred in some former year. were
reported for the first time. The list fol-
lows:
1S52-Rev. Joseph Torrey, born Burlng-
ton. VT, % December 1882, died Burlington
10 July. 1917.
1S54-Rev. Simeon Gilbert, born Pitts
ford. VT. 10 June 1884, died Chicago, Ill.,,
August. 1917.
1S55-Rev. Charles Wallace Clark. born
Georgia. VT, % October 1881, died Georgia
l October 1917
1S6i-Hannibal Whitney Wood. born
Durham. p. O.. 10 July 1910, died st.
Johns, T.. O.. q September 1917
Ex-1s62-Bradley Wallace Hight, born
Albany. VT. l July 1888, died Council
Bluffs. Iowa. 10 February, 1918
Ex-1S64-Durant Joshua Boynton, born
Waitsfeld. VT. 8 December 1871. died Los
Angeles. Cal. II September 1917.
1SG5-Samuei William .Torrey, born
Beverly. Mass, u December 1913. died
Beverly January, 1913
VT. August 1874. died Fort Dodge. Iowa,
10 February 1913
Ex-1S76-Mortimer Thayer Hamlin, born
Bennington. VT, &c May 1855. died Ben
nington. s January 1918.
1sS0-James Rignall Wheeler born Bur-
lington, VT, Is February 1859, died New
York city, February 1918.
1S91-Rev. Boardman Birney Bosworth.
born Fair Haven. VT. March 1866, died
New York city, II February 1918.
1Ss4-Addis Kingsley Botsford. born
Burke. N. Y, 7 June 1869. died Saranac
Lake. N. " 10 January 1918.
Ex-19O5-Clifford Ashworth Hagar. born
Burlington, VT, August 1882. died Burlng-
ton, II August 1917.
19l7-Mss Alsey Merle Young. born
Bloomington. VT. % August 1895, died
Swanton. VT. 81 November 1917
192O-John Merrill HASTE. born West
Barnet. VT. 7 August 1891, died West
Barnet, October 1917.
To the above list should probably be
added the name of Carroll Goddard Page,
ex-l917 born Hyde Park. VT. s May 1894,
probably drowned in the West Indies dur
ing March. 1918.
Seven deaths not previously reported are
as follows
AooV-OSCai riH6di Ddud, UOTu Il IMdTCn
1915. at Cabot, VT, died September 1899,
at Falmouth, Me.
1S5S-Edward Clark. born Barre, VT, 10
September 1888, died Brattleboro, VT, 10
November 1903.
1S6l-Buel Smith Bigelow. born Hart
ford. N. Y, s August 1889, died Chicago,
ILL.,. "a April 1916.
Ex-1Ss4-Hiram Chester Blinn, born
Stanbridge. p. O., 30 May 1910. died
Frelighsburg, p. O., 20 September 1915.
Ex-1s95-Thomas Cree Seager, born
Brandon. VT. 2 December 1871, died Bran
don, % June 1913.
1ss9-George Douglas Osgood. born
Hartford. Iowa, 2s September 1877, died
Perrysburg. Ohio. 10 February 1906
1902-Anna Mary Lilley, born Hyde Park
VT. 10 April 1879, died Hyde Park, 10
September 1912.
Mr.. Patrick and Mr.. Kehoe made the
reports OF the secretary and treasurer, re-
spectively. Mr.. Kehoe reported receipts
of S76i99 expenditures of $2775O and a
balance on hand Of $4S7.5O
A balance of nearly $3.50 was reported
in the fund established two years ago
and known as the military service fund,
created for the benefit OF college men who
had gone to the Mexican border. It was
Voteu 10 empower the executive commit
tee to handle this fund as 1t saw best for
the good of the university boys overseas,
and on motion of Edward s. Isham II was
voted to take $500 from the treasury Of
the alumni to add to 1t. Later. on motion
Of Frank ii. Crandall. it was voted to
assess tax of 81 on each member of the
alumni to go toward this war fund.
The members Of the senior class were
voted members Of the association.
The meeting was attended by g. six of
whom were women.
ALUMNI HAVE INFORMAL SUPPER
About 80 people attended the informal
supper OF the alumni Of the University
OF Vermont, held in the New Sherwood
Monday evening. Acting President @. II.
Perkins, Dean J. w. Votey and Dean
II. c. Tinkham. several Of the faculty.
several Of the trustees and most of tha
members of the CLASH NJ rQ1a x,,SA A.