Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-17
MAINE CLUB AT
BAY STATE TECH

Boston, Mass, April 16-MOre than
a dozen of the Maine students at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
oSy together with Clair T.. Turner of
the department of Biology and Pub
lie Health, formed a Maine Club at
the NJ. |. T. yesterday noon at a lit
doing this the State of Maine lives up
to its motto. "Dirigo," for it is the
first of the states whose students
have formed here real organizati ton.
The foreign students have a number
of such Cubs at Tech, Latin Amer
lean. French and Chinese. together
with the Cosmopolitan. which brings
all the foreigners together, but none
of The states has till now taken a
! similar step.
The group that assembled about
the table included Professor Turner,
! John c. Barker, of "a Taylor street,
! Laurance NJ. Dalton of 80 Deering
street, AMI Creighton X. Stanwood
of 50 State street, Portland G.. Irv-
ing Brown of l Oak street, Auburn;
John c. Nash of Cherryfeld; Laur-
ence +. Weymouth and H. Stanley
Weymouth of rs Free street, Dex-
ter; Hilliard Dunning Cook of AZ
kingsbury street, Gardiner; NJ. Ber-
nard Pike and Henry ID. Tucker of
Lubec; Robert r. Whitehouse of I'm
ity and Elias Schriro of is Union
street. Watervlle. Mr. Turner is a
native of Harmony and a graduate
of Bates College.
The group organized and adopted
the name, Maine Club at Tech, this
being a name to distinguish it from
the very fourishing club of NJ. |. 7
centres that cluster about Names
water powers and harbors. Laurence
NJ. Dalton of Portland was elected
president. Mr.. John G. Nash OF
Cherryfilld was named secretary
treasurer while Messrs. Brown. Cook
Pike ami Whitehouse We're named
executive committee with II. Stan
ley Weymouth of Dexter for chair
man.
Meetings are to be held the first
week of e,ery month during the
school wear. and the purpose of the
club is 20 foser friendly feelings and
undertake the mutual help of the
Maine students and as such it forms
an important addition to the work
which is done every year by the up
! per claSsmen in welcoming freshmen
to the Institute and informing them
as to it's rather complicated details
The young men who have organ
lied the Maine Club at Tech have
taken their part also in student act
ivities, Mr.. Dalton being the manager
| of the Musical Clubs; Mr. Barker. a
member OF the students Finance
! Committee, while Mr.. Nash has been
prominent in the Tech Show which
is given every year during junior
week, having been last year in both
cast and chorus. There are half a
dozen other Maine men at Technol-
ogy who were prevented from attend
ing the initial dinner. among them
John A. Nicholas of PASSPORT, a
sophomore. who have expressed the
intention of Joining. The club will
/ try to make the fair name of Maine
even better known than it is at the
Institute, although indeed some its
stand bys. like Dean Alfred f. Bur
ton of Portland and Professor Will
! liam J. Drisko of Columbia, testify to
the scientific prowess of men from
the Pine Tree State.
Mr. Turner. who is a special stud
ent as we'll as being instructor in the
department of Biology and Public
Health, is a Harmony man. well
known over the state through his re-
cent Investigations for the State
Board of Health of the sanitary as
meets of two of Names great indus
tries. summer visitors and numbering.