Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-05

the city council or Quincy Mass. and
was elected mayor of the city in 1895.
He is connected with many financial
and industrial enterprises in Massa-
chusettS. He Is vice president of the
Provident Institution for Savings, trus-
tee of the Boston Ground Rent Trust
Co., the Boston Real Estate Trust Co.
the Boston Consolidated Gas Co. and
the Western Real Estate Trust Co. and
director of the Old Colony Railroad
Co. the Old Colony Trust Co. and the
Boston Consolidated Gas Co. He also
has business connection with many
other corporations.
He married Frances Lowering Of
Taunton, Mass. April 3. 1899
he Is member OF the Eastern Yacht
Club and the Quincy Yacht Club.
RAY LYMAN WILBUR
When Herbert Hoover was a sopho-
more at Stanford University there came
to the then undeveloped campus a gan
CLING freshman by the name of Ray
Lyman Wilbur.
Like young Hoover, the new student
was a native OF Iowa and this fact
helped to link them in close bond
of friendship. That friendship has
ripened with the passing of the years
Both became famous, one as an engi-
neer and statesman and the other as
an educator. and each gloried in the
achievements of the other
It occaSioned no surprise among
friends OF both Of these men that Mr..
Hoover, on being elected President of
the United States. should seek the
valued services Of his lifelong friend
as a member of the cabinet. There
was no question OF DR., Wilbur's fitness
his qualifications fill half a column
in Who's Who--but there was some I'M
certainty as TO his willingness to sacri-
fee virtual lifetime job as president
of Stanford University for q four or
eight-year term aS Secretary of the IN
terror. The honor of serving his old
friend impelled him to make the sac
ritice.
Previously Under Hoover.
DR.. Wilbur, brother of the retiring
Navy Secretary, already had served
under Mr.. Hoover on one occasion. He
was chief Of the conservation division
of Hoovers Food Administration In
1917. His other wartime services in
cluded membership in the California
State Defense Council and regional di-
rectorship Of education for the Stu
dents Army Training Corps.
The new Secretary of the Interior
was born at Boonesboro, Iowa, April
Is, 1875. After receiving degrees of
ABB. and AM. at Stanford he began
the study OF medicine at Cooper Medi-
cal College, San Francisco, and re-
ceived his medical degree III 1899. He
continued his medical studies at Frank
fort-on- the Main and London during
1903 and 1904 and at the University of
Munich in 1909 and 1910.
After serving as instructor In phySi-
ology and medicine at Stanford for a
number of years he was made pro-
fessor Of medicine there in 1909.
Later he became dean of the Stanford
Medical School and in 1916 was elected
president of the university. He has
held the post continuously since then.
Awarded Various Degrees.
Dr. Wilbur has been awarded the
degree of LII. d. by the University of
California. the University of Arizona
and the University of Pennsylvania,
and degree of Sc. d. by Syracuse Uni
yersity. He has been trustee of the
Rockefeller Foundation since 1928, is
chairman OF the medical council of the
United States Veterans Bureau, is
president of the San Francisco Council
of Social and Health Agencies, and is
tons
He is fellow of the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Science
and member Of many scientific bodies,
principally those concerned with medi-
cine.
DR.. Wilbur has taken an active inter-
est in the race question ON the Pa
cific Coast He went to Honolulu In
1925 as chairman Of the Institute OF
Pacific Relations, and is chairman of
the executive committee on the Survey
Of Race Relations on the Pacific Coast.
He lis a member of the exclusive b.
hemian and other clubs in San Fran
cisco and of the Cosmos Club here. He
married Marguerite May Blake of San
Francisco In 1898, and they have five
children.
ARTHUR M. HYDE
A capable executive. successful BUSH
mes man and practical farmer, Arthur
M. Hyde, former governor Of Missouri, Is