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.   H       42 THE KENTUCKY ALUMNUS  
    Q:   After graduation he accepted a position with the Structural Concrete  
  Q      j   Company, of Cincinnati, as assistant engineer. This company was absorb-  I
      ,    ed in 1911 by the U. S. Structural Company and 1noved to Dayton, Ohio, and  i
  _ _`   I   Q_  Fox was retained as chief engineer and estimator. In this capacity he had “ 
  -   j Q T charge of a number of large engineering projects. His prominence along  lf
          this line is shown by   clipping from a Dayton` paper. · U Q Y 
Us , r_§ xii T- E  "Mr. Fox had attained distinction as one ot the best in his profession.  &
  _         One of his greatest achievements was the completion of a large building for  
  `         the Recording and Computing Scales Company in thirty days, while his ~_ 
  `   E   advice on numerous big engineering projects was considered valuable. He  Y.
  é     was prominently identified with Masonic Organizations and took an active  
  `     · i part in the Engineers’ Club." T
        "Foxie" took an active interest in the affairs of the University after  
  t     J- graduation and visited it many times, always calling to see the teachers he C 
      g   had known and inquiring as to the progress of the work. `_ 
  in   "   His friendship was wide, and his death at this early age is a distinct loss  
  §   I   to the University and his going will bring sorrow to the hearts of his many  
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  1   Qi °  »·: Q CLASS OF 1916  ·
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ni ¤ A       Lieutenant John Carlisle Spencer has returned from his war service in  
,_ p _ .·       France and visited friends on the University campus recently. Over the top {
- __ '`.' g ._.     14 times is Lieutenant S}_)€1'lC€l',S record,  ii
        Lieutenant Spencer was graduated from the College of Law in June.  .
  ,     1916, and began the practice of law in Chicago soon after. \Vlien the United  ·
  `E .     States entered the war he went into a training camp and was soon com-  ;
  _         missioned and sent to France almost immediately. Last June the division _
          to which his company was attached saw active service in the Arginine V]
  `Q       C , Forest. He went over the top 14 times. The first time four of the live of i
  `         iicers of the company were shot down and Lieutenant Spencer took charge `
  _ U     “·‘ of the men. From the date of their entry until the 14th of October when he  l
,   T;   3 fell dangerously wounded on the bank of the Meuse, he had only seven days  ,
  . `     ii rest and the casualty list of this division was appalling. His company enter-  {
E ` {   " ed with 235 men and as men fell thei1· places were filled by new men and  
  Q     during the period of iighting the total casualties of this company numbered .
  _·     438. Lieutenant Spencer is still suffering from his two wounds but will soon  T
  _ ..     be able to take up his professional work again.  l
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  " V     Henry Cromwell of the class of 1916, who has been one of the chief  _
  _     chemists in the Hercules Powder Plant in National City, California, MS  5
      been transferred to the Hercules Plant in KN/ilmington, Delaware.  
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