THE KENTUCKY

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Alumni Notes
Editor Alun mi iecretary
Al" letter, in which he Itold the story
of the alumnus who sent a $5 contri-

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bution to the Greater Kentucky fund,
leaving himself a balance of $12.15.
That man, who won the esteem of
the whole association, has been joined
by oHbers who made a similar sacrifice,
even to the extent of mailing their entire balance to the campaign fund.
For instance read part of a letter received from one of the class of '07
who is seeking his fortune in the Gol
den West.
"Your last appeal under the heading of "Dear Al" has reached me, in
more ways than one. I have no excuses to plead; I am merely placing
myself on a level with the grad that
was left with a bank balance of $12.15,
after sending his contribution of $5,
for by so doing I am doubling his
gift, with no bank balance as a result;
yet at the same time, it is more than
freely contributed when I think of
the piker who failed to send his little
mite, rather than be called a piker;
perhaps he labored under the same
impression as I, for I thought it was
or nothing, and I was un
the
able to meet the demand."
Close upon the heels of this letter
came another check for $10.97, the
entire bank balance of one of the re
cent graduates, now residing here in
Kentucky. This is the spirit that built
the walls of Rome and it will put the
roof on the basketball building and
keep the grass green inside the stadium.
Altogether the second "Dear Al"
letter brought in 35 subscriptions in
less than a month, more than one a
day, a total of $715.84.

Chicago, Feb. 18. (Third Mon- day Regular) luncheon at 12:30
p. m., Marshall Field's Restaur- ntit

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(Last Sat- Detroit, Jan. 26.
dinner, Dixie- urday Regular)
land Tnn.
Buffalo, Feb. 9. (Second Satur- day Regular) luncheon at 1:15
p. m., Chamber of Commerce,
corner Main and Seneca Sts.
Lexington,
Feb. 9. (Second
Saturday Regular) luncheon at
Hotel.
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FRIENDS IN ALL SECTIONS
Alumni Behind Bond Issue Represent all Sections of State

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vcrtised. That is because it is in Virginia. A birthplace like that in New
England would be talked about by
the people at home. A Bunker Hill,
Lexington or Concord, noble, but of
no great consequence as battles, are
likewise advertised and celebrated in
the province, but a Princeton or York-tow- n
goes without a monument for
140 years and more because the people of the locality do not claim the
universe for themselves and their section."
It now looks like the University is
going' to celebrate and ccldbrate pretty strong when the bond issue and
the irequest for appropriations for the
next two years arc passed by the legAnd the University will
islature.
have a place to hold the meeting, for
the basketball building will sca!t 4,000
if it is raining and the stadium about
15,000 "if the sun shines."

be 'sweeter'

Betwixt Us
'04

Every two years the alumni office
receives from Joseph Graham Lewis
a check to cover two years dues. Except during the period of the World
War, Mr. Lewis has a clear record as
an active member of the Association.
He is logging engineer for the Madera Sugar Pine Company, address
route K, box 172, Fresno, Calif.
'06

"Herewith find check for alumni
dues and my subscription to the Greater Kentucky campaign fund, which I
hope will be of assistance." 'Roy C.
Hopgood, patcitt attorney with Western Electric Company, 463 West St.,
New York City. All mail should be
sent to residence, 41 So. Hillside Ave.,
Glen Ridge, N. J.

LETTER FROM SOUTH AFRICA

'07

L. S. Boggcss, with the State High
"H. W. Taylor '06 and his wife con- way Department, asks that his Kernel
tinue to reside at Salisbury, Rhodesia, and also fthat of O. F. Thrclkeld '22,
where he is head of the Tobacco and be sent to Calla, Ky., where they have

The continual arrival of communications from alumni clubs and indiCotton Division for the Government
pledging their loyal
vidual alumni
of Rhodesia. Taylor is in a good posupport to the $75,000,000 bond issue
sition up there, and has the full confiis worthy of mention although the
dence of the people.
Alumni Page had a long article about
"For the past four years I have
There is a new list 'to
it last week.
been honored with an invitation from
quote this week and at is to be hoped
the Rhodesian Government to judge
that the influence they exert in behalf
at their annual Agricultural Show;
of the bond issue grows as fast as the
these visits have been most enjoyoble,
pile of ldttars on the subject in the
and both Taylor and I make full use
office has.
of our spare time discussing the past,
It is interesting to note that the
present and future of 'Old State.'
former students are behind the Uni"O. B. Chisholm '69 and his wife
versity as firmly in one part of the
live near Cape Town. Mr. Chisholm
State as in another. From the Jack
is one of the principal leaf buyers for
son Purchase to Sandy Hook the senthe United Tobacco Company, Cape
timent among them is apparently the
Town. Both Chisholm and Taylor
C.
Ross,
same. For instance D.
came out to Africa with me fifteen
class of '20, writing from Calhoun, in
years ago, and I am very pleased to
Western Kentucky, says:
say that both of them have been very
"Those of us who are here are al
successful.
ways iloyal to the University and are
"SOME IS SCATTERED
"J. du P. Oosthuizen '12, wife and
all doine what we can to have the
children are still living in Rustenburg,
issue succeed
$75,000,000 "bond
A recent communication from the though he resigned as Assistant
have written to both our senator and
representative, whom I feel will sup mother of four former students Chief of Ithe Tobacco and Cotton Di
seems 'to have been written under the vision of the Government, about four
port the bill."
ago, to accept a lucrative post
Two communications have been re impression that the Alumni Secretary months
etters as head of the Development Departseveral
ceived from Madison county mem is a woman. After
"Madison were sent to the different members of ment of the United Tobacco Combers of the association.
the family in regard to the stadium pany. Oos'thuizen's resignation was
y
supcounty alumni
a sei:iotis blow to my staff.
port the $75,000,000 bond issue for drive and other matters the mother
"W. B. Wilson '11, wife and two
good roads, adequate education and wrote back, "Sis, its such a waste of
humanity of ithe state time to keep writing Ito the boys. children recently moved to Bulawayo
the honor and
is dead, others is scattered out Rhodesia, where Wilson has accepted'
and we pledge assistance by all means Some
farms. Thetrc was Henry and the management of the Glenville To
iii our power to this challenge to rally on
Roy, the twins. All went bacco Company. This company plants
all Kentuckians to ipull Kentucky out Robert and
and moral mud," to State with their sister Margaret. about 400 acres to Turkish tobacco an
of physical, mental
Henry is dead, so nually. He appears to be 'on a good
wrote the chairman of the Madison They are scattered,
I get the boy's mail and it is useless wickcV to make money, however, 1
county club.
and postage."
was sorry to loose his services from
A ldtter written the same day worn to waste time
That's right, Old State's sons and my staff.
club at Richmond
a member of the
a way it
wife and son
said, "Sentiment amonJg the Madi- (laughters are scattered. In
"Paul Koch
county alumni seems to be is sad to know they are so far away have been transferred to Rustenburg
son
they can
strongly in favor of the bond issue. I but think of the influence
He was piromotcd to the post of As
all over the face of ithe earth
think it likely that if the issue is sub- cxeet
sistant Chief of the Tobacco and Cot
mitted to the people, there will be and write a story creditable to their ton Division, and manager of bhc Ex
Alma Mater in the distant sands of perimcnt Station.
much more interest aroused."
former student, now county desserts and in the pure white snow
A
"H. R. Halbert '20, completed his
mountain countries.
of ithe highest
agent of Warren tcounty, in the
September and
But they need' not get so far away two years contract last
adds his district of the state to
for another twelve
that it "is useless to waste time and was
the different localities behind the
months. So he remains as manager
University by writing in a recent let- postage" for Old State is waiting to of Ithe Experiment Station at Piet
hear from them often through the
ter:
Retief.
"I am heartily in accord with a Alumni office.
"V. F. Olivier '20, the most recent
movement to organize alumni groups
'Kentucky State man' to join this staff,
WOULD ADVERTISE U. K.
every section as a booster tor tne
in
returned about two years ago and
University. Unless the grads makr
Caipe
Former Student Discourses on Val- was placed at Oudfrshoorn,
others feel that the University has
Province, as Itinerant Officer for that
ue of Publicity
been of some value to them fthere will
area.
be fewer of the younger students en(Miss Lucy Stall
"Mrs. Mostcrt
Rufus Lee Weaver, class of '95, an
I will talk to some
roll for the work.
0
arrived in South Africa
attornev in New York City, wrote ings)
of the other alumni here at the first
'
husband about .two months
nd lend what assistance some time ago to offer the suggestion with her
opportunity
that the University might very profit- ago. They both (took their B. S. de
will be of service."
I can that
grees at lite Kansas Agricultural Col
This long list of correspondence ably celebrate a Mtle more and get
itself on the map by advertising. In lege last June. He is a South African
represents men who are willing and
now some by birth, and therefore returned to
in most cases alumni who have al- his letter lie points out
land, where he is at prescommunicated with itheir repre- places are so well advertised, saying: his native
ready
"Why cannot the University take up ent engaged in the Census DepartComing as
sentatives at Frankfort.
oi State.
they will from all sections of the a few matters like other provincials, ment
"T. R. Hayes, ex-- , is in the employ
state there is every reason to hope that or like provincials, and celebrate.
United Tobacco Company, asthey will exert much influence in fa- There was an old elm by the side of of the
Oosthuizen. lie has
the way near Harvard under which, it sistant to Mr.
vor of old State.
was stated, Washington stood and ac- been in our midst just over a year bu't
army. he has made lots of friends and seems
OLD GRAD GIVES HIS BALANCE cepted the command of the
Now, they say, Washington did not to be 'hale fellow' with all who know
Regardless of that him." Wm. H. SclmrfTius '99, Chief,
Check Book Now Worthless, But Con- stand there at all.
Tob. & Cot. Div., Union of South Af
doubt, the old elm has been a shrine
tribution Freely Given
a shrine just because it happened to rica, also Director of the Cotton In
even me stitute, Transvaal University College,
Shortly before Christmas the Alum grow in Massacnuseus.
Washington is not ad-- , Pretoria, So. Africa.
ni Secretary sent out the second "Dear birthplace of
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the sole purpose of enabling life to
by selling and installing
the proper sugar machinery. It his
'
philosophy to learn all these Is to
know about the subject that is interesting to him. When he realized that
sugar machinery engineering had such
wonderful
very soon after
he had graduated from the University
of Kentucky, he went down to Louisiana and studied sugar chemistry
where he could see direct application
to the sugar making industry. He has
been in Cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico and
several of the South American States
during the last few years. I have enjoyed being with him quite recently
when he was in New York, previous
to sailing January 19 for Rio dc Janeiro, Brazil, as the representative of
Petrcc & Dorr Engineers, Inc., 67
Wall Street, New York City. He is
going down to Brazil to organize the
company's interests
there from ithe
standpoint of sales and engineering
in the development and' installation of
sugar
making
machinery.
Mrs.
Brown, who was from Somerset also,
and the two small Browns, the light of
their fait her and much of the reason
for his advance in his particular profession, will sail from New York in
May, to join L. E. in their new location, which undoubtedly
will
be
Rio de Janeiro for the next two or
three years."

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recently been transferred.
'09

The announcement of the engagement of Dr. Philip Blumenthal to Miss
Bertha Julia Kirtz of 120 St. James
Place, Buffalo, N. Y., was received in
the Alumni office this week. Dr.
Blumenthal is secretary-treasure- r
of
the Lacteal Analytical Laboratories,
176 Franklin Street, Buffalo, N. Y. He
is prominent in the civic affairs of
Buffalo, a member of several clubs,
civic and social, and last year was
president of the University of Kentucky Alumni Club of Buffalo, and is
a life member of the general Association. For several years he was research chemist at the Iowa Experiment Station and afterwards at the
Kentucky Experiment Station. During the World War he had eight
months of chemical warfare service
and at the Itime of the Armistice was
in officers' training school. Dr. Blumenthal has ever been a loyial and enthusiastic supporter of his Alma Mater and last year, in addition to other
services, was chairman of the Placement Committee of the Buffalo Alumni
Club, securing positrons for Univer
sity of Kentucky graduates in Buffalo. It is not anticipated that the wedding will take place until fall. The
honeymoon will be Uaken.-iEurope
where they expect to spendJTseveral
months in travel.

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W. E. Hobson, mining engineer with
Crecclius & Phillips, of Pittsburgh,
asks that his Kernel be sent to 1420
Dormont Ave., So. Hills P. O., Pittsburgh, Penna.
'14

"I have been very slow finding out
y
just what I could do for the
campaign and it cannot be
much now for I am trying to finance
my own "situdent loan" to come Iback
school as
to Kentucky and
soon as I possibly can. I am enclosing a check for the treasurer and I
wish I could go on making circles to
the right of it. Hoping that this
campaign will be a big success."
Jesse T. Hendricks ex- farming, Eden,
Wyoming.
Greate-Kentuck-

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'16

Richard W. Scearce is manager of
the Kentucky Live Stock Improve
ment Association with office at 214
Bldg., Bourbon Stock
Exchange
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Dues and The Kernel
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The "lost list" published in the Ker
always attracts
the notice of
some who are able iro put us in touch
with someone of these "lost" ones. A
letter from L. S. O'Roark regarding
his
Edward
classmate,
Laurence
Brown, is quoted herewith in part.
"Those who remember L. E. Brown
will remember him as a very quiet,
studious individual, who never made
much noise but managed to go off
with the highes't honors of his class
at the end of his senior year, and with
all his later developments, he still remains the same quiet, purposeful individual. To look at him you would
not think that this boy who had his
s'tart in Somerset, Ky., had covered
so much of the earth's surface with
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One Year

$2.00
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION,
University of Kentucky,
Lexington.

NOTICE TO LAW ALUMNI
Sufficient money for final payment on the Dean Lafferty portrait for the College of Law has
not yet been subscribed. Checks
may be sent to W. S. Hamilton,
'07, 707 Marion E- Taylor Bldg.,
Louisville, Ky.
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Carrier Engineering Corporation
750

Frelinehuvsen Avenue.

Newark, N. J.
Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia

MANUFACTURERS OF WEATHER

to make "Every day a good

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with the help of the following Kentuckians:
J. I. Lyle. '96
E. T. Lyle, '00
L. L. Lewis, '07
M. S. Smith, '08
R. L. Jones, '12
J. R. Duncan, '12
R. R. Taliaferro, '13

J. E. Boiling, '15
H. Worsham, '16
R. Waterfill, '20
J. H. Bailey, '20
W. B. Thornton, '21
N. O. Belt. '22
A. P. Shaaklin, '2 J

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