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July, 1930 V
1891 Continued
Brass Company, has been elected President of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, it was announced yesterday during the second day of the annual meeting of the organization in the Engineering Societies' Building, 29 West 29th Street, New York City. Mr. Bassett, sixty-two years old, who lives at Waterbury, Conn., the headquarters of the American Brass Company, won the Institute's James Douglas gold medal in 1925 for his work in the metallurgical field. He succeeds as President Frederick W. Bradley of San Francisco."-- Albert Gottlieb announces the removal of his office to 105 West 40th Street, New York City. He is always glad to see any '91 men who happen to be in New York.
At a luncheon meeting of the Engineering Association of Hawaii on May 9, Morris Knowles was a special guest. A weekly bulletin of the Engineering Association of Hawaii says: "Mr. Knowles is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Class of '91, and has been in private practice in Pittsburg since 1910, originally specializing in sanitary engineering and water supply. Of late he has become keenly interested in city planning.... He has been a director of the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce and of the Board of Engineering Review of the Chicago Sanitary District. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, National Institute of Social Science, International Housing and Town  Planning Association, the American Public Health Association and Director of the Department of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering of the University of Pittsburgh. He is President and chief engineer of the firm of Morris Knowles, Inc., Westinghouse Building, Pittsburgh. He is the author of a book published by the McGraw-Hill and Company entitled "Industrial Housing" and of numerous papers on industrial housing.-- Henry A. Fiske, Secretary, Grinnell Company, 260 West Exchange Street, Providence, R.I.

1893
The spring meeting of the Class was held on April 11 at the home of Farwell Bemis, 40 Old Orchard Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass., where the Class were the guests of Farwell and Mrs. Bermis. This meeting was given over almost entirely to a social time, the only matter of business being the vote to make the usual annual contribution to the Alumni Athletic Fund. There were thirty-two members of the Class present-- Jack Ashton came over from New York, Walter Norris from Portland, Maine, and Fred Dillon from Fitchburg, Mass. Fred Lord expected to come over but was prevented at the last moment.
Woodbridge sent telegraphic greetings to his classmates "with particular regards to those of Course VI and still more particular to those at the tail end at the alphabet. Glad to see that most of us are still going strong and undoubtedly appreciating as only technology men can this wonderful age we live in." The meeting was a delightful one; the place is charming, with its attractive and commodious house and extensive grounds on which are tennis courts, and a sports building, with an indoor squash and badminton court. Assembling at the sports building between half-past five and six, the members were assigned to sides on arrival, and participated in a spirited game of deck tennis. George Glidden refereed the game from the top of a lofty stepladder.
On returning to the house soon after seven, the men were welcomed most cordially by Mrs. Bemis. At half-past seven dinner was served, only '93 men bring present. After dinner the party adjourned to the terrace room. This is a large, long room, located beneath the wide terrace at the southerly side of the house, with recessed fireplace on one side and a stage at the end. The party broke up about ten-thirty, voting Farwell Bemis a royal host. Those present were Frederick B. Abbott, Frank G. Ashton, A. Farwell Bemis, Maurice B. Biscoe, Joshua B. Blair, C. Royce Boss, Stephen A. Breed, Charles N. Cook, Fred N. Dillon, Ariel B. Edwards, Francis W. Fabyan, Fred Fay, George B. Glidden, William H. Graves, Albert L. Kendall, Frederic F. Low, George L. Mirick, Henry A. Morss, Walter H. Norris, Edward Page, Edward S. Page, Arthur S. Pevear, Robert D. Reynolds, Howard L. Rogers, Charles M. Spofford, Charles M. Taylor, John F. Tomfohrde, Louis B. Vining, James S Wadsworth, Samuel P. Waldron, Charles R Walker, and Edward L. Wingate.
The monthly '93 luncheons in New York have been well established during the past season. Emery reports that there were seven men present at the Class luncheon on April 24. All were New York men. Emery says, "At our three meetings thus far held this year, there has been no one from out of town and it would be a big help if some stranger would show up." The last of these New York luncheon meetings until the fall was held on May 23.
The Secretary broke his continuity record by his non-attendance at the Class Meeting at the Eastern Yacht Club, as well as other functions of the All-Technology Reunion, June 6 and 7. He sailed from New York on May 31 on a trip to England and the continent, combining business with a bit of delayed vacation. He will return in July.--Rev. Frederick Whitney Fitts, as chairman of the standing committee, was virtually head of the diocese of Massachusetts during the recent interim between the passing of Bishop Slattery and the taking of office of the new bishop.
It is a hard duty of the Secretary to write of additional losses in Class membership. On Friday, May 16, following an illness of less than three weeks, John Cotton Clapp died at his home in Dorchester, with which part of the city the family has been identified from early colonial days. His ancestors who came over on the ship Mary and John nearly 300 years ago were among the founders of Dorchester, and during the centuries the family has lived in the Dorchester district of Boston, of which Mr. Clapp's family have been members for four generations, and of which he was senior warden at the time of death.
Clapp was a special student in Course IV with the Class. From 1894 to 1900 he worked as the architectural draftsman successively in the offices of Fox and Gale, Boston; Charles A. Platt, New York, architect and landscape architect; Peters and Rice, Boston. Since 1900 he was associated with Fox and gale. In 1901 and again in 1907 he studied abroad. At the time of our Thirtieth Reunion he wrote, "The work has been chiefly domestic, covering a large number of town and country houses with the landscape architecture of their grounds, as well as a number of municipal and semipublic buildings. During the war I worked as architect upon the buildings of the Watertown Arsenal. This work comprised the architectural treatment of most of the new buildings and the designing of the Welfare Buildings and the Headquarters Building additions. As an excellent academic basis for further study, the Technology training has been of great benefit to me."
The Boston Herald states: "In his capacity as an architect, Mr. Clapp designed some of the interior adornments of the Boston Public Library and was associated, at that time, with Sargent when that painter was creating some of the murals now found in that institution." Clapp was a member of the Boston Society of Architects, the American Institute of Architects, and of the Dorchester Tercentenary Committee. He leaves a wife, Amy Leah Crosby Clapp; a son, Richard Homer Clapp, a senior at Harvard, and a daughter, Miss Leah Clapp.
We have received delayed notice of the death of two men of the Class. William E. Evans died on January 11, 1930. Evans and his wife attended the Thirty-Fifth Reunion in June 1928. At that time he appeared to be in splendid health; but it seems he was already afflicted with heart trouble. Evans was a student in Course IV. His first position after leaving Technology was as draftsman for Arthur F. Gray, of Boston, with whom he stayed for several years; after which he was for one year with the Metallurgical Corporation of Portland, Maine, manufacturing a zinc oxide and lead sulphate used as a base for paint. Then with the United Coke and Gas Company building ovens at Everett for the New England Gas Company, following which he went to Sydney, Cape Breton, for the same company to build coke ovens for the Dominion Iron and Steel Company.
He was then employed by Dean and Main for a year or more before that firm separated, whereupon he went with Charles T. Main as mill engineer and architect. He gave up his profession in 1912 on account of sickness. Quoting