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16 BROOKLYN, LIFE At School and College Edited by JOHN B. O'BRIEN committee. She is president of the women's council at the school. COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS at Packer Collegiate Institute have just been announced. The Seniors who will appear on the commencement program are-the Misses Anna Cornehlsen and Louise Rile, with the president of the Class, Miss Dorothy' Wimp fheimer, as valedictorian.

Other speakers on the preliminary list chosen by the Class itself are the Misses Helen Carr, Ethel Grimmer, Dorothy Sumner and Angela Williams. JESSE HEMLEY of 193 McDonough Street has been selected as a member of the Bond Fifteen of 1927 at Amherst. The Bond Fifteen are chosen each year from men in the Senior Class who have attained the highest general average, lhey are eligible to compete for the Bond prize and may write an essay in preliminary competition. From result of this competition four men are chosen as Commencement speakers and to the one who delivers the best oration the Bond prize of pne hundred dollars is awarded. Another member of the Bond Fifteen is Donald Bingham Woodbridge, son of Dean Frederick J.

E. Woodbridge of Columbia University. Last year Mr. Hemley was elected to Phi Beta Kappa on the first drawing from the then Junior Class. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the National Headmasters' Association of Secondary Schools was held at Harvard last Friday and Saturday.

About eighty schoolmasters were in attendance. Among the members of the association are Dr. Joseph Dana Allen of Poly Prep Country Day School, Dr. John H. Denbigh of the Packer Collegiate Institute, Mr.

Ait hur L. Janes of the Flushing High School, Dr. J. Herbert Low of Erasmus Hall High School, Mr. Walter R.

Marsh of St. Paul's School at Garden City and Dr. Eugene C. Alder, former principal of Adelphi Academy and since September last head of the Blake School in Minneapolis; Minn. On the Campus R' OBERT CALDER of Brooklyn is manager of the Freshman gymnastic team at Princeton.

Francis A. Booth of 499 East Eighth Street is a member of the Glee Club at Amherst. THE SENIOR PROM of the Poly Prep Country Day School is to be held on Monday evening, February 21st, at the Brooklyn Woman's Club. Frederick Bliss Tuttle is chairman of this year's Prom. The Floor Committee is made up of Frederick B.

Tuttle, John Hastings McDonald and Feodor A. Harms. On the House Committee are Joseph Dana Allen, David Gray and Arthur Henderson. The Music Committee consists of Carl Zellner, Frederick Hartzsch and George Schlegel, 3rd. The Refreshment Committee is made up of Harry Hedinger, Edward Thomas and James Dunn.

On the Printing Committee are William Howard Melish, John Hemmett and Christopher W. Wilson, Jr. the Committee on Patronesses consists of Richard Warbasse, Frank Bailey, and Leffert B. Mendes. There is every indication that this year's Prom will be one of the most successful in the history of the school.

THE ANNUAL DANCE of the Sophomore Class 1 at Barnard College was held on the evening of February 11th at Barnard Hall. Dean Virginia Gildersleeve acted as one the chaperons. Miss Marion C. Smith of 1335 Pacific Street was chosen for the All-Smith soccer team. She also played on the 1928 Class team.

MR. EDMUND W. BUTLER of the Park Slope has been elected a member of the Executive Committee -of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League. At Cornell he not only played basketball on the varsity team, but was also a member of the Cornell football and baseball teams, being named as All-American quarterback during his Junior and. Senior years.

Alfred Joseph Hecht of 1180 East Nineteenth Street will enter Cornell this year. At the first annual Intercollegiate Indoor Tennis Tournament, just concluded at Cornell, Harvard was represented by Lewis Henderson Gordon of Flushing. In the same tournament William Howard Story of Seventh Street represented Colgate. HARVARD'S JUNIOR PROM is to be held on Friday evening, March 18th. Perley Breed's twenty-piece orchestra has, been secured.

The Prom will take place in Memorial' Hall between the hours of 9 and 3 o'clock. Tickets will be sent to members of the Class of 1928 in the near future. Miss Aileen Patricia McGann of 221 South Twenty-first Street, Flushing, is playing centre on the Barnard basketball team. HPHE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THE-J- TRE, held at Yale on February 11th and February 12th, with representatives present from colleges in all parts of the country, proved a great success. Among those who attended as delegates were: Remsen Johnson, of 314 Clinton Avenue, from Union College, Miss Sarah Crossett Palme of Rockville Centre, L.

Mr. Charles F. Kramer, who is director of the Southold (L. Players, Theodore. Fuchs of Brooklyn and representing Adelphi College, Miss Sara M.

Barber, S. M. Tucker and Miss Edna R. Fredel. About 300 guests attended the conference.

A mild sensation was caused at the beginning of the conference by a controversy which arose among the Yale who are members of the Yale Dramatic Association, as to the advisability of holding the conference. Hannibal Hamlin of 180 Sullivan Street, one. of the most prominent members of the" Senior Class, wrote a letter to the Yale Daily News, asserting that it was poor educational policy for a university to dabble in such a conference, that is for the Yale School of Drama to do so. Fred Saidy of 572 Fifth Street has resigned as editorial director of the New York University Daily News. Kenneth C.

Ballantyne of 1148 East Nineteenth Street is a member of Casque and Gauntlet at Dartmouth. Frank Dixon of 11a Vernon Place is one of the assistant business managers of the Jester, humorous at Columbia. THE VASSAR JUNIOR PROM was held last Saturday evening. week-end festivities began early Friday morning with the arrival of guests. Among the colleges represented were Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth, Harvard Union, Cornell, Yale, Wesleyan, Princeton, Columbia, Brown and Lafayette.

An informal, dance was held in the evening, to which members of the other three classes-were invited. On Saturday morning the Mandolin and Glee Clubs gave a concert, in the afternoon basketball games were held, followed by a tea dance. At quarter-past five the formal promenade, commenced with a grand march. Sunday was devoted to sleigh rides, dinners, ferry boating on the Hudson and walks. The Brooklyn and Long Island girls who are members of the Junior Class include Miss Evelyn Hampden Goodrich, Miss Dorothy Goell, Miss Letitia May Groehl, Miss Alice MacLean, Miss Florence Uptegrove Shepherd, Miss Helen E.

Sonnenstrahl and Miss Justine Henrietta Zobel of Brooklyn, Miss E. Evelyn Bicksell of Hewlett and iss Cora Carter of untington Miss Anna E. Purdy of 183 Eightyfirst Street, who graduated from Vassar, will complete her course this spring at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and will then become an interne at the Norwegian Hospital in Brooklyn. A PPARENTLY the large number of Brooklyn men fared exceedingly well in the mid-year examinations at Williams, but some others were so fortunate. Twenty-one undergraduates were dropped because of low scholarship including the presidents of the Sophomore and Freshman Classes.

Of this number two were Juniors, eleven were Sophomores and eight were 'Freshmen. The number of Freshmen compares favorably with that of a year ago, indicating the better working of the selective process of admissions. Eight members of the Senior Class completed their requirements for graduation and will receive their diplomas next June. rt it i ii. John C.

Vaden of 19 Polhemus Place is a member of the Yale varsity swimming team. He specializes in the dive. Two of the three undergraduate members of the Council on Athletics at Rutgers, responsible for the recent football reorganization at the college, are local men. They are Lester E. Hanf of 452 Forty-eighth Street and Alfred G.

Brown of College Point, L. I. ui mese, seven were meiiiueis oi me t-iass ui iu, wuu failed to graduate last June. MORE THAN FOUR HUNDRED Rutgers alumni gathered at the college over the past week-end, when the third annual mid-winter home' coming day was celebrated. At the same time the fraternities held their i a- tm-- i -i Miss Persis Wright of 238 Amity Street, Flushing, is chairman of the Judicial Board of Mt.

Holyoke. This is the second highest office in the college community. initiations anu uanqucis. 111c uiumm visueu classrooms and were entertained at a student mass meeting in-Bal-lantine gymnasium, at which the musical clubs sang. There was also a swimming meet as well as a basketball game with Lehigh.

In the swimming meet some four or five Brooklyn men participated. Robert Irving Warnecke of 693 St John's Place plans to enter Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the fall. William F. Fales of Rockville Center, L. has been awarded the varsity at Middlebury College as manager of last fall's football eleven.

RADCL1FFE COLLEGE has just concluded its annual Junior Prom. The event was held at Agassiz House, the decorations being of an Icelandic nature, with snow and igloos and Eskimos and northern lights to lend a realistic touch to the affair. The programs, designed by a Radcliffe undergraduate, were of heavy white paper, gilt-edged and with the Radcliffe seal on the cover. ALUMNI' DAY was celebrated at Columbia last Saturday. Two thousand graduates, including several hundred from Brooklyn and Long Island, were present.

The activities centered in John Jay Hall, the new building for a centre of student activities. Class reunions and, luncheons were held, reports were made on the state of. the university, plans were discussed and an alumni banquet was held. Dr. William' L.

Love of 857 Lincoln Place addressed" the Alumni of the School of Business. Mr. Ward Melville of 59 Livingston Street was a member of the Alumni Committee in charge of the reunion. The day's events also included a basketball game with the University of Pennsylvania which Columbia won by one point and a wrestling meet with Cornell, which Columbia lost by one point. In the all-around swimming championship of the university, a Brooklyn man, Horace J.

Davenport of 10104 Fourth Avenue, Bay Ridge, "made an excellent record, taking first in the 220-yard breast-stroke, second in the 100-yard swim, third in the dive and 50-yard fourth in the 440-yard swim and the 150-yard backstroke. SAMUEL McCONNELL is serving as cheer leader during the basketball season at St. Paul's School, Garden City, L. I. He is assisted by William Norris.

Jesse Ritt of 150 Coleridge Street is a member of the Sophomore class at the University 1 of Michigan. A Brooklyn girl, Miss Marie Carroll, served as chairman of the Committee of Arrangements for this year's dance under the auspices of the Alumnae of Georgian Court College, Lakewood, N. J. The dance was held last Friday evening at the Ambassador Hotel. THE SCHOOL OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL -SERVICE of Boston University is to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its founding in June, 1928.

A committee of nine has been chosen to plan the student part of the observance. A similar committee has been formed among the alumni of the school to take charge of the part to be -played by the alumni in the celebration. Miss' Helen A. Park of 82 Pierre-pont Street has been chosen as a member of the student Henrv Webster Anlinptnn." Tr. nf 1600 Rpvertv Rnrid "7 is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon relay team at Amherst..