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Poem, Frank Hodgman,'62 



Music, Carnival Quadrille, Strauss 



Oration John P. Finlej'. '73 



Music— Song, "Twenty Years Ago," Frank Hodgman, '62 



The "History" by Henry A. Haigb, Esq., '74, was in part a touching 

 tribute to the memory of the graduates who have died since the alumni gath- 

 ering of 1879— George W. Eaton, Dalston P. Strange, John W. Porter, Wil- 

 liam K. Kedzie, Robert F. Kedzie, George W. Long, William A. Henderson, 

 Lyman Mason, Charles L. Jackson, and Henry E. Owen — graduates endeared 

 to those who knew them by great excellencies of character, whom the College 

 could ill afford to spare. 



NECROLOGY. 



The necrology of the graduates has not been written, and the idea of doing 

 so occurs to me too late to do much more than to give a brief notice of each, 

 and to insert, as I have the permission of the secretary of the Alumni Asso- 

 ciation to do, the portion of Mr. Haigh's address on this subject: 



The class of 1861, the first graduating class of the college, hastened, all 

 but one, to join the army. They had their likenesses taken in a group, and 

 the painting now adorns the reading room of the College. Of this class was 

 Henry D. Beuham. He came from East Winsor, Eaton county, on the day, 

 I believe, of the opening of the College, May 13, 1857, and entered into the 

 second class as they were then divided. The first class should have graduated 

 in 1860, but was dispersed by a shortening of and radical change in the course 

 of study, a change which lasted but one year. Mr. Benham was graduated 

 at the age of 21 in 1861. He was 1st lieutenant of 1st Michigan 102 IJ. S. 

 Colored Infantry; died of disease at Beaufort, S. C, July 3, 1864. He was 

 a good scholar and of most exemplary character. 



Gilbert A. Dickey, son of the Hon. Chas. Dickey, of Marshall, came to 

 the College in the winter of 1857. He was considered by the oflBcers the 

 model student. He was never absent, never late, scarcely ever less than per- 

 fect in lessons. His work was done as regularly and well as his studies. He 

 seemed to be conscientiousness itself. He was graduated at the age of eighteen 

 in 1861, and at once entered the army. After the battle of Gettysburg, July 

 1, 1863, he was found, killed at the head of all the slain, before a place tiiat 

 had been stormed. He was second lieutenant of the 24th Michigan Infantry, 

 and well merited the praise given him in the volume, "Michigan in the War." 



Mr. William A. Hardy came to the College from his father's farm about 

 two miles north of the College in Meridian, in the spring of 1861, was grad- 

 uated in 1864, and made Master of Science in 1867. Consumption carried him 

 away, after mouths of deceitful hope, in 1869. Mr. Hardy was much beloved 

 by officers and students for his unobtrusive, kindly ways, and substantial 

 worth. 



Mr. Daniel K. Gunn, of Ionia, entered the preparatory class in 1866, and 

 was graduated in 1870 at the age of 29. He then became a fruit culturist in 

 South Haven. Mr. Gunn came to the College with but one arm, having sac- 

 rificed the other on one of our country's battle-fields. He suffered from his 

 wounds throughout his college course, and sank into his grave in 1871. He 

 left an excellent record behind him as to moral worth, and as fair a one for 

 scholarship as could be expected of one out of healtli. 



The other graduates who have died are all so kindly mentioned by Mr. 

 Haigh, the historian of the Alumni, that I transfer that portion of his 

 history to my report : 



