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Gilbert H. Hicks, '92, died at Washington, D. C, Dec. 5, 1898. Mr. 

 Hicks was, at tlie time of bis death, first assistant chief of the Division 

 of Botany, which position he had won by hard and patient w^ork. Pre- 

 vious to jjoing to Washington he had been instructor in botany at the 

 College and his memory is very precious here. 



Eoijert B. Pickett, '93. Died Sept. 3, 1897, at Springport, Mich. 



Walter G. Amos, of '97, manager of the Chicago office for Murphy 

 Iron Works, of Detroit, died at his home in Morgan Park, 111., March 

 22, 1900. Mr. Amos' death is particularh' sad, as he was a young man 

 in the best of health and doing remarkably well in business. Only three 

 weeks before his death he attended the banquet of the M. A. C. Associa- 

 tion in Chicago, and on the verv dav of his death Mr. Woodworth had 

 a letter from him in reference to some business connected with this 

 association. When Llewellyn Keynolds, of '95, came out to our home in 

 Chicago to bring us the news, we could not make it seem true. Mr. 

 Amos was returning to Morgan Park in the evening and as he went 

 to alight from the train his foot slipped in some way and he fell, break- 

 ing his leg. He was taken to. his home where the fracture was set, and 

 after the operation he went quietly off to sleep to wake no more. Only 

 a very few of his College friends heard of it in time to attend the 

 services. 



Charles E. Townsend, of the class of '98, died at Onondaga, Mich., 

 April 13, 1900. Mr. Townsend spent the first year after graduation in 

 teaching, but ill health forced him to lay down his w'ork, and after a 

 year's suffering he passed away. 



There has been one death in the College circle, not that of an alumnus, 

 which yet cannot be omitted from this list: that of Mrs. Henry G. Rey- 

 nolds, who died at her home in Pasadena, Cal., January, 1899. During 

 her nine j'ears' residence on the campus Mrs. Reynolds won the hearts of 

 all who knew her by her cordial warm-heartedness and hospitality. We 

 who were fortunate enough to have been students at that time carry 

 many happy memories of pleasant evenings spent at her home. To all 

 of us who knew her the news of her death came as a personal sorrow. 

 I have in my possession a letter written by Mrs. Reynolds at the time 

 of Will Baird's death, under the circumstances, which contains one 

 paragraph that it seems a duty to read. "I was much with Will Baird 

 before he died. I have always wanted his College friends to know what 

 a cheery, brave life he led, and how calm and beautiful was his death. I 

 have never seen one more so. His thoughtfulness for others while in 

 severe pain and weakness was wonderful." 



With bowed heads and reverent hearts we accept our Father's will. 

 May his call find us all as ready. 



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