1907I] New Friends 



During my stay in Brisbane, I made some new 

 friends who later became our good neighbors in Palo 

 Alto for several years. These were David R. McCon- The 

 nel, principal of the technical school, and May Jordan ^^^c°"- 

 McConnel, his wife, daughter of Henry Jordan, who Jjw 

 early went from Exeter as government agent charged 1°"^'^'^ 

 with the organization of the immigration system of 

 Queensland. The McConnels arranged for me a de- 

 lightful luncheon in the city park. At Adelaide, I 

 became acquainted with Edward Jordan, a teacher, 

 brother of Mrs. McConnel and graduate of the Uni- 

 versity of Sydney. In the end all three came to Stan- 

 ford, where Edward took the Master's and his sister 

 the Bachelor's degree, while McConnel carried on 

 research in educational methods. Mr. Jordan spent 

 one year more at the University as instructor in 

 Mathematics, returning later to Sydney as a school 

 principal. During the outbreak of the war Mr. and 

 Mrs. McConnel returned to England with their two 

 sons, both of whom entered the British aviation serv- 

 ice, in which David, the younger, a fine lad, lost his 

 life. Frederic, a youth of marked ability in mechan- 

 ical lines, has now resumed his course in Engineer- 

 ing at Stanford. From Mrs. McConnel I learned 

 much of the early history of the Devon Jordans, as 

 recorded later in this chronicle.^ 



1 See Chapter XLii, page 488. 



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