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GRADUATES CLASS OF 1908 189 

He is a member of the Presbyterian church and in politics 
was formerly a Republican, but now a Progressive. 
R. Clifford Hall 
United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 
R[ufus] Clifford Hall was born October 30, 1885, in Chicago, Ill. the 
son of Rufus C[lifford] Hall and Mary Elizabeth (Platt) Hall. His 
father’s parents were New Hampshire merchants and his mother’s 
Michigan merchants. He has two sisters: Fanny Aline Hall, Ph.B. 
Northwestern University ‘96, and Eliza Platt Hall, B.S. Northwestern 
University ’99 and MLS. ’oo. 
He was prepared at the Chicago public schools and at the Lake View 
High School, Chicago, and in 1906 received the degree of B.S. from 
Northwestern University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. 
He is unmarried. 
Hall has been forest assistant in the United States Forest 
Service since July 1, 1908, with headquarters at Washington, 
D.C. He writes: “I have traveled on professional work through 
the Middle West and South, mostly in Illinois, Kentucky, Ten- 
nessee, North Carolina and Georgia. Have also been on a 
sight-seeing trip in the West—Yellowstone Park—in the summer 
of 1910.” 
He is a member of the Presbyterian church and in politics 
isa “National Progressive.” He is a member of the Society of 
American Foresters and at Yale was elected to Sigma Xi. 
William C. Latané 
Libby, Mont. 
William Catesby Latané was born September 17, 1883, in Oak Grove, 
Va., the son of William Catesby Latané, an Episcopal minister, and 
Susan (Wilson) Latané. His ancestors on his father’s side were French 
Huguenots and early settlers in Virginia. He is the grandson on his 
mother’s side of John Wilson of Maryland and Elizabeth (Washington) 
Wilson of Wakefield, Va. 
He was prepared at Wirtland Seminary and in 1905 received the 
degree of B.S. from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. 
He was married April 27, 1912, in Spokane, Wash., to Miss Mary 
Stuart Lindsay of Baltimore, Md., daughter of George Winston Lindsay 
and Ida (Stuart) Lindsay. 
