ployment to enter the yard of the New York Shipbuilding Co. at Camden, 

 N. J. Here he distinguished himself by an indefatigable application to 

 practical problems of construction and an en,thusiastic study of timekeeping 

 and payment systems. 



The entry of the United States into the war broke in upon this; and 

 Hooper, who had, from his Cornell days, looked with deep interest on the 

 growing science of aviation, and stirred, moreover, by a love of romance and 

 adventure, which was a strong element in his character, enlisted, early in 

 1017, in the Aviation Section of the U. S. Signal Corps. He passed through 

 the School of Military Aeronautics at the Ohio State University. Later he 

 was assigned to the 32d Squadron of British Expeditionary Forces, and, 

 after further training in England, he was engaged on the British front, where 

 he lost his life. 



On June 10, 1918, near Sorrel Chateau, south of Lassigny, about 11 

 o'clock in the morning, while leading an aerial patrol, First Lieut. Parr 

 Hooper crashed down into the German lines. It is impossible to say whether 

 he was hit, but it is probable he was killed by the fall. Diligent inquiry, 

 covering many months, has failed to elicit any details of his fate. 



Maj. J. C. Russell, of the Royal Air Forces, writes: — 



"He proved himself an exceedingly brave and good leader. He will be 

 a great loss to the Flying Corps, the U. S. Flying Corps, an,d especially to 

 this squadron at the present time. He would have been with me only a few 

 weeks longer as I should have sent him as a Flight Commander to the U. S. 

 Flying Corps." 



Lieutenant Hooper was of an engaging personality, self-reliant but de- 

 void of assumption, moral, affable and deservedly popular with his associates. 



Thus passed in the glowing enthusiasm of his young manhood the only 

 member of our Society who died in action in the Great War, and "sealed 

 with his blood his heart's desire." 



RICHARD LANO NEWMAN 



MEMBER 



Mr. Newman was born at Dorsetshire, England, July 15, 1864. He 

 entered the British Navy at thirteen and a half years of age as a midship- 

 man, but four years later, persuaded by his uncle, a high naval officer, that a 

 greater future awaited young men of education especially along the line of 



