500  Commencement  of  Philadelphia  College.    { ^^Yn\y!^\9^' 
coining  campaign  for  endowment  and  buildings,  to  be  conducted 
by  the  College. 
Professor  Clement  B.  Lowe,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Necrology,  reported  that  59  members  of  the  Association  had  died 
during  the  year,  among  them  Frank  G.  Ryan,  of  the  Class  of  1884, 
who  had  been  president  of  the  Parke  Davis  Company  for  a  number 
of  years. 
The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year: 
President,  Wm.  Duffield  Robinson,  M.D.,  '76 
First  Vice-President,  Russell  T.  Blackwood,  '91. 
Second  Vice-President,  M.  M.  Smith,  '13. 
Corresponding  Secretary,  Ivor  Griffith,  '12. 
Treasurer,  Wm.  H.  Gano,  '84. 
Board  of  Directors — Mrs.  Charles  H.  LaWall,  '04;  Dr.  P.  S. 
Pittenger,  '09;  Mrs.  J.  C.  Peacock,  '96;  Dr.  Mitchell  Bernstein,  '09; 
Dr.  Eugene  G.  Eberle,  '84. 
Mr.  Samuel  C.  Henry,  Secretary  of  the  N.  A.  R.  D.,  was  elected 
honorary  member  of  the  Alumni  Association. 
The  Professors'  and  Trustees*  supper  to  the  graduating  class 
was  held  in  the  Museum  of  the  College  Monday  evening,  May  31st, 
Dean  Charles  H.  LaWall,  presiding.  Brief  addresses  were  made  by 
President  Howard  B.  French,  of  the  College,  members  of  the  Fac- 
ulty and  a  number  of  the  graduates. 
The  Annual  Reunion  and  Banquet  of  the  Association  was  held 
at  Mosbach's  Casino,  Tuesday  evening,  June  ist,  and  more  than 
200  Alumni  of  the  College  turned  out  for  this  affair.  Dr.  Robert 
P.  Fischelis,  the  retiring  President  of  the  Alumni  Association,  was 
the  toastmaster.  President  Howard  B.  French,  in  his  address, 
told  of  the  two  million  dollar  endowment  and  building  campaign 
which  the  College  was  about  to  undertake  and  showed  the  first 
architect's  drawings  of  the  proposed  College  buildings  on  the  Phila- 
delphia Parkway. 
Mr.  French  announced  that  the  Park  Commission  was  favorably 
inclined  toward  granting  a  site  for  the  College  and  that  the  plans 
which  are  now  maturing  provide  for  a  plant  consisting  of  six  buildings 
which  will  house  the  various  departments  of  the  College  and  also 
provide  ample  facilities  for  research  work. 
Other  speakers  at  the  banquet  were  Dean  Charles  H.  LaWall, 
Dean  J.  W.  Sturmer,  Professor  B.  Fullerton  Cook,  and  members  of 
the  quinquennial  reunion  classes. 
