CLASS OF 1889

Ralph S. Bartlett recently made a six weeks' trip to the West Indies.

Alfred A. Wheat is president of the New York Alumni Association this year. The annual dinner was held February 25. About 350 were present, including five other 89 men, Ferguson, C. D. Hazen, Miner, Reynolds, and Sullivan.

The following is taken from one of the St. Louis dailies

"Chester B. Curtis, after twenty years as a member of the Central High School faculty, principal during the last twelve years, is to take up a new form of teaching which has to do directly with injecting the human factor into industry. Mr. Curtis has been employed by the Scruggs-Vandervoort-Barney Dry Goods Company as director of personal research. Through him, the employers are to exert a direct interest in the development of the individual efficiency of their employees. This is a novel departure in St. Louis, although it has entered into industry elsewhere. Mr. Curtis considers that his new position will afford him opportunity for even bigger work than the direction of Central High School. This is perhaps the best testimonial that can be expressed of the undertaking which this St. Louis store has entered into. It is getting a step further away from looking upon the labor of the employee as a commodity. It expresses an added sense of responsibility on the part of employers of large forces of men and women. The president of the company, whose employees number about two thousand, in an interview, said that the duties of Mr. Curtis would include an intensive study of the human element of the industrial situation and added: 'Men and women may be well educated and well trained, but unless they have found the work they enjoy the most and are best fitted to do they are misfits in industry, and a misfit in any department is unfortunate for both the individual and the company. We are endeavoring to promote the closest cooperation and the greatest loyalty between the company and its employees. Mr. Curtis is to be an expert to study the human side of our business.'

"Mr. Curtis' last day at the Central High School was February 23, and the following morning he took up the duties of his new position. Before going to St. Louis, Mr. Curtis was for two years a member of the faculty at Cornell. Dartmouth gave him the honorary degree of M.A. in 1914."

Secretary, Dr. David V. Slakely, 16 Beech Rd., Brookline 47, Mass.