an numbers Irving K. Pond, '79, the designer of the
Union, and President of the American Institute of Architects, 1910-11,
and among landscape architects, O.C. Simonds, '78_e_, of Chicago.
Many alumni have turned to literature, and the names of not a few,
particularly among the more recent graduates, are continuously appearing
in different magazines and reviews. Particularly well known are Stewart
Edward White, '95, Katharine Holland Brown, '98, Franklin P. Adams,
'03, and Harry A. Franck, '03, no less well known as an unconventional
traveler. Michigan has also left her mark in journalism, from Liberty E.
Holden, '58, editor and publisher of the Cleveland _Plain Dealer_ and
William E. Quinby, of the same class, of the old _Detroit Free Press_,
to Edward S. Beck, '93, managing editor of the Chicago _Tribune_, S.
Beach Conger, '00, who was in charge of the European service of the
Associated Press during the Great War, Paul Scott Mowrer, a one-time
member of the class of '09, who was the Paris representative of the
Chicago _Daily News_, and Karl Harriman, '98, editor of the _Ladies Home
Journal_ and author of "Ann Arbor Tales," (1902).
As with the men so with the women graduates of the University. Their
ranks include, in addition to the President of Wellesley, many important
positions in the university world, including Angie Chapin, '75,
Professor of Greek, and the late Katharine Coman, '80, Professor of
History and Economics, at Wellesley, and Gertrude Buck, '94, Professor
of English at Vassar. Among alumnae particularly prominent in science
are Mrs. Mary Hegeler Carus, '90_e_, the first woman to graduate from
the Engineering College, who is president of a large manufacturing
company and secretary of the Open Court Publishing Company, and the late
Marion S. Parker, '95_e_, who as a structural engineer has had a large
share in the designing of some of the monumental buildings of New York.
Annie S. Peck, '78, is also well known as a traveler and mountain
climber.
In the medical profession there have been many alumnae of prominence,
notably Dr. Alice Hamilton, '93_m_, who has recently become Assistant
Professor of Industrial Medicine in the Harvard Medical School, and Dr.
Harriet Alexander, who has become an authority on diseases of the
nervous system. Two Chinese graduates of the medical school, Dr. Ida
Kahn, '96_m_, and Dr. Mary Stone, '96_m_, have done a great work for
their fellow countrymen in their large hospital
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