1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

468 THE SCROLLeach spring during those most happy years he had the pleasure ofbeing one of the best pitchers that ever represented Amherst.After college Mr. McRae came to Mansfield and entered intobusiness life with that determination so peculiar of him when oppos-"ing terrific batsmen. His father had organized the Mansfield Furnace& Coal Co., and with the advent of new, young vigorous blood thebusiness commenced to grow. The college graduate was not a prig.He didn't mind shoveling coal nor driving a team. He did whatthere was to be done in a willing, convincing manner.The development of the busness of the Mansfield Furnace & CoalCo. is a monument to the young man. He has brought it up to whereit gave promise of being the largest firm of its kind in the county.A few months ago at Mr. McRae's suggestion the firm name waschanged to the Mansfield Coal & Grain Co., because of the vastamount of grain handled.Mr. McRae joined the Congregational church when a mere boyand continued those relations through school and up to the time ofhis death.Nineteen months ago he was married to Miss Margery Lowney,daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Lowney. A year later a soncame to increase their happiness. The widow, the fatherless son andthe bereaved parents are mourning. Sad because their loved one hasbeen taken from them while in the full bloom of health and youngmanhood; sorrowful because a young man who had such glowingprospects has been taken away.—Mansfield (Mass.) News, May 3,1912.•JAMES McCALMONT MILLER, WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON, '97Brother Miller was born at Greggs, Alleghany county, Pennsylvaniain the year 1871. The early years of his life were spent onthe farm and at school where he showed remarkable mental capacityand a decided preference along the lines of mathematics. He enteredWashington and Jefferson College with the class of 1897 and duringhis four years collegiate training made an enviable record in scholasticwork. At graduation, he took up the study of law at theUniversty of Pittsburgh, where he finished in 1900. Never verystrong, his constitution soon began to break down, because of theclose confinement and almost ceaseless work necessitated by a largelegal practice. Being forced to do lighter work he was made, in1904, professor of pure mathematics at Washington and Jefferson,his alma mater. This position he held until his death, September 1,1912. He was a man of wonderfully keen understanding, with adelightful sense of humor and an unbounded sympathy in his fellowman. He was a loving husband and father; he was a true Christiangentleman and a worthy member of * A ©.JAMES T. JACKSON, Washington and Jefferson, '13.