G, Harold Powell Memorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES GIFT OF Lav. rence Clark Powell G. HAROLD POWELL Mem orial Los Angeles, California MARCH TWENTIETH Nineteen hundred twenty-two 3v- < 327582 FEBRUARY 8, 1872 FEBRUARY 18, 1922 POWELL, GEORGE HAROLD, horticulturist, was born at Ghent, N. Y., February 8, 1872, and died at Pasadena, Cal., February 18, 1922, son of George T and Marcia Rebecca (Chace) Powell, and grandson of Townsend and Catherine (Macy) Powell. Through the latter he was tenth in descent from John Rowland. a signer of the "Mayflower' pact, and his wife, Eliza- .beth Tilley, also of the "Mayflower" party. His father, George T. Powell, is a horticulturist and edu- cator. G. Harold Powell received his preparatory education in the public schools and at Union Free high school, Chatham, N. Y., and was graduated at Cornell University in 189$ with the degree B.S. in agriculture, receiving t ee M.S. in agriculture at that insti- tution in 1896. During the ensuing five years he was horticulturist at the experiment station of Delaware Agricultur ege. In 1901 he became associated with the U. S. department of agriculture* as assistant pomologist and in 1904 was appointed p; st in charge of fruit storage and transportation investiga- tions, continuing six years in that capacity, and in 1910 was assistant chief of the bureau of plant industry. Tn 191 1 he was secretary and manager of the Citrus Pro- tective League of California. From September, 1912, until the time of his death he was general mana> the California Fruit Growers Exchange, with head- quarters in Los Angeles. From July 9, 1917, to Jan- )," 1919, he was in charge of the perishable food division of the U, S. Food Administration at Washing- He is author of "Co-operation in Agriculture" ( J913), and of various bulletins on fruit growing, trans- portation, storage and distribution. He was a mem- ber of numerous horticultural and agricultural societies and associations ; of Sigma XI (honorary scientific) and Kappa Sigma fraternities; Cosmos Club. Washington, and the Lo Aneeles Athletic Club and Sunset Club, Los Angeles. He was married at Collins, N. Y., 1, 1896, to Gertrude E, daughter of William H. C a lawyer of Buffalo; there are three children: Clark, George Townsend, and Lawrence C FIBRUARY 8, 1872 FEBRUARY 18, POWELL, GEORGE HAROLD, horticulturist, was born at Ghent, N. Y., February 8, 1872, and died at Pasadena, Cal., February 18, 1922, son of George T. and Marcia Rebecca (Chace) Powell, and grandson of Townsend and Catherine (Macy) Powell. Through the latter he was tenth in descent from John Rowland, a signer of the "Mayflower" pact, and his wife, Eliza- .beth Tilley, also of the "Mayflower" party. His father, George T. Powell, is a horticulturist and edu- cator. G. Harold Powell received his preparatory education in the public schools and at Union Free high school, Chatham, N. Y., and was graduated at Cornell University in 1895 with the degree B.S. in agriculture, receiving the degree M.S. in agriculture at that insti- tution in 1896. During the ensuing five years he was horticulturist at the experiment station of Delaware Agricultural College. In 1901 he became associated with the U. S. department of agriculture as assistant pomologist, and in 1904 was appointed pomologist in charge of fruit storage and transportation investiga- tions, continuing six years in that capacity, and in 1910 was assistant chief of the bureau of plant industry. In 1911 he was secretary and manager of the Citrus Pro- tective League of California. From September, 1912, until the time of his death he was general manager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, with head- quarters in Los Angeles. From July 9, 1917, to Jan- uary 10, 1919, he was in charge of the perishable food division of the U. S. Food Administration at Washing- ton. He is author of "Co-operation in Agriculture" (1913), and of various bulletins on fruit growing, trans- portation, storage and distribution. He was a mem- ber of numerous horticultural and agricultural societies and associations ; of Sigma XI (honorary scientific) and Kappa Sigma fraternities; Cosmos Club, Washington, and the Los Angeles Athletic Club and Sunset Club, Los Angeles. He was married at Collins, N. Y., July 1, 1896, to Gertrude E., daughter of William H. Clark, a lawyer of Buffalo ; there are three children : Harold Clark, George Townsend, and Lawrence Clark Powell. Old friends and fellow-workers in the East, who know that they shared their best with the West when they gave Harold Powell to California, would join in your memorial to him. We would share now your joy in his achievements; your deep sense of personal sorrow in his swift passing; and in loving reverence for the zestful, radiant spirit of the man. His great desire was to live fully and to share his best with all whom he greeted on Life's Highway, whether the meeting was brief or prolonged. Vision wedded to poise and patience; sound judg- ment and a mastery of the technique of work and of life all were his, made dearly human by the alchemy of a great loving heart and imperturbable good humor. He was eager to share his best not only with his nearest and dearest but with any fellow-man who could use it and so grow toward the light. Not space, nor time, nor death has any power to dim the graciousness of what he was and is; nor to take the warmth from the steady glow of his tenderness for his kind and his faith in their capacity for attainment. Let us rejoice with you in our common comradeship with this man whose life was "Like a strong white wing That sheltered every questing thing." ANNE LEWIS PIERCE CYRUS C. MILLER MARY ENGLE PENNINGTON JOHN DRAPER MABEL POWELL SATTERLEE DANIEL D. BLACK G. REESE SATTERLEE HELEN M. P. BETTS ELIZABETH POWELL BOND EDWIN C. POWELL LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY ALGER W. POWELL Service to the Nation HONORABLE HERBERT HOOVER Secretary of Commerce. T FEEL greatly honored to have the privilege of par- ticipation in any tribute to Harold Powell. My inti- mate acquaintance with him began when he responded to my request in the Food Administration that he should volunteer to take charge of the distribution of a large part of our food during the war. It was indeed the most responsible task that we had to fill. We felt that Mr. Powell, in his independence from all interest, in the large experience and reputation that he had gained for public service and single-mindedness and ability, was the one man who could best serve in that time of emergency. There was no hesitation on his part in response. The importance of his service cannot be measured because it is impossible to reconstruct the problems and difficulties in the setting of those difficult times in which he served. It became necessary, if we were to conduct the war with success, that we should mobilize not only every energy of the American people, but that we should divert to war purposes every particle of food and free every part of transportation that we could afford from the normal uses of our country. It became necessary to reduce the volume of transportation assigned to the ordinary uses of life and to save every railway car and every mile, and to do this required an entire reorganization of the distribution of our food supplies. Nor was it simply a problem of restriction of transportation, because it was fundamental that we should keep the agriculture of America alive and prosperous, that it might thereby go on with increasing production if war should last for years instead of months. It meant that we must move the foodstuffs from the farmer when they were ready for moving; it meant that we must keep the people of our great cities supplied in order that they should not become restive and lose their interest and energies in the war. None who have not themselves dealt with these problems can appreciate the minute rills that make up the mighty stream of food supplies that flows into our great cities. Nor without experience, can one realize how vitally our American people depend upon the day-to-day movement of their food, for there is scarcely a city in America that carries more than a week's food supply at any time. And it was given to Harold Powell that he should work out those methods that would not only assure a continuous supply of food to our own people, but that would assure the minimum use of our trans- portation and would maintain the successful conduct of our agriculture. The proof of his ability and generalship stands in the fact that the mighty current of business went on industry, agriculture, transportation, distribution without ever the country having noticed the great and fundamental changes in its whole vital character. This change, with the enormous organization it required, he secured by the voluntary support of prac- tically all the distribution agencies of America. He secured the volunteer service of men schooled in every branch of distribution, and in every part of the United States within a period of but a couple of months, and within two months of the end of that service he was able to return the whole of this enormous mobilization of American energies back into its proper channels, without a ripple in the stream of supply. All these are qualities of great generalship; they are the qualities of that generalship that must go on in the nation, unheard and unsung, but they are none the less a tribute to the character and ability of the man. One of the qualities that enabled Harold Powell to make so great a success in so difficult a task was his great capacity in conciliation, his great geniality of charac- ter, which amid all the opportunities for a thousand frictions enabled him to carry through the whole organ- ization a certain basic sweetness and kindliness that lifted him through the most terrible discouragements. For these services Harold Powell deserves the gratitude of all of the American people. Nor did his public service end with my own associ- ation with him and in the war, for in this present admin- istration we have on three occasions asked Mr. Powell to come from California to Washington that we might consult with him on problems of legislation and prob- lems of administration. In fact, no problem concern- ing agriculture or distribution of food in America could have come to our Government without Harold Powell being the first of the men to be called in for advice. He has enriched the whole thought of the American people on these tremendously difficult problems ; he has given an impulse to co-operation, an impulse to better- ments in our commercial methods in these directions beyond that of any, and his loss will be immeasurable. But above all he was a man of great honesty of mind, of great honesty of character, and a man with an under- standing heart. Further than this, in the service which he gave, he proved himself a great citizen of the United States. Service to Agriculture HONORABLE HENRY C. WALLACE Secretary of Agriculture HPHE many friends of Harold Powell in the Depart- * ment of Agriculture wish to join with me in sending an expression on this occasion of their high apprecia- tion of his life work. While in the department, and since leaving the department, he was at the very heart of the development of practical methods of growing and handling perish- able fruits that would be scientifically correct, and, therefore, make possible distribution on a basis econom- ically sound, this to the end that there might be fair and equitable reward to each who rendered necessary and efficient services. It was in a peculiar sense pio- neer work in the application of the results of biological researches to some of the complicated and perplexing problems of modern commerce and industry. Coming into the work in the full flush of well- trained young manhood, he was blessed with a rich inheritance of love for nature life and men. As the work proceeded and bore its fruitage of results, bene- ficial alike to producers, distributors and consumers of these products, he came to see that some of the most difficult problems were essentially sociological and humanistic, requiring the development of fraternal and mutually just and friendly relations among men, as well as the control of biologic processes and of destructive organisms. Soon there developed in him that intense and practical interest in human co-operation, the results of which proved of such immeasurable value to Amer- ican agriculture and commerce during the world war, and of such outstanding importance in the recent great Agricultural Conference in Washington, where his masterly leadership in this field was manifest. Genial, cheerful, and broad visioned, always con- structively sane and practical, never losing faith in the intention and ability of the average man to deal fairly with his neighbor when once his responsibilities and relationships are made clear to him, Harold Powell will live in the memories of his old friends and associ- ates here, an outstanding and loved example of that type of unselfish and efficient manhood which agricul- ture, business and humanity so greatly need. G. Harold Powell Scholar and Co-operative Leader RALPH P. MERRITT President and General Manager California Rice Growers' Association; Formerly Comptroller University of California of the beautiful facts of life is that human ser- cannot be cast into the scales and be weighed, nor be put under the cold measure of science. When the world meets the shock of the loss of a great life there are as many measures of the value of that life as there were avenues of service. It is so with the life of G. Harold Powell, whose wide interests reached many fields and whose friendships numbered thousands. He was an administrator, yet a scholar; a lover of the out- doors, yet had exquisite taste for art; he had matchless qualities for friendship and leadership and through it all ran the radiance of his character. Through ten years of close association it was my delight to know many sides of Mr. Powell's activity, but I speak of only two of them; his value to education in this State and his leadership in the Co-operative Movement throughout the Nation. Of the former I speak from several years of association as an officer of the University of California, and the latter as head of one of the co-operative marketing associations whose inspiration and sound guidance came from him. G. Harold Powell, scientist and scholar, took his master's degree from Cornell in 1896, and went to the Delaware Experiment Station for five years and then into the United States Department of Agriculture in 1901. For ten years he related practical problems of the horticultural industries to scientific facts and human equations. He mastered each problem as it was put before him. He was not satisfied to classify the fungus that appeared in fruit decay in transit; he went back to the orchard from which the fruit came and found how the fruit was bruised, and devised means by which in future that fruit was shipped without a bruise and therefore without loss from decay. His constructive mind did not stop with a scientific answer; he went on until he had solved the human problem which caused the scientific problem. From 1912 to his last moment his advice and counsel were eagerly sought on every important agricultural matter before the University of California. He had the confidence of the Regents, President and Faculty alike. When the Legislature of 1913 had made possi- ble the present expansion of the University Department of Agriculture, the President and Regents by unani- mous choice invited Harold Powell to become Dean. He had every quality for successful leadership. Yet he declined. Not that he failed in appreciation of the great opportunity that was offered, nor that he failed to be again drawn toward the field of education, but because, as he once told me, his office as General Man- ager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, with its twelve thousand members, was already a field of educational leadership that was second to none, and that, working in harmony with the University, he could accomplish the larger service for the University and the Industry. He was right. For in ten years he built his ideals and rich experience into the research and teaching in the Department of Agriculture of the Uni- versity of California. At the moment of his death he was the Chairman of the Commission on Agricultural Education appointed by the Governor of the State upon the authorization of the last Legislature. Harold Pow- ell was not only a scholar and scientist but an educa- tional leader of power, and the State is richer for his quiet, faithful and unselfish devotion. The vital energy which he so generously gave will live for the days to come. And then there is the wider field of leadership in the country's national guidance of the co-operative mar- keting of farm products. National prosperity is builded upon agricultural prosperity, and agricultural prosperity rests upon a fair return to the producer over a period of years, and fair returns are only assured by co-operative marketing under sound organization and wise guidance. Harold Powell properly became the A Tribute from the Citrus Industry BY C. C. TEAGUE President California Fruit Growers Exchange. HPHE friends of Mr. Powell who have preceded me * have spoken of the achievements of this remarkable man. While the years which he spent here, as we meas- ure them, were comparatively few, still, measured by his accomplishments, his life was a long one. It was my good fortune to have been very closely associated with him for the past ten years. We have taken many trips across the continent together and have been in almost constant consultation in regard to the problems of the citrus industry and I have had ample opportunity to know his inmost thoughts. It, there- fore, seems appropriate that I should speak for a few moments of his more intimate relationship to the citrus industry. When he was appointed General Manager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange about ten years ago there were those who doubted the wisdom of his selection. Some thought that his training in the Depart- ment of Agriculture did not particularly fit him to be the general manager of a great commercial organiza- tion like the California Fruit Growers Exchange, even though it was co-operative in character. They thought that his experience was of a theoretical nature and that the selling of fruit was essentially practical and called for a man of different training. In a very short time he demonstrated the wisdom of the directors who appointed him and at the time of his death I doubt if there could be found a man in the citrus industry who did not think that his appointment was a wise one. * His was one of the most remarkable minds with which I have ever come in contact. He was a born diplomat. He had a wonderful ability to sift and analyze any question and, brushing aside superficial things, arrive at a right conclusion. And when he had reached a conclusion he had a wonderful way of presenting that conclusion to others in such a clear, con- cise, logical way that few who listened could escape coming to the same opinion. He was a gentleman, kind in his judgments, courte- ous, never too busy to give careful hearing and consider- ation to any who had grievances, fancied or real, or to those who had suggestions to offer for the betterment of the business or industry, even though these sugges- tions were often impractical. Mr. Powell understood, as few do, how to build up a great organization. He realized fully that one man, no matter how able, can accomplish little by his own efforts but can accomplish much through the development of able lieutenants. He had unerring judgment in the selection of the right person to fill a given position. He was a good judge of character. He loved to select a young man of good character and training and place him in a position of responsibility and see him grow and develop. He appreciated that men can be developed only through responsibility and that they can be developed for important positions only by giving them authority to work out the problem given them without too much interference, and he never failed to give credit where credit was due. He had a great, human, sympathetic interest in the personal problems of his associates and was ever mind- ful of their welfare. Is it any wonder that such a man should have built up a great spirit of loyalty and team-work among his assistants and among all of the employees of the great organization which he so ably managed, and that they should have grown to love him? Mr. Powell's ever present thought was for the wel- fare of the citrus industry and the agriculture of the country. He preached the gospel of co-operation everywhere. He was known far and wide as the expo- nent of the co-operative movement in America. Few men had so wide an acquaintance with impor- tant men in public life. He was well and favorably known in Washington and, on account of his reputa- tion for never advocating anything that was not right and just, he always had audience and careful consider- ation from any department or bureau that it was neces- sary for the industry to approach, and even from the President and Congress itself. In his relation to the internal problems of the organ- ization, he was a great harmonizer. Whenever any controversial question was being discussed he never took a position hastily but when he took a position he was firm, but always considerate of the position of others. The great confidence which the membership had in his good judgment, ability and fairness went far in smoothing the way. Speaking for the twelve thousand members of the California Fruit Growers Exchange and their families, we will greatly miss this splendid man whose remark- able mind led us for so long and we are exceedingly thankful that so many years of his life were permitted to be devoted to our service. G. Harold Powell The Man DON FRANCISCO Pacific Coast Manager Lord and Thomas. Formerly Advertising Manager California Fruit Growers Exchange. have met here today to pay reverent tribute to a great man. Among bankers or lawyers, among scientists or business men, in railroad or in advertising circles, among fruit growers or fruit buyers, G. Harold Powell stood out as a great man. He was great because of his service to the Ameri- can farmer while a representative of the United States Department of Agriculture. He was great because of his contribution to the upbuilding of the California citrus industry while man- ager of the Citrus Protective League. During the last ten years, as general manager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, he guided that pioneer farmers' marketing organization to a new posi- tion of leadership. He dreamed its future, charted its course and inspired his men to a love of the things they were doing. And for all this he was great. Measured by his war service while head of the Division of Perishable Foods of the United States Food Administration, he was a great man. Great he was as an authority on marketing and agri- cultural co-operation. With all these interests there has been a constant flow of others to which he gave his clear mind and sta- bilizing judgment. He was vice-president of the American Association of Ice and Refrigeration, a mem- ber of the American Pomological Society, the Society for Horticultural Science and the Washington Botan- ical Society. He was a director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and head of its Agricultural Committee. He was Chairman of the All-Year Club of Southern California and head of its Advertising Committee. He was a member of the Committee of Domestic Distribution of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, a member of the California Agricultural Legislative Committee and a member of the Los Angeles Board of the Foreign Finance Corporation. By the yard-stick of material accomplishments on these lasting monuments to his memory, the world will judge G. Harold Powell a great man. But to us who were privileged to know him intimately, to us who called him "Chief," to us whom fatherlike he called his "boys" this is not enough to justify the position he holds in our eyes. That something about Mr. Powell that made him the leader he was may not be expressed in words. It was rather the spirit that was the man. He had a radiance of character that shone out and through the man to his associates, and filled them with the indom- itable spirit of enthusiasm, confidence and success that was his. In looking over some of Mr. Powell's writings I found this statement, written only a few weeks before he died: "The measure of a man is not to be taken by his material accomplishments, but by what he makes of himself ; by his self-realization, his knowledge of life's purposes and his har- monious adjustment to its expressions." This, then, is the standard he applied to his own life. Few men are endowed with the genius of organ- ization, the judgment in selecting men, the powers of analysis and assimilation, the ability to express ideas clearly and forcefully, as was G. Harold Powell. But valuable as was this rare combination of faculties, the largest part of his power was latent. What others effected by talent or eloquence alone, this man accom- plished by the aid of some magnetism. "Half his strength he put not forth." He conquered because his presence altered the face of affairs. He fought for principles yet never appeared the fighter. He did not "put things through," under his generalship things went through. His victories were by demonstration of superiority and not by the crossing of bayonets. Mr. Powell's relation to his fellow men was char- acterized by a deep personal interest in their welfare and a uniform courtesy that sprang from the heart. Responsibility and the pressure of business never robbed him of this courtesy and this interest in the welfare of others. He was ever a gentleman. He criticized no one in the presence of others. He sifted out and passed on the good things in life and discarded whatever was selfish or unwholesome. He was a mes- senger of good cheer. He held malice toward none. He had no moods. Tender as a woman in considering the personal problems of his fellow men, he was prone to excuse their mistakes, using them in his forbearance to correct the fault. He was more like a brother than a boss to his associates, and his door was ever open to those in trouble. He came to our door as often as he sum- moned us to his. He made us feel that we were working with him and not for him, yet always we felt that respect which a truly big man inspires. He worked quietly and there was none who worked with him but felt a certain quietness of his spirit. The day after I finished school I accepted a posi- tion which Mr. Powell had offered me, as inspector in the Chicago office of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. The following year I was made assistant advertising manager, a position I had held but a few weeks when the advertising manager suddenly died. The advertising department, charged with the judi- cious expenditure of large sums of money, was then located in Chicago. I was stunned by the death of my immediate superior and remember distinctly the feeling of incompetence with which I surveyed the duties and responsibilities he had left. I fully ex- pected a telegram from the main office informing me that some official of the organization would come east immediately to take charge of the advertising depart- ment until a new head was secured. Instead there came this message: "Take full charge. By consulting fully with your associ- ates you will have no difficulty. I want you to feel that I have entire confidence in your ability to handle advertis- ing department until such time as I can give consideration to the appointment of a new manager. G. HAROLD POWELL/' Can you imagine the inspiration of such confidence and the determination it would give a man to justify it? The incident was characteristic of Mr. Powell. He had a way of showing us his confidence that in- spired us to a supreme effort to deserve it. He multi- plied his ability by the ambition he set fire in others. He breathed into their consciousness the spirit of ser- vice that was his. It was thus he developed loyalty and brought out the best that was in those about him. Several weeks later, when he came east on his regular semi-annual trip, he made up his mind to appoint me advertising manager. But he did not tell me of my promotion. Knowing what it would mean in my home and my life, he telephoned Mrs. Francisco, announced my appointment to her and let her impart the news to me. There you see his true greatness. Not in the selec- tion of men but in the inspiring of men. Not in business sagacity but in his unfailing courtesy, gentle thoughtfulness and great confidence in others. His high purpose was service. He gave of his vision, his mind and his purse to those movements which he thought worthy of support. Many times during his career he had to consider opportunities which offered far more in pecuniary return and higher places from the standpoint of personal aggrandize- ment, but invariably he waved them aside. "I know of nothing that I might do," he said a few weeks ago, "that would be of greater service than the work in which I am engaged." This spirit pervaded his organization. It is found in large measure in all of his associates. They have felt the touch of G. Harold Powell's life. We called him "Chief" and were glad to look up to him as the head of the organization and to have him direct our activities, feeling confident that, if he approved, our course was right and would be backed up with all his force against any opposition. He always welcomed suggestions. His efforts and criti- cisms were always constructive. Freely delegating responsibility and giving credit for accomplishment to his associates, he brought forth their greatest effort. To the employee who perhaps doubted his own ability to discharge a certain duty his characteristic admo- nition was, "I know you can do it." He visualized our opportunity and put interest in our work. Once he had chosen his men and given them responsibility he rarely questioned anything they brought to him, with the result that every employee stood guard over his own recommendations to be sure of their soundness. By this policy of delegating authority he left his own mind free for considering the larger executive problems. This ability to shake off details allowed for the free play of his great vision. His was the mind that saw eventualities afar before they matured and thus enabled him to shape his course in advance. His foresight enabled him to deflect any movement which was unsound or to develop an idea with latent possibilities. He was a safe leader, who sympathized with those who needed help, yet taught them to creep before they walked, and to work out their problems along sane, conservative lines themselves. He believed in threshing things out, taking plenty of time for inves- tigation and discussion, building slowly but firmly and thus securing unanimity of opinion and action. He gave the most careful consideration to every step before taking it with the result that his policies were almost always approved. So often did he use the word "fundamental" that it became a by-word about the office. But the word was characteristic of the man for he was ever bringing us back to the consideration of basic principles. Trained as a scientist he cast aside the superficial aspects of every problem and dug unerringly for the underlying factors. His work was characterized by a thorough- ness that solved problems by finding the hidden causes and eliminating them. He aimed to be sound at the foundation, irrespective of precedent or custom, and to correct any condition that was basicly wrong. He kept on his desk Lincoln's famous statement to the effect that if he was right all the criticism in the world would not change him, and if wrong, ten angels swearing he was right could make no difference. Wherever Mr. Powell was in charge, there was found harmony and team-work. That was true in the Department of Agriculture; it was true in the Food Administration, and it was the key-note of his work with the Exchange. Twice weekly he held con- ferences with his department heads to discuss questions of general policy, inter-departmental relationship and current problems. This conference and committee system is characteristic of his method of promoting team-work and welding his organization together. He knew how to use his associates and to bring to bear upon every question the combined judgment of those best qualified to consider it. Mr. Powell was intensely human. He loved his organization because, with its ten thousand and more members, its problems were human problems. He loved the out-of-doors and he saw beauty in the simple things of life. He loved the flowers and shrubs in his large garden and the pictures and furniture and rugs in his home. And, it might be added, he knew them all their names, their history, their claims to distinction. Their collection was his hobby. Mr. Powell was a delightful host and companion, and those of us who were privileged to accompany him will treasure the many intimate hours spent with him on his eastern trips. When you were with G. Harold Powell you were likely to forget the respon- sibilities which he carried. His keen wit relieved many a sober discussion. Mr. Powell was a real optimist not the fool-hardy optimist who shuts his eyes to danger and refuses to acknowledge its presence, but the constructive opti- mist, who believes that hard work, common sense and confidence will overcome most difficulties and change the most adverse outlook. His optimism was of the type that, in the face of a crisis, does not lose its per- spective and become confused over trifles, but looks beyond to the future and perceives there the final goal of honest endeavor. Mr. Powell was a great admirer of the late Ethan Allen Chase and, upon the latter's death a few months ago, wrote an appreciation in his memory. In this he says: "One could not know him without feeling the great simplicity of the man, his understanding of life and his sense of obligation to it, the strength of his will, his fairness and justice, his intuitive sensing and condemning of sham, his fearlessness tempered with reasonableness, his realization of the needs of others and the quiet meeting of those needs, the tender, paternal quality of his humanity, the culture of his mind and soul." And this, Mr. Powell's tribute to another, might well be set down as our tribute to him. As a man and a friend he is revered by all who knew him. His influence is felt wherever he entered. Sincerely democratic, his memory is esteemed by high and low alike. He leaves a multitude of friends and a host of admirers, who, though saddened by his loss, thank God for his life and for the privilege of basking in the radiance of his character. His service, his achievements, his spirit, his life combine to form an imperishable monument to G. Harold Powell the man. 327582 The influence of such a man is never-ending. As we face the problems of each day, there are many of us who will feel the guiding influence, the reassuring hand, the inspiring confidence, of G. Harold Powell. And in the words of Riley, we may say: "Away I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away! With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you oh you, who the wildest yearn For the old-time step and the glad return Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There, as the love of Here, Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead he is just away." UNIVERSITY Oh t,ALIHJKIN if\ f\ I i_v_o r>i