British Society, 1915

Item Information

Title:
British Society, 1915
Description:
This photograph depicts students from the British Society in 1915, of the International YMCA College, now Springfield College. The members sit and stand in front of the British flag. The British Society at the college dates from 1903 when the students who came from any country under the British Flag, met and formed an organization call the British Students' Fraternity. Each fall more members were welcomed and admitted to the fraternity. In 1909 the name changed to The British Society. The membership grew from ten in 1903 to thirty-nine in 1915, with twenty-two members from Canada. The 1915 Annual Banquet which welcomed new members had 39 men present, the guest of honor being Mr. Northrop, president of the Student Association, and three members of the faculty. Officers in 1915 included James Bain (Class of 1915), president, Herbert Halliday (Class of 1915), vice-president, Stanley L. Metcalf (Class of 1915), secretary-treasurer, and Roland M. Jones (Class of 1916), social chairman. Other members presumed to be pictured in the photograph included: Frank G. Armitage (Class of 1916), Felix Rossetti (Class of 1916), Edgar P. Hillier (Class of 1915), Herbert C. Patterson (Class of 1916),Fred Stephenson (Class of 1916), Charles Bird (Class of 1916), Everett C. Cameron (Classo f 1916), Guy Winston Churchill (Class of 1916), William C. Swayze (Class of 1916), Frank B. Wilson (Class of 1916), Cecil Hastings (Class of 1917), Thomas B. Hill (Class of 1917), John W. Jefferson (Class of 1917), Edward A. Hulek (ex-Class of 1917), Leslie B. Metcalf (Class of 1917), Edgar N. Smith (Class of 1917), Richard V. Talbot (Class of 1917), and Raymond C. Yeoman (Class of 1920) (The Massasoit, 1915, p.119-120).
Date:
1915
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Series:
IMLS YMCA Historical Image Collection
Subjects:
Springfield College
Springfield College--Clubs
International Young Men's Christian Association College
Group portraits
Student organizations
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
Extent:
8.5 x 14 cm.
Link to Item:
http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/9343
Terms of Use:
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Identifier:
SC22829