called ro present a plan ro aid world Jewry. He served as a national co-chairman and as a member of the administrative and executive council of the United Jewish Appeal, and gave unsrintingly of his time and energy to the work of alleviating the distress of homeless refugees in Palestine and other countries. Mr. Kohn leaves his wife; a son, Jerome; and a daughter, Mary; his mother, Mrs. Theresa Kohn; his brother, Sol; and two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Lilienthal and Mrs. Stella Greenberg. EVERETT JOHN LAKE, Hon. 1922 Everett John Lake, Connecticut's sixty-seventh governor, died September 16, at the Hartford Hospital at the age of seventy-seven. He was born on February 8, 1871, in Woodstock. Connecticut, the son of the late Thomas A. Lake and Martha Cockings Lake of that town. Mr. Lake attended schools in Woodstock and at Stromsburg, Nebraska, before entering Worcester Polytechnic Institute from which he was graduated in 1890 with a bachelor of science degree. He continued his education at Harvard, graduating in 1892 with a bachelor of arts degree. At Harvard he starred as a halfback and was chosen on three All-American teams. Mr. Lake joined the Hartford Lumber Company as a clerk. He quickly was appointed secretary, treasurer, and in 1901 was elected president. Like his father Mr. Lake became active in politics. He was elected to the General Assembly and the State Senate. From 1906 to 1909 he served as lieutenant governor. During World War I he was in charge of all YMCA work at the port of Brest. He also worked with the 26th (Yankee) Division in the Toul sector. ln 1920 Mr. Lake attended the Republican State Convention to work for the nomination of his friend, Colonel Hall of Willington. Afrer a deadlock Colonel Hall withdrew in favor of Mr. Lake, and the convention nominated him on the following ballot. On November 3, 1920, he was elected governor by the largest plurality recorded up to that time. His administration was successful, but he differed from the state organization and his name did not figure in the 1922 convention. It was in this year that Trinity granted him the honorary degree of bachelor of laws. His third wife, the former Barbara Grace Lincoln, whom he married in 1940, survives. ln 1895 he married Eva Louise Sykes, who died in November, 1935. He later married Mrs. Eli!abeth Keeney Gordon, rhe widow of Lewis E. Gordon. She died the following August. Two children by his first marriage, Harold S. and Mrs. Marjorie Lake Leonard, also survive. PRESTON BROWN, Hon. 1926 Preston Brown, U. S. Army retired and World War 1 commander of the Third Division in the battle of the Meuse-Argonne, died at his home in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, on June 30. He was born the son of John Mason and Mary Owen Preston Brown on January 2, 1872. at Lexington, Kentuckv. Mr . Brown, the former Miss Susan Ford Dorrance of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, survives and a sister, Mrs. H. M. Waite of New York and Washington. A son, Dorrance, was killed several years ago in an accident. After graduating from Yale in 1892 and studying law at the University of Virginia, Mr. Brown enlisted in the Army as a private in Battery A of the 5th Artillery. He was promored through the grades ro major general on December 10, 1925. For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services at a most critical time in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, General Brown was awarded rhe Distinguished Service Medal. He also held the Order of the Crown of Belgium and was a commander of the Legion of Honor of France. Trinity awarded General Brown :.tn honorary LL.D. degree in 1926 and Yale granted him an honorary M.A. degree. General Brown was made deputy chief of staff in 1930, and was commanding general in the Panama Canal Zone and of the Sixth Corps Area before he retired in 1934.
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CHARLES CALLAWAY WIL ON, 1933 Charles Callaway Wilson, son of the late Homer H. and Jewell C. Wilson, died August 12, at Mr. Vernon, New York. Born in Pueblo, Colorado, on July 31, 1912, he entered Trinity in 1929 after preparing at the Weaver High School in Hartford. In his junior year he was awarded the Halsey Scholarship. Upon his graduation in 1933 he entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology from where he received his Bachelor of Sci<'ncc degree in 1935. At M.l.T. he was a member of Sigma Xi. He joined the Ward Leonard Electric Company thar year as a laboratory technician and was advanced to the Engineering Department and later promoted to head of the Design Section. He recently had been associated with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers as assistant to the secretary. Besides his mother and two sisters, Mr. Wilson leaves his wife, the former Miso Theresa Gatti, whom he married eptember 22, 1945, at Mr. Vernon, New York. EDUARD BENES, Hon. 1939 Eduard Benes, co-founder and former president of Czechoslovakia, died September 3, at his villa in Sezimovo Usir, near Prague. Many alumni will remember his visir to our campus at Commencement in 1939 when he addressed in Czech his countrymen from the outdoor pulpit of the Chapel. The Germans had recently occupied his beloved Prague, and Dr. Benes came to this country as the representative of free Czechoslovakia in exile. T riniry conferred the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon him ar this rime. Eduard Benes was born May 28, 1884, at Kozlany, Bohemia. His parents were Czech peasants who somehow managed to send Eduard ro Charles University in Prague where he met T. G. Masaryk. The great philosopher took an interest in him and supervised the choice of studies which shaped Benes' entire life. At Paris on October I, 1918, Eduard Benes was named minister of foreign affairs of the first Czechslovak Provisional Govrenment. He became the acknowledged representative of the smaller European stares and campaigned tirelessly for international co-operation and collective security. President Masaryk resigned in 1935 and Dr. Benes was elected to succeed him. The new president was confronted with many problems but guided his nation with a firm hand. After the Munich accord the Germans occupied Prague in March, 1939, and Dr. Benes came to rhe United States and England as rhe representative of free Czechoslovakia. He served as professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. During World War U Dr. Benes continually broadcast encouragement to his countrymen, and his prestige held together diverse elements of the Czechoslovak government so that in March, 1945, when the c untry was liberated, his exile group was able to return intact. In 1946 Dr. Benes was unanimously named president for the third time. He attempted to follow a middle course between communism and western democracy. Last February this struggle ended with the Communist coup, and Dr. Benes resigned in June. LESLIE JAMES BAILEY, JR., 1950 Leslie James Bailey, Jr., died August 29, near Trumbull, Connecticut, in an automobile accident. He was born January 7, 1922, in Deal, New Jersey, the son of Leslie James and Jennie Devine Bailey. After graduating from Farmington High School, Farmington, Connecticut, he entered Trinity in 1941 with the class of 1945. He enlisted in 1943 and served in Headquarters Company, 26rh Infantry Regiment, First Infantry Division in the European theater. For meritorious service he was awarded the Ribbon Combat Infantry Badge. Last year he was separated from the service with the rank of first lieutenant and then returned to Trinity. A member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, Bailey was very popular on the campus.