Education: Youngest Trustee

After a nervous session in the ballot room, it was announced that Dean Mathey, Princeton, N. J., had been elected trustee of Princeton University from the Second Region (comprising Manhattan and the State of New Jersey). This region sends more sons to Princeton than any other. Yet Mr. Mathey (of the class of 1912) is the youngest member of the board of trustees, was selected from a field of six candidates, “after the most spirited voting in the history of the University.” Some of the men whom Mr. Mathey will help direct the destiny of Princeton are Charles Scribner (books), Cyrus McCormick (reapers), Henry B. Thompson (cotton), Gordon Rentschler (National City Bank). Though he is a partner of Dillon, Read & Co., most people know Dean Mathey as a tennis player who, in 1916, was ranked No. 10 by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Last winter, he and Watson M. Washburn (Harvard man) forced Borotra and Brugnon, French invading champions, to a five-set match before accepting defeat in the Heights Casino indoor tournament in Brooklyn. “For an old banker,” Mr. Mathey thinks this highly commendable. One other trustee, Frederick P. Scott, 1900, was elected to the Board from the Sixth Region (Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North & South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming).