Dr. A. E. Ewens, of Atlantic City, was a member of the Committee on Section Meetings at the recent meeting of the American Medical Association. Dr. Daniel Jenifer also had the honor and pleasure of serving upon this committee. Dr. Jenifer was also a member of the Committee on Post-office and Telephone. Dr. A. E. Ewens also served on the Committee on Badges. * * * * * Dr. Thomas A. R. Keech, class of 1856, and Mrs. Keech, of Washington, D. C., celebrated at their home, 416 B street, northeast, on April 13, 1909, the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. The house was beautifully decorated with cut and potted plants. A collation was served. The family are of English descent, having emigrated and settled in Southern Maryland about 1750. Dr. Keech is a son of the late Rev. John Reeder and Susan P. Keech. * * * * * Dr. John Herbert Bates, class of 1907, of Forest Park, Baltimore, a former resident physician of Bay View Hospital, and until recently a resident physician at the Church Home and Infirmary, has located at 4002 Main avenue, Forest Park. * * * * * The third annual banquet of the General Alumni Association of the University of Maryland was held Thursday, April 22, 1909, at the Eutaw House, Baltimore. About 90 were present. The affair was a thoroughly enjoyable occasion, but more enthusiasm would have been evident if more of the members of the various faculties had been present. The Pharmaceutical Department, with less professors than the other departments, had most members present. The speeches were witty and instructive, and teemed with expressions of loyalty to the University. As oft iterated and reiterated, this body is the only real live alumni body at the University of Maryland. It has been doing since its inception, and is still doing, and if the University ever be rejuvenated much of the credit will be due to the constant agitation of this body for a larger and better university. Most alumni banquets consist of a feed, good, better or worse, as it might happen to be, and a slew of speech artists of more or less renown, who bubble over with big words of encouragement and prediction, but rest on their oars here. Indeed, the societies exist for a banquet once a year and a cyclone of hot air. What do words accomplish? Nothing. It is action that the University of Maryland needs, and more than anything else men of action—strong men, broad-minded men, men who can subordinate their success to the success of the institution, men in every sense of the word. I am glad to say the General Alumni Association has an abundance of men of such character among its membership who are doing something for the good of the Old University, and who have an object in view. What is this object? The creating of ways and means for the betterment of the University.