>From: Singhals <singhals@erols.com> > >I surveyed the alumni offices of all the logical (and a few of >less-logical) candidates to no avail. I had thrown up my hands on >this, when I discovered that some college and university alumni >offices do not hold a complete roster of graduates, but only rosters >of those who either donated money or joined the alumni association For records of alumni 50+ years ago, see if the college has an archives office. Sometimes a search on their web site will locate one. Otherwise you might have to call. Success story: One of my grandfather's brothers, Clarence Botteron, was said to be an architect and had attended "Armor's Art Institute in Chicago" in the early 1900s. Figuring that in Chicago the name was probably spelled Armour, I looked it up and discovered an Armour Institute of Technology founded in 1892; it became part of Illinois Inst. of Tech. (IIT, known to us geeks as "minus T") in 1940. I wrote to IIT's Alumni Records/Archives Office. They told me that he was in the class of 1908, and gave me his last known address. Good luck! Carol Botteron (that's French Swiss) <botteron@alum.mit.edu> Maintainer, Civil War Units File