Thursday, December 16, 1920

Overcast mild day. Some flurries of snow. Arose 6:40 A.M. Studied. Breakfast. To College 8-11 A.M. Home. Finished letter to Nellie. To P.O. Candled eggs. Studied. Down town with Ruth. To Phi Nu Theta fraternity meeting. Mr. Hopkins of Sigma Nu and Dean Garis present. Talked refreshments etc. To bed 11:45.

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Dean Garis is Charles Frederick Fleming Garis, who was the Dean of Students from 1919 and Professor of Mathematics from 1908.

Professor Garis was born in Pennsylvania in 1881. He graduated from Lafayette University  with a Bachelor's degree in 1903 and Master's in 1906. Union was the only college he taught at. He lived in Schenectady in 1920 with his wife Rose and daughter Drusilla. He was tall and slender with blue eyes and brown hair, according to his WWI draft registration.

His father was Cornelius Garis, who was an inventor. I saw three patents that he was awarded for small devices such as a button that didn't need to be sewn because it had a double shank that could be pierced through fabric and then folded back on the other side to make it stay in place.

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