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Show TELLURIDE HOUSE OPEN TO OFFICERS Telluride House Is Given For Us As A Club For The Commissioned Officers The Telluride Association haswgir. . en the use of its house at 217 Weet-Avenue; Weet-Avenue; on the campus, to the commissioned com-missioned officers of the army who are detailed at the several army schools at Cornell. An Officers' Club has Just been organized and the new club took possession of the house on September 28. . There are more than Ilfty army officers Sn Ithaca now, on detail at the U. &. Army School of Military Aeronautics, the School of Aerial Photography, and the collegiate and vocational sections of the Students' Army Training Corps, and th'etg- will be nearly a hundred within a few weeks when these schoqls are fully organized and the army school for radio electricians Is established at Sibley College. , Thirty-eight members of the offic- - ers' Club will have lodgings In the Telluride House. Cornell University has reserved a membership in the club in the name of President S.ihur-. ' man in order that any distinguished gupst of the University may have the privileges of the club. A room in tha house has been reserved for the use of any such guest The first person f te entertained there uncr-tti-""T' provision will be Lord ChaniwWi, ' who will come to Cornell 'TnivH-sity about the middle of October and will be here for three weeks giving a series se-ries of lectures. The club will open Us mess at the ..bouse next Tuesday. The president of, the Officers' Club is Lieut. Col. George R. Harri .on, Aviation Avi-ation Section, commandant of .tho School of Aeronautics and the vice president is Lieut. Col. Frank A. Barton, Bar-ton, head of the Cornell Department of .Military Science and Tactics. The chairmen of committees ire: House committee, Captain Horral Alulliken, disbursing officer of the School of Aeronautics; finance committee. Captain Cap-tain George (R. Phipps, chief military Instructor, School of Aeronautics; " entertainment committee. Captain Robertson Griswold, adjutant of tre School of Aeronautics. The club Is planning to give a number of enter- . talnments in the course of the winter. win-ter. 'From The Cornell Alumni News , of October 3, 1918. The above Is Interesting In view f . the fact that the headquarters & Tell- ' uride Association axe maintained in -i Provo, and have been for many years,-' -t. and from..' the further fact that L. L. I Nunn endowed the institution includ- , Ing the building of Telluride House at (- .' Cornell, which he gave to the Asso- ' ' elation In 1910, Practically all members mem-bers of the Association who axe old enough, (mora than seventy in num- " ber, are In the army, navy, or air service oft the U. S. and mlrf of xij them are In France. i 7 The above Information was brought to us by tVV. It. Blersach, treasurer of the Telluride Association. |