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The great-grandfather of Robin Warne Skewcs-Cox, Dr. Thomas Stokes Page, emi- grated from New Jersey to Valparaiso, Chile, in 1838. In Chile he first met Faxon Ather- ton (later Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's father-in-law) and there both men were married and their children were born. Sometime in the fifties the Atherton family moved to California. Before following them in i860, Dr. Page wrote to Mr. Atherton, asking him to buy a ranch for him. The Cotati Ranch, north of Petaluma, was bought and remained in the possession of the family until 1932. After Dr. Page's death in 1872 the family moved first to San Rafael and later to San Francisco, where most of its members live today.

Archibald Treat was born in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1864, and after the Comstock fire of 1875 came to San Francisco. He served as messenger boy and telegrapher for the Central Pacific Railroad and about 1884 became secretary to Stephen T. Gage, the assistant of Leland Stanford and a director of the Southern Pacific Company. After Stanford's death Mr. Treat became clerk in the office. Mr. Treat was admitted to the bar about 1895. He has been associate editor of the Sausalito Advocate, the Western Field and other publications, has lectured on patriotic subjects and has written many plays and stories. His wife is the former Helen Bosqui, daughter of Edward Bosqui.

Donald B. Tresidder, born in Indiana, received both A.B. and M.D. degrees from Stanford University. In 1920 he married Mary Curry, daughter of the pioneers of Camp Curry, in Yosemite, and since 1925 Dr. Tresidder has been president of the Yosemite Park and Curry Co. He was elected a trustee of Stanford University in 1939 and became president of the Board of Trustees in 1942. In January of this year he was elected president of the University and will take over his new duties in September.

Thompson Webb,* a native of Tennessee, is the founder and head of the Webb School of California and director of the California Junior Republic. He is also a director of Scripps College, Norton School (both at Claremont) and Pomona Valley Hospital.

Eli Hecht Wiel, bom in Baltimore, Maryland, came to San Francisco in 1875 v/here he has lived continuously, with the exception of four years spent in study in Boston. He is a director or office holder in many civic, industrial, and charitable associations. He is president of Buckingham & Hecht, boot and shoe manufacturers founded in San Francisco in 1857 by Isaac Hecht and Thomas Buckingham.

Ray Lyman Wilbur* was graduated from Stanford University in 1896, and received the M.D. degree from Cooper Medical College (now the Stanford Medical School) in San Francisco in 1899. After serving as instructor and as assistant professor in physiology, then as professor of medicine, at Stanford University, he became dean of the Stanford Medical School in 191 1. In 1916 he was elected president of Stanford University and continued in that office until 1941. He has been chancellor of the University since 1942. From 1929 to 1933 he served as Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Hoover.

James David Zellerbach* was born in San Francisco in 1892, the eldest son of the late Isidore Zellerbach, pioneer paper manufacturer who was bom in Moores Flat, Nevada County. James D. Zellerbach graduated from the University of California in 191 3 and since 19 14 has been associated with Crown Zellerbach Corporation, succeeding his father as president. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, a director of the San Francisco War Chest and of the Hebrew Home for the Aged Disabled, and past president of the Mount Zion Hospital.


 * For further information see Who's Who in America.