"Russel Adrian" is an awfully hard monicker to live up to. It conjures visions of tortoise shelled glasses and a trembling disposition. Buck has got the former but as to the latter; he tried the "smite me on the other side" philosophy just once and he claims that the result was "jes awful." We agree with you Buck. Nevertheless we hold Buck up for our model optimist we are more accustomed to see a sunny southern smile adorning his countenance than the solemn expression which greets us here.

Russell Adrian Lane '21, Indianapolis April 28. The third black principal in Indianapolis and an educator described as "a man far ahead of his time," Mr. Lane spent forty-one years in the Indianapolis public school system, thirty of them at Crispus Attucks High School, where he was an English teacher for three years and principal for twenty-seven. He summed up his career and educational philosophy succinctly when he said, "My job was to point out the students that had a futureŠif they would grasp the opportunity to learn and get an education." For eleven years, he was administrative assistant to the Indianapolis public school superintendent, the first black to hold that position. He retired in 1968. A scholarship in his honor was established in 1983 by the Crispus Attucks class of 1943. He also earned degrees from the University of Dayton, and Indiana University and its law school at Bloomington. Mr. Lane taught Bible classes at various churches throughout the city and was a member of the Serra Catholic Men's Club, Retired Teachers Association, Indiana and Ohio Bar Associations, and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He was fluent in German and was a world traveler. He is survived by his wife of sixty-five years, Marie, Meridian Towers West, 3965 Meridian St., Indianapolis 46208.