1954

Emma Louise Gildersleeve Lane died.  Born in 1872 in Charlottesville, Virginia, to Emma Louisa Lanneau and Professor Basil Gildersleeve, later of Johns Hopkins University.  As founding editor of The American Journal of Philology, he became a colleague of Harvard Professor George Martin Lane, father of her husband-to-be Gardiner Martin Lane, an Emmanuelite and banker who became chairman of the board of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.  In their memory, their daughter Katharine Lane Weems gave an endowment and a pair of Spanish candelabra for our baptistry.