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HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY 1077

served continuously on the physical department committee since 1911. He was also a member of the committee which selected the present equipment of the physical department. Of the hundreds of medical examinations made in the old and new Y.M.C.A. he has made one-fifth of all examinations himself.
    He is a member of the Cambria County Medical Society (1903) and chairman of the board of censors (1916); of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the American Medical Association (1904); was a member of the Philadelphia Society for the Study and Prevention of Social Diseases; of the Phi Alpha Sigma fraternity (Delta Chapter) of Jefferson Medical College, and an alumnus member of other medical societies connected with that institution. He takes great interest in civic and public affairs, in which he has been useful and prominent.
    He is a member of Lodge No. 432, F. and A. M, Philadelphia Masonic Temple (1903); Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Williamsport Consistory, 32nd degree (1907), and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, Jaffa Temple of Altoona, Pennsylvania (1907). He is of the Lutheran faith; and in politics is a Republican. He was a member of the Amicus, Country and Westmont Tennis Clubs.
    Dr. George Hay was married to Miss Mary Louise Austin, of Oak Lane, Philadelphia, on April 12, 1913, at the residence of the bride's uncle, William Liester Austin, Rosemont, Pa., the Rev. Charles Baldry Austin, uncle of the bride, officiating.
    Mary Louise Austin Hay, the daughter of Eugene Howard and Clara Rachel (Phillips) Austin, was born at North Wales, Pa., Nov. 11, 1878. She received her education at the Chelton Hills School, Chelton Hills, Pa., graduating in June, 1895, and the following year, 1895, took a post-graduate course in languages, painting and English, in the same institution, studying piano at the same time with Mary Hallock-Greenwalt. In 1897 she studied drawing, painting and sculpture under William Chase, Hugh Breckenridge, Thomas Anchuts, Cecelia Beaux and Charles Grafly at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; studying piano under Maurits Leefson during this period. In 1904 she continued her studies on the piano, under Moritz Moszkowski and M. Falkenberg in Paris, France. In the year 1911 and the winter of 1912 and 1913 while traveling through Great Britina and the continent, she devoted much time to the study of French. She is a Presbyterian by baptism. She is fond of outdoor sports, horseback riding, skating, skiing and tennis, in which she is proficient.


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