DR CHARLES BENJAMIN REITZ, son of Rev. J. J. Reitz. MD, resident physician at the Rittersville State Insane Asylum, was born Jan. 4, 1890, at Cherryville in Northampton county. He attended the public school of the township and also the Slatington high school from which he graduated at sixteen, and then followed teaching for three years, after which he took a course of four years in the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia, graduating June 5, 1913, with first honors in the class, and followed with a special course of five weeks in the State Hospital at Westboro, Mass. With this preparation and the recommendation of the professors under whom he was qualified, the Board of Trustees at the Rittersville State Hospital in Pennsylvania selected him as the pathologist of the institution and he has filled this responsible position in a successful manner until the present time.