Western Maryland College - Aloha Yearbook (Westminster, MD)

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WILLIAM G. BAKER, Jr. In selecting this name to place on the dedicatory page of the ALOHA of 1910, the editors feel sure that the reasons are evident to all Who love Western Maryland College. Mr. Baker belongs to a family which has shown the most liberal and intelligent interest in the College for many years. He himself is an honor graduate of the College, and for years he has been a leading figure in the affairs of its Alumni Associa- tion. Mr. Baker was born in Buckeystown, Frederick County, Maryland, December 21, 1874, attended the public school there until 1890 when he entered the Freshman Class of WVestern Maryland College and graduated at the head of his class in 1894. During that summer he Was critically ill, and for a time his life was despaired of, but after months of lingering uncertainty he recovered, and his father erected on the College campus the beautiful Chapel in grateful recognition of the mercy that spared the life of a beloved son, as the inscribed tablet in Baker Chapel reads. In the fall of 1895 he entered the Senior class of Yale and took his A.B. degree there in June, 1896. He then took the law course in the University of Maryland, receiving the degree of LLB. in 1899. In 1900 the firm of Baker, Wfatts and Coin- pany, bankers, was organized in Baltimore by himself and two other young men, and it is now among the leading institutions of the kind in the State. Mr. Baker has been active in religious and civic affairs. He was chosen treasurer of the Committee of Arrangements for the International Christian Endeavor Convention held in Balti- more, July, 1905, and the committee received great praise 6 lf! Il 111111 ta f f in lx I I Vi, vw,

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DEDICATED TO WILLIAM GIDEDN BAKER, jr., LL.B OF THE CLASS OF 1894 WHO HAS MADE A SUCCESS --IN LIFE NOT IN ITS TRAPPINGS

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Ulla, like lam rim ,halls NOW D393 laik!! 'Null uhlllf' r5!F'0f s.-lCam- dim avi-W ar :Tw ,swf for the perfect manner in which the Convention was handled, especially in the Way of finances. He Was an active member of the Campaign Committee which raised 3600,000 for a new building for the Young Men's Christian Association of Baltimore in 1906. He is one of the managers of the Maryland School for Boys, and takes an active interest in that State institution. He is chairman of the Western Maryland College Alumni Committee which recently completed a fund of 310,000 to be added to the Endowment Fund of the College. He is, moreover, an excellent public speaker, and in frequent request for temperance addresses, Y. M. C. A. and Christian Endeavor meetings, and so forth. He has attempted many different things and has done them all well. The only thing that seems to appall him is matrimony. if f Nw Q Mi lli. -his - .' 7