University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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Telfair Knight Regent Mr. Knight is a leading figure in the development of the city of Coral Gables. Born in Jacksonville and educated in its public schools, he later went to the Scwancc Military Academy, and got his A. B. degree from the University of the South at Scwancc. Tenn. Mr. Knight served in the Field Artillery during the World War. George Merrick induced him to leave his law practice in Jacksonville in 1923 to become vice-president and general manager of the Coral Gables Corporation. He was one of the first city commissioner of Coral Gables: is president of the Bank of Coral Gables: and is a member of the American Legion, the Florida Yacht Club, Jacksonville: the Miami Biltmorc Country Club, the City Club of Coral Gables and of Miami, and of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Burdette G. Lewis Regent Mr. Lewis was born in Jamestown, Pa. He received his A. B. degree from the University of Nebraska, did post-graduate work at Cornell and Wisconsin Universities, and got his Sc. D degree at Rutgers. Mr. Lewis was a special agent of the Wisconsin State Tax, and of the Interstate Commerce Commissions, and served as assistant to the president of the Board of Aldermen of New York City. He has been president of the American Association of Public Officials, State Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies of New Jersey, and a member of the Economists League. He wrote The Offender and His Relation to Law and Society. He is vice-president of the J. C. Pcnncy-Gwinn Corporation and a director on the Board of Trustees of the J. C. Penney Institute of Applied Agriculture. John B. Orr Regent Mr. Orr, building contractor and sculptor, native of Glasgow. Scotland, got his early training in the public schools of Cam-alachie and Ncwlands and Glasgow. Graduating from the West of Scotland Technical College Art School, he served a six-year apprenticeship as ornamental plasterer and modeler. Then he traveled eighteen months in the United States and Canada and returned to Glasgow to enter business for himself at the age of twenty-one. Two years later he sold his Glasgow establishment, returned to the United States and finally located in Miami as plasterer, modeler and mason contractor. He has been president of the Miami Rotary Club, member Miami City Commission and is author of the Miami Harbor Plan. [ 29 ]

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Bertha Foster Regent Miss Bertha Foster was a graduate of distinction of Cincinnati College of Music, being winner of the Springer Gold Medal. She later studied under Wolstcnholmc. London, England. Miss Foster taught at the Lucy Cobb Institute, Athens, Georgia; the State College for Women, Tallahassee, Florida; and was founder and for twelve years director of the School of Musical Art in Jacksonville, Florida. Miami proudly recognizes her as the founder of the Miami Conservatory, organist and choir director of the Trinity Episcopal Church, and director of the Aeolian Chorus. Victor Hope Regent Mr. Hope is a widely known realty operator in Miami. In his early life he was a seaman on sailing vessels, and later master of sailing and steam vessels. He has spent several years in South America. Henry Salem Hubbell Regent Mr. Hubbell, a pupil of the Art Institute of Chicago, has studied in Paris and Madrid. As a painter he made his debut at the Paris Salon, with the large picture The Bargain, and has exhibited many other well-known pictures. He has also painted various por-triats, receiving honorable mention at Paris Salon, Medal Paris Salon, silver medal at St. Louis, third prize at Worcester Art Academy, and the Waite bronze medal at the Chicago Art Institute. He is ex-vice-president of the American Art Association. Paris; and a member of Eclectic Group of Painters and Sculptors; Allied Artists of America: Artist Life Member of the National Arts Club; and many other Art Clubs. He was Professor of Painting and Head of School of Painting and Decorations, Carnegie Institute of Technology. and is now president of the Florida Society of Arts and Sciences and president of the Miami Civic Theater. [ 28 }

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James C. Penney Regent Mr. Penney was born near Hamilton, County, Missouri. He went to Hamilton high school, and began his business career early in life at a salary of $2.27 a month in a local dry goods store. Physicians advised him to go West when ill health forced him to leave this work. A store which Mr. Penney opened a little later in Kemmerer, Wyoming, grew into a chain of eight hundred now operating in forty-eight states. Mr. Penney is chairman of the Board of Directors of the J. C. Penney Company, and president of the J C. Penney-Gwinn Corporation developing 120,000 acres of Clay County, Florida, into 20-acre farms- Charles F. Baldwin Regent Mr Baldwin is a prominent financier and business man of Miami, president of Baldwin Mortgage Company, vice-president and treasurer of Coral Gables Corporation, president of Miami Mortgage and Securities Corporation, Director of the Bank of Coral Gables, and a member of the firm of Lockridge and Baldwin. During 1920 he was advertising manager of the Miami Metropolis, now Daily News, and had previously been in the printing, advertising, and newspaper business with the Ruralist Press and Atlanta Papers. Mr. Baldwin was born at Melrose, Florida, and was educated in the grade schools and Rollins College at Winter Park, Florida. He is a Shrincr, an Elk. and is a member of the American Legion. Edgar P. Fripp Regent Born and reared in Florida, Mr. Fripp feels a native-son interest in his twelve years of residence in Miami, where he is prominently associated with horticulture and agriculture. He started on a ten-acre tract which he purchased when fourteen year of age. Besides buying and selling Dade County produce. Mr. Fripp grows tomatoes and other truck crops on a large scale. He owns Happy Farms Dairy and founded the Dade County Dairy Association. Mr. Fripp is well known civically, being a member of the Coral Gables and the Miami Chambers of Commerce, and a director of the South Miami Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Miami Rotary Club. [ 30 J