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

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Vance V. Helm Regen i As an organizer, executive, and land developer, Mr. Helm is an outstanding figure in the story of the reclamation of the Everglades in Florida and in many other enterprises which have contributed to the fame and fortune of this state. Mr. Helm was a pioneer in the Everglades development being actively engaged in this important work since 1909. He is president of the Everglades Sugar and Land Company and is organizer and former vice-president and sales manager of Temple Terraces. He presides as a director and chairman of the Everglades Bureau of the Miami Chamber of Commerce and the director and chairman of the Florida First Commission, and is also the author of the resolution passed for extending the Tamiami Trail. Hamilton Michelsen Regent Mr. Michelsen, who is proprietor of the fruit packing plant of Hamilton Michelsen and Company, located in Miami in 1911. and since that time has been actively engaged in the fruit business. Besides packing fruit. Mr Michelsen has done much to further the commercial demand for avocados. He was horn in Nebraska, but settled in Los Angeles when the place was a mere village. His later investigation as to fruit and vegetable conditions led him to locate in Florida. In Miami lie is regarded as one of the leading citizens and is almost constantly called upon to take a lead in civic affairs. Joseph Henry Adams Regent Mr. Adams was born in Brooklyn. N Y.. and spent his youth in Orange, N. J. As a writer he has contributed largely to magazines and periodicals besides his four books for boys in which he aims to teach them how to use their spare time constructively. The most important achievement in Mr. Adams' life is his invention generally known as “oil cracking. During his whole career he has been a great benefactor of bis fellowmcn and his almost phenomenal success he owes to the fact that in all his work he has exercised the craftsman's pride in always finishing what he begins and in never admitting failure. [ 31 ]

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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

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Hail tn thr Spirit of fUtarni H Music by Kennedy. ’30: words by Clark. '29 % LM A MATER hear our praise. J X While with you we spend our days: We laud your fair name to the skies. And raise our Sony on high. As we go on through the years. Days of many smiles and tears. When days dear to us mem'ries bring. Oh. hear us as we sing: CHORUS Hail to the spirit of Miami U. Hail to her pride and glory free. Hail to her Orange. Green and White so true: Hail to her fighting varsity'. Long may her banners wave o'er vanquished foes. In our hearts may she always be. Hail to the spirit of Miami U. We pledge our faith and loyalty. [ 31 ]