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...Jahncke is a potent amateur sailor, commodore of the Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans, a member of the New York Yacht Club. In technical qualification for his post he operates one of the largest dry docks in the South; he is a civil and mechanical engineer, a naval architect. He directs large Louisiana banks, is a member of the International Olympic Games Committee. Mr. Jahncke's wife is a granddaughter of Edward M. Stanton, the Lincoln Secretary...
...Other Anson G. Phelps descendants include: Anson Phelps Stokes, former Secretary of Vale University; Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect of the firm of Howells & Stokes; James Graham Phelps Stokes, who was a presidential elector on the Populist ticket in 1904, married to and divorced from Rose Pastor, social worker: Harold Phelps Stokes, newspaper man and former secretary to Herbert Hoover. Ansonia, Connecticut, is a namesake of family's founder...
President Washington picked the site "upon a rising ground, affording a fine water prospect, with a view of the Capitol." James Hoban, an Irish architect residing in Charleston, S. C., won a $500 prize competition for the plans by copying the ducal home of Leinster near Dublin. Much of his design was lopped away for economy's sake. President Washington laid the cornerstone without ceremony...
...written and designed an Indian epic-drama called Thunderbird. He originated the square lettering seen in the advertising of Dodge motorcars. The modernist trend of store-window decorating owes much of its momentum to Mr. Geddes' early influence. He has conceived scintillating decors for Ziegfeld pageantries. He was co-architect of Manhattan's new Guild Theatre. When Producer Max Reinhardt staged The Miracle in the U. S., Mr. Geddes transformed the theatre into a Gothic sanctuary which cast a mediaeval and holy glamor on the nunneries. Now, among other projects, he is designing automobiles and a Detroit factory...
...This and other aspects of the plan will be discussed in detail at the meeting in Cambridge of the Associated Harvard Clubs on May 23, 24, and 25, at which President Lowell, the heads of the prospective houses, and the architect will probably speak. At the same time we will have the opportunity to hear the suggestions of Harvard men from different parts of the country as to the best solution of this problem, without doubt the most interesting which Harvard has faced for many, many years...