No Spare Moments

Although Dartmouth men as a rule are active in community affairs, Dr. Wallace H. Drake '14, a busy physician in Weymouth, Mass., has found himself with the equivalent of another fulltime job as the result of being a member of a school board. Now serving his sixth term of three years each, Dr. Drake is chairman of the Weymouth School Committee at a time when the town of Weymouth is engaged in one of Massachusetts' largest building programs, amounting to some five million dollars. Since as committee chairman he is a member of each one of the building sub-committees, Dr. Drake has much of the responsibility for detailed planning for students and teachers years in the future. There are at present 6,000 pupils in the Weymouth public schools and almost 300 teachers, more than double the number there were when Dr. Drake joined the board.

Active in Dartmouth affairs, Dr. Drake has served as Class Secretary of 1914 since 1944 and in May 1951 was elected president of the Dartmouth Secretaries Association. A son, Donald P. Drake, graduated from Dartmouth in 1946.