1942

Only a short distance beyond Webster's Restaurant on Merrimac Street in Newburyport (Mass.) is the home of the "Old Newbury Crafters" whose beginnings harken back to the earliest silversmiths. They had derived their skills and traditions from the Moulton family, silversmiths of Newburyport from 1690 until the turn of the century.

It was in the second half of the 19th century that the business was divided and part of the business passed into the hands of A. Towle and William P. Jones. In 1882 the business became Towle Silversmiths. The Old Newbury Crafters formally started business under that name in 1915. The two men who founded the business under that name were Elmer F. Senior and Albert MacBurnie. One of their first ventures was the Old Newbury, the original design attributed to Paul Revere.

From the year 1937 when MacBurnie died, the control of the corporation went to his son, Everett. In 1950 he sold out to Reynolds F. Senior ... this as a way of telling you that Mr. Senior sold the business in 1955 to Swift C. Barnes. Up until 1956 the company had made only flatware designs, all reproductions, such as Moulton, Old Newbury Windsor, Fiddleback, etc. In 1956, no doubt under "Swiftie's" influence, the company resumed making hollow-ware. Today the company offers some 200 designs of the latter, featuring hand-fluted and hand-hammered pieces as well as flatware. All of that by way of a little bit of history including 42's Swift Barnes, who is still very much involved with the "Old Newbury Crafters."

A tip of the Indian headdress to RobertB. Hill, executive director of Family Counseling Service (Region West) of Newton (Mass.). He spoke at the 68th annual meeting of the Family Service of Concord (Mass.) recently. His topic was "The Value of a Family Service Agency to a Community." Bob is an alumnus of the Boston University School of Social Work, has been a caseworker and department supervisor with Boston Children's Services, and executive director of the North Shore Children's Friend Society of Salem (Mass.) and of Child and Family Services of Syracuse. He has been with the Newton Agency since 1962.

Increased responsibility rests upon RalphFalk 2nd's shoulders since he was elected chairman of the executive committee at Baxter Laboratories, Inc.

Alumni in the Pittsburgh area and friends and class mates of J. Craig Kuhn will be interested to learn he has formed a law partnership, Kuhn, Engle and Blair, with Melvin Stein as Association, located in the Frick Building in the city of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Earl J. Poe Jr., a St. Louis dentist, has filed as a candidate for the St. Louis Junior College District Board of Trustees. Earl was the fifth candidate to file for the election which was held on April 6. He was an associate professor at the St. Louis University School of Dentistry from 1952 until its closing last June. Dr. Poe is concerned with accelerated teaching programs in the para-dental and para-medical fields at the junior college level. If elected he serves for six years. He is a past president of the St. Louis Rotary Club and has been active in Community Chest and the United Fund. Earl has served as finance chairman of the Pilots for the American Republic, a group of people in the aviation field interested in conservative philosophies, and in 1966 he was appointed chairman of the Finance Committee of the Republican City Central Committee in St. Louis. He is a veteran of World War II and Korea as a dental officer in the U. S. Army. The Poes have six children, all grown.

...The "well" is dry ...!

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