The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-30
PIRATE RIVAL DEAN RESIGNS POSITION
Veteran Head Of Maccabees Is Succeeded By Lieut.
 Commander

Stating that in the recently com . Dleted reorganization of ths Macca-
 bees on 100 per cent legal reserve hasts he has realized hls lifelong am >bition and was ready to give place
 10 a younger man. D. P. Markey, for
 5s years supreme commander of the
 Maocabees. we'll known international
 frAternal benefit society, has re-
 signed to take effect January 1, and
 will be succeeded by A. w Frye, formerly supreme neutenant-com-
 msnder.
 . The active head of the Maccabees for . longer period than any other ohieS executive in the history of fra ternal insurance, MT. Markey Is gem ! orally regarded as the dean of the fraternal world, and In his resigna- ton the last and one of the greatest of the pioneers in the fraternal field Vi gives up the retns of leadership.
 Taking office as supreme commander 5 in 1891. when the Maccabees had 17,o00 members and assets of S1e,500, 2 ho has seen the society grow under a his direction to one of the largest and strongest institutions of it's kind
 In the country. He was from the be- ginning a strong advocate of ade- a0uate rates on an actuarial basis, and In its final adoption of these prin-
 ciples the entire fraternal benefit ' oybtoNl DcdIb lAo hAOAo OA AiAS AA f1uenos.
 ,0utxtnndtng Figure.
 Mr. Markey has been an outstand- s tng figure in insurance and fraternal circles throughout his career and
 ticnai Fraternal congress. He also
 served two terms in the Michigan ! legislature, and was speaker of the sdIouse in 1887. Though resigning as supreme commander, he will still xbe actively Identified with the Mac .4cab ees with charge of the Invest ii mont of its reserve funds.
 s A W. Frye. who succeeds MT.
 Markey As supreme commander, has
 bsen active in the management of the Maooabees for s6 yeara Joining the order in Washington D. C.. In a1Sss, he had charge excessively of
 the states of Virginia, New Jersey,
 Maryland, Delaware and eastern Psnnsylvania, coming to the head ,1 office at Detroit as general deputy fin ls1s. In 1911 he was elected su-
 preme picket, in 1915 supreme chap } lain. and in 1919 supreme lieutenant s commander.
 Native of Maine.
 it Hs is Thirty second degree Ma seon. and a member of the odd Eel lows and Knights of Pythias- A na- | tive of Aroostook county, Maine, MT. 9 Frye's parents were among the early
 settlers there, and he has travelled F all over the world. spending three years in the diamond fields of south
 Africa and lesser periods in Austra-
 Ha and different parts of Europe and
 Asta. He served in the Spanish American war, was one of the orig inai organizers of the Spanish-ATu err
 Soan War Veterans, and Is member of the Army and Navy union. Mr. Frye is a thorough lodge man, and during his quarter of century
 with the Maccaoees has been an ac- , tive advocate Of progressive pol E io.es and sound business manage
 rnent The International Macoabeh 9 Home for aged and indisent mem
 bers of the society. at Chatham. Pa.'
 was originally his property. and he
 was its first superintendent He ! will. he states. carry out the pres i snt policies and develop to the full, q egt extent the society's social ana fraterna1 features. his plans includ- 2 ing the consolidation of small tents 2 into community oenters with full T club facilitte% pians or assisting
 roouobers to own their homes oy
 making loanA and other progressive