Milford chronicle., 1928-05-11
PREPARE PROGRAM
FOR DEL-MAR-VA MEET
Prominent Men Will Address Annual
Meeting OF Organization

Eastern Shore Association from Dan
S. Hollenga, Business Manager of
the Petersburg, Va, Chamber of
Commerce, completes the list of
three prominent speakers for the
third annual meeting of the Associ-
alton, to be held at the WicOmico
Hotel, Salisbury, May 25th. The
others to be heard, as previously an
nOunced, are Lloyd S. Tenny, Chief
of the u. S. Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, of Washington, and DR..
Alfred Pearce Dennis, Vice-Chair-
man of the U. S. Tariff Commission.
While the Association in the past
has presented other speakers of ma
tional prominence it is felt that this
meeting will provide men not only
noted but whose specialities are in
line with the vital interests of the
Peninsula.
There is an especially strong con-
Meeting link between DR.. Alfred
Pearce Dennis, of the Tariff Com
mission, and the Del-Mar-Na PENN 4
sula. as DR.. Dennis was originally
native of the Eastern Shore. HIS
nerson life and history, which ap-
Deared recently in a page feature
story published in a Sunday issue Oh
+be New York Herald-Tribune, pre-
sents a most graphic and interesting !
career. He was born in Princess
Anne Md. a member of one OF the =
leading early colonial families. He
loved tbe beauty of his county and IN :
the sketch published touchlng on ms a
carly life. there is much of interest. 7
He entered Princeton, became T
member of the Clio Society ana pc V
came editor of the "Princetonlan =
His prOgress at the University was Z
more than noteworthy. He supported A
himself by his pen. President Pat I
fen often quoted him in Chapel. He I.
studied economics under professor II
woodrow Wilson, the late President, gi
and if is interesting to note that IN 2
his wide and varied career, he De- Cl
came associated and even intimate Pi
with men who were later to be ma q,
+ional figures. and among them no Tc
less. personage than Calvin Coolldge'
DR.. Dennis by his study and eHortS tv
became an IN. A" and "Ph. D., th
a professor at Wesleyn and then at Sc
smith College. In Northampton ne vi
became associated with Calvin Cool M
idee and expressed decided prefer
ence for the society of young Cool of
idge and his friends to the more ell MI
egant table of his fellow students pl
DR.. Dennis experienced during W;
this period of his career pnyslcal
breakdown. He was ordered by Ge
noted neurologist to go out and i've 3.
in the omen and refrain from read Th
ing a line. He went to British Col lila
umbia and worked as Waterman Jo
at a mine. He became brakeman go
and later Joined a party exploring in.
railroad route to the Yukon, in Alas
Ixa Finally with health much re- da
stored he came back to civilization an
and began writing his experiences
for a newspaper but the desire to re- 70
turn to his original home on the
eventually brought him me
back to Maryland. at
On his return he bought up lum- off
ber lands, organized a lumber COM prC
Dany. took out timber, worked mir
among the trees himself and intro tbe
luced the second Ford car into his suI
county. His progress ana SUCCESS sci
we're impressive. Ihen calne 'n Ge
war WlIl Ll6 CRY lOl FOAuAASSSt7 49, Sts
DIR. Dennis offered his strong health inv
and wide experience. He took ex- out
aminations at Washington, in which les
were buried three degrees in ecOno- dat
mics. His summons in service did T
not come until after the Armistice do,
was signed. He was then selected the
by Secretary Hoover to go to Rome sci
as a Commercial Attache of our EN- sol
bassy. viii
DR.. Dennis then sold his seven be1
farms. his so mules. and dozen tat
tracts of lumber land, for enough to
make a competency for the rest OF fay
his life and went to Rome and later ba,
as a special representative for the for
limited States for all Europe, and to ma
he Commercial Attache in our en- roC
bassy in London under John W. 7
Davis. be
Then one day President Coolidge to
lad to make a Democratic appoint tvr
nent to the Tariff Commission. He cul
his acquaintances of 9th
he old Northampton days and re- T
,aIIed the record of DR.. Dennis-his wo
PRACTICAL experiences, his books ana wo
lrticles and his studies in EconO- che
nics-and then he appointed Alfred era
1earce Dennis to the Tariff Com con
mission. at
With Mr.. Lloyd S. Tenny, man nile
qua1ly as prominent and recogniz- ciel
d as one of the highest authorities wol
n his line, and whose place as sun
jhief of the U. S. Bureau of Agri- diti
ultural Economics making him a Ion
ational and international figure, the or
has secured speakers of int
unusual ability in Government SER no
ice. Mr.. Dan S. HOllenga, is an in wol
piring orator and highly rated as a sch
tudent on community and co-Opera- wol
i've subjects. He is well known in era
eVeTal sections OF the Penlnsula' hav
aving appeared before the eastern tha
hOre of Virginia Chamber of Com ORE
lerce and at Rotary and other civic moo
,eetings and because of his direct sne
ssociation with the Virginia Cham bull
er of Commerce work and previous owe,
onnections with national interests and
{ this nature, the Association OIL stal
ials feel that his acceptance COM plaV
letes a speakers list which would furI
e difficult indeed to surpass. P
The Association meeting will con- of
enc at 10 a. m. with the morning vou
eing given over largely to business. of
Ollowing luncheon electlon OF OH urd;
ers will take place and the future idat
rogram of the Association will be p
etermined. is S
Mr.. Hollenga IS scheuuieu To au- neeC
ress the meeting shortly DeIore Ine For
Don adjournment and the other are
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