People: Fathers

Father (Frederick H.) Sill, founder and headmaster emeritus of Connecticut's Kent School, celebrated his 70th birthday reading congratulatory letters from alumni to their beloved "Pater," wore as usual the monastic habit (called by the schoolboys "the great white tent") of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross.

Frederick F. Bulkely, 77-year-old war worker of the Electric Boat Co. ("Elco" PTs), heard his 32-year-old son Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkely, probably the most decorated public hero of the war, give a speech at the Bayonne, N.J., plant. Father Fred then proudly mentioned his two...

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