Theodore Carter Achilles (1905-1986) — also known as
Theodore C. Achilles — of Washington,
D.C. Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., December
29, 1905. Son of Henry Laurence Achilles and Gertrude (Strong)
Achilles; married, June 4,
1933, to Marian Field. Newspaper
work; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Havana, 1932; Rome, 1933; while serving as director of the State Department's
Division of Western European Affairs in 1947-49, was one of the main
architects of the North Atlantic Treaty, the founding
document of NATO; U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1956-60. Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Beta Theta Pi. Died in Washington,
D.C., 1986.
Entombed at St.
John's Church, Washington, D.C.
Thomas Earl Adams, Jr. (b. 1905) — also known as
Thomas E. Adams, Jr. — of Beatrice, Gage
County, Neb. Born in Beatrice, Gage
County, Neb., July 20,
1905. Son of Thomas Edward Adams and Okolono (Miller) Adams;
married, April 24,
1935, to Katherine Lowrie. Democrat. President, Beatrice Steel
Tank Manufacturing
Co.; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Nebraska, 1944.
Methodist.
Member, Beta Theta Pi. Presumed
deceased. Burial
location unknown.
Clinton Hamlin Blake, Jr. (b. 1883) — of Englewood,
Bergen
County, N.J. Born in Englewood, Bergen
County, N.J., July 26,
1883. Son of Clinton Hamlin Blake and Mary Gibson (Parsons)
Blake; married 1908 to
Margaret Duryee Coe. Republican. Lawyer;
vice-president and secretary, Concrete
Surface Corp.; vice-president, Citizens National Bank,
Englewood, N.J.; director, Federated Hotels,
Inc.; mayor
of Englewood, N.J., 1916-18. Member, Beta Theta Pi. Burial
location unknown.
Enoch Herbert Crowder (1859-1932) — of Kansas City,
Jackson
County, Mo. Born in Missouri, April 11,
1859. Son of John Herbert Crowder and Mary C. (Weller) Crowder.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; general in
the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, 1923-27. Member, Beta Theta Pi. Died May 7,
1932. Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Edward Patrick Francis Eagan (1898-1967) — also
known as Edward P. F. Eagan; Eddie Eagan — of
Rye, Westchester
County, N.Y. Born in Denver,
Colo., April 26,
1898. Son of John William Eagan and Clara (Bartholomew) Eagan;
married, October
1, 1927, to Margaret Colgate. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; Won the gold
medal as light-heavyweight boxer at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp,
Belgium; as member of a four-man bobsleigh team, won another gold
medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York; Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1948.
Member, American
Legion; Beta Theta Pi. Died, following a heart
attack, in Roosevelt Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., June 14,
1967. Interment at Greenwood
Union Cemetery, Rye, N.Y.
Robert Quince Jones (b. 1930) — also known as
Robert Q. Jones — of Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va. Born in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., January
4, 1930. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean
conflict; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Kanawha County, 1957-58;
defeated, 1958; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from West Virginia, 1972.
Protestant.
Member, Beta Theta Pi; Omicron
Delta Kappa. Still living as of 1972.
