Frank Baker ’18

IT WAS A HEAVY LOSS for our Class when our splendid Class President Frank Baker'18 died Jan. 11, 1991. Born Aug. 24, 1895, in Atchison, Kansas, where, in recent years he has returned annually to commemorate die early life of a young girl he taught to play basketballAmelia Earhart, and to raise funds to preserve the Earhart home.

Following his early schooling and skillful tennis performance at the Lawrenceville School, Frank enjoyed being part of R.O.T.C. and the Colonial Club, as well as being a band participant while at Princeton. He served '18 most recently as reunions chair and as Class president. He served as an officer in the Army during WWI, earned a degree in Harvard's graduate business program, and went on to help engineer the pricefixing prosecution against the Borden food company as part of the Roosevelt administration's New Deal Program, only to be hired by Borden later on as a top executive.

Always one who loved to travel, at age 95, Frank, with his son Crowell, left this past Thanksgiving for a two week expedition to Panama City, where, as Crowel relates, "Dad plodded along the muddy tracks in the Darien rain forest, traveled the Panama Canal by night and by day, and 'did' some of the waterways of Costa Rica, Honduras, and Mize."

Frank was the widower of Janann Guthrie, who died in 1976. One of his two sons, Guthrie '64, died in 1982. Frank is survived by son Crowell '62 and five grandchildren. Frank had a wonderful capacity to instill energy and new life into our Class as he served as president. We offer tribute to our energetic president!

The Class of 1918