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...Speer to Northfield...
...next month. Dr. Cutler will travel in Europe with his third wife who was a member of the Mount Hermon faculty when he married her in 1927. Later he will settle near Mount Hermon, but not so near as to "bother" his successor whom he nominated himself: Elliott Speer, son of Dr. & Mrs. Robert Elliott Speer...
...years Elliott Speer has been president of the corporators & trustees of the Northfield Schools which Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody founded 50 years ago for worthy youngsters who lacked advantages. Last year he finished raising $2,750,000 for the Northfield Schools, took his wife and three children off to Edinburgh, where he is now taking his second degree. When he returns to become Mount Hermon's principal he may sit on his front lawn, look across the Connecticut River at Northfield Seminary for girls, and like "Doc" Cutler reflect: "If the boys want to get over there, they...
...Robert Elliott Speer, 59, retired from her 17-year presidency of the National Board of the Y. W. C. A. Wife of the famed Presbyterian leader, Mrs. Speer is mother of Elliott, who is to succeed Dr. Henry Franklin Cutler as principal of Mt. Hermon Boys' School next autumn. Her daughter Margaret teaches English at Peiping's Yenching University. Constance, married and a mother herself, has a doctor husband who studies psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Son William is a junior at Princeton. Tall, slim, white-haired...
...Speer dresses often in black. She gardens at Lakeville, Conn., collects Chinese furniture, curios. Much-traveled, both on her husband's mission work and her own, Mrs. Speer eschews society for her good deeds and her home...