MONTHLY LETTER January 1956 THE CHRISTMAS DINNER ...

The last mentioned items were divided as follows: Part I, Engravings and Etchings,
Part II, Color Prints. This great sale was held by the American Art Association in
November 1935; the descriptions and illustrations have been made more interesting
by the pencilled addition of the sale prices. The first copy of The Anglo-Saxon
Review appeared in June 1899, and subsequent volumes were issued at three-month
intervals thereafter. Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill was editor; many essayists
and critics of the day contributed, including such writers as Beerbohm, James,
Parker, and Swinburne. It is not, however, the contents that make this gift such
a valuable one, but rather the unique leather bindings. Each volume presents a
different covering, and a note on the history and interpretation of each design
used. These nine volumes represent splendid examples of the art of book-binding.
OBITUARY
Colonel Frank Chappell
Colonel Frank Chappell, a member of the Club who resided in Oshawa, died there on
February 20th, aged 73. His many friends in the Club were shocked at the news of
his death as after a long illness he had apparently been making a good recovery.
Born in Cardiff, Wales, he graduated in engineering from McGill University. He
went to Oshawa as town engineer and later became plant manager of General Motors,
and afterwards industrial relations manager for the same company. Upon his retire-
) ment he devoted much time to writing local history. He was a member of Rotary and
president of Oshawa Rotary in 1936-37. He compiled a history of Oshawa Rotary Club,
published in 1952, a copy of which he presented to the Arts and Letters Club, and
which is now on the Club library shelves.
He served in both world wars and was a member of St. George t s Anglican Church, where
at one time he was rector's warden.
Elsewhere in these pages there appears a tribute to his memory by his friend Lewis
Milligan.
TRIBUTE TO COL. FRANK CHAPPELL
by
Lewis Milligan
To those Club members who were intimately acquainted with Frank Chappell, his sudden
passing came as a poignant personal bereavement. Last October he suffered an
attack of thrombosis, but after a long period of rest in hospital he was around the
house and apparently making a good recovery. A week before his death I visited him
at his lovely home in Oshawa and found him as cheerful and keen as ever. He died
in the evening of February 20, and on the following morning, as I was reading the
press notice of his death, I received a letter from him in which he had written:
"Since I saw you the doctor has been over me again and seems
* well pleased with my progress. Some day I hope to be able to
pop into the Club as of yore."
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