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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 Nov 1937, p. 24

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a ovanci'~a 5tury m etigaitii ...-.i- business trips' and permitted European pleasure jaunts for the famnily on the side. Young, Mead lived four years altogether Ii England in the course of three sojourns.,> In 1911 the family settled in Californiia,,an'd Ted Mead grew up theare, attending military school and playing bicycle, polo in tbe backyard, From bis mother, who.had unusual ability in woodworking, he inherited a taste for design and ex- perimentationi a taste Whicb bas sinice stood him in good stead in a profes-' sional way. After graduating ini 1925 froni ]Princeton, which he"chose because he liked the àound, of thé namne, he had to think of a career., Bicycles did flot interest hlm. Hie thought of tbem' as a waning- industry and' did flot fore- see their return to immense popu- larity. Hfe took the first thing that çp5erç j e uidigof lhouses at Mt. Propet, lÉf or the. riher -of has been achieved through the outniggerj, using a pontoon on each side. the mýajor output in the winiter at the Mead fac- tory is ice bous, o r as MKr. Mead cails them,1 ice yachts. Right now ite yachts are bis'current eln- thusiasm. He has become. a littie bored with sailing, altbough he lias achieved bighi honors at the Sheridani Shore Yacht club with bis. own Star boat. "I.ittle gp rest painted- brigbt red and uniderneath the stars are phtographs of Star- boats and autographs, of their owniers, *ho :are chiely, members of the Sheridan Shore Yach.t club. On the opposite sieé will bc %wooden n-'s, for the E ice boats, and pictures of their' owners.ý The bouse bas been occupied ôonli' since june, and the recreationi room is just in th' process, of being decorated. Trivia about T. E,. Mead . mighit - - ention bis, two'brothers, 'both 20f whoin chose. LeIand Stanford rather ilhati the eupheniistic IPrinceton. Jamies nolev ruiis -thé McadCycle ciimpany for the >pater familias. w< I. . iii turui docs, the accoiiting fur son, M I ~Ted, who hate s1book work. 'James'. \lcad wvasat ome tinie president of the, Chicago Camxera club, but lie has turned to garderiin.g as .a lhdbiy Mlyron is wîth the Eastman Kodak conmpany iii California. Furtlher trivia mighit include de- tails alit the frequciit litnting tripsý Y ~ o iloite NMead clan. Thje senioer Mead, lused tee brmng back maniy trophie> 1 1romu Canada and Alaska, os heads. Iear skins, îw'unitain shicc). redî Nicatu vent into .B'rI'tish Colii, bia witlihi mother in thre fail of .1918' aiid bagged several ineflncig7 . I.MI'ead the knock- rbc" md a nd the Charter club: At this junicture the transporta- lion saga iiiist be stoppèd.. Te<l MNeail is onlv 34, and it is safe to *assume thiat the MNcad genius for *eiiggoing" will. continue te) heiiefit I1w the trend. of the timem and the increasing intcrest ini outdoor * ports. down ~u. 110 set Ont oi could cyudto Uy to tbe new Calb

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