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A UST Ses ees ees ge, PEC IRS SRE Ss WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1925 i1 MACMILLAN TO LECTURE HERE Famous Arctic Explorer to Speak at New Trier High School January 23 HI-Y TO BE SPONSOR Will Relate Incidents of Re- cent Journey Capt. Donald B. MacMillan, arctic explorer, who has only recently re- turned from a year in the far north, will deliver a public lecture in the auditorium of New Trier high school Friday evening, January 23, at 7:30 o'clock. His address is under the auspices of the Hi-Y club of the school, whose members are selling tickets for the occasion. Captain MacMillan's presence was secured through his close friendship with Principal Frederick E. Clerk, who was to have met MacMillan in Greenland last summer to accompany him on his return to the United States, had not MacMillan been delayed by ice. All those who are radio fans will remember the programs broadcast by the Edgewater Beach hotel station for MacMillan's especial benefit last fall and winter. At that time he was spending a quiet winter aboard the little shooner Bowdoin, in which the expedition was undertaken, which was frozen fast in the ice off North Green- land for 264 days. Captain MacMillan, since he was a small boy, loved the Arctic and dreamed of going there. Father a Fisherman His father was a fisherman who sailed yearly to the Arctic after hali- but. He brought back for his chil- dren specimens of the toys used by the Eskimo kiddies, miniature kyaks, igloos, harpoons and the like, and thus implanted in the youthful Donald an interest in and love for the Arec- tic. This he retained as he grew old- er. He devoured all accessible books on Arctic exploration and dreamed of the time when he might sail with his father to the mysterious white North and see it with his own eyes. This was not to be, as his father was lost at sea before the boy was ten. The story of Peary's interest in MacMillan is interesting. While con- ducting a nautical school on an island in Casco Bay MacMillan, single- handed, had rescued ten people from drowning, seven from a sail boat cap- sized in a gale of wind, and three from an overturned canoe. Peary heard of it and thought that he was a man worth investigating. He sent for him and asked if he would like to go North with him sometime. MacMillan replied that this had been the dream of his life. (Incidentally he had chosen Bowdoin chiefly be- cause it was Peary's college). His Greatest Sacrifice Now comes a real tragedy. Mac- Millan had been teaching almost a year in Worcester Academy. As was his custom in regard to the teachers whom he wished to retain the princi- pal approached MacMillan toward Telephone 1098 ALEC W, KYLE Contractor PLUMBING--HEATING 674 Vernon Avenue GLENCOE, ILLINOIS the close of the summer term and asked him to sign up for another year. MacMillan tried to beg off ior a week as he knew that Peary was rlanning a trip and he hoped to be atked to join it. The principal, however, ws unyie'ding and said it was then or never, and MacMillan regretfully signed. The very next day a message came from Peary asking him to join him, but he had given his word to teach for another year and he had to reply in the nega- tive. "This," he later confessed, "was the bitterest disappointment of my life," but he never told Dr. and the latter went to his grave without knowing of the sacrifice. That was MacMillan all over, the inheritance of his Scotch-Yankee ancestry, to swear to his own hurt and change not. Perhaps it was just as well, for that was an ill-fated expedition. Peary lost his ship and some of his men and barely escaped with his own life. Gets His Chance The next summons to the North was also picturesque. MacMillan and some of the boys of the academy were in the swimming tank when a telegraph boy hove in sight. Waving a vellow envelope he called for Mac- Millan, who, guessing what it might be, made his best speed to the edge of the tank and hauled himself out. The wire read: "Meet me at Grand Union hotel, New York, as soon as possible--Peary." MacMillan hustled into his clothes, threw some things into his bag, called to the boys to tell Dr. that he had gone to New York and sprinted for the sta- tion. He arrived at the hotel too late to disturb Peary that night but called on him the next morning and was invited to breakfast. At the table Peary outlined his plans, draw- ing maps on the back of the menu and the table cloth. When he had finished he said to MacMillan: "T should like to have you with me on this trip, but don't give your answer now. Go back and think it over for three weeks, and then wire me your decision." MacMillan replied, "Com- mander, I have been thinking it over for 30 years and I want to sign up right now,"--which he did. 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