Park Avenue Call

A thoroughly happy man last week was Board Chairman James Milliken Speers, 73, of James McCutcheon & Co., Manhattan drygoods store. Besides serving McCutcheon's for 55 years, Merchant Speers, a good Presbyterian, has been active in many a pious cause. He is glowingly proud of his six sons. Two are in the service of his prosperous store and the rest in the service of God. Son Thomas Guthrie Speers is pastor of Baltimore's Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church. Son Peter teaches in Forman Christian College, Lahore, India; Son James Jr. at Shanghai American School. Last week Son Theodore Cuyler Speers, 36, made his father happy by getting called to a prominent Manhattan church --Central Presbyterian on Park Avenue.

The Hill School and Princeton remember "Ted" Speers (Class of 1921) as a husky, good-natured footballer who took ten months off from his college course to serve with the A. E. F. After three years at Union Theological Seminary and an apprentice pastorate in a Manhattan Presbyterian chapel, Preacher Speers went in 1928 to Utica, N. Y.'s First Presbyterian Church, to whose congregation in the past three years he has added 250 new members.

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