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JAMES B. DRAPER

James B. Draper Jr., 73
Was school headmaster, teacher

   James B. Draper Jr., a retired educator, died Friday of cancer at his home in Wilmot, N.H. He was 73.
   Mr. Draper was born in Canton. He attended Noble & Greenough School in Dedham before entering the Army during World War II to serve in Europe with the 82d Airborne Division.
   He was a James Bowdoin Scholar at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1949. He was also a Rhodes Scholar candidate.
   He taught at Kent School in Connecticut and was chairman of the English Department at Germantown Academy in Pennsylvania.
   In 1958, after earning his master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania, he became assistant headmaster at Morgan Park Academy in Chicago. He moved in 1962 to Syracuse to become headmaster of the Pebble Hill School. From 1968 to 1973, he served as head of the Shepherd Knapp School in Boylston. He then became an administrative assistant and dean of faculty at Lawrence Academy in Groton.
   Most recently, as co-director with his wife of Draper Dynamic Communication, he had taught oral communication skills with the Department of Continuing Education at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He also conducted seminars for executives, educators, and students in the United States and Sweden.
   Mr. Draper was a member of the College Board, the National Association of Independent Schools, the Country Day Headmaster's Association, the Wilmot Community Association, and the Friends of Wilmot Public Library. He also served as trustee, moderator, and choir member of several churches in Illinois, New York, and New Hampshire. Skilled with the alto saxophone, he was an original member of the Kearsarge Community Band.
   In addition to his wife of 52 years, Katherine (Wear), he leaves three sons, Stephen W. of Harrisonburg, Va., James B. Ill of Jaffrey, N.H., and Edward D. of Sanbornton, N.H.; two daughters, Elizabeth D. McPhee of Dublin, N.H., and Laurel D. Bride of Elkins, N.H.; a sister, Ann Bailey Arthur of Jaffrey; and 11 grandchildren.
   A memorial service will be held at the Kearsarge Community Presbyterian Church in New London, N.H., next Saturday at 1 p.m. Burial, in the Old Burial Ground in Jaffrey 'Center, will be private.

[The Boston Globe, Boston, MA, 25 Oct 1998, Sun, Page 54]


[courtesy of "Cheshire"]

Grave marker for James B. Draper in Old Burying Ground, Jaffrey Center (Cheshire county), New  Hampshire.

James enlisted in the Army at Fort Devens, MA on 12 November 1943.

Fiancée of Sgt Draper,
Canton, Arrives From
Europe for Wedding

   CANTON, April 9 An overseas romance which will unite two prominent families, one in Indianapolis, Ind.. and the other in this town, became known today when Miss Katherine Ann Wear, daughter of Mr., and Mrs. Robert B. Wear of Indianapolis, alighted from the Navy transport John R. Brooke at New York.
   Miss Wear is to become the bride of Sgt James B. Draper, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Draper of Elm st., at a ceremony to be performed at the Oberlin College Chapel, Oberlin, O., early in June. Sgt Draper is expected home in about two weeks.

Returning To Be Wed

   Among the 3,319 passengers who arrived Tuesday at New York aboard the Navy Transport General John R. Brooke, was Miss Katherine Wear, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.. Robert B, Wear, 5402 Winthrop Avenue.  She is returning to become the bride of Sgt James Battles Draper, of Canton, Mass, just outside Boston.
   Miss Wear's mother said the wedding date had not been set, bt that it would be spring or early summer.
   Miss Wear and Sgt Draper met in the club for the 508th Parachute division.  she was a Red Cross club worker and he a personal service officer.  Miss Wear has been overseas a year, first in .Chester, Wales, and later near Frankfurt, Germany.
   Miss Wear is a graduate of Oberlin College, where she was a Phi Beta Kappa, and did postgraduate work in radio and dramatics at Northwestern University.  Before going overseas she had her own radio program over WHK, Cleveland, as :Kay Smiles."
   Sgt Draper has been in service three years.  Before going overseas he was a student at Harvard.

 

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