. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. SWuJ^ Massachusetts, A. J). Makt- peace owned and operated b(),u;s in New Jersey. The "Makepeace" is essentially Eng- lish, according to Maurice. Maurice attended grade school at several locations in Wareham. He then went to Tabor Academy in Marion. This is a noted prep school, with ; nautical bent, and when Maur- ice was there the students wore naval uniforms at all times, al- though today the uniforms are mostly for dress occasions. He traveled in those days by street car from Wareham to Marion and returned on
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. SWuJ^ Massachusetts, A. J). Makt- peace owned and operated b(),u;s in New Jersey. The "Makepeace" is essentially Eng- lish, according to Maurice. Maurice attended grade school at several locations in Wareham. He then went to Tabor Academy in Marion. This is a noted prep school, with ; nautical bent, and when Maur- ice was there the students wore naval uniforms at all times, al- though today the uniforms are mostly for dress occasions. He traveled in those days by street car from Wareham to Marion and returned on the now de- funct New Bedford and Onset Street Railway. He then entered Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where he took a general course, and received his degree in JVJ2(S. lie majored in luonomics. lie tlu'ii spent two \tars in the Ilarxarcl Busiiu-ss School at Caiiibridgi', Mass. He married the former Anne P. Franchot of Washington, while he was living in New York City. He was em- ployed at the Chase National Bank, one of the great banks of the country from 1930 to 1941. He found he did not like city life as did Mrs. Makepeace also. "I wanted to get back into the country again," he says, "and get some out-door ; He joined the ADM Company im- mediately thereafter in 1941. His father was then president of the company, a position held today by Russell Makepeace, his cousin. Continued on FaEe 10 By CLARENCE J. HALL "Due to expansion in sales," says conservative, quiet-spoken Maurice B. Makepeace, treas- urer of the huge A. D. Make- peace Company of Wareham, Massachusetts, "the next several years look pretty good for the cranberry industry," In addition to his work at the ADM Com- pany, Maurice has been and is engaged in the banking busi- ness, which is a reason why he does not speak at random, so such a statement from him carries considerable weight. The ADM Company ovms and operates about 1,500 acres of bog in two counties
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