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sion, the County Board of Super-(Continued on page 12)Joseph R, Barr. Village Official, Dies SuddenlyJoseph R. Barr, fifty-three, former Village Trustee and until his de?4h chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals, died Saturday, in his. home at 42 Woodland Ave. Mr. Barr was president of Barr. Barr, Inc., engineers and builders at 145 East Thirty-second St., New York.As one of the contractors for Rockefeller Center, Mr. Barr built the Center Theater, the Time and Life Building, and the British and French Buidings. In recent years, he had erected several buildings for Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., including Clara Dixon Hall, a women’s dormitory; the Administration Building; The School of Nuclear Studies and the School of Nutrition.In Boston, Mr. Barr directed the construction of the Farnsworth Surgical Building and the Jacob Ziskind Research Laboratory.In World War II, he was a member of the Renegotiation Board of New York handling government contracts. He was a trustee and treasurer of the Bingham Associates Fund of Bethel, Me., engaged in pioneering in regional medicine in New England. He was a trustee and a member of the executive committee of the New England Medical Center and the New England Center Hospital in Boston.Mr. Barr also was trustee and treasurer of the Gould Academy; director of the New York School for the Deaf; past president of the Master Carpenters’ Association and the Building Trades Employers Association; a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Camp Fire Club, Rockefeller Center Luncheon Club, MastigoucheThe first Shakespearean was staged by the junioi a capacity audience pref professional set with dis “As You Like It” with a ing, and with twice the 2 way crew. The second n: their stage flight and ba ing rehearsals. Our phot duction, caught the real i scenium arch. Above lei touching Wallace Kempe ed to the stage in the flig right is the Forest of AF. E. McCombAt Eighty-Fo(Continued on Page 12)i «— s-* a r/M i k. i r*Frank E. McComb ol land Gardens, eighty-fc at home yesterday. Mr. 1 for 22 years a resident o ville, was born in Car Pa., and lived for 40 Scranton where he ow ODerated the McComb
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Bronxville Reporter
Bronxville, New York, US
Thu, May 11, 1950
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