Charles Law Watkins (S&B 1908)
Private Tutor and Hillhouse*. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Kappa Epsilon. Yale Record. Yale Literary Magazine.
Regional adviser Works Progress Administration art projects in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, organizer of the exhibit “The Language of Design,”.[4]
Regional adviser Works, Contemporary Arts Building, New York World’s Fair, 1940.[4]
Member Society of Washington Artists (awarded the bronze medal for portraits 1937).[4]
1943 to 1945 - Adjunct professor of social art School of Public Affairs and Graduate School in the Social Sciences, American University.[4]
23 Jun 1942 - Married in New York City, Mary Parrish, daughter of Joseph Haversham and Anna (Conyngham) Bradley Son Law Bradley.[4]
1937 to 1945 - Lecturer and consultant in fine arts Hood College.[4]
1932 to 1933 - Trowbridge Memorial lecturer Yale University.[4]
1929 to 1945 - associate director of educational activities and annual lecturer on the background and theory of modern art Phillips Memorial Gallery.[4]
1929, Organizer, 1929 to 1945, Director Phillips Gallery Art School, Washington.[4]
1921 to 1929 - First Vice-President Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Corporation, Cresson.[4]
22 Feb 1919 - Married in Pans, Mane Mathilde, daughter of Auguste and Lucie Justine Bader. Children: Thomas Hamer, 2d, ‘42; Gladys Mane (B A Smith Coll 1943); Ann (B.A. Radcliffe Coll. 1943);and Elizabeth Law (B A. Bryn Mawr Coll. 1944). Mr. and Mrs Watkins were divorced in 1941.[4]
1910 and 1910 to 1921, President, Watkins Coal Company, Cambria County, Pa, and New York City.[4]
Organized with his classmate, James M Townsend, Watkins Coal Company.[4]
1908 to 1909 - Timekeeper and paymaster Stone Canon Pacific Railroad Company, San Francisco.[4]
WW1 - 1919 - Received special citation for bravery under fire; discharged February 4, 1919.[4]
WW1 - Nov 1918 - attached to 36th French Division and took part in action at Mery on the Oise and in the Chemin des Dames sector, awarded Croix de Guerre.[4]
WW1 - Feb 1918 - Attended ficole d’Artillene at Fontainebleau and made Aspirant.[4]
WW1 - Sep 14 1917 - Re-enlisted American Field Service. On arrival in France volunteered for French Artillery.[4]
WW1 - Feb 1917 - Returned to the United States.[4]
WW1 - Jul 1916 to Jan 1917 - American Field Service (Section 8) in France; attached to 16th Division, French Army, and served insectors east of Verdun, at Pont-a-Mousson, and on the Somme.[4]
1908 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1] Same class as Charles Seymour (S&B 1908).
Died 2 Mar 1945, from Chronic Glomerulonephritis. Age 58.[4]
Survived by wife, children, father, and a sister, Gladys W. Seymour, the wife of Charles Seymour (S&B 1908) , 15th President of Yale University.[4]
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
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