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as a Pilot Officer. He then joined the Hill family clothing firm after his sister Muriel had married
Percy Hill (in 1941). He retired in the early 1980s to the village of Winslow near Buckingham.

350 David JORDAN MA BSc (Econ) (1904-1987) (inducted 12.9.1955; left July 1960 because of
pressure of work.) Classification Education - Training College for Teachers.
He was Principal of Dudley Training College from June 1946 until retiring in
June 1965 and moving to Surrey. He was previously a lecturer at
Goldsmiths’ College, south London, the country’s largest teacher training
institution. He grew up in Tottenham, London, left elementary school at
13, and with his mother and a brother opened a retail china and glassware
shop when he was just 16! He carried out private study while working in
the business, then put himself through college and qualified as a teacher.
He taught in primary and grammar schools before becoming a lecturer in
education at Goldsmith’s in 1943.
David Jordan was highly regarded nationally and internationally as a progressive educationist
and a leading member of the worldwide New Education Fellowship. In 1951 he undertook a
nine-week lecture tour of Australia with the celebrated American anthropologist Margaret
Mead and the editor of the Times Educational Supplement Harry Dent. He helped organise a
UNESCO conference in Paris in 1952 on Education and the Mental Health of Children in Europe.
In 1956 he was reported around the world when he told a conference of women teachers that
‘the modern teacher should be easy on the eye as well as on the ear’. He was author of several
books, including ‘Home and School in the Post-War World’ and ‘A Handbook of Social Studies
for Teachers in Secondary Schools and County Colleges’. He also carried out research on
aptitude testing.

351 Dr Angus William Bertram (‘Mac’) MacDONALD (1914-1999) (inducted 28.11.1955; resigned
April 1961 because unable to maintain attendance.) Classification Medicine
- Chest & Lung Specialist. He was the consultant chest physician for Dudley
Area Health Authority. He was raised in the village of Alness near Inverness
and graduated from Aberdeen University in 1938. His first post was as
Resident Medical Officer at Hertford County Hospital, Hertfordshire, and
then house surgeon at Mansfield General Hospital. He joined the Royal
Army Medical Corps in 1940, soon becoming Captain, and effectively
became Field Marshal Montgomery's personal physician. He took part in
the Normandy landings on D Day, 1944 and was mentioned for gallant and
distinguished service the following year. He practised in Gerrards Cross, Bucks, and nearby
Harefield Hospital before coming to Dudley in 1952. His principal function was to manage
tuberculosis. He had chest clinics in Parsons Street Dudley and in Wolverhampton. He was
Superintendent of Prestwood Sanatorium as well as caring for patients in four other sanatoriums
from mid-Staffordshire to the Cotswolds. As these closed, his inpatient work concentrated on
Wordsley Hospital. He ran teaching sessions for GPs on Sunday mornings for many years. After
retiring from his work related to Tuberculosis he continued part time in general practice. His
home was in Penn, Wolverhampton.

352 Dr Jack Pedley BAKER (1917-1966) (Inducted 28.11.1955; resigned 8.10.1956 on leaving the
district.) General Medical Practitioner. Partner with Dr Bob Barron (club member #348) in the
practice Drs Barron & Baker, ‘Ambleside’, Hall Street, Dudley. Born in Willenhall and educated
at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he graduated in medicine from Birmingham University in
1940, then started as a junior at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton. After five years’ service as
a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps he spent several years as resident surgical officer at
Staffordshire General Infirmary before joining the Dudley practice. However he developed an