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US ILfC SC/017-B01/F04 · Folder · July 1975
Part of George and Mary Beach Global Travel Memoirs 1966-1980

On this trip, Mary and George Beach were accompanied by three other couples: Kay and Keith Brown, Gwen and Mauire Knoy, and Pauline and Don Smith.  The journal is relatively short, 11 pp., with additional statistices like Beach travel date for this trip and listing trips across Polar Circles, 1974 and 1975.  The trip from O'Hare Field was one of 5500 miles round trip, through Edmonton, Canada.

US ILfC SC/017-B01/F05 · Folder · May-July 1980
Part of George and Mary Beach Global Travel Memoirs 1966-1980

This journal of sixty-two pages covers much of the territory of the traditional deluxe Grand Tour -- Germany, France, Spain, and Italy -- but using modern transport by planes and cars on autoroutes and with concessions to modern food service including McDonalds.  The result is a mixing of old style, early 20th c.  and new travel style of 1980.

US ILfC SC/017-B01/F02 · Folder · February - March 1973
Part of George and Mary Beach Global Travel Memoirs 1966-1980

This is an 8.5" by 11" mimeographed and spiral-bound volume of 33 pages, with stiff gray paper boards from and back, imprinted on the front in red, and with a smal bird image or logo by then adopted by Mr. Beach. The narrative of this trip appears on the pages 1 through p. 29 and it is important to note that the places visited included Anarctica, Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Pages 30 through 33 give summary accounts or a log of trips with the number of visits to continents or regions from 1924 to 1973 (p. 30),  "lifetime Country Visitation" in addition to all 50 states (p. 31), airplane refueling stops (p. 32), and other data points like crossing the Equator and the International Date Line.

US ILfC SC/017 · Collection

This collection consists of five travel narratives by George R. Beach (ca. 1903-1990), a long-time Lake Forest resident, mayor of the City, and chair of the College's Board of Trustees from 1971 to 1974.

These journal-type narratives, which foremost are full of personal insights and stories of George Beach, also prove in displaying the spirit of the era of elite jet travel between the 1960s and 1980s. This stretch of time, as made clear through the Beach's words, shows a distinct evolution of how people traveled.

The early journals are characterized by discussing the easy ability to move about the globe and the greater availability of jet travel compared to other methods such as train and ship travel. Still, as time goes by, the reader will see how the Beaches covered a large array of countries and places to visit even as the act of travel changes and progresses. Overall,  these diaries complement an equal number of other such writings by the Beaches that are cataloged.

Beach, George R. (George Raimes), Jr., ca. 1903-1990
US ILfC SC/017-B01/F01 · Folder · October 1966
Part of George and Mary Beach Global Travel Memoirs 1966-1980

This 8.5" by 11" mimeographed, spiral-bound volume contains 48 pages printed on one side only, in addition to the title-page.  The covers are stiff yellow paper, front and back. The cover page also lists all the countries visited on this journey including West Germany, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and England. The title-page also lists the other participants on the trip: Maria Bent, Anne Dickinson, Gladys Judson, Theo King (third daughter of Howard Vand Doren and Frances wells Shaw(, Isabel Lindberg, Janis Palmer, Lydia Schweppe, John Schweppe, Bobbie Welles, Don Welles, and Helen Weyerhauser.

US ILfC SC/017-B01/F03 · Folder · January-March 1975
Part of George and Mary Beach Global Travel Memoirs 1966-1980

This volume tells reports on George Beach's journey to the Far East and Pacific with second spouse Mary Beach. The volume also includes a cumulative statistical account of his travels from 1903 to 1975 on land, sea, and in the air. The first forty-six pages discuss the trip from January 24 through March 6, 1975 in places such as Tahiti, New Zealand, Austalia, Hong Kong and Bali.  Beach makes general obersvations on this trip from the perspective of having flown about one million miles in a quarter century, or about 40,000 miles per year and the log for this trip is at the end of the section on this voyage. The pages from 47 to 59 include cumulative lists of statistics, etc. on Beach's travels: Trip Mileage (land miles), Lifetime Log 1924 -1975 (of visits to continenys/islandss),Lifetime Country Visitation (in addition to all fifty states), Crossing the equator dates and Crossing the international dateline dates, International and foreign local airlines used, 1946-75, Transatlantic surface crossings (dates, ships, and fates of the ships after his travel on them), and an encompassing Vacation Chronology from 1903 to1975.