This collection contains numerous mementos of Frank’s life, in newspaper clippings, photographs, awards, and a scrapbook. The scrapbook entitled “Sex Life of Adak” contains newsletters from his time in Adak, Alaska during his military career as well as comics of the time. A photocopy of the contents of the scrapbook is also included as well as a map of Adak. (The actual scrapbook can be found in box three.)There are awards and certificates from volunteer service, newspaper clippings from his volunteer career, and obituaries for his brother, his sister-in-law, and himself, as well as his birth certificate, and lease documentation for one place that he lived. The collection also contains a variety of play programs from the Community Players and three Playbills, from 1958, 1960, and 1961.

Frank Adkins Baker (1919-2002), lifetime bachelor, attended Salisbury Teacher’s College, and then served in the military during WWII, stationed in Alaska.  After being discharged, he worked in the banking business and received a degree from American University.  He spent much of his time volunteering.  A recovering alcoholic, Frank volunteered to help to build a facility to help other recovering alcoholics.  He was involved in the Community Players and volunteered for the hospital, receiving awards of excellence for his time volunteering.  Frank loved his dachshund and stayed in contact with his brother Harry and his wife, Kitty.  Frank was a member of Trinity Church in Salisbury at the time of his death in 2002.