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William Beverly "Bev" Carter of Philadelphia, born in a house overlooking the old Beaver Fairgrounds, a graduate of Temple Medical School in 1916, and an internationally known bridge player, is looking forward to celebrating the Bicentennial Year by completing sixty years of general practice. He looks back also, thanks to his grandparents who raised him after his parents died, to happy days at the old Market Street school. Possibly the greatest all-around athlete in Beaver history, a left-handed passer and left-footed kicker, he handled these duties while playing tackle on Beaver's County Champions of 1906-1910, when the big Thanksgiving Day game was with either Johnstown or Greensburg. He also pitched on two championship baseball teams, ran the sprints, broad jumped, put the shot, and ran on the relay team which won the first Indoor Track Meet of the PAA in 1909.