Sep 15 2007
Boxford Realty Investor, 23, Building Resort in the Bahamas
ELEUTHERA, Bahamas - The northern tip of this Caribbean Isle has blossomed overnight into a resort because of a young Boxford, Mass., man who can’t wait to get back to college.
When Dann H. Lewis first gazed on Northern Eleuthera’s rough coral land and heavy brush 18 months ago, he was awaiting graduation from Dartmouth and acceptance from M. I. T. But the sight of this untouched real estate in the Caribbean pushed Tech out of his mind - temporarily.
Since receiving his degree in English from Dartmouth, Dann Lewis has become president of two companies connected with the Current Club, which opens on once wild terrain, on December 27th.
The Current Club is five duplex cottage units in a coconut grove, a clubhouse, and a dock equipped for all types of boating. The Bahamas’ best fishing areas, four hours travelling time (by water) from Nassau, at 10 minutes away.
The 23 year old Lewis, a graduate of Winchester, Mass., High School is now president of two firms: The Current Club Ltd., composed of family members and personal friends from the Boston area; and the Current Development Co., solely a family organization with plans to build a dozen exclusive winter homes in the area for outright sale.
The two firms were organized by young Lewis, who saw possibilities in North Eleuthera because of a nearby airstrip served by two flight daily from Nassau via Bahamas Airways, and a north-south highway to open by the end of December.
The blond, boyish looking Lewis proposed his idea to a willling investor, his father, Robert C. Lewis, president of Calidyne Co., Winchester, a division of Ling-Temco Electronics.
Dann, postponing acceptance to the electrical engineering school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began construction of his resort in March, 1960.
from: The Boston Sunday Herald, 1960
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