Retirement and Death
Calkins received an honorary degree from Knox College in 1921 and served as an honorary trustee from 1950 until his death. On June 11, 1944, he founded the Knox College Fifty Year Club for alumni who had graduated 50 years or more earlier.
Calkins retired from Calkins and Holden in 1931, five years after Holden died, when his deafness became too great a problem in contributing to the burgeoning radio advertising industry. Still vigorous at age 64, he wrote extensively and contributed many pieces to magazines and newspapers including the Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times among others. He wrote a history of Galesburg, They Broke the Prairie, published by Scribners in 1937, an autobiography, Louder, Please!, and several other books.
Calkins & Holden merged with Fletcher Richards in 1959 to become Fletcher Richards, Calkins & Holden. Calkins died October 4, 1964 in New York City. When he died, his agency was merged into the Interpublic Group of Companies.
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