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Hayward, the son of Jonathan Newcomb and Margaret Codman (Balcom) Hayward, was born January 28, 1875, at Boston. He prepared at the English High School in Boston. He was graduated magna cum laude with our Class, and spent a year in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he was granted an A.M. in 1898. He was a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa.
He married Mildred Marshall (Blair) June 15, 1932, in New York City. His clubs are the Harvard Club of New York, New York Metropolitan Club, Greenwich Country Club, Everglades Club of Palm Beach, Florida, and Bath and Tennis Club of Palm Beach.
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JOHN ROBERT HEALY
TOHN HEALY, the son of James and Margaret Louise (Garrett) J Healy, was born July 10, 1874, at Boston, where he attended the Public Latin School. He took his Bachelor's degree in 1897, and spent the following two years in the Lawrence Scientific School, where he received an S.B. cum laude in 1899. Since leav- ing college he has been engaged in business and engineering.
He married Catherine O'Donnell, December 22, 1918, at Nitro, West Virginia. They had two children: Mary Elizabeth Louise, born October 15, 1919; and Catherine (deceased), born October 6,1922.
In World War II, Healy's daughter served as assistant adminis- trative officer in the Psychological Warfare Division in the Medi- terranean Theatre of War. Her status was that of a civilian.
Healy is a member of the Catholic Church. During the admin- istration of Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, he was chief inspector of combustibles in New York City. He is the author of a pamphlet entitled "Rock Floor of Manhattan." He is a former member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and of the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York. His clubs are the Harvard Club of New York, City Club of New York, City Club of Boston, and Maplewood, New Jersey, Country Club.
WILLIAM HEALY
W TILLIAM HEALY sends us his report from the Bahamas where he is sojourning, with a letter to the Secretary which says, "I have written in a less formal way because it seemed more interesting."
"Add to the Fortieth Class Report almost ten more years of dealing with the problems presented by youngsters and their parents at our guidance clinic and research anent the same," he writes. "These have been busy years with ever greater demand for the service rendered by the staff of our Judge Baker Guidance Center. This has meant the training of many professional people,
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including a considerable number from foreign countries. I have written more articles and two more books. The latter are perhaps of wider interest. They are entitled Personality in Formation and Action (the Salmon Memorial Lectures of 1937 at New York) and Criminal Youth and the Borstal System. The last was the result of a study I made for the American Law Institute of the remarkably successful British educational and training program for young offenders. I made two trips abroad for that study and travelled to other countries even as far as Russia, usually with some similar objective. Latterly I was fortunate enough to have the strength to take over again when our psychiatrists were released to serve with the armed forces.
"I retired last summer at half past seventy-seven and now have time for the Bible and Shakespeare, the best of literature. I am still able to swing the axe and the scythe out on the farm. But it seems that one cannot stop playing the game so easily. In proof there is a long-standing request for a book on the nature and causes of abnormal personality deviations as related to social behavior. (How I regret passing up in the late twenties a suggestion by a colleague in Salzburg that I hie me to a nearby town and get some interesting data on the schoolboy peculiarities of a fellow by the name of Hitler!)
"I make occasional lectures on the same subject for the F.B.I. training groups in Washington and recently have been gathering material for and attending the Attorney General's conferences on what is going wrong with the young people of this country. And so it goes. There is more to do than I shall ever be able to ac- complish.
"Please renege, Mr. Secretary, on the request for a list of writ- ings, memberships held, and the like. The unduly curious can consult Who's Who.
"I say again that I was a pretty poor sort of '97 man. But you can see that entering college at twenty-three and soon being largely concerned with graduate studies was not conducive to close association with most of the rest of the Class. However, some splendid friendships were granted to me and flourished over the ensuing years. I pay tribute to them. Southard and I both became
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psychiatrists and naturally had close ties, particularly as we broad- ened our field. Does the Class know that Southard's brain was carefully preserved and sectioned and that a monograph was pub- lished about it? The scientific question was whether this human cortex would show striking indications of why its owner was so brilliant. Nothing very extraordinary was found; investigative procedures are as yet hardly up to revealing clearly any such correlations.
"William Parker was another friend I should like to mention. Latterly he told fine yarns about such items as occupying a bed- room in Peru which had furniture of solid silver. There is a psy- chological mystery behind the fact that his sponsor had Parker's several books on the cultural life of Latin America published in London and objected to their general sale in this country. Fred Lord was a solid friend in college, medical school, and afterwards. Herman Adler was another. I persuaded him to take my place in Chicago when he, with his enthusiasm and executive ability, built up our institute to be an organization of widespread public service. How I hate to realize that they are all gone now. Another friend was found when David Cheever, with his great skill, was needed in a time of sore distress.
"You ask for the story of my life, 'comprehensive but concise.' That is too much. I have had too many diverse experiences. I could begin with memories of nightingales singing in the trees on the cliffs of the English Channel and go on to a bleak poor period in Chicago. Then followed ten years in a bank, from which I emerged to enter Harvard as a special student. That bank with its astonishing personnel was nothing short of a high-grade cultural institution for me. The young boy who had never even finished grammar school was taken in hand by several cultivated men and introduced to much good reading, good theatre, and gradually developing discussions of philosophy and economics. Arduous physical training in a gymnasium came in the late afternoons. A teller with a trained voice sang operatic airs for us after closing hours and for some months Reginald de Koven, fresh from Oxford, counted and banded piles of paper money, occasionally stopping to make musical notes on his broad, white English cuffs, notes
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that before long became part of the score of Robin Hood. It was round-the-year work.
"I was born January 20, 1869, near Beaconsfield, Buckingham- shire, England (still earlier memories of that lovely countryside ), the youngest son of William Healy, an English gentleman who, nearing fifty and finding his family fortune beyond repair, emi- grated in 1878 to the United States with his wife, née Charlotte Hearne, and three children.
"I was married first on May 12, 1901, at Madison, Wisconsin, to Mary Sylvia Tenney, a lady of distinction who in every way aided and abetted me and my work until her death in 1932. Our son, Kent Tenney Healy, born February 2, 1902, was graduated from Harvard in 1922, and is now Dewitt Cuyler Professor of trans- portation and chairman of the Department of Economics at Yale. We have four grandchildren, ranging from sixteen to five years of age. They are Ruth, Bill, Kent and Sylvia.
'My second wife, Augusta Fox Bronner, Ph.D., has been my distinguished colleague for thirty-four years (also see Who's Who). We have been co-workers in various research projects, including a notable one for the Yale Institute of Human Relations. She is joint author with me of several books. We were married in 1932.
"Regarding my war-time activities, we, all of us, staff and fam- ily, were much involved in producing and standardizing test ma- terials for the Psychological Division of the Army during World War I. As I have already indicated, I was immensely glad at the opening of the last war to get into the harness again and direct our essential public service. My son, Kent, with his special quali- fications, was much in demand and very active in Washington in the Office of Strategic Services and in other divisions of the government.
"I was registered in college from September, 1893, to June, 1896, and received my A.B. in '99 while in my third year in the Medical School. One can imagine from the foregoing what these college years meant. They were what I had worked and saved for and what I had studied late of nights for in order to make some meager showing of orthodox preparation. For one glorious thing, I had
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come with an introduction to Professor James and his family, though there was little indeed they could do at first in steering such an independently and irregularly thinking specimen whose main ideas about the acquirement of knowledge had been derived from uncritically devouring volumes of the iconoclasts - Herbert Spencer, Renan, Haeckel. I had come to Harvard with the rather nebulous but strongly held notion that, above all, I wanted to know the essential nature of the mind of man, a notion, by the way, that I still hold. Towards the end of the third year it seemed to me that through philosophy and the laboratory psychology of that day I was not likely to get what I wanted. So I determined to go to the medical school to see whether the more intimate rela- tionships with human beings which the practice of medicine af- fords and, in particular, acquaintance with the brain and its functions might not offer more of the knowledge I craved.
"In the spring of '97, LeBaron Briggs, kindly spirit that he was, said: 'Healy, with credits enough for your degree you have never taken entrance examinations in Latin.' Unimpressed by my don't- care attitude, he ventured that I'd be glad some day if I had the degree. It was either Royce or James (I was still taking seminars with them), who suggested: 'Well, read the New Testament in Latin this summer and pass the elementary examination.' I failed. The reading didn't teach me the grammar. Next year the same one said: 'Try advanced Latin, prepare by reading Cicero and Virgil.' I got the same result. Then in June, '99, Dean Briggs wrote: 'The faculty has voted you the degree.' But, alas, not 'as of '97.' I wonder if I'm not the only fellow of those years gone by who was treated so graciously.
"Here is a bit about Barrett Wendell of the big pencil and slight hesitation of speech. Diligently I had finished third-year English with him when he asked me to come to his office. 'Mr. Healy, you know, you must know, that we've been forced to give you a very good mark for the course. But, Mr. Healy, may I ask, if you expect to become a writer by profession?' Assured that I had no such intention, he exploded, 'Thank God.' B.W. had good sense.
"It was still easier for another to put me in my place, the en- thusiastic gentleman who tried to engender a love for choral
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singing among us. He did mighty well with us in the Pirates of Penzance, but he didn't know my combination of a fair voice with a poor ear for being off key. All he said after a couple of minutes when he had asked me to his room to practise for a solo part was: 'Good night, Mr. Healy.'
"As I write this about our chorus the feeling surges over me that I would be thrilled from head to toe if I could again hear lustily sung, 'Here's a health to King Charles.' The old Yard and its memories!
"Why did I take my last year in medicine at Rush, University of Chicago, when I was offered for the second time a scholarship at Harvard Medical? It was because of my belief in the value of peripatetic education, the fact that I had heard of wonderful teachers at Rush, and the knowledge that Chicago offered better opportunities for beginning in a profession. It did turn out well, though there remained a little sense of having been disloyal to Harvard. This was assuaged, however, through being invited in 1912 and 1913 to teach in the Summer School, where, leading un- usually fine groups, I felt I was doing something to repay my debt to the University.
"These sketchily told incidents and doings, important or trivial, are just a few parts of the story of a long, workaday, rich, and varied life. I might be called considerably unsocial in any home- to-home visiting sense. On the other hand, my dealings profes- sionally with many thousands of people, young and old, over the years has given me warmth of feeling for not a few aspects of the lives of others and something of the insights that earlier I hoped would enrich my own understanding. To be sure, I am left with many queries and many doubts about values as they are reckoned in the minds of men and hence command human behavior. But I have tried to help just a little and to whatever gods there be I am profoundly grateful for all that life has brought me."
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FREDERICK HEILIG
USED to declare that I would never retire voluntarily from I active business," writes Heilig. "It is now ten years since I retired, voluntarily and not because of fatigue or ill health. I used to hope that if I ever did retire, it would be to a home in a univer- sity town. My wife and I occupy our home in Westwood Hills, a beachward district of Los Angeles, but a distinct village, home of the University of California, Los Angeles campus. In college I took a course in botany and in my travels always carried dissect- ing tools and analysis tables. I hoped that in my final garden I might cultivate flora from all over the world. In my garden, which provides me with elderly exercise, I now have more than two hundred and fifty different species of plants and trees, many of them rare in the United States.
"Durable satisfactions: The recollection of forty years' continu- ous labor, most of it personal service, the belief that those I tried to serve profited by the transaction, and the feeling that the whole experience has been an uncharted adventure. The satis- faction of having been my own boss, however, has been paid for by about ten years' overtime. I have thoroughly liked every occupation in which I have engaged.
"Philosophical opinion: I started out with the conviction that material reward would necessarily follow earnest and sincere effort in application to duty without thought of reward on the part of the performer. I still believe this is true in general, al- though I have seen the theory upset by instances of poor judg- ment or bad luck.
"Religious convictions: In this respect I am totally out of step with my contemporaries, as much as I am with the religion of the wise men of ancient Greece.
"The personal gain I value most highly is TOLERANCE."
Heilig was born May 20, 1875, at Reading, Pennsylvania, the son of George Washington and Catherine (Reber) Heilig. He prepared at the Boys' High School in Reading. He spent four years in college, receiving his A.B. in 1898 as of 1897, a year in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and a year in the Law
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School. While an undergraduate he was a member of the D.U. Club, and was captain of the intramural football and baseball teams for two years. He played tennis, ran with the track squad and won medals for cross-country running. He played whist with the Harvard Whist Team, of which he was captain for two years. This team won all intercollegiate matches against Yale and Princeton.
Heilig married Mary Warwick, October 19, 1917, at Seattle, Washington. She died February 9, 1920, in Portland, Oregon. He married Lucile Vogt, October 19, 1922, at Portland. His son, George Warwick, was born July 9, 1918. There is one grandchild, George Bradley Heilig.
Heilig served in the Spanish-American War as a cannoneer with Battery A of the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. He enlisted in April, 1898, and was discharged in November, 1898. During World War I, he served with the Oregon State Guard from June, 1917, to March, 1918.
He was engaged as a private tutor in St. Louis, Chicago, Calumet, Haverford, Florida, Denver, and in Europe before he accepted the post of superintendent of public schools in Fair- banks, Alaska. He prospected at Mt. Mckinley and operated a mine at Fairbanks. From 1907 to 1913 he was editor and pub- lisher of the Fairbanks Daily Times. He practised law in Port- land, Oregon, from 1915 to 1925, and then engaged in corporation organization and management in Los Angeles until 1936, when he retired.
He has belonged to a number of social, civic, and military or- ganizations.
FRANK HENDRICK
H ENDRICK has been "lost" since mail sent to him at 38 East 37th Street, New York City, was returned by the Post Office in 1942. He received an A.B. magna cum laude with the Class in 1897 and studied afterwards in the Graduate School, where he held the Ricardo Prize Scholarship, and in the Law School. He was associated for a year with Storey, Thorndike & Palmer in
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Boston and for a year with John G. Carlisle & Curtis and with Mallet-Provost & Colt in New York City. He then entered inde- pendent practice. He was active in Republican political life in New York and wrote many articles and papers on public and legal questions.
He was the son of Jairus Snow and Jane (O'Brien ) Hendrick. He was born August 30, 1874, at East Boston, and prepared at the Boston Latin School. He married Katharine Edson Mumford on June 29, 1901, at Philadelphia. Their children are Katharine Mumford, born November 30, 1904, and Jessie Edson, born April 7, 1907.
+ JAMES EDWARD HERO
J AMES EDWARD HERO died December 22, 1925, at Houston, Texas, where he was president of the Houston Motor Truck Com- pany, which he had organized in 1918. He was associated with the Class only during the year 1894-95, which he spent in the Lawrence Scientific School. He then joined the firm of F. F. Hurd, manufacturing jeweller in Denver, and later became man- ager. In February, 1900, he left this position and for six months lived in Victor, Colorado, where he was associated with a com- pany which was one of the largest operators in the gold mine district. He went to New York State for a short time and then to Atlanta, Georgia, where he entered the financial department of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills. He was sent to the company's various offices as an auditor. He finally settled in Houston, where he left the firm in 1914 to join the Overland-Houston Company. He served as secretary and treasurer of this firm before leaving it to organize the Houston Motor Truck Company.
Hero was born on April 24, 1877, at New Orleans, the son of Andrew and Ottweana Rhodes (Pugh) Hero. He attended Tulane University before coming to Harvard. He was twice married. On September 9, 1899, at Denver, he married Katharine Halsey. His second marriage, on February 25, 1915, was to Laura De Vaugh Porter. His children were James Edward, Jr., born De- cember 26, 1915, and Suzanne, born November 20, 1918.
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LESTER ELLIOTT HERRICK
U NTIL 1932," reports Herrick, "my general activities continued along the lines set forth in our Twenty-fifth Report.
"From 1932 to 1942 I was unable to do much of anything except spasmodic selling (on commission) as my strength and energy permitted.
"In 1942 I volunteered to hold a job for a young fellow who had been drafted, and since then I have been happy and healthier on said job doing retail selling for Harry's Men's Wear at Elm- wood Place, Ohio. In addition to selling I have done some credit work.
"For over forty years I have been interested in Masonry and am a past master of the Springfield Lodge at Springfield, Massa- chusetts, and present secretary of Calvary, Clifton Lodge in Cincinnati."
Herrick, the son of William Taylor and Ida Claranelle ( Had- ley) Herrick, was born December 13, 1874, at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. He prepared for college at the Public Latin School in Boston. He was with our Class four years and received his A.B. magna cum laude.
He married Harriet Estelle Bogardus, June 23, 1903, at Chico- pee Falls. She died March 31, 1942. Their children are: John Hadley, born December 19, 1908; and Barbara (Mrs. G. Hawley Todd), born September 18, 1912. There are four grandchildren.
+ ALFRED FABIAN HESS
A LFRED FABIAN HESS, renowned for his work in the cure and prevention of rickets, died December 5, 1933, at New York City. He was born there on October 19, 1875, the son of Selmar and Josephine (Solomon) Hess, and before coming to Harvard attended Sachs' Collegiate Institute. He received an A.B. magna cum laude in 1897, and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, taking an M.D. in 1901. After an internship at Mt. Sinai Hospital, he studied abroad, travelling in Egypt, Palestine, and Europe. Returning to the United States,
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he settled in New York and took up the study of children's dis- eases, in which he made many important advances. The most outstanding of these was the discovery that Vitamin D could be developed in foods by exposure to ultra-violet rays, and it won for him the John Scott Medal of the Franklin Society. He deter- mined the value of tomato juice in preventing scurvy, developed thromboplastin for the stopping of hemorrhages, and initiated the use of blood inoculations for mumps. He also conducted re- search in tuberculosis and advocated purification of milk supplies as a preventive measure.
He was long a member of the Department of Pathology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and from 1915 to 1931 was clinical professor of pediatrics at the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He was consulting physician at the Willard Parker Hospital and a founder and former head of the Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children at Farmingdale, New Jersey. For twenty years he was chief medical officer and a trus- tee of the Hebrew Home for Infants. He had given a Harvey Lecture in New York and a series of Cutter Lectures at the Har- vard Medical School. He was a generous contributor to charities and research funds, had many important medical publications to his credit, and belonged to numerous professional organizations.
He was survived by his wife, the former Sara Straus, whom he married on October 12, 1904, at New York City, and their three children - Eleanor, born April 5, 1906; Margaret, born March 30, 1907; and Alfred Selmar, born January 5, 1910.
+ JAMES TRACEY HEWES
TAMES TRACEY HEWES died at Stoughton, Massachusetts, on January 15, 1944. He was born at Salem, Massachusetts, August 25, 1874, the son of James Tracy and Eleanor Bridges (Jewett) Hewes. He left Harvard after spending two years with our Class and entered the shoe manufacturing business. Later he entered banking, first with C. P. Phelps & Company in Boston and then with Thompson, Tenney & Crawford of New York and Boston.
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After a few years Hewes abandoned banking for poultry-rais- ing. Of the years during which he was thus engaged he wrote in our Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report, "Now came the most in- teresting times of my life. I held all kinds of jobs, worked and lived with farmers, carpenters, etc. Many an interesting yarn have I heard from them about the college boys. They never guessed I'd actually attended a lecture in Massachusetts Hall."
During World War I he served in the Navy and on his return to civilian life he again entered the shoe manufacturing business and settled in Stoughton. There he married Elizabeth Lanigan in November, 1919.
He again gave up the shoe manufacturing business and took the position of commissary agent for the Boston & Maine Railroad at Concord, New Hampshire, and at the time of our Fortieth Anniversary Report he was again interested in the shoe business.
Hewes was one of those carefree, hail-fellow-well-met members of our Class, somewhat of a Rip Van Winkle, ready to lend a hand to everything that came his way.
G. H. W.
* ERNEST LAURENCE HILL
E RNEST LAURENCE HILL was born October 5, 1873, at Brookline, Massachusetts, and died there November 2, 1905. The son of William Henry and Sarah ( May ) Hill, he attended Hopkinson's School in Boston and was in college from 1894 to 1896. During 1893-94 he was in the Lawrence Scientific School. After leaving college he was first engaged in the manufacturing of steel tubing. Later he was associated with James Dean in real estate in Boston. In 1898 he was with Richardson, Hill & Company, stock brokers, and from 1899 to 1903 was in New York City with the Windsor Manufacturing Company, of which he became vice-president in 1899. From 1901 until 1903 he was a director of the First National Bank of Adams, Massachusetts, and in 1902 he became vice- president of the Renfrew Manufacturing Company of Adams, of which he was treasurer and general manager from 1903 until his death. On May 16, 1902, at Brookline, he married Annette Stuart
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