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born in 1895. She is a graduate of Ithaca High School, Lady Jane Grey's School, at Binghamton, New York, and the Eastman Dental Dispensary, at Rochester. She is now dental hygienist in the office of her father.
Politically, Doctor Howe has always been a Republican. He held the office of mayor of Ithaca from 1926 until 1929, a two term office, and under Mayor Horton was fire commissioner dur- ing 1908 and police commissioner during 1924-25 under Mayor Sowdon. He is a member of the B. P. O. Elks, No. 636, being one of the founders of the local lodge and Exalted Ruler in 1900; Hobasco Lodge No. 716, F. & A. M .; Past President of the Ithaca Rotary Club; Ithaca Country Club; director of the Chamber of Commerce; and member of the Sixth District Dental Society, he is president of the Dental Society of the State of New York, and member of the American Dental Association. He is a director of the Reconstruction Home of Ithaca, and a former captain of the Tornado Hook & Ladder Volunteer Fire Company, of Ithaca, and the Protective Police.
In 1911 Doctor Howe organized the Star Theatre Company and built the Star Theatre on Seneca Street and in 1914 built the Crescent Theatre on Aurora Street. They later merged with the Strand Theatre and the name was changed to the Ithaca Theatre Company and Doctor Howe was president of that con- cern. He disposed of his interests in 1928.
Claude L. Kulp .- A widely known citizen and popular school official of Central New York is Claude L. Kulp, who is super- intendent of the Ithaca public schools. He was born at Rochester, New York, April 28, 1894, a son of Arthur H. and Rhoda (Bahan) Kulp.
Arthur H. Kulp was born at Buffalo, New York, and spent his early life in that city. He became a mason contractor and engaged in business at Elba, Buffalo, and Rochester. He was killed in a railroad accident in 1899 at the age of thirty-eight years, and is buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester. Mr.
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Kulp was a Republican and a member of the Baptist Church. Only one child was born to Arthur H. and Rhoda (Bahan) Kulp, Claude L., the subject of this sketch. By a first marriage she had two children: 1. Samuel J. Keyes, who is owner of Catamount Tavern, at Bennington, Vermont. 2. Mabel, married George A. Wakeman, lives at Rochester. Mrs. Kulp died in 1924 and is buried at Rochester.
Claude L. Kulp attended the public schools of Rochester and is a graduate of Mechanics Institute in that city. In 1916 he came to Ithaca as an instructor in Industrial Arts in the high school, and served in that capacity until February, 1918, at which time he volunteered for service in the World War. He was assigned to Fort Adams, Rhode Island, as an instructor in coast artillery, and was later transferred to Fortress Monroe and Camp Eustis, Virginia, being an instructor in the latter camp of Motor Transport Company, No. 672. He was honorably discharged from the service, April 22, 1919, as a First Sergeant. Mr. Kulp returned to Ithaca High School as an instructor and in 1920 was appointed director of Industrial Arts, which position he successfully filled until 1930. From 1922 until 1930 he was also principal of the evening and Summer schools in the city, and from 1923 until 1926 was principal of Ithaca Junior High School. He received the degree of Bachelor of Science at the University of Rochester in 1927, and the degree of Master of Arts from Cornell University in 1930. In 1927 Mr. Kulp was appointed director of elementary education and in 1928 assistant superin- tendent of schools. He assumed his present duties as superin- tendent in 1930. He is an ardent supporter of high school ath- letics and during 1916-17, and 1919 was football coach at the high school.
On August 25, 1919, Mr. Kulp was united in marriage with Miss Mabel Deltha Ross, of Batavia, New York, the daughter of Louis and Mary (Mockford) Ross. The former died in May, 1926, and the latter resides at Hamlin, New York. Mr. Ross was a farmer and spent a number of years at Waverly, Iowa. He later returned to Spencerport, New York, where he died. He was a member of the Baptist Church. Mabel (Ross) Kulp was
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born at Batavia September 6, 1896. She is a graduate of Batavia High School and rceived the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the University of Rochester in 1919. Mr. and Mrs. Kulp have two sons: 1. Arthur C., born April 4, 1921. 2. Robert R., born September 13, 1923.
Politically Mr. Kulp is independent. He is a member of the Methodist Church and has the following lodge and club affilia- tions: Hobasco Lodge, No. 716, F. & A. M .; Eagle Chapter, No. 58, R. A. M .; Phi Delta Kappa, and Kappa Phi Kappa fraternities; American Legion, Post No. 221; Past President of the Exchange Club; member of the Rotary Club; and Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the New York State Teachers Association and vice president of the Southern Zone Section of that Associ- ation; member of the National Education Association; and mem- ber of the department of Superintendence. He is president of the Ithaca Community Chest; member of the Board of Directors of the Ithaca Y. M. C. A. and a director of Fuertes Council, Boy Scouts of America. He is also a director of the Ithaca Savings and Loan Association.
Arthur N. Gibb .- Representative of Ithaca's most prominent professional men is Arthur N. Gibb, architect, with offices at 302 East State Street. He was born at Quebec, Canada, May 23, 1868, the son of John L. and Elizabeth (McCallum) Gibb, and was naturalized as a citizen of the United States in 1897.
John L. Gibb was a native of Quebec, where he received his early schooling. He then studied at Edinburg, Scotland, and as a young man entered the lumber and shipping business which had been organized by his father, James Gibb, who died October 10, 1858, and is buried in Quebec, Canada. He, James Gibb, also had extensive banking interests, being president of the Quebec Bank and president of the Richelieu Ontario Navigation Com- pany, the latter operating on the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes. John L. Gibb died in 1927 and is buried in St. Catherine's, Province of Ontario. His wife died in 1924. He was a Con-
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servative and held membership in the Presbyterian Church. To Mr. and Mrs. Gibb were born five sons: 1. Ernest, died in infancy. 2. James Sidney, retired banker, lives at St. Catherine's, Ontario. 3. John Gordon, deceased. 4. Allan, who died in 1880. 5. Arthur N., the subject of this sketch.
Arthur N. Gibb attended the public schools of Quebec and attended Trinity College School at Fort Hope, Ontario, as well as Upper Canada College, at Toronto. He attended private schools at Neuchatel, Switzerland, and received the degree of B. S. in Architecture at Cornell University in 1890. Two years later he established offices in the City of Ithaca and was asso- ciated with C. L. Vivian. In 1902 the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Gibb continued alone for three years. Then from 1905 until 1927 he was associated with O. H. Waltz. Since the latter date Mr. Gibb has maintained a private practice. He has com- pleted plans for numerous building projects, including the fol- lowing: For Cornell University, center section of Sibly College; Baker Laboratory of Chemistry; Schoelkopf Memorial and Ath- letic Field. City of Ithaca: Junior High School, Central School, Henry A. St. John School, Treman, King & Company Building, Rothschild Building, Ithaca Savings Bank, Ithaca Trust Com- pany, Ithaca City Hospital, Odd Fellow State Orphanage. He also drew up plans and specifications for the science and dining hall buildings at Wells College, at Aurora-on-Cayuga, New York; Robert Packer Hospital, at Sayre, Pennsylvania; and numerous fine residences in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, Connecticut, and California. At the present time he is completing plans for the erection of Herman M. Biggs State Memorial Hospital to be built for the State of New York near Ithaca.
On June 3, 1897, Mr. Gibb was united in marriage with Miss Henrietta Collins, of Springfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Dr. Henry A. and Mary (Graves) Collins. Doctor Collins, a leading physician and surgeon of Springfield, Massachusetts, for many years, is now deceased. Mrs. Gibb is a graduate of Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. To Mr. and Mrs. Gibb have been born two children: 1. John Collins, born in
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June, 1899, a graduate of Ithaca High School and Cornell Uni- versity, class of 1924. He is a mechanical engineer in the employ of the Fairbanks Morse Company, of Chicago, Illinois, and resides at Cleveland, Ohio. He married Miss Josephine Cum- mings, of Centerville, Michigan, and they have a son, Frank Cummings Gibb. 2. Mary Murison, born in October, 1900, a graduate of Ithaca High School, attended Cornell University. She married Leslie I. Nichols, of New York City, who is a grad- uate of Cornell University, Bachelor of Architecture in 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols have a son, William Edmund II.
Mr. Gibb is an independent Republican in politics. He holds membership in the Church of Christ Scientist, and is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, Cornell Club of New York City, Town & Gown Club, Ithaca Yacht Club, Chi Phi fraternity, Rotary Club, and Chamber of Commerce. He also is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture, a member of Central New York Chapter of Architects, and is a director of the State Council of Registered Architects.
Robert A. Hutchinson, who has held the office of Probation Officer in Tompkins County since April, 1919, has a wide acquaint- ance in Ithaca and the surrounding community. He was born at North Guilford, Connecticut, June 7, 1893, the son of Rev. William H. and Harriet L. (Addis) Hutchinson.
Rev. William H. Hutchinson was a native of England, born at Cropwell Butler, Nottinghamshire. He was educated there and completed his early education in private schools in London. As a young man he engaged in missionary work in that city and in 1888 came to the United States. He attended Yale Uni- versity for one year, and from 1889 until 1892 was a student at Berkley Divinity School at Middletown, Connecticut. He was ordained in 1892 and during the following year was pastor of the Episcopal Church at North Guilford, Connecticut. He was pastor of St. Peter's Church at Milford, Connecticut, during 1893-1900; pastor of Christ Church at Sharon, Connecticut, dur-
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ing 1900-05; pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church at Ithaca during 1905-11; pastor of Christ Church at Clayton, New York, during 1911-13; and pastor of Trinity Episcopal Church at Utica, New York, from 1913 until the time of his death in 1916. He is buried at Utica. Reverend Hutchinson was a Republican and held membership in Fidelity Lodge, F. & A. M., the Grange, and Royal Arcanum. His widow was born at Chicago, Illinois, and now lives in Ithaca. Their children were: 1. Robert A., the subject of this sketch. 2. Noel Parker, married Donald Townsend, lives at Rochester. 3. Maxwell B., lives at Syracuse. 4. Miles T., lives at Utica. The latter two are identified with the Hutchinson- Schorer Store Fixture Company, which operates stores at Syra- cuse and Utica.
Robert A. Hutchinson attended the Ithaca public schools and in 1915 received the degree of LL. B. at Cornell University, being adınitted to the bar in November, 1916. During the following year he served as a clerk in the office of George S. Tarbell, attor- ney of Ithaca, and in 1917 became telegraph editor of the Ithaca Journal-News. During 1918 Mr. Hutchinson was telegraph editor of the Elmira Star-Gazette, and from July, 1918 until March, 1919, was assistant purchasing agent for the Thomas-Morse Air- craft Corporation, of Ithaca. He received his present appoint- ment as county probation officer April 15, 1919. In 1920 he was elected president of the Tompkins County Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a post he now holds. In 1923 he became clerk of the Tompkins County Children's Court and now occupies that position under Judge W. M. Kent.
On April 13, 1918, Mr. Hutchinson married Miss Ethel M. Stevenson, who was born at Ithaca, October 4, 1899. She is a graduate of Ithaca High School. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson have no children.
Politically Mr. Hutchinson is a Republican. He belongs to Fidelity Lodge, F. and A. M., B. P. O. Elks, Town and Gown Club, Ithaca Country Club, Cornell Club of Ithaca, Exchange Club, and Tompkins County Bar Association, and the Tompkins County
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Conference of Public and Welfare Agencies. He also belongs to Phi Delta Phi Honorary Law Fraternity at Cornell University and served on the staff of the Cornell Daily Sun.
Mr. Hutchinson has always taken a prominent and important part in athletics, both in college and in city sports. In 1914-15 he was all-around athletic champion at Ithaca Y. M. C. A .. He was a member of the Eagles baseball team from 1924 until 1929. This team won the city championship for five successive years and in 1925 placed third in the National Baseball Federation Tournament at Cleveland, Ohio. In basketball, Mr. Hutchinson was a member of the Cornell law school team and later played on the Ithaca Imperials, Southern Tier Champions, during 1916-23. As a golfer, he was runner-up in the Finger Lakes Golf Associ- ation championship tournament at Cortland in 1924, Waverly in 1925 and Ithaca in 1929, and champion of Country Club of Ithaca in 1932. He has been captain of the Elks Bowling Club of Ithaca for seven years. This team won the city five-man cham- pionship in 1928 and 1929, and three-man titles on numerous occasions. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bowling Association and since 1931 has been president of the Ithaca City Bowling League and secretary of the Ithaca Bowling Association. In Squash racquets, he is captain of the Town and Gown Club team, and won the 1932 Dallenback trophy at Ithaca. In tennis, he was a member of the Cornell Varsity squad in 1914-1915 and a semi-finalist in the 1932 Ithaca City Championships.
Mr. Hutchinson is a member of the Episcopal Church. From 1913 until 1930 he represented the Syracuse Post-Standard in correspondence work at Ithaca and in the Thousand Islands. He has been identified with prevention of cruelty among animals in Tompkins County for twelve years and is a vice president of the New York State Convention of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Animals. From 1915 until 1932 Mr. Hutchinson was an active member of the Ithaca Fire Department belonging to Tornado Hook and Ladder Company No. 3.
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Hon. S. Edwin Banks .- One of the leading members of the Tompkins County Bar is S. Edwin Banks, who has been a suc- cessful lawyer in Ithaca for more than thirty-five years. He has also served as special county judge and surrogate from 1900 until January 1, 1932. Mr. Banks was born at Millport, Chemung County, New York, January 17, 1861, the son of Stephen B. and Josephine (Treman) Banks.
Stephen B. Banks was born at Bedford, New York, and died at Fredericksburg, Virginia, August 13, 1917. He was reared and educated in Sullivan County, New York, and for a time was em- ployed by the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company. He later owned and operated a canal boat until his association with Jared Treman, his father-in-law, as owners of a flour mill at Millport, New York. Later they reorganized as Treman, Banks & Mosher, and in 1868 Stephen B. Banks sold his interest to S. C. Allen and went to Chillicothe, Missouri, where he purchased a farm. He sold it in 1872 and engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Chillicothe until 1874, at which time he returned to Millport to his former business interests as a member of the firm of Banks & Allen. Mr. Banks retired in 1882 and later lived at Watkins Glens. His wife was born at Trumansburg, New York, and died May 20, 1897. Both are buried at Ithaca. Mr. Banks was a Democrat, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and Masonic Lodge. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Banks: 1. Morris T., deceased. 2. Louise L., the widow of George Utter, lives at Ithaca. 3. Frederick, who died in infancy. 4. S. Edwin, the sub- ject of this sketch. 5. Carrie B., married Samuel Lacy, lives in Tompkins County. 6. John B., lives at Elmira, New York.
S. Edwin Banks attended the public schools of Millport, and later at Chillicothe, Missouri. He returned to Millport with his parents in 1874 and seven years later came to Ithaca as a book- keeper in the Tompkins County National Bank. For a time he was interested in the hardware business at Watkins Glens, New York, in partnership with his brother, Morris T. Banks, but in 1892 he returned to Ithaca. He then entered Cornell University, from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1895, being admit- ted to the bar in the same year. He then became a clerk in the
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offices of J. T. Newman, and after a few months became a member of the firm of Newman, Blood, Banks & Bostwick. Since 1899 Mr. Banks has engaged in private practice in Ithaca. He is also a trustee of the Ithaca Savings Bank. He has also been president of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, now Ithaca College, for many years.
Mr. Banks was married in 1898 to Miss Calvina O'Daniel, of Ithaca, the daughter of Addison and Mary F. (Gardner) O'Daniel. Both were natives of Tompkins County and are deceased. Mr. O'Daniel was a Civil War veteran and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. To Mr. and Mrs. Banks were born three children: 1. Robert Treman, born November 26, 1901, a graduate of Ithaca High School and Cornell University, Bachelor of Arts degree in 1923. He then taught for one year at the university and for two years was a member of the faculty at the University of Nebraska. He spent a year in graduate study in Paris, France, and is now working for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Cornell University. He is unmarried and lives at home. 2. Rich- ard E., born January 25, 1905, a graduate of Ithaca High School and was a student at Cornell University at the time of his death, February 13, 1924. He is buried in Ithaca. 3. Virginia G., born December 2, 1909, a graduate of Ithaca High School and Cornell University, Bachelor of Arts degree in 1931. She is now a gradu- ate student at the university.
Politically, Mr. Banks has always been a Republican. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with Fidel- ity Lodge, No. 51, F. and A. M .; Eagle Chapter, No. 58, R. A. M., and St. Augustine Commandery, No. 38, K. T. He lives with his family at 412 University Avenue, Ithaca, and is the owner of a fine farm of 180 acres near Brooktondale, Tompkins County, where he has a herd of pure bred Guernsey cattle.
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Herbert M. Blanche .- One of the leading citizens of Ithaca, well known throughout Central New York, is Herbert M. Blanche, landscape architect and general superintendent of the Finger Lakes State Park Commission. He is a native of England, born
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in London, March 7, 1885, the son of Edwin and Catherine (Berry) Blanche.
Edwin Blanche lived in London throughout his life, and for more than half a century was successful as a manufacturer of pianos at Highgate. He died in 1884 and his wife, a native of Sudbury, died in 1896. They were members of the Congregational Church. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Blanche: 1. Marie Elizabeth, the widow of John Coyle, lives at Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 2. Edwin Josiah, lives at Regina. 3. Herbert M., the subject of this sketch.
After his graduation from the public schools of Suffolk, Eng- land, Herbert H. Blanche became a student in landscape archi- tecture at the Royal Botanical Gardens, at Kew, England. At the age of twenty-four years he came to the United States as land- scape architect in charge of the estate of Samuel Untermeyer, at Yonkers, New York. He remained there for almost five years and afterwards spent two years on the Harris estate at Irvington, New York. Mr. Blanche subsequently entered Cornell University and received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture in that institution in 1920. During the World War he enlisted and served at Camp Lee, Virginia. He served in the Officer's Training Corps. He was honorably discharged in Novem- ber, 1918. He then was a landscape designer field superintendent for Olmsted Brothers, at Brookline, Massachusetts, and in 1924, became identified with the Finger Lakes State Park Commission as chief forester, with headquarters at Ithaca. He was appointed landscape architect and general superintendent in 1927. Mr. Blanche holds membership in the American Society of Landscape Architects and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Park Executives.
On January 27, 1911, Mr. Blanche was married at Yonkers, New York, to Miss Agnes Grace Doncaster, a native of Kensing- ton, England, born February 27, 1884. She is the daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Doncaster, who are residents of Ken- sington. Mr. and Mrs. Blanche have twin daughters, Nancy Catherine, and Marie Elizabeth, born November 25, 1923.
Politically Mr. Blanche is independent. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge and Rotary Club.
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Louis K. Thaler is successfully engaged in the practice of law at Ithaca as a member of the firm of Stagg, Thaler & Stagg, with offices at 220 North Tioga Street. He was born in New York City, November 9, 1903, the son of Jacob John and Rebecca (Marko) Thaler.
Jacob John Thaler is widely known in Brooklyn, New York, as the president of Jacob J. Thaler Company, manufacturers of suspenders. He has been identified with that enterprise for many years. Mr. Thaler and his wife are natives of Germany and live in Brooklyn. He is a Republican. To Mr. and Mrs. Thaler were born four children: 1. Louis K., the subject of this sketch. 2. Ethel J., a graduate of Adelphi College, lives at Garden City, Long Island. 3. Joseph Ira, a graduate of Cornell University, Bachelor of Arts in 1929, Master of Arts in 1930, now a graduate student in Human Physiology at Cornell University. 4. Ada S., attends Brooklyn High School.
Louis K. Thaler was educated in the public schools of Brook- lyn, from which he was graduated in 1921. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University in 1925 and Bachelor of Laws in February, 1927, being admitted to the bar in June, 1927. He then began his professional career in New York City as general counsel for the Great American Tea Com- pany, a subsidiary of the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. He came to Ithaca December 5, 1927, and was associated with the law firm of Stagg & Teath until January, 1931, when the firm was reorganized as Stagg, Thaler & Stagg. Mr. Thaler is a member of the Tompkins County and New York State Bar Association.
On September 5, 1926, Mr. Thaler married Miss Rachel Shul- man, who was born in New York City, May 7, 1907, the daughter of Max and Sarah (Robinson) Shulman. For many years Mr. Shulman conducted a furniture business at 103 West State Street, Ithaca. He died in July, 1921, and his widow still resides here. Rachel (Shulman) Thaler is a graduate of Ithaca High School and Ithaca Conservatory of Music. Mr. and Mrs. Thaler have two sons: 1. Manley Hugh, born October 13, 1929. 2. Richard Byron, born March 15, 1932.
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Mr. Thaler is a Republican, a member and Senior Deacon of Fidelity Lodge, No. 51, F. and A. M., Ithaca Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree, Masonic Club, Exchange Club, and Y. M. C. A.
David B. Perry .- As vice president and secretary of the Morse Chain Company, Inc., Mr. Perry is accounted one of the prom- inent and most influential men associated with the industrial interests of Ithaca. He was born here, November 15, 1873, the son of William H. and Mathilda M. (Barnes) Perry.
William H. Perry was born near Buffalo, New York, and spent his early life there. At the age of eleven years he was left an orphan and he later enlisted as a seaman on a whaling vessel. He spent eleven years on the sea, the last four years of which were spent in the U. S. Navy during the Civil War. Mr. Perry came to Ithaca in 1869 and immediately became asso- ciated in the building and contracting business with William Nelson. In 1871 he went with the firm of Hyatt & Oltz, and four years later became associated with John Snaith. At the time of his retirement Mr. Perry was recognized as the city's leading building contractor, and completed such important con- tracts as the Congregational Church, Unitarian Church, Fiske mansion, Kappa Alpha and Chi Phi fraternity houses, as well as residences in Ithaca for professors Fuertes, Thruston, and Nichols. He also had the contract for carpenter work for the Cornell University Library. Mr. Perry died November 4, 1910. His wife was born in Tompkins County and died in February, 1931. They are buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Ithaca. Mr. Perry was a Republican and served as alderman of the Fourth Ward. He was a trustee of Unitarian Church and belonged to the Masonic Lodge and Grand Army of the Republic. To Mr. and Mrs. Perry were born six children: 1. George W., insurance, lives at Ithaca. 2. Cora M., married F. L. Morse, president of Morse Chain Company, Inc. 3. David B., the subject of this sketch. 4. Chapin Cavenaugh, farmer, lives at Lansing, New
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