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- Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society, Vol 3 # 2, Page 9
DR. HENRY S. HASKELL., educator, community leader and former Dean of Wheelock College of Boston, MA, died 31 Jan. 1994 at the Camden Health Care Center, Maine, USA, aged 81 years. Born in Switzerland, one of ten children of Congregational missionaries Edward and Elizabeth (Frohlich) Haskell serving in Bulgaria, he graduated from Ponoma College, Claremont, CA, and was awarded his doctoral degree by New York University, after teaching for a time at a peasant folk school founded by his parents in Bulgaria. During WWIl he served as a US Army cryptographer in India. He and his wife Bessie (Combs)
Haskell founded Blueberry Cove Camp in Tenants Harbor, Maine, in the 1950's as the first inter-racial private children's camp in New England and ran it for 16 years.
Besides his wife, Dr. Haskell leaves two brothers, Oliver and Gordon, two sisters, Martha Palmer of California and Eldora Spiegelberg of St. Louis, three grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren.
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U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Henry S Haskell
Birth Year: 1912
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Lichtenstein or Switzerland
State of Residence: New York
County or City: Essex
Enlistment Date: 10 Jul 1942
Enlistment State: Maine
Enlistment City: Portland
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: 4 years of college
Civil Occupation: Teachers, primary school and kindergarten
Marital status: Married
Height: 65
Weight: 135
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