CLASS OF 1876

Harry Freeman Towle died December 31 of Bright's disease at his home at New Brighton, Staten Island, New York City. He was born in Epsom, N. H., May 20, 1852, and prepared for college at Penacook Academy. He maintained a high rank for scholarship in College, had a part upon the programs of Junior Exhibition and Commencement, and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa at graduation. He was also a member of Psi Upsilon. He taught winters during his college course, and continued the work of a teacher after graduation, teaching at Wells, Me.', in 1876-7, in the high school at Hollis, N. H., 1877-8, at Whitman, Mass., 1878-81, and in Yonkers, N. Y., 1881-2. He then left teaching for a year for the' benefit of his health, and was in life insurance business in Detroit. In 1883 he became teacher of mathematics in the Central High School of Brooklyn, N. Y. In February, 1888, on the opening of the Boys' High School, he was appointed head of the Latin department in that school, and continued there till October, 1906, being also vice-principal and for some months acting principal. During his long term of service he achieved unusual success, both in teaching and discipline, and was very popular with his fellowteachers and his students. In October, 1906, he was appointed principal of Curtis High School, in the Borough of Richmond (Staten Island), and held that position at the time of his death. In 1903' he published an edition of Caesar for school use. In 1907 he was president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York, and he was president of the Latin Club, and a member of the Teachers' Association, the Schoolmasters' Club, the Sons of the Revolution, and the Masonic order. For more than twenty years he had been a member of Plymouth Congregational church, Brooklyn. Mr. Towle was married December 23, 1880, to Annie M. Sproul of Whitman, Mass., who survives him with their their one child, a daughter.

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