CLASS OF 1908

Howard Franklin Whipple died of pneumonia April 13 in Brockton, Mass. He was taken ill while at the home of a sister, and the physicians did not allow his removal to his own home.

He was born in Brockton, June 22, 1886, being a son of John Jay and Helen Otis (Howard) Whipple. The fall after graduation he entered the leather business with the V. and F. W. Filoon Company of Brockton, and continued with the company, becoming several months ago superintendent of their manufacturing plant.

He took an active interest in public affairs, and was alderman of the city in 1915, '16, and '17, being the last year president of the board. For three months, during the illness of the mayor, he was acting mayor of the city, and last fall received the Republican nomination for mayor. He was defeated, however, at the polls by the Democratic candidate.

He was in the selective draft, and qualified in February before the examining board. When taken ill, he was awaiting his call to service.

Whipple was a member of the several Brockton Masonic bodies, of the Elks, the Brockton Press Club, the University Club, and the Y. M. C. A.

January 17, 1918, he was married to Mary Adena White of Brockton.