CLASS OF 1883
George Winch was born in Langdon, N. H., July 11, 1857, and died in Manchester, N. H.. March 28, 1919.
His parents were Thomas and Clarissa (Towne) Winch. His preparation for college was obtained at Kimball Union Academy. In college he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
Upon graduation he entered at once upon his lifework of teaching, being for the first year employed at North Haverhill, N. H. For four years he was master of the Day St. School in Fitchburg, Mass., and in 1888 went to Manchester to take charge of the Varney School, which he never left. In 1912 he learned that he had an incurable disease (hardening of the arteries), but continued to do his work, and was at his school on the day of his death.
Mr. Winch was married August 24, 1887, to E. Corinne Holden of Langdon, who survives him, with their two children, Emily Josephine, now Mrs. Roger Wallace Clifford of Schenectady, N. Y., and Percy Holden, who has just completed his freshman year at Cornell University.
Mr. Winch was a member of the First Congregational church of Manchester and for some years a deacon; an earnest worker in the Boy Scouts, being scout commissioner at the time of his death; prominent in the I. O. O. F.; and a member of the Educational Council of New Hampshire.
The following tribute is taken from a newspaper of the city: "Manchester lost a good citizen when the heart of George Winch ceased to beat. For more than thirty years he had been one of the energetic, patriotic, uplifting factors in our busy life, and his influence could always be counted upon in every cause calculated to promote the welfare of the community and contribute to the happiness and improvement of the individual man and woman. As an educator, at the head of two of our grammar schools, he kept abreast of the times and performed work of the highest efficiency; as a leader of the Boy Scouts he held the foremost place in the community; in the church, the lodge room, and in all the walks of life his was a sturdy figure, pointing the way to better things. He was a man of lofty ideals, and his life record stands forth as an example of rectitude and the highest honor."
