Word: gookin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WARNER F. GOOKIN...
August retirements will include Edward Ballantine '07, associate professor of Music; Harold S. Kemp, lecturer on Geography; Simeon B. Wolbach M.D. '03, Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy; Henry W. Holmes '03, professor of Education; and Edward L. Gookin, registrar of the College Library...
...Daniel Gookin, the third librarian, was able to move the collection almost single handed to its new location in Harvard Hall, in 1676, for which "pains" the Corporation paid him 50 shillings. Extant catalogues of the 1750's show the library, which was recognized as the most important in the country, with the sum total of 5,000 volumes...
Edward L. Gookin is the oldest employee, having held the position of registrar for over 50 years. Several persons have worked at the book storage house as long as Gookin; however they are retired. Those who have retired recently are Walter W. Briggs and Charles Mahady, both of whom had records which lasted over half a century...
...department is under the leadership now of Mr. Gookin, a genial old man who reveals that the men are now busily tied up shooting pictures of upwards of a hundred mathematics Ph.D. theses to be filled for the American Mathematical Society...