Word: husking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Husk and Fraser...
Concern for these and all other buildings and humanity that make up the University rests largely upon the shoulders of two men-Al Fraser and Bon Husk-who make up the University's Safety Patrol. These men supervised the recent rope-and-tackle practice which got nation-wide attention as the last word in liberal education...
Dangling freshmen on the end of a rope is all part of a day's work for Fraser and Husk. They have a job that never ends. One of their chief duties is to check the 1700 fire extinguishers that are placed strategically about the University...
...Husk and Fraser are not fire-fighters in the usual sense of the word. Only once have they actually been on hand to quench a fire; they happened to be checking protective equipment in the hall where it broke...
...University Museum, one of 48 sprinkler-equipped buildings, is checked four times weekly by the Patrol. The extra attention, Husk and Fraser explain, is because the building is not fireproof Fogg Museum, housing many valuable objets d'art that would suffer almost as much from water as from fire, is protected by carbon dioxide...