Word: matson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...duty as well as a pastime. Lois Eiseman, 67, a former kindergarten teacher, travels to schools and day-care centers to test children for hearing disabilities. Restaurant Owner "Daddy" Bruce Randolph, 88 this week, serves thousands of dinners to Denver's homeless and shut-ins every Thanksgiving. Wayne Matson, 67, a retired Air Force colonel, volunteers full time for the humane society in Winter Haven, Fla. "If you're not committed to something," he declares, "you're just taking up space...
...something that's been missing," says Alan R. Matson '85-6. Matson took time off from Harvard when the old Ha' Penny closed down, but declined to say if that's why he left...
...Henry Matson, 62, recalls the night he strolled into a bar called the Great Alaskan Bush Co. with a $12,579.64 paycheck in his pocket. At least he remembers the beginning of the night. Matson, who had been fishing for salmon in Alaska's Bristol Bay, was looking for a good time in the rowdy Anchorage saloon. And he got exactly what he wanted, according to Owner Edna Cox, who agreed to cash Matson's check. He spent the night, she said, "buying all the patrons in the club drinks, paying numerous girls for table dances, handing...
...Anchorage Superior Court judge agreed. The judge ordered Cox, who failed to appear at a November hearing, to repay Matson. But last week Superior Court Judge Mark Rowland overturned that decision, giving Cox ten more days to respond. Matson and his attorney were not commenting on the decision. Cox was. Said she: "I am not in any way liable for the decision of a mature gentleman to party with vast amounts of money...
...delivered a cargo ship, the Maui, to the Matson Navigation Co. in San Francisco. It was one of four Matson had built at three different yards from identical plans. The BIW ship was unquestionably the best. Says AJ. Haskell, Matson's senior vice president and a former Navy officer: "It may sound like I work for them. But look at the fairness of the hull, its smoothness, which is determined by the quality of the welding. You can walk down the pier and compare the Maui with the Kauai, the ship another company built for us. You can immediately...