Word: skehane
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...John Skehan, one of the University's most faithful workers who has labored here for over half a century and spent the last forty years keeping the Yard in good condition died yesterday of a severe cold and heart trouble at his home at 21 Fairview Avenue, Belmont after a week's illness. He is survived by his wife, five children and several grandchildren...
...March 4 a large group of College officials headed by President Conant and including Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, presented Skehan with a meerschaum amber pipe in commemoration of his fiftieth anniversary of service...
...Skehan spent the first 32 years of his life in Ireland and the Middle West where he knocked about in Kansas for three years following his arrival from the old country in 1882. It was not until 1885 that he got a job in Cambridge. He always maintained that it "was the greatest mistake of my 72 years of life" when he came to work for the University...
Headed by President Conant, a large number of College officials, including the ubiquitous Colonel Charles R. Apted '03, presented a meerschaum amber pipe to John Skehan yesterday morning in commemoration of 50 years of service in the University...
After three years of knocking about in Kansas following his landing from Ireland in 1882, Skehan came to Cambridge. "That was the greatest mistake of my 72 years of life," he declared...