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VOLUME LVI, 1917 I 3 Trastegs l£E@eft®d Pow@flfl Evasas M Written for the tScnn liy I;uiim,ki k I . Gburkiikrc, Director of LhiUnlelphiii Uumm of Municipal Research Hobart College may well be proud of having graduated Powell Evans, class of 1888. Not only has he served his college and his business well, but he has given himself unsparingly to community and public service, always as a volunteer and always from a fine sense of civic duty. From his experience in trying to get things done for the common good, he has learned that public service needs trained, far- seeing. intelligent men, imbued with a desire to serve and, in so doing, to find themselves. Mr. Evans was born in South Carolina in 1868, the son of Dr. James Evans and Marie Antoinette Powell of Leesburg, Virginia. He was educated in the schools of Florence, S. C. While in Hobart college, he was a member of Sigma Phi and was awarded Phi Beta Kappa. Graduating in 1888 with special training in engineering, he entered business, meeting with great success and finally becoming principal owner of Merchant Evans in 1905. Fie is also an officer of two other corporations, one traction and the other a sprinkler company. One of his most distinctive public services was the organization of the Philadelphia Fire Prevention Commission of the Department of Public Safety and of the First American National Fire Prevention Convention, held in Philadelphia in 1913. When one considers the tremendous fire waste in the United States annually, this is funda- mental preventive work. His efforts in this direction have been constant and unremitting. As trustee of Hobart College, Powell Evans is giving unstinted service, and in addition is contributing generously to the endowment, making possible two large scholarships for the right sort of young men. In 1882 he won a state scholarship which he was denied on account of his youth. It is only natural, therefore, that the need for scholarships should appeal to him. Although he is an extremely busy man, Mr. Evans finds time to serve as director of a national bank and of a trust company, as Vice-
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