Manlius School - Haversack Yearbook (Manlius, NY)

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FOREWGRD I-ZVING amid scenes of a busy life, one does not have much time to reflect upon the full significance of the affairs of which he is a part, It is our hope that, after you have gone on to further stages in your career, while engaged in your life's work and in duties and pleasures of widely varying natures, this book will recall the happy days you spent at Manlius-the les- sons leatned, the recreation you enjoyed, and the friendships made.

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ENRY D. KNOX, born in Russell, N. Y., H comes of colonial ancestry dating back to 1737, when his famib' settled in Massachusetts. At an earb age he received his start in mercantile business, while attending public school. Having worked in a general store at Watertown, N .Y., he later moved to Bujfalo, where he was employed in the frm of his brother, Seymour H. Knox. Later at Lockport, N .Y., where he acted as manager of one of the fourteen branches of the company, he evidenced his ability as a business executive. For two years he saw service with the United States Army at Fort Bayard, New Mexico. During that time, he says, he learned to know the value that military training has for a young man. Upon receiving his honorable dis- charge, he returned to the merchandising busi- ness at Buffalo, and in 1912, on the merger of his firm with F. W. Woolworth Company, he became treasurer of the corporation and manager for the Buffalo district. He retired from active business in I9 18, moving to East Aurora, N .Y. , where he resides at Knox Knoll in a home built according to the plans which he had conceived in earb' manhood. Among his benefactions is the Administration Building of the Methodist Home for Children at Williamsville, N .Y. Besides being a member of civic and fraternal orders of Western New York, he has had con- ferred upon him the 33rd Masonic degree. A lover of art, he has collected many masterpieces from his travels abroad. Mr. Knox is known to Manlius Cadets as the father of Cadet fames H. Knox, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the School, and for the generous gift which bears his name, Knox Hall, formally opened on May 28, 1932.

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COLONEL GUIDO F. VERBECK SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SCHOOL