New England Conservatory of Music - Neume Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Hiram Stanley Marsh With great pride and humility, the Class of 1957 dedicates its yearbook to Mr. Hiram Stanley Marsh. During our years here, Mr. Marsh has been an example and inspiration to us by the quiet and unassuming manner in which he has carried out his great responsibilities. Mr. Marsh is of fine old New England stock and was born on the fourteenth of August, in the year eighteen hundred seventy-five at the family home in Hudson, New Hampshire. One of Mr. Marsh ' s ancestors was a Captain in the Revolutionary War and is buried on the fami ly estate. Some may question the dedicating of this book to a person who is not known as a performing musician, but a look at Mr. Marsh ' s career will quickly dispell any reservations along that line. When he entered Harvard, there was no such thing as a music major; but he took all the music courses that were available to him. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in the class of 1897 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Although not going into music as his vocation, he became or- ?anist at the Baptist and Congregational Churches in Winchester and later at the Congregational !hurch in Arlington. For the first three years after graduation from Harvard, Mr. Marsh worked at Butterick Pub- lishing Co., and from 1900 to 1947 for the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. Since that time, he has been on the staff of the Conservatory. Mr. Marsh is devoted to his family which includes his wife, a son, a daughter and eight grand- children. He is very young in attitude, especially in his quest for new knowledge and informa- tion. As one acquaintance put it, Mr. Marsh ' s hobby is looking up everything he doesn ' t know. We salute this gentleman who, in his eighties, is still a constant, youthful example to all who know him. 9