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Lorimer ‘Bill’ Heywood From the Hobart Class of 1922, Heywood is thought to be the longest serving class correspondent in HWS history. BY HE N R Y J . LE N Z ’ 72
“We had a hell of a time. So be it with all of you for another year,” Pulteney Street Survey class correspondent Lorimer Dexter Heywood wrote in his column in 1922. He went on to serve as class correspondent until his death in 1977, thought to be one of the longest serving class correspondents in the Colleges’ history. Born in Boston, Mass., the son of Charles L. Heywood and Grace Johnson Heywood was educated in East High School, Rochester, N.Y., and registered with the local draft board in 1918 as World War I was coming to a close. His first job was an inspector at the Taylor Instrument Company, where thermometers, barometers and compasses were made. Bill enrolled at Hobart in January 1919, where he became the associate editor of the Herald newspaper and the art editor of the Echo & Pine yearbook. As a student, he was elected Senior Class President and was a member of the Honor Council, the Glee Club, Phi Epsilon and a Druid. Heywood’s yearbook biography describes him as: “This little fellow is the editor of this book. He is as busy as the proverbial cat on the marble floor. Who would think a man of such small stature could have so many brains? We don’t either. … Bill is also an artist and hopes to land a job with Mack Sennett’s Movie Company painting the girls. His sense of humor is found in his ‘Raven’ column: ‘The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.’”
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