Deceased July 27, 2019
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Hank grew up in suburban Philadelphia and prepared for Amherst at Episcopal Academy. He majored in biology and was a member of Phi Delta Theta. One of the top high hurdlers in New England and top point earners for Amherst, Hank was track captain, ran cross country and joined the Sailing Club and the Christian Association. At Penn State he earned a second bachelor’s degree, in agriculture, which led to his running a beef cattle farm near Valley Forge, Pa.
Later, Hank continued an active outdoor life in farming in The Plains, Va. There, too, as his obituary explains, he was famous in the local fox-hunting world, serving at various times as master of the fox hounds for the Orange County hunt, as honorary huntsman for the local pony club and also as a judge for the hound show. Fishing, too, was a big part of his outdoor life and his claim to fame as a maker of bamboo fly rods and hand-tied flies, which he sold in his outdoorsman shop. As the founder of the Rapidan chapter of Trout Unlimited, he donated his fly rods for fundraising. In retirement Hank served as a fishing guide in Yellowstone National Park from the family summer home at the northeast entrance to the park in Silver Gate, Mont.
Hank’s memberships included Trout Unlimited and the Society of Cincinnati.
His family’s historical roots reached back to John Woolman, famous colonial Quaker abolitionist campaigner and writer.
Hank passed away on July 27, “peacefully at his home with his wife, Marcia.” Also surviving him are sons Michael and Andy, five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and his sister, Joan. His eldest son, Henry IV, predeceased Hank in 2018.
George Edmonds ’53