Hank joined our class from New Rochelle, N.Y., bearing a wry smile and a perpetual twinkle already in his eye. He threw the javelin three years, played rugby one year, was president of Quad, and founded the Chinn & Beake Society. Majoring in English at Princeton, he later earned a Ph.D. in English from Cornell and worked in dean’s offices at Cornell, Princeton, and U. Va. Hank was dean of students at Manhattanville College and dean of freshmen at Harvard, also teaching American literature and advanced courses on Faulkner.
In 1991 he joined Trinity, overseeing construction of a 43,000-square-foot addition and raising the endowment from $6 million to $51 million. Forever a scholar-athlete and extremely popular with students, teachers, and parents, Hank was an ideal match for the elite school, which was founded in 1709 and still used Latin and Greek to form a core of the curriculum.
Surviving are his wife, Mary Sarah “Missy” Holland; five children, James ’88, Bruce, Paige, Laurence, and William; four grandchildren; his father, Henry ’38; sisters Margery Phillips and Catherine Barber; and ex-wife Jean Smith Moses.