Andrew Quinn Hourigan Jr. ’37
CIVIC LEADER, lawyer, former Class treasurer and president, Andy Hourigan died Feb, 19, 1992. His starstudded career started at Wyoming Seminary, where he was wrestling manager, school paper staffer, class secretary, and graduated cum laude. At Princeton he majored in politics and took second group departmental honors, aside from being on the wrestling squad, manager of the gym, on the TIGER business board, and treasurer of Key and Seal.
After Pennsylvania Law School, where he as on the LAW REVIEW, he took up his father's general practice, when his father became a judge. From 1942 to 1946 he was in the Army, doing secret sleuthing as a tech, sergeant and marrying Wave Lt. (j.g.) Annette Beasley' who was to predecease him in 1983. In 1952 he founded the WilkesBarre law firm of Hourigan, Kluger, Spohrer & Quinn. His civic contributions would fill this page president of the Pennsylvania Bar Assn., president of the Princeton Club of Northeastern Pennsylvania, co-founder of the Wyoming United Way, and trustee and director literally dozens of organizations. Andy and his wife, "Bea," worked as a team in bringing industry back to WilkesBarre. She was colonel of the West Side Geographic Division of the Community Chest until 1954. With a house on higher ground, they gave succor to many neighbors during the great Wyoming Valley flood. our deepest sympathies go to Andy's daughters Kathy Lique and Annette Maguire, son Terry, five grandchildren, and four sisters, on the loss of a great man.
The Class of 1937
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