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Ray Haskell
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Susan Clarke Haskell
Life Members of the
HASKELL FAMILY ASSOCIATION
© 2005-2008
Any commercial use of material found here is expressly forbidden.
Helen Lacey Haskell 1911-1991
...Obituary
Helen L. Haskell; Administrator, 90
Published: March 27, 1991
Helen Lacey Haskell, a camp administrator who was active in civic affairs, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 90 years old.
She began her career in 1929 as a co-director of Camp Treetops with her husband, Douglas. The co-educational camp was affiliated with the North Country School in Lake Placid, N.Y. In 1948 she became the camp's director, a post she held until she retired in 1969.
She was president of the New York section of the American Camping Association from 1966 to 1968, and a board member of Trail Blazers Camp, which provided camping for disadvantaged children, from 1974 to 1989.
Her husband, a former editor of Architectural Forum, died in 1979.
She is survived by four sisters, Leonora Clark of Bloomfield, Conn., Agnes Fisher of Vero Beach, Fla., Vida Hofmann of Manhattan, and Mary Schultz of Fort Myers, FLa., and a brother William Lacey of Port Charlotte, Fla.
Published: March 27, 1991
Helen Lacey Haskell, a camp administrator who was active in civic affairs, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 90 years old.
She began her career in 1929 as a co-director of Camp Treetops with her husband, Douglas. The co-educational camp was affiliated with the North Country School in Lake Placid, N.Y. In 1948 she became the camp's director, a post she held until she retired in 1969.
She was president of the New York section of the American Camping Association from 1966 to 1968, and a board member of Trail Blazers Camp, which provided camping for disadvantaged children, from 1974 to 1989.
Her husband, a former editor of Architectural Forum, died in 1979.
She is survived by four sisters, Leonora Clark of Bloomfield, Conn., Agnes Fisher of Vero Beach, Fla., Vida Hofmann of Manhattan, and Mary Schultz of Fort Myers, FLa., and a brother William Lacey of Port Charlotte, Fla.