Curry S. Hicks is seen helping students and young faculty to dig drainage ditches for the first athletic field at Massachusetts Agricultural College. This field was used for about 50 years before it became the location for the Whitmore Administration Building. (The previous information is handwritten on the back of the photograph). Curry Starr Hicks was born in Enfield, N.Y. January 17, 1885; appointed Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Hygiene at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1911; was made Associate Professor in 1914 and Professor in 1916; the Curry Hicks Physical Education Building on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus was dedicated to Curry Hicks in 1941. He retired in 1949 and moved to Arizona with his wife Adeline E. Hicks. He died in 1964.
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