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Notes for Alfred Guillon Jr. HARE
A.G. Hare, 96, teacher and owner of a camp
By Sally A. Downey
Inquirer Staff Writer
Alfred G. "Waboos" Hare, 96, who taught at a Wynnewood day school for 32 years, died Tuesday, May 3, at the Helen Porter Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury, Vt.
Mr. Hare also co-owned a Vermont summer camp that he started attending as a boy. His ownership involvement resulted from a chance rendezvous with a camp friend in Paris during World War II.
He had heard from a third camp friend, who was stationed in the Pacific, that the camp was for sale and in danger of closing. According to a camp history, Mr. Hare stayed up all night in Paris with Abbott Fenn, trying to figure out how they could buy the camp.
After returning home in 1945, the two men met the third camper, Harold Curtiss, in Vermont. After consulting with relatives and scraping together as much money as they could, they bought the 450-acre camp for $42,000.
Mr. Hare graduated from Montgomery Country Day School in Wynnewood and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He then joined the day school faculty, teaching English and history to middle-school students and coaching football, basketball, and baseball.
During World War II, he served with the Army Quartermaster Corps in Europe.
After his discharge, he returned to the day school. He retired in the early 1970s after a 32-year career. He also lived in Wynnewood.
Beginning when he was 8, Mr. Hare spent summers at Keewaydin Dunmore, a boys camp in Salisbury, Vt. The first summer he was there he was given the nickname "Waboos," which means "white rabbit" in the Ojibway language. "The name stuck," his son Peter said.
As a camper, Mr. Hare was named best athlete in 1932. Later, as a staff member, he ran Keewaydin Dunmore's baseball program and organized the Friday-night dramatic productions.
Mr. Hare co-owned and directed the camp from 1946 to 1982. After the camp was sold to a nonprofit, the Keewaydin Foundation, he continued to manage it until 2000.
"His unbridled joy for the camping life was inspirational," said his son, who is now camp director. "He will be remembered for the gusto with which he led songs, his encyclopedic memory for names, and his epic doubles tennis matches alongside his partner, Abby Fenn. He put smiles on the faces of thousands of campers," his son said.
Mr. Hare's wife, Katharine Caner Hare, whom he married in 1953, helped him with camp duties. She died in 2002.
In addition to his son, he is survived by a daughter, Laurie; another son, Steve; and six grandchildren.
A celebration of life will be held at Keewaydin Dunmore Camp at a time to be determined on Sunday, Aug. 28.
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