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William H. Claflin `15, former Harvard treasurer, died Thursday night at the age of 88, Serving for ten years from 1938 to 1948. Claflin played a large role in the University's war effort during World War II, acting as contracting officer with various government agencies...
...Claflin actually directed most University operations when then President James B. Conant '14 left Cambridge to serve as Director of the National Defense Research Committee and advisor on the Pentagon's atomic bomb research project...
When the Navy took over the Freshman Union and Eliot House as training comters during the war. Claflin coordinated officers' programs on campus. He remained a prominent figure throughout the American war effort and met personally with Winston Churchill when the letter came to Cambridge, Clafin's wife, Helen, said yesterday...
PARTY: music by the Southern Knights; Claflin Hall; Friday...
...Claflin could not be reached for comment yesterday...