'Crimson' Printer Art Hopkins Dies

Arthur H. Hopkins, a linotypist for the CRIMSON for 34 years before his retirement in 1964, died Sept. 1 at his home in Malden. He was 67 years old.

CRIMSON editors held "Art" in awe from the day he first stepped into the building in 1929. His unmatched competence pulled together many a thoroughly disorganized staff. He was the paper's most loyal member, but he criticized it regularly, and his rare written tributes were the CRIMSON editor's equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize.

Upon his retirement, the editors of the CRIMSON presented him with a book, The Art of Fine Words, written in his honor by 35 years of editors with a forward by President Pusey.

He is survived by his wife, the former Helen Hawkins, and a brother, Samuel V. Hopkins, of Kittery, Me.