Harry Flynn

Harry was born on April 15, 1930 in Montclair, New Jersey. His parents, Tom and Anna Flynn, originally came from Fall River, Massachusetts, moved to New Jersey in the thirties when Tom set up his own Insurance Agency on Wall Street. They later moved to New York City for a short time and then moved to Edgartown, Massachusetts, a town on the island of Martha's Vineyard. At the age of nine Harry attended the Edgartown School and when he turned thirteen he went away to private school. After a year at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, he transferred to Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts where the present President George Bush and his father also attended. At Andover he was active in athletics doing the hurdles and he also found time to work on the school production crew for its amateur theatricals. Harvard University became his next stop where he became involved in their dramatic club. He was chairman of the Hasting Pudding Show, the oldest dramatic organization in the