Melvin E. Hodgkins ’55 died on August 13, 2017, in Scarborough, Maine.

(The following was published in The Boston Globe on August 18, 2017:)

HODGKINS, Melvin E. 83, of Brunswick, ME passed away in the company of those who love him on Sunday evening, August 13, 2017, at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice Home in Scarborough, ME. Mel is survived by his wife Jean, of Brunswick, ME, two sons, James Hodgkins of Chester Springs, PA, and his wife, Penny Furness- Hodgkins; Bradford Hodgkins of Bath, ME, and his girlfriend, Dru Valliere; two grandchildren, Chris Degifico of Biddeford, ME, and Abigale Hodgkins of Bath, ME, and three sisters-in-law, Jackie Reynolds of Atlanta, GA, Holly McIntyre of Tishomingo, MS, and Nicole McIntyre of Baton Rouge, LA.