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The Big Reveal
Left to right: Pamela Watts, DKH director of development, Cheryl Bozorgmanesh, president of the DKH Woman’s Board, and Bob Smanik, president and CEO of Day Kimball Healthcare unveil a picture of the hospital’s namesake, Moses Day Kimball on the 145th anniversary of his birth on Valentine’s Day. M. Day Kimball was born Feb. 14, 1868) and from a Boston family who summered in Pomfret. He graduated from Harvard and was among the first group of law clerks appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. A year later, in 1893, Kimball died in Washington, D.C. ,of pneumonia. That same year, his mother, Susan Kimball, gave the seed money to found Day Kimball Hospital in his memory. Courtesy photo.