Hekkinan, Harold

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Harold Hekkinan, taught Political Science and coached football at the high school for 20 years, but is now the Principal. He's a Vietnam vet, having been a lieutenant in the First Cavalry Division, and returned wounded. He still draws 20% disability. He went to Vietnam with the Toivo Expedition in Absent Friend. He caught a bit of the archaeology bug when Rod Matson was teaching the expedition what to look for, so spent a number of summers working for Rod as a digger.

As Principal of the High School, he initially mishandled the fight that got Jason Bailey expelled, until Brenda Hodunk did her investigation for the newspaper, as found in Andromeda Chained, Ch.6-7.

Harold appears in Facing the Storm, Chapter 35, when his need for a Basketball coach, one that hasn't been tainted by the prior Title IX lawsuit, as well as a Math and Science teacher, neatly solves a problem with Brandy Wine's free time.