Harvey graduated from Mitchell Home High School, Misenheimer, NC, in 1926 and Duke University in 1930 and 1931 (M.A.).

His body was given to the USC Medical School, Charleston, SC.
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[This is a slightly edited version of the biographical sketch written by Harvey's sister, Mamie, in March, 1980.]

Harvey was born 15 Nov 1906 in Liberty, Rowan County, NC, the first of eight children of C. G. Frick and Mary Eagle and nine months four days after their marriage. He was a dependable and obedient little boy who hardly knew how to cause a commotion in the family until he learned techniques from his brother Fred who was 13 months younger.

Harvey's was a typical small farm family, the life hard but satisfying. He had to grow up quickly because of the speed with which the family grew and the necessity of children working to help with the farm. Harvey was plowing by the time he could reach the plow handles and helping with the chores long before school age. However there were times when Harvey and Fred, their cousin, Orin Morgan, and two uncles their age, Jim and John Eagle, slipped to the summer swimming hole for an hour or two, hunted crayfish in the pasture stream, or played in a community ballgame.

Harvey was studious and serious in school, a quiet child who was sometimes the butt of teasing by bigger bullies. One boy in particular made life on the school playground a problem for Harvey, especially so since his mother had instructed him that he must never under any circumstances become involved in a fight. Paul, Harvey's tormentor, was egged on by his older sisters who stood by in visible support. Finally Harvey had enough and decided to forget his mother's instructions and take care of the problem himself. There were two outdoor toilets, one for boys, the other for girls, and there was a firm (if unwritten) code that neither sex was allowed on the premises of the other. Harvey lured Paul into the woods behind the boys toilet. There, out of sight of the teachers and in a place where his sisters could not help, Harvey gave Paul the beating of a lifetime. Never again did he have to dodge the bully on the playground. "Last year at Myrtle Beach, through a mutual friend we were invited out to lunch; Harvey and wife, Paul and wife, Franklin and I. We wondered, but never knew, whether Paul was remembering the same as we were, the whaling he took behind the johnny about 55 years ago." [MFP]

After graduating from Mitchell Home School, Harvey moved on to Duke University where he worked at various jobs to pay for his education. He delivered papers, typed papers, fed the lab rats, and helped Dr. Rhyne with his experiments in ESP and related subjects. After a few years in graduate school he took a position with the Detroit Public Schools as a psychologist. Here he spent his working years.

On 12 Dec 1933 Harvey went to Kansas where on Christmas Eve he married a former teacher at Mitchell Home, Ruthanna Jaquish. She was a home economics teacher in the Detroit schools for some years following their marriage.

Their two children, Thomas LeeRhyne and Lenora, were born and raised in Detroit, so visits with relatives in Kansas and NC were infrequent. However, Harvey bought a travel trailer when such vehicles were a rarity, and some of their summers were spent with friends and relatives from NC to California.

Harvey enjoyed living and saw and experienced great pleasure in the ordinary things of life. Nature fed his spirit. He was an excellent photographer and amassed an outstanding collection of slides of the natural beauty of the US and Canada – and parts of Alaska. He was also a craftsman, and his homes were enriched with handiwork in furniture, novelties, leather work, and stones, shells, and natural items and oddities picked up or collected in his hiking and traveling.

In Oct 1942 Harvey enlisted in the US Army and served in Europe as a psychologist. While there he became ill and was returned to the states where he underwent surgery for removal of a brain tumor. Recuperation was slow and long, and it was during this time that Harvey took up leather work. For a while he made ladies hand bags or purses. "About 1947 he gave me one of his leather bags, which I have not only treasured but used until it has become my trademark. Today, March 1980, I still use it regularly. Besides use for shopping and casual occasions this bag was carried to work for 15 years, and it is still in good shape." [MFP]

"Harvey has always been handsome and kind – casual in appearance – thoughtful, but absent-minded – and stalls in conversation with the familiar punctuation of ah - ah to give him time to arrange his thoughts and present them in good form." [MFP]

Upon retirement, Harvey and Ruthanna returned to North Carolina, and Ruthanna spent the next year at the Kemper Clinic in Durham losing 100 pounds of body weight. Harvey lived part of this time in their travel trailer, then rented an apartment near the clinic where they spent the remainder of the time. Here Harvey "starved himself in an effort to encourage her to get the weight off." [MFP]

In 1969 they bought a house in Myrtle Beach which was to be their last home. They rarely traveled any more, and in March, 1980, Mamie wrote that "Ruthanna is over 200 pounds again – just short of the 230 pounds which she started with at the Kemper Clinic about 10 years ago."

"Harvey enjoys playing chess. He putters about in his workshop back of the house. They are only about a block and a half from the beach, so his hikes are usually now done on the 'Grand Strand' of Myrtle Beach which has become the beach Mecca of the Southeast. If he must grow old, he is doing it gracefully." [MFP]

(added note by Nelson Page)

In the 1980's Harvey became an avid bowler and in the early 1990's repeatedly won the national championship for his age. By about 1995 he was often the only contestant in his age range. At the end of 1997 Harvey's vision and hearing are not good, but he continues to drive daily to the bowling lanes.