Article: Qamar Hakimdin, 68 Was personnel administrator

Qamar Hakimdin, a former personnel administrator, died Thursday in Mediplex Nursing Home in Weymouth. He was 68.

He was born in the Fiji Islands, the son of the assistant minister of education for the British government there.

He received his master's degree in education from Springfield College in 1954. After college, he lived in India, helping to place personnel in positions of employment. He also helped his mother, a physician, care for refugees in camps during the India-Pakistan conflicts.

Mr. Hakimdin returned to the United States in 1966 and attended graduate school at the University of Western Kentucky. A year later he moved to Cambridge to help administer benefits for war veterans. ...

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