Whitcomb L. Judson He ultimately never saw much success in the "clasp-locker" as a fashion item during his lifetime. Judson made a "C-curity" clasp-locker fastener in 1905 which was an improved version of his previous patents. It tended to break open unexpectedly like the predecessors. Clothing manufacturers showed little interest in Judson's fastener perhaps because of this reason. An improved version of 1896 came with Judson made his invention to save people the trouble of buttoning and unbuttoning their shoes every day as shows in his wording in the patent application. He describes this in his patent U.S.P. 557,207 In 1913 the zipper
Judson School Judson School The Judson School was a K-12 boarding school in Paradise Valley, Arizona. It closed in 2000 after more than 70 years of operation. It was owned and operated by Henry and Barbara Wick, along with their son, Hank Wick. In 1928, Judson School opened with seven boys as students. Judson was the state’s oldest independent college preparatory school. Henry Wick, who had been teaching at Judson School since 1938, purchased the school from George Judson in 1945. In the late 1940s, Henry Wick began offering classes in English as a Second Language. This brought students from all around