100-Year-Old Alumnus to Speak on March 18
March 8, 2021
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Retired U.S. Navy Commander and Chaplain Bruce Williams, a 1943 University of the Ozarks graduate and one of the University’s oldest-living alumni, will speak about his life during a special virtual alumni event on Thursday, March 18.
Williams, who turned 100 last August, will be speaking about his journey to Ozarks, his time there and life after Ozarks.
The event is presented by the University’s Office of Alumni Engagement and begins at 6 p.m. It can be viewed on Zoom at this link: https://ozarks-edu.zoom.us/j/95835282485?pwd=dE5CNythREJGOE93RkplVTllTVJjQT09
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On March 29, 1927, the New Era ran a massive headline across the front page: City police Lieutenant Gainor murdered.
It was the time of the speakeasy, when hoses ran illicit booze through tunnels under the streets of Lancaster, and Lt. Elwood Gainor was known as a hard-line enforcer of Prohibition. While that fact later came to be suspected as relevant in his death, early reports were frantic and vague.
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