1931 Alum Reflects on WWII in PD Article
1931 Hawken graduate Jock Collens reflects on his experiences in World War II in an August 15 Plain Dealer feature article.
After Hawken, Collens went to school at Harvard and Yale and was working at a law firm in New York when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
He enlisted in the army and after attending officers' school, was sent oversees. Facing events that would traumatize many, Collens took it all as "just another day."
Read the article and listen to his video interview here.
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He enlisted in the army and after attending officers' school, was sent oversees. Facing events that would traumatize many, Collens took it all as "just another day."
Read the article and listen to his video interview here.
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Early Childhood, Lower, and Middle Schools, 5000 Clubside Rd, Lyndhurst, OH 44124
Birchwood School of Hawken, 4400 West 140th Street, Cleveland, OH 44135
Upper School, PO Box 8002 (12465 County Line Rd), Gates Mills, OH 44040
Mastery School of Hawken, 11025 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
Gries Center, 10823 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106
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