WINTER 2008/2009 - VOL. 34, NO.1
1940s
Leon Rabin, E’45, of East Walpole, Massachusetts, writes, “I am a regular blood donor at the Red Cross and, for a few years, when I was able to donate platelets, at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as well. In fact, I began donating blood as a Northeastern freshman on January 20, 1942. After 467 donations, I have sent fifty-eight and three-eighths gallons of blood into the system. Imagine my surprise last April when the Red Cross called to say that I had won two tickets to a Red Sox game, where I would be received as the Blood Donor of the night. The game was on April 29, which also turned out to be Northeastern Night. Icing on the cake. I got to schmooze with the ROTC color guard and the chorus, who sang the National Anthem. I must have looked like Methuselah to them. Before the game, I was taken onto the field and introduced by the announcer. During the game, a ball girl brought me an eight-by-ten glossy photo of me and Wally the Green Monster. The Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 1-0 that night. My new wife of five and a half years was very happy, having become a Red Sox fan when I first brought her to Fenway Park when Pedro Martinez, who was pitching, made his three hundredth strikeout. She hasn’t missed a Sox game since. Not bad for someone from Long Island.” George Kee, E’46, of Waterford, Connecticut, celebrated his ninetieth birthday in August. In gratitude for his many years of service, the town’s officials feted him with a birthday party. Kee spent sixteen years on Waterford’s Board of Finance, as well as several years as a member of the Representative Town Meeting. He and his wife, Mary, have one daughter, Liane, and two grandchildren.
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