Veterans Day Program World War II Remembered: The Impact of War Then and Now Rockefeller Center Booksigning of World War II Remembered and refreshments will follow panel. Panelists: Kendal of Hanover Residents Clinton Gardner '44 A member of the Dartmouth class of 1944, Clint Gardner served four years in the army as an officer in antiaircraft artillery. He was wounded in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and again in the Battle of the Bulge. Shortly before the war in Europe ended he was put in charge of the just-liberated Buchenwald Concentration camp. He had reached the rank of captain when he returned to finish Dartmouth in 1946-7. In 1956 he and his wife Libby founded a national mail order company called Shopping International, a venture based in Norwich, Vermont, that sent them on buying trips to more than 40 countries. Mary Mecklin Jenkins The daughter of a Dartmouth professor, Mary grew up in Hanover. Two months after graduating from college, she married brand new Second Lieutenant, John Jenkins, and went with him to a B-29 Air Force base in Victoria, Kansas where he was an intelligence officer. After the war, while raising four children, Mary was president of a local League of Woman Voters in Connecticut, the first woman moderator of Westport's Representative Town Meeting, and served on the town's Planning and Zoning Commission and Board of Finance. Recipient of a grant from the West German government to study German women in politics, Mary also went to the Soviet Union twice on exchanges sponsored by Bridges for Peace: US-USSR. Robert Christie At the tender age of 16, in 1940 Robert Christie matriculated at Norwich University, the Military College of Vermont and oldest private military college in the nation. He enlisted in the U.S. Army immediately after Pearl Harbor, and after being called to active duty, he spent a year as an enlisted man and eventually graduated form OCS at Fort Knox as a 2nd lieutenant in Armor. His military service was in Europe as a tank unit commander in Germany from the onset of the Battle of the Bulge until the war's end in 1945. Bob was separated from service in 1946 as a company commander. Forty months later he returned to Norwich to get his BS, and with the help of the GI Bill of Rights, graduated from State University of NY College of Medicine at NYC. Dr. Christie interned and had residencies at DHMC, and for three years practiced general medicine in Northfield, VT. He later specialized in pathology and laboratory medicine, directed eight hospital laboratories in NH and VT, and served on the DMS faculty. Moderator: John Boger '13