Guest Trivia Answer:
First, thanks to Bob Reinhold and Mike Ross for the guest trivia question!
On his twenty-seventh birthday, Kermit Beahan ‘40, who was a guard of the 1939 football team, was the bombardier on the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Click here for a story from the August 16, 1945 Rice Thresher (thanks, Melissa Kean!) and here for the New York Times obituary. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst!)
Way to go, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Ted Richard, Bill Allison, Bob Toone, Ann Bixby, Richard Avant, Clarke Anderson, John Montana, George Wagner, Martha Proctor Gano, Kellen Theriot, Susan Zimmerman, Andy Williams, James Hurley, Larry Nettles, Dan Hyde, Guy Rollins, Arthur Rogers, Sallie Schwall, Paul Reese, James Walker, Kerwin Drouet, Chris Kohnhorst, Bill Allison, Greg Williams, Brian Lattimer, Betty Bixby, Chloe Oani, Melinda Clark and David Ownby!
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