![]() ![]() He was in all the World War II campaigns in the Central and South Pacific: Guadacanal, Bougainville, the recapture of Guam, Iwo Jima. He attained the rank of lieutenant on August 16, 1941, and was a member of the 3rd Marine Division. ![]() Shortly after graduating from Amherst, Jim was a marine, an officer candidate (USMC Platoon Leaders) U.S. He was a member of the Outing Club and the Speakers’ Club. He ran middle distances in track as well as cross-country. Jim was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1917 and graduated from Harrisburg Academy before matriculating at Amherst where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and an English major. His wife of 56 years, Kathryn Winthrop Cole Michener, had died August 22, 1996, a day short of Jim’s 79th birthday. ![]() Only recently did the College receive word that Jim had died in July of 2005, apparently at a retirement community south of Washington, D.C., where he had been living for several years. ![]()
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