Word: southwick
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This plaque replaces an original plaque which was presented to the University in 1957 by the chaplain of Southwick Cathedral in England. The original was subsequently mounted on Memorial Church until it was stolen...
...wind howled in the darkness as they went to the meeting. It was just before 4 a.m. on June 5,1944, and the rain slashed at them "in horizontal streaks," Dwight Eisenhower recalled later. The commanders of Operation Overlord were gathering around the fireplace in the library of Southwick House, outside Portsmouth, to hear a Scottish group captain named J.M. Stagg predict the next day's weather. On the basis of Stagg's calculations, Eisenhower would have to decide whether to give the attack order to the nearly 3 million troops assembled in southern Britain for the greatest seaborne invasion...
Thomas P. Southwick '71, Kennedy's press secretary, said the candidate will "discuss the presidency--what the office is and what it ought to be," adding that Kennedy will also speak about the draft, foreign affairs, the state of the economy and the government's energy program...