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Some men were dropped miles from their landing sites, some were dropped far out at sea, some were dropped so low that their parachutes never opened. Private Donald Burgett recalled that they "made a sound like large, ripe pumpkins being thrown down against the ground." The 101st's commander, Major General Maxwell Taylor, was dropped at 500 ft. and said later, "God must have opened the chute...
Mary Ellen Reffert '54 and Ants Burgett '54 (pictured left) "thought up the party as a means "of breaking the monotony of reading period." The scheme won immediate approval from most Whitman girls, and the Head Resident finally acceded...
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