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Also elected from Harvard were Joseph H. Blatt. of Winthrop House and Indian- apolis, Ind.. Peter M. Blumberg, of Kirkland House and Winchester, Nils M. P. d'Aulaire, of Dunster House and Wilton, Conn., Robert K. Emerson, Jr., of Adams House and Hancock Point, Maine, Christopher G. Fanta. of Lowell House and Brooklyn. N. Y., and Theodore S. Feldman. of Lowell House and Waban
Also Robert A. Fishman. of Lowell House and Chestnut Hill. Richard A. Frank. of Quincy House and Flushing. N. Y., Gregory B. Gabriel. of Quincy House and Oceanside, Cal.. Ary L. Goldberger. of Kirkland House and Scarsdale. N. Y., Robert E. Harding. Jr., of Adams House and Minneapolis, Minn., and Michael C. Harper of Dunster House and Boca Raton...
During the war years, the first blows of what Ted Kennedy called "some awful curse" began falling. Joe Jr., whom the ambassador was quite consciously raising to be President, died when his plane exploded over England in 1944. At the same time, Jack lay in a Boston naval hospital recuperating from injuries suffered as a result of the sinking of PT109. A few weeks later, daughter Kathleen's husband, the Marquess of Hartington, died leading an infantry charge in Normandy. Kathleen was to be killed four years later in a plane crash in France. A continuing heartbreak for Rose...
Eighteen of the ambassador's 28 grandchildren were there. Six of the remarkably handsome brood served as honorary pallbearers. John Kennedy Jr., sometimes straining to remember the words, recited the 23rd Psalm, and eight Kennedy girls made up the offertory procession that bore the hosts, wine, ciborium and chalice to the altar. After the Mass, the clan drove to Brookline and buried the founder in a family plot marked by a large granite slab reading simply KENNEDY...
...trust fund for Rose and the children then born. Another was created in 1936, and still another in 1949. The latter trust fund is the vehicle through which Kennedy settled portions of his wealth on his 28 grandchildren. The three trust funds and the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation are the chief instruments of capital conservation. At the end of 1968, the foundation had assets of $22.1 million, and it disbursed $1.6 million, almost entirely for research in mental retardation...