Charles Kemper, a flight surgeon in the air
force during World War II, retired country doctor,
ornithologist, author, founder of Kemper Woods nature
preserve in Wisconsin, celebrated his 103rd birthday
online with family and friends on December 29th.
“We lost one
first cousin in France, shot down by enemy aircraft. Another was
blown up in the deadly hedgerows beyond Utah and Omaha beaches. I
lost a college teammate at Pearl Harbor. But I was not unusual; just
about everyone I knew could relate similar stories of friends and
family who lost their lives or were seriously wounded,” Charles
wrote in an article he published in 2015.
The cousin who was
blown up in the deadly hedgerows was Richard Kemper, the man for who
the Memorial Park on the grounds of Mamaroneck High School is
named.
You can learn more
about Dr. Kemper by
clicking here
and by visiting the following sites:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-country-doctor-cant-forget-his-40-years-of-house-calls-1518134157
https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/charles-kemper-40
http://www.audubon.org/sites/default/files/documents/a_traveling_country_doctor_shares_chippewa_memories.pdf
https://volumeone.org/articles/2008/07/17/75_For_The_Birds
https://www.leadertelegram.com/news/front-page/longtime-bird-counter-cutting-back/article_b892a049-ead9-5822-b3df-d24c8cd6315a.html
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