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the 7k’””A@M U””’€””U’ System- Alumnus Carol Martin Gatton ’54 BE has had
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1 6 George C. Wright: Presidential Success   Leading by example
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a smart-aleclqr kid to the position of university president at on the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors,
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gf I       V 4 Pride In Blue 42 Class Notes
T 7 Presidential Conversation 52 In Memoriam
TM 8 UK News 54 Creative ]uices
S E E I I E 11 Blue Horizons 55 Retrospect
I 38 Alumni Clubs 56 Qiick Takes
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