Purdue Alumni Association // President’s Council // John Purdue Club

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‘One Happy Old Man’

Animal sciences alumnus drafted in WWII, six credits shy of graduation Born and raised on a farm north of Knightstown, Indiana, Russell “Doc” Hardin (A’65) began milking cows at age 9. During the Depression, Hardin recalls, the only income for the family came from milking their 20 head of cattle. Hardin remembers the country veterinarian […]

a painting of John Wooden showing his basketball life contrasted with the sailor who died in his place

A Monumental Twist of Fate

A well-timed case of appendicitis spared John Wooden’s life. But the Boilermaker who died in his stead aboard the USS Franklin was never far from his mind. It has been more than 70 years but Nancy Wooden Muehlhausen remembers it to this day. The fear. The anxiety. The unknown. Ten-year-old girls aren’t supposed to be […]

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Adrift

How a Purdue PhD student wound up floating on a wooden raft for several months during World War II — and what happened to the alumna he left behind. They’d been floating on a wooden raft in the South Atlantic Ocean for almost three weeks, surviving on canned milk, crackers, and tiny chocolate squares. Their […]