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Article: Jesse N. Torres, 100; chemist who learned from Knute Rockne
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 7, 1995
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Jesse N. Torres of North Andover, a native of El Salvador who
came to this country in 1917 and became a successful pharmaceutical
chemist with the special help of a chemistry professor named Knute
Rockne, died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday. He was 100.
Mr. Torres was born in the Salvadoran village of San Pedro
Masauat. He studied under the Salesian fathers and later edited the
archidiocese newspaper, Don Bosco.
At the age of 23, Mr. Torres was given a scholarship to Notre
Dame University, where Rockne, then an energetic young chemistry
professor, took special interest in him. Rockne, who later gained
fame as the university's football coach, helped Mr. Torres with his
English and ...
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