John Groe Rogers ’47

John Groe Rogers ’47 of Annandale, Virginia, died June 13, 2014. He was born April 27, 1926. After high school he was assigned to Dartmouth in the V-12 program. He earned a master’s in forestry from the Duke University Fousty Graduate School in 1949. He worked for Firestone as a rubber planter in Liberia, returned to the States and served in the Army. He later worked in Guatemala for the United Fruit Co. He accepted a position with the U.S. Agency for International Development and served in rubber research in Guatemala. He was then transferred to the highlands of Vietnam, where he built schools for almost six years before being assigned to Lima, Peru, as a disaster relief officer. He returned to Washington, D.C., in 1983 and retired in 1988. He is survived by his wife and four children.


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