Plant City Photo Archives and History Center Executive Director Gil Gott attended recently the 50th reunion of his U.S. Air Force class of 1962 graduation from the Chinese Language Program at the Institute of Far Eastern Languages, Yale University, in New Haven, Conn.
The 20 veterans were treated to a guided tour of parts of the campus and lunch at Yale Commons.
Robert Bonds, assistant director of the Association of Yale Alumni, and Henry Kwan, director of Shared Interest Group Relations, led the group to the spot where they stood in 1962 as Honor Guard for President John F. Kennedy, who delivered the commencement speech June 11, 1962.
Although things have changed in the past 50 years, Gott managed to locate his old dorm room in St. Elmo’s Hall, now called Rosenfeld Hall.