JACK J. POTTER

From the Woodland Record:

JACK J. POTTER, 89, former Yolo County Superintendent of Schools died July 3, 2009. His career in education spanned more than three decades, and even in retirement he continued to teach others, and himself, in topics ranging from local history to global politics.

Born in Vancouver, Washington, to Pearl and James Potter, on December 26, 1919, the family moved to California in 1923. Sixteen years later, like so many men in his age bracket he found himself he the middle of the second global conflict of the century. His World War II experience with the Army Air Corp took him to Algiers, Corsica, Belgium, Italy and England. It was in England where he met the future Mary Potter, his wife for sixty years.

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