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Title: Retired general returns home to Lower Merion
Author: Ilgenfritz, Richard
Source: Main Line Times
Date: 5/31/2012
Folder/Item #: Becton, Gen. Julius W., Jr.; 17
Notes:
Abstract: Julius W. Becton, Jr. Lower Merion class of 1944 returned home to visit as one of the school’s most distinguished alumni to speak to students for one hour. First black man to command a Unites States Army Corps, the first graduate of Prarie View A&M Unive