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Show Sknkel Youth Honored, Former Moab Resident Tlie late George Skakel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Skakel. formerly of Moab; and Jon Yarmbrodt, are being honored hon-ored with a memorial sculpture sculp-ture at Cowell College on the University of Califorina ,Samta Cruz campus. The two youths, who pioneered the opening of the California Californ-ia school, were killed in action in Vietnam. crated the Skakel Ranch trate the Skekel Ranch north of Moab, for Great Lakes Carbon Corp., was born here but moved to California Cali-fornia as a child. The ranch lis now the residence of iMr. and Mrs. Dennis Byrd, and is owned by Betr Wheeler of Dallas, Texas. After his graduation from high school in Ojai, Calif., George traveled on a Norwegian Nor-wegian freighter to Europe. He spent a month auditing classes at Oxford University, Universi-ty, then made his way through France, Germany and Spain. He worked his way to India, Thailand and then Saigon. Before returning return-ing to the United States in the fall of 1965 to enter UCSC he spent several months working in a uranium mine in Northern Australia. He, along with 651 other students at UCSC lived in an encampment of 64 trailers trail-ers on the 2000 acre campus until their college, Cowell. was built and ready for occupancy oc-cupancy in 1966. George, who had recently recent-ly been promoted to sergeant, serg-eant, was finishing the last two months of his tour of duty and planning to return to UCSC, survived two assaults as-saults on his Air Cavalry squad during an encounter in the rice paddies near Hue; he did not survive the third. The date was March 6, 1968. The memorial sculpture, by Jack Zajac, eminent international in-ternational artist now in residence resi-dence at Cowell College, is entitled en-titled "Bound Goat." Of it Cowell Provost Page Smith says "(It" is a piece of sculpture sculp-ture which we believe expresses expres-ses very vividly the theme of anguish and suffering so characteristic char-acteristic of war, and perhaps of this war more than of most conflicts; and the agony of the death of those two men." |
