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John Updike at Coe's 150th
The photo above ran in The Gazette on Friday, April 6, 2001
Although he was a part of the celebration honoring Coe's 150th year, Updike said, "I'm not a great romantic of the college experience I enjoyed my four years of
college. But I didn't feel the need to extend them."
Updike died Tuesday at age 76.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike talks with Laura Skandera Trombley (center), dean of faculty at Coe College, and Linnie Phifer, wife of Coe President James Phifer, before a lecture at Sinclair Auditorium at Coe College in Cedar Rapids on Thursday. Updike read a selection of poems and prose he had written about the college experience in commemoration of Coe College's 150th birthday last night.
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