Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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where have you gone? Zeke O���Connor, 1944, 1946-47 End Newly minted author changed lives at the foot of Mt. Everest By Dan Murphy A map of the area around Zeke O���Connor High School in Phaplu, Nepal, looks as if it���s been crumpled into a ball and smoothed flat again. Its wrinkles, topographical markers of the Himalayas, engulf the few points of interest that mark the locale. The school sits at the end of the last map-marked road before roads disappear and the slopes climb steeper toward the top of the world, Mt. Everest. Among the places that have been deemed worthy of charting ��� Khumjung, Sagarmatha, Lhotse, to choose a few ��� the name O���Connor stands out. As does the man attached to it. William ���Zeke��� O���Connor didn���t want his name on the school when its doors opened in 2011, but the local sherpas who would soon be teaching and learning inside insisted. The one-story building is the 16th school O���Connor has helped to erect in the region during the four decades he and his partner, Sir Edmund Hillary, have spent lending a hand to the area. ���I never would���ve dreamed it,��� O���Connor said about the tribute. ���But it does humble one to have something like that done.��� The 1948 Notre Dame graduate parlayed a somewhat disappointing football career with the Irish into a O���Connor, a 1948 Notre Dame graduate, started on the 1944 Irish team that finished ranked ninth in the country. photo courtesy Of the SIR EDMUND HILLARY FOUNDATION