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70th Anniversary of Worcester's Deadly Tornado
July 2023
QCC's memorial for those who died in the 1953 tornado.
Tornado survivor Lee Bartlett
June 9 marked the 70th anniversary of a tornado that tore through Worcester, including QCC's Administration building at what was Assumption University at the time, and killed 94 people.
Watch this video to hear from an actual survivor of the tornado, Lee Bartlett, and Coordinator of Library Collection Development Michael Stevenson.
