World Events

Casablanca Converence

Colossus Computer

Victor Emmanuel III

• President Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Church meet for a strategic conference in Casablanca where they decide to insist on unconditional surrender by the Axis powers.

• Colossus Mark I, the world’s first computer, goes into decoding service at Bletchley Park in Britain.

• Rogers and Hammerstein write their first musical, Oklahoma.

• Victor Emmanuel III, the king of Italy arrests Mussolini.  Italy surrenders unconditionally to the Allies and declares war on Germany.

Life Details

• Lee Ruckman, Jr. was born in 1918 to parents Lee Van Horne Ruckman Sr. and Clarice Virginia Atkinson.

• Pastor Ruckman’s father had also been a Methodist minister.

• Pastor Ruckman died on August 7, 2003.

• While at Ivy Creek, Pastor Ruckman conducted the marriage ceremony for Clark and Mary Wyant at the University of Virginia Chapel in December 1945.