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Taft heir John Godfrey defies family legacy at Taft School
In New Haven John Godfrey Taft 17 declares he feels no obligation to live up to his famous lineage. He graduates from Taft School Watertown and plans a gap year before choosing college. Accepted at Yale Harvard and Princeton he aims to work for a New Mexico ecology paper and perhaps become a writer or pursue medicine.
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