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John T. Murphy was a 1932 BC undergraduate and a 1933 md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College Graduate School graduate.ÌýHis brother, Edward Murphy, was also a md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College graduate (1929) and was a teacher in the md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç Public Schools.

John T. Murphy taught at md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College High School from approximately 1934 to 1938.ÌýIn 1938, he was appointed to the md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç Public School Department as a teacher at the Patrick T. Campbell School.

In 1937, John T. Murphy joined the Naval Reserve, prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He attended the Naval Officer’s Candidate School in Washington, D.C. He served a year at the md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç Navy Yard and thenÌýat the Naval Station at Great Diamond Island in Maine (1941–43). In October 1943, he was transferred to the South Pacific.

John T. Murphy served as a Supply Officer in Charge from 1943 to 1944 at a Naval supply base in the South Pacific.Ìý In April 1944, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and was assigned to an advance Naval Base north of New Guinea.

Lt. Commander Murphy died in service, most likely of a tropical disease, which was an unfortunate frequent danger for servicemen in the Pacific theater. In May 1944, John T. Murphy was buried on U.S. Naval Grounds in the South Pacific.

(Information provided by his family.)

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