The Boston Globe, March 7th, 1995
Jesse N. Torres of North Andover, a native of El Salvador who came to this country in 1917 and became a successful pharmaceutical chemist with the special help of a chemistry professor named Knute Rockne, died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday. He was 100. Mr. Torres was born in the Salvadoran village of San Pedro Masauat. He studied under the Salesian fathers and later edited the archidiocese newspaper, Don Bosco. At the age of 23, Mr. Torres was given a scholarship to Notre Dame University, where Rockne, then an energetic young chemistry professor, took special interest in him. Rockne, who l...
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