"From the day I drove into town, Los Alamos has been good to me,” said Jack Clifford, who arrived in Los Alamos in 1948. Jack has called Los Alamos home for the past 60 years and says he likes the community so much that he has “already bought a gravestone at Guaje Pines Cemetery. All I have to do is fill in the date."

Jack lives in White Rock and for more than a decade has chronicled the ever-changing face of the large messenger rock that serves to greet those entering White Rock at Rover Boulevard. Jack has amassed hundreds of photos, from marriage proposals to White Rock's 50th anniversary when the rock was transformed into a chicken.

An early member of the volunteer-based White Rock Senior Center (WRSC), Jack is a long-standing member of the steering committee. He and other committee members take turns opening and closing the WRSC and serving as “Boss of the Week.” Jack has opened the WRSC for Thursday evening “bull sessions” for over ten years.

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