Jerry LeVasseur Races Forward With Resilience
Lehigh alumnus Jerry LeVasseur, ’60, survived the Hartford Circus Fire at age 6 after attending the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey show with his mother on July 6, 1944.
Jerry LeVasseur, class of 1960, was six years old when he survived the Hartford Circus Fire on July 6, 1944. He attended the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut, with his mother and remembered being excited to see the animals and clowns on a hot, humid day.