ALUMNI ISSUE Grove City College Bulletin Vol. 30
may, 1944 No. T
Cash in Alumni
MfiRY ANDERSON PEW DORMITORY IN SPRING
Commencement Dates Will Be
Scholarship Fund Exceeds $29,000
May 18-19-20
Number of Loans Have
Sir Gerald Campbell To
Been Repaid in Full By The Alumni
Give Graduation Address
m
Students
Saturday Morning
Scholarship Lo,an
Fund was started at the annual al-
Following the plan adopted last
i
unrni luhcheon at the June, 1935,
year the exercises of Commence ment Week will be consolidated
into a three-day period. The dates
commencement. The amount'to be
raised was not decided at that
this year are Thursday, May eighteenth, through Saturday, May
n
time, but later it was set at ?25,000.
twentieth.
James E. Marshall, '98, was ap
On Saturday, May twentieth, the
pointed chairman of the fund-rais ing campaign, and his efforts were
Commencement exercises will be held In Crawford Hall at 10:30
ably backed by Dr. John Stanley
A. M. The Commencement speaker is to be Sir Gerald Campbell, the British Minister in Washington.
Harker, '25, President, and J. P. Hassler, '11, Secretary of the Al umni Association, and by the var ious class representatives. As a result of the hard work ,of the committee, the goal was attained in June, 1941. Since then, there have been some additional contri butions and pledges, which have
been added to the scholarship fund. An analysis of the actual cash in
the hands of the college trustees at
He has spent a lifetime in British consular and diplomatic service and is perhaps the best known British repre.sentative in the Unit ed States. For eighteen years he served as Consul and Consul Gen eral in such cities as San Fran cisco, Philadelphia, and New York.
Immediately before his present ap eon at Commencement.
Following the Commencement pro' gram the Alumni Luncheon will be held in the Presbyterian Church, at
the present time shows the follow ing items:
Alumni Scholarship Fund Cash gifts $21,341.47 Interest ^.. 641.25 Contributions by the Women's Club, Pittsburgh 2,000.00 Sara Bell Estate 5,413.57 Total
$29,396.29 The Women's Club gift and the
Sara Bell Estate contribution are
carried on the college books imder separate accounts, but are con sidered as part of the scholarship fund.
Up to the present time, this fund has been used to help 85 different
Sgt. Wm.Black
Marine Lieutenant Bob Firm Hero
■The following story was written
Sergeant William E. Black, '42, Windel, 2809 E. pklahoma Ave., met death by drowning while going Milwaukee, Wis., [a Marine Corps to the I rescue of a stricken fellow Combat Correspondent: soldier; according to two messages Cape Gloucester?, New Britain— received by his parents, Mr. and (Delayed)—Two years ago, he was Mrs. J. E. Black. The tragedy oc a traveling auditcp for a tire con curred;on February 15, 1944. cern—a bookish yOung man whose t hobby was an occfisional round of Sergeant Black was at an out post lyeather station with three golf on Simday afternoon. The Marines changed all that. other Air Force soldiers, as an ob server.! Of the three other boys A few weeks ago, iFirst Lieutenant
The balance of the fund is in cash,
of a Liberator Bomb Division. The citation read as follows:
"For exceptionally meritorious achievement while participating in five separate bomber combat mis sions over enemy occupied Con tinental Europe."
ed out the machine gun that stop
lower the muzzle.
Pa., played an irqportant part in the Marine invasion of Cape Glou cester.
Last week, amied only with a light carbine, lie wiped out a Jap anese machine gun nest, killing four enemy gunners. Hundreds of Marines converging
a severe Call Avenue, Selma, Cal.
storm. Speaking as his command ing officer, I am proud of his con duct as a soldier. You have every
Alumni Lunch
"While the graduating class of 1944 is not as large as some of the Japanese infantry behind the guns. previous classes, it will total over
Firm discarded his equipment and dashed into the ocean surf, run
one hundi-ed members.
In
a few
cases, members of the class are al ning and diving, Japanese machine ready in military service and will gun fire pelted the water aroimd receive their degrees in absentia.
reason to be proud of the services try. Ahead were cleverly concealed tion
observers and two radio operators. avenue of attack. They crawled tlirough Letters home indicated that their
mission
Under a, hail of bullets from
Behind them waited the mili him, throwing up a spray that tary might of a regiment, the momentarily obscured him. Taking advantage of the atten planes, tanks, artillery and infan
he gave his country. I extend to Japanese pillboxes. It was Lieu tenant Firm's job to find them, October 20, 1942. He received his you my deepest sympathy." The party included two weather point them out, and select the best training in navigation at Selman
Remember the
j portant boards and agencies of the
gunner poked his head ; church. In recent years he was sent around the world by the For nest where Firm crouch Lieutenant shot him eign Mission Board and is, there the head, leaped into fore, familiar with the problems
patrol into lire jungle. With him the emplacement and shot three of the countries in which other Japane.'se to silence the gun. enterprises are located-. .
Lt Brown entered the service on
Field, Louisiana, and at PanAmerican Navigation School at Coral Gables, Florida. After this training he was given overseas combat training at the Army Air Base, Sioux City, Iowa, and at Gowen Field, Idaho.
the base of the
The exercises of the week In
on Natamo Point knew who knock
Robert B. Finn, '36, of Grove City,
at
'
footbridge, clude the President's tea for the Lieutenant Firm and Platoon Ser senior class, which will be held at geant KaHenbaugh moved ahead. four p. m. on Thursday, May Corporal Bachran and Private eighteenth. That evening a concert First Class Doyd were ordered to will be given by the Music Depart hold their position. ment in Crawford Hall. The signal for the dash was On Friday the annual meeting typical of Lieut. Firm's dry humor; of the Board of Trustees will be "They're off at Hialeah!" held and in the evening the Bac Firm and Kaltenbaugh sprinted calaureate services yill be con across the black sand into the ducted in Harbison Chapel at 7:30 river as five machine guns opened P. M. The Reverend Harry Cotton, up simultaneously. Firm raced D. D., president of McCormick Chicago, through the stream and struggled Theological Seminary, to the side of a gun position. Kal niinois, -will deliver the Baccalau tenbaugh fell at the river edge, reate address. Dr. Cotton is a man then crept forward, under the muz who has had an unusually wide zle of the next machine gun, so and rich experience. He was pastor one of the most important close that he could reach up and of touch it. Momentarily he was safe. churches in his denomination for The Japanese gunner couldn't many years and also served on im-
"By this time I'm sure you have were three skilled scouts. Platoon received the official notification Sergeant Clark R., Kitenbaugh, of of the "death of your son, William. Davidsville, Pa.; Corporal Lester Bachran, of Falls Road, At the time of his death, William W. Baltimore, was on duty on one of our out Mount Washington, post stations. He lost his life while Md., and Private First Class Edgoing to the rescue of a stricken •win A. Boyd, of 2704 North Mcfellow soldier, during
A number of
" luncheon.
The foursome crouched in brush
ped their advance on the last Jap A Jap A letter from Captain Paul A. anese position on Cape Gloucster's out of the Carlson, commanding the Weather vast Borgen Bay. . ed. The Squadron, under the date of March Lieutenant Firm led the point through
4 reads:
'41, was awarded the Air Medal in England early this spring. The award was given by General James P. Hodges, Commanding General
Luncheon.
classes are ruanning reunions and
scouts.
by Technical Serjeant Gerald A.
Beyond the fact that the out some ,of which is earning interest. With the end of the war, the fund post -was presumed to be in the will be a very real help to the Aleutians, the location of the trag many students who will then enter edy is still a military secret. The four soldiers were near the end of college. their six months' assignment at the post.
Second Lieutenant Ralph Brown,
Alumni
I will have special tables at the
Alaskan Station
one is' reported having died form have been repaid in full. The exposure, another is reported mis amount of the notes at present sing', and no information was re held by the college is $6683.00. ceived by the parents of the fourth.
Gets Air Medal
12:30 P.M. Sii" Gerald has been in
vited to bring a greeting at the
Of Engagement at Cape Gloucester
Meets Death at
students. A number of the loans
Lt. Ralph Brown
pointment he served as British High Commissioner in Canada-
Oil'.: 01 the buildings to which you will be wa'cpm:!' 1| ;^'ou return for the Alumni Reunion and Lunch
focused
on
Firm,
Kalten
baugh poked his carbine through
KinterMcClellana
Is Marine Major
the aperture of the second
gun
position, killed the gunner,
and '40, will be glad to learn of hia
raced after the Lieutenant, twist
Friends of Kinter McClelland,
advancement to the rank of major
ing and dodging as he ran into in the Marine Corps. Major Mc the open, miraculously escaping Clelland, who celebrated his gle, following the| curving beach only contact with the outside heavy fire that cut a swath twenty-fifth birthday In February, to where a branch of the Natamo world was by radio, and that liv through the vegetation. thus became one of the yoimgest ing conditions were primitive, with River flows into the ocean. The Drenched and gasping for majors in the Corps. He recently pillboxes and the machine gun em frequent terrific storms. The four breath. Firm and Kaltenbaugh spent a short furlough with his soldiers were most congenial and placements were somewhere along pointed out the Japanese positions parents in Grove City after hav the opposite bank, their fire lanes had formed enduring friendships. Just what happened on February
eon on Saturday, May 20. Come 15, will be known only and meet your friends. fourth member survived.
if the
the jun
converging on the log foot-bridge. to waiting mortar platoons. Maps Observers
fallen
log, watching
ing served two years in the South
a huge were made on the scene and coor- Pacific. He is now stationed at the Marine Base at Quantico, Virginia. the four (Continued on Page Four)
lay pehind