LOYAL LEGACY

three years as a Navy lieutenant, junior grade, in the Pacific Theater. Kent most recently lived in Endwell, New York. He was preceded in death his wife, Ruth Ann, and a nephew, Remy Stoffel of St. Louis.

According to the November 1941 edition of The Kappa Alpha Journal, Brother Stoffel was part of the “most successful rush week in recent years,” at Alpha Eta, totaling 22 new members. He quickly became involved and played on the chapter’s softball team.

Following the United States’ entry into World War Two, Brother Stoffel joined the U.S. Navy. In his junior year, 1944, he left college to attend the U.S. Navy’s Training School for Midshipmen at Camp Macdonough in Plattsburg, New York, at Lake Champlain. He was one of nearly two dozen KAs at the school. He shortly thereafter received his commission as an Ensign. He was assigned to a ship that was commissioned in Portland, Oregon, and sailed to the Pacific Theater in 1945. His role then was Assistant Navigator and Communications Officer.