University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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LE MESS . V -,-- , ...if - .. T..- , 1 .,-..-7 .,,- ---- V ,. V.. .K , L - -- - 215 - A 7 ,...,-.. , .,,1.,.-......., ,,-..,,,,,, -..J MW, ,, , , Y f Our Heroic Dead EDWARD BENNETT BEANLAND Ed Beanland, as he was known by his myriads of friends at the University, was one of the best beloved students that ever attended Ole Miss. He entered the Uriversity as a graduate of Oxford High School and immediately toolc a prominent place in all phases of col- lege life. He enlisted May 27th, 1917, at Oxford, Missisippi, in Company C, 2nd Mississippi Infantry. which was mobilized at jackson on the 27th of the following month. This company was sent to Camp Beauregard on November the First as kfompany L, l54th Infantry of the National Guards. Wliile ncre Ed ranked as Sergeant and as soon as a call for men for Officers' Training Camps came he was selected as one of those to attend one of these camps and was sent to Camp Leon Springs, Texas. He was sent to the hr s- pital there as the result of a severe attack of appendi- citis and underwent an operation. He was thought to be much better and was improving rapidly, but died May 8th, I9I8, as the result of a second operation. He was buried at Oxford, Mississippi, two days later, some of his old University schoolmates acting as pallbearers. The whole University community, as well as that of Oxford, sincerely mourned his sad death. Edward Beanland was one of the most popular men that ever attended the University, being prominent in the literary, social and athletic phases of college life. Editors Note: Too late to give them their proper space in this volume, we learn of the deaths of Clifford Payne, Charles Seawright and Roy Reynolds, while still in training camps in Americag and Kirk Orr and Pal Jones in France, from wounds received in action. There are probably others whose names we have not secured, and altho they have erected for themselves a monument above anything mortal, yet it is a matter of sincere regret that we are unable to give recognition of their supreme service in this inadequate way. Page fiflccn ,'-A T

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I M! M Llrjyl 1' tv- w J if .. 42 W apt w u 5 X ,yi 1 xx y Y N .',- f- Major joseph Roscoe Bluck AJOR JOSEPH ROSCOE. BLUCK, erstwhile commander of the S. A. T. C. Unit at the University of Mississippi and now an inspector of the 6 different R. O. T. C. Units throughout the United States, is a native of Nevada. Major Bluck won fame as a football player at the University of J Missouri and was once chosen for the All-American team. When the B government called for football men to train them as officers, Major Bluck LL entered the first officers' training camp at Fort Logan H. Roots, on May 3rd, 1916, and received his Captain's commission on August l6th of the same year. He was then transferred to the 348th Infantry stationed at Camp Pike, and later to the l62nd Depot Brigade for special duty as Brigade Police Officer. The first experience of Major Bluck in a military institution began on May 12th, l9l 7, when he was assigned to the Mississippi A. Sz M. College at Starkville, Mississippi. He served there until his transfer to the University of Arkansas, where he was in charge of a training corps of that school. With the placing of the S. A. T. C. unit in the University of Mississippi, Major Bluck was made comrnandant at this institution, holding at that time the rank of Captain. He began his duties there on October lst, l9l8, and one month later received his commission as major. He welded the unit into a smooth working army post and had the respect as well as the obedience of every one of his men. It was due to his good management that this post suffered as little as it did from the epidemic of infiu- enza that raged here. Ole Miss students fully realize that the University was indeed fortunate in having as its commandant Major Bluck. He is not only a man of the highest military efficiency, but he is a gentleman in every respect and was liked by every student and every member of the faculty. His career reflects credit upon his State and his work at Ole Miss re- flects credit upon this institution. Pagc seventeen