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

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5 , L -X 7 Xxiig . -- 'Lt 'VL 2 :EMR LE .mines 'Q-Ji.i..i.t. , ff- ' , A' tE41l'ff.g.Qjli -Q.:i7-zF'ig f'-X.g.g,c.gj-gr 1f .Nj Faculty Members in the Service I' 'in RAY H. LEGATE, B. S., M. A., became Y. M. C. A. secretary at the University in l9l5. Previous to his coming here he had been Y. M. C. A. secre- tary at Clemson College, S. C., and at Vanderbilt, and also International Secretary of the Y. M. C. A.. Secretary for the South. When war was declared he immediately offered his services to his country and was sent july lst, l9l7, to Camp Harris, Georgia, as Building Secretary. From here he was trans- ferred to Camp Sevier, S. C., where he was closely associated with the famous 30th Division which gained so much praise for itself in the war. ln December. I9l7. he was sent across and was made Camp Ac- tivities Secretary of the American Expeditionary Forces in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, in which capacity he is still serving. Althouih dis- appointed that he was not sent nearer the battle lines, nevertheless he has found an opportunity to render a great service to our boys in the training camps of England, Scotland arid Ireland. ,- xr X Z N X L MIM F X -Q-K li. 'lil ss--fe ,-, :lg , ' ,fl Wfr - C I .Q . o e .. :L W . - i - Lrg.-'ji g ,. ' svn f YL -Amer' , .1 -- f'-771.9 A 'ji K xx fi' , ll 'ir - ,gffi ' -fi Wi. 1 77 P age lwcnly-ciglil