West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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om — imnnmr- 8 = OOOOOOOOOCZ MURMURMONTIS ' 20 = OOOOOOt= Z KJOOOOOOOOd = ooooooc: WAR ISSUE West Virginia Methodism has reason for sacred pride n the Wesleyan men who have gone forth to war for God. Six of them have made the supreme sacrifice. Lieut. Roy E. Parrish, whose home was at Clarksburg and who graduated at Wesleyan in the class of 1908, fell in action on the Western Front on July 22, 1918. Capt. Hoddie Wilbur Daniels, M. R. C, who attended Wesleyan in the days of the old seminary, was killed in action on July 19, 1918. Chaplain Frank Wittkamp, of Strathmere, N. J., who graduated in the class of 1917, fell as a victim of scarlitina. Somewhere in France, on Christmas Day, 1918. Lieut. S. P. Hoskins, who attended Wesleyan in 1907, was killed in action between Imecourt and Buyancy, France, and was buried at Imecourt on November 2, 1918. Aubrey Carl Smith, of Lost Creek, who graduated in 1918, fell as a victim of Spanish Influenza at Camp Meade, Maryland, on October 7, 1918. Dorsey O. Warner, of West Union, who attended Wesleyan in 1912, fell in action Somewhere in France on August I, 1918. No words of praise can either add luster to their glorious deeds or fittingly express the affection and honor in which they are held at Wesleyan- Their names will stand first on the bronze tablets in our Hall of Fame in the new library building. eleven

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rnnr r mt — a r ■ j errjooonoo e — at it m nnnnnm w i f - ■ ■ — ■ — iniVMTrr n u ■■ MURMURMONTIS ' 20 - WAR ISSUE BOCZJOOOOOOC ) - j ct )OCOOOOiz j : -3T- ) C — x tt-inmnmt— r r » nnnnQf-K u— » — Mynmn i — rij THE WESLEY AN ANSWER Departed ones who seem so nigh. Your valor calls us from the sky. Thoueh mortal flesh to wounds must yield, And forms must sleep in Flanders fields. Your souls with God shall never die. Destructions dreaded work is done. Your courage crushed the haughty Hun, — Dispelled forever from the light The thought of power ruling right, And ye are heroes, every one. We take the torch from hands that fall We dedicate to God our all. Resolved to emulate the life Of you who fought in glory ' s strife ' Gainst darkness and the fears that thrall. Shall actions prove our vows untrue? Shall we from men your light withhold Through lo e of self or sordid gold? Then were we as the Huns who slew. Your memory now that causes tears To fill our eyes, in future years Will challenge men, inspire, call forth The nobler self, the real worth. And give men triumph over fears. At Wesleyan. — Wallace D. Fleming. thirteen