Widener University - Pioneer Yearbook (Chester, PA)

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PMC HISTORICAL MUSEUM One of the newest activities on cam- pus, is a year round occupation, partici- pated in by cadets, civilians, Military Staff, alumni, and interested friends of the College. lt is the stacking of PMC's new Military Museum with military arms and equipment, ranging from the Civil War to the present era. lt is unique, being the only known museum divided equally between Ameri- can and European Arms. Frank Platt sets up Teletype machine, World War l vintage, for dis play, Wade Hall, Frank Platt, and Galen Kelly cataloguing Astra automatic pistols. H 222

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Lord Snow was Rector of St. Andrew's University, Cambridge, and has re ceived many honors and awards. His public service brought him the award Commander British Empire in 1943 and a knighthood in 1957. He has received honorary degrees from British and American Universities and a Russian University. 1 Friday afternoon, January 21, 1966, Lord and Lady Snow held a Press Conference in lVlaclVlorland Center. Lady Snow is the popular author- ess, Pamela Hansford Johnson. Her first novel, This Bed Thy Center, was published when she was twenty-two. Her earlier novels were concerned with social and po- litical issues in England, as exem- plified in World's End, and Gir- dle of Venus. She was an Arts and Letters Fel- low at Timothy Dwight College, Yale University. Pres. Nloll and Lord Snow examine the PMC degree presented to him earlier . in A ws ,,z.w,:.,.i,: gg i K A f A iii? 2 W N5 xx, 'xii N' 1 rin. z. A ,,-..

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gif sf The PMC Museum is a self-supporting institution, without financial aid from the College. ., in si :tr at BUSH' A 1 maui-wan .t ummm -uns-uranas nw -ar0 'h Wade Hall puts the finishing touches on a display case, containing Civil War Signal equipment. Collections in the museum are: General Price Collectiong PMA Collection: French and En- glish bolt action seriesg Civil War Collectiong German Mauser Collectiong Signal Equipment Collectiong Japanese WWII arms Collectiong Auto-matic Pistol Collection. Galin Kelly and Wade Hall prepare to hang a World War ll Order of Battle Board, as Frank Platt examines a rare book. ifzxaibzwa