Armour Institute of Technology - Cycle Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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I) K I) ! C A TION Charles! ot ©ean IIEUTENANT CHARLES ABBOT DEAN, the son j of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Dean of Chicago, 111., died on June 29th of wounds received in action. He volunteered in the Engineer Corps in April, 1917, the first month of the war. He was sent to Fort Leavenworth where he received his training and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. In January, 1918, he sailed for France and was assigned to the 2nd Engineers at Verdun, and then moved with his regiment near Paris. At the time when the enemy was advancing on Paris, he participated in all the severe fighting that his division was engaged in. He led one of two commands that relieved sections of the Fifth and Sixth Marines at Lucy. On June 28th, advancing to a new position south of Chateau Thierry under heavy artillery fire, he stopped at the Battalion Headquarters for instructions and as he left the building to rejoin his platoon, a shell exploded nearby, fragments of which made ugly wounds. He was taken to the La Ferte Hospital, but died the following day and was buried in a French cemetery at La Ferte, France. Charles Dean was graduated from Armour Institute, the Department of Civil Engineering, with the Class of 1914. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and Tau Beta Pi fraternities. iiiuntiuuwiiuwiinwnmKimMUimviiiittiiiiiii ■NimiiiiHHiiiwtiiiiuiiiiiiiiimMuiiiiaNiiniHMi

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I) K D I C A T I O N IIIU Jasper J. Jffrendj I I KIT. JASPER J. FFRENCH the son of the late Charles Ffrench and Mrs. Florence Ffrench, met with a fatal accident on October 15, 1918, while flying at Payne Field, West Point, Miss. He was a graduate of Notre Dame University, later a student of architecture at Armour Insti- tute, and at the time of entering service was studying law at Northwestern University. He was among the first Chicago boys to enter service after war was declared, and qualified for the hirst Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Sheridan. Due to his fascination for the air service, however, he decided to try for the Flying Corps. He was then sent to Texas where he completed his ground school training. He obtained his commission as Second Lieutenant and was kept at Dallas as an instructor. He met with an accident while carrying a pupil at 3,000 feet. The machine caught on fire, became unmanageable, and crashed to the earth, where he was instantly killed. The student, although injured, recovered. i IKUIIIIU ■MlllimillliMUimiilHIMIM [iiNiiniiHiiaiMiiiaiiminiiiiiimiimniiiiimiiiiiiiiiiimniiiimiiiiiiuiiiiiiDiiiiimiiimuiMiiiiiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiudiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiminiimiMiiiimiiiiimiiiiii