Carthage College - Driftwood / Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Kenosha, WI)

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Copyright Underwood 6: Underwood. New York

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To The Carthage Sons in Service ' The Class of 1920 Respectfully Declicates this Book

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I Cut Soldiers ARTHAGE COLLEGE has always been proud of the fact that her first presi- dent was an officer in the Union Army during the Civil VVar. He was severely wounded at thc Battle of F rcdericksburg but recovered in time to participate in the campaigns of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and continued to serve with distinction to the end of the War. But the College itself was founded during the decade following the close of the Great Struggle and as a college therefore has no record of devotion and sacrifice in that crisis of our Country's history. In '98 students of Carthage heard the call and followed the fiag through the campaigns of Cuba and the Philippines. So, too, when the call to arms was heard again in the spring of 1917, students and teachers of Carthage College put their books aside, and went forth calmly, cour- ageously, to bear their part in the great struggle which is to make the world free, as the struggle of the sixties made their country free. Every department of the school,- the Academy, all the College classes, and the faculty,--all are represented among those who have served their country and the world on the stricken fields of Belgium and France. We are proud o-f their loyalty, of their courage, of their record of achievement. Names of places, some of them unknown before, but whose sound filled the world in the summer of 1918, will never be forgotten at Carthage, for our boys were there-Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, the Second Marne, Soissons, St. Mihiel, and the Argonne-Meuse,-in all these colossal struggles Carthage men were present and always carrying on. In every department of the service they are found, among the Aviators and the Engineersg in the Infantry, the field and heavy Artillery, the Signal Corps, the Marines and the Navy, in field and base laboratoriesg in the Chemical Service and the Medical Corps, some of our girls, too, as Army Nurses in the great base hospitals. And they went forth to the great adventure, not recklessly, but with high pur- pose and soberly. How well we remember the serious young faces as the momentous decision was reached and one by one, or in small groups, they bade us farewell and departed, going to meet dangers, weariness and suffering of which they knew only that they were great. Carthage College honors them, will always count their patriotism, devotion and sacrifice as one of her chiefest glories, whatever distinction the future may bring her. God bless our soldiers.