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

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'k ' C C n ln Memoriam EVERAL years ago there came to Carthage College a sunny-faced lad with the twinkling eye of humor. He was an overgrown boy of the trusting type who made friends easily. The youth in him was unwillingly giving up to the inevita- ble ascendency of the man in him struggling for the supremacy. He lived the life of the adolescent. He graduated from the academy in due time. His behavior to his teachers and in the classroom was at all times that of the courteous gentleman. Then came the war. He, the boy in the ranks, soon rose to duties of a non- commissioned ofhcer. He took great interest and a strenuous part in the drill of the Reserve Militia both at Carthage and in Chicago. He entered the Officers, Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, and would have received his commission if he had been old enough. October first, 1918, after the summer's training and growth, he returned to Car- thage College to take his place as a non-commissioned officer in the Student Army Training Corps. The boy we knew in him was no more. He stood before us as the man. Big. broad shouldered. noble hearted man in the honored uniform of an Amer- ican soldier. Then came the dread disease. Pneumonia won in the fight for his life. But, bless your heart, Carthaginians, the lad, the man, the soldier-Merle Boyer-will never die. He is our first, and thus far, the College's only Gold Star. This promis- ing young man will move up and down our goodly college walks in the spirit of every noble youth and instill into each of us a nobler, better spirit, and a greater devotion to our duty. Merle Boyer, the sunny lad, our precious golden star, smiles down into our hearts the sweet message of hope and peace and joy that follows the life laid down for Mothers. . H. D. H. C - .. - .I TWENTY-FOUR ir 'k 'k 'k N ' ' - -'-

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i ff Our Gold Star MERLE BOYER ff ' ff ' Y-THRE

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ir ir -k if l i Hills in Service Robert McClaughry Hill Sixth Mobile Field Laboratory, Sixth Divisiong transferred February. 1919, to Laboratory of Camp Hospital No. 418, Recey sur Ourse, France. Lewis Rowland Hill , Sixth Mobile Field Laboratory, Sixth Divisiong' transferred February, 1919, to Laboratory of Camp Hospital No. 48, Recey sur Ourse, France. Corporal Ralph Marchand Hill Mobile Field Laboratory, Eighty-Sixth Division, transferred November, 1918, to Medical Laboratory, Intermediate Section, Tour. France. Sergeant Wm. Griffith Hill Mobile Field Laboratory, Eighty-Sixth Divisiong transferred November, 1918. to Central Medical Laboratory, Dijou, France. Now a member of the Sorbonne Detachment, Paris. Katharine K. Hill Army Nurse. VValter Reed Hospital. Takoma Park. Vlfasliington. D. C. TVVENTY-FIVE f 3 ' es ' ' ' 5 . :..