Episcopal High School - Whispers Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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,fff ff ff- . t f r , On October 15th, 1917, he entered the World War as major of 1st Engineers Clinej and left immediately for France. After a short time he secured transfer to the 101st Infantry, 26th Division, with which organization he served the remainder of the war, the last few months as its commanding officer. The following is a letter from General Geo. Van Horn Moseley, Asst. Chief of Staff: G. H. Q., Sec. 4, G. S., 15 Dec., 1918. Commander-in-Chief LIEUTENANT COLONEI JOHN C. GREENWAY. Commendation. Fran 1. As you were once a member of this section of the General Staff, and are now returning home after the completion of your duties in the A. E. F., I take this opportunity of recording in this official way a brief statement of your distinguished service and of our high appreciation of all you have accomplished. 2. You came to the service fully equipped for the emergency. Trained in a man's outdoor life in the Southwest, you possessed all the natural quali- fications of a leader. lt was such men as you who made the achievements of the Rough Riders possible. 3. You were connected with the important staff work at these head- quarters during the formative period of the A. E. F., and when our troops went seriously into the line you were with them in action on the Toule, Cantigny, Chateau-Thierry, San Mihiel, Meuse and Douamont fronts. In these actions you were either commanding your battalion or your regiment. For good work you were promoted to a Lieut. Colonelg for gallantry in action you were recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross. 4. The cessation of hositilities and the stopping of all promotions under instructions of the War Department alone kept you from receiving further promotion, as you were twice recommended for a Colonelcy. 5. Please accept our congratulations for all you have done. For me personally, the associations I have had with such men as you form the most treasured part of my military life. I am sending a copy of this letter to The Adjutant General of the Army for file with your military record. By order of the G. in C.: Geo. VAN HORN MOSELEY, Brigadier General, G. S., GVHNLWY Asst. Chief of Staff, G-4. The citation for D. S. C. says, For extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, ce, October 23rd, 1918. During a terrific enemy shelling on two of his bat talions, and after both his battalion commanders had been wounded, Colonel Green Nine

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39 .1 V, 5 4. if -j ' ,,A .. ... g g .. . f- . 5-' '- f- 15- se: :s qr f, -' ' , f f f 1 ' a'fiffa,,., ' 5 a r .N . I - .. Q . I Fw, ,,, I is ,- . v f ff ae at JOHN CAMPBELL GREENWAY OHN CAMPBELL GREENWAY was born in Huntsville, Alabama, july 6th, 1872, the son of Gilbert C. Greenway, a native of Abingdon, Virginia, and Alice White Greenway, who came from Richmond, Kentucky. His early years were spent in Arkansas, the home of his parents. He was the second of five brothers, all students at the Episcopal High School of Virginia. Entering in the fall of 1887 at the age of fifteen, he remained here three years. He played on the football and base- ball teams for three years and was a monitor his last year. He was a student at the University of Virginia the vear '90-'91 where he was a member of the football and baseball teams. Deciding to study engineering he entered Yale in the fall of 1892 after spending a year in preparation at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Here and at Yale he played end on the football team and caught on the baseball team. Hinkey and Greenway were recognized as names of outstanding ends through- out intercollegiate circles and Carter and Greenway were said to have formed the greatest of Yale batteries of all time. After graduation he entered the service of the Carnegie Steel Company, working as a day laborer in the mill at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, in order to learn the business. Wlien the Spanish War began in 1898 he enlisted in Roosevelt's Rough Riders. ln his book Rough Riders Colonel Roosevelt said of him: A strapping fellow, entirely fearless, modest and quiet with the ability to take care of the men under him so as to bring them to the highest point of soldierly perfection, and to be counted upon with absolute certainty in every emergencyg not only doing his duty, but always on the watch to find some new duty which he could construe to be his, ready to respond with eagerness to the slightest suggestion of doing something, whether it was dangerous or merely difiicult and laborious. From 1901 until 1906 Greenway was amistant superintendent of mines for the United States Steel Corporation at lshpeming, Michigan. From 1906-1910 he was general superintendent of the Oliver Mining' Company on the Mesaba Range, lVIinnesota. During this period he built the town of Coleraine, Minnesota, and patented a log turbine for the working of iron ore, an important invention in this industry. ln 1910 he was called to Arizona as general manager of the Calumet and Arizona Copper Company where he made his home until his death in 1926. ln 1915 his company purchased the New Cornelia Copper Company, the oldest incorporated copper company in the State of Arizona but long inactive and never developed be- cause of the low grade ore. This property lay -in the desert 50 miles from the nearest railroad and consisted of only a few huts occupied by Mexicans. Greenway took the lead in applying a chemical process to the refinement of the low grade ore and as soon as this was proven practical, he built the modern mining town of Ajo with hospital and school, attractive sanitary houses for laborers beautified with How- ering desert plants, and connected his town with the Southern Pacific railroad. Eight

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F8 .,1w 1-. ,V , f er it ages Ji, i .Q 4 Q 5 'ff' 1 G A 51 ,51 f QQ Way personally directed the activities and greatly encouraged his forces by his pres- ence. Leading them in attack, he demonstrated the utmost valor at the most critical moments and he was the first of his command to enter the German trench which marked the objective of the day's attack. He also received the French decorations, Croix de Guerre, Palms, Chevalier, Legion d'Honneur, and Croix de l'Etoile Noire. After the war he resumed his work as a mining engineer in Arizona as well as his active interest in state and national politics. Repeatedly urged to become a candidate for Governor and for Senator of Arizona, he was never willing to give up his professional work deeply interested as he was in political reform. He received an LL.D. from the University of Arizona in 1921. He was a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the Yale Engineering Association, The Sons of the Revolution, a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Arizona and president of the Yale Alumni Association of Arizona. Mr. Greenway married Isabella Selmes Ferguson in 1923. Their son John Selmes, born in 1924, is entered for admission to the Episcopal High School, VVhen it was announced that the State of Arizona had selected him as its repre- sentative in Statuary Hall in Washingtrmn, one of his friends wrote: For those who remember him in life it will be hard to conceive Jack Greenway standing there for- ever-Excellent in intention as the tribute is, it was the last thing he would have thought of. He was adored by his friends because of that great thing called char- acter. He was of flint and granite. Yet into these implacable materials there were mixed kindness, simplicity and above all, modesty. His greatness lay not in what he did but what he was. If this could be explained to generations who will come and wonder who he was, the memorial in Statuary Hall would be a fitting one. It would be extremely worth while for the nation to preserve an understanding of the things for which Greenway stood. But in this attempt to have him as politicians and local favorites are honored, there seems to me, somehow, to be an error of vision. It does not quite fit him. The following editorial appeared in the Nvtv York Herald Tribune: Bishop Atwood's letter upon the death of John Campbell Greenway, which we print in an adjoining column, reviews a fine life finely, from the standpoint of a personal friend. It gives background to the quality which made Greenway both interesting and important to the men associated with him at Yale, in political reforms, in two Wars and in the great iron and copper countries of the North and Southwest. That quality was the noble thing called character. 1fVhen Greenway came upon the field of athletics or war, confidence ran through team or regiment. To know why, to analyze the reasons, would be to analyze life itself. But some of the com- ponent elements all men know-courage, leadership, common sense, un- selfishness, loyalty, mercy. All these Greenway had. Through them, had he lived, he would have brought his career of service into even broader arenas of national life. WVe lament his death. Ten