Gettysburg Academy - Osoga Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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ALUMNI NOTES ' 19 -Qf- -f--1 ----------- -1Q- - osooA -fql ------n------- ffi' - s 4 This year there has been brought to our notice very little information beyond that which was published in last year's issue of The Osoga concerning the various colleges and fields of activities which graduates of Gettysburg Academy have entered. Graduates of the class of 1933 entering various colleges are given. l'Scotty Bradbrook is attending New York City Collegiate Institute. Meredith Havens and Bill Hutchinson are both at Rutgers. James Charley, Edwin Brainard and Richard Mil- ligan are at Pitt. Justus Denner is studying a pre-med. course at Western Maryland. John Daub is at Drexel. Boomer Girton and 'iCocky Robbins have gained honors on the athletic field at Penn State. Indalecio Perez is asso- ciated with the American News Company of New York. Ed- ward McGill who has been successfully selling insurance, will enter Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall. Wil- bur Lynch has won scholarships at Trinity. Maurice Kohler is at Cornell. Victor Falcone is at St. Lawrence University. John Irvin and George Pitzer are at Roanoke. Richard Meyer is attending Carnegie Tech. Gettysburg College has taken a few members of the class of '33 after graduation and they are: George Brown, Robert Calhoun, Eugene Hetrick, Harry Opperman, Philip Pagliaro, Herbert Smull, William Strolis, and Peter Triani. Dave Boyd, '33, is a salesman for a grocery concern and Xvilliam Smith is successful in the butter and egg business. Paul Ecker, '33, has been the director of numerous dance bands in the vicinity of Gettysburg. Plug Neuman, '31, is at Virginia, Ray Doyle, '22, after teaching at his Alma Mater for a semester, is now practicing law at Portage, Pa. Richard Wolfe, '30, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and is now teaching at his dear Alma Mater. David Balfour, '32, has been awarded two scholarships at Brown University. Luther Hare, '31, was editor of the 1933- 34 Mercury, the literary magazine at Gettysburg College, Moody, '30, and Babylon, '30, were given high honors in connection with the history department at Gettysburg Col- lege. Raymond Miller, '31, has been elected President of the State Y. M. C. A. Charles B. Eager, '86, is now principal of the William Penn High School at Harrisburg, Pa. Madeline Bcrelis, '21, is at Fort Stotsenburg in the Philippines. Cap- tain George E. Jacobs, '06, has just returned from ten years in the Philippines. Dr. Jacob R. Jensen, '19, writes that after he left the Acad- emy, he attended the Gettysburg College, receiving the B.S. degree in 1922, and with the object of preparing himself for the work of a medical missionary he went to the University of Maryland Medical School and graduated from that institution in 1926. After one year's interneship at the University Hospital in Baltimore, he was com- missioned by the Board of Foreign Missions of the United Lutheran Church as a medical mis- sionary to Liberia, West Africa, and served one term as medical mission- ary returning on furlough in 1930. During a year on furlough he attended the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, receiving a diploma D. T. M. and H. from that institution. Upon completion of that course he returned to the Liberian field. Charles Fuller, '27, married Miss Margaret K. Murray, August 25, 1933. Earl Rudisill, '08, has recently been elected JACOB R. JENSEN president of Thiel College. In 1921 he received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Pittsburgh, and in 1925 received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from that school. He has also held positions as an instructor in various schools. We congratulate this alumnus upon the fine work he has done. Dr. Gulck, '18, like Dr. Jensen, attended Gettysburg Col- lege, University of Maryland Medical School, and also interned at University Hospital, Bal- timore. He was then com- missioned by the Board of Foreign Missions, of the United Lutheran Church and sent to Liberia, West Africa, as medical mission- ary. During his first fur- lough he attended the Ham- burg Tropical Institutfe, Hamburg, Germany, re- ceiving the diploma D. T. M. He then returned to Liberia resuming his work as medical missionary. Dr. Gulck and Dr, Jen- sen have been fortunate in working together the past year at the Phebe Hospital. The work has been very in- teresting and one that has kept both the doctors busy. Thus during the past year 7504 patients visited the dispensary con- nected with the hospital, one-third of these patients were natives and two-thirds civilized fLiberianJ. The treatments given during that year were 16,929. All these patients came from a total of 128 towns, some patients walking eight days to reach the hospital. There they can come and be relieved of all sorts of conditions. Huge elephantoid tumors weighing up to 50 pounds have been removed, strangulated hernias have been cured-where before it was certain death. Yaws, which afliict a vast number of native people, responds almost miracu- lously to injections of salversan or bismuth preparations-a magic cure as far as the natives are concerned and every dis- pensary day they Hock to the hospital for treatment. Huge sloughing tropical ulcers, some of years duration, respond quickly under modern treatment. In all these conditions the native umedicine men fail utterly to help them. Thus the work is ever growing in popularity, and it is indeed a blessed work, for through this means of expression the patients are brought under the iniiuence of the Gospel. A LIST OF OBITUARIES ARE GIVEN: It was with deep regret that we learned of the death of Samuel Serena, '32, l'Sam was still close enough to many of us and all who knew him felt something go out of their lives. Rev. G. Ketner, '88, died at sixty-six years of age from an illness which began with a paralytic stroke. Dr. Herbert A. Allison, ,90, professor of History and Po- litical Science at Susquehanna University, died July 17, 1933. Franklin S. Leisenring, '93, died June 2I last, at his home in - 1- - Washington, D. C. John E. Meisenhelder, .illi-Qilli-1 DR. GULCK ...ci ..iis '93, fifty-seven years old and a prominent Hanover physician, died at his home last July. Harvey M. Becher, '92, superintendent of the Mary M. Packer Hospital at Sunbury, died. He was sixty years old. Clarence A. Geesey, '89, prominent supporter of the Democratic party, died at sixty-three years of age. Albert O. Mullen, '87, died at sixty-six years of age. Franklin P. Manhart, '73, Dean of Susquehanna Seminary, died at eighty-one years of age. Dr. Bikle, Dean Emeritus of Gettysburg College, passed away recently. SAMUEL SERENA 1521

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19 34 i-i----i-----------I-osoGA -I--I-------------A-I HIGH WATER MARK PICKETTIS CHARGE SEMINARY RIDGE 150 cannons along Lee,s entire line opened fire and from their mouths poured death and destruction. General Hunt, chief of the Union artillery, was in no haste to reply. After locat- ing the enemy's guns, he opened fire upon them with eighty cannon-that being all that could be placed on their interior line. Instantly the whole ridge upon which the cannon were placed seemed ablaze. The duel raged for two hours. General Warren meanwhile signaled from Little Round Top of the discovery of a large formation of troops in the edge of the woods. General Hunt then ordered all the gunners gradually to cease firing in order to allow their able cannon to cool, to replace the disabled batteries, and to retain enough ammuni- tion to receive the attack from the woods in the front. The Confederates were now deceived, they believed they had demolished the Union guns. The charge started at three olcloclc. The fresh division of Pickett was appointed to lead the van. These brave veterans emerged from the woods with their guns upon their right shoulders, marching across the mile of ground as though they were on parade. It was a splendid sight, and even the Federal army looked with admiration at the lines. When they had reached half way, all guns along the Union line renewed their fire. The Confederate cannon were silent for the ammunition was exhausted. The Union batteries were tearing them apart in many places. Still their line moved steadily on, closing the vacant gaps, time after time. However, the charge was repulsed by the withering fire of the Union guns. Many of the Union batteries had been nearly demolished during the artillery duel, Lieutenant Cushing commanding a battery had but one gun left. He was working the gun him- self, with a lanyard wrapped around his wrist and being mor- tally wounded he cried to General Webb, General, I,ll give them one more shotf' He fell dead and the weight of his body discharged the piece. General Armisted, a brigadier of the Pickett division, had reached the stone wall at the angle. His small body of men numbering one hundred surrendered their arms after a hand- to-hand conflict which lasted but a few moments. And with this repulse the day, the battle, and the Southern cause were lost, the dawn of a new American freedom had come at lastl im

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