Manlius School - Haversack Yearbook (Manlius, NY)

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, ..,,. , N.. A ':'N 1' ' ' ' 1 2 v , .' -: 423 2' ! r r s d ww f ., 4, E, 5 J E TO THE MEMORY OF COLONEL GUIDO FRIDOLIN VERBECK who, first influenced and formed in character by the training of Manlius, enriched by experience in college and in the armed forces of his country, devoted his life to the development and progress of his School: always accessible to us and always sympathetically concerned with our problems: wise in counsel: friendly and considerate in his exercise of authority: a true friend to all of us who came under his command and direction: we now dedicate this, our HAVERSACK OF 1941

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SACKQ S C H O O L MANLIUS, N.Y.

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The primary purpoce of thir gathering ir to pay trihute to, and to honor, a man whore fine qualities of head and heart, whore indurtry, loy- alty, and humanirtic underrtanding marked him at one of the mort accompliyhed and ureful citi- zenr of hir community throughout hir adult life. Colonel Guido Fridolin Wrhech war horn in Aurora, New York, on May 2, 1887, ron of Gen- eral William Wrhech, who war H eadmafter from 1888 to 1930. He war graduated from The Man- liur School in 1905 and entered Cornell Univer- rity in 1906. From Cornell he returned to Man- liuf to enter the Faculty. He way Commandant of Cadet! from 1910 to 1926, and war Superintendent from 1926 to 1932, when he war appointed Headmarter. In thif capacity he Jerved with eminent dirtinction until hir untimely death, july 27, 1940. In 1934 Colgate U niverrity awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. During the tame year he Jerved as Prerident of the Arfociation of Military Colleger and Schoolc of the United Stater. He war commitrioned a Second Lieutenant in the New York National Guard in june, 1911. In Septernher of the fame year, he war promoted to Captain and placed in command of Battery A of S yracure. Thereafter hir rervice war with the Field Artillery of the National Guard and with the American Expeditionary Force in the World UZU' until April, 1919. H e war ordered to France in April, 1918. He returned to the United Stater in March, 1919, and war dircharged April 1, 1919. Hir Jervice in France included participation in the St. Mihiel Ojenfive, the Meure-Argonne Ofenrive, and the Defenrive Sector of Wrdun. Ar Lieutenant, Colonel of the 106th Field Artillery in France, he received two Silver Star Citation: and the United States C onfpicuour Service C rorr. In May, 1919, he war appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Reserve Corpr and on April 10, 1922, wax promoted to Colonel in the Rererve Corpr. Ar ruch, he commanded the 368th Field Artillery of the 98th Divirion, Organized Rererver. Ar a citizen, churchman, Maron, educator, foldier, and puhlic Jervant, he reprerented the epitome of all that if heft and finert in a cron .rection of our .American civilization. From the remarks of General Singleton in acceptance of Colonel Verbeck's portrait, presented to the School by Mrs. Guido F. vefbeck, on june 21, 1941.