Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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 TEeHILLTOP °f 19 Tfie Gold Star Book. = =i=- J s f afjji HE pi GEORGE WAYNE WHITNEY. First-class seaman, United States Transport, Harrisburg. Born March Third, 1896. Died of pneumonia October Nineteenth, 1918. Enlisted April, 1918. While making his fourth trip, transporting soldiers, Whitney succumbed to pneumonia. He was a student in the Economics department and came to Marquette from Ripon College. He was called into the service May Tenth and soon “shoved off to sea” aboard the U. S. S. Harrisburg. George was well known and liked by all the professors and his fellow students. His death came as a shock and was mourned by all those who knew him. u WILLIAM M. WILLIAMS, Company B., Marquette S. A. T. C. Born August Thirteenth, 1899. Died of influenza October Eleventh, 1918. Enlisted September, 1918. Williams -had scarcely been in the service two weeks when he became a victim of influenza. His home was in Columbus, Ohio. He was enrolled in the Engineering department, but transferred to Economics. Dean Atkinson said of him: “He was a fine boy. We are used to hearing praises of the dead, in fact it is a custom to say nothing but good of them. However, I feel certain that, had Williams lived, he would have had many fine things said of him while at school and afterwards.” Eighteen

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