Mercersburg Academy - Karux Yearbook (Mercersburg, PA)

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Armistice Day 194-5 To THE Gow STAR Bovs or MERCERSBURG: You may have died in Mexico a century ago or, later, at Bull Run or Get- tysburg. Whether you fought for the North or for the South does not now matter, although it seemed to then. Was it an Indian arrow that found you on the Western plains, or did you fall on the slope at San Juan Hill? Perhaps you died at Belleau Wood, or in the tangled forest of the Argonne. The Mercersburg you knew is much more beautiful today, and boys still work and play as you used to do. From the First World War, fifty-six did not come home, and some still sleep beyond the seas. Sixteen of you were boyhood friends of mine. I often wonder what kind of men you would have been, and whether your sons, had you lived, would now be among my boys at Mercersburg, Did you feel as I did in that great conflict-that if we did not return, it did not matter, for through our going men would learn never again to wage a war? How it grieved Dr. and Mrs. Irvine when word came that you had gone! Long since, they and Dr. Edwards have joined you and,I know, are again look- ing after you. Twenty years went by, and our youthful hopes were not fulfilled. Once, again, for men were not wise, the boys of Mercersburg went forth to war. This time nearly eighty of you will not return, among you six of my own boys whom I knew so well short months ago. Guadalcanal, New Guinea, North Africa, Italy, Guam, France, Belguim, Holland, Germany, Leyte, Okinawa, Lu- zon, in a training camp at home, or in nameless locations at sea-these are where this time you died. On each Armistice Day we shall think of you, and read your names, and honor you, as you heard it done for the boys of the First World War. To your mothers and fathers and families, who had such high hopes and ambitions for you, we give our profound and reverent sympathy. We thank you for what you have done, for you saved America from those who would have destroyed her. Because of you, boys may still come to Mercersburg to school. In the First War, when someone died, we said he had gone West. Do you remember the sunsets at Mercersburg, when colors filled the sky above and beyond the Western mountains? Did you think of them in that last hour before the God of Battles touched you and marked you for his own? For I am sure you are there, out West, waiting for those you loved, and those who loved you, to join you in the beauty and the glory of the setting sun. YOUR HEAD MASTER I l l 9 o

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WAR ROLL OF HONOR LT. THEODORE A. MUDGE, '32 LT. DON K. JONES, JR., '38 CAPT. NATHAN K. BRUMBAUGH, '23 CADET JOSEPH T. LANE, JR., '32 LT. IRVING V. C. PERINE, JR., '26 ENSIGN JOHN MCK. GREEN, '38 LT. JOHN C. WEIMER, '30 LT. JOHN L. MITCHELL, III, '38 LT. DAVID H. CROSBY, JR., '36 PHILIP KOONTZ, '22 LT. JOHN FROST, '35 LT. JAMES G. RUCH, '36 LT. CLARANCE H. MCCAIN, '35 PVT. ROBERT H. HAAGEN, '42 LT. WILLIAM C. FALLON, '39 LT. W. COURTNEY EUWER, JR., '39 LT. JOHN E. 0,KEEFE, JR., '32 FXO. J. ROBERT HARRISON, JR., '33 CAPT. JOHN N. CARNES, '31 AMM3!c CARL A. NAUGLE, JR., '39 LT. HENRY H. KREIDER, JR., '36 ENSIGN ROBERT H. HILLMAN, '37 LT. GEORGE C. MAITLAND, '40 LT. FREDERICK G. GRIMSHAW, JR., '38 MAJOR CHARLES W. DELANEY, JR., '38 2ND LT. CHARLES J. BELL, JR., '42 CAPT. GORDON L. LUNDWALL, '33 CAPT. FREDERICK C. BREVILLIER, '35 IST. LT. EDWARD L. STANTON, JR., '36 LT. EVERETT J. DEARMAN, JR., '33 PVT. JOHN S. EDWARDS, JR., '26 FXO CARL E. HAAS, '41 LT. JOHN S. BAER, '41 LT. BENJAMIN C. MCCARTNEY, '34 FXO EDWIN W. SMITH, '41 LT. fj. g.J THOMAS H. RALSTON, '34 PVT. RICHARD W. MCFADDEN, '43 CAPT. RICHARD B. WHITE, '35 PFC. BENJAMIN H. HEWIT, '39 LT. CLYDE M. SNAVELY, '39 BM2!c G. ELLSWORTH HARRIS, III, '37 IST. LT. JOHN S. S. PEIRSON, '33 PFC. JOHN M. WALKER, JR., '43 PVT. GLENN C. DEGEN, '43 TfSGT. DAVID S. WELSH, '37 IST. LT. DANIEL B. WOOLCOCK, JR., '40 IST. LT. CHARLES J. FITE, '38 LT. DANIEL C. SCHNEBLY, JR., '39 PVT. EDWIN F. CROWTHER, '43 TfSGT. JOHN KENNEDY HILL, '38 LT. GEORGE H. RILEY, '28 LT. WILLIAM M. GRIMES, JR., '41 IST. LT. FRED M. WALLACE, JR., '33 LT. JOHN S. DITTO, '37 CAPT. EDWARD H. BEAVERS, JR., '37 LT. I j. g.J WILLIAM Z. PRICE, '40 CAPT. NATHAN T. FOLWELL, III, '37 CAPT. DEWITT D. IRWIN, JR., '29 LT. JAMES E. OGLE, III, '37 FXO T. DAWSON TRIPPE, '36 SGT. WALTER J. FREUND, JR., '41 MfSGT. FREDERICK G. DYAS, JR., '30 LT. ROBERT A. MCCRACKEN, '36 LT. ROBERT W. BROWNING, '38 LT. WILLIAM R. KIMBALL, '37 LT. COMDR. LELAND M. BURR, JR., '26 LT. CHARLES W. HEPPENSTALL, Ill, '41 LT. JOHN J. BECKER, '37 ENSIGN DAVID P. KELLY, '40 CAPT. WILLIAM D. WEBER, '35 PVT. DON F. WILLS, JR., '27 LT. JOHN E. HOLOHAN, '42 IST. LT. EDWARD B. MILLS, JR., '41 MISSING IN ACTION LT. JOHN H. STEWART, '34 CART. THOMAS M. HIGH, '38 LT. JOHN K. WEINSTEIN, '41 PVT. BERNARD T. BROWN, JR., '41 CAPT. JAMES E. MURPHY, '36 ENSIGN CHARLES C. BROWNMILLER, JR., 40 LT. AUSTIN R. WYMAN, USMCR, '41 LT. ij. g.J GEORGE S. SELTZER, '37

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