Morris High School - Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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, Gold Stars Plattsburg as soon as he graduated from City College in June 1917. He was the only man in the College to pass the entrance tests for this camp. He never saw actual service, for he was attacked by para-typhoid, of which he died, after only three months of training. I At Morris he had been a member of the football team, and Won his HM . He graduated in June 1913. David W. Miller served with the 30th Engineers at Camp Upton. On March 30th, feeling ill, he was permitted to go home. From here he was removed to the Polyclinic Hospital, suffering from appendicitis. An operation proved ineffectual and he died on March 17th, 1918. Isidore Rotgard, who in his letters home expressed the ut- most abhorrence toward the Germans for their atrocities, by a strange turn of fate was himself slain as a result of an atrocity. Some American forces, among which was Rotgard's regiment, were engaged in hand to hand fighting in a dense forest near the Marne. During the engagement Rotgard was wounded and sent to a hospital twenty miles behind the lines. While he was on the operating table German airplanes bombed the hospital and Rotgard wa killed. Missing in Action Lieutenant Philip Hassinger went to France with the American Aviation corps. It was on September 28th, during the Saint Mihiel drive, that he went up over thc lines in an aero- plane and failed to return. As no definite news of his fate has ever come, there is still a faint hope that he may even yet re- turn . Q Q g The following letter explains itself. We have given it a place in the ANNUAL because we feel that it gives better expres- sion to the spirit in which these boys entered the service and laid down their lives than any words of ours could do. Praise from us would be poor in comparison with the splendid sense of dedication to the cause of Right pervading every sentence. Rotgard's own words are the most fitting memorial for him and for his comrades. V . . . . . . .We have been drilling and working pretty strenuously lately, so that I could not find time to write you sooner. We dig trenches, have gas mask drill, take long hikes. One feels pretty tired at the end of the day. However it is great training and hardens one to -the point where he can endure anything. Al- though conditions are quite different, naturally, from what 19

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HENRY GUNDLACH ISIDORE ROTGARD JEREMIAH S. HENNESY MATTHEW G. CROSSON 18

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LAXNRIGNCIC F. UONDON J AMES COWAN ANDES EMANUEL ABEL FREDIWICK ERIKSEN 20