Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-22
WHARTON SCHOOL
BOYS HONORED
Governor Speaks at Unfurling
of Service Flag With
Thirty Stars

The students of the Wharton
school, friends, regulars from the
United States recruiting station and
Civil War veterans gathered in the
auditorium of the Technical High
School last evening to honor the
thirty boys from the school who are
serving in the United States Army.
The occasion of the gathering last
night was the unfurling of service
flag with thirty stars in it.
There were several hundred Har-
rtsburgers present who for the first
time heard how Harrisburg boys are
living in the training camps. Gov
ernor Brumbaugh, who made a tour
of the training camps and canton
ments, was the principal speaker of
the evening, and told how the Penn
sylvania boys in the six army camps
are living. Governor Brumbaugh
paid a great tribute to the Penn
sylvania boys. stating that with the
spirit with which the boys are taking
hold of the work nothing can stop
them once they reach the trenches in
France.
Governor Brumbaugh said that all
the boys have improved in many
ways under the rigid discipline of
the Army, and that all of them are
satisfied with the life in the camps.
He told of the housing conditions of
the soldiers, of the great wooden bar
racks miles in length. and the hos
pitfalls at each camp three miles long.
where all the boys are looked after
He said the food is fine. and the men
in the camps are satisfied with their
lot. He paid a tribute to the excel
lent work of the Y. M. c. A and
praised The contribution of Harris
burg in the recent "Y" campaign.
$4,000 PennsyIvanians
He stated that there are eighty
thousand Pennsylvanians, one-tenth
of the soldiers, in the camps he Wis
tied. and said the Wharton School
men are a part of this number, with
all honor due them.
The flag was presented to the
school by Prof. H. Eugene Heine, of
the University of Pennsylvania and
a Wharton School instructor, and
was accepted by Rabbi Louis ]. Haas,
who in turn presented it to ]. w.
Kline, president of the Wharton
Study Club, and graduate of last
year. ... ....,
The meeting was presided over by
Thomas L. Montgomery, State LIBRA
rian, who introduced Governor Brum-
baugh. Bishop Philip r. McDevitt
gave the invocation, and the Rev.
>.
Parents, relatives and friends of the
honored boys crowded the aurito-
rum.
The Honor Roll
The names of the Wharton men as
they appear on the honor roll read
by rofessor Heine are:
Corporal Wilbur L. Minnich. III,
Company A, Fourth Infantry; Robert
S. Meek. IT. Quartermasters Corps.
Camp Hancock; Sergeant William f.
Hoy, III. Quar4ermasters Corps, Camp
Hancock; James c. Fitzpatrick, II,
Columbus Barracks; Joseph f. Sny-
der, 1T, Engineer Corps; Walter Sci
Ter, III. Engineer Corps; Sergeant
Clarence Wolfe, 1T, Supply Company.
Camp Hancock; Sergeant Raymond
Long, II, Supply Company. Camp
Hancock; Russell II. Gleim. III. Camp
Hancock; Thomas NJ. Rodgers, II,
One Hundred Twelfth Infantry; Ser
geant Stanley NJ. Livingston, rs, One
Hundred Twelfth Infantry; Wilson
o. Black, II. Camp Hancock; Corpo-
raj Henry Levin, 1T. Signal Corps;
Harry T. McFadden. IT. Signal Corps;
Corps; Lieutenant John J. 'Helff. II,
Camp Meade; Allen Gebhard, IT, Camp
Hancock; Joseph Mumma, '1S, Camp
Hancock; C. d. Brinser, '1S. Camp
Hancock; Ralph Gingrich, '1s. Camp
Hancock; Ensign Fred Burris. '1S,
Navy, paymaster's department; Paul
Kirby, 10, Navy; Fred Lyter. 10,
Troop c, First Pennsylvania Cavalry I;
Wayne Jefferies, IT. Camp Hancock: 4:
Robert Storey. 1T. One Hundred
Twelfth Infantry; Charles c. Weikel.
III, Camp Hancock; Joseph Diehl,
'1s, Camp Hancock; Jacob Siles. IL;
Stanley Lemon, '1s.