Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-08
ST. JOHNS COLLEGE
IN THE WAR
Marylanders In Close Connection
With Their Own Alma Mater
Engaged In Activities
NOBLE -FOUR HUNDRED"

The Baltimore Evening News of
yesterday pays high tribute to the
patriotism of ST. Johns College and
its Alumni and students who are ac-
lively engaged in war activities, and
who are represented in every corps
of all branches of the service. ae
News says:
Among the thousands of Maryland
ers in Pershing's army in France and
the other thousands on the sea or in
cantonments or engaged in the myr-
lad avenues of war activities are a
surprising number of graduates or
students of our educational institu-
tions, from Johns Hopkins University
downward through the secondary pub
lie schools. Wherever a Marylander
may find himself, inthe army or navy,
in the line or staff, in the ranks, there
Marylander with a more or less close
connection with his own alma mater.
I'm the hurry and changing condi-
tions of a war that in some form
impossible to make up, even from day
to day, anything like an accurate and
intelligible list of the sons of Mary
land schools. The latest catalogue of
st. Johns College at Annapolis, just
issued, has attempted TO group it's
alumni in the United States service,
and devotes eleven pages to naming
and identifying nearly 400 graduates,
with the branch or unit in which they
are serving. Almost an even hundred
are recorded in the regular army
Two of them, Henry d. Todd, QSS4)
and Robert H. Noble (1S94), are brig
ader generals in the National Army,
the former being a colonel of coast
artillery and the latter a colonel in
the regulars. General Noble is in
France, and so is Col. Walter d.
Smith (1S9D, another West Pointer
TO the sprinkling of st. Johns men
who have been abroad with the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Force for some
time has now been added scores of
officers and privates who went over
with the Blue and Gray Division-the
One Hundred and Fifteenth Infantry
in particular, made up of Maryland
ers, having a roll call intimately asso-
ciated with the campus of st. Johns
'The st. Johns men are represent
ed in the Dental Corps, the Army Med
ical Corps, the Ambulance Corps, the
Quartermaster's Corps, the Marines,
the United States Public Health Serv-
ice, the Navy Pay and Medical Corps,
among the chaplains, in the training
camps, the Ordnance Department,
Coast and Field Artillery, Cavalry
and practically all other branches of
the service. James Brown Scott, erst,
while lecturer on international law
at Johns Hopkins, claimed as a st.
Johns man of 1916, is a Judge advo-
cate; Lieut. Col. Philip Banno n 1S92)
is the ranking Marine Corps officer
and four commanders-Willi G.
DeBose (1S95), Duncan M. Wood
(1S94), j. v. Chase (1S89) and Charles
Belknap qS99) in the navy
list
Charles Foster Wedderburn (1913)
and Henry Skinner 1911) were
drowned from the U. S. S. Chauncey
Midshipman Montgomery Alger (1915)
and c. c. Roehle $3.50, Navy Con.
struction Corps, are dead. Among
the casualties in France are Horace
Graham McDermott Q914, private
Ninth Infantry, died of wounds Apri
IL, 1918; Thomas Pennington (1900l
of the East Kent Regiment in the
British Army died in France Septem
Der 80. 1915; c. H. Davis (1912), FieIt
Artillery, died in France October 16
t19I7"