Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-05-26
GOLD STARS
FOR OLD St f)HNS
College Men Who Made The Su.
preme Sacrifice IN The War
With Germany
STUDENTS AND ALUMNI

Records which hare been complied
and made as nearly complete as pos
sibIe to the present time show hat
there we're eighteen sons of ST. Johns
College who lost their lives ih the
war with Germany Of these two
were alumni Who date hack as far az
The class Of 1900.
The member or this class who nlade
the supreme sacrifice Was Thomas Pen
ningfon 81 the East Kent Regiment
English Army. who died In France
September 80. 1915
Following this the classes of eight
years escape loss the next being
member of the class Or 1909. This was
! John Earecksom, who died of fniiitenz
at Aberdeen Proving Grounds
or the class og 1910 there were four.
or twenty per cent ok the class O
that year. This is the highest per
cenfage lost By any one Of the ciasses
Herbert ID. Taylor died iii New York
of Influenza during the epidemic Inst
year Harry j Skinner was drowned
from the u. s. s. chauncey when
she was sunk BIZ collision iii the
war zone, Two other members Wee
killed iii France Peter G. Z0ucls
lieutenant in the 320th infantry fell on
October iii, 1918. and Harry IN. vii
ncr was killed by d fall frqn sil
lairplanc
G Holland Rigger, who was kilied
In action. and George H Davis were
both of the class of 1912. The latter
was overseas when he died, October 81
1917
# seems to be a singular coincidence
that there should have been another
81 Johns man than Skinner to iese
his life with the sinking of the
'chauncey The other was Charlie
Foster Wedderburn, of the class of
tl9IS. n Tsssm was NOT gaae only sAe fiji
which ST. Johns lost more than one
son Ia single day. however. The toll
was not always taken slowly, as is
shown by the cases of Nal +. Twigg,
1918 Harry j SeIhy, 1916, and Chas.
sB MOwbray. 1915. On October 10,
1918. Twigg died at Fort OgIethorpe,
Ga, Selby and Mowbray were killed
In France On the same day The lat
ter fell at Bois du Faye. and 1t Is pos
sible that selby was killed in the
same battle.
The 1913 class had two losses III aid q
iition To the two given above. They
were Augustus B McElderry, who
died of typhoid fever in France, Sep
Etember 4, 1918. and Robert +. Bratten,
killed BY motor accident In France.
An uncertainty exists in the case Of
Galloway @. Cheston, who was re-
ported as missing. Hope IS still en-
ltertained that he may yet be heard
from Cheston was of the 1915 class
The death Of James b Brashears oc-
Cured at the Naval Hospital in Anna
polls in 1918, the year following his
graduation
Two az the men who were students
In the college last year and who. with
Eothers from the student body. felt the
lcaiI OF the country too strongly To re-
main. laid down their lives In the
/ struggle Wilson II. Martin, mem
Der OF this years senior class, enlisted
| ii the medical corps and was sent to
france q few weeks after Easter of
Hast year IN August he died IN .
French base hospital. Of pneumonia
Wyatt ID. Doyle Of the present junior
class. was commissioned at Plattsburg
\ last summer and died at Philadelphia.
October 9Th
This, SO Gar as Is YET known. is q
1scompIete list OF those men who were
trained at ST Johns and lost their
lives fiji the service of their country.
1 The list ii g long one for an institn-
ltion of this size. but Il Is not an unsl-
lsualIy high percentage Of the colleges =
share og the men who were In the diff
ferent branches of the service.
The complete list OF alumni shows
thai more than four hundred graduates
of the college hold commissions cover
All branches i'll the departments
Of the army and navy
Brigadier General Harry d. Todd,
class oF 1884, is the highest ranking
alnnnus Of old st. Johns who re-
4 mains iii active service This rank
I vas also attained BY James A. Buch-
anan, Of the 1870 class who Is now
retired.
ST. Johns deserves the conclusion
which is simply drawn from these rec
ords. that her reputation along milf
tary lines Is well earned, and that
her sons "a out able and willing to
/ back their country with the same
| marked spirit with which they back
their colleges
RegzaEom Days.
Yesterday was the hrst cf four