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Carolyn Emerson<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1908<\/em><\/p>\nShe was University class president her sophomore year and interrupted her career as a French teacher to join a wartime YMCA canteen service in France, providing food, beverages, and personal items to soldiers. Emerson\u2019s University yearbook quote spoke to her character: \u201cMany are called, but few get up.\u201d
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Lawrence Atkins<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1915<\/em><\/p>\nAtkins served as student body president at Rochester and was a member of the baseball and track teams. He joined the 106th<\/sup> Ambulance Company and was sent to France, where he was struck by an influenza pandemic that would kill an estimated 30 million people. He died in a French hospital of bronchial pneumonia on October 30, 1918, just 12 days before the war ended.
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Margaret Neary Bakker<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1913<\/em><\/p>\nThe Rochester native graduated with a degree in chemistry and served as a bacteriologist at Base Hospital 19 in Vichy, France, during the war, then joined a Red Cross unit for 16 months. Never content to stay in one place, she lived in Hawaii, Austria, China, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, England, and France.
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Raymond Ball<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1914<\/em><\/p>\nThe Wellsville, New York, native enlisted in the US army in 1917 and served two years as a captain of a machine gun battalion in France. He went on to hold several executive posts at the University, including treasurer and chairman of the Board of Trustees before embarking on a long career in Rochester as a banking president.
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Vernon Brown<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1920<\/em><\/p>\nThe Canada native left school after nine months to join Britain\u2019s Royal Flying Corps and was credited with downing at least two German planes. He went missing in May 1918 and was presumed dead. In fact, he had been shot down, wounded, and placed in a German prisoner of war camp. Although he didn\u2019t return to the University, the faculty awarded him a bachelor\u2019s degree in 1920 in deference to his war service.
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Charles Evans<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1918<\/em><\/p>\nEvans left school in the spring of 1917 to join the Navy reserves. That June, he was on a patrol boat off Boston Harbor when an excursion steamer emerged from heavy fog and smashed into the boat\u2019s cabin, tearing off Evans\u2019s left arm. Five comrades gave blood transfusions in a desperate effort to save his life, but he died two days later and received his degree posthumously from the University.
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Prentiss Gilbert<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1906<\/em><\/p>\nThe great-nephew of Martin Brewer Anderson, the University\u2019s first president, he served as a captain in the Military Intelligence Division during World War I. He became the University\u2019s first director of its Extension Division and later was named US representative at the League of Nations and appointed charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires at the US Embassy in Berlin, Germany, by President Roosevelt. He died of a heart attack at the embassy in 1939, at age 55.
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Eleanor Gleason<\/strong><\/h3>\n
She was University class president her sophomore year and interrupted her career as a French teacher to join a wartime YMCA canteen service in France, providing food, beverages, and personal items to soldiers. Emerson\u2019s University yearbook quote spoke to her character: \u201cMany are called, but few get up.\u201d
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Lawrence Atkins<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1915<\/em><\/p>\nAtkins served as student body president at Rochester and was a member of the baseball and track teams. He joined the 106th<\/sup> Ambulance Company and was sent to France, where he was struck by an influenza pandemic that would kill an estimated 30 million people. He died in a French hospital of bronchial pneumonia on October 30, 1918, just 12 days before the war ended.
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Margaret Neary Bakker<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1913<\/em><\/p>\nThe Rochester native graduated with a degree in chemistry and served as a bacteriologist at Base Hospital 19 in Vichy, France, during the war, then joined a Red Cross unit for 16 months. Never content to stay in one place, she lived in Hawaii, Austria, China, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, England, and France.
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Raymond Ball<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1914<\/em><\/p>\nThe Wellsville, New York, native enlisted in the US army in 1917 and served two years as a captain of a machine gun battalion in France. He went on to hold several executive posts at the University, including treasurer and chairman of the Board of Trustees before embarking on a long career in Rochester as a banking president.
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Vernon Brown<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1920<\/em><\/p>\nThe Canada native left school after nine months to join Britain\u2019s Royal Flying Corps and was credited with downing at least two German planes. He went missing in May 1918 and was presumed dead. In fact, he had been shot down, wounded, and placed in a German prisoner of war camp. Although he didn\u2019t return to the University, the faculty awarded him a bachelor\u2019s degree in 1920 in deference to his war service.
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Charles Evans<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1918<\/em><\/p>\nEvans left school in the spring of 1917 to join the Navy reserves. That June, he was on a patrol boat off Boston Harbor when an excursion steamer emerged from heavy fog and smashed into the boat\u2019s cabin, tearing off Evans\u2019s left arm. Five comrades gave blood transfusions in a desperate effort to save his life, but he died two days later and received his degree posthumously from the University.
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Prentiss Gilbert<\/strong><\/h3>\nClass of 1906<\/em><\/p>\nThe great-nephew of Martin Brewer Anderson, the University\u2019s first president, he served as a captain in the Military Intelligence Division during World War I. He became the University\u2019s first director of its Extension Division and later was named US representative at the League of Nations and appointed charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires at the US Embassy in Berlin, Germany, by President Roosevelt. He died of a heart attack at the embassy in 1939, at age 55.
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Eleanor Gleason<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Atkins served as student body president at Rochester and was a member of the baseball and track teams. He joined the 106th<\/sup> Ambulance Company and was sent to France, where he was struck by an influenza pandemic that would kill an estimated 30 million people. He died in a French hospital of bronchial pneumonia on October 30, 1918, just 12 days before the war ended. Class of 1913<\/em><\/p>\n The Rochester native graduated with a degree in chemistry and served as a bacteriologist at Base Hospital 19 in Vichy, France, during the war, then joined a Red Cross unit for 16 months. Never content to stay in one place, she lived in Hawaii, Austria, China, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, England, and France. Class of 1914<\/em><\/p>\n The Wellsville, New York, native enlisted in the US army in 1917 and served two years as a captain of a machine gun battalion in France. He went on to hold several executive posts at the University, including treasurer and chairman of the Board of Trustees before embarking on a long career in Rochester as a banking president. Class of 1920<\/em><\/p>\n The Canada native left school after nine months to join Britain\u2019s Royal Flying Corps and was credited with downing at least two German planes. He went missing in May 1918 and was presumed dead. In fact, he had been shot down, wounded, and placed in a German prisoner of war camp. Although he didn\u2019t return to the University, the faculty awarded him a bachelor\u2019s degree in 1920 in deference to his war service. Class of 1918<\/em><\/p>\n Evans left school in the spring of 1917 to join the Navy reserves. That June, he was on a patrol boat off Boston Harbor when an excursion steamer emerged from heavy fog and smashed into the boat\u2019s cabin, tearing off Evans\u2019s left arm. Five comrades gave blood transfusions in a desperate effort to save his life, but he died two days later and received his degree posthumously from the University. Class of 1906<\/em><\/p>\n The great-nephew of Martin Brewer Anderson, the University\u2019s first president, he served as a captain in the Military Intelligence Division during World War I. He became the University\u2019s first director of its Extension Division and later was named US representative at the League of Nations and appointed charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires at the US Embassy in Berlin, Germany, by President Roosevelt. He died of a heart attack at the embassy in 1939, at age 55.
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