Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election committee was headed by John Richardson, Jr. '43, and included three other Juniors, Adelbert Ames III, John J. Sullivan, and Thomas Matters, Jr. Peter Damman '42, headed the nominating committee. Election Results Class Secretary Abbott Thayer Fenn 83 Class Day Committee Richard Gordon Pfister 237 Vern Kenneth Miller 203 Thomas Gardiner 190 John Christopher Finegan 182 Edward Issac Rothschild 170 George Williams Webber 151 Arthur Theodore Lyman 134 Permanent Class Committee George William Heiden 199 Peter Macgowan 183 William Barclay Parsons, Jr. 176 Charles Burgess Ayres 155 Harry Newman, Jr. 153 Coles Harison Phinizy...
Compensating for this decrease in enrollment, the School has lost several of its important Faculty members, two of whom are now abroad, and two serving in the Army and Navy Medical Corps. Among the former is Dr. John E. Gordon, Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine, who is now active in England, organizing a hospital and studying epidemics in wartime...
...that Sunday night General Gordon Bennett's sampan had bumped into a seagoing junk carrying six British officers. The General's party switched to the larger vessel, set an uncertain course for Sumatra. The torn page of an atlas was their only chart. Dawn found them in waters a scant half-mile from a Japanese-held island. Their food and water were nearly gone when an Allied launch picked them...
...Batavia last week, before returning home to Australia to report for further duty, tough, brusque Henry Gordon Bennett told a story that was anything but pretty. He and his men held out "until the last moment," were no match for "lack of water, incessant bombing and greatly superior numbers." Two hospitals had only enough water to last another 24 hours. Bombings were so violent that of one group of 400 Australians only 14 men were left after a three-day attack. The enemy's numerical superiority needed no amplification. No matter how often told, or by whom related...
...when General Gordon Bennett flew home, only his family and a few brother officers greeted him in Sydney. In Melbourne the War Cabinet coldly awaited his report. General Gordon Bennett could -and did- sayfor himself that he had endured his men's hell to the last, that he did not leave until after the surrender. It was still not a pretty story...