Word: hammonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until the day he died at 21, stocky, brown-haired Francis C. Hammond of Alexandria. Va. showed virtually none of those traits of character that are usually thought to mark the outstanding man. He was an indifferent student at his home town's George Washington High School. He took no part in athletics. He worked part time in his uncle's drugstore and plunked away on the guitar; among his friends he was a follower, never a leader. He had no great desire to join the armed services, but when he became 19, in 1951, he picked...
...became a medical corpsman, married an Alexandria girl named Phyllis Ann Jenkins, and last February was shipped off to Korea with the 1st Marine Division. One night just a month later, Corpsman Hammond found himself in a hell on earth-bleeding from wounds and pinned down by murderous mortar and artillery fire with other men of a Marine platoon which was attempting to assault an enemy outpost far in advance of the main line of battle...
...Freshman B's topped Lincoln Inn, 4-1, and number one man Hen Hockschor, Cal Place, Tony Ostheimer, and Doug Gardner each registerd wins. The only match the Inn picked up was at number three, with Jim Hammond the loser...
Other members of the committee are Dean Edward S. Mason, Dean Erwin N. Grisweld, Ralph J. Baker, Weld Professor of Law, and Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature...
...Varsity B Whites, despite a 3-0 victory by Freshman ace Ben Hecksher, edged the Freshman Boos, 3-2. The varsity winners were: Guy Pascal over Henry Place, 3-0; and Bob Brown over James Hammond, 3-0; and Bob Milton over Tony Ostheimer, 3-2. Doug Gardener was the other freshman victor...