Word: plattsburgers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Morgan firm in New York. Appointed by Elihu Root as his Associate Secretary of State, he later became head of the State Department under President Roosevelt. As Ambassador to France he served for three years with great distinction. An advocate of preparedness, he strongly supported General Wood's Plattsburg Officers' Training Camp System. Attending the first Plattsburg business man's camp, he became a major in May, 1919, and returned from France after the armistice as a Colonel on General Pershing's Staff. During the last few years Colonel Bacon has been serving his third term as Overseer...
...years supported several organizations of the National Guard, and in the last war hundreds of her men went out as commissioned officers from these organizations. If these men could have had the benefit of higher military education in College it would not have been necessary to send them to Plattsburg and Summer Schools...
First Lieutenant Howard Rogers Clapp L. '16-17, 22d Aero Squadron, was killed in action Nov. 3, 1918, over Youreq. Clapp attended the Plattsburg Training Camp in 1917 until he was transferred in August to the Ground School at M. I. T. He was commissioned on Dec. 17, 1917, and sailed for France Jan. 30, 1918, where he was attached to the 22d Aero Squadron, with which unit he served until reported missing last November...
Nichols was 26 years old and had spent some time with Battery A of the 101st Field Artillery on the Mexican Border. At the entrance of the United States into the war, he went to Plattsburg, and was later sent to Ellington Field, where he received his commission. Last July, Nichols was sent overseas with the 166th Aero squadron...
Captain Leonard left the University shortly after the declaration of war, enlisting in the 101st engineers. He was later sent to the first Plattsburg Camp, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant. He was then sent to France, and served with the 9th infantry, 2d division, A. E. F. Captain Leonard was wounded at Soissons and sent home as an instructor in September...