Word: richard
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Word has been received from Paris that Richard Norton '92 has been given the Cross of the Legion of Honor. He is the first American to receive this distinction for services during the war. Norton was one of the organizers of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps at the outbreak of the war and has built up this branch of service until it now has a record of carrying over 30,000 wounded during...
Professor Richard Thornton Fisher '98, director of the University Forest, has been appointed manager of food production and conservatism in the town of Petersham, where the Forest is located. All the forestry work has been dropped and the laborers have been taken from the lumbering and will at once begin plowing all the tillable land that is owned in Petersham by the University. On this land nonperishable foodstuffs, such as corn, beans, grains and potatoes will be planted. This work is part of the state-wide movement which is being organized by the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety to bring...
...American Ambulance now has 570 cars and over 500 men in service in Europe. Since the beginning of the war, 900 men have been with the Corps in one capacity or another, four of whom have been killed. Richard Hall, of Dartmouth, and William Kelley, of Philadelphia, met their death from shell-fire; Henry M. Suckley '10 was killed by an airplane bomb, and H. Sortwell '11 was crushed beneath a truck at Salonika. Over 400,000 wounded men have been carried by the American ambulances during the last three years, and at present the service is costing...
...secretary: Bruce Ditmas Bromley, of Pontiac, Mich.; Lawrence Clayton, of Salt Lake City, Utah; Charles Pelham Curtis, Jr., '14, of Boston; Shakelford Miller, Jr., of Louisville, Ky.; Kurt Friedrich Pantzer '14, of Indianapolis, Ind.; Dale Miller Parker, of Kansas City, Mo.; Marion Rushton '14, of Montgomery, Ala.; Richard Manning Russell '14, of Boston, and Joseph Nye Welch, of Primghar...
...committee on elections, composed of the following, was appointed: Bruce Ditmas Bromley, of Pontiac, Mich.; Fuynn Chang '14, of Chefoo, China; Richard Snowden McCabe, of Baltimore, Md.; and Marion Rushton '14, of Montgomery...