George Turner Cann was born in Savannah, Georgia on July 22, 1866. In 1885, Cann graduated from PMA as valdictorian and ranking cadet officer. In 1886, Cann received his LL.D from Columbia College (now University) and was admitted to the Georgia...
World War, 1939-1945 -- Education and the war; Pennsylvania Military College; Army Specialized Training Program (U.S.)
In Chapter 16 - Cadet Life 1930-1954, Moll discusses the climate at PMC during Word War II and how the ASTP, ASTRP and later Veterans students shaped the student body. Moll, C.R. (1954). A History of Pennsylvania Military College 1821-1954....
Burton Hill Mustin was born February 8, 1884, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from PMC in 1903 with a degree in civil engineering, an 88.7 average and received the Eastern Alumni Association Marksmanship Medal. At PMC Mustin...
John Winthrop Loveland graduated from Pennsylvania Military Academy in 1887 with a degree in civil engineering. Although Loveland never practiced civil engineering, he found his degree useful in his career as a lawyer specializing in patents. ...
Caesar Augustin Grasselli II was born on February 17, 1901 in Cleveland, Ohio. His great-grandfather founded Grasselli Chemical Company of Ohio, which became a duPont subsidiary in 1928, and his father was vice president of E.I. duPont de Nemours...
Eisenhower Visits Campus, 1963. Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the first PMC Honorary 1st Captain. John Lance Geoghegan presents General Eisenhower with a plaque and the sabre that is symbolic of the rank.
Major General Edwin Elliot MacMorland, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, was born on July 22, 1892. In 1910, he entered the University of Missouri, although he was a second alternate to receive an appointment to the United States Naval Academy in...
Lawrence P. Sharples was born in 1891 and grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1912 with a B.S. in chemical engineering and served in World War I as a Tank Corps officer for the American Expeditionary...
Chalmer Gatlin Kirkbride was born in 1906 near Tyrone in the Oklahoma territory to pioneer parents and grew up in Caney, Kansas. By 1930, at the age of 23, Kirkbride completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in Chemical Engineering at the...
Bernard Lee Schwartz was born on June 18, 1914 and grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He briefly attended Lehigh University until the Depression forced him to drop out and seek employment.
For four years Schwartz worked as a sales engineer at...
Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr., descendant and heir of Philadelphia's prominent Widener family, was born in 1922. In the 1800's, Peter Arrell Brown Widener built the family's wealth through the meat industry and street railway systems. Peter's son,...
John Berne Hannum grew up in Elwyn, PA and graduated from the Lawrenceville School. He attended Princeton University, where he was a 155-pound champion on the boxing team. He earned a bachelor's degree from Franklin and Marshall College and earned...
Alvin M. Andorn, a native of Bridgeport, Ohio, graduated from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. For 48 years he worked at Penn Steel Castings Company of Chester, retiring in 1964 as president and chairman of the...
Dr. Abraham Lance Lathem was born on May 26, 1866 in Murdockville, Pennsylvania. Undergoing a conversion experience at age 10, Lathem dedicated his life to living the Bible. He attended Washington and Jefferson College, Western Theological...
