At the Movies, 1933. PMC cadets attend a private showing of The Sign of the Cross at the Stanley Theatre, courtesy of the film’s director, Cecil B. DeMille.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Eugene Sparrow was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Harvard Divinity School. Sparrow served in the U.S. Army as a specialist in South American and Iberian culture from 1944 to 1946. Later he served...
William L. Cottee, born in 1901, graduated from Northeast High School in Philadelphia. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Classics from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1933 he came to Pennsylvania Military College as an...
Leslie C. Quick Jr. came to PMC from the Army Air Corps. He served PMC as a radio specialist and managed the football and basketball teams, earning a degree in business in 1950. After graduation, Quick joined Addressograph-Multilithe, and in five...
