The Final Price

Excerpted from The Ivy, 1920.

World War I: Soldiers and Sailors "Welcome Home" Banner

To all the many Trinity men who freely offered their lives to save civilization and liberty when in peril of war, these, whose names we set down in loving memory, were specially chosen to be a pure sacrifice upon the Altar of Freedom. They have paid the final price in that love than which no man hath greater. Through fell disease, from grievous wounds or, happiest, by sudden stroke n battle, these, our brethren, followed the path of duty and of glory to the heights beyond our earthly vision. Well done, Comrades, farewell; may you rest in peace and may Light Eternal shine upon you.

Trinity’s Gold Star Men

Private Paul H. Baer, 1921
2nd Lieut. Thomas B. Boardman, 1918
Major Lloyd W. Clarke, 1907
Chaplain Rev. Walton S. Danker, 1897
Sergeant Robert Glenny, 1904
Private George Halle, 1919
William J. Hamersley, 1909
Captain Harry W. Hayward, 1897
Chaplain Rev. Robert S. Hooper, 1915
Second Lieut. Geo. S. Huggard, 1920
Rev. Arthur Paul Kelly, 1901
Second Lieut. Harold C. Mills, 1915
Second Lieut. James Palache, 1917
Ensign Basil L. Steel, 1910
First Lieut. Rev. Parker VanAmee, 1907
Ensign Arthur H. Wright, 1918
Seaman Lester H. Church, 1920
James J. Page, 1908
Aubrey G. King, 1918
Kenneth K. Walker, 1920

 

Army S.A.T.C. group standing in front of Northam Towers east facade entry, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, ca 1918 photo
Army S.A.T.C. group standing in front of Northam Towers east facade entry, 1918.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1918, in front of Northam Towers.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1918, in front of Northam Towers. The students published a letter of gratitude to Roosevelt, who received an honorary degree. "We are proud that, on last Commencement Day, he became a Trinity Man."
World War I: First Connecticut Infantry parades down Main Street, leaving Hartford, July 1917.
World War I: First Connecticut Infantry parades down Main Street, leaving Hartford, July 1917.