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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1945
Page
2
A university tribute honors students and faculty who backed the War Bond drive. The piece reflects on Memorial Day as the solemn observance, the honor roll with gold stars, veterans with Purple Hearts, and the pledge to honor the dead by pursuing victory and lasting peace.
A campus letter defends Cardinal Key and Blue Key against accusations of personality based membership. It argues most members uphold high ideals and service to the university, while acknowledging a few individuals err in judgment but do not condemn the organizations.
Readers discuss the authorship of the war poem I Died Today with Dean Chatlain named as the author who survived North Africa and later led Akron veterans affairs. A second letter defends an ash tray sent from an honor guard at a president’s funeral and rejects claims of theft while honoring Roosevelt.
The Kent Stater and Echo show how campus papers adopt distinctive names to echo student concerns. Examples include COLLEGIAN at multiple schools and The Tar Heel at North Carolina, with Emory Wheel and Vermont Cynic signaling local character, all serving as recognizable trade marks for their papers.
Letters from Kent alumni reveal multiple service branches in the Pacific and Europe. Ensign Bar Myers and Lieut. Russ Hill, university peers, served aboard attack transports and LSTs, both part of the Iwo Jima campaign, while Lieut. Ralph McGinnis and Ensign Ben McGinnis held posts at Mare Island and attended Kent earlier.
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