Each year on Memorial Day, the Occidental community pauses to remember the 65 Oxy alumni known to have died while serving their country in the armed forces.
It is a roll call that includes one sitting trustee - August Rubel - and three graduates of the U.S. Navy's V-12 officer training program that operated on campus from 1943 to 1945.
As Remsen Bird, Occidental's president during World War II, observed, "May the memory of them and their deaths help us to see clearly and to continue to strive for peace and good will."
World War I
William Orr McConnell 1914, Distinguished Service Cross
Albert Simonds 1915
Carl Brandstetner 1917
Wilfred Carroll Byram 1917
Ralph Emerson Kellogg 1918
Theodore C. Koethen 1919
Raymond Welles Barton 1921
World War II
Donald A. Adair β42
James K. Amend β38
Perry E. Bangertner β45
Philip H. Bates β40
Frederic K. Boynton β43
Robert L. Browne β41, Silver Star
William D. Burnham β43
James P. Cason β45
Earl V. Fry V-12
William R. George V-12
Robert R. Hall β42
William H. Hall β45
T. Craig Harvey β45
Frederic W. Hinrichs III β37
George Hunter β39
Don L. Huston β42, Bronze Star
Harold E. Jones β30
Paul R. Krug β47
Allan H. Lawyer β22
Clifford F. Leetham β42
Fred R. Lindner β45
Robert S. McNeill β44
George E. McNulty β46
Edward T. Marik β45
Armine K. Mills β45
Birge A. Neumann β43
William H. Parmalee β46
Gerald M. Pickerel β43
Curtis H. Pollock, Jr. β45
John T. Rankin β43
Vernon L. Redmon β44
August Rubel (Trustee)
Leo Savoian β45
Robert M. Smyser β40
Albert L. Spehr β40
Kevork V. Tashjian β43
William Thompson β42
George K. Todd V-12
Douglas E. Webb β42
R. Lee Weltkamp β44
William M. Wrubelle β46
Lenzo D. Zachry β45
Korea
Arthur Lionel Dixon β50
Gordon Oliver Smith β49
Vietnam
H. Ronald Avila β56
Donald A. Brown β61
David Albert Dick β64
David W. Embertson β60
Steven Louis Hunt β67
Charles Fred Jesson β49
Robert A. Komoroff β47
Donavan L. Lyon β56
Stepehn C. Moreland β65
William J. Newton β45
Joel Warren Sampsell β66
Jon Spear β54
Missing in Action
Robert Donald Beutel β68
Wallace Luttrell Wiggins β65