Lieut. Thomas L. O'Brien. 



T lEUT. THOMAS L. O'BRIEN, member of the Board of Direc- 

 tors of this Academy, died May 28th at the Crocker Street Hos- 

 pital in Los Angeles, after an illness of several months. Lieutenant 

 O'Brien, at the beginning of our hostilities in the world war, was 

 among the first to volunteer his services. Although past the usual 

 age of enlistment (and conscription had not yet started) his fine 

 physical condition and general fitness secured him in July, 1917, an 

 appointment as private in the One Hundred and Seventeenth Regi- 



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