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factorily  completed  the  course  which  comprised  the  fundamentals 
of  pharmacy,  chemistry,  microscopy,  first  aid  and  instruction  in 
typewriting  given  on  two  evenings  of  each  week  at  the  Peirce 
School. 
It  has  been  planned  by  the  Navy  Department  to  follow  the  first 
unit  immediately  by  a  second  group  of  one  hundred  and  fifteen  men 
who  will  take  a  three  or  four  months'  special  course. 
The  P.  C.  P.  in  the  Military  Service. — The  termination  of 
the  war  found  more  than  500  students  and  alumni  of  the  college 
wearing  khaki  uniforms.  Eighteen  are  known  to  have  laid  down 
their  lives  on  the  altar  of  liberty  and  the  first  American  enlisted  man 
to  die  on  "  Flanders  Fields  "  was  Kenneth  B.  Hay,  who  at  the  time 
of  his  enlistment  was  a  junior  student  at  the  college. 
Dr.*  John  A.  Roddy,  professor  of  bacteriology,  is  now  a  major 
in  the  medical  service  of  the  army,  and  is  stationed  in  Oklahoma. 
Mr.  Palp  Foran  has  received  his  honorable  discharge  from  the 
Chemical  Warfare.  Service  of  the  army  and  has  returned  to  the  col- 
lege and  resumed  the  position  of  assistant  in  the  Analytical  Chem- 
ical Laboratory. 
Prof.  Robert  P.  Fischelis,  having  been  released  from  the  Gas 
Warfare  Service,  has  taken  up  .his  duties  with  Messrs.  H.  K.  Mul- 
ford  Company  and  resumed  his  lectures  at  the  college. 
Mr.  Donald  Margerutn,  a  graduate  of  the  Course  in  Food  and 
Drug  Chemistry  at  the  college,  and  formerly  an  assistant  to  Prof. 
Charles  H.  LaWall  in  his  private  chemical  laboratory,  is  now  bac- 
teriologist in  a  debarkation  camp  in  Virginia. 
Mr.  Leon  Claire,  a  member  of  the  class  of  19 17,  was  officially 
cited  for  "  conspicuous  bravery "  while  serving  as  an  ambulance 
driver  in  the  Italian- Alpine  section.  He  was  trained  at  the  famous 
Allentown,  Pa.,  ambulance  encampment.  His  brother,  Captain  Fred 
Claire,  who  had  also  attended  the  college  for  a  short  time,  was  one 
of  the  first  American  medical  officers  to  lose  his  life  at  the  front. 
When  the  "  Haverford  "  docked  at  the  Port  of  Philadelphia,  the 
